wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 days ago:
Lol, this is why we don’t tend to give software engineers local admin, and why most places hire separate UX designers.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 days ago:
If your laptop doesn’t have enough ports built in.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 days ago:
I don’t know what this guy is smoking. Copilot had administrative controls before it rolled out, through Intune and Group Policy.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 days ago:
I won’t deny it’s godawful to have shit split across AD, Group Policy, Regedit, and Azure/Entra/Intune.
But they very much still have controls for all this shit, almost always available before the feature rolls out. I’ve literally never seen this shit make it through to our end user devices in an un-intended fashion.
Hell, just hold non-security updates for a period of time for review before pushing it to your entire environment if this (not actually happening) issue is a concern. That’s like basic table stakes for Windows Environment administration: update cadence management.
Please don’t claim to speak from a place of authority on this and then spread falsehoods. There’s plenty of shit to hate without making things up.
Like the third party app approvals in Azure and Teams defaulting to allow any non-admin user to be able to approve any azure app access to all of their data with no oversight. You can (and should) lock that the fuck down. It’s a batshit default, not a lack of controls.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 days ago:
With PXE boot you don’t even need a USB. Boot into the imaging “OS” over the network.
My workplace has a couple of dedicated network switches on a dedicated “imaging” VLAN in the hardware room, that way normal users can’t accidentally reimage their own machine. I think the desktop guys can get 32 going at once, and the complete automated setup time for one is like 40 minutes.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 days ago:
I grew up with that too, but the only time I’ve had any sort of slowdown from grouped icons is when I’ve been juggling like 4 excel sheets. I don’t often find myself with that many instances of the same program open often enough for it to matter.
It was an adjustment at first back in… Windows 7 I think, but I really haven’t missed it since.
- Comment on MegaLag - The Honey Scam is Worse Than I Thought 2 days ago:
There are also various browser extensions to show you an image from the middle of the video instead of a thumbnail. I personally prefer that.
- Comment on i can't handle coffee 2 days ago:
The comic says in 30 minutes.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 3 days ago:
Lol, you mean “go outside”? Pretty high bar for some internet denizens.
I’ve had plenty of conversations with religious folks that didn’t touch upon their holy texts at all. And plenty of conversations with atheists that were interminably about their what they thought those texts said.
Whenever someone generalizes a group so drastically like this, I tend to wonder about how limited their life experiences must be.
- Comment on i can't handle coffee 3 days ago:
Holy shit, I can’t be reading that right. FOUR espresso shots?
The issue isn’t your anxiety, it’s your completely unhinged idea of what a cozy little coffee is.
That’s close to the FDAs safe reccomended daily limit for caffeine, of fucking course you’re gonna spike your anxiety.
- Comment on (A)lbert e(I)nstein 3 days ago:
Can’t see see that saying without this starting to jam out in my head.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 3 days ago:
Credit where it’s due, science built the plane.
- Comment on Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it. 3 days ago:
Not sure if it was taken off FDroid for lack of updates or something, but I’ve found the github here. github.com/jakehilborn/speedr
- Comment on Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it. 3 days ago:
Not sure if it was taken off FDroid for lack of updates or something, but I’ve found the github here. github.com/jakehilborn/speedr
You’re right that the math doesn’t add up right. All I can go off of is my memory of the results after a year of driving in a way where I thought I was speeding often.
- Comment on Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it. 3 days ago:
There’s a nice little app on F-Droid called Speedr.
It checks your speed against what open street map has set as the speed limit for the road. It will record how often, how long, how much you drove over the speed limit during your drive.
It will then use that data to estimate the amount of time you actually saved.
I regularly drive ~15 mph over the speed limit to keep up with traffic. Do a long drive of more than eight hours at a time around every other month. In a year I saved under 20 minutes.
Maybe a more aggressive driver could get more savings, but as far as I’m concerned I’ll just leave a little earlier.
- Comment on Belief 4 days ago:
The point is that they do see all this, but it hasn’t died yet, which means it’s stronger than initially believed.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 days ago:
The scale is a significant part of the problem though, which can’t just be hand waved away.
- Comment on Today in “Google Broke Email” 5 days ago:
Yeah, didn’t want to jump to conclusions, but that detail was quite absent from the blog post.
- Comment on Today in “Google Broke Email” 5 days ago:
Also his claim that email chains end up creating an extra copy of an attachment every time? That’s not how most email clients handle attachments. They usually only carry forward in forwards.
And even if his idea is true for his setup somehow, data deduplication at the storage level isn’t particularly difficult to set up, and I would argue is table stakes for any business doing self hosting.
