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- Comment on Police intelligence services unlawfully spied on whole population groups 9 months ago:
No way, really who could’ve guessed? I’m shocked, I’m telling you shocked…
oh wait, I’m not
- Comment on A billionaire could finance some UFO-looking drones to swarm a town, then invest in the real estate and tourism in that town and profit. 9 months ago:
way too specific… is this the plot to a book? if so what’s it called?
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Those tests are worth more than four years of college?
Yes a test to figure out if you can perform your job is significantly more valuable than a collage degree, this doesn’t mean that college has no value, mind you, it just means that knowing how to do the job and knowing that you fit in with the company culture is vastly more important.
Go get a bunch of I.T. certifications. Get your CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+ Get a Microsoft MCP or MCSA
Those certifications are useless, they look good on your resume because managers love showcasing their staff’s “certifications”, as many companies that don’t understand IT put value on the certifications more than anything else, but they don’t actually provide you any value in of themselves. Sure it might be interesting how many network switches you can daisy chain according to the standards, but it has no real value most of the time, if that’s information you need in your job it’s something you can just look up, HOWEVER, asking you random questions that pertain to the job during the interview IS a good way to understand if you’re a good candidate, and, often, the actual response doesn’t matter as much as your reasoning for getting to that response.
When an interviewer at google asks you how many pennys it would take to make a structure as tall as the empire state building, it doesn’t matter what the answer is, truly, even if you got the exact number of pennys, what they care about is how you come up to the conclusion that you come up with.
- Comment on There's more people who wake up at the same second than people who fall asleep at the same second. 9 months ago:
how would you know
- Comment on Centralized User Management Like Plex for eBook Server 10 months ago:
How about using LDAP? It’s a bit complicated to learn but it’s easy to integrate it in a bunch of applications and it allows you to manage user accounts and permissions in one central place.
Maybe try LLDAP which is a modern implementation (haven’t used it myself) which is designed to be simplified and I assume more welcoming to newcomers.
- Comment on TKey: A reasonably secure RISC-V computer in a USB stick 10 months ago:
there are use cases, such as security, where you want as few instructions as possible, so a full ARM processor isn’t the best idea
- Comment on TKey: A reasonably secure RISC-V computer in a USB stick 10 months ago:
The specs are literally the reason why people would buy this. It’s basically the best possible device for devices handling secure computation. Think of a FIDO2 key, or a gpg smartcard, all verifiable`
- Submitted 10 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian 11 months ago:
- In Australia, a kilogram of apples weighs two kilograms
- In Australia, gravity is an opinion
- In Australia, if you have three kangaroos and two koalas you have 9 wombats
- In Australia, if you pay $15 for a $20 dollar meal the restaurant owes you $400
- In Australia, right angles are 69 degrees
- In Australia, 1 is more than 2 except when you write it on its side
- In Australia, a minute is 2 seconds long, which is 24 hours out of the 6 hours in a day
- In Australia, the square root of any number is "a dingo’s breakfast"
- In Australia, dividing by two doubles the number, as sharing is caring.
- In Australia, if you travel north you’ll end up south
- In Australia, the shortest distance between two points is the scenic route
- In Australia, a watch moves counter clockwise, to remind you not to live in the past.
- In Australia, counter clockwise always means the following order: 1, 26, 55, 0, 0, 0, 9999, kangaroo, spider, mate
- In Australia, your left hand is always your right, because we don’t like to leave any hand behind.
- In Australia, the speed of light is adjustable depending on how bright the sun is shining.
- In Australia, when you whisper, the sound travels faster than when you shout
- Comment on Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian 11 months ago:
I don’t want to believe this, my brain is refusing to process that statement, I have stared at that article in a state of disbelief for a minute. Surely someone can’t be that stupid, right?
I have heard plenty of brain dead arguments by anti-encryption, but this is by far the stupidest. There is no way, there is just no way that he’s so… I want to say brain dead, but that would imply that there is even a brain there for it to be dead.
Regardless of political affiliation, or even the individual’s stance on encryption, surely there can’t be a single person that heard that statement and didn’t laugh at it, right?
- Comment on Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported 11 months ago:
it’s so rare that it basically only exists in well run companies and well run FOSS projects (which are few and far between)
- Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies 11 months ago:
Doesn’t match my experience. The worst thing about it is ping, but download is mostly always around 100-200.
- Comment on Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections. 11 months ago:
In my case I’m my own server runner but hey I wouldn’t mind a donation 😂
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 11 months ago:
Reminder that Google is supposedly a real tech company, yet they’ve failed at:
- Podcasts
- Whiteboards
- Domains
- AB testing tools
- Phone services
- Phone contracts
- Physical albums
- Copying other companies
- Copying other companies
- Chatbots
- A different chatbot
- Social media
- Social media
- Social media
- Social media
- Gaming
- Video calls
- Video calls
- Video calls
- Music
- Music
- Selling routers
- Making TV Shows
- Selling TV Shows
- Streaming TV Shows
- Surveys
- Video hosting
- File storage
- Website building
- Bookmark managers
- Shopping
- VR
- VR
- Home assistants
(No, I don’t have any repetitions, yes I missed a few)
- Comment on Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections. 11 months ago:
Weekly reminder that the best way to tell them off is to donate to the Lemmy developers, even 1 dollar is no doubt appreciated. Tell reddit off by using their competitor and paying for it.
