Redjard

@Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spanish Notations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not both?
  n! / k! ¡n-k!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get that impact factor!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, how’d you get your reviewers to write your entire paper for you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a sub for sanity checking mod actions, aita-style.
  If you keep in mind it is for active unconfirmed situations, and that votes there are not meant to mark the cases of mod abuse, I think it can fill that niche.

  !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D'awww who wants some scratches?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Both, it’s a sign of trust nlt an invitation. They trust you with their vulnerable side and you betray that trust by play attacking it.
  What follows after is justified.

  But these words can’t stop me because I can’t read

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 11 years, Xbox One emulators are finally coming to PC - but they're not actually using emulation at all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  personal homepage hypertext preprocessor hypertext preprocessor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  which also references an effort to use the media to quietly disseminate Google’s point of view about unionized tech workplaces.

  Bogas’ order references an effort by Google executives, including corporate counsel Christina Latta, to “find a ‘respected voice to publish an op-ed outlining what a unionized tech workplace would look like,” and urging employees of Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google not to unionize.

  in an internal message Google human resources director Kara Silverstein told Latta that she liked the idea, “but that it should be done so that there ‘would be no fingerprints and not Google specific.’”

  From the article posted by 100_kg_90_de_belin.

  Google seemingly does care about their internal image, so they will only make their actions obvious when they fire you for bogus reasons after wanting to join a union.
  Quite nasty in that they give you no hints about how extreme their efforts on this are. They monitor internal employee tools like they are cosplaying the NSA, but you wouldn’t know before you are fired out of the blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can compare total better than per user at these scales.
  Lemmy needs a certain amount of performance to keep up with federation, but once you have all the images and posts and comments you don’t need second versions until you scale to a size that mandates multiple machines. Which I would guess is more in the 6+ digit user range, where you start averaging requests per second not minute.

  In some sense, every lemmy user is a user of your instance via federation. You need to pay the performance for all 100k of us whether your instance has 10 or 10k of those. Local users are just a bit extra demanding on your hosting resources.

  I suspect the bias we see here with larger instances paying a bit more (50-ish instead of 10-ish) is more due to reliability and snappyness than actual performance needs too. As in you don’t have to you just can be bigger, so you tend to get some of the smaller pricier perks you might not go for for a smaller instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Link is detected without the emoji in my app. You might wanna hardcode the link as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/😂
  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/😂](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/😂)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That isn’t really going out of your way, it is the base mode of how the fediverse works. Looking at something on a different instance.
  Plenty of people just use mbin and see this, without any action at all.
  The point is that as it stands right now, there are already basically no restrictions. The only thing perhaps missing is the knowledge that you can simply copy paste a link into fedia or another mbin instance to view upvotes.

  You can open an issue on mbin about it, to restore a semblance of restriction. But currently as it stands, all restrictions are about as fallen as they could be.

  You can ofc argue that we shouldn’t open another equivalent hole in lemmys webui and api, so that you can in the future remove the ability from mbin.

  I would in turn argue that this system has always been egregious, and that in the same sense as banning encryption you never hit those you want to hit using incomplete restrictions. Regular users are led to believe their votes are private, while the worst dataminers or trolls will always have their instances to query all of that info.
  And how could you inform people that their votes are public without at the same time telling them how to get access to that info?

  If mbin removes the info, you will get another fediverse software showing it. You will get fediverse activity pub log info pages, specific vote info pages, it will never end.
  Has reddit ever managed to kill the 200ᵗʰ removeddit clone?

  Please instead put your effort into changing the way lemmy federates, the only way to fix this is to make vote details private, between only a select few instances. An mbin dev in the other thread mentioned PeerTube as an example implementation where you could remove vote details like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your world does not correspond to reality given that mbin already shows individual votes.

  Head over to your comment on fedia.io and see who voted on your own comment.

  Do you want to only vote on instances that defederate all mbin instances, and commit to keep doing so in the future?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So the technical-skill-bar is transforming a lemmy link into the equivalent on an mbin instance? That is huge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neon Genesis Sonic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough Trolly Choices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is “indistinguishable” levers.
  In the strict sense, if there was a lever you could see first, they would not be indistinguishable. They should not be distinguishable by any property including location

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose your Fighter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Consensus is probably not.

  • We don’t have transition forms
  • We probably have young Torosaurs (which are not Triceratops)
  • Holes in the skull would have to form atypically late for ceratopsidae
  • some otger stuff I forgot
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose your Fighter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite dinosaur is Plesiosaurus.

  What are you gonna do about it? >:)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube offers virtual trophies so you can feel bad about quitting premium⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the same on revanced, thought they found a new way to fight adblock.
  Turns out if you clear the cache occasionally it goes away. The youtube app is a piece of trash.

