Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on SpaceX Loses Control of Starship, Adding to Spacecraft’s Mixed Record 1 day ago:
By “mixed” they mean it hasn’t been able to attain orbit without exploding
Has it been able to attain orbit while exploding?
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 6 days ago:
Presumably standing seats means standing up? Hopefully not squatting seats.
- Comment on Zach Braff Joins ‘Scrubs’ Reboot in Development at ABC 1 week ago:
Now that you mention it, it probably could have done without season 2.
- Comment on Zach Braff Joins ‘Scrubs’ Reboot in Development at ABC 1 week ago:
I don’t know about others, but I kinda liked Picard. It was clear it was just an excuse to get the old gang back together, but it was enjoyable to watch.
I’m not sure how enjoyable it would have been to someone unfamiliar with TNG, but I enjoyed it.
- Comment on Zach Braff Joins ‘Scrubs’ Reboot in Development at ABC 1 week ago:
I think I will reserve judgement until I see it. A getting-the-gang-back-together series or two could be a good time, or it could be another “Scrubs: Med School”.
- Comment on What was she thinking when she did this? 2 weeks ago:
Is this not awesome?
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 3 weeks ago:
Ah well, it’s been the law here for 20 years.
I’m also reading about how our NZ/Australia socket was based on an American 125v socket design, later upgraded to allow 240v.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 3 weeks ago:
Does NA not have insulated pins? Where a half inch of so of the pin nearest the plug head is insulated so when plugging in the exposed part of the pin is inside the hole before the pin makes contact with live power?
- Comment on The Mobile Browsers That Stick Their Noses Into Your Business 3 weeks ago:
Both are open source. Brave takes Chromium and disables most tracking. TOR takes Firefox and disables all tracking.
The Chromium vs Gecko debate is not about data collection, but about control of web standards.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 3 weeks ago:
But if you can taste the coke, doesn’t that mean you don’t have enough alcohol in there?
- Comment on Open World Games: yay or nay? 3 weeks ago:
I played BG3, put over 100 hours, it took me 2 years. But I don’t mind, it was an easy game to pick up after a break and continue with, and the quests were rewarding in themselves, you didn’t need to complete the whole game to understand it.
There are definitely games I have started played, then couldn’t remember what I was doing after a break and wasn’t enthused enough to return to it. I can’t remember specific games but I know it happens.
- Comment on Open World Games: yay or nay? 3 weeks ago:
I play them because I enjoy them. You can normally pick out the main storyline and just follow that.
Personally I just play a long game over the course of a couple of years.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 4 weeks ago:
Just reading your comment gave me arthritis.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 4 weeks ago:
Haha no the prongs of the first one looks good. But the handle looks too thin for my big hands. That thick fork looks like a nightmare, though.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 4 weeks ago:
Personally I don’t like that handle either. Needs to be thicker.
- Comment on pope 4 weeks ago:
There’s a whole Wikipedia page about it. But here is the important bit:
In the past, caller ID spoofing required an advanced knowledge of telephony equipment that could be quite expensive. However, with open source software (such as Asterisk or FreeSWITCH, and almost any VoIP company), one can spoof calls with minimal costs and effort.
Some VoIP providers allow the user to configure their displayed number as part of the configuration page on the provider’s web interface. No additional software is required.
So it’s pretty trivial these days because the phone number coming from the phone network doesn’t help when the phone network lets you set whatever you like.
- Comment on pope 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately the calling party can show whatever they want for the caller number, there’s no validation that it’s true.
- Comment on Living the dream 5 weeks ago:
I like the implication that the AI screening saw “vengeance” and decided they were worthy for short listing.
- Comment on Living the dream 5 weeks ago:
I like the implication that the interviewer saw it in the job application and decided to invite them to a formal interview before even mentioning it.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
Whaaaaaaaat? Pivot tables are a 2 second job to summarise large amounts of transaction data or similar by month or year. Lookups or countifs would take so much longer!
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks 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? 1 month ago:
Or just browse All
- Comment on Nice try 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago:
Not even going to try to hide it?