Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 3 hours ago:
Just reading your comment gave me arthritis.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 4 hours ago:
Haha no the prongs of the first one looks good. But the handle looks too thin for my big hands. That thick fork looks like a nightmare, though.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 5 hours ago:
Personally I don’t like that handle either. Needs to be thicker.
- Comment on pope 6 hours ago:
There’s a whole Wikipedia page about it. But here is the important bit:
In the past, caller ID spoofing required an advanced knowledge of telephony equipment that could be quite expensive. However, with open source software (such as Asterisk or FreeSWITCH, and almost any VoIP company), one can spoof calls with minimal costs and effort.
Some VoIP providers allow the user to configure their displayed number as part of the configuration page on the provider’s web interface. No additional software is required.
So it’s pretty trivial these days because the phone number coming from the phone network doesn’t help when the phone network lets you set whatever you like.
- Comment on pope 9 hours ago:
Unfortunately the calling party can show whatever they want for the caller number, there’s no validation that it’s true.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
Whaaaaaaaat? Pivot tables are a 2 second job to summarise large amounts of transaction data or similar by month or year. Lookups or countifs would take so much longer!
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
You sound like you know your LibreOffice.
My experience is they are quite different but I’ve been able to do the same things for the most part.
But how the hell do I make a pivot table that looks and functions as nice as the plain old default one in Excel?
- Comment on How do I make Lemmy feel less dead? 1 week ago:
Or just browse All
- Comment on Temu shut off Google Shopping ads in the US on April 9; its App Store app ranking then plummeted from around third or fourth place to 58th in three days 1 week ago:
Ah I guess it’s that it shows what they want then they have to install the app to buy it?
- Comment on Temu shut off Google Shopping ads in the US on April 9; its App Store app ranking then plummeted from around third or fourth place to 58th in three days 1 week ago:
Maybe this article is intended for advertisers to convince them of the value.
- Comment on Temu shut off Google Shopping ads in the US on April 9; its App Store app ranking then plummeted from around third or fourth place to 58th in three days 1 week ago:
Isn’t the idea that if you advertise you will get more people looking at/downloading your app and therefore rank higher?
It doesn’t make it not paid product placement, but I don’t think it implies that people are buying spots on the ranking.
It does imply the rank is almost useless because most high rankers are just spending a lot on ads.
- Comment on YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying 1 week ago:
There’s also Lemmy Instance Assistant. It has multiple features but my most used is that if you end up on another instance it adds a link to take you to that same post/community on your home instance.
It hasn’t been updated in quite some time but the dev was active on Lemmy not too long ago and it continues to work fine for me.
There’s a community here, links in the side bar: lemmy.ca/c/instance_assistant
- Comment on YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying 1 week ago:
I do a lot of browsing on desktop, especially when comments need a lot of research. I use mobile a lot as well.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, they do ship to Oz. But you can’t pay with an NZ card so you’ve gotta do a whole thing where you send money internationally to a friend then they pay and order and receive it then ship it to you. It seems like a big ask for contacting a distant relative out of the blue and asking them to do that.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 2 weeks ago:
Same here! I have one but can’t get components any more because they locked down freight forwarding 🙁
- Comment on Wind/solar motorcycle [with 50 km solar/wind range] looks like an April Fools' joke ... but it's legit 2 weeks ago:
That’s a little bit different.
In your case, the wind is blowing and the craft is getting energy from it.
I was referring to the energy coming from the motor pushing you through the air and then trying to claim some energy from the wind you created by pushing yourself through the air with the motor.
If there is wind blowing you could in theory get some energy from it, but the thing about sailboats is there is a constant need to adjust the sail when you turn. A turbine on the front isn’t going to be angled correctly whichever direction you turn.
But I think I worked out the reason for the turbine. It’s powered by the battery (it’s not intended to charge the battery) and I think is there to pull the top of the contraption forward so it doesn’t fall over when accelerating.
- Comment on Wind/solar motorcycle [with 50 km solar/wind range] looks like an April Fools' joke ... but it's legit 2 weeks ago:
I think I’ve worked it out, after some discussion in another comment thread.
This contraption probably has a high centre of gravity and would tip over backwards if you accelerate too fast. They probably worked out a wind turbine on the top spreads the acceleration force and reduces this problem. The turbine is not for generating power, it has a motor and is used to give some thrust to the top.
