Buelldozer

Buelldozer , 6 days ago

It was when it started but that hasn't been accurate for the past two releases.

Buelldozer , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

I’m glad I don’t live in america

When this law is signed New Hampshire will have stronger child marriage law than Australia and their existing law is roughly equivalent to Australia's. (Basically 18 with controlled exceptions down to a minimum of 16).

Your horse isn't nearly as tall as you are pretending it is.

Buelldozer , 10 days ago

Close but no cigar. I'm a Classical Liberal.

Buelldozer , 10 days ago

Frankly, I never understood why businesses were invested in the office suite anyway.

When MS Office really took off back in the Office 97 days there weren't any good alternatives and now MS Office is so embedded that it's almost impossible to dislodge.

Buelldozer , 17 days ago

This article headline is written to push people to a conclusion.

This is becoming distressingly common.

Buelldozer , 18 days ago

It was 30 Petabytes back in 2016.

Today a single copy of the Internet Archive is over 145 Petabytes!

Buelldozer , 18 days ago

145+ Petabytes for a single copy of the archive and they currently have two copies of everything for a total of around 290 Petaybtes.

The largest hard drive I'm aware of is 32TB so you'd "only" need over 9,000 (lol) of the largest drives ever made. I can't even tell you what that would cost since Seagate doesn't have a publicly available price for the damn things!

Buelldozer , 18 days ago

You'd need more than 9,000 of the largest hard drives made (32TB) to store the nearly 300 Petabytes of data they have. Still within the reach of an obscenely rich tech bro but not exactly cheap.

Buelldozer , 20 days ago

Someone should let the IT staff know that wi-fi does not work for everyone, including:

HI there. I'm someone in IT for a Public Library so let me review these points.

People running a free software platform that lacks support for a wifi NIC that needs a proprietary driver and firmware

That's a you and your hardware problem, not a public library IT problem. You need to purchase hardware that is adequately supported by your chosen Operating System.

People running free software who ethically object to running the proprietary non-free driver and firmware their wifi NIC requires

This is a you and your hardware problem. Buy hardware that is adequately supported by your chosen Operating System.

People without a mobile phone to perform the captive portal-mandated SMS verfication

This one is a semi-serious complaint however I've never seen a portal system where the Librarian's didn't have the ability to issue a day pass for use. Aside from that you sound like someone who should be technically able to stand up an ephemeral phone number for the purpose of receiving SMS.

People with a mobile phone but who want to exercise their GDPR right to data minimization

Same as above.

Pro-environment people who prefer not to spend 30 times more energy needed for wi-fi radios

What an absolutely petty complaint.

People who want the security of other wi-fi users not eavesdropping on their traffic by simply pointing a yagi antenna from a block away.

I'd bet that as soon as you enter a code your VPN stops being blocked. They're not trying to block VPN they are preventing you from sidestepping their ToS.

I've dealt with Patrons like you before and the instant someone starts yammering at me about ClearNet / Tor I know exactly what kind of person I'm dealing with.

You selected your path for whatever reasons you chose and the inconveniences that come with that path are yours to deal with. Suck it up buttercup, you weren't promised that a privacy respecting internet lifestyle would be easy or convenient.

BTW if you'd plugged your laptop into one of my systems you'd have gotten vlan'd into the same Captive Portal System that the WiFi has which is precisely how any publicly available Ethernet port should function. Your little length of wires coated in vinyl with plastic shoved on the ends still wouldn't have gotten you where you wanted to go.

Buelldozer , 20 days ago

I apply QoS at the edge so wired or wireless doesn't matter to us for performance but either one is still going to our Captive Portal and forcing you to agree to our ToS.

Fun Fact: I started applying QoS at the edge because of the people dragging their laptops in so they could Torrent. They'd blow out our bandwidth for everyone else and we were racking up DMCA warnings from our ISP.

