TehPers
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- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back. 14 hours ago:
How would age verification even work here? Would it work?
Depends on the exact wording of the law, but an attempt can be made. It would be a horrible waste of everyone’s time as well as require significant time investment from instance admins though.
The whole concept is idiotic, especially since even the most complex age verification schemes can be bypassed by using an adult to verify on behalf of a child (and most can even be bypassed with video game screenshots). You end up with the same system, functionally a checkbox asking if you’re old enough, but with all the added invasiveness and potential risk.
- Comment on Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business 14 hours ago:
We had a Tacoma growing up and it was honestly a great car. Wasn’t too big to park, could fit a good amount in the bed, and had enough seats for five, though the second row was for the shorter passengers. It’s also still being driven today. We had a small car for commuting as well, and the Tacoma mostly functioned as a second vehicle (for when two people need one, helped when I got a license) plus for whenever we went to Costco.
- Comment on Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business 16 hours ago:
This. People either want a giant diesel-guzzling truck, or they want a small efficient truck as their second vehicle for moving things around. Nobody’s looking for a giant EV truck, especially at that price.
All they had to do was make an EV Tacoma. Instead, they made an EV F-150.
- Comment on "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry 3 days ago:
and then the company suffered a collapse and everyone got laid off.
This feels like the ending to most stories these days. My friend’s company shoved AI down his throat, and then the company suffered a collapse and everyone got laid off.
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 6 days ago:
Do humans also go insane when you ask them if there is a seahorse emoji? If so, I have a fun idea for one of those prank videos.
- Comment on ICEBlock Creator Sues U.S. Government Over App’s Removal [404 Media] 6 days ago:
Because Apple has no 1st amendment responsibilities. The government does.
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 6 days ago:
The number of times I’ve been attacked over tone growing up tells me that I either had abusive parents,
orand that how you say stuff matters a lot. Intonation can also turn a statement into a question or even make it sarcastic. Words come with baggage beyond their meaning, and using a word with negative connotations can turn a compliment into an insult. - Comment on WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN] 1 week ago:
- Comment on WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN] 1 week ago:
Got 64GB DDR5 earlier this year. I went to check the price of the kit recently and it’s up to $800. Shit’s insane.
- Comment on Cloudflare is down [Dec 5] 1 week ago:
I think it also doesn’t help that only 4XX (client error) and 5XX (server error) are defined as error status codes, and 4XX errors don’t even necessarily indicate that anything happened that shouldn’t happen (need to reauth, need to wait a bit, post no longer exists, etc).
Trying to think of what 6XX would stand for, and we already have “Service Unavailable” and “Bad Gateway”/“Gateway Timeout”, so I guess 6XX would be “incompetence errors”. 600 is “Bad Implementation”, 601 is “Service Hosted On Azure”, 602 is “Inference Failure” (for AI stuff), and I guess 666 is “Cloudflare Outage”.
- Comment on WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN] 1 week ago:
No, and your hostility is out of place. Do you have something against GN?
- Comment on Cloudflare is down [Dec 5] 1 week ago:
This is the actual answer with respect to Cloudflare. Their config system was fucked in November. It’s still fucked in December. React’s massive CVE just forced them to use it again.
More generally, the issue is a matter of companies forcefully accelerating feature development at the cost of stability, likely due to AI. This is how the company I’m at is like anyway.
- Comment on Cloudflare is down [Dec 5] 1 week ago:
That’s why your what wasn’t working?
- Comment on WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN] 1 week ago:
He also publishes written articles, but not for all videos, and not usually at the same time as the video.
- Comment on Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs 1 week ago:
This is a classic strategy to get games or microtransactions for cheaper.
- Comment on Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private 1 week ago:
Quoting Kohler:
We encrypt data end-to-end in transit, as it travels between users’ devices and our systems, where it is decrypted and processed to provide and improve our service.
I guess Kohler recently learned about TLS? IBM’s response, which is a bit random in my opinion, addresses the idiocy of the E2EE claim lol.
I’d hope they encrypt data in transit? Not doing so would be an incredible, though unsurprising, show of incompetence. Setting up TLS and getting certs is easy these days with LetsEncrypt, and a company like Kohler could even get certs through AWS or Azure or something if they wanted.
I can’t imagine why I’d ever spend money on a camera for my toilet, especially if it includes a subscription fee. That’s a new level of stupid.
- Comment on Cloudflare is down [Dec 5] 1 week ago:
TL;DR: React broke the internet.
Well, that, but also Cloudflare went down because they were trying to fix React’s shit.
- Comment on Roblox banned in Russia for hosting LGBTQ+ content 1 week ago:
Roskomnadzor claims Roblox contains content that will have a “negative impact on the spiritual and moral development of underage users.”
Remove the “spiritual and moral” part of this and I’d agree 100% with them lol.
Anyway, rare win for Roblox I guess.
- Comment on Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+ 1 week ago:
As someone who owns my home (a moderately small 2-bedroom condo), I have tens of thousands of dollars worth of work to do to it that I really don’t want to do. Nobody is going to do it for me.
Sometimes I wish I was renting ngl, but rent would be even higher than my mortgage for the same sized place.
- Comment on Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+ 1 week ago:
Imagine having a different opinion.
You could never.
- Comment on Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+ 1 week ago:
This is not true at all. Good landlords also take care of the property, providing what is functionally a “home as a service” with none of the hassle of maintaining it.
There are bad landlords. Most rentals are owned by them. There are precious few that are not.
- Comment on Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+ 1 week ago:
To be clear, there are some awful landlords out there. I agree with your point, but I don’t want to diminish the dislike of many landlords.
- Comment on Lawmakers Want To Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing 2 weeks ago:
Can’t say I own a copy of Mein Kampf, though I’ve skimmed parts of it.
It’s one of those books that I’ll read if I feel like reading at some point, but I don’t really want a copy because of how it looks to own one lol.
Satanic Bible’s a lot better since I don’t mind associating myself with Satanism somewhat despite not being religious at all.
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 2 weeks ago:
My bad. I assumed the web has waves with how many people surf it daily.
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 2 weeks ago:
Can you convert that to bananas?
- Comment on Lawmakers Want To Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing 2 weeks ago:
Wild assumption.
I don’t worship. That’s just plain stupid, at least in my opinion. Books can be read for the sake or reading them. Knowledge isn’t some weird forbidden apple on a tree. It’s something used to make informed decisions in the world.
Please seek therapy. The psychosis is strong with this. The “us vs them” mentality is nothing short of cultish brainwashing. Worship is fine, belief and faith are fine, community building is even cool, but turning it into a cult just justifies my decision to distance myself from religion more.
- Comment on Lawmakers Want To Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing 2 weeks ago:
I don’t consider myself religious at all, but it’s a good read. Nice contrast to the BS that was shoved down my throat growing up.
- Comment on Lawmakers Want To Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing 2 weeks ago:
As someone with the Satanic Bible sitting next to my bed, I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.
- Comment on Lawmakers Want To Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, could be a reference to Peter Thiel’s deranged ramblings.
- Comment on Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America — without Tesla 2 weeks ago:
Well he’s the only Tesla worth mentioning. Even South America doesn’t care about the other one that supposedly exists, it seems.