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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are illegal streaming sites really getting shut down a lot lately or has it always been like this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  TBF those streaming sites are usually the lowest common denominator, run by people who are just trying to make as much ad money as they can before they get caught or shut down.

  When one shuts down, another inevitably pops up—it’s been this way for a couple of decades. No site ever lasts longer than a couple of years tops, it’s just a way too obvious way of doing things to not get caught eventually

  Generally it’s best to go with a download based approach anyway (or one of the streaming approaches that doesn’t involve a web browser), given the quantity of shitty ads and tracking they’ll have on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Paranoia of some non-existent foe and right-wingers

  Name a more iconic duo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are a lot more alike than we are different⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Paradox of tolerance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Casio made an Oura Ring alternative that's everything but smart⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait Casio make TVs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  theguardian.com/…/uk-meat-consumption-lowest-leve…

  Sure things can always go quicker, but this one is at least already on the right trajectory, and luckily that’s the hardest one for a government to influence.

  The government should definitely be heavily subsidizing heat pump replacements and bring back the solar subsidies though. And yes shove every penny necessary to get HS2 done to completion so we can get started on HS3 and completely disincentivise short haul flights. All the while building as many wind, tidal and solar farms as possible to power it all—bonus points if we can get a surplus Vs our immediate neighbours.

  If we’re all dead the money doesn’t matter, so it should be spent on ensuring survival.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Tim onion” got an irl lol out of me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s a lie, I know an early 20 year old who’s into retro games and has definitely been to an arcade with CRTs in the past year or so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.

  I mean you can still find a CRT today and turn it on if you like, they’re less common for sure, but they’re still around if you’re looking for one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have funding?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I know what’s going on, and there’s some gold when that happens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d have thought they’d have learned from losing the browser monopoly they had 15 years ago due to complacency

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can now build Raspberry Pi Pico-powered Macintosh 128K with this $10 VGA kit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cool for Action Retro to get featured on Tom’s Hardware

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russian TV companies demand 2 undecillion rubles from Google⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting everything else aside:

  Why do they think they have any right to be platformed by Google, a private American company?

  Can I demand that anti Putin content be platformed on VK or they have to pay me genuinely absurd fines?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When the gap was only £10-20k a few years ago, you could justify to yourself that sticking in the public sector was probably affording you some quality of life benefits.

  Now the gap is more like tripling your salary and nearly everyone good has left for greener pastures. Hell, the work/life balance didn’t even change much for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that if you’re working in tech at GCHQ, you’re dealing with fossils—both your colleagues and the actual tech stack itself. Apparently any kind of meaningful change has to go through countless layers of scrutiny and review, taking weeks.

  You also need to basically nuke your social media and lie to your friends and family on the regular. Which IMO effectively means you need to be thinking about your job 24/7, and therefore are working 24/7.

  ~£40k isn’t even close to the low-water mark for an entry level job given all that IMO. If they want such a specialist skillset too, they’re probably gonna need to add a zero if they actually want to attract anyone good.

  There are even other parts of the government that don’t have all that baggage and pay more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rt my kyword filtr⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chllng vrything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Summary⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Legitimately—who is even asking for this, I don’t remember someone ever sending me a text that was so long I found myself wishing for a summary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pizza rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I too did something similar years ago but with a hot sauce intended as a cooking additive (mad dog 357). Slightly inebriated me decided that I should drench that pizza in it.

  That was a mistake.

  First was the stupid amount of heat I’d just crammed into my mouth. The heat kept building endlessly until I hit a sorta euphoria and then immediately I bet stomach cramps like nothing I’d ever experienced

  2/10, probably wouldn’t repeat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great.

  Now do trains

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree on the application side, but when it comes to the test suite, I’m definitely gonna consider letting an AI get that file started and then I’ll run through, make sure the assertions are all what I would expect and refactor anything that needs it.

  I’ve written countless tests in my career and I’m still gonna write countless more, but I’m glad I can at least spend less time on laborious repetition now and more time on the part of the job I actually enjoy which is actually solving problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question for admins] How do you feel about your users requesting content or account removal from other servers.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also not a lawyer but I’ve done a lot of GDPR training since it was introduced and I believe you’re incorrect—the data subject posting it publicly or not doesn’t factor into the validity of a deletion request under the GDPR. There are a limited set of specific reasons a service owner can refuse a deletion request and they’re pretty much down to preventing abuse and facilitating compliance with other laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question for admins] How do you feel about your users requesting content or account removal from other servers.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From your link

  Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person[15]

  The “directly or indirectly” part is important here, a username is a constant identifier between a user’s posts and comments

  Given comments and posts are free text input, there’s no way of knowing the entire set of a user’s content doesn’t contain PII, unless an admin wants to spend the time combing through and determining which posts definitely contain PII and which definitely don’t, they should delete it all. The data subject does not need to make specific listings of what they want deleted, the onus is on the service owner to be able to process the deletion request completely and within a timely manner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question for admins] How do you feel about your users requesting content or account removal from other servers.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not an admin, but from a legal perspective, users in the EU have the right to request deletion of their data under the GDPR, which the consequences of violation are up to €10m or 2% of annual turnover (not profit), whichever is higher

  Frankly, if a user asks a service owner to delete their personal data, the service owner should do it as promptly as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sympathy for their PTSD⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually speechless.

  I hope this guy suffers until his end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a filter for muting Lemmy 'power users' possible?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was gonna say, I’m sat on 2.2k comments apparently in about 15 months, which is surprising to me given I probably only comment on about half the days in any given week.

  I will say compared to Reddit though, I tend to be more likely to comment here because there’re fewer people here and I want it to feel active enough for more people to continue joining (either lemmy in general, or just on smaller communities that don’t have a lot of activity yet).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When can we expect 500TB drives to be available?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess you’re expected to set those up in a RAID 5 or 6 (or similar) setup to have redundancy in case of failure.

  Rebuilding after a failure would be a few days of squeaky bum time though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not even surprised

  This guy’s in the same despot category as the Kims now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Yorker’s ‘Social Media Is Killing Kids’ Article Waits 71 Paragraphs To Admit Evidence Doesn’t Support The Premise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a particularly buried lede

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My main use is skipping the blank page problem when writing a new suite of tests—which after about 10 mins of refactoring are often a good starting point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That hurts a little⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s only 4 years between FF7 and Halo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm

  I’d maybe try systematically turning any other devices off you think could potentially have the grunt to run windows server in a container or VM.

  Do you have a Mac/Linux machine handy? If you run arp -a in one terminal and ping the unusual IP in another, that should give you a corresponding MAC address for the device. You can then look up the Mac address and see if it gives you any more info about the device running it—it might not but you never know. You can use something like dnschecker.org/mac-lookup.php

  I guess next you could look at taking that MAC and blocking it in your router control panel and see if anything starts complaining