Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 hours ago:
You sound like you know your LibreOffice.
My experience is they are quite different but I’ve been able to do the same things for the most part.
But how the hell do I make a pivot table that looks and functions as nice as the plain old default one in Excel?
- Comment on How do I make Lemmy feel less dead? 2 days ago:
Or just browse All
- Comment on Nice try 1 week ago:
For sure. One of my kids cites broccoli as a favourite food.
Apple’s are meh with my kids but slice them and spread them with peanut butter with some raisins and they love them (a variation of bugs on a log).
- Comment on Nice try 1 week ago:
Is it true or just a stereotype? My kids love fruit. We go through probably 6kg of fruit a week, half of that is bananas and the rest is a mix of all sorts.
They obviously love candy too but they don’t complain about fruit.
Vegetables on the other hand… Fiber without (much) sugar is offensive.
- Comment on How does lemmy implement Auth? 1 week ago:
Whoever is running the Alexandrite frontend you are accessing definitely could modify it to steal your password, so it’s another point of trust. To help reduce this risk, many instances will run their own Alexandrite (and other third party frontends). With a quick search I didn’t find lemm.ee hosting any though.
I believe OAuth support is planned for Lemmy but not sure on the timeline or the exact implementation.
On the relay emails, I believe some instances block their use, but the benefit of having many instances is you can find one that aligns to your values.
- Comment on How does lemmy implement Auth? 1 week ago:
There is currently no OAuth, which sounds like what you’re asking for.
Currently you need to trust the app and your instance. Most instances are implementing off-the-shelf lemmy but there is no way to confirm that.
Lemmy apps could steal your password if they wanted to, but if you use an open source app through say F-droid that compiles the apps from source, you can check the code if you have that skillset.
Ultimately the answer here though is not to trust your instance or app, but to instead not need to. Your account should be treated as disposable and (like every other site) you should not be reusing your password.
This way it doesn’t matter if your instance steals your password, since they already know everything you’ve given them. Lemmy is all public anyway so there isn’t much risk involved.
I’d argue the biggest risk is if your instance requires email validation, and it’s easy enough to use a relay email (Firefox Relay, Simplelogin, Addy.io, etc) so that’s unique as well.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Lucky for me I don’t have any Nvidia so things sail a bit smoother.
Thanks for all the advice 🙂
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Awesome, thanks for the explanation! I’d been put off Bazzite and other immutable distros because I had seen threads saying you basically needed flatpak for everything, but it sounds like that’s not true.
I don’t need a project at the moment but I will give this a go once I am ready for one!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
How does Bazzite fare when I want to do something a bit different. Install docker, Python, PHP, sqlite, etc. I’d normally just install them, but does this work for Bazzite and other atomic/immutable distros?
- Comment on jared 1 week ago:
Not even going to try to hide it?
- Comment on jared 1 week ago:
Hmm what was on the video?
- Comment on You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW 2 weeks ago:
How much does McDonald’s in Indonesia pay?
I doubt it’s enough to buy a 25000 euro house. And if you’re talking about McDonald’s in the US then I’m guessing not much is left over after food and rent in order to save the 25k.
- Comment on Lemmy told me to make a lamb cake. Went about as well as I expected. 3 weeks ago:
This has some nice Daniel Tiger’s Tiger Cake vibes.
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 1 month ago:
That’s a good reason. I guess when I’m directly writing SQL the queries are point in time and not part of some enduring codebase.
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 1 month ago:
More specifically I meant when I am writing in the language.
I don’t write “SELECT * FROM users;”, I write “select * from users;”
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 1 month ago:
Not sure if joking but I meant the language not the acronym.
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 1 month ago:
A person is unlikely to read it but they will be looking for trends. I hope you used lots of good keywords.
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 1 month ago:
Do people actually write SQL in all caps? Ever since I was a boy I’ve always written SQL (and HTML) in lower case.
- Comment on Hell nah brah 1 month ago:
I don’t mind a call but I really appreciate the people who ask via message first!
- Comment on aww man here we goo... 1 month ago:
Thanks for the tip, very helpful since I’m looking for MAX safety!
- Comment on The price breakdown of my flight is kinda funny, 80% taxes and fees 2 months ago:
I guess I don’t get why the people selling you the seat have applied a fee from themselves instead of it just being part of the airfare.
- Comment on The price breakdown of my flight is kinda funny, 80% taxes and fees 2 months ago:
What is “Carrier-imposed fees”? Isn’t the carrier the airline?
- Comment on Mod of a similar comm to one I started deleted my advertising post, now downvotes half the stuff I post in my comm 2 months ago:
Just ban them for vote manipulation and be done. I don’t think it’s petty, Lemmy doesn’t give you many tools to solve this so just use the one you have.
- Comment on Mod of a similar comm to one I started deleted my advertising post, now downvotes half the stuff I post in my comm 2 months ago:
If they are downvoting posts in your community, can you not ban them from the community?
- Comment on wake up! hadewede hadebede make up! 2 months ago:
That’s just cruel, at least I let the rest of the song play!
- Comment on wake up! hadewede hadebede make up! 2 months ago:
One of my kids loved chop suey until they worked out it said that, then now wants to skip it every time.
Honestly I’m surprised that was the reason they don’t like it, and not because I used to blast it in the morning to wake them up.
- Comment on My computer will remember for me, I'm just along for the ride. 2 months ago:
The more you learn about memory the more you realise that doing this is totally justified.
- Comment on UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study 2 months ago:
Thanks, looks like this research is quite UK focused. However, some of the previous research they link to here shows NZ as the second highest rents compared to general costs, second only to the UK.
- Comment on UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study 2 months ago:
I’m not in the UK but I am in the OECD - is there a full list so I can see how fucked my country is?
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 3 months ago:
If the salmonella is on the outside, shouldn’t you cook the outside of the chicken?
Since you can kill the salmonella in eggs without cooking the egg (as in pasturised egg), then the temperature that kills salmonella seems low enough that any form of cooking will kill whatever is on the outside of the chicken.