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- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 8 hours ago:
Easier said than done, if your end users run Chrome. Because Chrome will automatically block your site if you’re on double secret probation.
The phishing flag usually happens because you have the Username, Password, Log In, and SSO button all on the same screen. Google wants you to have the Username field, the Log In button, and any SSO stuff on one page. Then if you input a username and go to start a password login, Google expects the SSO to disappear and be replaced by the vanilla Log In button. If you simply have all of the fields and buttons on one page, Google flags it as a phishing attempt. Like I guess they expect you to try and steal users’ Google passwords if you have a password field on the same page as a “Sign in with Google” button.
- Comment on Why does markdown treat linefeeds as spaces? 23 hours ago:
That comes from typewriters, before kerning was a thing. Each key press moved the paper an equal distance, so every single character was evenly spaced. Even narrow characters like i or l had the same amount of space on each side of them. Monospaced font is easier to read when sentences end with a double space. But with modern kerned fonts, the double space is pointless.
Phones sub in a period for simplicity, so you don’t need to reach for the period key. It doesn’t actually include the double space at all; it removes the first space and replaces it with a period. If you’re “supposed” to double space after each sentence, why does your phone remove that first space?
- Comment on Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really. 1 day ago:
Apparently we don’t even need to pay the actual army. We can just revoke their paychecks and force them to keep working anyways. Nothing can go wrong with that, right?
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 1 day ago:
My mother-in-law’s job has a similar policy, except the range is 50 miles… She lives almost exactly 49.9 miles away from her job. The company refuses to budge, (“if we gave an exception to you, we’d have to do it for everyone”), and requires her to come in.
- Comment on How "Learn to Code" Backfired on a Whole Generation 2 days ago:
Yeah, Adam Savage was saying that as a highly skilled person. I’ve worked with personality hires. I’ve worked with military-grade weaponized autism. I prefer the autism, because at least I don’t need to babysit them and double-check all of their work. With the autists, at least you can reliably know “if I give them {A}, I’ll get {B} in return. Not {C}, not {D}, always {B}.” I don’t mind teaching. It’s inevitable in any job. But working with personality hires always ends up being an exercise in patience, because there’s only so many times I can show someone how to do something.
- Comment on Clowns be clowning 4 days ago:
Yeah, catbox is notoriously spotty. It’s outright blocked in many areas, and I have to VPN to a different location to even access it. Not sure why it’s so popular here.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 6 days ago:
Yes, it is… Like most people, you are confusing assault with battery. Sexual assault is any nonconsensual sexual contact(meeting/encounter). Sexual battery or aggravated sexual assault is sexual assault with the use or threat of force.
An alternate perspective: he had a peeper let herself into his house, then accuse him of being naked in his own home.
From her perspective, she obviously believes it was an intentional assault. On the other side of the same coin, it’s entirely possible that she just strolled into some dude’s house when he wasn’t expecting it. And if that’s the case, he was the one who was assaulted. He was out of public view, and being naked in the privacy of your own home isn’t a crime by itself.
My point is simply that we can’t know what happened, because none of us were there. So to simply open by stating that she was assaulted is inherently biased. If he intentionally set it up for his own gratification, he assaulted her. I’m not arguing against that. But if he genuinely wasn’t expecting someone to let themselves into his house, (because honestly, why would anyone think that’s okay to do?) then he’s actually the victim here.
And the actual “what happened” part is something for lawyers to argue over in court. If he had a note saying to let herself in, and the front door was standing wide open, it’s a pretty open and shut case against him. Still a monumentally stupid move on the driver’s part, (because seriously, why would you ever enter someone’s home while making a delivery?) but it would obviously be something that he orchestrated. But again, that’s for the lawyers to argue about, because there could be confounding factors. What if there was no note to let yourself in, and he just had the door open because he was airing out the house on a nice day? Maybe he expected the driver to leave his food on the porch. Maybe he didn’t have his phone on him (because he was naked and had no pockets) and therefore didn’t feel the notification that the driver was on their way. Those are just a few quick what-ifs off the top of my head, and any of them could be possible.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 week ago:
The broad definition for “app stores” was likely intended specifically to block loopholes where people just spin up their own sites and say “it’s just my website, not an app store.”
