adespoton
@adespoton@lemmy.ca
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 6 days ago:
Spoken like a true neglected 13 year old boy.
As you get older, you’ll find that actual relationships are more rewarding than trolling.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 6 days ago:
Worth noting that the Prime Minister does not have the same executive powers as the President. If Polivere actually wins a majority of seats (unlikely), he’ll still have to work with everyone else to get things done.
It’s more likely the conservatives will win just enough seats to have to run a minority government and work with the Liberals, NDP, BQ and possibly Greens. And I don’t see the current conservative party surviving more than one election cycle.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 6 days ago:
If you don’t want to move far and want a similar but more centrist culture, you could move to Canada — this would make it easy to move back in the future if you want. And unlike many Americans, as a RN, you could actually move without much difficulty. I know a number of RNs who have made the move and are happy about it.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 6 days ago:
Yes… and someone to their liking has the possibility to be a more stable, longer lasting relationship. Plus, they’ll come with a stronger support network.
So if you think of a marriage as being to promote stability and perpetuate humanity, arranged marriages make sense. If you think of a marriage as something based solely on romance, the experts are obviously the people getting married.
Personally, what I’ve seen in western society is that people tend to live common law, and when a couple feels like they’re fairly stable together and they want to have children, then they get married.
This obviously doesn’t work in a society where you don’t get to try out living with someone first, or where birth control is frowned upon.
- Comment on Debian just released a kernel update with hundreds of CVE IDs 1 week ago:
Anyone know what the upstream schedule is? Do these kernel versions map to other distributions?
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
That’s like saying “why isn’t my phone number that I set up on my own POTS network usable on the international telephone system?”
If you’re behind NAT, you aren’t technically on the Internet; that’s why you need Network Address Translation in the first place.
IPv6 fixes this by letting every conceivable device have its own address on the Internet, but that comes with its own security and privacy issues, so it’s rarely used.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
All you have to do is buy your own IP, and you can use it whenever you want. You don’t have to use one given to you by the upstream gateway via DHCP or BootP.
Of course, you need to make sure the upstream router is configured to not drop addresses it didn’t assign itself.
- Comment on How do passkeys work across devices? 1 week ago:
Definitely. Costs extra, has an extra step to set up, and has an extra step to use, but is so much more secure.
That said, biometrics are better than “1234”. I have no issues with people who have bad password hygiene moving to biometrics, which at least add an extra barrier for account compromise.
But for the rest of us, physical security tokens are definitely the way to go.
- Comment on How do passkeys work across devices? 1 week ago:
I’ve got a pair of YubiKeys that I use to back my passkeys. Works great; I’ve got passkeys that work within the Apple, Microsoft and Google ecosystems and don’t have to worry about password prompts for the most part — but I DO need a YubiKey handy to validate that it’s actually me at the device.
My keys use both NFC and USB-C and work across all my passkeys supported devices when I add in a USB adapter.
- Comment on Is there a way to post video on Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Sounds like a client limitation?
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 week ago:
Along with the other answers:
Because cooked cowflesh smells delicious, and there are companies out there that are willing to capitalize on that.
The bigger question is: why do people still drink cows milk? And the answer to that one is all about politics and power.
- Comment on My friend's boyfriend's therapist said that he is an abuser who is trying to look like the victim. What does this mean? 1 week ago:
Sounds like a potentially healthy relationship; I’ve had lots of similar ones on the Internet over the years, usually focusing on special interests. Although if someone tries to make it romantic I mention I’ve got a SO and have no interest in changing that relationship. Never had anyone try to push things further anyway or manipulate me. One of the benefits of the Internet is you can usually just drop the relationship if you need to.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
Along with the other comments on UDID, IMEI and MAC, I’d just like to point out that phones don’t have phone numbers.
On land lines, the number is assigned to the line that goes to your house from the local operations center; on mobile phones, the number is linked by your carrier to THEIR SIM card that you stick in your phone.
eSIM almost gets there; instead of a physical card linked to the phone number, all the logic and secrets are stored in a secure enclave on your phone and THAT is linked to the number, which is in a directory managed by your carrier. It’s linked to the phone itself because of the phone’s IMEI.
- Comment on My friend's boyfriend's therapist said that he is an abuser who is trying to look like the victim. What does this mean? 1 week ago:
I can’t tell if he’s actually bad or not.
You know what? Neither can we.
People don’t tend to be “good” or “bad” but usually just have various strengths and weaknesses. It sounds like this guy has an intense need for external validation, and your friend has an intense need for emotional attachment. As long as they stay as just friends and don’t become codependent, that should work out just fine; he’s probably right that as a romantic relationship there’s pretty much no way this one will work.
And that’s ignoring the “do either of them have abusive or manipulative tendencies” angle. The big thing is that neither of them should depend solely on the other for emotional fulfillment.
