laranis
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- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 week ago:
Don’t you dare suggest FreeCAD.
I have a Hope/Hate relationship with FreeCAD. Sometimes I can get it to do something useful and I get hopeful. Then I try to do something simple and ruin the entire design and have to start from scratch and I curse the developers lineage for all of time. I want it to be great, and it is closer than it has ever been. But it isn’t a replacement for professional design suites.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 1 week ago:
You’ve convinced me that we need more users given the high number of current posters who like to criticize others with insults reminiscent of a bratty 5th grader. We need to dilute that voice.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 1 week ago:
That’s a very capitalist take. Remember how good things used to be? That’s how good the Fediverse is now. We don’t want it to grow or die. If it grows, great. If it doesn’t, great. Quality over quantity, imo.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 1 week ago:
OpenAI marketing > MIT analysis, apparently
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 weeks ago:
Had someone unironically suggest that if Trump takes a third term that it would open the way for Obama to run again.
Anyone citing the old order of rules, laws, and fairness is delusional or under informed.
- Comment on no training award 2 weeks ago:
The temu tacti-gear is a nice touch. Can’t even SS properly.
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 2 weeks ago:
Shout out to Bosch… I have a 10-year old dishwasher from them and the drain pump stopped working. It was so easy to replace and readily available. I was actually happy to have it break, all told.
A lot of enshitification has happened in the last decade so no idea if their products are still like that, but when the time comes to get a new one I’ll certainly be giving them my first look.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 2 weeks ago:
If they had a secret/method/process they’d use it to get rich instead of fleecing people.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
the impression I get from the media
I think this is the issue the OP is trying to point out. There are many more silent, responsible gun owners than nuts.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
They say every gun enthusiast has their scenario they’re planning for: home invasion, civil war, post apocalypse/disaster, mass shooting event, mugging, etc. When I think about what my scenario might be there isn’t a single one where I don’t end up dead, with or without a weapon. There is no number of weapons or amount of ammunition that would change that for me.
I struggle with that reality when I think about my own relationship with guns, but I can’t help thinking that “prepared” is better than “helpless”, even if the outcome is the same.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
Time. A regime as dysfunctional as this can’t go on indefinitely… Like, it is physically impossible for it to think far enough ahead for it to be resilient enough to last. Unfortunately, a lot of good people will suffer before then.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 4 weeks ago:
Her paper is dog shit, but thank you for calling out this dog shit rubric for a flawed assignment. I’m old now, but I wouldn’t have been able to guess the bar would stoop so low. Scares the fuck out of me that this is what passes for an education.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 4 weeks ago:
And disabled by default. You’re not consumer friendly until it is opt-in.
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 5 weeks ago:
I’m hearing a lot about zero trust infrastructure lately and I wonder if this is the reason - the desire to eliminate VPNs. I honestly don’t know enough about IT to know if that even makes sense but it wouldn’t surprise me if these big corpos see the writing on the wall and are figuring out how to work sans VPN.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Fear the 1%.
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 1 month ago:
Fair. I missed the anteceding piss headwater. It pains me to think our antihero died perhaps with a full bladder.
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 1 month ago:
This is art, but for the lack of mention of the piss spot on the far right. My guess is that he gave up on all decorum or hope for the future and started pissing almost over the side of the balcony. Then as he leaned over to see his last attempt to create something meaningful splash on the pavement below he looked a bit too far. It was not a planned act of finality, yet in that moment of weightlessness his last, fleeting thought was, “Probably for the best…”
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 1 month ago:
People selling refurb PCs are looking for any excuse to hike the price. It is how the market works. I guarantee you paid a premium for any device with a memory chip, new or used.
- Comment on Scheduling is hard 1 month ago:
I don’t have the research ability to prove it, but I think there was absolutely causation between the closing/cancelling of sporting events during COVID and a rise in violence. At least until they completely locked down and everyone stayed inside.
- Comment on Air travel disrupted over Airbus A320 software switch 1 month ago:
I’m not excited about flying in an aircraft whose flight control software was rush updated by the manufacturer after issues they say were caused by solar flares. Then you’ve got the vendor Thales saying things like, “[The hardware is] fully compliant with the technical specifications issued by Airbus” and that the software is not their problem. The blame game does not instill confidence.
Here’s the thing… Solar flares don’t compile bugs into software. They disrupt electric fields in hardware memory devices. Maybe you can create redundant data and checksum the crap out of it but if your hardware is susceptible to intense solar radiation maybe refactoring with a few extra memory checks shouldn’t be your response.
Admittedly, this is layman’s conjecture. But this layman is going to be 30,000ft over water in the next few days and I’d like to have a more definitive answer than, “Solar flares goofed us so we’re pushing updates.”
- Comment on It would be so funny if China colonizes Mars, then the Martian Colonists declare independence, and Mars become a new bastion of Freedom and Prosperity. 1 month ago:
Only problem with this theory is there is no native population to exploit. Colonialism/empirism fails when you can’t subjugate anyone.
- Comment on Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay $3.2 million over manga piracy 2 months ago:
Can you imagine an internet where the owners of every router was responsible for the content of every packet that crossed it?
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 2 months ago:
I agree, but the doomer in me just figures we’ll be on to the next grift. Fuck.
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 2 months ago:
That was my ending of choice as well.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 months ago:
I think you’re making my point. First, you’re right that passkeys can’t be phished. But access to the passkey manager can be. And now you’ve doubled your exposure to leaky third parties, once with the service you’re accessing and another with the passkey manager.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 months ago:
Why do you have the 4-digit PIN? Well, it’s just to unlock the part of your device where the private key is stored.
And there is the problem I have with passkeys. With a password it is me authenticating to the service I’m using. Pretty straight forward (if you ignore the operating system, web browser, network protocols, etc., but that’s part of using the tech).
With passkeys you’ve got this third party storing your keys that increases your attack surface. It could be your web browser, your OS, or some cloud provider that you’re now relying on to keep your data safe. I get that for people whose password is “password123” or who aren’t savvy enough to avoid phishing maybe this helps. But with decent opsec this overly complicates authentication, IMO.
To my point, later in the article:
Securing your cloud account with strong 2FA and activating biometrics is crucial.
What’s that now? The weak point is the user’s ability to implement MFA and biometrics? The same users who couldn’t be bothered to create different passwords for different sites? You see how we’ve just inserted another layer into the authentication process without solving for the major weakness?
With my tinfoil hat on I suspect this push toward passkeys is just another corporate data and/or money grab – snake oil for companies to get their tentacles tighter around your digital existence.
Happy to be proven wrong.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 2 months ago:
I bet you pronounce gif wrong, too.
- Comment on I just want it, jack! 2 months ago:
Looks like a DIY opportunity.
- Comment on World would be a better place 2 months ago:
I would keep snacks and beverages on the ready. “C’mon in! The iced tea is cold and the muffins are just about done. Now, what were you saying about cumulonimbus formations and their impact on dairy production?”
- Comment on it's that time 3 months ago:
I love the animals with bone ears. Dogs, cats, rats. Should have people with bone ears on the sides of their skulls. That would be fantastic.