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locuester,

I’ll have a window seat at 30k feet and the person seated to my left will be free fallin’ for a while.

locuester,

Those addons are fun for about 12 years, but then they become really expensive with micro transactions like crazy, and later ending needing an entire college DLC. Start saving.

locuester,

I agree with you 100% but it’s hard to convert others.

Same with art - AI mimicking your art after looking at all art is no different than a human looking at all art and having a style that mimics their favorites.

Same with imitation of face and voice.

locuester,

You’re right. It behaves exactly like we do. And yes, it is at a much grander scale.

Is something ethically, legally, or morally wrong with a computer that does what we do, but does it better?

locuester, (edited )

That is also exactly how I see it. Do you think the negative view is due to some primal jealousy? I don’t know how else to describe not liking something/someone because it’s better than you.

Perhaps it is from a viewpoint of sports, where performance enhancing drugs are frowned upon.

We don’t get mad at calculators anymore, but we did at one point. There was quite a large movement to ban them in schools. Isn’t this a similar thing on the “creative” side?

locuester,

It’s domestic as well. Red vs Blue is just a distraction and you can’t point this out because nearly everyone is divided along those lines to the point of ignoring getting fucked up the ass.

locuester,

Yeah. Censorship resistant, globally distributed, irreversible ledgers are so useless.

locuester,

How so? I find it super useful for storing value and participating in financial products.

locuester,

FTX was not on a censorship resistant, trustless, globally synchronized ledger. They were a company that promised you they had your stuff on that ledger, but didn’t.

No one should hold funds on an exchange, that’s akin to a bank. These trustless ledger were built to provide a place to store assets WITHOUT trusting a bank.

No one can freeze my native assets held on one of these “blockchains”.

If you don’t understand the difference, I can get more technical.

locuester,

Is it just me or is 16GB even on the low side for a pro user? I have 128 on my desktop and 80GB usage is normal for what I do (software dev; lots of local virtualization)

locuester,

Yeah, this is pretty much what I thought. So I don’t understand why people are pretending that eight or 16 is going to cut it.

Maybe they are just happy purposefully limiting usage due to a constraint that they don’t realize is easy to raise.

I like to have 3 4k monitors and four desktops and 10 chrome tabs opened on each one along with SQL stuff and a half dozen vscode windows, and a full visual studio or 2, wsl2 running with a dozen docker containers, plus all of the collaboration programs like Telegram and Discord. And I don’t like to close any of that down when I go play flight simulator. So the extra couple hundos is nothing so that I can be sure to never run out of ram.

locuester,

That entirely depends on if what you’re running requires lots of ram or is more cpu bound. I wouldn’t conflate the two as directly related.

Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)

The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires...

locuester,

Spot on. The iPhone’s Messages app sends messages as iMessages, SMS, or MMS depending on context. And it makes it obvious. Every iPhone user knows blue vs green. It’s not sneaky or anything.

There is no apple iMessage app.

This is the Apple Message app. Its description in the store makes its functionality very clear.

locuester,

I agree, the teaching is wrong. I always teach it visually. That seems to do the trick

locuester,

Yeah not following the logic. 2FA via email is insecure. Doesn’t matter where in the email. That person is confused about something.

locuester,

Op Ed writers literally write opinion pieces. That’s not journalism.

locuester,

Never seen one in the US. Also in the US, 10% or so don’t even close right. Plus a 30 cm gap on the bottom and a half cm gap on both sides of the door.

It’s only an illusion of privacy; anyone can look through the door or under the stall.

locuester,

But does their advantage in security overcome the fact that they’re a much larger target?

It’s similar to how money under a pillow could be safer than money in the bank; depending on who you are.

locuester,

I use a different password for every site tho. Using same pw for every site, that’s another extreme entirely.

locuester,

One doesn’t have to remember dozens. Just a basic algorithm for deriving it from the name of the site. Complex enough that it’s not obvious looking at a couple passwords but easy to remember.

This method works for me. I understand its dangers (can still correlate. Dozen passwords and figure out the algo). But it’s my current approach. I hate even discussing it since obscurity helps.

locuester,

I’m of the mindset that locally stored keys and/or social solutions are better than throwing all passwords in a single place.

All passwords for large amounts of people in a single place is begging for a break-in.

I spend a lot of time studying solutions in this space as I’m a long time crypto solutions dev. Lots of ideas and discussions to be had.

I’m not disagreeing with you, just having a dialogue.

locuester,

I agree 100%. As mentioned, I rarely share my approach and I’ll be deleting that comment in a bit. It works well for me.

No hacker is attempting to decode the password algorithm because they don’t know of its existence on my logins, and they have thousands of better ways to go - as you said.

locuester,

Onboarding new users securely is in the forefront of most minds in my industry because the current standard is a 12 word phrase written on paper, which most users throw in a cloud solution or screenshot.

