themoonisacheese
@themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 6 days ago:
This isn’t a “we’ll sue you” clause, it’s a “we’ll never do business with you again” clause
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 2 weeks ago:
Because the main criticism of this class of products is “why in the fuck would I need a device for this? my phone already has a data plan, a microphone, and a camera. Make it an app” and the response is some vague “oh well it’s so advanced (it’s not.) it couldn’t possibly run on a phone”.
The vision is that once TPUs become affordable enough to run these models on-device, you would need a device that has such a TPU and you would go to them. But this is completely overlooking the fact that all snapdragons and the like would also have the same TPUs integrated, and also we’re not there yet, so for as long as you need to send the query to openAI’s API, why is this not an app?
- Comment on Asus won’t say if the ROG Ally’s SD card reader will ever be truly fixed 2 weeks ago:
Common valve W. Common Asus L.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 2 weeks ago:
On one hand I agree that most people probably won’t change. On the other, the difference between an OS and websites is that windows has very little exclusivity left. If you want to read Facebook content, you go on Facebook. If you want to watch fallout, you go on prime. If you want to watch long-form content (relative to TikTok), you go to youtube.
If you want a good OS, you’re not forced by Microsoft to exclusively use windows. There are some pockets (like Xbox game pass games) but overall the average user could realistically switch to debian, Ubuntu or mint and not actually materially change what they do and watch on their computer, whereas if you decided to stop using Netflix, yes the experience of watching would be better but you wouldn’t actually be experiencing the same content.
- Comment on Major privacy question (linux distro) 2 weeks ago:
Imo immutable distros are what’s paving the future. Personally I’m a debian fangirl, but if you want to learn something new then I’d take a look towards these, otherwise you’re essentially just configuring all the things the same ways as before, which is fine but I think we’re moving away from this.
Your laptop will be fine, although it has a Nvidia graphics card so that’s always a dice roll. You probably will have problems with brightness control and sleep mode.
For your privacy goal, honestly just using a properly configured firefox on any Linux is fine. You’re already using linux, and for the rest your browser really shouldn’t leak that much info, so it’s up to the normal avenues of blocking trackers etc.
- Comment on Any ideas what causes this in overhangs? 5 weeks ago:
Seems like lowering your hot end temps or increasing cooling would do the trick
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
“cup” is a unit of measure like a foot. It measures volume and it is approx equal to 236 ml.
There also exist metric cups with a round 250 ml, supposedly for easier adoption of the metric system.
- Comment on How disheartening for Snowden to do the right thing and be stranded in Russia. 5 weeks ago:
Also keep in mind that a country that doesn’t have such a treaty is largely free to extradite someone to the US anyway, as a one-off. So really the list is even shorter.
- Comment on An Exercise Program for the Fat Web 1 month ago:
You are literally the type of person I was talking about. Please reevaluate your position.
- Comment on An Exercise Program for the Fat Web 1 month ago:
I honestly can’t believe the author would go so far as to suggest using pi-hole when mv3 becomes forced (ubo will likely continue to work, but Google will be able to collect filter stats, so still best to avoid). Not only is a pi-hole a project, that only works when you’re at home (or you’re learning more about networking, and it will likely never work right on mobile data), that costs money to set up, DNS blockers are what Google wants you to use, because they serve their ads through the same domains as their content, and if pi-hole ever becomes popular everyone else will too.
The obvious alternative that is much better in all aspects, respects your privacy, and and is literally free, works everywhere and is not vulnerable to same-domain hosting: firefox. Literally just use firefox. Install ubo, even on mobile, and you’re done. Any qualms you might have about switching to firefox are either false (firefox is now faster than chrome in lighthouse tests) or Google brainwashing you into thinking your workflows are completely static when you could easily adapt to not having the exact extension you so desperately “need” to work. You don’t need it, because you worked fine before the extension, and honestly I’d be surprised if you can’t find a ff extension that does the same semantic thing for you.
Suggesting to continue using chrome but with a worse adblocker is nonsense and the author has drank the kool-aid.
- Comment on Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy 1 month ago:
I think this is by design and that only a unhinged person would have the patience to crack denuvo. Either that or it does that to your brain, which would truly be the greatest DRM on earth.
- Comment on Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections 1 month ago:
You know how “the most stable ABI on Linux is win32”? I wonder if there are already win32 viruses targeted at linux, shipped in cracked games for example.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
…did they think people wanted bad d&d games? Of course people want great games of their favorite hobby, what does this even mean
- Comment on SIM swappers hijacking phone numbers in eSIM attacks 2 months ago:
Before esim, a lot of sim swap attacks were done by bribing a rank-and-file support guy from the carrier to issue you a new sim. Nothing new here.
- Comment on Core i9-14900KS overclocked to 9.1 GHz, breaking numerous world records 2 months ago:
A nice fun fact: if you consider how fast electricity travels in silicium, it turns out that for a clock that pulses in the tens of billions of times per second (which is what gigahertz are), it is physically impossible for each pulse to get all the way across a 2cm die before the next pulse starts. This is exacerbated by the fact that a processor has many meandering paths throughout and is not a straight line.
So at any given moment, there are several clock cycles traveling throughout a modern processor at the same time, and the designers have to just “come up” with a solution that makes that work, nevermind the fact that almost all the digital logic design tools are not built to account for this, so instead they end up having to use analog (as in audio chips, not as in pen-and-paper design) design tools.
- Comment on Matrix multiplication breakthrough could lead to faster, more efficient AI models 2 months ago:
No it couldn’t. The breakthrough is on galactic algorithms, who sacrifice speed on small amounts on numbers to gain speed on extremely large (doesn’t fit in the solar system anymore) amounts of numbers.