- Comment on Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables 11 months ago:
that’s a good point! I guess I’ve never personally experienced those extremes you have (I was born in the late 90s), I think my first internet connection was ISDN or maybe the early days of ADSL, because I remember the day my family got 7Mbit and we were mesmerized by how fast it was
- Comment on Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables 11 months ago:
in a few hundred years if ever. I doubt that the average person will ever need more than 1 Tb/s
- Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app 11 months ago:
Yeah, there is one way to make it better, but it won’t happen until they’re forced to change: force them to integrate with the matrix protocol
yes, I know that it’s possible to use a bridge, and I do it, but it still requires a discord account, it would be great if discord rooms were just accessible with the matrix protocol
- Comment on Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! 11 months ago:
maybe report it as a bug? I’m not experiencing it personally, so maybe it’s related to the order of the sources?
for me it’s my peertube instance -> odysee -> youtube
- Comment on Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! 11 months ago:
How so? I watched the video IN grayjay
- Comment on Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! 11 months ago:
Yep! I prefer not to use products by companies that hate me so I mostly avoid YouTube and other similar platforms.
- Comment on Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! 11 months ago:
There are two proposals (github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987), one for a syntax specific to comments which would make your link the following:
#3983363@lemmy.nz (it might already work in some frontends, but it most likely won’t yet)
and the second is using standard web technologies to register handlers for lemmy and then linking to posts like so (using my instance as an example):
navigator.registerProtocolHandler("web+lemmy", "https://lemmy.escapebigtech.info/search?q=%s", "Lemmy cross-instance link handler")
which would take you to the search page where your instance will show you the post on your own instance.
I personally think the best way is something in between, or rather implementing both
- Submitted 11 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 135 comments
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.
sigh developers will ALWAYS be able to outsmart companies stealing from others.
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 11 months ago:
But ultimately, the F in FOSS doesn’t really mean “Free”. It means “Free to the end user”.
The F in FOSS does NOT mean gratis. I absolutely hate that we decided to call it Free. There have been attempts at saying another word like libre, but those haven’t worked out.
I don’t agree with the FSF on a lot, but their definition of free software is as follows:
“Free software” means software that respects users’ freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish word for “free” as in freedom, to show we do not mean the software is gratis.
You may have paid money to get copies of a free program, or you may have obtained copies at no charge. But regardless of how you got your copies, you always have the freedom to copy and change the software, even to sell copies.
- Comment on GoOn 1 year ago:
Definitely, tho if you store it as a u32 that is fixed magically. Because 1.2.3.4 and 1.02.003.04 both map to the same number.
What I mean by storing it as a u32 is to convert it to a number, similar to how the IP gets sent over the wire, so for v4:
octet[3] | octet[2] << 8 | octet[1] << 16 | octet[0] << 24or in more human terms:
(fourth octet) + (first octet * 256^3) + (second octet * 256^2) + (third octet * 256) - Comment on GoOn 1 year ago:
Please don’t. Use regex to find something that looks like an IP then build a real parser. This is madness
Just parse [0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3} using regex (for v4) and then have some code check that all the octets are valid (and store the IP as a u32)
- Comment on Merge then review 1 year ago:
If somebody actually did that it would be grounds for removing their privileges to merge into master. THIS, THIS is why the JavaScript ecosystem has gotten so bad, people with mentalities similar to his.
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 1 year ago:
I get movies and TV shows from the digital high seas because it’s easier, and I openly admit this with my real name on my Lemmy profile.
Currently, I’m subscribed to four streaming platforms: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Crunchyroll, and Disney+. Despite this, I resort to pirating every piece of content I watch.
The simplicity of searching a title on Radarr or Sonarr and clicking ‘add’ vastly outshines the cumbersome process on legal platforms.
These sites are all flawed, tend to harbor more spyware than Windows and present a usability nightmare compared to the streamlined interface of Jellyfin.
In terms of ethics, my conscience is clear. If a movie or TV show isn’t available on the platforms I subscribe to, it’s a clear sign they aren’t interested in my money.
I see absolutely no problem with paying for what I watch; financial constraints aren’t the issue. The crux of the matter lies in the user experience, which is undeniably superior and hassle-free on the open waves of the digital ocean.
- Comment on Linux vs Windows tested in 10 games - Linux 17% faster on Average 1 year ago:
I don’t think you understand. This is windows games running on Linux through proton. If the games were built and optimized for Linux they’d perform even better