The stakes are even higher in crypto where you’re protecting, without recourse, large sums of value. Passkeys are a critically needed solution for my industry. But they need coupled with a social or offline storage recovery mechanism.

locuester,

Western MT here. Starlink is consistently 100+

locuester,

Isn’t all hosting containerized at this point? Is hosted, language specific servers still a thing?

I’ve been out of the market for a while now and just run everything as containers on aws and gcp

locuester,

Interesting. I never really realized how it was more my path changing than the entire industry.

locuester,

nano gang checking in.

However, I’ve been forced over time to remember “:wq” to get unstuck should vim randomly appear.

locuester,

How do u learn this voodoo

locuester,

I’ve done 35 years, but the first 25 years on the dark side M$.

locuester,

Aw cmon, we’ll turn them into moons and harvest them!

locuester,

I never use cases. I like my phone to look the way it’s supposed to.

I do use a screen protector, but that’s it.

locuester,

Absolutely untrue. It’s a heat dissipation issue. iPhone minis had so many issues with heat they can’t make em anymore.

Apple wants you to think that bigger phones are better only because they can’t make them smaller.

locuester,

2 years or so. The edges get slight dings from keys/change. They resell on eBay for same price as any other used phone, and I include very detailed pics.

locuester,

The only issue I have is how DMs are tucked away. I’d rather 2 vertical columns, or a column splitter allowing me to at least show last half dozen DMs and the rest servers.

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

locuester,

But then we wouldn’t have the subtle culture warfare over blue and green messages.

Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)

Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....

locuester, (edited )

I enjoy watching YouTube with no ads so I bought premium. I actually bought the family one and share it with 4 others. Personally, I find it to be a great deal.

I also pay for extra storage (even tho I have a nas) because it’s convenient to have.

I’m a pirate at heart, have a 3k movie library on Plex and use nefarious to queue download, and I’m a long time crypto nut so I understand privacy and sticking it to the man.

But I also find great quality of life improvements by simply paying fair prices for good content 🤷‍♂️

It’s a fun hobby to try and dodge ads and steal and stick it to these companies. But really can be time consuming and gets old (it did at least for me when I got old).

locuester,

As you could have guessed, I also use iPhone. I just like things to work. I’m too old for tinkering with shit constantly. I write software all damn day and when I’m done I just enjoy peaceful relaxing in nature. Not all the tinkering I did as a kid

locuester,

Woah dude. You decide what’s fair. If $0.33 per day isn’t fair to you, then don’t pay it. I personally find $0.33 fair.

locuester,

Yeah man - the world changes. The pendulum swings. It’s quite the ride eh!?

locuester,

I mean, I wasn’t joking. Yes I am.

And I have adblock. Used to run a pi hole too but that got annoying.

I’ve been pirating software since the bbs days, pre-internet. Then music during the Napster era, and movies as soon as it was possible.

Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately (arstechnica.com)

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, the company whose 3D game engine had recently seen backlash from developers over proposed fee structures, will retire as CEO, president, and board chairman at the company, according to a press release issued late on a Monday afternoon, one many observe as a holiday.

locuester,

They receive money which can be used to buy equity, no? It’s their choice not to. At least in a publicly traded company.

That point aside, I usually do receive stock in the company at jobs I’ve worked. Financial firms.

I totally forgot how terrible a non-ad-free YouTube experience is

So I’ve been using youtube ad blockers since pretty much when ad blocker extensions were first available. Lately though I’ve been getting hit more and more with these messages that YT was sending out every 5 or so videos telling me that adblockers aren’t allowed. No problem, just gotta wait 5 seconds to x it out and then...

locuester,

Another option is paying a couple bucks and not having to worry about it. Might even make you feel good knowing you’re supporting the platform.

I don’t fault you for tinkering and finding ways around it - that’s fun. But in the end, you’re leeching off a service you enjoy.

locuester,

So mediums with advertising should not be allowed to seek monetary payment? Only mediums without advertising should do so?

I’m not understanding your logic here.

For me it’s pretty simple. There is a product - would you like to pay for it?

I feel that all the scary words you can add to a paragraph about advertising based revenue for digital mediums is just your tool to justify your behavior of sticking it to the man.

locuester,

I’m being completely serious and I’m interested to understand more about what you mean. You are saying that YouTube is not merely a service and then you’re equating it to something like healthcare and education. Now I must ask are you the one that is being serious?

locuester,

I’m open to having this discussion but every single response from you begins with you telling me that I’m not interested in having this discussion. If you could just leave that part out so we can have the discussion, it would be much easier. I believe that’s referred to as ad hominem. If you don’t think it is - ok, it’s not. But please stop allowing that to distract from a discussion if you could.

These “near monopolistic public spaces” such as Twitter and YouTube have costs associated with them. How do you feel that we as users/consumers/citizens of the public space support it’s existence?

locuester,

Yeah, mic cables are still standardized on this

locuester,

Keep it up. I’m on 37 years of breaking shit. Never gets old.

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