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- Comment on I put my number in a secure form for a trusted bank and immediately got spammed 1 day ago:
Oh totally. But they don’t sync that information “immediately”. Nor would they ever want to because then the user would know that’s where the information came from.
- Comment on I put my number in a secure form for a trusted bank and immediately got spammed 1 day ago:
Looks like you got phished. Doubt that was the real bank site. Suggest you change your passwords if you logged in to that site, too.
- Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I had to move away from Arch Linux because lots of apps you have to build and Electron was one of the biggest culprits for using tons of disk space and time because it builds Chromium in its entirety from source. Electron is a great way to shift the cost of cross platform development from you to your customers.
- Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ve been having a lot of issues with Electron which is basically a browser emulator. It has gotten huge, so applications using it have gotten out of control in size. I get that it’s a quick way to build a cross platform application, but there really needs to either be a better way to distribute it that is more modular, or people need to start building on better cross platform front-end systems.
- Comment on Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware 1 month ago:
Ah, thanks for clarifying. I didn’t see that mentioned anywhere and the git repo is showing .io
- Comment on Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware 1 month ago:
It seems it’s not so much they stole the domain, it’s that they are using the same name with a different top-level domain. This is a common shady practice in malware. Most people can’t afford to purchase every TLD or their domain and so just pick one or two. Problem is that search engines will find the bad TLDs and suggest them over the real TLD if the malware providers do proper SEO manipulation. A FOSS author is unlikely to be able to or afford the time and effort it takes to manipulate search results and most popular search engines are not doing much to fix the problem, and instead relying on “AI” to reduce the costs of maintaining their search results, which does a pretty bad job, IMHO.
- Comment on This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser 2 months ago:
Firefox won’t for much longer. Or at least not without significant spyware installed. I’m hoping it gets forked before the new CEO can do too much damage. Sucks that it will split the community with such a small user base already. But I guess that’s the point.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 2 months ago:
Problem is that shared infrastructure shouldn’t be operated for profit. But American conservatives seem to think that’s the way to go. If infrastructure is shared, then there’s every incentive for a business to sell even if the infrastructure can’t handle it.
That being said, it’s a required thing. This is why we have society in the first place. If every customer had to have their own cell infrastructure, it would be a mess and a waste. I mean you are sold unlimited bandwidth at let’s say 1Gbps on 5G. There are about 1 cell tower node for every 1000 people in the US across the country. If we build enough infrastructure for everyone to use it at full speed each tower node would then need to be able to handle 1,000Gbps. That’s just not possible with current technology. So should we build one tower node per person plus all of the cabling and routers to handle that much traffic? Does everyone really need to be able to download a gigabit of data every second of every day? What would you do with that data?
What internet infrastructure is designed for is peaks of up to that speed for short bursts. Not sustained speeds. And then sharing that infrastructure. Just like if everyone were to turn on their water at the same time, no one would get more than a drip, but does that ever actually happen in real usage?
The difference is that water infrastructure is owned collectively, so it is more equitably developed to make it available to all as equally as possible, rather than just to those who pay more for it.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 2 months ago:
Laptops have large screens and windows software isn’t designed to be data efficient. Unlimited data doesn’t mean at full speed infinitely. They sell way more than they can support otherwise it would be impossible to support more than a few users at one time on a cell tower.
- Comment on Local secondhand site won’t load if you use a VPN 3 months ago:
It’s common to block an IP if the majority of traffic from that IP is not the kind of traffic you want.
Why do you need a VPN to access it? If you’re protecting privacy, VPNs don’t block browser-based tracking, only obfuscate where you’re connecting from or preventing man in the middle type attacks from your ISP, but usually that can be better avoided simply by using secure DNS technology. Only other thing is hiding what sites you’re connecting to from your ISP. If you can’t change ISPs, that can be worked around by setting up a trusted, cheap VPS or something as your VPN exit point so you have your own IP address.
- Comment on A gnat died inside my monitor near center. 3 months ago:
Hire a tiny spider? 🤣
- Comment on This would be a nice temperature for Easter, not for Christmas Eve. 5 months ago:
That’s not that bad, depending on where you live. Seattle rarely gets below 0C and 10C is pretty normal for a high in December.
