curbstickle

@curbstickle@anarchist.nexus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨optimal amount of syrup⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I will put you to work testing this theory.

  Proceed with waffle preparation and delivery, I’ll be waiting, and will provide my own syrup. Please note all waffles are to be gluten-free, as my body hates me and the things I enjoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the model, so you’ll have to take a look at each. The really big ones usually have a port rather than a captive cable, the smaller ones it varies wildly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sabrent. Bit more money, but I like the ones with built in power switches per port (handy for testing disconnection events), and the build quality is solid. Power supplies they provide can be a bit bulky, but I mount them in my rack so its not really a problem for me.

  Anker I like for their slimmer powered hubs, but those mostly sit in my laptop backpack, not the daily driver on my home office desk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For my work, I personally have:

  • Webcam
  • Mic
  • Dongle for mouse
  • Dongle for headset
  • Wired keyboard
  • Monitor 2 touchscreen
  • Macropad
  • Ethernet adapter 1 (connection to work network)
  • Ethernet adapter 2 (connection to small switch with no uplinks, for device testing)
  • Ethernet adapter 3 (connection to local avoip network)
  • External drive
  • Microcontroller programmer (universal, let me cut down on a few other adapters I had)
  • Serial adapter
  • Card reader
  • Video capture - analog
  • Video capture - digital
  • Audio interface for xlr I/o and my good headphones
  • NFC reader/writer

  Then a couple of loose cables for connecting the random devices, like a tablet for adb purposes, DSLR, etc. Not including the built-in devices on the laptop which show up as USB devices, like the crappy built-in webcam, microsd only card reader in the worlds stupidest spot, etc.

  I’d say its easy to hit 15 - thats only the USB devices attached to my work laptop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I buy a domain not from my own country, will it effect the useage at all?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof

  A great domain name, too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I buy a domain not from my own country, will it effect the useage at all?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  (yes, that happened).

  What was the site? With .af I bet it was a fun name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Abandoned FOSS projects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  just that FOSS has problems unique to it that are rarely acknowledged.

  None of the issues you’ve noted are unique to open source though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Abandoned FOSS projects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All the FOSS offerings I can think of that are “too big to fail” have big corporate support

  ….

  businesses don’t have that luxury. That’s why they use proprietary software.

  Youre missing a few key things here.

  • TONS of proprietary applications go years without work or effort
  • TONS of proprietary applications/solutions get abandoned, leaving businesses and consumers to scramble for a solution.
  • If the business relies on open source, they can contribute to that project.
  • An open source solution also means continuity and the ability to fork when abandoned, proprietary solutions that are abandoned are just gone.

  I wouldn’t put much agreement toward your argument for proprietary here, because I’ve seen (and had to deal with) proprietary solutions being abandoned with no workable solution available, especially as the current generation of proprietary solutions require a license server or other cloud-connected back end in order to work.

  So when they get abandoned, its just over.

  So no, this argument against open source for business has no merits IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …. Seems like its worth a try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being subjected to the whims of clueless adults is miserable.

  Sounds exactly like adult life with a job when you phrase it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes please!

  I could use a few more modern tiny/mini/micros to make into useful Linux boxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sure a good lot of you, like me, had been anticipating/dreading that moment when we say, oh fuck this is it, for real. Like the BIG oh fuck. My question is, how ready are you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So basically In Another World with my Smartphone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  internet connected

  The key part.

  My robovac is great, but it doesnt see the internet. And its running valetudo, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which they are already doing in the shittiest way possible, and is only a small part of the problem the lawsuit notes.

  Which is why I’ve been asking, they can’t answer because they dont know what they are talking about, they are concerned about a single (almost tangential) element of the problem - which Roblox already is doing, and only because they keep getting sued for catering to predators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They did it to avoid suits, which is what I said.

  Suggesting its anything other than avoiding consequences (to their profits) is misleading to the point of maliciousness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you not read the part where I pointed out that it was Roblox who implemented that by choice?

  That this is how Roblox decided to try and about lawsuits for catering to predators?

  That these measures, as noted in the suit, do absolutely nothing and are easily defeated?

  That the issue goes far beyond their own decision to implement this form of age verification?

  I have the same question and you still have not answered, youre answering a question that I didnt ask that is unrelated.

  What rights are being signed away by this lawsuit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats not the only means of age verification.

  Do you know how they are doing verification currently? Because I bet you won’t like it.

  Mandatory facial verification, processed by AI. This was the response made by Roblox to them being sued over having nonfunctional controls for parents, and doing nothing about the predators on their platform.

  So I’ll ask again - what rights do you think are being taken away here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Set parental controls

  This is what they are suing about.

  Don’t sign away the rights of other adults

  What rights do you think are being “signed away” in this lawsuit about Roblox not providing functional parental controls and moderation?

  I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what is actually happening here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roses are red, cabinets have shelves...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are ICE agents, so… Probably not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the wok agenda⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone, like me, who has (well had, now) no idea what barq is

  BARQ! - For furries, by furries A social app designed for furries, by furries, fostering community and connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to note here, they are referring to nest which is google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is ironing clothes significantly less common now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to say it but its kind of true.

  I have zero care nor concern about what I wear on video, and that includes some pretty hefty level clientele. I was on with some c suite assholes the other day while wearing a TMNT hoodie to explain how they wasted a bunch of money on a bad design and now they need to spend more.

  Not one comment and they signed the contract the following morning.

  I think its because the people who truly do not give a shit are the ones most capable.

  (Caveat: I’m only good and known at the stupid shit that I do, and consider myself 100% dumbass for those things that are not what I do.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This reviews the details pretty well, but @magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone got it right out of the gate.

  https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2019/09/18/mit-richard-stallman-resigns-epstein/

  And thats aside from his being a mysoginist ass as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehhhhhh hopefully not everything.

  I really, really, really hope not everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  5 channels here!

  Well, technically. They drop out more often than not so its essentially worthless. To get decent reception, I’d need to go to a motorized high gain directional.

  Its been quite a few years since OTA has been a realistic option for me, and why I have had a media server since Netflix only offered DVDs by mail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Time for me to shine!

  Just let the ice agents know that curbs tickle when they put their teeth on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same! I have a veritable stack of 3b’s still, some pi 4s - all stopped by the time the 4’s compute module came out in octoberish? of 2020.

  Haven’t bought anything of theirs since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Price? Tiny/mini/micro PC

  Simple sensor use? ESP32

  Complex GPIO? Arduino is still a cheap option if you dont need it too standalone.

  Straight up pi-alikes? OrangePi is my preferred

  Most of what I personally use is esp32s and tiny/mini/micro. TMM for servers and services, esp32s for sensors, interfaces, prototyping, etc. If I need something fully standalone thats going to go in a rack or whatever, needs to be small and have all the GPIO, thats where I’ll use an orangpi, clockwork, whatever. Ive even used a tinkerboard or a Jetson (client paying obviously, because screw those prices and nvidia).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Demonstrated clearly during the pandemic when they prioritized sales to businesses over anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, I love radishes in salad or stir fry or whatever, and I just never thought of them as a standalone snack….

  And thats on me. I’m gonna get some radishes today while I’m briefly out in the arctic temperatures.