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 week ago:
At least on Apple, that wouldn’t help; Native apps (like the App Store) have direct GPS and cellular location access. You’d need to spoof your GPS and cellular location, which is a lot harder than simply connecting to a different VPN server.
Lots of people found that out when they deleted TikTok during the “ban”. TikTok continued to function in the US, but it was removed from the App Store so you couldn’t re-download it after deleting it. And simply changing your VPN to an international server didn’t help, because the App Store was loading available apps based on your cell location.
- Comment on Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped 1 week ago:
Yeah, they did the same for Win7 for a long time. Win7 was so widely used (and people were so hesitant to upgrade after the awful 8/8.1 mess) that like 25-30% of all the computers in the world were still using it several years after support officially ended. It forced MS to continue issuing critical vulnerability patches for Win7, long after support officially ended.
- Comment on Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped 1 week ago:
Nope, 0-day means it was exploited in the wild before the company knew about it. Basically, the company had to rush to patch it because it was already being exploited. It means black-hat hackers found it and exploited it before the white/grey-hat hackers reported it. If white-hat hackers found it first, they’d have already alerted the company and given time to patch it before they announced the vulnerability. But since the black-hat hackers found it first, it was a 0-day.
- Comment on Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped 1 week ago:
Further, there’s companies that make custom-built modern machines that support classic PCI and modern operating systems and classic operating systems.
Yeah, some extremely expensive equipment at my job runs on Adobe Flash. Modern machines won’t even allow Flash to run because it’s so insecure. We just updated the control PC for that equipment last year; It’s a computer that is dual-booting Windows 11 and Windows XP. It boots into WinXP by default, to be able to run Flash. Then if you ever need to update it, you can swap over to Win11 to be able to connect to the internet.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 1 week ago:
Yeah, maybe find a touring job for a year or two. Cruise lines are always hiring, and there’s plenty of technically skilled jobs that you could later transfer into other industries when you get tired of traveling.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 1 week ago:
Yeah, the only ones that realistically “make it” by their early 20’s were born with a trust fund. Seriously, if you go read up on most of the big “American dream” types, you’ll realize that they only had the time to work 55 hours unpaid each week, because they had a trust fund feeding them and keeping them sheltered.
Bill Gates used to be the poster child for the American dream; A young scrappy programmer whose tiny tech startup beat the odds, thanks to Gates working so hard he would end up sleeping under his desk. Then when you dig deeper, you realize he was born a multi-millionaire. He was only able to take the risk with (and dedicated the time to) his tech startup because he didn’t need to worry about rent or affording his next meal.
- Comment on American cops think they're what American firemen ARE. 1 week ago:
I’ve met some really good cops. I’ve also seen a bunch of corruption and bad policing.
So, genuine question here… Were the good cops tolerating the corruption and bad policing? If the non-cops can see it, the good cops definitely can. Tacit support allows the system of corruption to continue functioning. So if they were tolerating it, were they actually good cops?
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 1 week ago:
Yeah, this is an important point. If the penalty is too small, AI companies will just consider it a cost of doing business. Flat-rate fines only being penalties for the poor, and all that.
- Comment on last chance to look at me hector 1 week ago:
.ml is a weird beast, because it looks extremely inviting to the average user. There’s very little discord, and the users are generally very friendly. But when you dig deeper, you realize that it’s because the .ml mods are extremely heavy-handed, and work diligently to remove any comments that would go against the groupthink. If this was on my feed (and the post was 11 hours old when I saw it), it’s because the mods explicitly allowed it to stay up, because they support the message.
