r00ty
@r00ty@kbin.life
I'm the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.
- Comment on Anon has a quantum computer 1 week ago:
This would only happen if you tried to delid the quantum CPU. So, not only is it bricked, but you also voided the warranty!
- Comment on Anon makes a satanic pact 1 week ago:
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/496be8dc-fb62-4965-ba27-30335cfbb0ee.jpeg
Can't trust curses these days. If you want something done, you gotta do it yourself.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
So if you mind sharing your data, don't get the shiny. You know it will become like that shiny pony back in wow's wrath expansion. It told you more about the person than anything else.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
I really don't see the problem, provided it is cosmetic. If you don't want to link, you don't get a glittering, whatever in game. If you don't mind sharing your datas, then you get the shiny thing (and everyone knows you don't mind sharing your datas).
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
I think that's entirely fair and similar to store loyalty cards. You get something in exchange for your datas at least.
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 2 weeks ago:
I would have expected a public library, run by the city to either use the existing Internet infrastructure from the city (e.g security already is handled) or be installed and maintained by some common city IT team.
Independent libraries sure can have a basic setup, but I'd still say one guy setting up the security outside of WiFi security would mean there's no reason to fear ethernet connections, as they would provide the same level of security to their network, and likely more to the user (assuming it's an insecure AP with portal).
In the case of the OP, I would find it far more likely that the actions of the staff member was more down to (understandable) ignorance of what they were doing and assuming connecting a wire means they're trying to do something nefarious, just because noone else is, and/or hacking in all the movies looks just like that.
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 2 weeks ago:
Meh. So my point of view is that qos for Internet is better done at layer 3. Layer 2 qos has its place, but layer 3 is going to let you prioritise services better.
Moreso, if you do it at layer 3 you don't need to worry about people using ethernet. Every person using ethernet is one less using the extremely finite resources WiFi has. Every active station puts a load on WiFi, less so with the latest versions but they still exhibit a lot of the same problems that mean many workstations can kill WiFi performance.
If you setup your network right (you can actually, although I've not seen it too often, setup guests networks on ethernet before WiFi, such that stations cannot see eachother directly) there's no reason at all to fear ethernet.
- Comment on They really want people to RTO 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, even the subtitle clarifies things. So I'm not going to suggest the article is propaganda itself. But, they know what they're doing when they put it in the main title. Maybe it's just to grab attention. But, people that just read the title are going to walk away with a certain impression, I'd bet.
- Comment on They really want people to RTO 4 weeks ago:
I'll have you know, I avoid the world just fine from both in and out of my bed!
- Comment on They really want people to RTO 4 weeks ago:
But I don’t get how this is propaganda. It’s not suggesting that people RTO, it’s saying they should not work in bed because it will hurt their sleep. The whole “RTO” part of this was spin put on it by the submitter. So, I guess, on second thought, maybe you are right.
Why I think it probably is a form of propaganda, is purely because the headline says Working from home is causing it. If they didn't want to front-load a negative view of WFH the headline would be "Working from bed unhealthy" or similar.
- Comment on They really want people to RTO 4 weeks ago:
People work from home in their bed? I've been doing this for a decade and a half now. I don't think I've worked from my bed once. Now I have a dedicated office but when I didn't I, you know, made a small surface my desk area and brought in a chair.
Regardless, it's propaganda of a sort. For sure.
- Comment on Waiting in a queue to see a Web site 5 weeks ago:
It does seem to be an external site. Likely, the main site running on a CDN or at least outside their actual infrastructure is informed when traffic is high, so they start redirecting to the queue site.
The queue site starts to create a virtual queue of people trying to visit. The main site requests x users at a time depending on load and queue site then redirects to the actual site with some cookie proving you're the valid person.
In this way, the load on their site is minimal.
Having said that, just how much traffic does this road safety site generate to need a queue? Is there something that happens this time of year everyone needs to do?
- Comment on This is the way 1 month ago:
Well to be fair I'd answer just to say "no you're not!"
- Comment on This is the way 1 month ago:
The thing is, there are legit reasons to want to spoof numbers. My use case is that if I'm not reachable via sip I send the call over the normal phone network and set cid to the calling number.
I guess a middle ground would be that you could spoof numbers to phone numbers you've registered and verified with your provider.
To be honest though, the scammers and spammers will always find a way round it and spoof anyway.
- Comment on Don't call before 9, my minutes aren't free 1 month ago:
Xennial refers to people born from somewhere in the mid 70s to 1980. It's a narrow subset of Gen X made up of those that were growing up during the information revolution.
I would say it might apply to someone in the very early 80s. But anyone born in 1995 definitely had their formative years with internet access and are firmly millennials.