Similar when it comes to data retention policies.
- Comment on Today in “Google Broke Email” 5 days ago:
Thank you, I didn’t want to jump to conclusions, but his setup seemed like a convoluted way to have Google handle the storage at no cost to himself. Glad I’m not the only one with that takeaway.
- Comment on Today in “Google Broke Email” 5 days ago:
This is awful, but while I see the huge impact for personal users, I’m not sure I see the business case for his current setup. I’m sure this will inpact business setups, but his specific use case just seems off.
He really buries the lede about why the weird setup of why address@businessdomain.com (to my mind the professional business email) had to be accessible from businessname_address@gmail.com (to my mind a misused personal email) in the first place. It’s down in the comments:
You can’t be serious. Especially for a company he runs, this is silly. Just tell them they have to use the business domain for business email. The whole @gmail.com thing also opens up potential regulatory issues depending on the details of the business.
With his current setup Google is already accessing all his company mail data. I don’t really get his objection to having the MX record directly route to them at this point.
I’m probably missing some big detail, but I don’t get why he has his current setup to begin with.
- Comment on Happy marriage 1 week ago:
Way to ruin it! I can only get off if my Shrek x Sonic is outside of wedlock.
Now on the other hand, if this is Shrek trying to move forward with Sonic after their bastard-affront-to-god hybrid shreknic baby died due to m-preg birth complications, and they have a poor marriage trapped in the shadow of that loss until Shrek starts an affair with Shadow?
Well then I’m back in.
- Comment on OpenAI's ChatGPT ads will allegedly prioritize sponsored content in answers 1 week ago:
That’s the neat part, they won’t highlight the ad content. The entire plan, from the start, was to weave ads in seamlessly.
- Comment on 🎵 It means something something... 🎵 1 week ago:
Time for a rewatch, it’s kinda worse.
Simba thinks he killed his father. Then some killers chase him away from his home and everything he’s ever known. Then he nearly starves to death.
These two fuckers charge up on a lark, just looking for kicks by scaring buzzards, only barely stopping to care when one notices he’s still breathing, and only then because they want to use him as their personal bodyguard.
Then they tell his starving carnivore ass to eat some bugs, and finally the “have you just tried shutting the fuck up and ignoring your trauma?”
- Comment on What social class would that be 1 week ago:
… maybe? It’s “anger powered jet packs” from an ancient meme image that I’m not sure the source of: Image
Oof, I always forget about that last one.
- Comment on What social class would that be 1 week ago:
You posted this in the wrong community. Shower thoughts is not for questions.
- Comment on What social class would that be 1 week ago:
No, that’s rich.
- Comment on The crossover you've been waiting for 1 week ago:
Nomura’s done it again! I love Kingdom Hearts.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is 100.00% decompiled 1 week ago:
They took the completed game and worked backwards to the underlying code that makes all of it work. They confirm it’s an exact match by using the code they worked backwards towards to make the game again and confirm they have an exact match to the orginal game file(s).
Once this is done, it is possible to change literally anything about the game, as you have access to the code that makes it work. One of the most popular things to do is to replace the parts of the code that are specific to the console it was originally made for with code that can run on PC. This results in an accurate PC version of the original game. After that, other coders usually dig into the PC “version” to add all sorts of easy modding support.
This has already been done with Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Star Fox 64, and they all have easily moddable PC versions now. This has resulted in things like Render96 and Ray Tracing support for SM64, a bunch of bug fixes and an insanely deep randomizer for OoT, and discovery of cut levels and entire game modes partially left in the game code that had only been mentioned in interviews in Star Fox 64.
It’s also worth noting that similar projects exist for a whole bunch of other games. The Pokemon Emerald Reverse Engineering project has allowed all the absurd new romhacks with new features like Mariomon and Too Many Types 2, with Pokemon having 3 types and a total of like 70 types in game. Similar (but technically different under the hood) projects for Sonic Unleashed and the Jak series on PS2 have resulted in great moddable PC versions of those as well.
- Comment on Hey Grok 2 weeks ago:
Does he really, or does he employ people who have this knowledge?
Even giving him the biggest possible benefit of the doubt, ignoring his politics, and ignoring just about everything else negative about him… so many of his projects miss their announced release dates with little to no technical discussion/disclosure on why.
On top of that, we only need to look at his short lived attempt to style himself as a particularly skilled gamer. If he was so clearly lying and cheating (by using an account built by someone else) on something that inconsequential, it should cast significant doubt on his other claimed skills and accomplishments (if none of his other shit caused that doubt for you yet).
