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Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account in ~tech
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Comment on Does he get tossed? Do I have any wagers? in ~society
DeaconBlue Link ParentSupreme Court decided last round that Colorado did not have the rights to remove candidates for federal office from the presidential ballot. Voting is only a states rights issue when it comes to...Even if he did try, how many states would put him on the ballot?
Supreme Court decided last round that Colorado did not have the rights to remove candidates for federal office from the presidential ballot.
Voting is only a states rights issue when it comes to how they want to disenfranchise people, not when it comes to removing criminals from ballots.
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Comment on Are you tech-savvy enough? in ~tech
DeaconBlue Link ParentBut the wiki explicitly says to not do that! I do it too.I'll also throw in that because I don't care about my configurations I just YOLO all my updates without backups since no update, no matter how botched, should prevent me from mounting the drive into a live USB and copying out the documents I care about. To date, this has never bit me in Arch. I periodically just update everything using yay and it always seems to be fine.
But the wiki explicitly says to not do that!
I do it too.
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Comment on Are you tech-savvy enough? in ~tech
DeaconBlue (edited )Link ParentI love that "monitor not working" is one of these, because I have a messed up monitor that ONLY works on my linux box for reasons I don't care to figure out. My work Windows laptop, my wife's Mac,...It was actually seamless. Except that the onboard wifi chip was one specific batch of intel chips which are not supported. Also the monitor I had didn't work so I had to pull an old vga monitor out of the basement
I love that "monitor not working" is one of these, because I have a messed up monitor that ONLY works on my linux box for reasons I don't care to figure out. My work Windows laptop, my wife's Mac, and just routing HDMI from a game console to it do not work and they all give garbled mess, but my Steam Deck and desktop work fine with it.
Somehow though, this is a failure of the monitor rather than a failure of Windows or Mac.
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Comment on Are you tech-savvy enough? in ~tech
DeaconBlue LinkThese articles and blog posts crop up now and again and I loathe them because basic distros doing basic things is not a game of Russian Roulette and hasn't been for years. For most users,...These articles and blog posts crop up now and again and I loathe them because basic distros doing basic things is not a game of Russian Roulette and hasn't been for years.
For most users, everything is in the browser anyway and no updates are breaking your browser and your bog standard parts.
Linux can be Russian Roulette if you use less common software and less common hardware, but stop trying to scare off the people that can use Linux Mint on an old Thinkpad with whatever browser installed.
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Comment on 23andMe files for bankruptcy in ~finance
DeaconBlue Link ParentI can't delete my data if I wanted to. Family on all sides has used the service and that's more than enough information to glean information about me, but I have no rights to delete "their" data.I can't delete my data if I wanted to. Family on all sides has used the service and that's more than enough information to glean information about me, but I have no rights to delete "their" data.
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Comment on What do you do with your diplomas? in ~life
DeaconBlue LinkMine is in a cracked frame in a box somewhere. The paper is not valuable to me at all and I would not care if I lost it.Mine is in a cracked frame in a box somewhere. The paper is not valuable to me at all and I would not care if I lost it.
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Comment on Beware tech career advice from old heads in ~comp
DeaconBlue LinkSome things that I have noticed in the dev field that differ from when I got in 15ish years back. This is all anecdata, and might not apply to everywhere. Cloud infrastructure makes it much easier...Some things that I have noticed in the dev field that differ from when I got in 15ish years back. This is all anecdata, and might not apply to everywhere.
- Cloud infrastructure makes it much easier to spin up proofs of projects.
Made a little game or some other proof of concept? You can host it for like 5 bucks to show that you can do a thing. You can also make the github repository for it public so people looking to hire can check out how you wrote it and maybe what kinds of bugs or whatever you noticed and fixed.
This is a boon for people that like doing projects outside of work. This sucks for people that don't. The barrier to entry for this kind of thing was a lot higher in the late 00s so it was hardly expected that people would have public demos of their work (some still did, of course, because it is fun for some people).
- The idea of "rockstars" has fallen out of favor.
For a long while, it seemed like every company wanted the one person who would come in and do the jobs of four developers. This has kind of gone away as everyone has realized that burnout is a real thing and you probably don't want your programs all designed with "get feature out the door as fast as possible" in mind. It's usually better (for non-startups) to have a bit more planning involved. Startups are excluded from this bit because they are kind of obligated to get features out the door in any way possible to exist for more than a year.
