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- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 2 days ago:
If you’re buying an annual plan, Mozilla resells Mullvad for cheaper. Monthly, buying direct is cheaper.
Also, I assume, but don’t have any evidence, that buying from a reseller is a little more private due to separation of billing and services.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 4 days ago:
The point is, if the certificate gets stolen, there’s no GOOD mechanism for marking it bad.
If your password gets stolen, only two entities need to be told it’s invalid. You and the website the password is for.
If an SSL certificate is stolen, everyone who would potentially use the website need to know, and they need to know before they try to contact the website. SSL certificate revocation is a very difficult communication problem, and it’s mostly ignored by browsers because of the major performance issues it brings having to double check SSL certs with a third party.
- Comment on Trump says he'll release MRI results but doesn't know what part of his body was scanned 5 days ago:
There’s no such thing as a non-invasive test.
Even if there were zero risks for the actual procedure, and they’re just doing it for the fuck of it, what happens if they find a little abnormality? Now you need a biopsy, more scans, and possibly treatment for something that doesn’t show any symptoms and never would have.
- Comment on AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles 5 days ago:
Don’t discard a good technique cause it can be implemented poorly.
- Comment on How come there is not a pope without grey hair? I mean a much younger pope like 30s 40s. Really can't be that hard. You got an ocean of cardinals and priests who pretty much tell say? 5 days ago:
Someone in their 30’s will significantly change their worldview over the next 50+ years.
More than anything else, the church wants stability. If you elect someone in the last part of their life, you’ll have a much better idea of what ideology their entire papacy is going to be formed under.
If electing a pope was only for 4, 10, or even 20 years, it would be more reasonable to elect a younger pope, but as it is a lifetime appointment, someone older is always going to be a more conservative option.
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 1 week ago:
Walked a friend through a build a month or so ago and actually ended up being cheaper buying from Frame.Work instead of from anywhere else at the time.
- Comment on What are some good RSS feeds that I should follow? 2 weeks ago:
Universe Today is a great source for space science, is 100% ad free, and has a robust RSS feed.
- Comment on Taking a photo to remember a moment is actually outsourcing that memory to an image, so your brain does less work and remembers it worse. 3 weeks ago:
How many events did you also forget, but don’t have any reason to even think of it again?
- Comment on do no harm 3 weeks ago:
Try describing the pain using the OPQRST pneumonic.
Onset - what where you doing when it started? Provocation - does anything make it better or worse Quality - what type of pain is it. Stabbing, burning, etc. Radiating - is the pain in one spot, or does it radiate out to other spots. Severity - what’s the 0-10 pain scale Time - How long has this been occuring
As you can see, Severity is just one of the parts of the assessment.
- Comment on do no harm 3 weeks ago:
The absolute nature of the scale isn’t THAT important, yeah it gives you an idea of how the pain feels, but what’s more important is how the number changes over time.
If a patient keeps saying “IT’S AN 11!!” for an hour and then now it’s a 9? Great, we’re moving in the right direction.
If someone starts out saying it’s an 11 and suddenly it’s a 15? Well, what changed? Did some meds wear off? Did they shift and move something that increased the pain?
Heck, 90% of the time if I get there and it’s an 11, then just 10 minutes later it’s suddenly a 6 cause they’ve calmed down now that help is there.
- Comment on LEGO Star Trek Enterprise REVIEW 4 weeks ago:
They misspelled boldly in this sticker. Wonder if they caught that before the main run.
- Comment on US government shutdown now longest ever 4 weeks ago:
There are MANY, MANY layers of government in the US. Where I live, we have: cities - townships - counties - states - federal. Each of which draw taxes and fund workers and projects.
Every single one has a current budget aside from the federal level. So most day to day, local work is getting done. It’s the broader federal work that’s unfunded right now.
So roads are getting fixed, but NASA projects are unfunded. Local fire departments are getting paid, but federal food assistance is not.
If we have a hurricane, then the federal emergency management agency won’t have a budget to manage it (but they’re pretty dismantled already)
- Comment on TiVo Rides Into the Sunset 1 month ago:
I bought my first TiVo back in… 2002?
I had to use my work landline to do the initial setup, but then I used a USB Ethernet jack for the rest. You had to do some fancy remote secret code, but it worked just fine.
Also was able to use disc mirroring to make a new, much larger, hard drive, so we could record essentially unlimited TV.
