TheFogan
@TheFogan@programming.dev
- Comment on What is the difference between http and HTTPS ? 4 days ago:
Lazy quick explanation targetted at… well someone who would ask this question.
Basically http is unencrypted, meaning it’s transmitted in plain text. Imagine it like mailing a letter, in a clear plastic envelope. Meaning that should they care to, every single postal worker that the letter passes hands to between the destination and source, could read anything they want, and you’d be none the wiser. Hell they even have enough information that if one was actually malicious they could open your letter, change what you wrote, and no one could tell the difference.
HTTPS, basically does 2 very important things. 1. it basically turns it into a language that only the intended person can read, meaning no one between the source and destination has any potential to read what is being transmitted. 2. it allows both sides to prove who sent everything.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Bottom line 18-30% of job postings are “ghost jobs” so obviously putting in work for the wrong job is bad. Then yeah as you mentioned, most applications are going to be reviewed by some form of robot… then if you are lucky then an HR person who knows nothing about the actual work in the environment will look over it, check boxes to see if the right key words they are supposed to look for are there. Bottom line it’s like dating and most other parts of life. No matter what you’ll miss every job you don’t apply for, and 99.99% of the ones you do.
- Comment on Analysts Say Video Game Hardware Isn't Getting Cheaper Anytime Soon 1 week ago:
I mean I love that idea, but doesn’t sound like it’s a solution to this problem. Hardware costs are the issue, and unfortunately even with the source code and plans, we cant compile our own GPUs and Ram
- Comment on On an open source platform, I'm supposed to be able to change my username/display name, right ? 1 week ago:
Where are you getting the idea that github is open source? GitHub CAN host open source software… and git is open source. GitHub is a website that allows people to upload content… and the source code is not open, and controlled by microsoft.
Now as far as whether usernames are changable on actual opensource websites… that’s also not a given. That’s a matter of if the software chooses to allow it. If the website doesn’t, you are welcome to take the source code, edit the source code to make it possible, and host your own copy of it. But nothing in open source inherently means you have any more control of an open source website that’s hosted outside of your machine/servers than a closed source one.
- Comment on Whatever happened to Anonymous? We need them now more than ever. Yes I get the irony. How does one happen to get in touch with one or group? 2 weeks ago:
Mossad more likely. Epstein basically bolstered a lot on 4chan.
- Comment on Do you think that these CBS employees should unionize and go on strike? 3 weeks ago:
It was more of a slowdown actually, or I suppose more accurately a direct attempt at the “give the people what they are asking for and show them why they won’t like it”.
In short, the police continued to investigate major crimes. But focus less on trying to catch people in small crimes etc… IE stop and frisk kind of nonsense etc… expecting to come out of it saying “see now look how many major crimes happened because we didn’t nip things in the bud”, and it ended basically with major crime going down, and people being happier with the police.
- Comment on Do you think that these CBS employees should unionize and go on strike? 3 weeks ago:
I never blame the workers and my annoyance is halved.
I disagree, the annoyance should be doubled, but directed to those in charge of the workers who treated them bad enough to want to strike.
- Comment on Anyone else think this news story is a bit fishy? 3 weeks ago:
The death note and how to use it:
If you don’t specify a cause of death, the person will die via drowning in a canal.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m not going to post photos of my friends here for their own privacy. Duh.
Just a note here lol, this is lemmy, generally speaking, Putting something AI, automatically puts everyone into a dislike position.
Second I’d say the agreed concept here… it being AI… means it’s only your interpretation of their style, what to you is normal may or may not stand out massively to your parents, maybe not. If there actually is a detail that you think is normal, but is a huge red flag to your parents we wouldn’t have access to that. So in short, the pic is useless no matter what, you may as well have just given a vague description of it to us. (Hell just whatever prompt you gave to AI would probably have been just as good),
anyway as far as that goes, it doesn’t really matter I guess, maybe your parents have a weird bias against a certain dress style, or maybe some prejudice. Or maybe there’s a swastika tattoo on each of your friends foreheads that you’ve just never noticed.
