Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 11 hours ago:
That’s why you have the phone call, to discuss it, and in closing state you’ll send an email.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 11 hours ago:
I don’t disagree it’s a focus thing for many people. I’m often stunned at the lack of comprehension or attention to detail using any medium, even in person (also technical field).
Like look, I just said to do what you’re asking would require 250 firewall rules…why are you now talking as if firewall rules aren’t required? I even went through the simplest math out loud during this meeting, so everyone would understand how I came up with that number and didn’t just pull it out of my ass.
People pay attention to what they want to pay attention to (or as my grandfather would say - people hear what they want to hear). If those questions aren’t a high priority for their own work, they simply don’t see them.
For OP: email is a terrible medium for such things, unless there’s been a conversation about it, and this is part of moving a project forward. Anything out of left field isn’t important to your audience, and… people dislike comitting to anything in email. As you work with people up the food chain, you’ll find less and less happens via verifiable comms like email (which is archived).
- Comment on What vacuum should I buy for 66% carpets in 1500sqft condo? Sub $500 3 days ago:
Anything will work, what’s most important is regular vacuuming, preventing dirt from working it’s way down though the carpet.
In another life I did some reno work. You could tell who vacuumed regularly, and who didn’t. This was long before vacuums became high-ticket items, they were all generic bag-based ones designed in the 60’s and 70’s.
- Comment on Did the EU just propose to add back doors to encryption mechanisms? 3 days ago:
Self hosting an encrypted app (e.g. XMPP) on a VPS outside jurisdiction, in a country that just doesn’t comply.
Also add a VPN to all devices to make discovery of such things that much more difficult.
- Comment on Did the EU just propose to add back doors to encryption mechanisms? 3 days ago:
Buddy/part of, etc.
It’s all the same bucket of power-hungry people, they’ll accept any mechanism to increase their power/control.
- Comment on Sit down with your co-workers for a beer and everybody smiles. They even make tv shows about it. But sit down with your co-workers for a little opium and everybody gets their panties in a twist. 4 days ago:
It’s a shame, really.
Back in my restaurant days, hanging out after and getting loose really made everyone work together better.
Though I can’t see doing this in a business environment - it’s just not the same.
- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 5 days ago:
YouTube does this stuff because it’s effective. The only way to avoif is to not play the game as defined by them.
Switch to other means of watching YouTube, like Grayjay, or an envious instance.
- Comment on On email privacy: can I store my own email and relay them through an email provider? 6 days ago:
Yep.
Rather than try to single-handedly re-engineer an old protocol to be secure, I just use it for stuff where security isn’t a big deal. Including messages with links to secure resources (and send credentials via a separate system).
- Comment on On email privacy: can I store my own email and relay them through an email provider? 6 days ago:
I don’t see how you wouldn’t have your email on an email providers servers - that’s how email works. You send an email via a provider, they forward it to the destination address you’ve included with the email.
Email is old, so the fundamental mechanics are pretty simple, and encryption wasn’t an option at the time - so it’s sent in the clear. Otherwise it would require both sender and receiver (either at both ends, or the servers) to agree on an encryption to use.
- Comment on Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first 6 days ago:
Mailbox.org.
Ita worth paying for a service rather than trust an org that’s been less than direct with us.
- Comment on Can this be charged 6 days ago:
If you can get the pack apart, I’d just rebuild it. Replacement cells are as little as $2 each.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s abnormal.
That kind of speed requires 500hp+, depending on Cd and frontal area.
What percentage of cars produce 500hp?
(Im not even sure 500hp is enough, it’s been a while since I’ve done the math).
Small increments in speed require non-linear increases in power.
- Comment on [help] Cheap SSDs for storage 1 week ago:
At idle, SSD is usually better (like you said if the SSD has proper power management, and that takes research to know).
Spinning platters are generally still better for power per gig/terabyte, because write time they consume less power than SSD.
I dont really look at drive power consumption, because even with ~10 drives running in my environment, a single cpu doing anything moderate blows away their power consumption numbers (I’ve tested, not that it was needed, heat dissipation alone makes it clear).
I have a ten-year old 5 drive NAS that runs 24/7, and it’s barely above room temp. Average draw is a few watts (the number was so low I put it out of my mind, maybe 5 watts - Raspberry Pi territory).
