poopsmith

poopsmith, 6 months ago

How recently? It’s been cold af lately.

poopsmith, 6 months ago

Signal works. The adoption is fairly slow, but I’ve had friends slowly begin to use it.

poopsmith, 6 months ago

I hate how tipping is now customary at every single restaurant now, including places without servers.

poopsmith, 6 months ago

One of the most comfortable mice out there.

poopsmith, 6 months ago

Yeah, title should just be:

Don’t waste your money on an awful Android tablet on Black Friday

poopsmith, 6 months ago

My older brother got me into Ubuntu when I was around 12. He basically showed me the basics, like the terminal and a couple commands, then just told me to manpage or Google everything else.

Then I got Linux for the Wii and that really got me into the nitty gritties of Linux.

poopsmith, 7 months ago

I don’t think it’s very useful at generating good code or answering anything about most libraries, but I’ve found it to be helpful answering specific JS/TS questions.

The MDN version is also pretty great too. I’ve never done a Firefox extension before and MDN Plus was surprisingly helpful at explaining the limitations on mobile. Only downside is it’s limited to 5 free prompts/day.

poopsmith, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Here’s some things Lemmy could potentially implement:

• a default sort that favors smaller communities
• better onboarding for new users that guides them into discovering new communities
• giving recommendations to other similar communities

poopsmith, 7 months ago

…such as?

poopsmith, 7 months ago

If you had really slow Internet, like smoke signals or semaphores across a nation, you could characterize it as millibit:

1 bit over 1000 seconds = 1 millibit/s.

But yeah, it’s basically meaningless in today’s age for Internet speeds.

poopsmith, 7 months ago

I’ve had Ziply Fiber before (but not 50 Gbps) and would max their upload for months and they didn’t even bat an eye. It’s the only ISP that I would ever recommend.

poopsmith, 7 months ago

I remember in 2013 building software for HMIs running WinCE and back then, it was horribly outdated and a trudge to work on. I can’t imagine how bad it would be today.

poopsmith, 7 months ago

It was just a dock, so not terribly expensive but expensive enough to hurt if it got lost.

poopsmith, 7 months ago

Scihub for most things. You can also sometimes find preprints (or contact the authors) on RG.

poopsmith, 7 months ago

I’ve always found it’s easier to use Stack Overflow or Google than a man page.

poopsmith, 8 months ago

In college, I used to drink Starbucks’ Via. That instant coffee hits different.

Nowadays, I make either an espresso or a pour over. But I still crave Vias sometimes.

poopsmith, 8 months ago

If you’re not in school and just teaching yourself the material, get a better textbook. There are plenty of exceptional textbooks in physics on libgen. If it’s for a specific subject, I can probably recommend you a textbook.

poopsmith, 8 months ago

Lgtm, good luck my dude.

poopsmith, 8 months ago

Not really. I’ve lived here for ~30 years and certain spots are better, some are worse.

poopsmith, 8 months ago

Caffeine pills! You can find them for cheap at most drug stores. Plus you can dose the exact amount you want.

poopsmith, 8 months ago

I’ve been using Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 daily for years now without any Snap issues. I haven’t once had any problems and I have 20 snaps installed.

poopsmith, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Community support is great. I can search up any problem and instantly find good results, which is not always true for other distros. I use it mostly at work and I want to minimize the time I spend fixing things. Plus, most programs will have out-of-box support (binaries, tests, install instructions, etc) for Ubuntu.

poopsmith, 8 months ago

Yep, but that’s a problem with all package managers where users can publish their own code without auditing. Every app store has these problems. Both npm and pip have these issues too.

People shouldn’t install unvetted binaries from random people. I wouldn’t install random binaries that I’ve downloaded through a web browser—why would installing through snap be any different?

poopsmith, 8 months ago

People weren’t really nitpicking.

• it’s obviously bad to send an email with a plaintext password
• the website owners had apparently already resolved the issue
• it does not mean the passwords were stored in plaintext
• the OP sounds like a skiddie in a bunch of comments and doesn’t seem to understand how most websites with auth work

poopsmith, 8 months ago

But in situations like this there is a much larger chance it’s being stored in plain text.

I suppose, but OP said in the title that the passwords were being stored in plaintext, despite that not being the case.

poopsmith, 8 months ago

Not sure what you mean here, this is what the forum post said:

After emailing (admittedly not current best practice), the passwords are hashed and only the hash is stored.

poopsmith, 8 months ago

Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but backend servers will almost always have the user-submitted password in plaintext as a variable, accessible to the backend server and any upstream proxies.

It’s even how it’s done in Lemmy. The bcrypt verify accepts the plaintext password and the expected salted hash.

poopsmith, 8 months ago

Yeah, but SSL/TLS also solves that problem in a standardized way.

In either case, the backend will have the plaintext password regardless of how it’s transmitted.

poopsmith, 8 months ago

Is Bixby still a thing on new Samsung phones?

poopsmith, 8 months ago

What using urinals offer:

• don’t need to close a door
• don’t need to touch the seat to lift/lower it
• takes up much less space than toilets
• can chat with the bros

There is much less splash using a urinal than standing at a toilet. You’re doing something very wrong if it’s splashing all over the place (how tf?).

poopsmith, 9 months ago

I got a free computer and upgraded the processor to an i7-6700T (eBay) and some old SSDs. It measured around 15W and I haven’t had any problems with it. It is miles ahead of using any Pi or ARM-based SBC. I would really recommend just finding a used computer nearby, if possible. Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace has some killer deals.

poopsmith, 9 months ago

fwiw 1 stick of butter = half a cup

poopsmith, 9 months ago

Nope, Lemmy is just as toxic as Reddit imo.

poopsmith, 9 months ago

You don’t eat this chip because it’s good, you eat it because it’s one of the spiciest things you can get (and it’s fun).

poopsmith, 9 months ago

I can’t believe they’re still tax-exempt.

poopsmith, 9 months ago

Ooh, the top left ones are from Ultima Online. Haven’t seen those cursors in a long while.

poopsmith, 9 months ago

The whole album is great. I think I still have the CD somewhere!

poopsmith, 9 months ago

bloody

poopsmith, 9 months ago

My sister, who did her master’s in nutrition or some related field, says multivitamins are a waste of money. She suggests getting bloodwork and seeing if you’re deficient in anything. And if you’re deficient, it’s better to change your diet than buy multivitamins (if possible).

With that being said, I still take a multivitamin…

poopsmith, 9 months ago

use a device like a nvidia shield, a game console or something similar

use a device like a nvidia shield, a game console or something similar

poopsmith, 9 months ago

For cleaning out the connector, I get a piece of flat clamshell packaging, cut it into a V shape, then use that to carefully scrape out the gunk in the connector. It really helps if you have a stereo microscope or even a loupe, but isn’t required.

poopsmith, 9 months ago

If you’re on a really steep incline, you’ll have to press both the brake and gas pedal at the same time using your right foot, while feathering the clutch with your left. I’ve heard this called the “heel toe” technique.

If your engine has enough torque or if the hill isn’t steep enough, you can ignore this and just ease off the clutch while transitioning from the brake to gas.

poopsmith, 8 months ago

Yep. I also used it a lot when starting on a hill on vehicles without handbrakes.