borari

@borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, OP might have leaned in the direction of posting in the wrong community, but they did t actually do anything illegal ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And his entire defense is “I never met up with her in person”. Yeah bro because you got fucking caught. This is not the defense you think it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of us drive 18-wheeled vehicles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This has got to be a German thing. I’m working with some German software engineers who are providing the hardware and it’s onboard software for some industrial shit at my work. They’re all constantly dropping these super hot takes as absolute truths, and refuse to listen to anyone who pushes back. Once you realize that, you can start a conversation by shit talking the idea the people pushing back brought up and suss out the real motivations behind their design decisions. Often times those decisions might make sense in isolation, but won’t work in our environment.

  It takes tricking the Germans in to thinking you completely agree with them, then just spontaneously discovered a blocking issue, for them to change anything. It’s ridiculous.

  Reading through your post gave me very similar vibes. It’s like they have a cultural inability to comprehend that someone could be in a situation that they haven’t already thought of. Like an absolute zero chance of that ever happening, under any circumstance, anywhere, ever. It’s amusing until you’re trying to convince someone that while it’s a good thing they only have their web server listening on a localhost socket, they still need to sanitize user input because the person sitting in front of the machine with a keyboard plugged in can submit any fucking data they want, and there’s a massive SQLi issue, like zero input sanitization and yall refuse to use parameterized queries for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve started seeing people, who really should know better, referring to the PC tower as the CPU. As in, “I bought a bracket that mounts to my variable height desk which can hold my CPU up off the floor and let it move with my desk”.

  Bro I’m looking at a picture of a custom water cooled PC here, you should know the fucking difference between a CPU and a computer case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They should go super meta with it and crush Apple products in an ad for AppleCare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m about to block this community for a week or something, then resubscribe.

  I mean I’m kidding, but I’ve seen more shit about this ad that I’ve never seen over the past three days than actual ads of any type.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft might be trying to sneak Bing into one of Windows 11’s apps – and some users won’t be happy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you do the 5 option then click the Options button in the toolbar, then check both the “Remember Last Selection” and “Save To… Clipboard” you’ll just have to hit cmd-v to paste the snipped image. I’ve never had to hit cmd-c for anything when snipping on Mac myself, so I might be misunderstanding idk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft might be trying to sneak Bing into one of Windows 11’s apps – and some users won’t be happy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I don’t really mark up my screenshots with my main screenshot use case right now though. I was just trying to figure out what the difference was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft might be trying to sneak Bing into one of Windows 11’s apps – and some users won’t be happy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wrong with the Mac snipping tool? I can hit cmd-shift-5 to move a resizable window around and set the tools options, like whether to save to file or clipboard, etc. If I hit the shortcut again, the window stays in its previous position, which is handy for one of my particular use cases. You can also hit cmd-shift-4 to get the pointer to click and drag the snip region like in Windows, and the settings chosen with the other format persist

  I feel like I have more capability in the Mac snipping interface, but maybe I’m using the Windows one wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need recommandations for a home server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like you already know what you want to buy, just fucking buy it. Why are you fishing for other people’s approval on what you spend your own money on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ve never heard of that before either. What I have heard of is either MOA or MIL reticles. In that context a Mil stands for milliradian, which is a representation of angle. That definitely doesn’t track with the post though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah. I’m not worried about the cops serving a warrant on me for downloading pirated media though, so my NAS isn’t encrypted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I’m not aware of anyone who has ever been prosecuted for downloading from a provider in the entire history of its existence. So whether or not they keep logs I’m pretty comfortable with it, yeah.

  If we’re going to get into hypotheticals like that you shouldn’t pirate anything ever. If the cops banged on my door with a warrant I could easily flush a ten strip and some mdma before answering the door. I’m not degaussing 80+TB of media before they take my door off its hinges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that’s really an Apple exclusive thing, and I don’t think Apple was the company that conditioned us to it. I think that the cellular carriers conditioned us to that upgrade frequency model based on how they used to subsidize phones.

  I just replaced my 6 year old iPhone because I accidentally slammed my car door on it after it slid out of my pocket. I like bent the frame of the thing, if I had been seconds faster or slower the phone would have been fine. I had just replaced the battery on it, and was planning on keeping it for another year or two at least. Most people I know with iPhones upgrade more frequently than that, but not every 1-2 years, maybe like every 3-5. Every person I know who upgrades a phone every two years does so because they trade in and refinance a new phone at their cellular providers store, and those people are probably closer to a 50/50 split between iPhone and Samsung users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No need. Usenet traffic is ssl encrypted and is just a client/server relationship, there’s no sharing/seeding. Also people still technically use usenet for text posts, so it’s not like a connection to a usenet server can get you in trouble in and of itself. I mean pulling down like 40-100GB in a weekend when I add a new show with tagged with my 4K DV/HDR Remux profile is pretty suss, but prove that shit ¯_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes. Apple, the company with the longest support windows for secure patches of any phone/tablet manufacturer, are definitely the ones skewing our ideas on the lifespan of electronics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda teases The Elder Scrolls 6 in anniversary message and brags its developers are already 'playing early builds' and loving it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn you had to [sic] me. I’m getting fed up with this phone, the keyboard has gone to shit recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda teases The Elder Scrolls 6 in anniversary message and brags its developers are already 'playing early builds' and loving it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bruh Skyrim released 2 years before the PS4. FO3 releases 5 years before the PS4. If Skyrim had issues running on PS3 on release it shouldn’t have been released for it at all. This isn’t a Cyberpunk 2077 situation where they could have just gone with a current gen release only.

  If you were taking shit about consoles in general versus PC then carry on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow on Search Engine Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re getting downvoted pretty hard, but for what it’s worth that’s broadly the impression I got when I started reading some of his books. I first read Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free and really enjoyed it. As I checked out some other stuff written by him I gradually lost interest. It reminded me of Dave Eggers stuff, starts off strong then gets really preachy and collapses under its own weight.

  Doctorow seems like a pretty good sci-fi writer, and extremely knowledgeable on copyright/IP issues. He seems to be a little bit extra though, I mean he pulled a Musk and named his kid “Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow”. Like do you bro, but that’s a lot to saddle a kid with. They might grow up to like it, but naming a kid is by its nature something they can’t consent to, so going that eccentric with it kind of indicates a sense of hubris to me, plus it kind of reads like someone screaming “look at me and what I chose to name my child”. I get that a parent/child relationship is inherently hierarchal to an extent, especially with an infant, but like bro. There’s even and xkcd poking fun at him ffs.

  Anyway I kind of read a lot of his more hot take blog posts the same way. It’s like the guy has a solidly grounded world view and personal ethics, but chooses to create intentionally polarizing content and winds up semi-alienating some people who are otherwise ideologically aligned with him. I mean I guess that’s how you hustle as a blogger though?

  All that being said, it does seem like his stuff raises awareness of real societal issues for people who otherwise wouldn’t realize they existed, and are usually explained clearly and succinctly enough to make non-technical people understand the technical issues at hand, like with (ugh) “enshittification”. I can’t really hate on the guy if he’s leaving a net positive impact on the world.