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OneCardboardBox,

I got to know the old guy who ran the electronics section at a local thrift store. Eventually, he took me to the back room where he inspected all the equipment before putting it on sale.

On a workbench, there was a complete Apple II+ with peripherals, software, manuals, and expansion boards. $250 and it was mine.

OneCardboardBox,

Worf is really just a terrible father. Given how conflicted he is about his own upbringing on Earth, it’s pretty rich that he sends Alexander to live with his adoptive parents in Russia.

Then in that DS9 episode where Worf and Alex are on ship together, Worf goes full warrior mode and pretends like he never had to learn his Klingon identity.

I love Worf as a character, but I’m happy he wasn’t my dad.

OneCardboardBox,

This article isn’t clear on one question: Are users still able to add new trusted authorities? I have a custom CA installed so as to be able to access self-hosted https services inside my home network. Given that Android now prevents you from accessing sites with an untrusted/self-signed cert, I need this feature.

OneCardboardBox,

I use friends and family as sample data for unit/integration tests.

At a previous job, I tested an automated email system by scheduling fake events for various US presidents. I’ve long left that position, but I never cleaned up the test data. Every month I still get a reminder for Nixon’s upcoming reservation at the Watergate Hotel.

OneCardboardBox,

If you find a Wayland compositor that’s based on wl-roots, you basically get that ability for swapping out the window manager.

The wl-roots project aims to be a common library that any project can pull in without having to implement the required Wayland protocols themselves.

OneCardboardBox,

I don’t know about one word, but generally I’ve heard “quack medical device” used to describe such things.

OneCardboardBox,

Bennett Tomlin investigated the emerald mine claims. It’s really interesting: youtu.be/4oNoy7Ay-yU?si=Y4-2_nCk73sWHmhW

Not only did Musk’s father own part of an emerald mine, but he was given that part of ownership after allowing shady people to use the family plane to transport things without asking any difficult questions.

OneCardboardBox,

My fiancé had prodromal (pre-vomiting) CHS from November to January. The symptoms appeared as gallbladder hyperactivity, but the doctors wouldn’t commit to saying it was a gallbladder problem. His big break came after spending 2 nights in a hospital and apparently recovering, then getting worse after he came home. We connected it to cannabis use after he came home, and quitting cold-turkey alleviated all symptoms basically overnight.

OneCardboardBox,

I don’t know where people get these ideas from. Genuinely curious.

en.wikipedia.org/…/People's_Liberation_Army_at_th… and other accounts.

Does that whole section quote only a single source in Chinese that I can’t read? Yes. You can believe it or not, I don’t care. Assuming that your curiosity into why people believe that protesters got mowed down by tanks is genuine, this should answer your question.

OneCardboardBox,

What are you even responding to? I didn’t say anything about Mao, who died vs surviving, or what people think about the West. I wasn’t even making a counterpoint, I was indulging someone’s genuine curiosity.

OneCardboardBox,

I’ve been looking into getting a cheapo laptop to take outside, and Chromebooks caught my interest. However, literally everyone I spoke to about this idea recommended against it. After researching all the nuances to putting baremetal Linux on a $40 Chromebook (BIOS screws, firmware patches, etc), all so I could have 2GiB RAM and 16GiB of unreplaceable storage, I asked myself what the point even was. I might as well buy a(nother) Thinkpad T40 at that point.

Glad I didn’t go with the Chromebook. Got a 2018 HP secondhand from a local college. For a little extra money, I have something with superior construction, specs, and upgrade potential.

OneCardboardBox,

I should be able to open one account and access everything.

This seems like a misunderstanding of how Fediverse works. It’s about voluntary association between instance owners. If you don’t like the decisions made by your instance owner, then the point of Fediverse is that you can either find an instance that thinks like you do, or make your own. It’s not about forcing owners to associate with other instances they dislike, even if you disagree with the reasoning.

There’s a bit of downside in that Lemmy doesn’t let you migrate accounts at this time, but it’s basically brand-new open source software. Whether you meant to or not, you signed up to be a user for an incomplete experience.

OneCardboardBox, (edited )

They’re not even launching in the USA because the SEC might kick their shit in. This is basically an overcomplicated scheme to harvest biometric data from impoverished foreigners. There’s already been fraudulent signups from people trying to exploit the world’s poor. It’s dumb AF.

