CosmicTurtle0

@CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Line must go up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d trust a Lemmy source more than a reddit source.

  But that’s just me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨877-CASH-NOW⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Right back at you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twinkle twinkle little star⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s no accident that capital is aligned with fascist. Line must go up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Startpage for the win!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead, these searches return a list of traditional web links.

  “Oh…oh okay. So you know what that is. Why are unable to provide traditional web links for ALL my searches? Because, I’m gonna be honest with you Google. I never asked for you to ‘summarize’ my web results and the fact that you can turn it off at your discretion tells me that you could turn it off for everyone.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It says “7 comments” on my end but no actual comments. Also the post is from a year ago. The post I saw was at least a week or two ago. though it’s cool to see a meme rotating like in Reddit. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think these are the image I saw but not the thread. The threads had comments.