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- Comment on US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters 2 weeks ago:
I mean, a country with minimal military spending (or, one that doesn’t have their own encrypted satellite network) can get a commodity device that gives modern connection speeds with very modest latency.
But the empowerment it obviously gives to an underpowered military is phenomenal.
Indeed, that’s how it was sold. But that’s not what it ever really was. What it really is, is a big fat on/off button in the hands of a private corporation, and the nation where that corporation is based. It’s generally a bad idea to put the on/off button of your entire military into the hands of an outside power, as is made abundantly clear now.
This kind of technology isn’t really feasible for smaller nations to establish on their own. The only countries that should ever rely on Starlink, or it’s equivalent, are countries that either control it, or countries that are already vassals of countries that control it.
Not like Ukraine exactly had a lot of options at the time, of course…
- Comment on Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs 2 weeks ago:
So you had an egg in these trying times, did you?
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 2 weeks ago:
Lol
- Comment on mlmym for Infosec.Pub - a classic frontend with no JavaScript 3 weeks ago:
Fantastic! Good show, Jerry! :)
I love the familiar, efficient interface; the lighter resource use; and it even turn browsing Lemmy through Lynx into a pleasant experience.
- Comment on Will we sign the anti-Meta "Fedi-Pact"? 3 weeks ago:
Adding this as a comment, instead of soap boxing my own opinion from the post body:
I think we should sign it. Personally, I would appreciate Infosec.Pub defederating form any Fediverse instance run by, or affiliated with companies/corporations that have a stake in the data business or AI development.
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- Comment on Community creation question 3 weeks ago:
Awesome, thanks jerry!
Welcome to the party @Natanael@infosec.pub - glad you want to take care of !crypto@infosec.pub! I hope you’ll be able to convince a decent chunk of your community to come with. :)
Perhaps look into finding a decent cross-post tool, and start cross-posting any posts made on /r/crypto to /c/crypto. Well, I suppose you should give OP a short amount of time to also post here, in case they already have an account, but otherwise, you should do it. No one will migrate, or start being active here, if there isn’t already some activity.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
The problem here is that those are filters, and the newcomer will usually still be faced with several options, which will still make them scratch their head.
A wizard is a good idea, with simple questions, rather than filter buttons.
But it needs to end up telling you “here you go, this is the one you want!”, giving you just a single instance. Doesn’t matter that multiple will probably match the answers given - then just pick one at random. Chances are, they will be equally happy on either, and if not, well, it isn’t very hard to switch to a new instance later on, when they have become regular Lemmists.
- Comment on Community creation question 3 weeks ago:
I think you would be a most perfect fit here. I think a lot of people on this instance would be excited to have a vibrant crypto community here.
The crypto community we have here isn’t so much “lower quality” as it is just dead. There’s been just three posts there in the last year. I was going to suggest you ask the owner of it if you could take over, but it looks like they haven’t been active for two years.
I think you should just ask @jerry@infosec.pub or @shellsharks@infosec.pub if you can take over. There’s no reason to have two crypto communities, if one of them is dead; you get to keep your old identity of being called “crypto”, instead of “cryptography”, or something else; and there are presumably a lot of the subscribers of /c/crypto that would very much like to have an active crypto community show up in their feed.
Welcome to Lemmy, and to Infosec.pub - I hope to be able to say the same to your community!
- Comment on Content curation in the Fediverse is better! 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think there’s anything democratic about publicly singling out some users as pariahs. If a user is disruptive, just get rid of them. If they’re not, leave them be. If the jury’s still out on this one, well, don’t bias the jury against them.
- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 2 months ago:
I remember that the sound of his voice surprised me a lot, but I really like it. It honestly sounds a lot more normal than I would have expected - but I guess the voice is the difference between a god and a fake god!
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 3 months ago:
Correct!
Btw, a protip - it’s super insecure to make your username be the same as your password, @horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world!
- Comment on Civilization 7 dev on Ages system and series shakeup: "It's going to be the hardest thing for fans to get adjusted to" 6 months ago:
Yes, that’s the issue.
- Comment on How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet 7 months ago:
If you were a teenager, back when online porn were all pay sites, and so you were using Kazaa/Limewire instead, then you know.