Buelldozer , 20 days ago

I began my struggle with F/OSS and its drivers with Slackware V3 shortly after it's release. I long ago memorized absolutely every argument you could possible come up with and have myself repeated many of them over the years. That doesn't change the fact that Networks and Systems are not configured for your convenience and YOU are responsible for how your own damn hardware works.

Now get the hell off my lawn.

Buelldozer , 20 days ago

I really missed my opportunity on that one!

Buelldozer , 26 days ago

Linux Mint at home and Windows 11 Enterprise at the office.

Buelldozer , 26 days ago

Still bound to a employer laptop which uses Win11 in a Microsoft collaboration setting

Ask for Windows 11 Enterprise. I know that it's got the same "recommended" thing going on but it can be completely disabled via Group Policy and / or the Registry.

Buelldozer , 25 days ago

I still don’t see a single actual advantage of W11 over 10.

From the user's perspective there really aren't any. MS could have stopped with W10, or even W7, and things would have been just fine.

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

IIRC, The 6502c is still in production.

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

Why are people installing Server 2022 with a GUI even?

There are server apps that require Windows with the DE.

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

I can’t believe people use this shit.

What's your suggestion for a HIPAA validated EHR or PM system that runs on *Nix or WS without DE installed? Do you have one?

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

Hi!

I can't speak for all users of lemmy.today but as a user of lemmy.today I would prefer it if we took reasonable steps like email verification to be a good neighbor, especially if it prevents other instances from de-federating us. Just my 2 cents. :)

If you'd like help managing it I'm willing to donate time and effort.

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

Excellent!

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

At the Office it's my employers problem and at home Mint doesn't give AF about Windows 11.

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

Huh, I haven't installed SUSE in at least 10 years and seeing the Gecko is giving me a bit of nostalgia. I may have to run an install and see what's changed.

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

State preemption should make this dead on arrival.

Huh, a wild "States Rights" argument appears! Are you SURE that's what you want? It would certainly make Texas and other Red States pretty damn happy if their laws had supremacy over Federal ones.

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

How is it that Cory Doctorow hadn't hear of Kagi until March of 2024? It's been widely discussed in tech spaces for quite a while now!

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

Sure but in the article he says that he hadn't even heard of it until some friends mentioned it "last month", which would have been March of 2024. Taking a few weeks to feel it out is one thing but to have not even know it existed until last month is wild.

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

What happened to Hanlon’s Razor?

Rossman happened. He has videos that need watched.

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

Same here.

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

Reolink.

Buelldozer , 1 month ago

I had a Z Flip 3 and didn't notice the crease while I was using it. The bigger problem, and the reason I don't have one anymore, is because the damn screen broke (delaminated) 6 months in and Samsung wouldn't fix it.

Buelldozer , 2 months ago

It was 98% banned. In fact this specific type, chrysotile asbestos, still has an exemption in Canada because of it's specialty uses like creating chemicals for water treatment plants.

Buelldozer , 4 months ago

Because the Internet is for porn. Always has been, always will be.

Buelldozer , 4 months ago

I prefer this version.

Buelldozer , 7 months ago

29 Billion represents roughly 20% of their annual Gross Profit. That’s a serious chunk of change, even for them.

Buelldozer , 7 months ago

Lemmy really really needs instance blocking. Yes I know some clients have it but Lemmy itself needs a way to enable users to fully block another instance and all of its communities.

Buelldozer , 7 months ago

I’m old too and if you never heard it before Reddit then you probably weren’t online before then.

Buelldozer , 7 months ago

What really matters is the age of your IRC account.

Buelldozer , 8 months ago

PGP back in the day.

Buelldozer , 8 months ago

Slackware V3.1 in 1996. I bought a thick reference book that came with the installation floppies. Installed to an IBM Aptiva, forget the model and processor.

Buelldozer , 8 months ago

I got Slackware in 93 or 94 and fascinated by the idea in general.

Slackers Unite! I started with Slack 3.1 in '96.

Buelldozer , 8 months ago

Nice!

