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- Comment on why do most people on deviantart act the same? 4 days ago:
I guess they all gather there because they are all into the same things. I’ve found that site unbearable to look at.
- Comment on When would it make sense for someone to get a domain name? 2 weeks ago:
Get one right now before someone else gets it from under you.
- Comment on Does anyone here speak Portuguese? 3 weeks ago:
Also .br?
- Comment on Are dating apps a fraud since the beginning? 3 weeks ago:
I think they are worse now than they used to be, but they do work for some people. I was always suspicious of the PII gathered so I stayed away from them. Craigslist personals worked back when they existed, and Reddit can work. An important tip: copyedit your SPAG (spelling, punctuation, and grammar) to hell and back before sending a response, since the slightest error WILL hurt your chances.
- Comment on In some countries (such as the USA), sending encrypted communications via Amateur Radio is illegal, but how likely will the government actually enforce it, and how severe would the consequences be? 4 weeks ago:
TLDR: just use your phone. Yes people causing interference through improper use of the ham bands do get run down by the FCC some of the time. If you do it at low power on some UHF frequency with very few users, probably no one would notice if you didn’t do it too often, but those frequencies are only good for short range communication anyway, so you might as well use your phone. The low frequencies that can travel international distances are more interesting but they are also more closely observed.
If you are ok with short range you can also use LoRA or meshtastic instead of ham bands. Encryption is perfectly fine there.
- Comment on Would not adding a stamp and return address on a letter give you free postage 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I heard that one before. Another was using a stamp but putting a layer of Elmer’s glue over it, which stopped the cancellation ink from getting on the stamp. The recipient would wash off the glue and re-use the stamp (covering it with more glue the same way) to write back to you. I never tried that myself but I knew people who claimed to have done this in real life, with 1 cent stamps even.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Get a food chopper or processor (Ninja Chopper for $20 at Target) is ok. Then just add some water to your regular meals and puree them with the chopper. Be super careful cleaning the thing since any food residue left will attract germs quickly. Source: I do this for my mom, who is getting up there in years and doesn’t always like her dentures.
- Comment on How do I respond if a girl I know keeps talking how another girl is into her, obsessed with her, etc.? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, basically this. You could ask some followup questions about how they feel about the situation, if they haven’t talked your ear off about that already.
- Comment on Why is it when I watch a movie at home? It seems like I have to go deaf just this way. I can hear the audio of somebody speaking compared to the explosions and other special effect sounds? 4 weeks ago:
Turn off the sound and used closed captions.
- Comment on Is there an equivalent of solar panels for radio waves? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can I pay someone to add a specific feature to an open source app? 1 month ago:
Just open an issue on the github suggesting the feature. You can also make a ko-fi donation as someone suggested. Doing something like that as straight-up paid work is legit, but it would cost a heck of a lot more than $20, as everyone has already said.
- Comment on How do we know the government doesn't just have a secret hardware backdoor in all our devices? 1 month ago:
It’s difficult to know that for sure, which is why (e.g.) the US government wants to make sure that there is domestic chip manufacture with a completely controlled supply chain to make hardware for classified communications. It can help to consider the difference between targeted surveillance (spending millions to tap the President’s phone, to get big juicy national secrets) and dragnet surveillance (tapping everybody’s phone so that you can have dirt on Joe Schmoe if he does something interesting later, even if he is of no particular interest right now). Hardware backdoors would be used mostly for targeted surveillance.
Stuff like VPN’s and encrypted apps can be of considerable help against dragnet surveillance, which is what the civil privacy community mostly cares about. If you think you might be a subject of target surveillance, you have to be much more paranoid. Not just hardware backdoors in your computer, but suspicious white vans on your street, microphones in your flower pots, FBI agents under your bed, the whole bit.
There are some countermeasures you can take against hardware backdoors (electromagnetically isolate a computer from the network and transfer data from it by floppy disc or similar) but basically you’re in a different world if you’re dealing with this.
You mght like the book “Security Engineering” by Ross Anderson (older editions free online and still very good: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/book.html and scroll down). It goes into this stuff, has lots of good overviews even if you gloss over the technical parts, and will generally help you see clearly in the topic.
- Comment on How do I host a site for sharing notes for peers? 2 months ago:
Nextcloud might handle what you want. There are a zillion places that offer hosting for it, or you can self-host it. MediaWiki is another possible choice, that despite the name is more document oriented and less media oriented than NextCloud is. Again, you can self-host, or there are commercial hosts for it. Lots of VPS providers also offer one-click installers for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
- Comment on If I wanted to make and distribute videos without profit motivate, but also with no or minimum expensive, what would be the best platform? 2 months ago:
Someone suggested AWS S3 but that is ridiculously expensive. How much viewership do you expect? Self hosting is not that expensive unless you have big volume. Or you could just seed some torrents. I would stay away from “platforms” since afaict they all have the same disease as youtube, just in its less advanced stages.