- Comment on SpaceX cuts off 2,500 Starlink devices at Myanmar scam centres 1 month ago:
Glad we have Musk being the arbiter of who can use the Internet or not.
Shit like this is the primary reason I’m never going to use Starlink.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 month ago:
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 month ago:
There’s always going to be vulnerabilities, that’s why they’re ending support. They don’t want to spend time updating an OS they don’t want people using.
Windows 10 is probably fairly secure… today. In 2 years, someone might discover a new vulnerability, and you won’t get the update. If there’s a new way to do web security and the browsers need OS support to implement it, you’ll be stuck on legacy security settings.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 1 month ago:
I need the cable company (or similar) due to the fact that infrastructure is hard to deploy, and we need Internet to participate in society.
Nobody needs Microsoft cause every single one of their products has an alternative that’s at least as good.
They survive by courting enterprises, but many of them can also switch away if they want.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 1 month ago:
Most likely blue are the input nodes and green are the output nodes.
- Comment on Immich 2.1 Released with Better Slideshow Shuffle, New Notifications 1 month ago:
I use rsync to backup, I can delete and restore the whole drive if i want at any time.
I use watchtower to keep things updated. If you schedule the rsync and watchtower correctly, you can get the backup done before the upgrade and there’s basically no lost data with the rollback.
I use uptime Kuma for monitoring, and it shoots me an email with details on what failed.
- Comment on Immich 2.1 Released with Better Slideshow Shuffle, New Notifications 1 month ago:
I automate my upgrades, but I also automate my backups, and monitoring.
If an upgrade breaks something, my health monitor lets me know and I can roll back to the previous day.
- Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings 1 month ago:
Go near the equator and look at where satellite dishes are pointed. They’re not typically straight up, they tend to be pointed pretty far east/west depending on where you are exactly.
Most countries don’t have their own satellites specifically in line with them, they’re often all using the same ones.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
You can also manually add or remove search engines (at least in current Mozilla releases)
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 1 month ago:
Well, for one, some YouTubers made a cheap, open source VR headset. That was pretty neat.
- Comment on Looking for a good kindle reader alternative 1 month ago:
I run it. It’s good if you want to just host the books. Share my 2k size ebook library with my group of friends.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 1 month ago:
No, this is completely different. Incognito mode deletes all browsing data (locally) once the window closes.
This allows you to say, be logged into Facebook on one profile, logged into Google on a different profile, and logged into your daily browsing in a third profile. Or you can have multiple logged in YouTube sessions in case you’re a content creator, you can have a profile for each of your channels.
This way the cookies for each aren’t intermixed, and it would make it (slightly) harder to correlate browsing habits from embedded cookies or logged in sessions, or just to keep tabs and browsing history separate.
- Comment on Are there any decor people here? I ask because in the Big Lebowski it begins with a rug that tied the room together. In your opinion did it? 1 month ago:
Counterpoint.
The dude didn’t have many nice things, but that rug was one of them. He was shown meditating on the new rug, so maybe that was his daily ritual for staying dude-like.
It tied the room together cause it was a quality object that took the focus, in his eyes, off the junk that was everything else.
- Comment on At 1% 1 month ago:
BNC connections were used on professional level video equipment, if you were rich enough, you could get an extremely high quality computer monitor and video card that used those.
Older computers, especially early home computers sometimes just had composite connectors to a TV. Older computer monitors often had a composite input, but SCART was also an option.
Higher end computer monitors sometimes had similar inputs to early HDTVs, there’s a lot of crossover.
- Comment on At 1% 1 month ago:
If you were rich enough, could have only used displays with RGB-BNC.
Or maybe they’re kinda crazy and used Component video with a TV screen. (Or composite…)
Or maybe they’re just not that old.
- Comment on Saab Suggests Subscription Model for Weapon Systems 1 month ago:
Neat, now if your gun can’t connect to the license server for some reason, you can’t shoot back.
Maybe it’ll use Dunuvo and now there’s a bunch of lag between pushing the button and launching the missile.
- Comment on In order for superman to keep his cover as Clark Kent countless innocents he had the power to save have to die every day. 1 month ago:
He’s a field reporter. He goes out into the world to write about stuff. If he’s gone for three weeks working on a story, that’s what it takes.
He’s also super smart and super fast, so he can write the story in a small fraction of the time as most reporters.So, as Superman, he flies to where the problem is, solves it, then writes about it as Clark Kent.
Same thing Spider-Man does, except a big part of it is also getting pictures of himself as Spider-Man doing the problem solving.
