314xel

@314xel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - WinampDesktop/winamp: Iconic media player⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At first I was… wow, no shit! Open source Winamp!

  But then I went through the Github issues. As someone else put it, “This has got to be the most embarrassing open-sourcing i’ve seen to date.”. The licensing is a mess, the coverup is a mess. By tomorrow this is going to be as viral as Twitter’s “open sourcing” of its recommendation algorithm they did last year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Modern Private Messenger⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Signal is modern as in modern, good cryptography. Most of development time went into that.

  With security, you always need to trade-off convenience and bling features. I can understand lacking group video callls and ability to run on multiple devices, but not “sticker repository”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads spotted exploring ads, but says 'no immediate timeline' toward monetization⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘no immediate timeline’ toward monetization

  Soo, starting tomorrow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pfffffht.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full open source and private camera monitoring system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I second the idea of a VPN instead of directly exposing devices or software to the internet. Requires more work and learning but it’s more secure. I would argue that well-known VPNs are more scrutinized and pentested than any camera software ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2975: Classical Periodic Table⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where is Captain Planet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers Exploit PHP Vulnerability to Deploy Stealthy Msupedge Backdoor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s what you get for hosting on a Windows server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe she thought her airbags would suffice. Sorry, low bar joke, but couldn’t help it. Also, the whole story might be bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world's first human procedure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Asimov’s laws of robotics only work when the robot knows what “harm” is. The shitty LLMs today we call “AI” are nowhere close to be trusted with an answer to “is it safe to eat this mushroom?” let alone with putting a 200000 RPM drill in their hands then let them operate on a human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paris Olympics opening ceremony was an insult to millions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there has been controversy over certain male fans complaining that female beach volleyball players have been allowed to reject the bikini bottoms they were previously required to wear – with the International Olympic Committee even mandating how skimpy they had to be – in favour of leggings

  Oh my, the absolute outrage!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what you’re comparing it to. Keepass is free too, in fact it’s open source. Also, local software and database is always superior to cloud.

  But, I would say you can use any online password manager as long as it’s end to end encrypted, so Bitwarden is a good choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The position is randomized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly do they want us to do?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pack it out, pack it in, let me begin…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Partner broke the vacuum tube, so designed and printed replacements.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse my ignorance, I don’t know much about 3D printer material types / filament resistance, but from a few 3D printed cases for small devices I had, isn’t the plastic brittle? Especially for a long cylinder shape. I dropped 2 cases on the floor and they broke in multiple pieces where 2 layers of filament joined. But granted, their thickness was 2-3 millimeters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  😂 That’s what Muskrat wanted you to believe. Engineers and people with more than 2 neuron cells have debunked the Hyperloop idea for years. Here’s one of them from 7 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you define “stupid” as “lacking critical thinking”, then I agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portable, non-invasive, mind-reading AI turns thoughts into text⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, but what is the difference? If you know the subject is “thinking” of a phrase, and the algorithm translates the EEG during that time into words, isn’t it mind reading?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, Franz is a wimp.

  “So anyway, the glass is tough, basically”. Is this how they test their rockets, too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SSD only NAS/media server?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit. Well, I stand corrected, those graphs speak for themselves. Bookmarked for future stats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SSD only NAS/media server?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but it depends from person to person and it counts if you have a small or big drive, how often you watch and rotate your media, how large the media is. If you only have a 1TB SSD, and often download and watch blue-ray quality, 20 movies will fill it. It won’t be long until the same blocks get erased, no matter how much the SSDs firmware tries to spread the usage and avoid reusing the same blocks.

  Anyway, my point is, aside from noise and lower power consumption advantages, I wouldn’t use SSDs for a NAS, I regard them as consumables. Speed isn’t really an issue in HDDs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SSD only NAS/media server?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Hard Disk Sentinel, it’s not free, but it also monitors drives in Windows so you have an early warning at the first sign of issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SSD only NAS/media server?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Failure rates for sdd are better than hdd

  I’m curious where did you find this. Maybe they have lower DOA rates and decreased chances to fail in the first year, but SSDs have a limited usage lifetime / limited writes, so even if they don’t fail quickly, they wear out over time and at first they have degraded performance, but finally succumb in 5+ years, even when lightly used (as in as OS drives).

  To avoid DOA / first year issues with HDDs, just have the patience to fully scan them before using with a good disk testing app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SSD only NAS/media server?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From my experience, SSDs are more prone to failure and have limited writes. They are ment for running the OS, databases for fast access, and games / apps. They are not ment for long time storage and frequent overwrites, like movies, which usually means download, delete and repeat which wears the memory quickly. One uses electric current to short memory cells and switch them from 0 to 1 and viceversa, the other uses a magnetic layer which supports a lot more overwrites on the same bit.

