CosmicTurtle0
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- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 days ago:
Learned about it from this episode of the Team Human podcast
But what is happening in Hong Kong is they come up with a slogan, which is translated as Do Not Split, which is, we know that some people are willing to be confrontational with riot police.
And when they are, that’s going to cost the state in terms of not only resources, but it’s going to cost the state in terms of political capital and support. And we know that there are some people who are not willing to do that. And we are going to abide by the protocol of Do Not Split, which means that we’re not going to criticize them openly, and they’re not going to criticize us openly.
If we’re the pacifists, we’re not going to have them criticize us for being sort of like, I don’t know, limpid or flaccid or not courageous or whatever. And we’re not going to criticize them for being more confrontational. And the thing is that the support is also tacit.
It’s not like they have to come out and tell the media, oh, we approve of our more sort of confrontational colleagues. They just keep quiet. They just keep quiet.
Understanding that a range of tactics is probably going to be necessary. Nobody really knows what’s going to work. But if everybody’s pushing back against a particularly violent state, then everybody’s really on the same side.
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 3 days ago:
take accountability
[Citation needed]
- Comment on Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical” 6 days ago:
As we push more average Windows users to Linux, we need to be prepared for these users to download and run completely untrusted code.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 2 weeks ago:
What?! What are the odds?!
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
Nations can’t ignore the fact that the US has one of the active militaries in the world. Our Navy is more of less second to none and we have nukes. In the hands of a normal president, we might be fine but you sure as heck know that Trump and his Project 2025 people are just itching to launch one.
This is a situation where there are no good options. The best you can do is continue political pressure, get other nations to rally behind you in the hopes of creating a strong economic resistance.
But the real answer is that we, the US citizens, need to fucking take this country back. I hate to say it but protests simply aren’t enough anymore.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been a developer for decades. I’ve contributed to FOSS code and do a lot of my own development.
I just want a desktop that works. No fuss.
Yes I could compile my own x11 (and have) but I would rather spend my time doing my own shit than trying to stand up a new VM for some edge issue I’m having.
Just…just give me a UI I can use.
It’s why I use Ubuntu.
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 3 weeks ago:
I feel like you’re just here to piss into the wind.
Do you hear people screaming to disable the extension frame work or devtools?
No?
If you don’t want those features you can compile your own version of Firefox and remove them.
But lots of people are anti-AI. And there are people willing to provide a browser that keeps it out.
If you want it, have at it. But don’t piss on people just because they don’t.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 4 weeks ago:
Iirc correctly, Amazon actually doesn’t resell their returns. At least not through their storefront.
They have “return auctions” where returns are put onto a pallet and then people bid on them to purchase. Apparently this is cheaper than having a workflow for their returns, checking them to make sure they are resellable, and then stocking them back into their warehouse.
- Comment on Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won 4 weeks ago:
It was the exact same. the math of this is that verizon makes enough money on the contract that they can pay for a phone within your 3 year contract.
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 4 weeks ago:
Our education system values rote memorization over actually learning something. So instead of teaching you how to use the periodic table, they teach you “The element of Hydrogen has an atomic mass of 1” etc.
A few teachers who actually give a fuck will do both, but they are required to teach the test for funding. Because that’s how they are graded.
- Comment on Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won 4 weeks ago:
When I left my company, I had to get a new phone. When I talked to the rep, the phone cost was essentially free with a contract.
The offer was that Verizon would pay for the phone over the course of three years.
So it’s not financing so much as it was free with a contract. When I asked why this was, he said that it was due to how the market was. Everyone has a phone at this point so now cell service provides have to compete to keep people. So they are willing to pay for your phone so long as you are locked in with them.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Rolls Out Native Ads in Q&A Feeds for Funding Boost 5 weeks ago:
Line must go up.
- Comment on US | State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' 1 month ago:
It is not lost in them. The intention is to equate their “facts” with actual reality.
And they are succeeding.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
Yes you can but the practicality of doing so is very limiting. Hell I ran my own CA for my own internal use and even I found it annoying.
The entire CA ecosystem is terrible and only exists to ensure connections are encrypted at this point. There’s no validation or any sort of authority to say one site is better than another.
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 1 month ago:
My experience with self-hosted apps on my phone are limited. I’ve never used Plex so I never used it’s mobile app.
So thank you for the clarification.
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 1 month ago:
Doesn’t finamp provide music player features?
