vord's recent activity
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Comment on My take on Apple's Liquid Glass in ~tech
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Comment on Disney decides it hasn’t angered people enough, announces Disney+ price hikes in ~tv
vord Link ParentReally only as old as 1950 or so. When piracy was mainstream as it was the main selling point of these fancy new reel-to-reel recorders.Really only as old as 1950 or so. When piracy was mainstream as it was the main selling point of these fancy new reel-to-reel recorders.
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Comment on Disney decides it hasn’t angered people enough, announces Disney+ price hikes in ~tv
vord Link ParentMost of the works that we say were written by Shakespear are secondhand accounts from the people performing them.Most of the works that we say were written by Shakespear are secondhand accounts from the people performing them.
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Comment on Disney decides it hasn’t angered people enough, announces Disney+ price hikes in ~tv
vord Link ParentApple music pays out $0.01 per stream, which is on the higher end of the spectrum. Which basically means that unless you're a multi-platinum artist, you'll make more money from one pirate...If you buy a song for 1.29, sure it's not a lot of that 1.29 making it to the band member by the end of it.
Apple music pays out $0.01 per stream, which is on the higher end of the spectrum. Which basically means that unless you're a multi-platinum artist, you'll make more money from one pirate attending a concert than a thousand people streaming it legally.
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Comment on My take on Apple's Liquid Glass in ~tech
vord Link ParentBefore smartphones, a cellphone only needed to be plugged in approximately once a week. I kinda miss not having to worry about caring a charging cable and/or a power brick anytime I'm away from...I think we can allow this sort of thing as technology progresses
Before smartphones, a cellphone only needed to be plugged in approximately once a week. I kinda miss not having to worry about caring a charging cable and/or a power brick anytime I'm away from home for more than 24 hours.
"It's ok to bloat because technology advances" is how we ended up with a huge digital divide between the haves and the have-nots. Particularly those whom cannot afford technology made within the last decade.
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Comment on Bitnami’s August 28th bombshell: The end of free container images as we know them in ~tech
vord (edited )Link ParentTo be fair, I mostly consider devops to be a rebranding. Same shit, different tools and expectations. My main crankiness is the love of YAML in the new tooling. I love the tools that use it, but...To be fair, I mostly consider devops to be a rebranding. Same shit, different tools and expectations.
My main crankiness is the love of YAML in the new tooling. I love the tools that use it, but dear lord it gets out of control easily.
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Comment on Bitnami’s August 28th bombshell: The end of free container images as we know them in ~tech
vord LinkIt's really not that hard to pull the latest tag, apply your own fixes, and then document and version it internally. You are running a private container registry, right? The thing that is most...Use “latest” tags: Abandon version control, risking deployment chaos, compatibility issues and compliance violations.
It's really not that hard to pull the latest tag, apply your own fixes, and then document and version it internally. You are running a private container registry, right?
The thing that is most amusing to me is that this entire crisis is not that big deal to people who still have sysadmins on staff. A decent number of them likely still have bash scripts and makefiles to bring any system to production-ready inside a day.
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Comment on I tried to protect my kids from the internet. Here’s what happened. in ~tech
vord (edited )Link ParentHere's what I do for an < 10: Use the linux computer in the dining room with no hard restrictions whatsoever. No tablet or phone garbage. Kagi is set to default search with safesearch enabled....Here's what I do for an < 10: Use the linux computer in the dining room with no hard restrictions whatsoever. No tablet or phone garbage. Kagi is set to default search with safesearch enabled.
Turns out it's pretty easy to reduce exposure by not giving them access to an always-connected pocket computer.
When they start venturing out on their own, they're not getting some fancy smartwatch or old phone with attempts at lockdowns. They're gonna get a $10 prepaid dumbphone that can call and sms with as little mobile data as possible. Press 1 for parents. press 2/3 for aunts. Rest of numbers for friends.
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Comment on Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads in ~tech
vord Link ParentBeauty of BLE mesh is that it'll only take one device that is connected. Doesn't matter if you own it. Amazon Sidewalk is only the beginning. Just need a neighbor with an Echo. And everyone has a...Beauty of BLE mesh is that it'll only take one device that is connected. Doesn't matter if you own it.
Amazon Sidewalk is only the beginning. Just need a neighbor with an Echo.
And everyone has a lot more faith in Apple than they should. As they capture more and more of the market with a locked-down ecosystem, it becomes trvially easy to deploy something like this buried deep in a ToS with an opt-out button buried deep in a menu somewhere.
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Comment on Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads in ~tech
vord Link ParentThat trick is gonna stop working with BLE meshes. It'll just trickle data via your cellphone when in range. My washer is the only smart device I love. And that's because machine learning makes a...That trick is gonna stop working with BLE meshes. It'll just trickle data via your cellphone when in range.
My washer is the only smart device I love. And that's because machine learning makes a lot of sense on a washer/dryer combo. If only to keep it from self destructing on an unbalanced load.
A lot of smart device hell could be solved with right to repair laws that mandate unlockable bootloaders and public documentation, enabling easy malicious interoperability. Spread the word.
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Comment on Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads in ~tech
vord Link ParentMy logo will be the FLCL robot in black and white, re-enacting that scene in Pi.My logo will be the FLCL robot in black and white, re-enacting that scene in Pi.
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Comment on Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads in ~tech
vord Link ParentI'll start selling aftermarket doors without screens.I'll start selling aftermarket doors without screens.
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Comment on ente.io as a Google Photos alternative? in ~tech
vord Link ParentLooks like I'll have to take this for a test drive. Thanks!Looks like I'll have to take this for a test drive. Thanks!
