Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Cloudflare claims to have mitigated biggest DDoS attack on record with requests flying in from 5,500 IP addresses per second 6 days ago:
Doing something like that would require an update to the HTTP spec.
Can we fix the spelling of referer while we are there, or is that spelling going to be passed down through the centuries? I guess we’ve already had the opportunity and not done it.
- Comment on UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, looks like this research is quite UK focused. However, some of the previous research they link to here shows NZ as the second highest rents compared to general costs, second only to the UK.
- Comment on UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study 2 weeks ago:
I’m not in the UK but I am in the OECD - is there a full list so I can see how fucked my country is?
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I can imagine trying to do it manually could get pretty tricky. I’ll look forward to the smart watch support (though I don’t own one, I might get one if others report it working well with GrapheneOS).
Edit: also one thing to try out if possible is to remove battery optimization from Google Play Services. Your device might be killing that, which stops counting the steps.
It seems it’s already set to not be optimized. It doesn’t seem to have access to the physical activity permission, but granting that permission didn’t seem to help. It still doesn’t count steps with the screen off.
No matter, thanks for all the ideas, I’ll just keep watching and see if others find a solution. I’ve subscribed to the Walkscape community so hopefully you’ll be posting updates there 🙂
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t seem to be helping. If I ever work out a more reliable way to get steps counted I’ll let you know. I know some pedometer apps don’t need Google Play Services and use a persistant notification to keep it active, but it seems like quite a significant change from what you currently have which wouldn’t be worth spending time on to appease such a small group of users.
- Comment on How Star Trek: Lower Decks Managed To Get Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock To Appear, And Why She’s Only Credited By Her First Name 3 weeks ago:
The article says:
she’s well-loved and considered one of the best characters in Enterprise
So I think you might be with the majority on this.
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 3 weeks ago:
I can’t say I know drumming, but from what I can search up it’s apparently better than nothing. An electronic drum kit is better than a pad but not as good as a real kit. They all have different feels.
However, it seems that doing anything (even air drumming) is better than doing nothing.
If you are serious, then i investigate lessons. You might be able to use real drums at your lessons and the pad for in-between. The teacher should be able to help you pick good exercises for using on the pad.
From what I’m searching up, it seems if you’re not doing lessons you’ll get bad habits regardless, but it shouldn’t prevent you from starting. Anything is better than doing nothing.
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 3 weeks ago:
Get a pressure washer. Then you could get a cheap electronic drum pad like this.
If you enjoy the drums you can upgrade to a better set later.
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 3 weeks ago:
If Google Play Services aren’t on there, the Recording API will not count steps in the background.
That makes a lot of sense.
Probably easiest solution is to let WalkScape to run in the background, when it’s freezed the battery consumption should be basically nothing.
It’s allowed to run in the background, but I have now disabled battery optimisation and will see if that helps.
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 3 weeks ago:
From my understanding, any app installed directly from Google Play should be in the sandbox and have access to Google Play Services. I haven’t quite worked out where the steps are missing, but it seems when the game is open it’s fine, and when the game hasn’t been killed by the OS it’s also fine. If I go back to the game and it has to launch again from scratch, it doesn’t seem to count steps that happened while the game wasn’t running (foreground or background).
I also see this post where others are seeing the same thing, and are not using GrapheneOS. Maybe my use of GrapheneOS is a red herring and there’s actually something else happening.
It was always odd to me that apps need to be constantly active to get the steps. I don’t get why the phone doesn’t just count in the background then allow you to request “how many steps today” or “how many steps since X date/time” via the API.
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 4 weeks ago:
I’m using GrapheneOS and struggling to get the game to count steps when it’s not actively open. Anyone else using GrapheneOS and have any tips?
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 4 weeks ago:
I thought I’d mention as it hasn’t been mentioned yet: the only way to install the game on Android is through Google Play. You also need to join a Google Group to get access on Google Play.
- Comment on The Browser Choice Alliance - an Alliance to allow Windows users to choose there browser 1 month ago:
Ah thanks for finding that.
- Comment on The Browser Choice Alliance - an Alliance to allow Windows users to choose there browser 1 month ago:
What is Browser Works? It might be a search fail but I can’t seem to find any info about them as I keep getting results for how browsers work.
