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- Comment on Testing vs Prod 19 hours ago:
Most importantly - the time and people = money.
My last job had a dev, UAT, and prod environments because they knew it was important enough to the business to pay for them.
I dont pay me anything for running my home environment - so, there is only production. And lots of backups.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 days ago:
For Shure maybe, but what about for other audio products companies?
P. S. I unironically believe 2025 may be looked back on as the year of the Linux desktop. May have finally got through the trough, we’ll see though.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 days ago:
Upgraded to Linux or Windows 11?
Because nobody is claiming you’ll lose functionality with Windows 11, so your post seems to imply Linux but I’m unsure.
- Comment on EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption! 3 days ago:
Yeah, means Signal would just not have a presence eg an office or local routing/CDN servers in the countries that demand backdoors.
It would mean slower service for anyone in such countries, but the service would not stop working or become less secure.
It’s negative either way, as it chips away at the legitimacy of private E2E chat, and legislators the world over seemed determined not to learn that there’s no such think as “backdoors, but just for the good guys”. You either have a resilient end-to-end zero trust encrypted system or you don’t.
- Comment on China plans world’s first fusion-fission power plant 6 days ago:
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic but boats splitting in half is not uncommon, as far as boat structural failures go it’s a relatively common one.
Stats on such a thing are unavailable but there are many news articles regarding boats splitting in half. I’d hope the safety factor on a fission reactor is several orders of magnitude higher than a seafaring vessel.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 6 days ago:
So, uh. What about Lemmy?
They can also crawl this publically-accessible social media source for their data sets.
I’m on board with abandoning mainstream social media, but my point is that your suggestion would not solve the problem just relocate it. A better solution to the AI conglomerates stealing everyone’s data from the open Internet is legislation and regulations - ie tackling the whole ‘stealing data’ component, along with stronger privacy regulations for everyone to make it harder for them to do the same in the future. It’s nice seeing the EU taking some positive steps, but we will not see the US take any steps in that direction anytime soon, due to corporate capture of their politicians and the AI companies all being in the top 10 most wealthy companies in the US.
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 1 week ago:
I’m bummed about this, but it’s not a shock given they retired the brand back in 2021. So much for “we will support these devices for as long as they continue to be used” however. This will generate a lot of e-waste.
I have an 880 that my family use regularly with the TV/AV/etc. I don’t mind so much navigating the three remotes and several buttons to get movies or TV running, but it’ll be annoying having all the extra remotes out on coffee tables all the time now, and repeated instructions to the rest of the fam on how to use them 🥲
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 1 week ago:
Their app is predominantly a web front end. You could previously program your remote entirely via their website years back iirc. They had to program this component as you say for getting new remote profiles.
To be fair, why would they bother programming a ‘local only offline mode’ for your specific use-case when Internet connectivity was ubiquitous long before these devices were released?
Like yeah in retrospect it would be helpful now, but as a business decision it would have made very little sense to Logitech.
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 1 week ago:
Uh… these remotes connect to Logitech servers so they can get infrared codes and button configurations for new devices from Logitech’s (constantly updated) device database - and also so that people who have taken the time to manually ‘learn’ and label a new device’s remote functionality can upload it to the central service for others to use. I can’t add a TV released last year to my 10 year old Harmony remote without such a service.
So yes, there’s absolutely a reason for them to need to connect to a server. They also do not need ‘24/7 network access’, instead they connect once in a blue moon if and when you wish to modify your remote’s config… via USB.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 1 week ago:
Organic Maps is not at feature parity with paid options but it is pretty damn good for FOSS. I use it almost daily for driving around city/suburban Australia and it very rarely gives me bad directions - certainly no more than the paid option i previously used (Sygic).
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 2 weeks ago:
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If there’s one type of app with no shortage of options, it’s notes apps. Just look at the other responses here I’m sure there are dozens being evangelized already.
I very much doubt that this alone will push users onto Microsoft 365, like MS seems to be hoping it will.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Carl Sagan released his book The Demon Haunted World in 1995, where he championed the scientific method and critical thought and lamented the dumbing down of (particularly US) society, so no… It’s not new.
I will add that your premise is wrong on the 60s. The leftism in the 60s was counter-culture, it was small and it was mostly confined to the youth… It was certainly not the prevailing attitude of the country. It was not unlike the leftist groups you see in the US today - small, loud, and a reaction to the heavily conservative country they find themselves in.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Lol @ thinking Elon Musk was ever ‘left’ he was never even left of center.
- Comment on How effective would sanctions on US by the international community be? 2 weeks ago:
I think aiming to sanction the US is the wrong plan, treat it like it is what it is - a country run by an autocrat, and go after the oligarchs. Same approach as taken with Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc.
In terms of effectiveness. Frankly we’re (globally) only getting rid of Trump and his cronies if the American public rise up against him and oust him through whatever means that may take. Protests and extended strikes for starters - and the people will be more likely to band together with Trump than against him if the whole world starts Tariffing and sanctioning the USA like a rogue state.
On the other hand, sanction and freeze Trump & Co. assetts all over the (western) world and when he retaliates to protect his own interests its a lot harder to sell to his constituents.
How you would even legally go about that is another question though, he would have to be breaking financial international laws and the countries involved in the personal sanctions would have to be ready and willing for blowback.
Its all fantasy at this stage until he starts blatantly breaking international laws that allow his assets to be seized. Likewise with the idea of sanctions - look at how much Israel has done and they’re not sanctioned, and it took a great deal of blatant acts of war before Russia and North Korea were sanctioned also.
- Comment on From Wolfenstein 3D to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, gamers have been preparing for this era for 33 years 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 4 weeks ago:
I’d much rather use a password and a two-factor auth via TOTP code. It’s fast, portable, I can store them on a variety of open source apps, and it’s very hard to hack. I don’t need to use a specific provider, or browser. Flexible and free.
Passkeys in their current implementation are comparatively a mess. Here’s an article that runs through many reasons why:
- Comment on A self-hosted URL shortener: Shlink - A Docker Quick-Start Guide 4 weeks ago:
Ah that is probably my bad then, I read it as being able to redirect arbitrary URLs, hence the need for geoblock and abuse protections - if it’s only your own self-hosted/personal domains then yeah that absolutely makes sense.
- Comment on A self-hosted URL shortener: Shlink - A Docker Quick-Start Guide 4 weeks ago:
Can I ask - why would anyone do this? Several URL shortening services of the past have shuttered and it has left the web littered with links to sites that can never be resolved (linkrot) - this to me just seems like a another surefire way to speedrun future deadlinks in forums etc. Why?
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 month ago:
- Comment on Freedumb 1 month 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. 1 month 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.
