ArbiterXero

@ArbiterXero@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options does one have when they reach the end of a car lease but cannot find a good deal at the time of it's end?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You look for the cheapest used car that you can.

  Leases are really only designed for businesses so that the business can write off value and depreciation early in their balance sheets for tax purposes. Financially they don’t work out great for your average consumer.

  Consumers can’t write off those monthly and yearly expenses like a business does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing proposes 30% wage hike to striking workers in its 'final' offer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How would they afford next year’s stock buyback?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, ocz sold some REALLY shitty ssd’s

  I had one that I refurbed 3 times in a month and I just gave up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ocz plus? lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to spend more time with hardcore tech nerds 😝

  You’re right, mostly people don’t call them that, but they do qualify and all the low level systems call them disks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sam Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even grocery stores in poor neighborhoods charge more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Break science with this one weird trick⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lisa!

  In this house we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What type of scam is this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but since you deposited a fake check, they’ll freeze all your bank accounts while they audit and investigate you and everything you do.

  It’s very unpleasant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What type of scam is this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here, let me pay you $700 for this item that’s worth $500 and you can just send me the extra $200 difference. I have to do it this way because it’s your father’s, brother’s, nephew’s, cousin’s, former roommate’s will and I’m just signing the whole check off to you.

  Meanwhile the original check is fake and now you’ve lost the original item AND $200 and the bank is investigating you, and not them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon meets his dream girl⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps “willing to pay for taxi”?

  Or “my DD friend is getting me and he owes me a favour?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drag queen confirms it was a parody of Last Supper despite Olympic committee’s claim⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, I’ll bite, what’s the threat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drag queen confirms it was a parody of Last Supper despite Olympic committee’s claim⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So I actually mostly agree with this.

  The lgbt groups seem to have lost their sense of humour a bit, I think it’s mostly because they’re feeling attacked? But I’m not sure.

  I think the problem is that it’s becoming harder to tell what’s “good humour” vs an attack. The lines have become very blurry, and there are legitimate attacks happening on their existence (the overturn of roe v Wade has opened the door for many legal challenges to the gay community)

  Soooooo……. A significant portion of the populace is still very “anti-gay” to the point of legitimate threat…… so yeah, they’re more sensitive than they used to be. The more real the threat is, the harder it is to decipher the jokes.

  I don’t have an answer, but I’m steering clear of many gay jokes that used to be “well meaning” just because I understand why they might think it’s not funny anymore.

  It feels like telling “dead baby” jokes to someone that’s had a miscarriage. Dark humour is fine, but context matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drag queen confirms it was a parody of Last Supper despite Olympic committee’s claim⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The world has become decisive enough that I honestly can’t tell if this is sarcastic or not, and/or what the message is. Hahaha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drag queen confirms it was a parody of Last Supper despite Olympic committee’s claim⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes!

  As long as you don’t use slurs, similar to being unable to use religious slurs.

  For example, my brother in law and I always joke that he should have married me instead of my sister, since we get along so well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drag queen confirms it was a parody of Last Supper despite Olympic committee’s claim⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disrespecting art and religion seems a little different than telling 2 people they can’t get married.

  Like one is potentially offensive on an emotional level, the other is trying to tell people how to live their lives. You don’t have to agree if you’d like to stay out of the conversation…… so, they seem kinda different? Don’t they?

  Nobody is telling you not to enjoy your religion just because people make fun of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I grew up in the era of Photoshop and people would post fake nudes. Why is it now a big deal that AI is doing it? Kinda like the Taylor Swift thing on twitter.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, the ai will continue to get better, and soon spotting the fakes will be nearly impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Benny 😍😍😍⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally came to the comments to find out if it was real or not.

  Because quite frankly, I would probably believe either way .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Edge Of Tomorrow 2 Gets Exciting Update From Tom Cruise Movie Director After Years Of Stalls⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The movie that was almost amazing except that half way through the movie they ignored time travel and shit the bed on the script?

  They’re making a second one?

  Damn, they’re gonna have to market it harder than the first to bother selling it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” - Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Promotions haven’t been a thing since the 70s Today you job hop because promotions are non existent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” - Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Productivity is for companies who want substance.

  We only want continuous stock price increases regardless of how much it rots a company from the inside out.

  That’s for someone else to carry about after I’m gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok. Now they've done it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking eh!

  If you spend 10 minutes looking into Dolly Parton, you’ll find a Fucking Angel.

  Legitimately. Look into her reading program. Not just the news articles, but the written deals. She makes sure that if her program is a success, that the county is contracted to keep it going FOR-FUCKING-EVER. Her legacy is generations of kids who graduate high school because she sent them books.