- Comment on Does changing your last name make sense when you’re not that name? 4 weeks ago:
I’m missing the concept that you are worried about. Are you worried someone from the Carrington family would get offended when he finds out that you don’t decend from Carringtons? For the most part last names are so common that it’s fairly common to find someone with the same last name, but effectively no relation, and no one governs who’s part of the ___ family.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 4 weeks ago:
It’s quintuple ironic because like the first season was basically so good at setting up a “this isn’t like other series’s, no one is safe”, keeps that tone up through the red wedding. Then after
spoiler
John snow is fake killed
It becomes obvious that if a good guy has lived up to this point, they are probably fine for a while.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, for those who don’t know, in the last season (spoiler ahead)
spoiler
Basically god reveals basically all universes were basically attempts at crafting a winchester story, God basically turns off their plot armor and their car breaks down, Dean gets sick from eating stupidly unhealthy crap, their car breaks down, their infinite money credit card stops working, dean needs a dentist.
- Comment on Is it just me or is Lemmy less active than reddit? 4 weeks ago:
To go more specific
lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
Lemmy has about a million and a half registered users total. close to 35k active per month.
Reddit can be estimated as over 400k active weekly users. In short a semi popular subreddit would be expected to have more total active users than lemmy as a whole
- Comment on On the show Mr. Robot, just started watching I'm on episode 9, are all the hacks or whatever actually possible in real life? 4 weeks ago:
Trying to remember a bit more of it, but wasn’t the usb stick a rubber ducky? I mean it could possibly trigger some alarms, but to note that I don’t think it would register as a flash drive. In short you can program them and make them appear to the computer however you want. (IE it could appear as a keyboard, and rather than copying a file from storage, and rather than copying a script off of itself, it could say open cmd or powershell and effectively run the commands itself (as if they are being typed really fast, rather than actually a script). Companies typically don’t log keyboards being plugged in.
- Comment on Game Consoles Are Pricing Themselves Out of Relevance 4 weeks ago:
*doesn’t charge you an extra subscription to be able to play games online. obviously games themselves may make their own choice on whether to charge you to play them online.
- Comment on Game Consoles Are Pricing Themselves Out of Relevance 4 weeks ago:
Exactly that’s how it was before the begining of this year, now everything new is being produced exclusively for data centers… so now it’s just us trying to outbid eachother for years old hardware.
- Comment on Game Consoles Are Pricing Themselves Out of Relevance 4 weeks ago:
I mean that’s largely true, but it’s not like PC hardware isn’t currently relevant to the current system as well. About 2-3 years ago I went all out and built my son a 3 grand gaming PC (divorced dad energy), about a month ago I looked up the parts. The exact same build that’s now 2-3 years more outdated components, would run about 5 grand now.
So yeah… while I’ve been largely out of consoles for a while now. gaming hardware in general is pricing everyone out right now as data centers are bidding everyone up…
- Comment on When there are news stories of people drowning in UK canals (which are waist-deep) why are there so few people showing scepticism? 5 weeks ago:
I mean what’s the arguement here, that an anti-canal group is trying to hire crisis actors to pretend they have a dead loved one? That the mob is doing hits and throwing them in the canal and making it look like an accident?
- Comment on Are stepkids of super wealthy people kind of rich by extension? 5 weeks ago:
I mean, “rich kids” itself is kind of just an extension of what they are allowed to have, and what is officially considered their possesions. I think biological vs step is a meaningless extension. Say you are one of Elon Musks huge wave of kids, you are as rich as whatever payoffs he gave the mother, provided the mother actually spends it on you. Or one of the russian hookers or whatever the heck gates was up to you may very well be poor as hell.
You can have rich parents that you stay with, but they spend less on you than your average barely making ends meet family.
- Comment on [FNAF] If AI Chatbots are stupid today in real life (with the AI-Bubble bursting), how have the FNAF animatronics actually been smart since the 1980s? 5 weeks ago:
I’d say for the same reason we had actually hovering hoverboards in 2015 in back to the future?
