Lichtblitz

@Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨critical latex mod⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s visible in the PDF. I have used that extension to mark draft versions of documents. This makes it very obvious and saves you from accidentally handing in a draft. At least back when things were printed out much more often. With PDFs I find that the file name is sufficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do passkeys work across devices?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1Password can’t fail that hard easily. They’ve done great write-ups to compare their architecture to that of LastPass. Long story short: it’s the secret key that protects you: blog.1password.com/what-the-secret-key-does/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you take care of your parents or other elderly, how are you preparing to age gracefully?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trouble with those tests is, that they become unreliable or even meaningless, when you have done then once, let alone daily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palia developers lay off a third of staff just weeks after cosy life sim's Steam launch⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be my gut reaction as well. I’ve met some game developers privately and got to know them better and after that a career in game development was out of the question for me. It’s not even the fault of the game studios, many of which are being lead by idealistic game devs themselves. It’s the publishers who only offer contracts that are so tightly knit, that many game studios go bankrupt after release of they can’t get another contract quick enough. The whole industry is rotten and no amount of management will save that on the lowest level of the food chain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Stop⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can implement public or semi public ledgers without Blockchain. That’s what banks are doing already by sending huge CSV files internally and externally. Blockchain is not a technology of zero trust. It’s close to the opposite. You trust a few peers and blindly trust everyone they trust. That way you trust a network that you know nothing about and if the network decides on a common truth that you are convinced is incorrect, there is nothing you can do about it. The consensus always wins and there is no single entity to complain to and get it fixed. This is great for making sure that many actors need to be bad actors in order to have the whole system fail. It’s bad if you don’t trust anyone and want to make sure that your standards are always observed. From a technology standpoint I love the concept of Blockchain. But use cases that are not forced are few and far apart. Too few for the amount of hype it receives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are different versions of Outlook depending on your subscription. Companies that do things properly, never see the problematic, “free version” of Outlook. They have very fine control over the features and data collections they enable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retain source IP when proxying through VPS⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly this. This procedure is so common that you need to take care in situations where you don’t want the headers, as some tools set them per default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tchncs has been updated to: Lemmy v0.19.0 Release - Instance blocking, Scaled sort, and Federation Queue⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the timely update 🙂 I was wondering why I could login without TOTP. The previous behavior was really terrible, glad it got changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Will Charge for Windows 10 Security Updates in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My laptop was somewhat high end around 11 years ago and is still working solidly. I love the Thinkpad series btw. The only thing I had to do was upgrade to SSD and larger memory many years ago. I was an early adopter of windows 11 and after forcing the installation, it ran even better than windows 10 on the same hardware. The lock out felt extremely artificial and arbitrary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink bug frustrates users: “They don’t have tech support? Just a FAQ? WTF?”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  FAQs are just a format of writing. They are usually what developers/managers want to communicate and not necessarily what happens in support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT's Scary Good at Getting People to Click Phishing Emails, IBM Finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess they mean person hours since they are referring to a team. An initial brainstorming session, another review session or two and 16 hours are quickly gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just finished DS9, and I'm sad to know that we'll never get anything like it again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know about that. In one of today’s 10000 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just finished DS9, and I'm sad to know that we'll never get anything like it again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The original idea for the premise, quite certain. The original version is a bit of a stretch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Worst Programmer I Know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  […] and velocity is often used to compare developers against each other.

  Wow, that’s messed up. Luckily I’ve never had such a team/such leadership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Worst Programmer I Know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not flawed. Nobody should get rewarded or encouraged by story points. It’s solely a planning metric and not a metric of productivity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My own mail server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone keeps saying that but I just can’t see it. The only time my mails were rejected was because I didn’t know what I was doing at the beginning of my journey. Now, whenever I changed my stack or did some major updates the past 20 years or so, I just go to 2-3 sites that analyze my mail server from the outside and tell me if there is anything wrong. The free tier is always more than enough. Just make sure there is at least one service in the list where you send an email to a generated mailbox and have it analyzed. Just looking at the mail server is not enough to find all potential configuration issues.

  I aim at a100% score. It’s time consuming the first time around but later it’s just a breeze.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  HP has decent enterprise models. So office drones will have a positive image of HP. Also old people who have been out of touch with the market for 20 years or so.