- Comment on Don't call before 9, my minutes aren't free 1 month ago:
Excuse me, I downloaded my ringtones, and had the funky cables to upload ringtones to my Nokias thank you very much!
- Comment on Just doesn't seem fair 1 month ago:
Just do the whole order using the NATO alphabet for clarity.
I'd like a bravo india golf, mike alpha charlie, with Lima alpha romeo golf echo, foxtrot romeo india echo sierra.
After you've been ordering for 20 minutes, they'll do something about it.. Although that might not be a good thing for you.
- Comment on Anon buys an air fryer 1 month ago:
I guess it likely comes down to power rating, then. Also, with our old oven it used to take around 2x the time the current one does. That was just because the seal on the door was old and worn.
- Comment on Anon buys an air fryer 1 month ago:
I had one of the older style air fryers around 12 years ago. Those were much smaller and not oven like. I think they were ideal for making small portions and especially good for re-heating food the next day.
These newer ones do seem a bit like a smaller, more efficient oven. Again, I reckon it would be useful for a lot of smaller stuff I use the main oven for, but we just don't have the space in the kitchen for one.
- Comment on Anon buys an air fryer 1 month ago:
I thought you guys had 240v circuits precisely for this kind of load? On a decent 30a 230v circuit (they generally don't use anywhere near 30a though) here in Europe it takes considerably less than that. I'd say mine takes 5-8mins for 230c (which is around 450f) and it has a rated power of 3500w.
- Comment on The Karen of Lemmy 1 month ago:
And I’m gonna start my own with the sole purpose to defederate from yours!
Bite my shiny metal instance server.
- Comment on The Karen of Lemmy 1 month ago:
Yeah, screw you. I'm gonna start my own instance,with blackjack and hookers.
- Comment on I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free 1 month ago:
Organic pr0n?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Really? I used they when I wasn't sure of gender (online games for example) before the pronoun use became common. I cannot remember anyone ever being confused.
- Comment on Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' 2 months ago:
Well, procedural when applied to generation of scenery/galaxies etc means to create the exact same thing using random values that are the same random for everyone. It just saves on storage.
But, I cannot tell you how this would apply to recoil. It would only make sense if there were an absolutely huge number of possible weapons.
- Comment on Why does a prospective employer need my address? 2 months ago:
Just put their office address in. If they query, just say "Yes, I'm already living there so you may as well give me a job while I'm there".
- Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense 2 months ago:
I'd argue though that it's ultimately similar levels of complexity. Because sure in romance languages you need to know (and probably just "get" what gender objects are. But in English you need to remember/just "get" which words have "i before e" (because the "rule" is utter trash), and all the inconsistent pronunciation of similarly spelt words.
Most European languages with accented vowels (and some with accented other letters too) have a pretty consistent pronunciation (when the accented letters are used).
- Comment on Is HTTPS a scam? 2 months ago:
Not sure I get this one. You can still run a website with http. Now it might alarm the browser and users. But you can do it.
As for certificates being free but maybe not now. It's actually the other way round. As I recall when https was pretty new the main way was via verisign, and it was not cheap to get one.
The fact you could later get one for free for example via letsencrypt is what made it so everyone could run https (along with the changes that allow multiple certs on a single server with multiple domains).
If it became expensive to get certs again I'd bet a lot of hobbyist stuff would go back to http or self signed and browsers would need to tone down the warning. But, I cannot imagine that happening now. Having most sites encrypted is a good thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
This seems like they took all the downsides of contracting and all the downsides of being an employee and none of the upsides of either.
- Comment on Why has the world gone to shit? 3 months ago:
Capitalism seems to run in a cyclic manner. If you remember in the 80s we had movies like Wall Street and Other People's Money, because I think things were at a similar point then to where they are now. But, through the 90s (and I joined the workforce in the mid 90s) I recall a more customer-centric view, and even some level of consideration for employees. This has gradually deteriorated starting in the new millennium.
The last 10 years I think has seen this accelerate such that the only consideration for a company is to the shareholders (public or private), customers are in the equation somewhere but way, way after providing value to shareholders via cost-cutting in any way possible. Employees are absolutely just a cost of doing business and if they could eliminate them too, they surely would.
The only hope I have is that I've seen this reverse before, so it CAN happen again. But what makes me place some doubt about this is headlines like the four richest people doubling their net-worth in an incredibly short period. The economy is a zero-sum game, if they doubled their worth other people lost everything, MANY people needed to lose everything to achieve that. Those people need to lose, and lose a lot to bring us back, and I can't imagine they will let that happen.
Maybe things will improve, maybe there will be a revolution/uprising when it just gets too bad. Who knows?