Utility poles. Could carry electricity and/or telephone and/or cable tv. In some places it may be home to street lights, sirens, emergency signals, fiber optic cables & junctions/splitters, or other infrastructure.
Unlock etc are browser plugins and only block ads in browsers.
pi-hole blocks DNS requests to advertising domains. It blocks ads, tracking data, etc. not only on my browser-based systems, but on other connected devices like smart TVs, media players, etc.
Met my wife of 10+ years on eHarmony after I tried a handful of other dating sites. I don’t know if they still do it now, but back then they guided you through some pre-canned questions for a few rounds before letting you email each other directly. I think that approach really helped you get a feel for one another before communicating directly with each other or meeting in person.
We know a few other married couples who met on eHarmony as well.
Akamai supports it as a transparent speed optimization for clients who want it. My employers website is fairly image-heavy and we use Akamai’s Image Manager to optimize images for us. The first time an image is fetched by their CDN they analyze it to optimize it for size, compression, and image type, and all the rendered versions are cached on their CDN. When a client requests the image Akamai will look at the characteristics of the device and serve the best optimized version of the image.
Not sure, but thy might. They’re constantly looking for ways to reduce traffic by even a couple bytes. They claim their servers see something like 30% of all web traffic, so if they can squeeze even a few bytes more out of something then it can have a pretty big impact overall.
One other thing they recently rolled out is a similar form of transparent support for Brotli compression. Many websites, CDN’s, etc. will automatically compress fonts, JavaScript, etc. using gzip if the client browser supports it (and most do). Brotli is a newer compression algorithm that sometimes is better than gzip, but not always. Many browsers now support Brotli as an option along with gzip, so Akamai will transparently convert gzipped items to Brotli, and if it generates a smaller file then they’ll serve that version to browsers that support it.
If so what kind of training they would have to go through ? By training I mean the spatial and situational awareness, combat skills (this is kinda unrealistic), enough knowledge to turn any situation to their advantage etc....
I had a bit of a World War II kick for a bit, focusing on lesser known topics. I forget the actual titles of some of these, but if you’re into this sort of history…
Look up books on Colditz castle during WWII. This is a Renaissance era castle on a hilltop surrounded by a town that the Germans turned into a POW camp. They moved a lot of POWs there that were causing trouble at other prison camps by their constant escape attempts. They felt that the castle would make an excellent escape-proof prison. But by grouping a lot of talented escapers together the Germans were proven wrong again and again.
What I found most enjoyable about reading books on Colditz was the different perspectives. I think the most popular book was written by a former POW, which makes sense. But I also found a book in our library that was written by the former German commandant of the prison. Reading both perspectives was a real eye opener.
Another WWII book I read was called “The War Magician” by Jasper Mascalyne (sp?). He was a well known stage magician in London before the war, and used his skills to help confuse & distract the Germans. He was one of the people who helped do things like make tank battalions appear by making plywood cutouts of them, to tricking German bombers into dropping their bombs miles away from intended targets.
I think that the vast majorly of us are all for this. I can’t wait to hear how they’re going to build the 3,500 km of wall that are under water. I assume they will just build the wall on the waterfront on their side of the Great Lakes?...
He probably wants it to become “the internet”. He likely thinks he can do search better than Google, shopping better than Amazon, social better than Facebook, etc.
This is pretty much what happened at the company I work for. The assistant to the CEO received an email that appeared like it came from the CEO requesting confidential financial information. The email contained mannerisms of the CEO, was sent when the CEO was out of the office, etc. The assistant almost fell for it… She would have if our mail system didn’t clearly flag external emails so that it’s obvious they weren’t sent internally.
Hell, I’ve seen two plays that were so long they were broken into two parts. One of them I saw parts 1 & 2 on separate days. The other was a matinee followed by an evening performance.
So a roughly 4 to 5 hour play had 3 breaks. Each part had an intermission, and then there’s the longer break between the two parts.
Probably figured that as just a passenger he would have been seen as just a victim if the plane had crashed, and all fault would have been pinned on the flight crew. So it wouldn’t be seen as him being suicidal but just a victim.
is it a formatting step that an image goes through when uploaded? I’m tired of converting image after image back into jpg, so if there’s like a step I can take to avoid it being a webp, it would help to know
My employer uses Akamai for CDN, security, etc. One of the optional services they offer is called Image and Video manager (IVM). One of the things IVM does is analyze image files and converts them to multiple target formats based on how you set it up.
