cecilkorik

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus⁩ ⁨⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:
The executives should not have any immunity to prosecution, we need to start holding them accountable. The technology is never the problem, technology just provides us with tools, like any tools sometimes they can be dangerous and deserve immense respect, but it’s the people using them and deciding how they are used who are making those tools and technologies actually hurt and kill people, not the technology. A tool is not inherently good or bad, it does not have intentions or motivations. People do. Let the technology be a technology, and hold the people accountable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[beta] Scatola Magica⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
They both have their place. WebDav is an established standard, by implementing it you are collaborating with all the other implementations that already use and are compatible with WebDav in some way. You join a growing ecosystem of many choices and people can easily plug your software into their architecture and plug their architecture into your software with an absolute minimum of work on their part, potentially allowing it to become widely used. This is good.

Having a socket and API allows anyone who wants to, to collaborate with your software specifically, allowing them to be able to do things highly specific to your software, but requiring more specialized work to implement. These kind of implementations can deliver great functionality but they’re likely going to be few and far between because they are more work to develop and maintain. These are very different situations, being sought by different people with different goals.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
People just like it better. You’re probably overthinking these things. The point of federation is so that these decisions don’t matter as much. (Almost) all the instances are connected and sharing the same community and content. There is no magic “best” place to be, and if there is, it won’t be because it’s “popular” it will be because it’s “the right one for you”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Amazon Pay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
And you can buy exactly the same Chinese crap direct from China much, much cheaper. Slower, yes, but Amazon’s getting to be a real expensive middleman and that speed is rarely worth it. Patience pays dividends.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
PVP? Strictly yes, strictly no, or opt-in?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t have epilepsy, but I do get migraines, and what you described is a perfect trigger for me.

Best way to avoid it is don’t drive when the sun is low in the sky or on roads lined with very tall trees. If for some reason I was trapped in such a situation, which is not really likely since it’s very predictable if it’s something you’re interested in avoiding, I would probably slow down, find somewhere to pull over, and just wait it out. But yeah, it is bad. I don’t do it if I can at all help it, because I avoid getting into that situation like the plague.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Beta Starbound was the shit. Release was just shit, with no “the”. They took a great game of endless discovery and procedural generation with a gameplay loop that just worked out of beta and filled it with completely predictable set pieces and juvenile hard-coded nonsense. They literally added a poop emoji monster FFS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The fact that you need updates for a phone is a symptom of the same sort of problem though. These companies are holding us digitally hostage, they tie more ropes around us every day, and the only way to escape is to get out of their reach.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Your sentiment is understandable but I have some concerns. Children are usually pretty innocent, and worse, they’re often very quick, and surprisingly resilient so even if you do hit them you might not even succeed at causing major injury.

I recommend reconsidering your strategy and backing over a senior citizen instead, it’s almost as effective at creating public outrage, much more reliable, and ideally you might even be able to find a particular senior citizen who, for example, worked as a venture capitalist who funded this sort of technology or something else that implies some measure of responsibility, making multiple contributions to the cause at once and providing some form of karmic justice to the world.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Everyone with a shred of sanity they are still clinging to is, we’re just too beaten down by the world around us and not galvanized by supportive communities of like-minded individuals with enough anger to take action, yet. It’ll happen eventually. Especially if AI leads to the sort of job losses everyone’s expecting.

People with lots of time on their hands and nothing to lose start to become real interesting people that do real interesting things.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah smart devices are far too smart, usually for absolutely no real reason. They’re very appealing to people who overthink things (which is often myself, and I admit it). Sometimes we really should make an effort to embrace the dumb. Simplicity has its own elegance, and is often far more reliable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I love the DIY crowd, I don’t really need most of these sort of things myself (yet), but it’s important that they exist, and that people do these things, to prove it can be done and to develop and maintain the knowledge of how it can be done.