Linux distro for a laptop I might barely use (lemmy.sdf.org)

For years, I’ve gotten by with a desktop at home running Arch and a work laptop running Kubuntu. Now I want a laptop that’s not owned by my job, so that I can use a computer outside the house and not have my workplace own the IP rights of whatever I do on it. My workload is basically just going to be emacs and web browsing,...

OneCardboardBox, (edited )

Unrelated to the overall point you’re trying to make, but shorts didn’t cause the '08 recession. They just profited from it. The cause was banks treating mortgage backed securities as if they were an unsinkable asset class.

Relating things back to your point though, I’m not convinced that blockchains solve this. Take the crypto crash of spring/summer '22: You have a few products (TerraUSD/Luna, CEL token) “generating” yield that everyone (DEFI, CEFI, retail, institutions) piles on top of. Then that base layer of “value” turns out to be a naked emperor and there’s a massive crash when everything based on that system is now backed by nothing. Rigid computerized rules are only as solid as the axioms that underpin them. You can decentralize the interpretation of rules, but somebody can always start with a flawed assumption and then it doesn’t matter how reliable your decentralized system is.

As long as any asset can be rehypothecated into another, shinier asset, there’s always a risk that the underlying asset is shit. It’s no less true in crypto as in conventional banking.

OneCardboardBox,

You don’t have to trust banks to not shortsell the housing market with your own money (causing a recession for the entire world)

The way I read this, it suggests that banks shorting the housing market with my deposits caused a global recession.

You’re right about the ratings agencies (as far as I know, also from The Big Short), I was skipping over that for brevity.

How many people here have actually used XMPP?

With all the current discussion about the threat that Instagram Threads has on the Fediverse and that article about how Google Embrace Extend Extinguished XMPP, I was left very confused, since that was the first time I’ve heard that Gchat supported XMPP or what XMPP actually is, and I’ve had my personal Gmail since beta (no,...

OneCardboardBox, (edited )

This could of been for internal reasons, it could of been to fragment the user base knowing they had the most users and would force convergence, we really can’t be sure.

Given the well documented history of Google making absolutely dogshit product decisions, I think it’s the former. In fact, I don’t even need to think. Google already explained their reasoning. They had several different communication products (including Talk) that couldn’t be integrated together. They wanted the services to work seamlessly to try and compete with Messenger.

If chat wasn’t popular among their users, this wouldn’t of been needed.

Sure, chat was probably popular. However, I bet that 99% of their chat users never cared about XMPP compatibility in the first place. When you’re a product manager at a billion dollar megacorp who’s aiming for a promotion and you have a choice between making 1% of your users sad and massively simplifying the complexity of your new project… you pick the 99%

OneCardboardBox,

they apparently didn’t shut down the initial XMPP servers until 2022

Sure. They probably had one client who paid them a pile of money every year to keep it live. If there was some plan to extinguish XMPP, surely they wouldn’t have kept it around for so long.

We can’t trust a for-profit organization to have the best of intentions

Sure. The solution is simple: don’t use corporate platforms. The way to prevent what happened was not for XMPP to block Google. It was for people to not switch to Google in the first place. Google Talk released in 2005. This was absolutely back when everyone still believed “Don’t be evil”.

OneCardboardBox,

I think an important distinction should be made between dentistry and orthodontics. I believe that in many countries with public healthcare, dental coverage is pretty normal. What many governments don’t pay for is orthodontics (teeth straightening, braces, bite fixing, etc) and so most people go without it (eg memes about British people having crooked teeth).

In the USA, orthodontics is a huge industry. It’s all about having straight perfect teeth. I don’t know why it started, but the reason it’s stuck around is mostly aesthetics and inertia IMO. If everyone around you has straight teeth, you’ll feel left out if you have crooked teeth. It’s also a huge moneymaker for dentists themselves. I avoided dentists for several years because I got tired of them trying to sell me expensive aesthetic services, like whitening or special bite splints.

OneCardboardBox,

Crunchbang was the distro that taught me Linux. I needed a *nix style build system for a programming class, and #! looked cool so I went with it. It was a magic moment when I learned how to install software from source.

Sorry, not here to answer your question, just reminiscing. I hope the project is OK.

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