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- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 14 hours ago:
No, ‘China bad’ because many many examples of China bad. Such as the topic of this post.
The whole “you can’t criticize China because you’re from a country that also does bad things” is logically worthless. It’s the argument of hypocrisy fallacy.
Not sure if you realize this but China is also ruled by a kleptocratic billionaire class that loots the working class even moreso than the US, so i’m not sure why you look up to them - China has more billionaires and a much larger wealth divide than the US. Actions speak louder than words and while Xi and the CCP often talk about cracking down on thier ultra-wealthy, they don’t really do much - couple billionaires might disappear occasionally though if they don’t praise the party line publically. One thing is for sure - I don’t see any elite CCP party members that are not also very wealthy. And it’s everyone else that’s propagandized 🤔
- Comment on Self-hosting minecraft 1 day ago:
It isn’t on the default port either, it’s on a random high number port which is why I thought it was extra odd they found it.
- Comment on Self-hosting minecraft 1 day ago:
It isn’t on the default port either, it’s on a random high number port which is why I thought it was extra odd they found it.
- Comment on Self-hosting minecraft 2 days ago:
Like the other commenter said, I dunno how the heck the griefers find the servers - but if it’s on the open Internet, they do.
I set up a server for me an a handful of mates - advertised the address nowhere. They told nobody. A month in a friend and I were playing as usual, and a player with a Russian username joined. I’m like “uh hi who are you?”. They stayed another minute or two while saying nothing, then left.
I think they left when they realized i had an anti-griefer permissions mod that protects the blocks in an area around the spawn point from being modified (its called ‘Flan’). So they joined, saw the server had some protections, and decided it wouldn’t be much fun for them.
Whitelist immediately enabled - no more random Russians.
- Comment on Self-hosting minecraft 2 days ago:
In addition to other advice here just be aware that Minecraft servers are prime targets for griefing and abuse.
I recommend setting it to whitelist mode and then each kid your friend wants to join just has to send their username to him so you can add the username to the whitelist. Its an added overhead but it’s much less painful than reverting to a backup for a griefed server - and your kid won’t have to worry about other kids on-sharing the server address.
- Comment on AMD's new RX 9000 GPUs only officially support UEFI systems 4 days ago:
All graphics cards interface with BIOS/UEFI when the system initializes - every piece of non-hotswap hardware has to or it won’t be initialized and cannot be used.
The question is really why should a graphics card maker care to dedicate time to make their card compatible with BIOS when 99.999% of the systems running their cards will use UEFI, and they said ‘hey actually we don’t care’ as far back as 2023 in the 7000 series but for some reason (clickbait) this is being dug up again.
- Comment on Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance 5 days ago:
Thanks for the suggestion. That combo seems to bring up window options for Wine’s workspace. I’ve purged and reinstalled the snap now which does skirt the problem.
- Comment on Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance 6 days ago:
I’m in the same boat. I ended up giving up on the Linux options and using a Notepad++ snap package, but as it runs in WINE it has some quirks that I have not figured out yet.
As an example I chose to hide the menu bar while I was trying to get a dark theme looking correct, and now I have no idea how to bring the menu bar back, because wine takes the [alt] input that would usually bring the menu back up.
I’ll probably end up just deleting and reinstalling the snap. But I’d rather know how to bring up the alt menu in emulated programs in wine - in case it happens again.
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 1 week ago:
Builds in a very expensive replacement component too.
A control button breaks? New button is a (still over-inflated) $75 to replace.
A Tesla control screen breaks (and they do, just as often as buttons) - $1500.
- Comment on Stop touching your stuff! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Freedumb 1 week ago:
Shingles is apparently one of the worst chronic pains a person can endure. Adult chicken pox can be deadly.
Worth looking into if you’ve never been vaccinated against chicken pox. There are options for adult vaccination.
Or don’t. Just don’t say nobody ever warned you.
- Comment on if im going to put a flag on my front porch like all my neighbors, its going to be a pizza flag. 2 weeks ago:
Good idea. Pizza’s not topical - everyone likes pizzas.
Here’s the logo of one of my favourite pizzaria’s for you to use.
- Comment on Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend? 2 weeks ago:
Simple question but can be a complex answer. Basically it depends where your phone gets DNS from: if it’s using the ISP DNS (or some other public DNS server) it will resolve the public internet IP of your server and the data will route out to the ISP WAN before being routed back in.
On the other hand you can configure a split DNS system, so say you are using your modem/gateway as your DNS server and it forwards DNS queries up to your ISP (or other) DNS server - a common setup, 1. you can add in a static host entry for your local server. Eg ‘yourservice.yourserverdomain.com = 192.168.1.20 (your server’s LAN IP)’
Now when your phone is on the WiFi and it looks up your server’s address it gets the local IP and routes locally, which will be faster.
If you need more info, search for terms like ‘reverse proxy split DNS best practice’.
- Comment on We like getting triggered. We seek it out. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills 3 weeks ago:
A hallucination is a false perception of sensory experiences (sights, sounds, etc).
LLMs don’t have any senses, they have input, algorithms and output. They also have desired output and undesired output.
So, no, ‘hallucinations’ fits far worse than failure or error or bad output. However assigning the term ‘hallucinaton’ does serve the billionaires in marketing their LLMs as actual sentience.
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 3 weeks ago:
I can’t understand would it even have the part in parentheses in Europe. Think how silly it would look if every location had the regional name for every nearby country added in parentheses after the primary global name. It would be a mess.
Eg:
Germany (Deutschland, Allemagne, Niemcy, Germania, Saksa, <etc>)
Feels to me like special rules Apple has to stroke special fascist egos.
But maybe its not Apple and this is a name set by your local governance. You mind if I ask what country Apple maps you’re looking at?
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I use Linux for my servers and my HTPC, but I never really hibernate or sleep those so I had no idea if it might occur there too. It’s great to hear this is not likely to be an issue - thanks
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 4 weeks ago:
And apparently, they apparently still can’t get an accurate result with such a basic query.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 4 weeks ago:
Fair enough - sounds like they might not be ready for prime time though.
Oh well, at least while the bugs get ironed-out we’re not using them for anything important
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 4 weeks ago:
The problem I have with this I put the PC to sleep overnight every night - and like clockwork, Windows wakes it back up sometime overnight to do… Something.
I’ve been diagnosing the issue for years - checking wake timers, switching hardware devices permissions to wake the system off. I might fix it for a few months and then a new Windows update comes along and it’s back to its usual routine of waking itself.
Looking forward to seeing if it persists with Linux when I move at the end of support period for Win10 later this year.
- Comment on YSK Elon Musk's actions are not random and the Silicon Valley's hostile take over of the federal government was planned over the last decade. 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately they’re so stupid and egitistic that they’re giving it a red hot go anyway
- Comment on I'll take a liberal. Just 86 the tofu. 4 weeks ago:
I chuckled when i got to the picture of Obama. I’m borderline on whether this is a genuine rw meme or a parody it’s that over the top
