AudaciousArmadillo

@AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In the comments they clarify that is mostly targeted at servers and IoT first. In the enterprise world attestation is absolutely needed. And on personal devices? I’d be very happy if I had a secure boot chain for full disk encryption working out of the box. At least for portable devices…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m a Computing Dummy Who Tried Quantum Coding. Here’s What Happened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Since it’s IBM sponsored/supported they probably didn’t want to tell the reader that you can simulate a quantum computer on classical hardware. So no need to use their service to use “the real” thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to say “Free Palestine”, you could say “Free Palestine”. “From the river to the sea” is also used by Israel and I bet I don’t have to convince you as hard that they aren’t talking about peaceful co-existance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If your slogan implies genocide, as your example also does, yes it is hate speech. You cannot undo colonization by disposing the occupiers. Any nation is occupying some native land in one form or another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Happened To WebAssembly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For many of these, WebAssembly is critical to either their entire product or a major feature.

  But I think this alone is not very convincing. We don’t yet see major websites entirely built with webassembly-based frameworks.

  Why should it be necessary to build things only in wasm for the web? JS is a really good language for building frontends. There is a reason why lots of companies prefer building native applications with React. People always complain about framework bloat with JS, but then we want to hype up shipping huge wasm binaries? Just for basic interaction in a UI?

  Wasm is doing great, inside and outside the browser. But it won’t replace JS because there’s no reason to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What actually happens in a DDOS attack?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Others mentioned good points but don’t really capture the scale or techniques. A high volume DDoS may even overwhelm the network equipment, so simply saturating the network with garbage traffic. On the smaller scale, a server has limited resources to handle connections. So in the most extreme case, you simple run out of memory to store all the incoming requests. More likely you exhaust a thread pool or run out of connection handles. This “breaks” the server as it may not have resources left to recover to a working state even after the attack has stopped.

  As for techniques, DDoS don’t just spam genuine requests. Usually the requests are malformed to have the worst impact on the servers. For example you only send the connection request without completing the full handshake. Now the server has to wait until the connection times out which consumes resources for a potentially long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, those expensive PC games. Much cheaper on console and on the first party stores of the publishers, yes yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A recent Scott Manly video about radiation in space https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJcbevbBzsc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive Rainbow Six Siege breach gives players billions of credits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This was due to a MongoDB vulnerability. https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115798008605323628

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. You are right that through federation and open source you can create your instance if another instance is a nazi bar. But now you open your new bar. Should you buy chairs from the nazis for your bar? Is it not a problem if the nazis are the only ones producing chairs?

  That is to me the analogy with lemmy. Yes I don’t have to be on .ml. But I don’t want to sit on the transphobic, genocide denier built chair either.

  Technology and society don’t exist in separate spheres and we should always consider them together.

  So go with piefed if you can. I haven’t had any complaints since I switched :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you do with dent corn?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sanest lew lew clip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of it. Why do you need an app to download wallpapers in the first place?