icmpecho

@icmpecho@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  same, my lifetime license is paying off right about now tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  agree 100%, I just find what limited joy I can in pointing out that this is likely bullshit and at best a con. I also get a kick out of shitting on Musk for pretending to know what he’s talking about when it comes to tech :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  depending on how badly Starlink fucks up the deployment, this could actually make the performance worse especially if airtime and spectrum are limited which I would assume would be the case. Elon throwing APs every which way isn’t likely to make that any better.

  this is like getting a flat tire on your handcart and buying a G Wagon with no wheels to fix it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this was nothing that some Ethernet and some Ubiquiti LR APs couldn’t fix. and as for the cellular issues, you’re literally the White House. Throw up a femtocell, you already have fiber for backhaul.

  this is such fucking nonsense. Starlink is fixing precisely none of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Filing: DOGE broke Treasury policy with unencrypted email⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m barely an engineer but I can guarantee you that anyone with the ability to build a single actual functional server could run stuff better than these clowns. they fucked up so badly that they exposed a open mail relay to the entire fucking NOAA. I’m a dumb removed but that is beyond belief, if I did anything nearly as reckless as that on a corp network I’d be in handcuffs before the top of the hour.

  this isn’t just risky - this is begging to be plundered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This queue for the new swasticar⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and killing others in them while watching YouTube.

  also, as a bonus, the video was transphobic and the creator is a fucking bigot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yep, I know this feeling all too well - having a community and friends is important but even more so in cases like ours. Thank you for the comment, I hope you’re doing better nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m probably gonna get clowned for feeding the troll, but - this comment comes off a lot more harsh if you’ve ever experienced not having access to the Internet and a smartphone or computer.

  I spent the better part of 16 years of my life with no TV, MP3 player, phone, Internet, or computer - and it has negatively impacted me in immeasurable ways. I couldn’t find work, because I couldn’t apply for jobs but also I didn’t know you could do that on the Internet - I also didn’t know YouTube existed, so I missed out on learning the things I liked, and I didn’t know I was being abused because I had no way of knowing that it wasn’t normal until I got access to help, via the Internet.

  I wasn’t in the stone age - if I’d had options to do any of the above without a phone or the Internet, I’d be a different person today. Shut up, mate - not everyone can afford or has the opportunity to own a smartphone and data plan (which are rare and expensive in abusive situations like my past). Making services available in places like libraries and community centers without requiring smartphones and Internet would help so many people who have no ability to use them - those people are humans too.

  and by the way while we’re at it: if we’re effectively paywalling access to basic human rights behind an IP address and cellular radio, those should be enshrined as human rights too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  same, i’ve been very happy with Caddy, even with lots of subdomains and weird configs it’s been rock solid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i always found this to be upsetting as an IT tech at a former company - when a network or server had an issue and i was sent to resolve it, it was a “just reboot it” fix, which never kept the problem from recurring and bringing the server down at 07:00 the next Monday.

  the limitations on the questions i could ask hurt that SLA more than any network switch’s memory leak ever did, and i felt as if my expertise meant nothing as a result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  hell yeah, that’s what i like to see. also, same, if you need help when we’re in the camps, hit me up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  anecdotally: given the number of people I’ve met who were both neurodivergent and absolutely adore trains, this seems incredibly likely.

  not to mention many of those same people are just the type to have 200TB of music and a whole radio station in their backpack.