Suppose you have an image on your website that is a 1000x1000 pixel PNG file that’s 500k in size. The first time a client fetches it Akamai will serve it as-is but will also hand off its URL to an image processing server. That server will analyze the image, and based on how you configure it, might create multiple JPEG & WEBP formats that are 250x250, 500x500, and 750x750 in size, as well as 1000x1000. The new images are highly optimized without impacting the perceptual quality, and all smaller than the original images size.
Once these images are created Akamai adds them into their CDN cache alongside the original image. Now when a client requests the original PNG file they may actually serve one of the other versions based on the browser being used and device characteristics like viewport size, etc. But it’s all 100% transparent to the end user.
Where I live I feel like I’m encountering more and more cars that have been modded to be VERY loud by replacing their exhaust pipes, adding exhaust tips, etc. Just about every time I’m driving on a highway I seem to spot cars like this…
Exactly. 25 years ago I helped manage a Sun cluster. 20 years ago I was on a team that managed roughly 3000 Linux servers in a data center. We racked them, monitored them, wrote tools to configure & manage them, etc. Ten years ago I helped manage Linux systems that were physically managed by a hosting provider, and we never actually saw/touched any of the hardware.
Today I help manage hundreds of AWS instances and also use tools/services from providers like Splunk, Akamai, and others. I haven’t seen/touched a physical server in years. It’s now all virtually managed via web portals, API’s, tools like terraform, etc.
Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author's last name is Gay.
Reminds me of the good old days when AOL was king of the dial-up “internet”. They unilaterally rolled out a filter that suddenly completely broke a forum devoted to survivors of breast cancer. Only after a ton of backlash and negative press about “survivors of hooter cancer” did they relent…
I certainly don’t have an understanding of how many aspects of science works but I trust it. I trust all the science that goes into making my car operate safely. I trust the science that makes my smartphone and the internet work. I trust the medical science that cures my dad of cancer and healed my brother after a bad accident. I trust all the science involved in providing safe food and water for many millions of people.
I worked at a university years ago and saw some VR prototypes for things like medical/surgical training, remote interaction (remote surgery, hazmat, etc) and other things. Very cool uses of the technology where it makes a lot of sense.
Seeing the VR used there the way it was makes me completely uninterested in using it for any sort of social/personal use any time soon. VR clearly has a lot of niche applications, but not as a general social/entertainment platform.
10 years ago I worked at a university that had a couple people doing research on LHC data. I forget the specifics but there is a global tiered system for replication of data coming from the LHC so that researchers all around the world can access it.
I probably don’t have it right, but as I recall, raw data is replicated from the LHC to two or three other locations (tier 1). The raw data contains a lot of uninteresting data (think a DVR/VCR recording a blank TV image) so those tier 1 locations analyze the data and removes all that unneeded data. This version of the data is then replicated to a dozen or so tier 2 locations. Lots of researchers have access to HPC clusters at those tier 2 locations in order to analyze that data. I believe tier 2 could even request chunks of data from tier 1 that wasn’t originally replicated in the event a researcher had a hunch there might actually be something interesting in the “blank” data that had originally been scrubbed.
The university where I worked had its own HPC cluster that was considered tier 3. It could replicate chunks of data from tier 2 on demand in order to analyze it locally. The way it was mostly used was our researchers would use tier 2 to do some high level analysis, and when they found something interesting they would use the tier 3 cluster to do more detailed analysis. This way they could throw a significant amount of our universities HPC resources at targeted data rather than competing with hundreds of other researchers all trying to do the same thing on the tier 2 clusters.
When my wife and I visited Banff & Jasper back before the pandemic we encountered a park ranger at a trailhead that was enforcing a requirement that hiking groups be a minimum of three people since a black bear was known to be in the area. They apparently felt 3+ hikers in a group would make enough noise to dissuade bears from approaching.
We were also told of a bear that they had recently been forced to euthanize. They had determined that the bear had either been deliberately fed by a hiker with a backpack or had seen a backpacker drop some food. Whatever the case, the bear had associated backpackers with food and would accost almost every backpacker it saw. If you didn’t have a backpack it would leave you alone… Apparently once a bear learns about a food source it will always remember it. The park rangers had tried everything they could think of to discourage the bear, from bear spray (mace) to beanbag guns to tranquilizing it & relocating it. But it kept returning to the area and approaching backpackers, so they eventually had to put it down.
