magic_smoke

@magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For transfers between systems you own yes, but when grabbing a Linux iso from a public server FTP works fine.

  For years Firefox allowed you to crawl FTP sites natively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope to god one day the developers at Mozilla finally get tired of this shit and fork everything under a new org.

  Fuck off with more services and give me my integrated FTP client back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf why do all the good jobs keep getting take by fucking robots.

  I don’t want to dick with excel sheets, pay me to hug cows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What we need to see is a major studio pushing for Linux like valve has been doing.

  That’s it. That’s literally what makes it special. You, me, and half the fediverse probably aren’t going to use it unless maybe we buy a steam deck.

  The fact that there’s a multi-billion dollar company throwing money at both it and proton is what makes steam os special. Like it or not, that’s how you get normal people to use shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Once steamos drops support and starts coming pre-loaded on laptops and pre-built desktops it’s over for their consumer division.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good I hope chrome does get fucking run into the ground.

  Maybe then chromium can have some actual independence and spread ts wings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I really need a firewall for my server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to run ufw on all my machines but I’m also a tinfoil-hat wearing wacko who believes that no computer should ever really be trusted. Just trusted enough to do specific tasks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The real issues are capitalism and the lack of green energy.

  If the arts where well funded, if people where given healthcare and UBI, if we had, at the very least, switched to nuclear like we should’ve decades ago, we wouldn’t be here.

  The issue isn’t a piece of software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that was my point. Thing was mostly finalized by my birth year lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of War⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fpv has a very storied history, yet we don’t see these bombings all the time.

  Its almost like pre-made drones are locked down and tracked, and homemade ones take like 20 hours of sim time just to keep in the air.

  That’s before we discuss the fact that the munitions Ukraine straps to them are unobtanium for normal people.

  This is really cheap if you’re a military, but still a big pain in the ass for anyone else. I guess if you have a really angry hobbiest with hundreds of man hours of flight time, and explosives knowledge you’re in danger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bit of an unhinged and unreasonable nerd rant but here it goes:

  The second dot com boom in the 2010s ruined us. Like holy shit. As someone younger looking down the line, living in tech bro culture, but exposed to the likes of the jargon file, y combinatorial and their venture capitalists literally ruined hacker culture.

  We used to have a thriving culture that cherished freedom, real freedom, not freedom for the rich. What happened to the culture that spawned Windows buyback day? What of the dream that networked freedom would one day break the chains of economic heirarchy?

  Like holy fucking shit. If you’re not here for the love of the machine stop touching a compiler or better yet go loose your fucking hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favourite way to transfer files in your homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • sftp for quick shit like config files off a random server because it easy
  • rsync for big one-time moves
  • smb for client-facing network shares
  • NFS for SAN usage (mostly storage for virtual machines)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam does most of the fucking around for you these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they not both VoIP/Im clients?

  Or is it only a viable alternative if they recreate the UI because god forbid it look different?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah in a better society where art was distributed freely and certain recreational substances weren’t illegal we wouldn’t need them.

  That’s not the reality we live in today, however.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay I get the hate for capitalism and global warming, but can we stop acting like anonymous payments for drugs and web hosting g are a bad thing?

  Do you like to get stoned and/or to trip balls? Do you like watching pirated movies? I fucking do at least, I imagine most people do lol.