TeddE

@TeddE@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix uses AI effects for first time to cut costs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We already murder some babies. Why not murder all babies?

  How about “because if bad stuff is bad, more bad stuff is worse”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was wrong about robots.txt⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda, but also not really. Any major tech player that has billions to lose will make a show of respecting robots.txt when presenting that information to third parties, lest they be exposed by basic journalism.

  However, they also have separate networks in R&D that sweep the net all the time and do not care about such restrictions. It’s theatre.

  And they’re still happy to punish people that have the gall to publicly decline their crawlers. Basically they can eat their cake and have it too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The good old days⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Shall I bring the amyl nitrates for after the kiss?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any Middleware that performs similar functions to Cloudflare, just... selfhosted?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want DDoS protection you’re gonna need to work with someone who can swallow and filter a whole botnet’s worth of traffic and keep running. That takes some serious infrastructure.

  I recommend Cloudflare for small businesses because their terms of service are actually decent, and blending their traffic into that stream makes their website indistinguishable from larger competition.

  The next closest things are Pangolin (digpangolin.com) and WireGuard. You’ll need to rent a server somewhere with a public-facing IP to run the server-side software (and DDoS protection is based on the services provided by your datacenter host). Pangolin has a UI similar to Cloudflare, but under the hood, it’s just Wireguard, so if you prefer more direct control, you can just set up a Wireguard tunnel by hand.

  For myself, and my own needs, I don’t need all that. I just use DDNS* to point my DNS records to my home’s public ip address & use port forwarding to connect ports 80 & 443 to Nginx Proxy Manager. (When I add Anubis, I’ll port forward to Anubis and then have Anubis redirect valid traffic to Nginx Proxy Manager) This setup offers no protection against DDoS, but for what I use it for, I think it’s an acceptable risk (I’d either have to get someone’s attention and ire or just be cosmically unlucky)

  *the server has a cron job to curl the DDNS refresh URL every hour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The good old days⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot dang! From the Wizard Pope themselves! #jealous

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The good old days⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The other boxy thing is a black ribbon dispenser to hog tie the guy’s hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age + BUN = Lasix dose⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I absolutely meant the heritage foundation, but not just only them. I didn’t care to go with specific names because we could sweep away all the companies now and they’d be back with new names and new shell companies within a fortnight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best feeling⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if you’re being silly, but that’s like 90% of pup play with a praise kink.

  I have given so many adult humans scritches and would love to give you pets.

  It may have started as a variation of a gimp suit, but pup play today is all about going to concerts and to parks and adults playing together and expressing their individuality with a colorful, (maybe customized) ‘hood’ (what’s worn over the face). The sex and BDSM stuff is generally de-emphasized or often prohibited (unless you go out of your way to find that stuff).

  It’s great for people with anxiety or celebrity, the freedom to let yourself be “not seen as yourself” for a bit is empowering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age + BUN = Lasix dose⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. The reason Fox and similar think tanks like trump is because he keeps getting into scandal after scandal without time to digest anything.

  I don’t think Trump plans all these scandals, but I do suspect there’s yes men teams deliberately arranging for the opportunities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I just saw KDE Bigscreen got reboot. While it’s not exactly the same (its for TVs, like Android TV and Steam Big Picture mode), it’s nice to see major desktop environments(DE) adopt new UI features for small and large devices. This compliments work done by groups like PinePhone, who laid the groundwork for Linux phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s the little things⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Capillary action; which is a combination of adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension and for superfluids the additional ack of friction.

  Unfortunately, if cohesion is removed from water, this might drastically change if the water can crawl up the container (the details would be based on the specific physics of this imaginary universe).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love technology and gadgets!

  Got this Cuckoo clock, and it never asks me to sign in. I have a compass gadget in my car - never have to sign in My propane camp stove - fun fact, no sign in! I have a #2 pencil - I sign in with it regularly … I own dozens of screws - brilliant tech helps me keep it all together, no sign in though

  We’ve been doing great tech since the OG ‘Fire’. I’m beginning to think what we call the ‘tech’ industry has a very limited understanding of what tech actually is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ethereal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It tares my heart out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I expect this is sarcasm (can’t know, because of Poe’s)

  But for anyone genuinely thinking this you can see the dashcam source in her glasses reflection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the tech industry hasn’t had a real hit of it’s favorite poison “private equity” in too long.

  The industry has played the same playbook since at least 2006. Likely before, but that’s when I personally stated seeing it. My take is that they got addicted to the dotcom bubble and decided they can and should recreate the magic evey 3-5 years or so.

  This time it’s AI, last it was crypto, and we’ve had web 2.0, 3.0, and a few others I’m likely missing.