LEESBURG, Va. — After two days of testimony, the man who shot a 21-year-old YouTuber inside Dulles Town Center on video in April has been found not guilty on two charges of malicious wounding....
The Gulf Stream plays a significant role in maintaining the climate of the US East Coast and Western Europe. “We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years.” The full study is Here
This is something I am seeing more and more of. As companies start to either offer or require 2FA for accounts, they don’t follow the common standards or even offer any sort of options. One thing that drives me nuts is when they don’t offer TOTP as an option. It seems like many companies either use text messages to send a...
The email protocol, SMTP, was originally not designed with encrypting content in mind. Encryption was added years later, but as an option that is negotiated between mail servers.
While large email providers like Gmail, outlook, etc. likely all support encryption as best as they can, all it takes is one misconfigured server, etc. to cause emails to be sent in clear text at least part of the way from location to another.
It’s largely for that reason why a lot of people & organizations don’t trust email to be secure unless you use mail clients that encrypt and decrypt mail at both ends. But that’s a PITA to set up properly and manage.
If your email is sent entirely within an ecosystem like Gmail then it’s likely encrypted the entire time. But as soon as it passes outside of Gmail to another organization there’s no guarantee it’s still secure. These days it probably is, as virtually every reputable internet provider & company is going to take the issue seriously, but there’s still the history of SMTP not being encrypted that haunts those in the security fields.
An Alabama inmate would be the test subject for the “experimental” execution method of nitrogen hypoxia, his lawyers argued, as they asked judges to deny the state’s request to carry out his death sentence using the new method....
It also doesn’t take into account the technological advances that scammers are using more and more. Get a phone call from your boss requesting something sensitive? How sure are you that it really is your boss and not an AI generated voice relying on data from LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. run through a ChatGPT style system to respond to all manner of small talk etc?
I think it largely depends on his definition of “dumb”…. Given he’s already committed to wiping out half of all life, I’d consider his mental facilities to be of questionable intellect already. His idea of who is dumb may be similarly questionable…
I accepted a position at a start up around three months ago. This company was located in New York and I was located in California. They mentioned that I could work remotely for now but I would eventually have to move out to New York. I was okay with this, as I always dreamed of working in New York....
I can’t agree more with regards to career development. When I graduated from college way back in 1990 I wanted to do software development. It took me six months of job hunting that resulted in only 5 interviews and a single job offer to do telephone tech support for a business products software company.
I spent two years doing tech support and used that time to learn the internals of the product and even wrote some programs in C that demonstrated some of our platforms integrations for our business clients. I was eventually noticed by a couple senior software engineers who started mentoring me and helped me move from tech support to software development full time.
After a decade or so of software development I transitioned into a DevOps role in a similar manner - started doing some of that sort of work on my own, got noticed, then encouraged to change roles. I’ve been doing that for close to 20 years and am very happy where I am now.
A judge in New York expressed frustration at Donald Trump’s defense counsel while considering sanctioning the defendants and their lawyers for making frivolous arguments in the state’s civil case against the former president and others....
Judges will often bend over backwards to limit the possibility of a successful appeal. They don’t like having an appeals court overturn a verdict since it means they would then have to retry the entire case again.
By giving the defense multiple warnings they’re effectively preventing them from using this instance as a credible argument in an appeal. In an appeal the defense might say something like “the judge unfairly ruled against me regarding X”. But the appellate court will see in the transcript that the judge issued multiple warnings before ruling on X and use that to reject the claim.
What's the funniest/strangest thing you have seen out your office/apartment window?
This just popped into my head after a similar question came up with a coworker…...
What Film Are You Surprised Didn't Get A Sequel?
What do you call this place? (lemmy.world)
Electric Valley? Wire Canyon? Zap Way?
He's coming to town (startrek.website)
Using a VPN to California or Colorado to increase privacy
An interesting tidbit from Mozilla’s latest privacy release (ghacks.net/…/firefox-120-ships-today-with-massive…):...
18+ 18+ What's the most disturbing thing you have seen in the Internet? (kbin.social) Finnish
While browsing casually, searching something crazy on purpose, stumbling upon stuff by accident, pranked by a friend......
Multiple Adblockers in a row - does it make sense or is it even harmful?
Hi, I was wondering, is it useful to use multiple adblockers in a row?...
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Google Chrome IP address protection challenged by industry (www.theregister.com)
Every goddamn time I'm trying to make something for my DnD game (lemmy.world)
CloudConvert.com might as well be my fucking home page.
