Cube6392

Cube6392 , 4 days ago

My thing was I spent just as much time troubleshooting windows as I do Linux. That said I've been on Linux for ages so a lot of the issues I ran into on windows were frustrations with knowing how easy it would have been to resolve technical issues in Linux. The right path for you will be unique to you. I'd probably recommend starting out by just having a live media system you use to poke around with as you tinker on a side project. Maybe even grab a raspberry pi to Futz around on

Cube6392 , 19 days ago

They're insecure and hate the real version of themselves is my interpretation. Instead of confronting that and moving forward with work to become a better person they instead put up a facade, often justifying the harm they do to the people who believe in the facade by convincing themselves that these facades are common to all people, and everyone is fake

Cube6392 , 19 days ago

How many times did Trump show his true colors before getting banned? Twitter's moderation policies were better pre-Musk but they were far FAR from acceptable.

Cube6392 , 20 days ago

Session has made some insecure solution surrounding important design elements like forward secrecy

Cube6392 , 22 days ago

Put simply: yes

The typing scheme is highly innovative and the code they used to do it is proprietary so its a little hard to get started replicating. Further, they have a design patent that means you need permission from the company and licensing to replicate that action. The way they do this licensing and permission means its FAR easier to get that permission and include the proprietary binary blob than to reinvent the mechanism. I'm sure there are extreme radical FOSS-heads interested in doing this with code they're working on, but any big project that wants to create a legitimate daily driver keyboard is going to be more focused on other problems surrounding ethical predictive text and the precision of screen taps. Like this is more a question of what problems are worth solving than anything. There's plenty of hard problems in the mobile keyboard space that don't involve lawyers, especially when getting access to the Swype lib to embed in keebs has thus far been pretty trivial and that lib has been found to be not gnarly in audits.

Personally I do have worry about Swype doing a rugpull with this licensing to keyboards that are using it, since that's one of the paths of enshittification/rot-econony, but I also wouldn't choose not to use a keyboard without swipe gestures (in fact my current keyboard doesn't have them because I can type fine enough without them and its one less thing to install or worry about)

Cube6392 , 25 days ago

Short answer: No

Long answer: Look into the phrase "rot economy." Basically, enshitification starts MUCH earlier in the process than an IPO or a major buy out. It happens because our financial markets value growth, not financial gain. We always here about how companies only worry about the bottom line, but they don't, actually. They care about demonstrating growth. How do you make growth happen while not worrying about the bottom line? Easy! Operate at a loss on purpose! That way you can capture more of the market in a fiscal year, and then the next year adjust your prices a little bit and operate at slightly less loss and show investors you've grown. Those adjustments? That's enshitification. It all happens from the very first moment when you decide, "We have to capture the market." That's not the IPO. That's the very founding of a business.

We need to instead value sustainable businesses. Ones that have higher revenues than losses. And you'll notice something VERY interesting about sustainable businesses: They don't do MASSIVE 3rd quarter layoffs literally every year. Why? Because they don't have to show the investors that they've made a profit, they just need to show they captured more market and then reduced costs

Cube6392 , 27 days ago

Oh good! I was really hoping big tech could find ways to make it easier for me to give in to my crippling phone addiction

Cube6392 , 27 days ago

Yeah I'd be more likely to label dark souls as a 3d metroidvania than as an ARPG. Yeah, it has RPG elements, but what AAA game doesn't?

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

The problem with that is that bad faith actors engage in bad faith arguments for a reason. They just want a few people to hear them. It doesn't matter that the majority of people who hear them see through their lies. It matters that they reach that small audience. To let that small audience know they're not alone. The goal is to activate, engage, and coalesce that small audience. This is what the alt-right does. This is what they've done since the 1920s. We have 100 years of evidence that you can't just "Hear out" the Nazis' opinions without harm coming to real, legitimate people. The best way to deal with bad faith actors is to deplatform them before they've achieved a platform

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

Germany specifically

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

But why use Chatgpt for that? Why not a duck duck go action? I just don't understand why we're asking a LLM whose goal is consistency, not randomness, to do random

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

Yeah most phones in the us are locked to a network. Some of them are unlocked to certain network vendors but won't work with others (for example if a phone works on Verizon its a near guarantee even if its an unlocked phone it won't work on any other networks)

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

It's true. Its not a coincidence the most hostile telecom (Verizon) is also the one that had a former CEO as chairman of the FCC during the Trump administration. It would be very easy for OEMs to introduce more multiband phones to the market but Verizon has some sweet licensing deals on their network brands.

It's mega gross!

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

Any tumbled die like this (identifiable by the polished surfaces and the smooth edges) gets deformed in the tumbling process. The solution is one of three things:

1. Accept this as your lot in life
2. Look for precision dice
3. Buy enough tumbled dice that you're grabbing a random die that is deformed differently from all the other deformed dice every time from a pool at the center of the table

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

Their obsession is they see how much people use and like Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa, and they have employees who have worked at Apple, Google, and Amazon, so they know exactly how much data collection those services do. Their obsession is that They're behind in the market and would like that sweet sweet money

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

There's an issue at play here that I think we're not confronting enough. America has been on a steady march of deregulating in the name of corporate greed. Some of the most functional countries in the world are also the ones with the strongest regulatory bodies (granted they're also largely petrochemical profiteers, I do have criticisms even of countries that I think are doing better than the US) because there's a presumption built into the system that if left unchecked, the forces of greed will violate the liberties of the populace. Its not a coincidence that the only countries that faced major Y2K bug issues were the UK and the US. Germany, Nordic countries, and Benelux countries all ALSO faced this bug, but in those countries the consequences for fucking up banking data was fines. In the US and UK, the consequences were someone might sue in civil court. Much less scary for banking institutions so they continuously acted like the problem was someone else's problem until the last minute.