My SFF desktop is 12w at idle, with either 2 small SSDs (500GB each) or a single large drive (12TB). So much for SSD having better idle power.
- Comment on [help] Cheap SSDs for storage 1 week ago:
SSD isn’t necessarily less energy hungry than spinning platter.
It really depends on the specific units and use patterns.
Generally SSD has better idle power, and HD has better read and write power, but that doesn’t even always hold true.
If your device sits idle long enough, SSD is better for power, but the write time to get to idle could easily consume the power differential.
- Comment on [help] Cheap SSDs for storage 1 week ago:
Beat me to it. I always have the page up.
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 1 week ago:
It would probably help to define the terms you’re using, as there are many ways to interpret “big place”, “small place”, “many people”, etc.
I don’t even know if your starting point is accurate.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ok, Dr. Evil!
- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong!
I’m a fan of the martini - when I’m in the mood to drink. But make it gin, a good one like Boodles or some of the new stuff with citrus notes.
Another good shower thought today!
- Comment on Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum? 1 week ago:
Scans for open ports run continuously these days.
Ten years ago I opened a port for something for a couple days - for months after that I was getting regular scans against that port (and others).
At one point the scans were so constant it was killing my internet performance (poor little consumer router had no defense capability).
I don’t think the scans ever fully stopped until I moved. Whoever has that IP now probably gets specifically scanned on occasion.
And just because you don’t run a business doesn’t mean you have nothing to lose.
DMZ should be enough… But routers have known flaws, so I’d be sure to verify whatever I’m using.
- Comment on When the machines eventually rise against humanity remember to disguise yourself as fire hydrant, a bus or a traffic light 1 week ago:
Finally, a real shower thought!
- Comment on Is there a way to redirect voice traffic from WhatsApp and Signal to a landline? 1 week ago:
Why wouldn’t it be possible?
The phone is providing the client app connection, you just need an interface from the client to the POTS system.
Years ago I had a cordless phone that connected to the Skype client on a pc - you could call a phone number, or a Skype contact with it.
This is no different - you just need to establish the interface between the hardware and software.
- Comment on YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life. 2 weeks ago:
might need to respawn
Haha, dammit I snorted. Fine, enjoy the upvote
- Comment on i’m not religious. stop trying to force me to be. 4 weeks ago:
“We can’t be friends if you don’t pray”
OK.
Walk away.
This is my response to any kind of ultimatum. And I say “OK” as dispassionately as possible, as if someone said they prefer vanilla over chocolate ice cream.
- Comment on Looks like Instagram wants some of Discord's market. 4 weeks ago:
That sweet, sweet data.
- Comment on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think too many people will get caught short. I haven’t seen a company using it since before MS acquired it.
In the publishing/layout world, there are much better products… Or there used to be. PowerPoint and Word can’t come close to what a page layout program can do. I use it all the time for simple stuff that would take longer using Word, and I wouldn’t even try even slightly complex stuff with word.
I suspect of lot of page layout is outsourced by companies any more, which is why MS is killing it. Weird.
Guess I need to find the latest full version, I only have Pub 2016.
- Comment on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been worried about this with Publisher since MS acquired it in the mid 90’s. It’s always been a niche product (I used it before it was an MS product).
Frankly I’m surprised it’s survived this long.
Thankfully I have a standalone copy. Screw Office 365.
- Comment on I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats. 5 weeks ago:
I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated
Dude, I lost that faith during my first month, decades ago.
Even worse, Robert Pirsig documents the loss in “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, written (partly) about his experience as a professor in the 1960’s.
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 5 weeks ago:
Well, virtualizatiin systems tend to run at root level, since they need to emulate things like processors (yea, that’s not the only way, but business-class virtualizatiin is done at the OS level).
- Comment on A crate for puppy 1 month ago:
I didn’t know that was a called a Brenton bolt. Neat!
- Comment on Observer 1 month ago:
Which is what’s so “magical” about it - Newtonian rules seem to break down at the quantum level.
It was an incredible discovery, and for practically anyone not a physicist, it’s incredibly hard to comprehend. I say this as a not-a-physicist who struggled to comprehend it decades ago, and read several books on the subject to finally get my head around it (as much as a non-physicist can).
Also, it’s just a meme mate.