- Comment on in the return of the king movie, when Pippin looks in the palantir, why does gandalf ask him if it was minas tirith that he saw? 2 months ago:
Thanks, that’s good info, though I was never really interested in the movies to begin with. I saw the first one mostly through getting dragged along by some friends. I don’t have that big a problem with deviating from the finer details of the book’s plot lines. It’s mostly that the movies couldn’t (or anyway didn’t) capture the books’ sense of grandness.
I liked this a lot, a fanfiction where Harry Potter finds himself transported to Middle Earth. There are actually quite a lot of those but this one is particularly good. Warning, it’s unfinished, though it doesn’t stop on a cliffhanger or anything like that.
- Comment on in the return of the king movie, when Pippin looks in the palantir, why does gandalf ask him if it was minas tirith that he saw? 2 months ago:
I didn’t see the movie but semi remember that scene from the book. Pippin saw Sauron, and seeing Minas Tirith would have revealed Sauron’s location, always good intellligence. I don’t remember what Pippin reported about it though.
The book is a momumental classic. I saw the first of the three LOTR movies and thought it was ok considering what it was trying to do. It could have been lots worse. But still, I didn’t feel particularly interested in seeing the other two movies. Maybe I’ll re-read the books sometime. It’s been ages. These days, lots of fanfics are longer than the LOTR books, since they no longer have the limitations of printing on paper.
- Comment on What happens when a prominent person is assassinated and the perpetrator cannot be identified? 2 months ago:
Old joke: Conspiracy theorist Ted Tinfoil dies and goes to heaven and gets to meet God. God welcomes Ted to the afterlife and asks if he has any questions. Ted wants to know who killed JFK. God says “it was Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone”. Ted says “oh no, the cover-up goes all the way to the top!”.
- Comment on to those of you not very talkative / introverted, how do you survive the constant pressure and misunderstandings from coworkers and future employers to open up, talk more? 2 months ago:
If your management can’t understand “I’m not an extravert”, they are the ones who lack empathy.
I’ve been around medical people a fair amount over the years. Nurses vary but yeah they do tend to be outgoing or at least solicitous. Doctors on the other hand are often total nerds, almost like the stereotype of programmers. Of course, being a programmer, that’s the type of doctor that I like. If you want to stay in the health field, maybe consider medical school for when you can swing it.
There is such a thing as empathy training: kffhealthnews.org/…/efforts-to-instill-empathy-am…
www.apa.org/…/feature-cultivating-empathy
wolterskluwer.com/…/how-to-show-empathy-to-patien…
www.nursingprocess.org/empathy-in-nursing.html
There is a specific article I remember from one of the KFF sites and those links came up while I searched for it. Unfortunately I didn’t find the one I was thinking of, but maybe it will turn up later. What I liked about it was that it was aimed at nerdy doctors (it was from an internal newsletter for KFF workers, though on their public site), so it was expressed in precise terms. I learned useful things from it myself.
You can find plenty more with fairly obvious web searches.
- Comment on Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term? 2 months ago:
Look up “British Commonwealth” on Wikipedia. They rebranded from “Empire” post WW2 or so.
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 2 months ago:
Non sequitur, there are many analyses of the party change and they don’t all boil down to left vs right.
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 2 months ago:
I don’t think anyone shifted right. They just didn’t want whatever it was that Harris was selling.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Vance becomes president. Whether you party is up to you.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 2 months ago:
Left of the US Senate center, or maybe the Senate Democrat center. Not the whole US. And I mean in the 1980s, not now.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 2 months ago:
Absolutely not. Type “Lamont Lieberman” (without the quotes) into a search engine for more info. Also “Clinton puma”.
- Comment on Can someone give me atleast 5 examples of Democrats being against the working class? 3 months ago:
Anyone who actually does their homework knows Democrats are far and away the party of the working class compared to Republicans.
“Compared to Republicans” is a pretty low bar, just sayin’ :).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Start CRIMP, the Committee to Re-IMpeach the President?
- Comment on In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates? 3 months ago:
The High Table sends an adjucator with a special type of haircut. I think the hair style has a name, but I don’t know it.
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 3 months ago:
Try charging more so people will take you more seriously. That works surprisingly well a lot of the time.
Try here too: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42017580
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 3 months ago:
Those sorts of jobs are filled from low-wage countries.