My point is this: regulations work. We have case studies in other countries that they work. We don't implement them not because they don't work but because they require long view systems change and the political system we live in doesn't encourage thinking long term. Political funding efforts encourage thinking of policy in 2-6 year terms instead of the actual 30 year time frames it requires to plan them. Its much easier to pull a quick grift with political power weakening the overall system than it is to FIX the system. It incentivizes corruption. THAT is the issue that needs addressing and one we should really be trying to assess what the Benelux countries are doing so well

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

Google hasn't understood the internet for a long time. They created an excellent search algorithm by treating the internet as a single information system that warranted analysis and indexing for convenient traversal.

These days that's not... Something they're interested in anymore. The goal is to collect user data for targeting advertising and resale. Their core product is still the search bar, sure, but that's just a hook to reel you in. They'll attach whatever buzzword to it it takes to keep it in the zeitgeist. "Ai" is hot right now so that's the buzzword.

I don't get the impression technical competency is something Google values anymore...

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

Seems made up tbh

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

Not when you're already on an annual contract with Microsoft and the majority of your company's employees are nontechnical

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

Microsoft has some of the best technical support I've ever dealt with TBH. Meanwhile with LibreOffice your technical support is mostly forum diving yourself. If you have a big, competent, it department, maybe that's a feasible thing, but I've never worked anywhere with that kind of capacity

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

Who from?

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

I love logseq conceptually but constantly use org-roam because logseq is prone to performance breakdowns on my hardware

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

Messaging platforms are so hard to replace since there's a social traction aspect. I can pick out the most secure and private messaging service, and then have no one to message on it

Cube6392 , 2 months ago

That's new and well warranted from when I joined

Cube6392 , 1 month ago

Its not great in the United States because our roads frequently wind you up in rural zones that no local maintainers are obsessively maintaining

Cube6392 , 2 months ago

KeePassDX. Uses the same KeePass 4 database format. You can keep your database synced between devices using any number of file syncing services, allowing you to choose one you feel matches your threat model

Cube6392 , 2 months ago

Gotta use the ssh kitten

Cube6392 , 2 months ago

Its for their cloud instances. Just like you wouldn't actually run Amazon Linux. If you're using their cloud platform it's absolutely the best option, but in all other scenarios you wouldn't think to touch it

Cube6392 , 2 months ago

The Lemmy codebase is incredibly idiosyncratic

Cube6392 , 7 months ago

I don’t know about Mental Outlaw specifically, but there’s a vein of FOSS YouTube influencers who are very American libertarian in nature. And the important thing to understand abour american libertarians is they are largely fascists. They fly don’t tread on me and pro cop flags together. Its not that theyre anti authority. They’re pro authority beating up minorities. Does that make sense?

Cube6392 , 7 months ago

wobbles hands capitalism!

Cube6392 , 7 months ago

A gdpr request on content you create but do not own just anonymizes the references to who created and edited the articles you contributed to

Cube6392 , 7 months ago

That’s what we get with the Republicans’ hostage taking political strategy. True policy improvemants take around 30 years to enact, oversee, and reap the benefits from. Starting with Reagan, almost nothing ever gets seen through. Every politician is on a two year clock to block or pass enough bills to get funding to do it again. As an organism our country has ADHD

Cube6392 , 7 months ago

Focus on jobs that don’t do white boarding

Cube6392 , 7 months ago

I mean don’t bother with jobs that ask you about esoteric programming challenges or nonsense brain teasers. All questions or take home problems should be demonstrations of your ability to work with the actual material issues at the company you’re going to be working for

Cube6392 , 7 months ago

Hackerrank is a huge joke for so many reasons. I would rather hire a Dev whose biggest project thus far is an arduino project with 6 stars on github than looking at someone’s hacker rank

Cube6392 , 8 months ago

There’s a system that has a wealth stat. When you want to buy something you roll for if you have the funds for it or not. It could be more fun to roll for ammo and once you roll out of ammo, you can’t use ranged for the rest of that encounter

Cube6392 , 8 months ago

The unfortunate answer is that "it depends". Making Unix look a certain way will depend more on your workflows and preferred tools than any one particular singular grand unified guide

Cube6392 , 8 months ago

Privacy and digital rights are not a binary “use strange hard to use tools or give everything to google.” There are things you can do to improve your ability to own your own data. Giving up immediately is letting perfect be the enemy of good. Running Firefox on your google phone will still win you back something

Cube6392 , 8 months ago

Other poster was saying apps that are built around web content use Chrome’s webviewer component, and that tons of apps these days are react native, or whatever that Apache foundation tool is for deploying web apps as native apps.

Cube6392 , 8 months ago

Revisiting battle for wesnoth

Cube6392 , 8 months ago

I wish we could stop deifying Richard Stallman. He had a good idea once, but the open source movement has outgrown him and his transphobic misogynistic beliefs

Cube6392 , 8 months ago

Link?

Cube6392 , 8 months ago

If the device is a religious artifact, just tell your followers its sacriledge to crack one open. If thst doesn’t work, just admit you’re a scam

Cube6392 , 8 months ago

NO! Pentest OSes are the opposite of secure

Cube6392 , 8 months ago

The BSDs are very popular for wifi routers and modems