On top of that, the algorithm assumes infinite precision, and it actually really breaks down if you don’t have infinite precision, and our computers don’t have it.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for 'horrible' dev comments, says Arrowhead has 'taken action internally to educate our developers' 2 months ago:
Game servers are incredibly expensive, and server side anticheat is more costs.
Whether or not the studios can afford it (they can.) is irrelevant, it’s simply cheaper to go for flawed client side because the client will do most of the processing.
Any software developer worth their salt simply does not trust the client, but management is gonna manage and the engineers have to come up with a solution to “we must have anticheat because we said so, and you must keep server costs per user below x”. It’s easy to forget that most implementation choices in video games aren’t made by developers who like games, they’re made by middle managers who view games as a money-generaring industry.
- Comment on Ex-CIA computer engineer gets 40 years in prison for giving spy agency hacking secrets to WikiLeaks 3 months ago:
I think one of the things that inflate image counts like that is that if there is a video of child porn, each individual frame of the video is counted as a single image. If he downloaded a 40 second, 60 FPS video, that’s 2.4k images right there.
This is why it’s more interesting when they mention total size in gigabytes of whatever, because image data has a maximum compression size but “raw number of images” is completely made up and could be a single file even when in the tens ouf thousands (still bad of course but you get my point)
- Comment on Can Lemmy instances make content of their sub-Lemmys indexable by search engines? 3 months ago:
I mean, do they? Do the search engines do that? I don’t know that they do. They could, but why spend the time making that?
- Comment on Can Lemmy instances make content of their sub-Lemmys indexable by search engines? 4 months ago:
Since communities are viewable by anyone without an account, including search engine crawlers, this is the case by default. It is then up to search engines to crawl them and rank the appropriately.
A major problem right now is that search engines down rank massively pages with duplicate content, and that’s the case with most Lemmy instances because of federation. If the fediverse ever becomes large enough to matter, they will maybe change that, but currently finding things on the fediverse is not exactly a good time.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 4 months ago:
Edge is chromium btw
- Comment on I Wonder What Star Citizen Is Up To - Aftermath 4 months ago:
Yes (since the latest DLC), yes (the thargoids mystery), and yes (carriers have been here for a few years).
Of course it’s not exactly what you would get in SC because they’re ultimately different games. But you do have all of that and more, E:D has massively improved since it came out.
- Comment on I Wonder What Star Citizen Is Up To - Aftermath 4 months ago:
Reminder that Elite:Dangerous is a game that has all that star citizen has ever promised, today. You can get it on steam.
- Comment on Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With 'Verify' Watermark Tech 4 months ago:
Not including gps and time makes this worse, but including it makes it useless because you can’t ever verify a photo sent across social media, since the exit tags will be stripped.
- Comment on Retain source IP when proxying through VPS 4 months ago:
Indeed, but in that case an off-the-shelf SMTP relay works fine.
- Comment on Retain source IP when proxying through VPS 4 months ago:
So to be clear, you want traffic coming out of your VPS to have a source address that is your home IP?
let’s go back to fundamentals and assume for a second that your VPS provider allows these packets out and your VPS initiates a TCP connection like that. It sends a TCP SYN with source: home address and dest: remote.
The packet gets routed to the remote. The remote accepts and responds SYN/ACK with source: remote and dest: home address.
Where do you think this packet will get routed? When it gets there, do you think the receiving server (and NAT gateways in between) will accept this random SYN/ACK that doesn’t appear to have a corresponding outgoing packets sent first? If so, how?
- Comment on Retain source IP when proxying through VPS 4 months ago:
You need a proxy for outgoing to avoid your source server being on a residential adress, which all but guarantees all mailservers using spamhaus etc will block you by default. DKIM and DMARC are needed in their own right but an SPF fail will already make your mail fall into spam.
- Comment on Retain source IP when proxying through VPS 4 months ago:
Not really. Your VPS’s public IP is not yours to change, for obvious reasons, and it’s unlikely that your hosting provider will let you send packets from your VPS using a source address that is incorrect. if they let you, then any replies to those packets will evidently get routed to the actual IP, ie your home IP. If you really want to forward SMTP to your VPS (which has less chance of being on a Blocklist by virtue of not being a residential IP), I suggest declaring your VPS as your SMTP sender in SPF, instead of declaring your home IP and trying to make that work with the VPS IP. The VPS can then be configured as an SMTP relay (this is a key feature of SMTP) to your home instance, or you could forward all traffic on the appropriate ports at the TCP level, but I don’t advise doing this.
I hope you understand that if what you’re asking was possible, I could rent a VPS, spoof your IP and receive traffic meant for your IP without any issues. For the same reasons, I think the other commenter mentioning x-forwarded-for headers is wrong if you’re not using DKIM (and even then it’s iffy). Otherwise I could just write a payload with mailto: whatever, from:you@yourdomain and x-forwarded-for: your home IP and pass SPF checks without having control over your IP.
if you’re still confused about SMTP feel free to ask more questions
- Comment on Hiring Someone to setup servers 5 months ago:
It exists, but it’s generally really small shops that I wouldn’t feel comfortable recommending.
The bigger hosting providers are fine with the status quo, because it means their support tickets are from people who at least know something about anything rather than complete noobies who need help resetting their password (not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just higher volume and not what hetzner staff is trained on)
- Comment on Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners 5 months ago:
Any shop large enough that this is such a massive undertaking is large enough that the people who care about this aren’t the people making financial decisions.
The good news is this is horrendous for finance as well so unless you cut a deal for your licensing costs because you’re a titan, you’ll be switching.