hexagonwin
@hexagonwin@lemmy.today
Migrated from @hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org (instance unmaintained)
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 3 days ago:
everything from your car to your TV to your coffee maker has an embedded microprocessor in it now. I think embedded software is a safe bet
tbh, most of those uses prioritize being cheap over anything else and doesn’t really make a lot of money. mostly already developed with cheap labor in china/india/etc…
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 3 days ago:
i highly doubt investing in old mainframe stuff is a good idea long term
- Comment on How did Google discover public links of Claude chats? 4 days ago:
i believe the links were posted somewhere public… even if it’s that google i highly doubt they would put things from people’s browsing history or mailbox onto public search index
- Comment on Would you eat 'honey' if humans spat phlegm on pollen and then dehydrated it? 6 days ago:
ohh this is the thing they do in the Your Name anime
- Comment on Is a web browser using another scripting language feasible? 1 week ago:
we used to have java applets and clientside perl a long time ago iirc
- Comment on Is it safe to connect a Windows XP machine to my wi-fi network? 1 week ago:
well realistically its not dangerous unless you have some very open/unrestricted network setup
- Comment on Lemmy or Piefed? 2 weeks ago:
seems to be working now btw!
- Comment on Lemmy or Piefed? 2 weeks ago:
was on my phone when commenting that, checking now yeah it’s down for me as well…
anyone who wants to check out that interface can take a look at old.lemmy.zip instead
- Comment on Lemmy or Piefed? 2 weeks ago:
i use lemmy because theres a frontend that looks exactly like old reddit. old.lemmy.today
- Comment on I hate Android! 3 weeks ago:
nokia did open source maemo and it’s still being developed by the community. look up on maemo leste. unfortunately they only support very few phones, including the nokia n900, motorola droid 4 xt894 and the original pinephone.
really hoping i can daily drive that os at some point on some modern powerful hardware
- Comment on Ok to dual boot Linux and Windows 10? 4 weeks ago:
yes it"s not gonna cause issues. even if it does its a very simple fix
- Comment on Is Nord VPN worth it? 5 weeks ago:
hasnt it been acquired by Kape?
- Comment on marble balls floating on water are nice sculptures. why doesn't the water squirt out like when you pinch a garden hose ? 5 weeks ago:
tbh i’m not blocking these trolls because the comment section is still quite high quality lol
- Comment on What should I do with boxes of old photos? 1 month ago:
overall sounds awesome but i’m just slightly worried about the DVD part… many of my CD-Rs are unreadable or corrupt now after ~30 years.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
bro that sounds cringe
- Comment on Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me? ??? 1 month ago:
why are you doing this?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“changing” for the worse lol
- Comment on Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing? 1 month ago:
yep this is a thing in zfs
- Comment on Is IPV6 better for youtube adblockers? 1 month ago:
are you having issues with youtube rn? everything’s been fine for me recently. firefox+ublock origin (web) or pipepipe (android).
- Comment on How do you avoid AI music? 1 month ago:
i think last.fm + soulseek kinda works. i haven’t seen shitty ai tracks on both of them.
- Comment on Is there a way to select specific frequency bands on common Android smartphones (something with custom ROM support) besides giving root access to closed-source app like NSG? 1 month ago:
the NSG app you linked seems pretty good, i’d try if it works
chinese no-name phones are probably fine if you take time to debloat them since the preloaded malwares there aren’t usually very sophisticated or tightly integrated with the android os itself
- Comment on Does anyone have access to academic articles? i need a research paper 2 months ago:
is it not on annas/zlib/scihub? might help if you share what you’re looking for
- Comment on Which browser do you recommend for a low-resource PC? 2 months ago:
supermium is slower than newer chromium because they redirect certain system calls to some external dll that causes overhead iirc
- Comment on Which browser do you recommend for a low-resource PC? 2 months ago:
seamonkey, but compat with many modern websites aren’t good
falkon might kinda work
people here probably hates this but if you’re on m$ windows, mypal68 and 360chrome(modded version) kinda works well on potato machines. i used to use 360chrome v86 on a atom z8350 with 2gb ram running win10 x32
- Comment on Is coding possible on smart phones ? 2 months ago:
yes if you get used to the tiny touch keyboard and screen… alternatively you can use a tablet and a proper keyboard
- Comment on 2 months ago:
what kind of detector are you using? how would you ‘point out’ to it?
- Comment on Is this machine good enough to install QEMU considering that it runs on windows 10 ? 2 months ago:
i’ve booted win10 under 256mb of ram in the past. it does work.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 2 months ago:
John CSAM… wait WHAT
- Comment on Is it just me or does it seem Google is either AI filled or becoming obsolete? Is there an up and comer that can be what Google used to be? Or are we stuck oogling stuff forever? 2 months ago:
doesn’t seem very popular but ive been using etools.ch lately and it’s decent. it also works without javascript
- Comment on Is it just me or does it seem Google is either AI filled or becoming obsolete? Is there an up and comer that can be what Google used to be? Or are we stuck oogling stuff forever? 2 months ago:
duckduckgo uses bing doesn’t it? the results seem mostly identical to me
