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- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 3 days ago:
It might not be as good a brag down at the country club
That depends on if you’re buying new or you have a classic roadster.
- Comment on Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet. 1 week ago:
I see you’ve met my moron of an uncle. Who is in his late 50’s.
- Comment on Never thought I'd write these words before the last few years 3 weeks ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus
Project Nimbus is cloud computing specifically in support of the IDF, not an operation.
Wolf Pack is the storage of every Palestinians details, including biometrics (well, the goal for them at least. You know, a special kind of list. Nothing sounds wrong about that, right? Ugh)
It runs on AWS.
- Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 3 weeks ago:
Still the agents mistake.
They could set the start/finish area to be masked, they could set their run info as private, they could have just the run stats (but no GPS) shared, etc.
This isn’t a strava issue, just Secret Service Agents being bad about Secrets when doing their Service.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say jabber is dead, xmpp is still pretty well used. Not enough IMO, but still in use and with readily available modern servers. Jitsi is xmpp+jingle (sip signalling) after all.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 weeks ago:
Not advocating for defederation, I’m just pointing out that blocking an instance isn’t going to achieve their goal.
Obviously defederation is too large scale. Ideally, there would be an option for people to block users from the instance when blocking an instance, or something like that.
This would avoid the exact scenario you mention because it would come down to the user level, so that troll would have to put in quite a bit more effort to get around that. Unfortunately, that’s not currently an option, along with some other features I’d love to see on Lemmy.
Again, I’m just pointing out that blocking an instance does not achieve their goal.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 weeks ago:
You can block the instance, which blocks those communities, but that doesn’t block those users on them to be fair. That has to be done individually.
Personally I am comfortable ignoring individuals (and not painting everyone on an instance with the same brush) and would prefer metas/groups/whatever you’d like to refer to them as for my subscriptions, so I’m definitely not the target user of this post.
But just being clear, a user blocking an instance doesn’t block the users from that instance, so if that’s their goal, no, that’s not enough.
- Comment on Five flavors 🤤 4 weeks ago:
A series I personally love listening to while working out. Especially the 80s pop covers.
- Comment on Steps to repurpose old laptop as home server with Debian 1 month ago:
The nice thing about some battery backup is not keeping it running during an outage, but safely shutting it all down.
I agree on the laptop battery, I’m just disagreeing on battery backup. It serves a purpose, as does decent surge elimination.
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, I am. Too much capsaicin messes with digestion (slows it down), and causes more stomach acid.
So with my gastrointestinal system’s hatred of my body (including food allergies which wreak havoc on me), I am at the top tier of too damn white to get to enjoy the heat anymore. So, I guess thanks for a new pepper I can check out!
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
Considering our use is not to the general public, we’d be better off with an entirely different strategy.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
Yeah… I didn’t choose it, but some of the services from my employer run there. May be a good time to make some moves, we’ll see.
Not really going to be an issue I can fix obviously, but I’ll be making even more backups than normal…
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
I have a feeling the big impact is going to be in other services, namely AWS. Makes me wonder if some new global outages are coming, which are always fun to deal with.
- Comment on Rental System? 1 month ago:
There is nothing native (though a few options have been played with, AFAIK never completed because…), but there are a ton of integrations. You can use webhooks to teams, there are python wrappers for the API, even a google docs integration.
Probably the lowest code option would be to find someone else’s tool for snipe-it (sorry I’ve never looked), or do something like snipe it to google sheets to be imported as a CSV or something.
Or take a peek at some others in the same territory, or maybe ticketing systems with simple asset management.
But i think something like snipe-it, if not exactly, is going to be the right territory of what you’re looking for
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 1 month ago:
Its about $2.6 billion per week in revenue, even by the weekly numbers its not an impact
(based on ~$135b in revenue for 2023, according to financial disclosure reports)
- Comment on Rental System? 1 month ago:
What about asset management software, like snipe-it? Or are you trying for payment in there too?