- What you are expected to know off hand is less important than knowing where to find information
Code quizzes used to be more normal during interviews. Plenty of "gotcha"s where some weird quirk of the language was used to try to trap you into doing the wrong thing to see if you knew trivia about a given language. This has kind of switched over to a (better, in my opinion) strategy of asking about design patterns that are kind of language agnostic.
This is probably a result of languages evolving quickly and documentation being ever easier to find. In years past I have had quizzes during interviews where I was asked if something was a valid syntax and had to respond with something like "I don't believe it was valid when this quiz was written, but it is now or will be on the next release" which is not a particularly valuable thing to check.
All of this to say that the landscape has changed a lot and I only know some of these things because I keep in touch with a lot of the interns that I work with after they leave. Even that is cherry picking because those people managed to get through the filters of "getting the internship" and also by extension have previous job experience on their resumes when they hit "real" interviews and is one further barrier for those that didn't/couldn't do internships for whatever reason.
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Comment on Record thefts boost North Korea to third-largest bitcoin holder in ~finance
DeaconBlue LinkThis is probably one of those cases where I'm just bad at recognizing the scale of numbers well outside my normal use, but it feels like nuclear and ballistic missile programs should cost more...This is probably one of those cases where I'm just bad at recognizing the scale of numbers well outside my normal use, but it feels like nuclear and ballistic missile programs should cost more than this.
A billion dollars is a lot of money, but there are more than a handful of billionaires. North Korea is funding 40% of their nuclear missile program with the wealth of a couple of them. It feels like the numbers that nation states deal with and the numbers that a person could deal with should be mutually exclusive ranges.
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Comment on Warner Bros negotiating big sale of shelved ‘Coyote Vs. Acme’ movie in ~movies
DeaconBlue Link ParentThis didn't read as a praise or criticism to me, rather just an observation.This didn't read as a praise or criticism to me, rather just an observation.
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Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime
DeaconBlue LinkDelicious in Dungeon It has taken me a few months but I am around 20 episodes in. I could not care less about the overarching story. I just can't bring myself to care about stakes in a world with...It has taken me a few months but I am around 20 episodes in.
I could not care less about the overarching story. I just can't bring myself to care about stakes in a world with high enough magic to have resurrection plot armor.
I adore the portrayal of various monsters though. There is at least some thought about how the monsters would fit into an ecosystem and how they would hunt rather than "and here is the next monster."
It isn't super serious and I appreciate it quite a bit. Looking forward to finishing the series.
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Comment on US Social Security to require millions to make claims in person rather than by phone in ~society
DeaconBlue (edited )Link ParentHard disagree here, they are doing an excellent job at their intended goals. Their intended goals are bad for the country and the people in it, but they are killing it. I don't like hiding the...(which could be completely made up, because DOGE is very bad at what they do)
Hard disagree here, they are doing an excellent job at their intended goals. Their intended goals are bad for the country and the people in it, but they are killing it. I don't like hiding the malice behind the vaneer of incompetence. They are sowing chaos and spreading misinformation as fast as they can, not stumbling around in the dark.
As for the meat of your point, yeah that figure is miniscule. People are bad at comparing numbers so far out of their normal scale.
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Comment on Block AI scrapers with Anubis in ~comp
DeaconBlue Link ParentI copied the relevant parts in my original post. By implementing this, you're willingly throwing out users that have underpowered machines or are in situations where they can't (or won't for any...Can I ask why you find it ridiculous?
I copied the relevant parts in my original post.
By implementing this, you're willingly throwing out users that have underpowered machines or are in situations where they can't (or won't for any number of reasons) use a modern browser or allow arbitrary javascript to run. By going this route you are already accepting that you won't be found by web crawlers, so you may as well use a lower tech solution like a content sharing token or something that doesn't lock out those users.
It's a solution looking for a problem, not the other way around.
