floquant
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- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 3 days ago:
And it is especially true in the digital age. States made some sense centuries ago when direct democracy was limited by the speed of communication, but why should we be following those same models of government that were made when you could only communicate as far as you could shout or a horse could take you now that I am talking to you, random human somewhere?
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 3 days ago:
I really can’t see how you draw a connection from digital technology using binary to binary thinking, and learning computer science has the exact opposite effect. It teaches you to be analytical and break down problems into workable solutions, approach things from multiple perspectives, searching for the most elegant solution, etc.
People who study CS are usually strongly on the left. Techbros went to business school, not tech school.
- Comment on And what was wrong with my old widget? 4 days ago:
I’ve been quite satisfied with Tidal for years, except for the exact thing you’re mentioning. It got a lot worse in the last year, and it happened to some pretty popular bands too, like Muse. Someone is uploading “albums” with a literal Gemini watermark on them under their name and they take months to get taken down.
- Comment on How is an SSH key useful ? 1 week ago:
More secure and more convenient than passwords. If you are exposing SSH to the internet, you really shouldn’t have password authentication enabled
- Comment on Superman is a meanie 1 week ago:
I’m sure the passengers/conductors of the train are perfectly fine with it
- Comment on Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ? 1 week ago:
It is PXE in every sense
- Comment on Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ? 1 week ago:
netboot.xyz grabs them from HTTPS with cert validation afaik
- Comment on Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it? 3 weeks ago:
I default to on, and turn it off if I need something that is blocking me and there’s no workaround.
Although the traffic itself is protected, I find the signal of «I am doing something “secret” right now» to be best avoided both for passive metadata collection as well as active correlation attacks reasons; as well as to avoid leaks by clicking some link or just loading an image from some server that might be more “revealing” than I’d like. I’m not talking about anything super spicy, for example just by being a Lemmy user the image hosts you see more can depend on the comms/instances you use the most often - a pretty small segment.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 3 weeks ago:
On the LAN side sure, but I don’t think many people would make a public website/webapp “true single stack”. If there’s a network appliance “terminating” the IPv6 connection and “NATting” it over IPv4 that’s a terrible hack that is even worse than not having it at all imho
Unless you’re talking about the link-local
fe80addresses, but those are basically sparkly MAC addresses - Comment on How is NoSteam pernounced is it No Steam or Nos Team? 4 weeks ago:
I actually think the group is called NoS
- Comment on Stop the datacenters 4 weeks ago:
Sorry your feelings were hurt but the discussion is about AI datacenters with supposedly hundreds of thousands of Nvidia cards and very supposedly an electrical capacity of up to 9GW, no one cares about regular datacenters
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 5 weeks ago:
Then it is most likely on the second layer via the Fn key, I’ve seen a couple use Fn-P but check your manual OP
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 5 weeks ago:
Up to you, but personally I’m a European that uses the US layout most of the time as it’s especially nice in a terminal, and have a quick switch hotkey (win-space) to switch over when I need accented characters
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t it
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You can just set the layout to US (or whatever you’re accustomed to) and go by memory. 3 keys are different between ISO and ANSI, most characters are where your fingers expect them to be
- Comment on We are so close 5 weeks ago:
Meanwhile people would take extra sugar extra caffeine and the OG coke too
- Comment on Call Grandma, we're meetin' at the shitter! 5 weeks ago:
Gather for the ceremonial Cutting Of The Log, featuring our treasured Poop Knife
- Comment on Oops 1 month ago:
A 2D visual representation is not the same as the real thing
- Comment on Oops 1 month ago:
What makes an expert is the ability to say “this is unequivocally safe to eat, because I can positively identify it based on this and this feature”, as well as “it is not possible/I am not able to confidently identify this mushroom as safe”
- Comment on Block your ads 1 month ago:
pi-hole would’ve blocked this, you’d most likely still get the same pop-up area but it would be blank
- Comment on average twitter political discussion 1 month ago:
what
- Comment on Superb cool 1 month ago:
Afaik, it’s been suggested that they sang in a manner similar to modern birds
- Comment on Future 1 month ago:
Doesn’t practically every one have a delayed start option?
- Comment on Future 1 month ago:
The toaster
- Comment on I'm nit sure tbh 1 month ago:
Yes
- Comment on Teenis 2 months ago:
You wear two pairs don’t you
- Comment on Friendly reminder that women don't exist!! 2 months ago:
Girls are Guys In Real Life. It’s in the name
- Comment on Portal 2: Community Edition goes open beta on April 17 2 months ago:
You’re not yet thinking with portals ;)
- Comment on What actually is the 10-point proposal from Iran which Trump said is "workable basis on which to negotiate"? 2 months ago:
This is definitely not something the US would write, I’m actually sort of surprised they agreed. I guess someone just managed to frame it as “winning” to Trump and complimented his acuteness
- Comment on we're cooked 2 months ago:
He’ll barely be remembered.