- Comment on Unappreciated in my own lifetime 1 month ago:
I mean I think he got it after a few seconds, he did laugh, and then comment how everything was so serious before then and it took him a bit to get it. I don’t think that was why I didn’t get the job.
- Comment on If A zombie is dead. Completely dead why does a shot to the Brain kill them? Is the brain keeping them semi alive? Also how do they keep sharp teeth to bite you and not rotting away? 1 month ago:
agreed there, though where I’d say further it’s about rules internal consistency as well. IE obviously just about every fictional monster has a complete disregard of science, though some more than others can stick to the rules set out in the fictional world.
- Comment on If A zombie is dead. Completely dead why does a shot to the Brain kill them? Is the brain keeping them semi alive? Also how do they keep sharp teeth to bite you and not rotting away? 1 month ago:
Answer to all those questions is that they’re magical fictional creatures.
I mean there is that, but at least to some extent fiction has rules, though it’s worth pointing out most broadly, that’s the issue with popular frequently re-imagined things, as every lore has it’s own complete seperate set of rules. Rules are added, removed, changed etc… for every re-interpretation. Zombies could be cursed, magical or maybe semi-realistic scientific explanation. Same problem if you try and explain vampires, as obviously the classic lore they need to be invited in, can be defended from by throwing rice on the ground, cannot cross running water, weak to sun, can’t have reflections, only killable with a wooden stake, or supernaturals vampires that can only be decapitated and lack most of those weaknesses, or twilight where the sun makes them glittery.
- Comment on Unappreciated in my own lifetime 1 month ago:
on a job interview in IT, an interviewer asked me if I understood the difference between TCP and UDP. After giving the best technical explanation I could, I ended with
I could tell you a UDP joke, but I’m not sure if you’d get it.
He said go ahead
I paused, that was it.
Kind of awkward.
I didn’t get the job.
- Comment on Science is iterative 1 month ago:
I invented a new power generation method!
Amazing, is it actually new, or is it steam again
… it’s steam again.
- Comment on Why doesn't Daredevil just get 'good' rich people to pay off judges and the anti-vigilante task force police, or get them to make sure Fisk doesn't get into office? 1 month ago:
I mean obviously they are portreyed as good in fiction, hence the long list of examples.
as far as the answer, that’s the universal problem with mixed world mixed stregnth superheros to begin with. Same problem why the green arrow can still be dealing with non powered regular schmos with the flash and superman in their universe able to literally reach the city in seconds and deal with all the problems.
- Comment on How does James Bond run and fight in suits? 2 months ago:
Yeah the general concept is… Agents and Detectives aren’t the line of fire people. Detectives are called in AFTER the action is long over, and regular cops would be the ones doing the chasing in the .01% of situations where there’s someone on scene to chase.
Most types of “agents” are pretty boring overall. Interviews, note taking, or if it is excitement they are undercover so, they’d wear what matters for that role.
and of course 99% of combat is, draw a gun, aim for the center of mass.
Physical violence is mostly only done by badly trained beat cops, or failed beat cops that are now ice agents.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Is it a stupid question, if you answer it all in the post?
- Comment on Land where 2 months ago:
I imagine a lot of factors… but yeah that’s a big one, no mountains, no buildings, no population centers, you can miss by 100 miles and just add some time to the recovery.
- Comment on how things become science 2 months ago:
I mean it’s a problem in the marketing and common usage of LLMs. That’s exactly it though, LLM companies, and people are describing LLMs as a way to do research.
IE you could say these criticisms come in things like wikipedia too. IE anyone can write what they want, but what does wikipedia require? right every single claim has to be cited. So if you go to wikipedia find misinformation, you click on the number and see it.
If you ask chatgpt What diseases should I be concerned about in africa, it lists you a few. You can then… google it, find the wikipedia page, and look for what’s there. It’s a tool without a purpose at that point. because it literally doesn’t save you any steps. It doesn’t guide you to the source to check it’s facts, when it tells you them it may or may not be making up the sources. At which point, it has no factual use, or use in even directing to the facts.