Can an average person who works a full time job become capable enough to rival a secret agent like James Bond or John Wick on their own ?
If so what kind of training they would have to go through ? By training I mean the spatial and situational awareness, combat skills (this is kinda unrealistic), enough knowledge to turn any situation to their advantage etc....
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Republican presidential candidate proposes border wall with Canada (www.cbc.ca)
I think that the vast majorly of us are all for this. I can’t wait to hear how they’re going to build the 3,500 km of wall that are under water. I assume they will just build the wall on the waterfront on their side of the Great Lakes?...
Home heating from datacentres - good use of waste energy or a waste of money? | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
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Neighbour deliberately blocking OP (lemmy.world)
Leak: Elon Musk said he wants X to be a dating app, too, in an all-hands meeting on the anniversary of his Twitter takeover (www.businessinsider.com)
ChatGPT's Scary Good at Getting People to Click Phishing Emails, IBM Finds (futurism.com)
IBM researchers said a ChatGPT-generated phishing email was almost as effective in fooling people compared to a man-made version.
Rogue ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Intermissions at Movie Theaters Spur Studio to Intervene (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
😂👍
Off-Duty Alaska Airlines Pilot Tries To Shut Off Engines During Flight (jalopnik.com)
The rogue pilot was arrested and charged with 83 counts of attempted murder...
Why are 90% of the images WebP format?
is it a formatting step that an image goes through when uploaded? I’m tired of converting image after image back into jpg, so if there’s like a step I can take to avoid it being a webp, it would help to know
and no this is not an invitation for oil addicts to rant about EVs (lemmy.world)
My struggle from a UNIX background in the modern "cloud" world (www.srcbeat.com)
Children’s picture book flagged at Alabama library because author’s last name is ‘Gay’ (www.al.com)
Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author's last name is Gay.
I believe science but I don't understand science. Does that make me religious?
Exclusive: Meta to lay off employees in metaverse silicon unit on Wednesday (www.reuters.com)
CERN's storage swells beyond the exabyte barrier for LHC (www.theregister.com)
Managing ripped music across multiple devices
Hi Lemmies,...
Two killed in bear attack at Banff National Park, grizzly euthanized: Parks Canada (calgary.ctvnews.ca)
Parks Canada says a bear attack in Alberta's Banff National Park has left two people dead.
Man who shot YouTuber on video at Dulles Town Center found not guilty by jury (www.wusa9.com)
LEESBURG, Va. — After two days of testimony, the man who shot a 21-year-old YouTuber inside Dulles Town Center on video in April has been found not guilty on two charges of malicious wounding....
Famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall found cut down (www.theguardian.com)
Police investigating after former tree of the year winner, estimated to be several hundred years old, felled...
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)
It’s Definitive – The Gulf Stream Is Weakening (www.iflscience.com)
The Gulf Stream plays a significant role in maintaining the climate of the US East Coast and Western Europe. “We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years.” The full study is Here
Why Do Companies Not Use Existing 2FA Standards?
This is something I am seeing more and more of. As companies start to either offer or require 2FA for accounts, they don’t follow the common standards or even offer any sort of options. One thing that drives me nuts is when they don’t offer TOTP as an option. It seems like many companies either use text messages to send a...
He's not super buoyant but he loves to swim (lemmy.world)
Alabama inmate opposes being ‘test subject’ for new nitrogen execution method (apnews.com)
An Alabama inmate would be the test subject for the “experimental” execution method of nitrogen hypoxia, his lawyers argued, as they asked judges to deny the state’s request to carry out his death sentence using the new method....
Reddit is going to let you turn gold into money (www.theverge.com)
Don’t worry though, any kind of payment (including gold) for moderating is still not allowed.
Passkeys are generally available on GitHub (github.blog)
If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?
Would they have all still fought against him?
Got laid off my first job out of college after three months, Help!
I accepted a position at a start up around three months ago. This company was located in New York and I was located in California. They mentioned that I could work remotely for now but I would eventually have to move out to New York. I was okay with this, as I always dreamed of working in New York....
The vast majority of NFTs are now worthless, new report shows (www.theguardian.com)
'You were warned': Judge reprimands Trump's lawyers in New York AG's $250M fraud case (abcnews.go.com)
A judge in New York expressed frustration at Donald Trump’s defense counsel while considering sanctioning the defendants and their lawyers for making frivolous arguments in the state’s civil case against the former president and others....