In an ideal world, we shouldn’t have to be independently reverse engineering and reinventing our own tools and appliances and all this would just have to be done once and then shared to become widespread human knowledge. But instead it is “intellectual property” and commercialized and value engineered into maliciously anti-human exploitation devices. Apparently the world we live in is pretty far from ideal.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Microsoft ended Windows 10 support, why is it still getting updates like every other day?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You think you can turn them off. Temporarily. They mysteriously turn back on. For no obvious reason. I have literally never in my life been successful at actually permanently disabling Windows Updates. And god knows I have tried. The setting re-enables itself. The disabled service re-enables itself. Some installer quietly turns them back on. You change some unrelated setting and suddenly, there’s Windows Update again! There’s no escape.

Windows: “Oh, I know you already told me you didn’t want important updates, but I just assumed you still wanted critical updates? Okay, okay, I get it, you don’t want critical updates either, I hear you…” <3 weeks later> “I’ve been trying to warn you about this for the last 2 weeks but you’ve had your notifications turned off, but now I really have to because Microsoft told me this next update is SOOO important that I really need to install it just this once, okay! But really, you should have at least critical updates too. I mean, installing this update requires them anyway, and all the important updates too, so I’ll just turn those back on for you to make this whole process easier next time Microsoft has a super-critical-urgent-mega-feature-emergency-update for you, sorry for all this inconvenience!” <reboots in the middle of your work>

Linux is the only solution that has worked.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted DNS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Not with the protections that Cloudflare provides, no. The DNS itself can be self-hosted, yes. You will likely have even more downtime from your own problems and screw-ups than you will from ever using Cloudflare. There is likely little practical benefit. But I don’t think it’s as hard as people make out. So without further ado:

##The really simple guide to self-hosted authoritative DNS:

###Step 1: glue and static IPs (the hardest part)

“Glue records” are used to tell the root servers about your authoritative servers, and very specifically, what IP they have. For reasons that will become obvious, this needs to be a pretty static IP if possible, because the glue records will need to be changed whenever your authoritative DNS moves. Two or more authoritative DNS servers are “recommended” and in some cases assumed, but for self-hosting purposes it’s really over-encouraged in my opinion. A single authoritive DNS is not ideal, but neither is self-hosting with limited resources, which is something we all do. Worst case scenario, if they force you to have two DNS servers, just use different names and set them to the same IP, that usually works. You do not need to (or want to) use glue records for ANY other DNS entries, IPs, or any normal day-to-day changes to your DNS. Only if your static IP changes.

“Glue records” are typically not hard to update, but they do often take quite a lot of time, called “propagation delay” and during that time, your DNS will be intermittent or down. In modern times I find the propagation delay for glue records is sometimes a matter of minutes and typically less than an hour for like 90% of users, but it can be up to several days in the worst case scenarios. This is why static IP is important, changing your glue records is free to do but very disruptive.

In order to actually do this, get a domain from, or transfer your existing domain to, a registrar that lets you set up glue records for self-hosting authoritative DNS. This is effectively not self-hostable, this has to be done through a registrar. In my experience, this is most of them that aren’t big-names. Cloudflare is a notable exception, you should not be using them as a registrar for self-hosting authoritative DNS. I have used misk.com for decades and am happy and familiar with them, and they call these custom nameservers. I have heard the best reviews lately for porkbun.com and their documentation for the process is here](https://kb.porkbun.com/article/112-how-to-host-your-own-nameservers-with-glue-records) but I do not use them personally. “The best” is a moving target, anyway. In any case, review the documentation and support for your chosen provider to figure out how to specify a glue record, which in almost all cases is as simple as putting in a name (the traditional old-school choice is “ns” or “ns1") and an IP address associated with that name, which you will then use to specify as the “nameserver” for all your other domains. There should be no additional charge for this. Once it’s “glued”, then you wait. Eventually, it will start working, and third-parties outside your network will be able to ping that ns1.yourdomain.com address and get the IP you specified.