Buelldozer , 8 months ago

It’s surprisingly easy with Home Assistant. You really don’t need much tinkering, if any, to get the basics working quite reliably.

Buelldozer , 8 months ago

What do you mean by “All in one save menu?” / “not windows save menu but built in save menu”? Do you mean pre-ribbon interface, because that was introduced in Office 2007 and would mean that you’re looking for MS Word 2003 or earlier.

Here, have a look at this visual history of MS Word, it may help jar your memory about which one you’re after.

www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/microsoft-word

Buelldozer , 8 months ago

You should be able to replicate that even in Word 365 (Desktop) by opening Word, going to Options, (or File then options if you have a document open) click the Save category on the left then check (or unchecking) the box for “Don’t show the Backstage when opening or saving files with keyboard shortcuts”.

In the latest version of Word 365 if I check that box I get the floating Save dialog. If I uncheck it I get the embedded version.

Thing is I’m pretty sure that option, or something very similar, has existed in the same place with every Word version since 2013 and perhaps even 2010. You can learn more about “Backstage” here.

I think the Circuit Board Background / Theme was introduced along with theming in either 2010 or 2013 and can still be done even in the latest versions of Word 365. You can find out how to do that here.

Buelldozer , 9 months ago

(we’ll see if that changes when I get married)

The spouse test is a bitch. As an old nerd I can navigate highly technical and finicky systems very easily, my spouse on the other hand needs a ROKU style interface in order to successfully use things. Almost all of us end up creating a home system that works for the least tech savvy in the home.

With that said I’ve been told that Streamio + Real Debrid works quite well.

Buelldozer , 9 months ago

The legal environment around Lemmy is tenuous at best. Content and / or actions that are legal in one nation are illegal in others but Lemmy caches that content on every federated instance with active users.

To illustrate the complexity involved consider a Mexican user on a Lemmy instance located in Germany that visits exploding heads to view Nazi content. Which nations laws are controlling?

What about when an Australian user on a Finnish Lemmy instance who accesses something like fauxbait from lemmynsfw.com? Those images are arguably illegal in Australia but who has liability here? The Australian user? The Finnish Lemmy instance? Lemmynsfw.com?

In both of those scenarios the User is one country with its own set of laws, the Users Host Instance and its content cache are in a 2nd country with a different set of laws, and the instance hosting the content is in 3rd country with yet another set of laws!

It’s the same problem with digital piracy, who is legally liable when the law, and remember we don’t even know whose laws apply, is breached? The User? Their Host Instance? The Content Host? All of them?

Legal lightening is absolutely going to strike a Lemmy instance soon and no sane instance operator wants to be the lightening rod.

Buelldozer , 9 months ago

Yeah, that part was pretty fucked up. The LW Admin made a statement about it saying it was a mistake by a newer member of their team and that from now on all announcements would be posted to the announcements community on .world.

Buelldozer , 9 months ago

They aren’t doing that intentionally. They’re being DDOSd into the ground by someone(s) using SQL commands specifically crafted to hamstring their database. You can read about it here if their instance is up.

Buelldozer , 9 months ago

Just replace “Lemmy instance” with “blog”, and the answer is obvious.

Actually it’s not because there’s no 3rd party like there is with Lemmy and especially not a 3rd party that’s keeping a cache (copy) of the content.

If you are American then your Lemmy instance is most likely be protected by section 230…

So there’s no American users on lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, or even lemmy.world itself? You’d be very very wrong in that assumption.

or host pirated content in the US, then YMMV.

Aaaand we are back where we started. What is “hosting”? Your lemmy “home”, lemmy.today for me, has a cached copy of all the content it’s users view. So if I retrieve illegal material my instance has it too and while it’s hidden it IS retrievable by both the Instance Operator and other users (if they know how).

So whose door(s) are the cops kicking down in the raid? Mine? Lemmy.Worlds? The one at exploding heads / lemmynsfw / db0zer? All of them?