  And that’s just ONE thing she did, with a legacy that will outlast every one of us.

  We ride at dawn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oops yep. You’re right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, I was under the understanding that it actually cancels out the pressure by creating a wave exactly 90 degrees off from the initial wave, creating reverse pressure and canceling the sound….

  Not sure?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lightning bugs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am fairly certain that they are merely holding the eye of Sauron

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but we’re talking about “seconds” and “nanoseconds” rather than hours.

  Networks move much faster than we do.

  There’s also no hierarchy of IP addresses, and that matters for lookups.

  So the 1 second it takes to do a dns lookup is WAY too long for continuous ip lookups, and the size of the database and chains requires explaining where to find ip address X is too long and updates WAY too much to be accurate and/or kept.

  Lookups are easiest if you know “I lookup .uk addresses at this particular server in England” because that particular “ authoritative DNS server” only really handles its own little segment of lookups.

  There is no such hierarchy in ip addresses, and they can’t really be cached for long.

  You would have to continually know and update all of them. And we sorta do in the larger routers, but keeping that up to date at the edges would require a TON of bandwidth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but if I put myself in their shoes, what better options did they have?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just the address space, but also the sheer number of lookups.

  DNS has authoritative name servers based on tld, and then domain, and then maybe subdomain.

  When you’re dealing with IP addresses, there is no such tree that I lookup, I just fire it into the abyss and let the routing hardware do the lookups. I know who my gateway is to the internet, but I usually don’t keep the routing information.

  My ISP’s routing hardware then says “this IP was last found somewhere in Europe so I’ll fire it at my European connection and hope they get it right.”

  Losses are expected.

  IPv6 CAN route with larger address tables, but the “fire and forget” method still exists.

  There’s also a method to scream at all my peers “do you know where 5.5.5.5 is, because I don’t know” I’ll remember their answer for a bit because that’s useful, but I’ll eventually forget it because I expect it to move. I expect this ip movement because I’m fault tolerant. I might not find the fastest way there, but I’ll find it.

  Philosophically, the internet is designed to be fault tolerant and pseudo anonymous. So if 5.5.5.5 is somewhere in Spain and my Spain peer dies, I recognise that the packets are failing and then I start blasting them at England, because my British connection knows all about the Spanish villa and can pass along my messages. I don’t really care where Spain is, I care about who can get my message there and that’s it. It’s too onerous to always keep track of where everyone is, and MOST people on the internet I don’t actually know about because they’re behind a Nat gateway and I don’t care about them. This makes it so I only have to care about edge devices and greatly simplifies my list.

  So for example, your laptop isn’t actually on the internet. Your modem/router is, but your laptop doesn’t exist to the internet. When I want to send you a packet, I just send it to your router and let the router handle it. I don’t even know that your laptop exists, and I don’t care.

  Well your router will send the data to your laptop instead of your phone because the Nat is keeping track of who requested it and your phone didn’t ask for it. This causes problems because it means that from outside your network, I can’t just connect and send data inside your network unless someone asked for it. So I can’t just call your cell phone unless it reaches out first because I don’t know that your cell phone exists, and even if I did, the router would block it. This is why port forwarding exists, it allows you to have your laptop get ALL data sent to the router on port 12345. I still don’t know about your laptop, but I know that there’s a server on your IP address on port 12345 that I can connect to and request/send data to. Keeping track of all of this just so that I always know where your laptop is requires a fair bit of coordination at many layers.

  Ideally it has a domain at a registrar that I can ask about where it currently is. The routing is still “fire and forget “ because it simplifies my list of “where every IP is” and even then, I only know about the laptop’s edge connection to the internet and let that edge take care of where to actually send the data so I don’t have to think about it.

  In IPv6, Nat works a little different, but it’s still close.

  I’m honestly not sure how many mistakes I made, I just kinda brain dumped info, so let me know which pieces don’t make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The domain registry is NOT, and it’s categorised by various tld’s the scope of the routing is MUCH higher traffic.

  Your cell phone is run by a provider and has maybe 0.0000001% as much lookups as routing would have.

  These things are all done in various tree light structures to try and eliminate central points of failure . The Internet was designed to try and resist failure, and you are creating some central failure points.

  Even if you created several of them, synchronisation issues would be Basically impossible to fix or take up unbelievable amounts of bandwidth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shut your filthy mouth! 😝

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I addressed that IPv6 CAN do it, but you’re right.

  Philosophically, I don’t want people or companies following me around that much, hence the “private MAC addresses” that came out a few years ago