Arghblarg
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- Comment on low beans 9 hours ago:
My beans are mighty low right now and the fog has been dense these past few days. :/
- Comment on YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox 1 week ago:
…or to Vivaldi, or vanilla Chrome, or any other browser that has search engine options in its Settings.
- Comment on HP reportedly eyes Chinese suppliers for DRAM as global shortage sparks shake-up — analyst says memory chips are commodities that can easily be replaced 2 weeks ago:
The paranoid in me wonders though… can DRAM be backdoored? I’d bet ‘yes’, and this would be a perfect opening to introduce a huge amount of compromised hardware to the world market…
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks about Italy fines while praising JD Vance and Elon Musk 2 weeks ago:
Cloudflare has caused too much of the internet to be centralized under their whims. There need to be more alternatives for DDoS protection; I don’t use any at all for my self-hosted site, but if I ever do, it won’t be Cloudflare.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks about Italy fines while praising JD Vance and Elon Musk 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for linking via xcancel.com rather than to that service directly. Wish more posters would do this.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 weeks ago:
Could workers not form a ‘dark union’, gathering members from as man different companies as possible without informing the employers up-front – gathering a strike-pay war chest before announcing any unionized shops? Then the next time they pull this, everyone everywhere quits out of solidarity. Draw from the war-chest to pay workers while the companies panic, and then dictate fair terms to return to work.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 weeks ago:
Cue that Ants scene… they want to nip resistance in the bud, before it grows too large.
- Comment on Microsoft just open-sourced bitnet.cpp, a 1-bit LLM inference framework. It let's you run 100B parameter models on your local CPU without GPUs. 6.17x faster inference and 82.2% less energy on CPUs. 2 weeks ago:
Is it still probabilistic slop or does the model understand what it’s doing and verify primary sources? If not, yay for burning the planet more slowly I guess, but still no thanks.
- Comment on ‘I’m just a girl in Canada trying to get everyone their vibrators’: Why a Toronto sex toy store got a letter from the U.S. Department of War 3 weeks ago:
Guess Trump will be abducting Carney and ‘running Canada’ like Venezuela now, since we apparently have pissed off the Dept. of War for sending buttplugs to Bahrain. What a world.
- Comment on I'm there! 3 weeks ago:
There is adventurescientists.org which has projects (sadly most are US-only, but sometimes they extend into Canada). They aren’t necessarily 'camp’s with groups, but they might have something appealing to you.
- Comment on Do it. 3 weeks ago:
This is the best.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 4 weeks ago:
Soldered in, or upgradeable at least? The former would be a huge reason to never buy the newest gen of laptops.
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 4 weeks ago:
Anti-<topic> Billionaires Have Always Been Able to Control What People in General See.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 5 weeks ago:
We don’t need/want a huge TV, so we just use a monitor with an external speaker and dedicated media box.
Smart TVs these days are just too invasive to even consider in my home.
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 1 month ago:
Neat – I just set it up, got my gmail going in the Mail app and it works.
uBlock Origin isn’t officially supported any more as it’s considered ‘legacy browser’, but I found a working XPI here and it even seems to block Youtube ads. Wow.
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 1 month ago:
In case you didn’t know, the original ‘Mozilla Suite’ (the browser/HTML composer/Mail client) is still apparently being developed! I’m sure it’s behind a lot of modern standards, but I love the idea it’s being kept alive…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Good. The more projects that move off of github, the better. It’s a dangerous dependency-sinkhole at this point, and has been for some time. De-centralize!
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
Well that could be considered the point where we lost our innocence, yeah. :(
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
Good point. On that note I am very happy having moved my home server from Apache to Caddy. The auto cert config is very nice.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
More the latter :) … if only we could all just get along and be nicer to each other. Sigh.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
Oh, definitely rose-coloured, but I am thinking even before those days… like when access to Usenet was restricted to colleges and universities, dial-up BBSes … and I didn’t use Windows or MacOS at all back then. ActiveX and js didn’t even exist back then. Boot-sector floppy viruses did, but those were easy to guard against.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
Oh, I’m really just pining for the days before the ‘Eternal September’, I suppose. We can’t go back, I know. :/
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
This seems like a good idea.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
So what’s the floor here realistically, are they going to lower it to 30 days, then 14, then 2, then 1? Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?
It is ignoring the elephant in the room – the central root CA system. What if that is ever compromised?
Certificate pinning was a good idea IMO, giving end-users control over trust without these top-down mandated cert update schedules. Don’t get me wrong, LetsEncrypt has done and is doing a great service within the current infrastructure we have, but …
I kind of wish we could just partition the entire internet into the current “commercial public internet” and a new (old, redux) “hobbyist private internet” where we didn’t have to assume every single god-damned connection was a hostile entity. I miss the comraderie, the shared vibe, the trust. Yeah I’m old.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 1 month ago:
I have a script that watches apache or caddy logs for poison link hits and a set of bot user agents, adding IPs to an ipset blacklist, blocking with iptables. I should polish it up for others to try. My list of unique IPs is well over 10k in just a few days.
- Comment on Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing 1 month ago:
At some point we’ll just have to tunnel IP over DNS, and then they can’t block traffic without destroying the entire internet. Not that it’ll dissuade them.
- Comment on Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC: Here's what we know 1 month ago:
Yeah, hard pass. Don’t let an OS which has a walled-garden by default for apps get a toe in the door. Android is based in Linux, use that instead.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 months ago:
I’m gonna be that “acktually…” guy for a sec here. Oil & gas (mostly) are not dinosaurs… the vast majority of petrochemicals are from compressed dead algae, planktom and plant matter long pre-dating the dinosaurs: chevron.com/…/explainer-where-do-oil-and-gas-come…
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 2 months ago:
Ah. That’s nasty, what a pain.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 2 months ago:
Forgive me but what is intune? I did a quick search and just found some Microsoft endpoint protection thingie – there is mention of a Managed Google Play but I have no idea what that would mean.