- Comment on "Hey Google, find the nearest Burger King" - "Sure, here is one on the other side of the globe!" 5 months ago:
Fault of the crappy app you’re using, not Google.
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 6 months ago:
Easy enough to do with NAT unless it uses DNS over https. Then you have to block a lot more than just DNS.
- Comment on The fashion industry is still pushing crazy thin body images 6 months ago:
Always bad to assume gender of course, but “boi” is also often used by women with a meaning similar to “tom boy”, or “butch”, or just a woman who presents more masculine than average. Anyway, I don’t know who the model is or their preferences, just wanted to clarify the term that was used is used by several genders, most of whom are not men.
- Comment on Exciting news! The free API you were using is no more free! 7 months ago:
They’re just doing what discogs did with music. They’ll create contracts with media companies to allow them to claim that all the info in their DB is copyrighted. Eventhough most of it was user created, it is technically mostly copyrighted data. And then they’ll start the legal campaigns to eliminate any competition. They’ll progressively make it more difficult to access and more difficult to update or get things corrected and it will become frustratingly bad but the only game in town.
- Comment on This Captcha 7 months ago:
That’s exactly what the model is trying to learn.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 7 months ago:
Actually, what I’m saying was that there shouldn’t be a need for a tip at all. That 18% service charge is for services rendered outside of the production of the product, meaning the server, cashier, etc. In most countries that’s rolled into the cost of the product, not a separate charge. In the US, that’s paid for through tips instead. What they’re doing is trying to double dip. They want to keep the money that normally would go to paying the service staff a wage without raising advertised prices and also have a separate tip to actually pay them.
This is a classic bait and switch where advertised price is not what you actually pay. Doesn’t matter if they put a little sign to cover their legal obligations, it’s still disingenuous to advertise one price and charge another. Tipping and taxes are common knowledge in the US as being added on after, but a service charge in addition to tipping is not and most people will assume that the service charge is a tip and won’t also tip whereas it doesn’t go directly to the service staff like a tip does. So likely in this place, the service staff just gets their $2.13/hr or whatever the tipped minimum is there, and a few dollars here and there in actual tips but doesn’t get any of that 18% unless tips don’t cover the required hourly $5.12 tip credit.
So they need to choose. Raise your prices for more profit and keep tipping, raise your prices to pay your service staff and do away with tipping, or keep your prices lower and risk tipping not covering the minimum wage tip credit.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 7 months ago:
Basically, they just raised their prices by 18% and blamed it on the greedy, useless employees. I don’t know why businesses bother selflessly “creating jobs” if they are so much trouble. Shouldn’t those be the first things to cut to make their business more efficient under capitalism? Stop doing charity work and run the business yourself.
- Comment on Instagram's monthly subscription 7 months ago:
I would normally be ok with paying for a service that offered something I valued if it meant they weren’t also going to make money from me as a product. This pretty much just says it won’t use your data for displaying ads. That’s the least important thing to me. I am more concerned with them selling my data or giving my data to organization that are planning to harm me with it. If an app was actually useful and being updated with new user centered features rather than only new monetization features and additionally would agree not to sell my data, ever, and to let me actually delete that data on request, I’d be happy to pay that much.
- Comment on Neighbour deliberately blocking OP 7 months ago:
Not so much simpler as more specific. Geometry is just a subset of physics. The common properties of objects in a three dimensional perspective of the universe. 😁
- Comment on Neighbour deliberately blocking OP 7 months ago:
As I said, it depends on how much of the vehicle extends beyond the rear wheels.
And I’m not talking about skill, I’m talking about physics. I lived in a place there there was a rock wall opposite of the parking spaces and just enough room between the cars and the wall for the width of a car and maybe another foot of clearance. If the spots next to mine were occupied, it was physically impossible to pull in or out front facing without several rounds of adjustments. But backing in and out was perfectly fine. And it was only big enough for cars.
And there are plenty of spots in my city that are back in parking only (usually angled). It’s way easier than parallel parking and parallel parking is much more common. And the reason is that the cars pulling into these spots don’t have to swing into the incoming traffic lane like with front in or parallel. So they only block one lane of traffic while parking. Though most people don’t get that and swing out anyway because they’re used to parallel parking or front in parking.