###Step 2: the DNS servers

You’ve done the “hard” work of getting the glue pointed at your IP, but that’s just a single DNS name and a single IP, and you’re not actually self-hosting anything yet. Now you have to make sure an authortitative DNS server is responding on that IP so people can get all the real details for any and all of your domains right from the source, YOU, authoritatively. That’s why it’s called authoritative DNS, you are the final authority for your domains and everyone knows it thanks to those glue records.

This is when you fire up a DNS server, the standard traditional choice for old grumpy curmudgeons like me is “bind” (version 9) to be specific, which has all kinds of crazy functionality that you don’t really care about because all you’re really going to be using it for is to read a text file called a “zone” file for each of your domains, which has an ugly archaic format but at it’s simplest is just an $ORIGIN line saying what domain it is, a $TTL line (how many seconds other DNS users are supposed to cache things before coming back to you to check if its changed), the SOA line which is a mess of stupid arbitrary info most of which is irrelevant these days and in this configuration, then a whole bunch of lines with other records (mostly A records for IPv4 addresses, but there are plenty of other options for different types of DNS records for various purposes)

So, install bind9, add a zone into the configuration for each of your domains that has type master; and file "/your/zone/file/path"; and create each text zone file for it to read. Then reload or restart bind, and your DNS should just start working.

It’s not magic and it’s really not that complicated, it’s just telling someone to start pointing your domain at your server’s IP, and then running a program on that IP that turns turn some text files into DNS. Then you can go ahead and make it complicated, if you want. There are lots of ways to make it complicated. This isn’t one of them.

###Conclusion: Why and why not

Cloudflare brings a lot of value to the table, which is why they’re so popular, but there is a cost for that. They need full control of everything and have it running on their own networks so they can protect it from DDoS and other attacks. They’re your bodyguard, they’re standing in front of you to protect you from bad guys, but the downside is, you’ll always have that guy standing in front of you. It can be kind of annoying. It’s a question of priorities. If you want to self-host your DNS, you’re effectively giving up Cloudflare’s protections. If you want Cloudflare’s protections, you’re effectively giving up self-hosting DNS. Your call, either way.

Self-hosting my own DNS, I have little to no protection from DDoS attacks. Sure I get hammered by the occasional password attempt bot or data scraper that makes my server slow and overwhelmed, that mostly gets dealt with manually or with defensive monitoring tools like fail2ban. A larger, more targeted or sophisticated attack could easily wipe my sites off the internet and probably even my intranet. If it didn’t stop, my only resolution would be to unplug the targeted machine or machines from the internet. Maybe unplug my whole network. And just wait it out. Maybe I’d have to rely on my phone hotspot, or even change ISPs if it refused to stop. I actually don’t know, because it’s never happened. If I was hosting anything controversial or highly lucrative, I might have a different experience and I might make different choices. But I’m not, I’ve never been attacked on a large scale for a long duration and I can’t really imagine any motivation or purpose that I ever would be.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
They definitely have electrolytes – there’s no electrolyte a billionaire can’t afford.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
No, it was your intense, Gowron-like stare that truly drilled into my heart.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 and inZOI publisher Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
FWIW, between what’s going on with EA/Sims 4 and Inzoi, most of the life-sim community seems to be pinning their hopes on Paralives now, which does look like it’s going to be a banger, but relying on a single successor to the genre is a lot of pressure and the community is putting a lot of weight on their shoulders which is not a great or healthy situation to put them in. Especially for a genre that requires so much work to meet the community’s expectations.

Oh well, at least if it all goes to shit, we’ll always have Sims 3 and all its mods and expansions. Still the best life-sim out there in my opinion, as long as you can withstand the instability, bugs and crashes.