I wish jellyfin would support downloading music out of the box.
- Comment on Obama's got jokes 1 month ago:
He essentially got it for not being Bush.
Not saying Donnie deserves it but we need to stop pretending that Obama getting the prize is some sort of achievement.
Honestly wouldn’t surprise me if the next elected Democrat president got it either.
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 1 month ago:
tbf IAM is the bastard child of many cloud providers.
It exists to provide CISOs and BROs a level of security that no one person has access to their infrastructure. So if a company decides that system A should no longer have access to system B, they can do that quickly.
IAM is so complex now that it’s a field all in itself.
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures 2 months ago:
I was on a non profit board where the founder realized he wasn’t the right person for the job after 20 years of growing the org. It finally got to a point that he felt like the growth was beyond what he ever imagined or wanted.
He was, on every metric, very successful. He grew the org from nothing, got millions of dollars in donations, amassed a huge base, and no one would have thought different if he just kept going.
I remember sitting down with him one-on-one and asked him why. He thought about it for a minute and said, “It’s time for someone to make it even better.”
Looking back, I think I see the exhaustion. To constantly innovate, to push people forward, to push the org, the mission…it was all one person at a time. He reached a point in both age and in life that it just wasn’t something he could keep doing.
He loved the mission so much he knew it deserved better.
If that isn’t leadership, I don’t know what is.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 2 months ago:
Wait…WHAT?!
I don’t want to fact check this. Is this true? Is this what all the memes were about yesterday?!
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 2 months ago:
I’d trust a Lemmy source more than a reddit source.
But that’s just me.
- Comment on 877-CASH-NOW 2 months ago:
I’m sorry but I have to ask: what is the point of a 50 year mortgage?
It sounds like a dumb way to give banks even more interest.
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 months ago:
Right back at you!
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 months ago:
You’re getting down voted right now and I think it’s important to understand why because I had a similar reaction not too long ago. I was curious to understand my own biases and what I think it’s important to share what I learned as a cis male in IT.
Women just want to be women. Some want to wear nail polish and “look pretty” while others want to just rock a T-shirt and jeans. Like men who wear full tux and debug code at 6pm on a Friday (because they aren’t farmers), they want to be what they want to be.
Men have the luxury to wear whatever they want (for the most part) and not get shit for it. Women have to do everything that men do and do it with maturity while handing the shit that men throw their way.
I learned this lesson when I was the sole male STEM counselor at an all girls camp. It was a volunteer gig that my company put together. They had last minute cancellations and I had time on my calendar and so I volunteered. I did not know it was all girls and I certainly did not know I’d be the only guy.
I stayed curious and helped where I could. My job was to be a project manager, help teams understand how to win their competition that had set requirements. So I walked them through all that and looked over their code. There as a dedicated “make up hour” where the girls were encouraged to make their presentations “pretty” with make up, glitter, etc. I personally found it pointless given how far behind we were but I kept my mouth shut.
And I observed.
The fact that these girls could do this and do IT was immensely powerful. You could see their spirits lifted. It rocked my world and made me check my own beliefs. Why not allow them to be pretty? Why not let them take an hour to put glitter and stickers on their board if it made them happy?
Did we win? No. But they enjoyed it.
In my 20+ years in tech, we need more women because they bring perspective in ways I don’t. Not because they want to be pretty because they provide insight in ways I don’t expect. Anything I can do to help make that happen I’ll gladly do.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 2 months ago:
The fact that police officers can lie but people can’t shows you the terrible power imbalance in our law enforcement.
[youtu.be/uqo5RYOp4nQ](Remember: Shut the Fuck Up)
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 months ago:
Honestly, at this point people should use Pornhub.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 months ago:
Add dual climate control and then I’m with you.
- Comment on Another day of AWS outages 2 months ago:
In case folks aren’t aware, AWS status page is not live. It is a human-driven page that is updated manually.
The fortune 100 company I used to work for would be notified prior to the status page being updated for an issue before the status page is updated.
Do not rely on their status page to tell you there is a problem.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 months ago:
There is a chrome addon that will “block” anything from AWS with the goal being you get to see how much of the world relies on it.
I’m starting to understand why some companies are starting to exit AWS and back to their own data centers.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 3 months ago:
I get what you’re going for but this would absolutely wreck privacy. And depending on how those signatures are created, someone could create a virtual camera that would sign images and then we would be back to square one.
I don’t have a better idea though.