Shimitar

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between http and HTTPS ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mich more than that. Https also certifies that the website is who it pretends to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between http and HTTPS ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Https add an encryption layer on top of http. Except that, they are the same. Also, https provide a way to make sure the website is who he claims to be and not a random hacker website pretending to be it.

  Whatever you do on https it’s encrypted end to end and cannot be read by somebody in the middle.

  For example, if you login to a webpage with http your password will be sent in clear text and possibly read by somebody in the middle (your internet provider, your company, any other network in between …) while on https that same password is encrypted before it leaves your browser and it’s safe until it reaches the server, where is decrypted

  It works with a chain of certificates approved by some authorities that your browser trust, so that beside encryption you can also trust that the website you are connecting to is actually who it claims to be (of course, that require you trusting the web site certificate and chain of trust).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a small android phone work as a router ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but I was thinking more of a real router, one with many Ethernet plugs. Afterall an Android phone already is a router if you enable wifi hot spot…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a small android phone work as a router ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but which long of router? The lack of physical Ethernet ports will be kind of a limit…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t ignore a N^2 stack as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No. If your new protocol is at level N, you just build it on top of level N-1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but more probably it’s just incompetence due to ignorance … It take time to learn how to do things properly and in the US it’s not like they have experience on that, don’t they?

  And probably lack general regulations on how to do it properly, like they have in Germany on in the Netherlands …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah … No native speaker here … :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest those gray small concrete blocks with funny useless poles in them are really a bad road UI design.

  Not visible enough and too small to be effective anyway…

  So while the complaints are stupid, they have a point: make those road blockers bigger and more visible. Maybe more signage as well…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see plenty of believable and probably not made up replies already that make your comment incorrect.

  Get a life, go increase that number for yourself, promise it’s worthwhile :)

  Take care friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  About 6 iirc. It’s been a long time since I started that count, and that wasn’t too early in my life.

  I think you get to increase that number a lot either in your 20ies or above your 50ies, depending on how your middle age goes and your teen age went… If you got divorced or widowed and or if your character.

  Currently on track not to increase that number in my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then, I stand corrected …

  Thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not referring to the chips themselves, but to the ecosystem around and the more often than not unlockable bootloaders and lack of something like bios or UEFI. Even on UEFI you can disable Microsoft keys and install yours, at least on decent ones.

  But yes, arm is an easier to reproduce architecture at this time, chip side at least

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The overall success of the Intel platform is that bios/UEFI is open so you can install any OS you want. On Arm this is not always the case (see phones and tablets) where more than not vendors lock in OS with an unlockable bootloader and crypto keys.

  Also, on Intel, hardware is more standard and so drivers are available, or easily reverse engineered, for non mainstream os (Linux…). On Arm again this is rarely the case, and you are stuck with old not supported kernels when you are lucky

  There is one exception to all this on Arm and it’s the Pi (with all the clones). But as far as phones, tablets (including windows tablets) and even laptops (chromeos stuff…) the reality is pretty different and would bring us a locked in future where the choice we have today is luxury.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think no, a part from much better power management, what advantage does arm offer over Intel compatible?

  Also, arm is much more proprietary and less open than Intel, so I hope not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In today's term what is the middle class in the US? If the government wanted to help the middle class and poor how would they go about it? Beside the toss money at the problem solution?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, my point was on healthcare and school mostly … But many countries tried some form of UBI, and mostly failed tough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In today's term what is the middle class in the US? If the government wanted to help the middle class and poor how would they go about it? Beside the toss money at the problem solution?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Free?

  Have you ever heard of taxes? That’s the way a society should finance itself, by making sure that everybody contributes to it, proportionally to their means.

  Well, that’s the theory… Never really seen that implemented properly but…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In today's term what is the middle class in the US? If the government wanted to help the middle class and poor how would they go about it? Beside the toss money at the problem solution?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called a functional society…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In today's term what is the middle class in the US? If the government wanted to help the middle class and poor how would they go about it? Beside the toss money at the problem solution?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Free healthcare, basic income, free kindergarten and school at least up to high school?

  Something most civilized countries already have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If your significant other cheated on you, would you confront or attack the person they cheated with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a huge difference between your best friend and your partner. But maybe I am looking at it from 50 years of life, quite a few partners changed over time, where I have been cheated on or I have cheated on. And also where nobody has cheated on.

  So I see things less black and white.

  What I have learned is that cheating comes when there is a problem in the relationship, not the other way around. Never.

  So first and foremost you look at your relationship then look outside. Or you will only repeat the same cycle that lead partner to cheat with the next partner.

  Should you hate your best friend? Yes I guess… Should you hate your partner? Yes I guess. Should you blame them? No. Relationship is two people, and you are one of those two people. So blame also yourself as much as you blame partner, and maybe the third person

  But always the fault in cheating lays on BOTH you and partner first and foremost. And trust me: you have 50% of the blame even if partner is the one that cheated. He, or she, of course fully bear the other 50%.

  The third person might be a bastard that took advantage of the situation or maybe genuinely fell in love with your partner. But that person has no blame in the cheating

  I am talking experience and real life cheating, not theorical hypothesis here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If your significant other cheated on you, would you confront or attack the person they cheated with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I mean is that it’s not your best friend fault. It’s your relationship that has issues to be addressed or your SO would not have looked somewhere else.

  So I can be enraged with my best friend, indeed, like with a stranger, but make no sense to address him or her when the fault is not their fault.

  When somebody cheats the issue is within the relationship and or the cheating person. The third person is just an external factor, if not your best friend it would have been another person, see, it’s irrelevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what? Nope you are wrong. Monday is the first day of the week all over Europe. Blame Americans not christians, at least this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If your significant other cheated on you, would you confront or attack the person they cheated with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The other person is not the problem or the culprit. I would look into my own relationship and confront my SO, be furious, maybe aggressive (but not violent, that I would never be), maybe crying.

  The other person it’s a distraction, it your SO and yourself you need to focus on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume that’s referring to flawlessly as not working, in those cases. Intentionally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You own an iphone… So I guess that would not have been thought before time travel…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You would have a useless object that within a day is permanently discharged and turned off. Maybe you bring also a charger and luckily find a stable enough power source that it doesn’t burn in a few days.

  Still, an iphone is a useless device without network of any kind.

  Maybe you could impress somebody with the calculator (those existed already but where massive mechanical devices unable to do divisions without a math degree kind of).

  My guess nobody would be quite interested. Probably the plastic and aluminum would be the most interesting technology for the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which instance on Lemmy does not apply censorship?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, I basically don’t drink alcohol… At the same time, a pint would last me ages…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which instance on Lemmy does not apply censorship?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine, but only very close friend IRL have access to it, and you are not one, nothing personal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Given dogs' propensity for sniffing other animals' buttholes and piles of other animals' shit, do their noses and sinuses have specialised bacteria/antibodies that protect them infection?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. You can get sick by just sniff at a distance aerosol of dry mice poop (hantavitus, that’s how I spreads …)

  So yes, you can get sick by sniffing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you need to control humans, but there is no need for pets.

  In fact, it seems that euthanasia and abortion are more difficult where religion is stronger.