LordCrom
@LordCrom@lemmy.world
- Comment on This is what real racism looks like 13 hours ago:
My reaction was “no fucking way this is 1989”.
It’s amazing how much wasn’t taught to us in US shcools
- Comment on Started hosting my own Nextcloud and its awesome! 1 day ago:
Welcome to the fold.
Been running nextcloud for 8+ years. Love the auto upload and bookmark sharing apps.
The contacts and calendar apps support DAV…I use DAVx on android to sync contacts and calendar to nextcloud …haven’t sync’d to Google. Grab it from FDroid. I have an article on my web blob explaining how to do it.
Remember to backup your cloud data and secure your web portal or run over private vpn.
Oh and go find the php updater script…it’s a life saver.
- Comment on Laura Loomer wants ICE to livestream arrests for entertainment: "Make it exciting an show ICE agents tackling Juan and Jesus" 1 day ago:
Wtf
- Comment on Study Finds That School-Based Online Surveillance Companies Monitor Students 24/7 1 week ago:
Monitor students digital behavior?
Just don’t use accounts the school knows about…how hard is that? Don’t use the shitty equipment they give you because it’s loaded with spyware, haw hard is that.
Maybe students need to stop using tech and start learning how it works like we did
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 1 week ago:
This company is acting like a spoiled brat of a child.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 2 weeks ago:
Masked men
Refuse to give names
Refuse to give badge numbers
Refuse to identify themselves
Have no arrest warrant
Threatening bystander with lethal force
Show no shred of professionalism
Taking your loved one with no explanation other than ‘shut the fuck up’
How is this not a kidnapping and why don’t people defend themselves.
If masked men who refuse to identify as law enforcement with names, badges, or at least faces, are pushing my wife into an unmarked car … Ya someone is getting shot. Even if it’s me, no one is taking my wife like that.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 3 weeks ago:
Exactly this.
Governments have a rock hard boner for detailed face scans of every person.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 4 weeks ago:
It took me a bit to realize this wasnt an actual quote from Trump
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 4 weeks ago:
My company required everyone come back to the office. My team works in a terminal, we can do our work from anywhere. Everyone of my department went back in. I said no.
They said I could be terminated
I said go ahead and fire me, I’m the lead tech, 40 experience, I built and maintain more then half of the automation, I’m the only one who understands networking onprem and I cloud and has a security background.
I dare you.
They said they would make a special exemption for me.
The moral of the story… You can demand stuff from your company if your company can’t function without you.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 4 weeks ago:
Good call.
I took over for a previous manager who installed all smart lights controlled via Alexa. Every week…every fucking week…there would be a section not working, lights with disco colors, Alexa was offline so we could give the command to turn on lights…
When I took over, 1st task was to rip out all the smart shit and I put in regular LED bulbs controlled with the light switch. Works every time
- Comment on You'd need to calculate the compound interest 5 weeks ago:
You do know that interest earned is also taxed right? Letting it grow means you pay every year of how much it grew.
- Comment on They are so clueless they don't realize that this just pisses everyone off. Shove your banana 1 month ago:
But code monkeys prefer Fritos with Tab or Mountain Dew
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 1 month ago:
How many false positives will it have when trying to find accounts for John Smith
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 1 month ago:
Yes it is housing and healthcare. Even with health insurance, a major sickness can bankrupt anybody, especially when insurance denies coverage.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 1 month ago:
HIPAA data is protected…until it isn’t. Laws change. Especially when companies are salavating to access health data.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 1 month ago:
Follow the money. Nominee for surgeon general has a stake in wearable tech.
Just like when those scatter machines were forced on the TSA, it’s because the person in charge had a stake in the company making them.
My company gave these things away to each employee for some ‘fitness challenge’ between departments…I never even opened the package. My group was mad at me for not helping win the free lunch or whatever it was … Until I made them read the privacy policy. Many stopped wearing them immediately
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 month ago:
When the engine is off?
Of course, how to tell this with an electric car?
- Comment on Google’s Advanced Protection Arrives on Android: Should You Use It? 2 months ago:
Most features here let Google scan and evaluate what you do on the web, messages, and apps.
They say it helps security, but of course it assures those features are on letting them suck in more data about the person.
A company like Google doesn’t do something out of the kindness of their hearts, they do it for profit
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 2 months ago:
So if you are in trouble or held against your will and you say you’ll order pizza but sneK a call to 911 for help instead and pretend to order and give your address for delivery hoping an operator catches on… Doubt the AI will catch on.
- Comment on That's a good question 2 months ago:
Ok…so there are rules that God must obey…so he’s not all powerful, otherwise he would just change the rules
- Comment on That's a good question 2 months ago:
If God is all powerful then why not just absolve us from the sin?
If this sacrifice was required, then he is not all powerful or he is into torture pron.
- Comment on That's a good question 2 months ago:
If God is all powerful, couldn’t he just do that without all the bloody, painful, torture part???
That’s what I wondered about.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 2 months ago:
The code to generate the forms should be simple enough… But the amounts, the deductions, the laws, the rules…etc, these all need to be checked by an accountant or lawyer… It might be a good method to double check a return, but if the return isn’t guaranteed to be correct by the IRS or an accountant is checking details…I would be worried
- Comment on Might be a bit of a tangent: use SIP at home via internet 2 months ago:
It does. Or can just send the recorded message to your email as a .wav attachment.
- Comment on Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android 2 months ago:
It’s an amazing solution… Keeps reminding us how desperate and manic organizations are to collect data
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- Comment on Might be a bit of a tangent: use SIP at home via internet 2 months ago:
I use this.
I have Ms VoIP as my provider. $1 month per line and 1 cent per min.
I have a grand stream sip adapter… Configured with my providers info and my creds. Phone can plug into it. Works just fine. Plus you can use any sip client to connect to the same line from mobile or PC.
Also, my old house had pots lines in every room. I took my grand stream and wired it into the house, not a phone. So I can plug regular phones into any of the original outlets and it works as it directly connected to the grand stream. I have 4 regular phones all running over original wires into the grandstream using sip
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 2 months ago:
I did it for ya…good luck with your phd
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 2 months ago:
It’s all about privacy.
I am amazed at services offered that run rampant in the home.
My ISP offers fiber. But only if you also sign up for managed wifi where they manage your internal net…no way
I got a quote for solar power…but they must use a 3rd party cloud to manage your power and it uses eth over electrical … If you use eth over electrical already, then it does whatever it wants in your home network …no way.
Cell phones? They all go into a guest wifi…not on my home network.
- Comment on Is Pop_OS! kind of bad? 2 months ago:
I’ve used pop is for years now. No major complaints.