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Comment on ente.io as a Google Photos alternative? in ~tech
vord LinkI'm going to copy/paste an older post of mine, because I'm still on the hunt. Any suggestions are welcome. There's a plethora of online photo libraries out there, but from the ones I've test...I'm going to copy/paste an older post of mine, because I'm still on the hunt. Any suggestions are welcome.
There's a plethora of online photo libraries out there, but from the ones I've test drove, they're lacking in the ability to quickly do super basic editing.
I don't really care about advanced editing, but I want a web-based open source photo library with:
- A basic authentication to prevent abuse, though I guess I could throw behind a proxy
- A mobile CSS
- Seamless backup of edited photos
- Tagging
- Metadata editor
- Ability to rotate and crop
- Easily prune the library
- Easily share individual photos/folders/albums with or without metadata
- Doesn't even need file upload capabilities, because the photo dumping is done via other tools.
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Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech
vord Link ParentAnd I'm sure that has nothing to do with most browsers being owned by massive tech giants that lose more money now that more laws are passing that require honoring it. There is no legitimate...It also turns out most browsers are phasing it out
And I'm sure that has nothing to do with most browsers being owned by massive tech giants that lose more money now that more laws are passing that require honoring it.
There is no legitimate reason to remove support other than 'it puts advertisers at legal risk for not respecting it. The fingerprinting problem would be solved by having it in a proper settings wizard.
Of course, telemetry and tracking will always be opt-out until we put the axe in the back of online advertising.
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Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech
vord LinkTurn off mouse acceleration. It inhibits your ability to develop the muscle memory to quickly move the mouse cursor precisely. Make sure you have the Do Not Track signal being sent out by your...Turn off mouse acceleration. It inhibits your ability to develop the muscle memory to quickly move the mouse cursor precisely.
Make sure you have the Do Not Track signal being sent out by your browser. Especially if you live somewhere with laws requiring honoring of it.
Dark mode. All the time, every thing with a backlight. Because the less you stare at bright lights the better.
Semi-related: Disable any notification for all apps that aren't used for urgent communication. Push notifications are the popup of the 21st century. I have a related blog post percolating: Make things harder to use.
If your hybrid or electric car has a "comfort" mode, make sure it's set to that. The efficiency differences between that and Eco are minimal, and your passengers will thank you by not having your car lurch to a stop.
Unless you're printing out for something life-changing or a photograph, use draft mode.
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Comment on Is OpenWRT worthwhile at home? in ~comp
vord LinkMy OpenWRT setup was just fine back when I had fiber. These days I need a cron job to bounce the DNS service every day, probably due to all the extra DNS shennanigans with cloud providers. And the...My OpenWRT setup was just fine back when I had fiber.
These days I need a cron job to bounce the DNS service every day, probably due to all the extra DNS shennanigans with cloud providers. And the secondary is showing signs of hardware wonk.
I'm back on a cycle of trying to consolidate devices again, so my next router will probably be an old desktop with a wifi and a 4-port ethernet card running OPNSense or a Linux server doing the same and a second OpenWRT router or raspberry pi serving as an AP.
All of that to say: If you're not using OpenWRT for ideological reasons, and don't need any network setup more complex than some port forwards, you might as well use what's there or something mentioned in other comments.
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Comment on Your phone already has social credit. We just lie about it. in ~finance
vord (edited )Link ParentConsidering that every employer I've applied to in the last 5 years has a mandatory LinkedIn URL field,I'm gonna say yes. It's also what's not there. If every current employee has a public active...but is the fact that I don't post enough on LinkedIn going to result in me not getting a job?
Considering that every employer I've applied to in the last 5 years has a mandatory LinkedIn URL field,I'm gonna say yes.
It's also what's not there. If every current employee has a public active Instagram account, and you don't.... would they see that as a warning sign?
Also, regarding Uber
If I'm an Uber driver, I'm probably not picking someone up that has one star not because I don't approve of their lifestyle or because I want them to be more moral, I'm not picking them up because I don't want them to puke in my car, start an argument with me, then slash my tires.
If you refuse too many riders, they will offer rides to other drivers first. So you you have to choose: Is that risk worth continually lowering your income for the week?
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
vord (edited )Link ParentThat's moral relativism in a nutshell. Murder is not automatically evil to everyone. All actions and reactions are all based on a fuzzy line that shifts around based on circumstances. An awful lot...That's moral relativism in a nutshell. Murder is not automatically evil to everyone. All actions and reactions are all based on a fuzzy line that shifts around based on circumstances.
An awful lot of people revere veterans even though murder is basically their job.
I'm mostly against the death penalty, but that's mostly because of the above combined with systemic injustice. So is my wife. But my wife is also quite happy thay her rapist killed himself. Is that glorifying suicide?
Would it be wrong for her to tell her mother, whom is now suicidal, "Yea, you probably should kill yourself because you're a worthless drain on society, and now that your mother is dead nobody loves you because you abandoned me to go do heroin instead?" Most think it would be wrong, even if that's her true feelings.
Not all death is tragic or wrong. Charlie's here was, at a minimum, not tragic. Did Charlie break any laws that would bring him to proper justice for the damage he has wrought? Not in the good old USA. So, when somebody does return a good dose of his own medicine.....I'd vote not guilty on that jury.
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Comment on What can I do with my old Pixel 3 phone in 2025? in ~tech
vord LinkI just keep using it as a phone and texting device. Turns out if you don't do more than that, the security risk is basically 0.I just keep using it as a phone and texting device.
Turns out if you don't do more than that, the security risk is basically 0.
Green on black for days.