  But yeah, it’s sold like a panacea every time, when really it’s revolutionary for like a handful of tasks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes! We’ve gotten them up to 94℅ wrong at the behest of insurance agencies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun!!!! :)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Chad died the way he lived … coating all his friends faces and bodies in a carnal blast of his essence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? Like half of what I want from these things is when is the battery low? When is the outbox full? When is the feeder empty? And metrics to verify the device is generally operating safely.

  Controlling the device? We’ve known how to do that for 50+ years. Help me maintain the device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? Like - talk about having the luckiest version of XKCD’s Ten Thousand!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you we’re born with an expensive physical or mental anomaly in a county that has poor healthcare support?

  Or you can’t be comfortable with the unhoused in your city and you build, run, and operate a private halfway shelter?

  Okay - okay - I’ll cede. I think were both being hyperbolic. I’m genuinely not convinced that a particular income level makes you a monster, but I can grant that it is a yellow/red flag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All said, respectable - “live with almost no property at the cheapest rate available” is not terribly bad advice. But again, I think even following that advise would be a higher cost for lots of people in many places in the world.

  But is that really the world we want to build? “Okay everyone, aim for the bare minimum?” I know I’ve been lucky in my life and haven’t had to struggle often - but I don’t think it’s unfair to assume that everyone should be able to enjoy luxuries from time to time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe you lived in an environment where some of those expenses were socialized via a broad social net - or you have connections via friends and family that you’ve underestimated the value of (a friend with a truck is cheaper to buy lunch for than renting movers). If I had reliable access to food shelter transportation and information at negligible costs (assuming ~$800/month constitutes low cost rent), I can totally imagine living within a budget of $15k/year (covering pounds to USD).

  However, I used to live in Phoenix but moved due to the rental crisis. Simple clean 1 bedroom apartments are going for $1600/month, which blows your budget in rent alone. (The lowest rate I could find was $750/month, but you had to be officially poor (“restricted income”) to qualify).

  But before I condemn you in assumptions, maybe I’m wrong - would you be willing to break down your living expenses for those who would follow in your path?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am two of them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sucks that our society is structured to make marriage such a large gamble. While the asexual wife thing sucks, I hope you two can connect on other levels for a rich and fulfilling relationship (since it’s not all about sex)

  To your larger thesis - I agree. The labels we use - “straight”, “gay”, “bi” rarely match what people think of their own sexuality. Sometimes even when accurate we can chafe at such harsh categories. It’s just more complex and nuanced then that. But society just loves it’s labels.

  What would you think of the term heteroflexible? It carries the idea that as a prince, you might have a harem exclusively of women, yet as a pauper ‘any port in a storm’ as the expression goes. Or it could mean that you prefer women, but a good blowjob is a good blowjob - regardless of the sex of the lips giving it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to drink coke?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my opinion, the original post was “some guy” reviewing their pics and asked “which of these beverage container photos is most photogenic?” - a super casual question, and @Anomalocaris@lemm.ee said “Coke-Cola is evil!” - which is absolutely true.

  I tried to carefully reword the question to ask it in an unbranded way - what is @Anomalocaris@lemm.ee’s thoughts if we push past the corporation=bad thought stopper. However I failed - and you, @surewhynotlem@lemmy.world, jumped on the new thought stopper “sodastream”. I can’t say I believe sodastream is as evil as Coke™, but they’re also certainly not angels. I’m sure you can argue that case.

  But the question wasn’t about really about Coke. The question definitely wasn’t about SodaStream. The question @Armand1@lemmy.world was asking is “Which drink vessel of mine do you like?” And I don’t think you two answered that part of the question. I do love the anti-capitalist messages - but would it hurt either of you to throw Armond1 a bone in your reply to address the aesthetical question they’re asking?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to drink coke?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A) Your point? Just because a government has done evil things doesn’t mean its people are evil. Unless you want to demonstrate that sodastream is under direct influence of their government, this is just guilt by association.

  B) Did I say we were using a Sodastream? We’re using a home made CO2 device connected to a food grade bottle that we use to fizz the drink - we just use the same screw thread size as the sodastream product because it’s currently popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to drink coke?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay - how about if it were a homemade cola prepared in a sodastream style and the aluminum can in the right were sourced from a recycling center to reduce waste (and the others vessels are thrift ware)

  Can you express a preference in that case? (I get the point you’re making, fine; but at least answer the question they’re about the aesthetic of the containers)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That … tracks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unironically Orwellian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My mom still maintains her Angelfire site. MySpace still exists. There are historical cities that are ghost towns of what they once were - yet the cities exist. Once you reach a particular space of cultural ubiquity, it gets hard to disappear.