blargh513

@blargh513@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the real danger of opening ports?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t a magic solution, no, but you have a lot more control than crummy layer 3 firewall rules and endless lists.

  The big players have far more data about what bad looks like. Either we can play whack a mole with outdated tools and techniques or get smart and learn to use what is available.

  Self hosting doesn’t mean we go backward in terms of the sophistication and difficulty, it means embracing modern solutions.

  In the dinosaur days, we had primitive tools, but so did the attackers. We cannot hope to self host with any measure of security if we bring piss to a shitfight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They all sit on each others boards.

  However it just takes a few activist board members who have big time fomo and want to be early in with a virtual CEO.

  I’m sure I will be put out to pasture first, but at least I will be laughing from my cardboard box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lie to employees, absorb money, travel needlessly, tell everyone to RTO when they are never in the office, take a fat bonus, fire people, bullshit the board and stockholders, pull ripcord on golden parachute, lather rinse repeat.

  Yeah, i think an ai could handle most of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is up with Gen Alphas love for Austin Powers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because mike Meyers is entertaining and the movies are well-made goofy fun.

  Its not so complicated. Also, does anyone still make comedy anymore? Seems like it has fallen off a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the real danger of opening ports?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a WAF. Sophos firewall is free if you want to diy. If not, use cloudflare.

  Opening ports, logging, monitoring, nailing up allow listed IP addresses and dicking around with fail2ban is such a timesuck. None of that crap will stop something from exploiting a vulnerability.

  Some things are worth farming out to a 3rd party. Plus, you can just point your DNS entry over and be mostly done. No more dynamic IP bs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winner winner!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dumb deer go away

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OK I’m sorry for excluding people.

  Apple fans AND self-righteous morons.

  Hope that is more equitable and does not make you feel left out!

  ❤️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very well aware, but the apple folks tend to be a LOT more dogmatic and vocal. When people talk shit about android, nobody really cares. Do it to apple? Jfc.

  I am pointing this out because the current mess will never change for the better until apple users stop supporting apple. No, you dont have a lot of choices, but stop signaling support for them. Get mad and demand better. Be vocal about THAT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All the apple fans out down voting today…

  FYI this may not be the time to take allegiance with them if you at all understand what is going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, I was em dashing on a goddamn typewriter, the fuck am I gonna change it now.

  In the end, it won’t matter. Being able to write well will be like riding a horse, calligraphy or tuning a carburetor. They will all become hobbies, a quirky past time of rich people or niche enthusiasts with limited real-world use.

  Maybe it is for the best. Most people can’t write for shit (does not help that we often use our goddamn thumbs to do most of it) and we spend countless hours in school trying to get kids to learn.

  Science fiction has us just projecting our thoughts to other without the clumsiness of language as the medium. Maybe this is just the first step.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to defend it, but the first time I encountered the term was when BlackBerry released their Playbook tablet. It ran their bbos10 and they created an android emulator so you could run some android apps. The process of installing the apk into the emulator was called sideloading.

  I miss BlackBerry is all I really wanted to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burgers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I will never ever get tired of this meme template.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a lot out of Wright’s book and I continue to revisit it.

  It is a slow read that demands your attention, but it is very enlightening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct. In the case of the question, I believe there is value to be gained, even if there are flaws in the argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dear brother/sister rest your mind. You cannot control what will happen and worry/fear will only agitate you.

  I don’t like the idea of life being over, but it is inevitable. Seek acceptance and peace with this so you do not waste your precious hours with unnecessary discomfort. There is so much more to enjoy while we are still here!

  Loss of life is followed by mourning - except when it is our own. Some spend decades mourning the end of their lives because they are scared of facing it down. You’ve done the big scary part already. Now spend the time taking yourself through all of your fears. Once you come to acceptance it doesn’t change what will be, but it will trouble you a lot less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You might find some answers in Julian Jaynes The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

  Short version: consciousness is kind of new. We aren’t really good at it.

  Also, Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright is very good. Less about Buddhism more about how we think and why it works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t know until then, so what is the value in worrying?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is, once youre dead, there won’t be consciousness, you will not have any perception of a void, you won’t know anything because you will not be.

  Marc Maron put it into good perspective. He was hiking in the hills and passed out. He noted that he could very well have been dead, and that would have been that.

  You can’t be afraid when you dont exist and you will not be aware of anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Light. Not Even Once.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This was needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you watched that and you’re mad, its not like you were going to do something else with the time but scroll and fuck around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The absolute WORST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Take a big drink of olive oil before you take your pills and one after! Yummy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They sell stuff called Chewelry; it’s a necklace or wristband you can chomp on.

  Maybe get the kid one of those? If not, maybe make one out of a piece of string and eraser?

  This one’s for chewin’, this one’s for undoin’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is by design.

  With an actual computer, you have a lot more options in terms of how you can handle the content. They don’t own your PC (yet) but they do own the mobile market and the operating system entirely.

  You don’t have any form of root/admin access on a mobile device of any type nor any other device (tv box, game console, tablet, etc). For the handful that have jailbroken or rooted their phones, many apps don’t work (by design of course). You can do it, but you’ll break a ton of stuff in the process. That’s enough to keep causals from doing it and leaves the tiny group of hardcore dorks that are willing to live with the complexities that are required.

  I’m going to put on my tinfoil hat and say this is what keeps any real attempt at a Linux phone in the gutter. If people had a choice for their mobile operating system and the freedom to do what they want with it, the big tech companies would shit a brick. They’ve already removed the ability to block ads on mobile devices for the vast majority, they’re finally getting what they wanted (save the handful of Firefox users left).