  I would switch, but I only use it for music and I haven’t seen another frontend support mixes, which I rely on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah, I call BS⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨new organelle!!!!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think plastid is the generic term for that organelle family and chloroplasts are plastids specialized for photosynthesis.
  So they probably don’t want to state the plastids have a function they havent confirmed or something like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨new organelle!!!!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s a eukariotic algea, does it also have cloroplasts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  22Ah at 4.35V would be 96Wh, which iirc is just under the limit of 100Wh you can take on flights in the us, and thus the limit for basically all laptops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just stumbled over Floorp, which to my understanding has many of Vivaldis features Firefox doesn’t, like a sidebar, and is based on Firefox

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers discover way to access Google accounts without a password⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t session hijacking but taking some magical token from Chrome that can generate sessions. Which has far more attack surface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accessible data⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi there! Looks like you want someone to link a Lemmygrad community using its name instead of a URL, which doesn’t work for people on defederated instances. Try fixing it like this: http⁤s://lemmygr⁤ad.ml/c⁤/⁤alwaysthesamemap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is now banned from selling its latest Apple Watches in the US⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What if they wanted to buy them from the start and are thinking they can drop the price?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ProtonMail and SimpleLogin emails will be blocked from registering on websites⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And since people won’t use the website, the website won’t use the list. So the list would be useless.
  The maintainer seems to have followed the same interpretation, weighing legitimate use against spam use. This is the official response to the issue as of 8h ago:

  Dear Contributors,

  We value your suggestions for expanding our list of disposable email providers. Your input is crucial in enhancing our tool’s capabilities.

  Decision on Gmail and ProtonMail Inclusion

  After thorough evaluation, we have resolved not to include Gmail and ProtonMail in our list. Our rationale is based on the following technical and operational considerations:

  1. **Reputation and Reliability**
     
     * **Gmail and ProtonMail**: Established, reputable providers with a high trust level for personal and professional communication.
     * **Distinction**: Unlike typical disposable email services, they offer long-term, reliable email solutions.
  
  2. **Active Abuse and Spam Prevention Mechanisms**
     
     * **Effective Systems**: Both providers have robust mechanisms to detect and mitigate abuse and spam.
     * **Proactive Monitoring**: Ensures a secure email environment, reducing the prevalence of malicious activities.
  
  3. **Commercial Intent of Typical Disposable Email Providers**
     
     * **Focus**: Targeting providers driven by ad revenue, facilitating spam/abuse.
     * **Gmail and ProtonMail's Model**: User-centric, not primarily ad-driven.
  
  4. **Domain Limitations**
     
     * **Effectiveness**: Limited domain offerings by Gmail and ProtonMail make them less susceptible to misuse.
     * **Strategy**: Focusing on providers with extensive, rotating domain lists for more impactful filtering.
  
  5. **Individual User Accountability**
     
     * **Accountability Measures**: Both services have mechanisms to penalize users violating terms, decreasing misuse risks.
  

  Summary and Next Steps

  Including Gmail and ProtonMail does not align with our criteria for identifying disposable email services. Our aim is to target services significantly contributing to online spam and abuse, without impacting legitimate email services. We have reviewed your list and agree on adding some providers, like internxt.com (Reference). We will also incorporate the obvious choices from the tail of your list. We apologize for the delay in addressing this issue but intend to promptly resolve it by focusing on the most impactful additions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine voting for someone that wants to get rid of the department of education.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Link broken by formatting for me, this one works
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Women,_Genders_and_Diversity_(Argentina)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GoOn⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ::/0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Where is YouTube ReVanced?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google app being flagged as a virus by Huawei phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Huawei Smartphones collect a lot of data from their users and send it to Huawei[1], and the founder of Huawei has very strong relations to the Chinese government[2].

  [1] doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279942 “On the data privacy practices of Android OEMs”
  [2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhengfei “Ren Zhengfei […] is the founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies […]. He is a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”

  A company being employee owned is a very good sign, but mainly for worker treatment. Huawei is still not managed by all of its employees; a few people in upper management are tasked to represent the owners interest, and in that process, as per usual, morals get diluted.

  You can see this by the facts that Huawei phones still violate user privacy by collecting copious amounts of data on them, or that Huawei knowingly supplies surveillance equipment to the CCP, that is used in areas where a lot of Uyghurs live and in the not-concentration-camps that reeducate Uyghurs .

  Besides that, I also just came across “Huawei states it is an employee-owned company, but this remains a point of dispute” on their wikipedia article, which at a cursory look appears to have some good points against that statement behind it.
  The paper about that is here doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3372669

  In summary, we find the following:

  • The Huawei operating company is 100% owned by a holding company, which is in turn approximately 1% owned by Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei and 99% owned by an entity called a “trade union committee” for the holding company.

  • We know nothing about the internal governance procedures of the trade union committee. We do not know who the committee members or other trade union leaders are, or how they are selected.

  • Trade union members have no right to assets held by a trade union.

  • What have been called “employee shares” in “Huawei” are in fact at most contractual interests in a profit-sharing scheme.

  • Given the public nature of trade unions in China, if the ownership stake of the trade union committee is genuine, and if the trade union and its committee function as trade unions generally function in China, then Huawei may be deemed effectively state-owned.

  • Regardless of who, in a practical sense, owns and controls Huawei, it is clear that the employees do not.

  So at every path we come to the same conclusion, the CCP will get your data, and about as much of it as google (and probably the US government) if you used their operating system and services.

  Huawei is about as trustworthy as your average trillion dollar corporation, and about as devious with their whitewashing as all others too. Google is masquerading as pro-privacy, apple as pro-repair and pro-environment, and Huawei as pro-worker and state-independent, because they all aren’t but would profit if they where perceived to be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canon is Making Metalenses, Further Legitimizing the Technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck smartphones, I wanna finally have glasses that are thin, light, and without distortions, reflections, or chromatic aberration