I’ve actually been hit more times by front pulled in cars. Both because they are not at all cautious pulling out and because they mis judge how wide they should swing out before pulling in and end up side swiping the cars next to them. So it’s not even that much of a skill issue. People who don’t have skill parking will fuck It up no matter what way they have to do it.
- Comment on Neighbour deliberately blocking OP 7 months ago:
The assumption is that there is not much room in the lane. When you pull in forward, especially with a longer vehicle, you need more room to swing out and get the front end aligned with the spot before you enter the space since the rear just follows the front turning wheels. When backing, you just have to get one of the rear wheels into position and then the front end swings out while pulling into the spot rather than before pulling in. It’s way easier to pull out of the spot when you do this, too, because you can turn the wheel immediately, whereas when you’re front in, you have to back almost all the way out before you can start cutting the wheel.
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 8 months ago:
Just wish they would have incorporated the fixes into the game engine at some point. I bet some of the devs would have even signed away the code for free or at least very cheap. It was annoying not being able to use mods to fix bugs in Fallout 76 that were patched in Fallout and Elder Scrolls games some as far back as Morrowind. Sure they were mostly rare like being able to get pushed into the void behind what should have been solid meshes and the game engine seeming not to care as you fall endlessly or it crashed.
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 9 months ago:
Nah, Bethesda will just do the same as they did with the Creation Engine. Let the community patch their crap and never fix it.
- Comment on Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff 10 months ago:
I’m actually planning to switch to Linux as my desktop OS. The main reason I haven’t in the past was gaming. But I don’t do quite as much of that as I used to, and things have gotten a bit better with gaming on Linux since last I tried. Thinking of starting with Manjaro since it’s most likely to have drivers for my hardware.
- Comment on Soaking in the worst air quality in the world 10 months ago:
There’s already maroon after purple starting at 300, but that’s the last one since at that point it’s just plain hazardous already. But considering it was over 800 when I was in Beijing several years ago, and it was over 600 in Spokane WA where a friend lives and several other places this weekend, we probably need a point at which we evacuate people and a color for that.
- Comment on higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs 10 months ago:
The primary reason is that taxing is done at state, country, and city levels and they all apply different amounts in different areas. The tax can vary just crossing out of a city and into an unincorporated area or between neighboring cities. So rather than having different prices when you provide services for customers in different locations, it’s easier to separate it out.
Like I used to do tech support for small home based businesses mostly, and so I didn’t have a “place of business”. I had three sets of customers, one lived in my city and county, another lived in my city but a different county, and another lived in that second county in a different city.
Originally, I was just charging a set hourly rate and eating the tax cost even though it was a pain to figure out the math. The problem came when with some of those rates, because of rounding, charging that amount for one hour might work ok, but charging that same amount for 2 hours or 3 hours would make it off by one cent and there was no way to reconcile it for the accounting software and tax forms and such. And I didn’t want to charge pennies. So I just made it easy and all new customers I charged tax separately.
- Comment on higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs 10 months ago:
Also illegal. It’s called bait and switch. Advertise one price, provide the service, then change the price. What if you went to get $50 in gas, and after you put the nozzle back the price suddenly changed to $59. Unless there’s a very visible sign saying it would happen before you started pumping, it’s illegal.
- Comment on higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs 10 months ago:
There better be a big noticeable sign at the entrance telling you this. Otherwise, this is a bait and switch scam. Advertising one price, giving the service, and then changing the price. You can’t advertise a price and then charge more for it without ensuring that the customer is informed about it. The only exception is tax, since it is something the average person should already expect. Even mandatory gratuity for large parties has to be communicated ahead of time. And this specifically says it’s not gratuity, it’s a charge for the service.
As soon as a customer is served something, it’s too late. You can’t just put it on the bill. Doesn’t matter what they say it’s for either. It’s not your responsibility to pay the servers anymore than it’s your responsibility to separately pay for the ingredients of the food. Unless they want to detail it all out up front. But then you’d see the huge profit margin.