  Linux phones won’t be a thing until there is hardware for them. With apple/google phones, the manufacturers will not release the necessary software so that is needed for a 3rd party OS. Google and Apple will make sure that anyone who makes hardware for them are legally tied to keeping that software tightly closed. Even if someone did manage to reverse engineer it, it would be a herculean effort and would break as soon as a new release is out (or if one of the manufacturers “accidentally” released some exploit code for the reverse engineered drivers).

  It’s an ugly world these greedy fucks have made for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, it wasn’t just elephants. He did it with dogs, monkeys, etc. This wasn’t a one-time thing, he provided this “demonstration” on a variety of occasions.

  All because he wanted the world to adopt his standard for electrical transmission, direct current (DC) instead of Nikola Tesla’s alternating current (AC).

  Tesla was a brilliant engineer and inventor. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing (though later he did get a little nutty). Edison just yelled at engineers he hired to do work for him.

  I am so sad that Tesla’s name has been ruined. He was wildly intelligent and though he was a prominent figure in his prime, he died broke. It’s not bad enough that he went out like that, now we have a fucking clown pissing on his grave by using his name to sell his bullshit nazimobiles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a nasty letter from an anonymous coward complaining about how I keep my lawn.

  I dont give two shits about the grass. Bare minimum is all it gets. I also did a round of overseeding with microclover. All the retired boomers in my neighborhood have nothing better to do than dick around with their lawns.

  I have every intention of making mine into a meadow or something. Need to figure out what I can get away with.

  In the meantime, I will be making a Halloween display that will feature skeletons sitting on top of some pallets (letter writer was mad that I had one leaning against my trash can for a week) with trash cans and a whole bunch of weeds and crap. I also have a spare tire that was used to secure a transmission I bought down to the pallet. I also still have the broken transmission.

  The whole mess will be going into the front yard, skeletons will get trucker hats, beer bottles and maybe a banjo.

  I can’t wait!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a small voltage tester. All it needs to have is two wires and a little light. They sell them at any hardware store.

  Go find one of your three prong outlets. Look at the two slots. If the ground pin is at the bottom, the left slot (taller than the right) is the neutral, should have a white wire. The shorter slot on the left is hot.

  Try your tester by putting one of the probes in the neutral and one in the hot. It should light up.

  Now put one in the ground pin hole and the other in hot. If its grounded, the tester will light. If it does not, that ground is not connected to anything.

  Word of caution: some jackasses will connect the neutral to the ground on the back of the outlet. This is stupid and dangerous, but it will pass a quick test like the one we did. You should take at least one of the three prong outlets apart and check. If they did it once, they probably did it many times.

  Turn off the power to that outlet (use your new tester to verify that the power is off) and pull the outlet apart. You might get lucky and find that the wiring had a ground wire (bare copper wire) that was just tucked away. You can just get a proper grounded outlet and attach the bare wire to the green screw.

  Before you pop the bubbly if you find that bare copper wire, you need to test it again. With the outlet pulled out (leave wires connected to original outlet) probe the hot (black) wire and touch the bare copper ground wire. The tester should light up. If it does not, the copper ground wire is not connected to the ground in the breaker box (or in some older homes, the ground wire is connected to copper plumbing).

  If the ground does not work, you can go on a hunt to find out why. Most houses, one outlet will daisy chain to another. If an upstream outlet has ground wires, but were not connected, that will be a problem. You can work your way backward to see if you can find and connect them all. If you’re taking the outlets apart, you may as well expect to do this anyway.

  If the ground was tied to plumbing and someone replaced a copper section with a nonmetallic (pex, PVC) the ground will no longer work.

  I would advise to at least try to figure out what is going on. You’ll learn a lot in the process and as a homeowner, its really important to understand your electrical system. Open a few outlets and probe (carefully). If you hit the wall, you may need to get an electrician in. They can probably tell you what’s up and then you can do the gruntwork of rewiring outlets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck you in particular⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats the beef. If you try to get or use it, Amish Kapoor will typically take legal action.

  Also, hes never really made any compelling art with it either.

  He’s the guy who made that big silver sculpture in Chicago. He intensely dislikes that everyone calls it The Bean because he named it Cloud Gate. Really, he made a giant sculpture in a public place that is shaped like a massive shiny kidney bean and is big mad that people call it a bean. Seems like hes kind of a thin skinned baby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of the point. Only target crime by poor brown people as they can’t afford lawyers.

  Try putting a surveillance system in a corporate boardroom and see how that goes over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Get fucked and/or fired a few times for no good reason. That hide will thicken up might fast. Forces you into a new perspective and resets some priorities.

  I’ve learned that the boss can and will be a prick as he pleases (always dudes in my case). Hes going to do that and you can either fight with him and get fired or backburnered, or you can just eat shit and move on.

  You can get into pissing matches with peers, but the person who wins is the person the boss likes more. If it isn’t you, accept defeat and move on.

  Modern work is just the act of eating shit for money. There is no dignity, there is no payoff. You are just giving untalented clowns what they want in exchange for money. I don’t think any of us wanted it this way, but here we are.

  I have fully been broken and institutionalized by the system. I have zero hope of ascending to some lofty position by virtue of my intelligence and hard work. Those who run everything pick their own. Unless you grew up with parents who run everything, there is a very low chance you ever will. They pick their own kind, anyone else is a liability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snack⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the hell would they use liquid nitrogen for that? You can throw a handful of dry ice crumbs in to get the same effect.

  Liquid nitrogen is a pain in the ass to transport and store. You need special vacuum sealed thermoses (a little more expensive than your overpriced yeti tumbler) and it will boil away in a few days regardless so you need to have it topped up. Plus, it is far colder than dry ice, so accidents are more of a thing.

  Dry ice can be kept in a cheap cooler and costs like $10/lb.