- Comment on Bungie will compensate an artist after its Destiny 2 Nerf blaster ripped off their work 2 months ago:
The rip off
bungiestore.com/bungie-rewards-nerf-ace-of-spades…
The original design that was ripped off: www.deviantart.com/…/Ace-of-Spades-573764211
And the tweet:
- Comment on Mudita Kompakt - E-ink (truly) dumbphone with FOSS OS. 2 months ago:
…so you just made it up then.
No, the phone industry made up these terms.
No one has done that. The only comments I’m downvoting are the ones spreading disinformation.
So how I read that is “Anything that isn’t what I want it to say is disinformation”.
Well, enjoy your day buddy, my participation in this thread is over. Its a neat feature phone, and that’s where I’ll be leaving that.
- Comment on Mudita Kompakt - E-ink (truly) dumbphone with FOSS OS. 2 months ago:
Several decades of phone technology as it developed…
- Comment on Mudita Kompakt - E-ink (truly) dumbphone with FOSS OS. 2 months ago:
While I get your opinion, these things have definitions. Here’s a super simple version:
- A dumb phone does not connect to the internet. Its a phone. Just a dumb device.
- A feature phone is what you’re referring to here, where it may connect to the internet, but isn’t part of some larger ecosystem and is certainly not an app-first approach. Its a phone first, ancillary features are a bonus.
- Smartphones are your android and iOS devices, which connect to the internet, is part of a large ecosystem of applications, is an internet first oriented device, etc.
So yes, this is a feature phone from what I’ve read of the translation.
- Comment on Can't follow my own Pixelfed account on Mastodon 2 months ago:
- Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. 2 months ago:
as long as you are mentally sound and store your guns safely
Yeah, that’s a pretty substantial improvement to what we have in the US.
- Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. 2 months ago:
Perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of good.
It will take a lot longer to get proper gun control in place in the US. We’ve already got the GOP and their “Well it sucks, but too bad, move on” rhetoric going.
There is no reason not to minimize risk during the time it will take, even to get to where we we were 20 years ago.
- Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. 2 months ago:
Juuuust about ideal, definitely.
- Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. 2 months ago:
Looks like this is what they have - www.centegix.com/crisisalert/
- Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. 2 months ago:
I’m all for gun control. As in, significant reforms, nationwide reforms. Real background checks. Limits on the types of guns. Insurance requirements. Safety training requirements. The list can keep on going…
That said, I’d still want an emergency alert system in schools. There are other threats and other situations where it could be needed, there is nothing wrong with having both.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 2 months ago:
I can tell you its done in the tristate area.
Maybe its a Georgia thing.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 2 months ago:
If it doesn’t cover the expected area of concern? No
If you dont know the cause of the issue? No
If you know the issue, and just need to check the state of the esophagus or something? Sure.
Its done for specific reasons, just like an endoscopy is done for specific reasons. When it comes down to it though, it only does a small part of what an endoscopy can do, and with a generic “acid reflux”, its not going to give enough information to diagnose. Its a way to assess symptoms, not a way to diagnose a gastrointestinal problem.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 2 months ago:
My doctors have been incredible, at least those I’ve had for the past 4 years or so. Including my gastro.
They take the time to talk to me, they remember who I am, and my gastro is even a direct recommendation from my primary doctor (my gastro is his gastro).
I’ve been going to gastroenterologists for literally decades, the one I got a couple years ago is the first to finally find the issue, and I’ve been reflux free. I doubt he’d do a transnasal either - its more limited in scope (hah!), you’re only getting part of what an endoscopy can do. That’s why its not transnasal endoscopy, its transnasal esophagoscopy.
And that’s probably why. Why they wouldn’t just say that, I don’t know. There are lots of places that will do transnasal esophagoscopy throughout the US, so it isn’t a procedure that’d just “not done here” or anything, its not as popular in general because its just not as thorough of a procedure.
I hope you find a doctor in the future that takes the time to explain things though.
- Comment on No screens before age of two, Swedish health authority tells parents 2 months ago:
With no server-side transcoding, yeah the nuc is plenty, but I also run my media server (JF containers, to be specific) on Debian.
If you do end up needing transcoding, the newer Intel stuff is great. I’m considering arc actually for other reasons, but ideally anything skylake (for HEVC) or Kaby Lake (hevc 10 bit) on up is a rock solid choice, no external GPU needed.