- Comment on last chance to look at me hector 1 week ago:
This post was literally directly below in my feed:
Image - Comment on Have it! 1 week ago:
Yeah, the actual comic was only mildly entertaining. But it was during the early internet days when everything still felt novel. Back when Something Awful and Fark were still the go-to sites.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 1 week ago:
That is a tricky question to answer, because the PlayStation and the Switch serve fundamentally different use cases, and there’s only a small amount of crossover between the two game libraries. If you want to play Nintendo games, you’ll get a Switch. If you don’t care about Nintendo games, you’ll get a PlayStation. They’re only superficially competing, and many console gamers will end up owning both.
- Comment on last chance to look at me hector 1 week ago:
Only at first. It quickly becomes clear that Walt (the main character) is driven by pride and ego. He gets addicted to the power. The whole point of the show was to see if the writers could break what people see as “bad”, by having a sympathetic character devolve into evil.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 1 week ago:
My point wasn’t that commercial farming is bad. With 8 billion people on the planet, it’s a necessity. My point was simply that scavenging to supplant your needs should be more encouraged, and the knowledge should be passed down.
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 1 week ago:
Unless I’m missing something… It does. There’s a “Port Forwarding” section on the chart.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 1 week ago:
I mean, I think that goes back to the whole “industrial farming” point. If it can’t be farmed, it won’t be commercially available. But there are plenty of plants that you could scavenge, if you knew what to look for.
One of my personal favorite niche plants is osha root. It’s one of the best cures for a sore throat. It tastes a little bit like dirty root beer, and it’ll numb your entire throat when you chew on it. Native Americans kept some around for medicine. You can even grind it up and smear it on shallow scrapes to numb the area. You can find it in teas like Throat Coat, which is a sort of secret weapon for performers and public speakers whenever they have a sore throat.
But it can’t be commercially farmed, because it exclusively grows in the Rocky Mountains where a specific type of fungus helps it thrive. It isn’t commercially viable to market to the masses like throat lozenges, (even though it is just as effective in reducing sore throats) because it has to be scavenged.
- Comment on 15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time 1 week ago:
If we’re considering backwards compatibility, then the DS should have won. Because it could do everything the GBA could, and more.
- Comment on wax on 1 week ago:
Sort of like how the spit in your mouth, the tears in your eyes, the snot in your nose, etc is primarily made of filtered blood.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 2 weeks ago:
These two are things are not the same
I think you missed the point. Both were illegal at the time. Both led to convictions. Hell, hiding Jews in Germany was illegal during the holocaust. What is moral and what is legal don’t always align.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 weeks ago:
Native vs containerized really depends on what it is going to be doing tbh. If it’s just downloading and/or moving files around, containerized is fine. And having your docker-compose.yml files saved somewhere external will make future hardware upgrades/recovery much easier.
There is certainly some learning curve to figure out the quirks of a compose file, but the nice part is that most services will post an example compose file for you to edit as needed. And that means learning it is basically just a matter of reading the example files and figuring out what the different fields mean; yaml is extremely easy to read, even for someone who has never looked at it before. You may have some fringe cases that need a deeper dive, but the vast majority of setups are basically just a matter of “copy the example compose, edit the volumes as needed, and fuckin send it.”
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 weeks ago:
I actually use Flash nearly every day at work. Legacy support is no joke. We have a multi-million dollar system that is all controlled by a computer that is dual-booting Win11 and WinXP. Because the control program is coded in Flash. It’s coded in Flash because there are a lot of moving parts, and the program displays their current positions. And dynamically moving objects is like the one thing that Flash does really really well. Instead of trying to re-program it in a new language, the manufacturer just fucking ships WinXP. Win11 is on another partition, and is only booted when you need to connect to the internet to run firmware updates on the various motors.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s Voyager. You can long-press on a username to add a user tag. And if you come across the same account later, editing the tag will give you a button to jump to the comment you originally used to tag them.
It also automatically tracks votes, so that
[-6]is my running vote total for this user. So I tend to downvote them pretty often compared to upvotes. It makes spotting trolls/idiots a lot easier.Lastly, (though it isn’t marked here) it will add a baby emoji to any accounts that are new. That one is nice because you often find brand new accounts posting really divisive shit, and they’re obvious troll/astroturf accounts once you realize they’re freshly made.
