PleaseLetMeOut
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- Comment on YSK about qalculate, an opensource, versatile calculator with nice cli 3 weeks ago:
qalculate is really nice. I even use it on Windows Enterprise installs that normally only have the old Windows 8(?) calculator included since the Microsoft Store isn’t a thing. It’s a huge upgrade compared to that POS.
- Comment on mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 3 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, they’re gonna eat themselves doing shit like this. It’s not a matter of if, but when.
“AI” has it’s uses (medicine, engineering, etc.), but 99.99% of the snake oil they’re selling are just gimmicky cash grabs. Classic cases of Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
Let them burn their money, I say. Fuck it. Just sit back and enjoy the fire.
- Comment on One Third of the Web Will Stop Working in 4 Days: Massive-Scale CDN Compromise Starts Wednesday 3 weeks ago:
I remember people on IRC doing something similar to Cloudflare years back. Using a malformed HTTP header to get a servers’ real host IPs. It didn’t give you admin panel access or anything like this does, but you could deanonymize sites.
And to sit on this for 6 years?! I don’t even know what to say about that…
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 3 weeks ago:
That’s true, ICE & Co. are also all over Mexico right now because of the cartels. The whole border lock down and immigrant round-up thing is only half of their current force. And one of the big things they’ve been doing down there is monitoring/tapping their communication networks.
So yeah, never mind, probably not a good idea. If it was just for torrenting or something it’s probably fine, but beyond that I wouldn’t push it.
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 3 weeks ago:
I’m honestly hoping for a repeat. Hopefully Microsoft goes down this time too, since they’re heavily into AI. Twitter, Meta and Amazon too. It’s really just the worst of the worst.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 3 weeks ago:
It’s more about the latency since it’s right over the border (<30ms). It’s also a full 10Gbps so I can let family/friends use it and don’t have to worry if a few of them are pulling the full 1Gbps from home connection. Doubt I’m gonna be able to match both of those with a Chinese VPS :/
Honestly looking at Mexican datacenters right now. Some are basically the same distance, just in the opposite direction lol
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 3 weeks ago:
Oh ffs… my best VPN server is in Canada lol
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 3 weeks ago:
So Canada?
(They do have a history of going a little overboard with the homicidal stuff. But they’ve come a long way in the last few decades.)
- Comment on Florida prison data breach exposes visitors’ contact information to inmates: Department of Corrections has not communicated anything to those whose info was revealed to inmates. 3 weeks ago:
Perfect for letting your buddies outside know when Tony’s wife comes to visit. Tony’s the guy that you’ve been beefing with over your tater-tots every Tuesday. Oh hey, what’s this, is exact address too? Sweet!
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 4 weeks ago:
You’re thinking of FreeDUMB, where you’re allowed to believe whatever you want. But Trump has to approve the opinion first (as stated) and it has to be the opposite of whatever the data/proof clearly shows. It’s like the Wish.com version of Freedom~TM~, but that’s geared more toward Teaparty Gun Nuts and Libertarian Potheads.
- Comment on Mercedes Gives Customers the One Thing They've Always Wanted: Microsoft Teams 4 weeks ago:
Now I’m just picturing random Benz’s satnav crashing all over the planet. All because Teams.exe decided it needed 100% of the CPU, at maximum priority, for the next 20 minutes. Because fuck you.
(I’m 999.9999999% sure that program is SkyNet/Genesis at this point. Because Microsoft doesn’t need to mine fuckin’ Bitcoin or anything stupid.)
- Comment on Wikipedia may have to impose quota on number of UK users to comply with Online Safety Act 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on US nuclear weapons agency ‘among 400 organisations breached by Chinese hackers’ 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on well? 5 weeks ago:
I’m aware of the Penrose diagram and I also watch PBS SpaceTime :)
But I was referring more to the frame of reference of our universe vs that of being inside a blackhole (assuming you could magically avoid being ripped apart by gravity). To an observer inside a blackhole, “time” on the outside would blink by almost instantly. Hence the Asterisk on basically*.
I was leading them to what MotoAsh posted. But they beat me to it while I was typing.
- Comment on well? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but if you’re beyond the event horizon time becomes basically* irrelevant. You could literally turn around, look back out towards the rest of he universe, and watch all of time play out in the blink of an eye.
You know that scene in Interstellar where they land on the planet for 5 minutes, but 20 years passes for everyone else due to the planet’s mass? It’s the same thing, but a billion-billion-billion times more severe.
- Comment on 6G mobile could divide the world 5 weeks ago:
It’s encryption has been broken for some time now. Which leaves it vulnerable to some pretty serious security issues, on top of the obvious issue of people with the right know-how just listening to your calls and reading your texts. Which most people probably don’t want.
(It’s also how most cops/feds listen to phones and intercept text these days.)
- Comment on KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI 5 weeks ago:
Hopefully this will work with Google TV too since it’s essentially just an Android TV rebrand for Chromecast. Some of them have decent hardware though, but are held back by the all of the Google bloat. Even using apps that allow adb on Google TVs you can’t fully remove it all without soft-bricking the TV.
I’ve tried setting Kodi up on a few TVs that I’ve fixed, then put them on a VLAN so they couldn’t go online, but could still access my NAS. And even with some having hardware support for AV1, anything over 4-5Mbps or so would cause them to drop frames and lag out. The HEVC support was a little better and will usually do 10-20Mbps+ before running into issues, which is plenty for most YarTube content. So I did a little more digging and noticed that the CPU was sitting at a constant 30%+ usage just doing background bloatware bullshit. So if we had a better UI option, it would open up a lot of cheaper $200-300 4K Google TVs that can stream from a NAS or Jellyfin/Plex server without needing to transcode. Since they have hardware support for basically everything.
- Comment on A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the US Defense Department to Chinese Hackers 1 month ago:
I’ve actually seen medical offices setup similarly. Some random computer in a back office with all of their patient data on it, completely exposed to the internet, protected by nothing but a few firewall rules limiting the connections to a few IP blocks. Just so they can share information office-to-office for say… a root canal and dental crown to be done on the same day, but at 2 separate locations due to limited space.
I’d run out of fingers if I were to count the number of times I’ve seen similar setups, 3-4 toes would be needed at least.
- Comment on A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the US Defense Department to Chinese Hackers 1 month ago:
Fun Fact: I once worked with a team that was mapping Iran’s internet infrastructure… for reasons. One of the ways we were able to zero in on the more important systems was because we kept finding these weird Cisco routers that had Telnet exposed to the open internet. All of which just so happened to share neighboring IPs (or close enough) with some pretty serious government systems. Fun times.
I’m not a CISCO tech, so I don’t know the specifics beyond that. But I do remember that the Telnet connection would permanently ban any IP that failed even a single password attempt. So they had that going for them, I guess lol