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Comment on Block AI scrapers with Anubis in ~comp
DeaconBlue LinkThis is what I expected and also ridiculous in my opinion. If you're going to go this far out of your way to prevent people from accessing your stuff, just write it in a notebook and skip the website.This will also lock out users who have JavaScript disabled, prevent your server from being indexed in search engines, require users to have HTTP cookies enabled, and require users to spend time solving the proof-of-work challenge.
The most hilarious part about how Anubis is implemented is that it triggers challenges for every request with a User-Agent containing "Mozilla".
This does mean that users using text-only browsers or older machines where they are unable to update their browser will be locked out of services protected by Anubis. This is a tradeoff that I am not happy about, but it is the world we live in now.
This is what I expected and also ridiculous in my opinion. If you're going to go this far out of your way to prevent people from accessing your stuff, just write it in a notebook and skip the website.
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Comment on Chromecast alternatives in ~tech
DeaconBlue Link ParentI did notice that the certificate issue was fixed the other day. I have looked into the Onn thing but none of the solutions in this thread have really been an alternative that fits the real niche...I did notice that the certificate issue was fixed the other day. I have looked into the Onn thing but none of the solutions in this thread have really been an alternative that fits the real niche I am looking for (and it doesn't seem like one exists).
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Comment on Original ‘Looney Tunes’ no longer available on Max in ~tv
DeaconBlue (edited )Link ParentFor one, removing the familiar will make some subset of people try out the unfamiliar. "Oh, my show got removed, guess I will try this new show that was on my list." There is also the...For one, removing the familiar will make some subset of people try out the unfamiliar. "Oh, my show got removed, guess I will try this new show that was on my list."
There is also the consideration that the Netflixes and HBOs and whatevers of the world sometimes rent server space at "the last mile" type data centers and there is only so much space that they can use to deliver content at the speeds that people expect. If only N people watch Bugs Bunny, and 2N people want to watch some show that they just got rights to, they might replace Bugs with NewShow. Instead of delivering Bugs with buffering, it can be better to remove it entirely so that it doesn't make your service look bad.
The people on this site probably grok that different content might have different delivery speeds, but Joe Averageuser is going to call and complain that his service is messed up.
There is also the possibility that almost nobody actually cares and it isn't worth the effort to host of or deal with it. Like another person linked, this stuff is archived and widely available. An example of "has the rights but not worth dealing with" in my area is that (as far as I can tell) HP owns a patent to a couple of Nintendo 64 Dev libraries that they got through acquisitions. I am sure that nobody working there consciously realizes that they have them, and they aren't paying one of their lawyers to write me up a license agreement for it for a price that would make sense, so it may as well not exist.
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Comment on Party City | Bankrupt in ~finance
DeaconBlue Link ParentI went to one a couple of years ago in the US and felt like the entire store was a throwback to the 90s in a "how does this still exist?" kind of way. The whole business is predicated on cheap...I went to one a couple of years ago in the US and felt like the entire store was a throwback to the 90s in a "how does this still exist?" kind of way.
The whole business is predicated on cheap branded garbage. The concept of "buy it for life" birthday party ornaments just doesn't make sense so it has to be garbage. The internet has some much more efficient ways to drop ship garbage than a brick and mortar store ever will.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
DeaconBlue Link ParentI really enjoyed that game when it came out, but story mode lost me very quickly because it required a bunch of short runs to progress the story. I think there is a "classic" mode?I really enjoyed that game when it came out, but story mode lost me very quickly because it required a bunch of short runs to progress the story.
I think there is a "classic" mode?
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Comment on Chromecast alternatives in ~tech
DeaconBlue Link ParentThat is the ideal state, yeah. Is there any project to emulate that behavior?Are you dead set on using your phone to browse your Jellyfin library and "cast" it to your TV?
That is the ideal state, yeah. Is there any project to emulate that behavior?
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Comment on Chromecast alternatives in ~tech
DeaconBlue Link Parent1 - correct, mostly Jellyfin 2 - Sure, if I can run it without third party authentication 3 - I have a Jellyfin server already, I just want a local thing for the button to cast to1 - correct, mostly Jellyfin
2 - Sure, if I can run it without third party authentication
3 - I have a Jellyfin server already, I just want a local thing for the button to cast to
Is this not a thing already? I thought my work PC had some of those after the update until I disabled as much lock screen stuff as I could.