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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  All grass users should touch Lemmy just to see what happens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are illegal streaming sites really getting shut down a lot lately or has it always been like this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  TBF those streaming sites are usually the lowest common denominator, run by people who are just trying to make as much ad money as they can before they get caught or shut down.

  When one shuts down, another inevitably pops up—it’s been this way for a couple of decades. No site ever lasts longer than a couple of years tops, it’s just a way too obvious way of doing things to not get caught eventually

  Generally it’s best to go with a download based approach anyway (or one of the streaming approaches that doesn’t involve a web browser), given the quantity of shitty ads and tracking they’ll have on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What your coffee preparation method says about you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is a bean to cup espresso machine Calculate Linux then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Habits of Insects⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And so the US lost decade becomes the medieval dark ages

  It’d be fascinating as an outsider if the choices made by the US didn’t basically impact everything, everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  theguardian.com/…/uk-meat-consumption-lowest-leve…

  Sure things can always go quicker, but this one is at least already on the right trajectory, and luckily that’s the hardest one for a government to influence.

  The government should definitely be heavily subsidizing heat pump replacements and bring back the solar subsidies though. And yes shove every penny necessary to get HS2 done to completion so we can get started on HS3 and completely disincentivise short haul flights. All the while building as many wind, tidal and solar farms as possible to power it all—bonus points if we can get a surplus Vs our immediate neighbours.

  If we’re all dead the money doesn’t matter, so it should be spent on ensuring survival.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  2010-2012 I’d say

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ᗺU⅃ᗺ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Gen Z so Poor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because since Reagan and Thatcher, every generation has been paid less than the one before in real terms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have funding?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I know what’s going on, and there’s some gold when that happens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now’s the time to grab them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll be in a compilation pack, I’d bet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just... I don't need help⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is related to my personal peeve with some Taxi drivers.

  Why are you out there silently driving with the radio off? It’s awkward as hell when the loudest noise in the car is breathing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So begins the great smart bulb saga!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically in my experience, when it comes to smart lights it’s generally just worth springing the extra for Philips Hue (and using the hub, not just in Bluetooth mode) unless you want to waste your time and money with other brands. Nothing else seems to be remotely as reliable and easy to work with—and I have zero patience for having to perform tech support on my house lighting.

  I’m glad to hear you got your bulbs working though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When the gap was only £10-20k a few years ago, you could justify to yourself that sticking in the public sector was probably affording you some quality of life benefits.

  Now the gap is more like tripling your salary and nearly everyone good has left for greener pastures. Hell, the work/life balance didn’t even change much for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that if you’re working in tech at GCHQ, you’re dealing with fossils—both your colleagues and the actual tech stack itself. Apparently any kind of meaningful change has to go through countless layers of scrutiny and review, taking weeks.

  You also need to basically nuke your social media and lie to your friends and family on the regular. Which IMO effectively means you need to be thinking about your job 24/7, and therefore are working 24/7.

  ~£40k isn’t even close to the low-water mark for an entry level job given all that IMO. If they want such a specialist skillset too, they’re probably gonna need to add a zero if they actually want to attract anyone good.

  There are even other parts of the government that don’t have all that baggage and pay more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rt my kyword filtr⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chllng vrything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Summary⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Legitimately—who is even asking for this, I don’t remember someone ever sending me a text that was so long I found myself wishing for a summary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pizza rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I too did something similar years ago but with a hot sauce intended as a cooking additive (mad dog 357). Slightly inebriated me decided that I should drench that pizza in it.

  That was a mistake.

  First was the stupid amount of heat I’d just crammed into my mouth. The heat kept building endlessly until I hit a sorta euphoria and then immediately I bet stomach cramps like nothing I’d ever experienced

  2/10, probably wouldn’t repeat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great.

  Now do trains

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not everything needs to be Art⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah there, he didn’t say bassist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Meta] Could we consider avoiding political topics in this community?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Has it been much of a problem? I wouldn’t say I’ve personally seen many at all, at least not enough to consider it an issue anyway. Personally I’d be against such a restriction unless it was dominating all discussion on the community and crowding out other discussion.

  I think with political literacy generally being pretty low in the majority of people and the impending American election, there will be people that feel like they have “stupid” questions, and they might not feel comfortable asking in one of the more general politics communities. It does no good to keep people in the dark, especially about politics which pretty much affects everything.

  Then the mods would have the messy job of determining what constitutes “political” topics, where no one will draw the same lines as another. What is a fact of life for one person might be an incredibly political topic for another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a factor, there are a good selection of cellophane-like materials that are biodegradable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Element in water heater died; less than two months old.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heat pump would be best

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rejection⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was gonna say, plain hotdog even for a proposal?

  Does this guy even have the concept of what a bad hotdog might be?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those are so ugly. Who would even buy these... oh, right.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those have incel fuckboi energy

  Whatever the fuck that is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly firefox on ios shows ads on homescreen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The title starts with “suddenly” implying it’s something new compared to the old sponsored links

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly firefox on ios shows ads on homescreen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Google blocks ublock on chrome just as Firefox adds first party ads

  Fan-fucking-tastic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not even surprised

  This guy’s in the same despot category as the Kims now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outliers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah my bad, I’ll edit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outliers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So he referenced the meme and someone went on imgflip and did exactly what he’d said?

  Masterpiece indeed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm

  I’d maybe try systematically turning any other devices off you think could potentially have the grunt to run windows server in a container or VM.

  Do you have a Mac/Linux machine handy? If you run arp -a in one terminal and ping the unusual IP in another, that should give you a corresponding MAC address for the device. You can then look up the Mac address and see if it gives you any more info about the device running it—it might not but you never know. You can use something like dnschecker.org/mac-lookup.php

  I guess next you could look at taking that MAC and blocking it in your router control panel and see if anything starts complaining