Dran_Arcana

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Dran_Arcana,

Could be worse; we pay for an unlimited WebEx site license and they still insist on using zoom :/

Dran_Arcana,

The overlap of “old people who donate to churches” and “people with student debt” is probably quite low. Debt and hardship breeds low-income, low-educated future generations, and those uneducated bloodlines are easier to convince to go to church.

Keeping middle america poor, uneducated, and struggling is a direct benefit to both religion and the corporate bottom line.

Dran_Arcana,

5x $20 lottery tickets. Most lottery tickets have a 1:3 - 1:5 win rate, so if you’re lucky enough he might win literally nothing. Nothing else on this list gives the friend hope. Hope unfulfilled is the definition of cruelty.

Dran_Arcana,

give me a 5-6 hour (preferably entirely idle/screen off) bbs dump and I’ll tell you what’s wrong; best guess is it’s not ever going into doze at all

Dran_Arcana,

Those couple of ex-twitter employees that got fired for tweeting how much musk sucked should apply for this, get denied, and then sue X for their legal fees.

Dran_Arcana,

What’s extra insane about the google one, Pichai’s salary of 225m divided over the 10k workers fired is a staggering 22.5k/yr. If you assume the average tech salary of a remote google employee is somewhere in the 50k-100k range, that’s 2.5k-5k / 10k workers that could have been saved by cutting Pichai instead.

Forget societal ethics, how do you justify to shareholders cutting ten thousand salaries worth of jobs and giving half the money to the CEO?

Dran_Arcana,

If I were a large shareholder, I’d demand a lot more than half goes to growth or my own dividends.

The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse (mastodon.social)

It will be open source, end to end encrypted using Signal’s double ratchet encryption protocol, and he plans to make it easy for fediverse platforms to integrate it. The beta will release later this month....

Dran_Arcana,

Presumably because currently, activitypub doesn’t have a module for secure message exchange that can’t be snooped on by a server admin.

Dran_Arcana,

This is the correct take. self-reflection, self-awareness, and self-honesty are key components to contentment in any facet of life. I often fantasize about eating cookies and ice cream every morning but I know I would be unhealthy and feel like ass. I’ll bet you though that there is a very small subset of people though who genuinely have biology compatible with eating a few tablespoons of ice cream for breakfast.

Dran_Arcana,

Legitimately curious, why did you buy 3 flagship phones in the last two years? Do you buy 1.5 phones per year on average? What were the last like, 6 phones you bought? Sorry for the twenty questions but your post left me with a lot of questions lol. I see posts online all the time about people with tons of modern phones and I’ve always wondered.

Pixel fold > surface duo 1 > pixel 4xl > pixel 2xl > Nexus 6p > Samsung Note 2 > Droid 4 (the GOAT) > Droid X

That’s my smartphone history; I’d be super curious to know what yours looks like.

Dran_Arcana,

What does your last decade of phone history look like? Which of those three is your daily driver? Do you pay for plans for all 3 at the same time?

Dran_Arcana,

I miss IR blasters and slide-out physical keyboards. I would unironically trade a foldable screen for a sliding keyboard.

Dran_Arcana,

It should be illegal to sell someone something they do not own. In your windows/office example, I’d say it should be illegal to crack/copy the software, but it should also be illegal to sell the software without an offline method of permanent and irrevocable activation (think offline cd keys), and it should be illegal for a company to put any barriers in front of use (vm, laptop, server, cpu cores, memory limits, etc) and illegal to put any barriers in front of resale. Selling a windows update, or a subscription model to updates seems completely reasonable (and probably should do online blacklists for shared keys) but the fundamentals of ownership shouldn’t be eroded in law.

In the tesla example, your car should be your car. If you can modify the software to give you more features that’s your car. If tesla wants to sell a subscription to incremental upgrades on their self-driving algorithms that’s fine, but they should be liable for any faults in older revisions if they paywall updates. That incentivizes them to do the software equivalent of a recall when something is egregiously or dangerously broken, and also incentivizes innovation because they can’t sell you an update if it doesn’t contain anything valuable.

Dran_Arcana,

Licensing is just a fancy way of saying selling you something that you don’t own.

Dran_Arcana,

I can see your argument, but I think it still stands. A ticket still qualifies as a sale. They aren’t licensing the rights to a film for an hour, they’re selling a physical voucher that grants access to a seat at a specific time during a specific showing. I own that thing and in theory, it’s irrevocable without refunding the purchase price. An operating system and a movie ticket are fundamentally different products.

In my view, the application would be that there should not be limits imposed on the resale or transfer of said ticket once purchased. To reverse the argument, should a movie theater be allowed to sell a ticket and then revoke it without compensation if you show up in a blue shirt? Current digital licensing laws allow for the equivalent; I hurt nobody by installing windows home in a VM.