- Comment on Wind/solar motorcycle [with 50 km solar/wind range] looks like an April Fools' joke ... but it's legit 2 weeks ago:
But it doesn’t help. If you are travelling forward under the force of the motor using the electricity, then using the wind from that forward motion to generate electricity with the turbine will produce less electricity than the extra energy needed to propel you forward when you have a turbine on the top creating air resistance. If you could use a motor to travel forward and use a wind turbine to capture energy from that motion in a way that produces more power than you put in, well that would be a source of infinite energy. It violates the law of conservation of energy.
The only thing I can think of is that it generates electricity when you are not moving. But considering the size of it, I can’t imagine it’s worth it to generate that tiny amount of electricity when stopped to then have that increased drag when moving causing you to use more power.
- Comment on Wind/solar motorcycle [with 50 km solar/wind range] looks like an April Fools' joke ... but it's legit 2 weeks ago:
Sorry can someone explain how the turbines work? Is the turbine pulling the motorbike forward or is it there to generate power?
The bike has an electric motor so the turbine seems unnecessary. But if the motor is pulling it forward then it’s fighting the turbine so it’s wasting energy (it’s not some perpetual motion device).
Are the solar and turbines there so you park up and the bike charges while you’re shopping?
I just can’t understand why the addition of turbines is helpful here.
- Comment on Nice try 2 weeks ago:
For sure. One of my kids cites broccoli as a favourite food.
Apple’s are meh with my kids but slice them and spread them with peanut butter with some raisins and they love them (a variation of bugs on a log).
- Comment on You'll know Lemmy has really caught on when searching for "Lemmy" returns more results for the forum than for the Motorhead guy. 2 weeks ago:
I was looking for a post on Lemmy yesterday with a vague couple of keywords, used Kagi with “Fediverse forums” lens and bam, right there at the top was the post I was looking for! I couldn’t believe it.
It’s like how everyone used to search Reddit with site:reddit rather than using the reddit search. Except you can’t do that too easily for Lemmy because of all the instances. But the Kagi lense does a pretty impressive job of solving that.
- Comment on Nice try 2 weeks ago:
Is it true or just a stereotype? My kids love fruit. We go through probably 6kg of fruit a week, half of that is bananas and the rest is a mix of all sorts.
They obviously love candy too but they don’t complain about fruit.
Vegetables on the other hand… Fiber without (much) sugar is offensive.
- Comment on How does lemmy implement Auth? 2 weeks ago:
Whoever is running the Alexandrite frontend you are accessing definitely could modify it to steal your password, so it’s another point of trust. To help reduce this risk, many instances will run their own Alexandrite (and other third party frontends). With a quick search I didn’t find lemm.ee hosting any though.
I believe OAuth support is planned for Lemmy but not sure on the timeline or the exact implementation.
On the relay emails, I believe some instances block their use, but the benefit of having many instances is you can find one that aligns to your values.
- Comment on How does lemmy implement Auth? 2 weeks ago:
There is currently no OAuth, which sounds like what you’re asking for.
Currently you need to trust the app and your instance. Most instances are implementing off-the-shelf lemmy but there is no way to confirm that.
Lemmy apps could steal your password if they wanted to, but if you use an open source app through say F-droid that compiles the apps from source, you can check the code if you have that skillset.
Ultimately the answer here though is not to trust your instance or app, but to instead not need to. Your account should be treated as disposable and (like every other site) you should not be reusing your password.
This way it doesn’t matter if your instance steals your password, since they already know everything you’ve given them. Lemmy is all public anyway so there isn’t much risk involved.
I’d argue the biggest risk is if your instance requires email validation, and it’s easy enough to use a relay email (Firefox Relay, Simplelogin, Addy.io, etc) so that’s unique as well.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Lucky for me I don’t have any Nvidia so things sail a bit smoother.
Thanks for all the advice 🙂
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Awesome, thanks for the explanation! I’d been put off Bazzite and other immutable distros because I had seen threads saying you basically needed flatpak for everything, but it sounds like that’s not true.
I don’t need a project at the moment but I will give this a go once I am ready for one!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
How does Bazzite fare when I want to do something a bit different. Install docker, Python, PHP, sqlite, etc. I’d normally just install them, but does this work for Bazzite and other atomic/immutable distros?
- Comment on jared 3 weeks ago:
Not even going to try to hide it?
- Comment on jared 3 weeks ago:
Hmm what was on the video?
- Comment on World Backup Day 3 weeks ago:
Eh I don’t even need to think about this anymore. I have a cron job that backs up every March 31st.