adespoton

@adespoton@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea is to verify the archival copy’s URL, not to verify the original content. So yes, a server could push different content to the archiver than to people, or vary by region, or an AitM could modify the content as it goes out to the archiver. But adding the sha256 in the URL query parameter means that if someone publishes a link to an archive copy online, anyone else using the link can know they’re looking at the same content the other person was referencing.

  If the archive content changes, that URL will be invalid; if someone uses a fake hash, the URL will be invalid (which is why MD5 wouldn’t be appropriate).

  The beauty of this technique is that query parameters are generally ignored if unsupported by the web server, so any archival service could start using this technique today, and all it would require is a browser extension to validate the parameter.

  Link it to something like Web of Trust, and you’ve solved the separate issue you described.

  In fact, this is a feature WoT could add to their extension today, and it would “Just Work”. For that matter, Archive.org could add it to their extension today, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Only works for archived pages though, because for any regular page, a large portion of the page will be dynamically generated; hashing the HTML will only say the framework hasn’t changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He only modified archived pages in response to a dox attempt?

  And the thing is, the discovery of the modified pages revealed that it wasn’t even the first time he’d modified pages. And he used a real person’s identity to try and shift blame.

  Irrespective of the doxxing allegations, if he’s done all this multiple times already, it means the page archives can’t be trusted AND there’s no guarantee that anything archived with the service will be available tomorrow.

  Seems like we need to switch to URLs that contain the SHA256 of the page they’re linking to, so we can tell if anything has changed since the link was created.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Westerners, what's your impression on the Chinese Diaspora? And what does the people around your area of residence think of the Chinese Diaspora?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What exactly do we consider the Diaspora to be? First generation?

  Because there are people living in my area whose ancestors came from China 200 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It uses a completely different paradigm of process chaining and management than POSIX and the underlying Unix architecture.

  That’s not to say it’s bad, just a different design. It’s actually very similar to what Apple did with OS X.

  On the plus side, it’s much easier to understand from a security model perspective, but it breaks some of the underlying assumptions about how scheduling and running processes works on Linux.

  So: more elegant in itself, but an ugly wart on the overall systems architecture design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a program to speed up the process between my external harddrive and USB? If used to run super fast now it seems to slow down. Hopefully something I can use offline. Thx⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Along with the other advice, it’s worth noting that “USB” ports can have different specs; make sure you’re plugged into one that supports USB 3.1 or higher.

  Also, USB is CPU-bound; if the CPU is busy doing other things, peripheral communication slows down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audio cable measurements are driving me crazy — why don’t they null?!?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a simple answer: cables going from analog input devices to DSPs, mixers, etc. need proper shielding and should be as short as possible, with low-resistance connectors. Otherwise, EM radiation can be picked up and interfere with the signal.

  Anything traveling digitally? It just needs to arrive at the destination in a timely manner; your cable would have to be really bad to have any influence.

  Cables out to analog speakers? As long as you have a decent signal, these can use the crappiest connections and unshielded cables — the worst thing they’ll do is provide interference for OTHER cables they’re near. Just adjust your EQ until the speakers provide the response you’re looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These days, not really, except that netcat has wider capabilities and so often triggers security alarms when used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to send messages by hand over SMTP using a telnet client.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But telnet is just a bidirectional TCP connection. You can run any terminal emulation you want over it, and run it on any port you want.

  The telnetd service on the other hand… that has no reason to still be internet-facing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is ironing clothes significantly less common now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny thing is: I switched from cheap T shirts to dress shirts after I bought one good quality one for a job interview.

  They’re don’t get hot in the heat, wick away moisture, keep you warm when it’s cold, don’t shrink or wrinkle, last a good 10 years of heavy use and look professional no matter who you’re with.

  I don’t know why my parents’ generation ever abandoned them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is ironing clothes significantly less common now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wear a dress shirt to work every day. They’re all no-iron; they don’t wrinkle and are wearable out of the dryer.

  Textiles have come a long way in the past 50 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨India and US release a framework for an interim trade agreement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A concept of an agreement on trade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At what point can AI companies play the “too big to fail” card though, like the banks?

  Bubble bursts, and the government uses our taxes to bail out the companies. Again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+ loses Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and 3D amid patent dispute⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this time, there is no timeline for when HDR10+, Dolby Vision and 3D will return to Disney+.

  InterDigital holds several thousand patents related to radio and video technology and has previously pursued cases against Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung and others. The company has been described as a ‘patent troll’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Today’s ReactOS is not the ReactOS of 25 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon misses 4Q profit estimates despite better-than expected growth in cloud computing business⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the tariffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relations with US 'rock solid,' Taiwan president says after Trump-Xi call⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sandstone is a rock, as is soapstone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  VSCodium would have the same Electron caching issues though, wouldn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philippine lawmakers weigh impeachment for President Marcos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like father, like son.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finland to introduce 'green wave' automated system for emergency vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a system like that locally. Emergency vehicles have transponders that go on when the siren turns on; all the lights in the two block radius around them turn red and a white light flashes at the intersections.

  Works quite well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How on earth do I fix my trackpad?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know which trackpad you have?

  I’ve had that experience before on some laptops where the battery that sat right under the trackpad started to inflate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There should never need to be a “kill switch” for a feature the developers have full control over.

  Just make it opt-in. An AI kill switch makes me think that they’ve got a setting that will block all known AI interfaces and generated content, which is not what this does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good places online to earn certificates or degrees that you can who you a prolific in said subject? Hopefully something free maybe medical coding?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah; so you want a collection of “yes, I can do this” items.

  It’s not free, but I highly recommend night school courses in trade skills (welding, basic electrical wiring, basic plumbing and pipe fitting, etc).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Committing serious crimes can now lead to loss of Belgian nationality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who has acquired Belgian nationality in the last 15 years and is found guilty of a serious crime – including homicide, sexual assault and organized crime – can be stripped of their nationality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good places online to earn certificates or degrees that you can who you a prolific in said subject? Hopefully something free maybe medical coding?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That can show you are prolific?

  Wouldn’t you want to excel in the subject instead of just being prolific?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ericsson was doing great until it got swallowed up by globalization.

  The one-two punch of the US and China shuttered a lot of viable global infotech companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of cybersecurity experts have already put a lot of free information online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can workers compete with machines and stay relevant in the AI era?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The main threat is straight out of The Matrix: energy consumption.

  In a time where more and more parts of the world are having water and energy supply issues, we have AI server farms springing up that consume as much power as a small city… leaving humans with higher costs and less power available.

  As for the rest, AI sucks at trades currently, and will only be replacing information worker functions in the near term. Of course, since suppliers compete for work, AI will be mostly an add-on, where the losers in the short term will be those who don’t add it on.

  In the long term, those who are very focused in how it is leveraged will win, because you still need to train new humans, and that’s difficult to do if all the junior work is being handled by AI.

  So in 50 years or so (if not sooner), we’ll see the full effects of this push to integrate AI at all costs, both on expertise and on the environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignoring metabolism and focusing solely on food calories consumed and exercise calories burned.

  While calories are basic physics/chemistry/biology, they say nothing about the health of the individual. Not eating anything for a month to burn through your fat reserves isn’t going to leave you thin and trim.