  If keeping important data on them, I would use them only in a redundant RAID configuration and/or with frequent backups so I wouldn’t cry if one of them fails. And when they fail, there are no recovery options as with HDDs (even if very expensive, at least you have a chance).

  I also wouldn’t touch used server SSDs, their lifetime is already shortened from the start. I had 3 Intel, enterprise-grade SSD changes in our company servers, each after about 3 years - they just wear out. For consumer / home SSDs the typical lifetime is 5 years, but that takes into account minor / “normal” usage, ie. if used as OS disks. And maybe power users could extend that with moving the swap/pagefile and temporary files (ie browser cache, logs, etc) on a spinning disk, but it defeats the purpose of having an SSD for speed in the first place.

  If you have media (like movies) in mind, you’ll find sooner than later that you’ll need more space, and with HDDs the price per GB is lower than SSDs.

  If you have no issue with 1. noise, 2. speed (any HDD is fast enough for movie playback and are decent for download), 3. concurrent access, or 4. physical shocks from transport, go with HDDs, even used ones.

  My two, personal opinion cents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Food ordering phrase⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want this as a painting on my wall

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best asymmetric encryption algorithms for encrypting files?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If on Linux and need automatization, GnuPG works, and you can use RSA keys. It’s slower than symmetric for large files, but I had success encrypting several tens of GB database backups with a 2048 bit key with no issue. The higher key length you go, the slower. But it has the advantage that you only need to keep the public key on the machine you are encrypting on, and keep the private key safely stored away for when you need to devrypt. Unlike for symmetric, when if you need repeatable / automatized encryption, and you’d store the key in a config somewhere and it’s not throwaway and also used for decryption.

  Normally you would go with symmetric and generate a good, random AES key each time you encrypt, use AES for actual encryption which is very FAST, and encrypt just the AES key with RSA. But this complicates scripts a lot and you end up with 2 dependent files to take care of (encrypted file and encrypted AES key).

  If no automation is necessary, use VeraCrypt containers. You can keep multiple files in a container. And you have several symmetric algorithms to pick from and you can control the number of iterations for key derivation. Debatable as to the added security, but you can also choose to chain up to 3 algorithms in your preferred order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What inspired you to pursue a career or hobby in programming?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The rush on getting it working the first time is 👌

  That’s so true, but what I think keeps us hooked in the game are the failures, the figuring out the "why"s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What inspired you to pursue a career or hobby in programming?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading as a kid about virus analysis and how they work in a short column in a… newspaper. Yeah, they even listed full Windows Registry paths. Didn’t know what HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE was, didn’t own a computer, only knew about some DOS commands, but I knew I wanted to be able to do that job and decompile stuff (whatever that ment) and see how it worked. Just like dismantling (and ultimately destroying) toys to see the inner workings.

  After finally owning a computer and being bored by the few games I had on Windows 95, being limited to Notepad, Internet Explorer (without an internet connection yet; or was it Netscape Navigator?) and Paint (in which I sucked, lacking in artistic talent), when I learned that I can just type stuff in Notepad I borrowed a book about “programming” in HTML. Then Pascal. Made a simple XOR encryption program. Then Delphi naturally followed, making my own tool to track how many hours I’ve spent on dialup a month (yes, internet was very expensive) while listening to 80’s music on Winamp. Nothing was more interesting than that. The rest is history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the idea. It’s illegal for Amazon to fire people for not wanting to return on-site, so they do the legally allowed minimum to condition promotions based on that. Legal, but still shitty. They hired a ton of remote (by contract) workers during the pandemic and made a shit ton of profit, now they don’t know how to get rid of them without a severance package.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My take: actual, hands-on programming is way more rewarding than reading and watching tutorials.

  I learned a lot at work (80% still self-tought, rest from interaction with other teams and other people better than me and with greater experience), and it usually came from needing to make my job easier, not to please the clients (scripting and automating things, Linux, DevOps, etc).

  The other part through personal projects (again, out of need). You need to take on a project with real use to you. Amd you get to use the latest frameworks / technologies which you might not at your workplace, depending on the company.

  And last, contributions to open-source projects. You need to read and understand other people’s code, get familiar with Github, write clean, documented code and respect the standards for the project. It will help you in the long run, and you could also add something to your CV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tanks for this, first time I learn about Rosie, seems promising.