- Comment on [Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins? 1 week ago:
Applesauces with no sugar added?
Refusing anything but water isn’t necessarily bad.
He probably wants things with a predictable mouth feel and neutral temperature that aren’t overpowering.
Hotdogs tend to be popular (the cheap ones).
If you haven’t tried cheese toast, it may be an option, although you need to be careful about the type of cheese.
Also worth trying baby carrots and seedless grapes that don’t have browned ends and are off the stem.
Something else that may be useful is having him help make some snacks; kids will often eat things they’ve made themselves when they won’t accept the same thing from someone else.
If you can afford it, you could also try a sampling party where you buy a small portions of 5 or so similar items at a time, and get him to taste them all and tell you which is the worst and best. Don’t bring “will you eat this” into it at all: it’s a game and he has to rank them. In order to rank them he has to taste them.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve used it to tweak a speech I was writing to make it more appropriate to my intended audience….
- Comment on Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded? 3 weeks ago:
The company I work for has acquired a number of small companies over the years; the result has been a mixed bag. In one case, the original product and employees were dropped completely, only retaining the IP. In a number of other cases, the original teams and products were kept intact with cross-over between products plus a huge boost in funding and customers over the years. In most cases, the companies were absorbed into existing management structures and the employees and technologies deployed inside the existing product line, sometimes with a few things that didn’t match the company strategy sold off or spun off into their own company.
Personally, I consider all the acquisitions except the single case where everything was abandoned to be a success; in that case, the exec in charge of acquisition was made redundant when everything else shut down.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 3 weeks ago:
He sounds like a professional fall guy to me; who hired him? I bet THEY were the real ones to blame for what happened.
- Comment on ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online 3 weeks ago:
The big one for me is: how do we preserve online games? The ones with a server-side component?
Even bnetd had issues, although I think that time is over; but what about when we the public never had access to the game core in the first place?
- Comment on Anon launches a space program 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think they’ve fully understood the gravity of the situation….
- Comment on How do genocides happen? 1 month ago:
Interestingly, trans persecution is closer to literal genocide (death based on genetic characteristics) than a lot of official genocides in recent history (which are often death based on culture or religion).
With Israel/Palestine of course, you get genetics, culture, tribalism AND religion all at the same time, and the extreme fringes in both groups desiring total genocide of the other group.
But any time you see populist politics, rest assured that the end game is a continual separation of “them” groups to blame for anything that prevents everyone from behaving like “us”. I still find the French Revolution to be all the warning I need in this area, but many people miss the myriad of lessons history provides us, and so we are doomed to repeat them.
- Comment on Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program you run, and when and where you ran it 1 month ago:
Can you though? LS now operates in user mode, which means it can no longer block traffic sent to Apple via a kernel thread.
It’s all a bit pointless though, as a LOT of hardware now calls home as well, and it doesn’t matter what OS to run on top of it unless you’re running something like TempleOS. Vanilla Linux is not going to protect you by itself.
But that article points at a solution for macOS users: it’s the certificates that are being checked. Any non-bog-standard software I run is not notarized or signed, and it functions just fine and has nothing to send back to Apple’s servers. First time I run it I need to right click and select Open to run the app, and this bypasses the entire signer system.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 1 month ago:
Was just going to say… my phone has 512GB storage and can do direct WiFi file transfer to my computer without a hotspot. All without using the mobile hotspot feature.
- Comment on Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature? 1 month ago:
Is the Higgs Field a flat plane?
- Comment on Former telecom manager admits to doing SIM swaps for $1,000 1 month ago:
And he’s just the one who got caught.
- Comment on Where have all the websites gone? 3 months ago:
What we really need today is NextCloud images that are so easy to set up that anyone can run one on their computer, phone, or a cloud hosting service with just a few clicks. And adding in federated services would be the next obvious step — first store all your own stuff where you can access it and share selected bits with others, and then have a small pool where you automatically see the stuff others in your groups have made public.
A problem I’m having these days is that a LOT of resources I used around the start of http never got indexed by Archive.org and are now offline. But people still have that stuff stored locally, and would likely be willing to share if they knew others were interested in it.
- Comment on Atuin is an open-source shell command history app for Linux with syncing, unlimited history, and with contextual search 4 months ago:
The Turtle moves!
- Comment on What's with the 'Thanks' people? 4 months ago:
That’s so very Indian :)
First time I saw it, I almost replied with “but… you already did?”
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 4 months ago:
I use Edge for corporate intranet, Safari for anything with real-life connected personal accounts, and Firefox for everything else. Have done so for over a decade (with Edge previously being Chrome and before that IE).
- Comment on You probably don't need a VPN 4 months ago:
Ironically, almost all the exit VPNs are owned by either China or Israel. With a few exceptions.