Some bearded and cutlass-wielding fellow needs to create a definitive hacked community edition of that game, ideally with all the mods and fixes already implemented and ready to roll, all the awful EA store and social media shit mercilessly excised. Or even better, some project just needs to reimplement the whole engine from scratch, OpenTTD style.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 and inZOI publisher Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes. The original expectation was that it could serve as an early-access placeholder until more content and functionality could be implemented (which in the case of the Sims series its competing with, often takes many years and hundreds of dollars of DLC expansions before it starts to approach a satisfying level of content). From that point of view, it doesn’t seem like it’s automatically so terrible that the game heavily relies on it, as the expectation would be that the reliance would reduce over time as the game develops, which everyone understands is realistically going to take a long time.

Now that Krafton has revealed that they’re fully onto their villain arc, it’s pretty clear that this is not temporary and is not going to be eventually reduced by replacing it with a whole bunch of lovingly human-crafted content, if anything it seems like it will certainly expand the use of AI even further. As Krafton’s largest currently released IP Inzoi is likely going to be the poster child for Krafton’s attempt to turn “AI-slop: The Game” into a money faucet to fund their other misadventures.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It's almost like technology doesn't actually need to be a conveyor belt of spending thousands of dollars on new products that turn into literal e-waste after a year or two. The money-printing treadmill for these trillion dollar corporations would be in immediate jeopardy!

Imagine! Using an old device that still works and performs all its functions perfectly! You'd have to be completely nuts!

/s
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assembled my first 3D printer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It is the curse of Prusa. It doesn't matter what you buy, the "next great thing" will always be released while you're building the old model, guaranteed. The good news is they almost always have upgrade kids. And the truth is, you actually probably don't really need it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sounds fancy, I only have a car-hole. :(
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I have heard people mispronounce it various other ways on purpose, ironically, as mockery, but I agree that depends on people knowing there's a correct pronunciation in the first place, which there is, as you've accurately described.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An automatically processed, OCR'd, searchable archive of publicly released documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah but it's still of some value. He can't redact history any more than he already has, as much as he might like to, and it prevents him from changing his story and redaction strategy in the future. This is how you start to back a liar like Trump into a corner he cannot escape from. Eventually his lies will catch up with him, efforts like this will make sure of it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LineageOS 23⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Bleak, maybe, or maybe it will finally be the tipping point that starts pushing people away from the “Big Two” phone OS/platforms in pursuit of something truly open and free that isn’t completely controlled by a privacy-invading tech giant.

Windows 11 has apparently finally triggered the seemingly never-to-be “Year of Linux on the Desktop” as people refuse to submit to Windows 11’s telemetry and other misfeatures and repurpose old (and new) machines with Linux instead of letting Microsoft decide they’re obsolete.

Maybe soon we’ll have the year of the Linux phone too. Or at least be able to promote AOSP into a first-class citizen with its own phone support and designs and features and future, instead of simply being relegated to the role of a stagnant fork of de-Googled Android. It’s time to go from soft fork to hard fork. Fuck Google, stop playing their games, and leave them behind.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I love it when people are surprised that for-profit businesses seek profit above all else. Like they assume there will be always be a set of strict laws to keep them in check and just assume they will strictly follow those laws because they're laws.

Then they go ahead and vote for people who say that there are too many taxes and regulations. As if those taxes and regulations aren't exactly the same laws they're expecting to keep the for-profit businesses in check, which are often not even close to being sufficient in the first place.

The cognitive dissonance is wild. People are fucking brainwashed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Hmm I wonder what version they're playing. Mine didn't have fascism and transphobia and political assassinations on the disaster list but yeah they need to switch it up a bit because it's really exhausting. I'm ready for the alien UFO and Godzilla to lighten the mood a bit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New moderator for this community!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Your username checks out. A Rare choice, one even might say.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is why we can't have nice things, at least not for more than a few years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Pepperidge farms remembers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Killing yourself in that scenario seems like you've selected the wrong target. It's certainly not yourself's fault.

Being unapologetically and relentlessly human is the best revenge we can get on these dehumanizing technologies, and to be human you need to first and foremost be alive.