Dran_Arcana,

check_mk is what I use at home and at work, it’s a fork of nagios/icinga, works with agents, nagios plugins, or snmp, and if somehow you can’t find what you want to monitor, writing custom checks is as easy as writing a bash script

Dran_Arcana,

I have a little 4 core/ 8gb ram VM running my work instance that monitors over a thousand clients on 60s check intervals, you may want to look into your config. I honestly have no idea what could cause 15 machines to cost that much computationally

Official Reddit announcement posts now follow a well-defined archetype. The latest accessibility announcement is just the latest example.

In the old days, official reddit announcement posts were a little different. Spuds, or another high-level admin would reply to a comment. Dozens of users would then reply with something like “When are you going to ban r/the_donald.” The threads were massive and quickly became unwieldy, but they seemed organic....

Dran_Arcana,

Presumably the three of us are subscribed to this community because we want to hear about and discuss reddit-centric topics. If you aren’t, I suggest unsubscribing/filtering this community

Dran_Arcana,

A user has to click a lot of buttons to make this work, android security is doing its job. If there’s any failing on android security’s part, it’s consolidating permissions into accessibility services instead of breaking them out into something a user might get scared to click.

Then again, they did click accessibility services on a “secure messaging” app. They need to learn somehow. I just refuse to accept that the appropriate solution is not owning things you buy. There has to be a better way.

Dran_Arcana,

And there are still WebApps today (especially in the business internal network world) that only work with IE6 because Microsoft was just throwing their own standards out and doing whatever they wanted.

When you are the dominant player and you make standards that no one else can follow, you destroy competition. We got lucky that businesses and developers liked blink and WebKit, if businesses had been able to make more money from only supporting trident that’s exactly what would have happened. “Use IE without tabs or an adblocker or you can’t access Facebook, Steam, Gmail, your bank, etc”

You don’t have the choice as an individual when the choice is made for you.

Dran_Arcana,

I think it’s particularly newsworthy in the context of Chromium’s web environment integrity push. Adblocking is basic security for a lot of people who support non-savvy users who otherwise may go through these several instances of user input.

Dran_Arcana,

Also, id get that take if this were like, a general news community, but this is literally the reddit news community. Reddit news is why we’re all subbed here right? We all have nostalgia for what reddit once fostered and I think most of us still have a glimmer of hope that it might be a decent place again

Dran_Arcana,

If you want an actual ELI5:

Bad DRM is like bad parents. When you want a new toy, and you’re 5 years old, you have to ask your parents to get it for you; you can’t just go get it yourself if you want to. Lets say you want a new bicycle. You ask your parents to get you a new bicycle, and they get one for you! But, they say that you’re only allowed to ride your bicycle between 10 and 11pm. They also tell you that you can’t ride your bicycle with 2 feet, or 2 hands, you have to use 1 foot and 1 hand. On weekdays, 10pm is past your bedtime so you really can’t ride it at all. On weekends, it’s dark out at 10pm most of the year so it’s really hard to see. The few times you do get to ride it, it’s really hard to ride because you can only hold on with 1 hand and pedal with 1 foot.

Even with good DRM (parents) that let you ride your bicycle during the daytime and with both your hands and feet, they are always the ones in control. They might tell you today that you can ride your bicycle anytime and anyway you want, but if you get a bad grade, or they are just in a bad mood (for the adults: profit motivated) they can at any time exercise the control they have and take your bike away, or tell you that the only way you can use it are ways you don’t want to use it.

Dran_Arcana,

Ad revenue is proportional to engagement; outrage drives repeat engagement.

Dran_Arcana,

The data to create this is essentially public with budget bills right? It would just take building a percentage tree and categorizing them appropriately. I might look into how complex this would be to build.

Dran_Arcana,

I had no idea this existed; thanks for the share!

Dran_Arcana,

Transparency is the only way auditing and validation can be done. People should own their actions.

Dran_Arcana,

It stops scrapers mostly, but also public frontends like nitter from serving Twitter data to more than a person or two. It’s a pretty transparent “hit the low hanging fruit” attempt to get people logged in and viewing ads that they can track to more-expensive-per-click users (ones that can be targeted more specifically than browser fingerprinting + geodata

Dran_Arcana,

How does one even use usenet today? Sorry for the dumb question. I just don't know where to start

Dran_Arcana,

Is i2p just a privacy guard to torrent over? Or does it actually help one find content as well?

Dran_Arcana,

It’s a stopgap for people who want to fully switch to lemmy but don’t have all the communities they need yet. I’m finding news to be especially lacking, for example. I’d love to be able to put up a second account with some r/o access to reddit communities to get headlines and know what I need to seek out and get informed about.

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