- Comment on The Browser Choice Alliance - an Alliance to allow Windows users to choose there browser 1 month ago:
Which of the members have a browser not based on Chromium?
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 1 month ago:
I think leave it 6 months and look at what everyone else is doing. It’s too early to be freaking out, and without government guidance there’s no hope of working out what will and won’t count based on what the Aussies are saying in this post.
- Comment on Steam Controller 2 is apparently a thing and being 'tooled for a mass production' plus a new VR controller 2 months ago:
I’ve always used rechargeables. While I agree to some extent, the action to pop them out makes it a lot easier to get them out than in the Xbox 360 controller from around the same time. The Xbone ones are easier now but perhaps they will do steam controller 2 in a similar way to the 1 but leave a little extra clearance.
- Comment on Steam Controller 2 is apparently a thing and being 'tooled for a mass production' plus a new VR controller 2 months ago:
Better battery placement, because the original is a nightmare to get batteries out.
I’m curious about this. There’s a little switchy button thing and the batteries pop right out. I’m not sure what makes it a nightmare, I quite like the battery placement.
- Comment on Final update on my pineapple plant journey. Time to eat this little guy and replant the top to do it all over again hopefully! 2 months ago:
It’s also impressive you kept a pot plant alive for 5 years! I hope to manage that some day.
- Comment on Final update on my pineapple plant journey. Time to eat this little guy and replant the top to do it all over again hopefully! 2 months ago:
Amazing! I went back in your history, awesome job with the pineapple!
- Comment on Mushrooms 2 months ago:
Yeah, I don’t know if @Stamets@lemmy.world is a mycologist but he’s certainly named after one.
- Comment on Here’s the paper no one read before declaring the demise of modern cryptography 2 months ago:
It seems the RSA-155 (512 bit) encryption commonly used in the 90s was broken in 1999, no quantum needed (due to it being based on primes).
Though from what I can search up, reddit users from 10 years ago were confident a 128 bit modern algorithm (e.g. AES) would never be able to be brute forced, even by quantum computers.
I dunno, sometimes I wonder if not everyone on the internet is an expert.
- Comment on Here’s the paper no one read before declaring the demise of modern cryptography 2 months ago:
But isn’t the point that we just need to stay ahead of it. Surely encryption used in the 90s could be broken by a quantum computer today?
- Comment on I feel you, green guy. 2 months ago:
Hey cheers for the heartfelt message. I’m cruising through life just fine. I’ve done plenty in my time, and I don’t think I’ve done much out of societal expectations. I’ve never had any big life goals or even small bucket list items, but it works for me.
- Comment on Yep, it's me 2 months ago:
Haha I have one of these.
Them: how come most trees are green?
Me: Oh, well the leaves have s…
Them: OK goodbye
I also have another one that likes to hear all the details, and as a young kid they would ask me to explain stuff while they fell asleep.
Me: OK, sleeping time
Them: Can you tell me why we don’t two suns while I lie down?
Me: oh, boy, well… [then I talk until they fall asleep]
I think they were about 3 or 4 when we did this.
- Comment on I feel you, green guy. 2 months ago:
What if you don’t have any aspirations?
- Comment on No Google Cloud for 12 hours due to power outage. 2 months ago:
I get how it’s possible, but this is Google. Surely they have decades of experience at keeping a website up no matter what happens!
- Comment on No Google Cloud for 12 hours due to power outage. 2 months ago:
But how does this happen? Surely Google has the ability to make highly available systems that are resistant to power going out at one of the three locations (as per the article).
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 3 months ago:
Possibly related to the whole mental load thing: english.emmaclit.com/2017/…/you-shouldve-asked/
When you have two jobs you don’t really want a third.
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 3 months ago:
It’s hard to know overall for Lemmy, but I know that both Lemmy.ca and Lemmy.nz have surveyed their members.
lemmy.ca/post/15125231 lemmy.nz/post/12001861
Both were around 87% men, where as this selfhosting one is like 96% men.
I would guess it’s explained by society. Women are less likely to be in STEM which seems to almost be a prerequisite for Lemmy and possibly self-hosting, and of those women in STEM, and ( despite what you might think about your own house) there is still a societal expectation of them running the household and doing most of the household chores, even when they work full time. A third job, selfhosting, may be too much.