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Comment on Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ in ~tech
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Comment on Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ in ~tech
sleepydave Link ParentI find it difficult to see macbooks as "value" devices when they're peddling non-upgradable 8GB models for a base price of 1000 USD. Apple understands their target demographics are not tech-savvy...I find it difficult to see macbooks as "value" devices when they're peddling non-upgradable 8GB models for a base price of 1000 USD. Apple understands their target demographics are not tech-savvy people, and banking on the fact that the vast majority won't ever realise the blatant price gouging Apple has been inflicting upon their customers.
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Comment on UK's Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed in ~tech
sleepydave Link ParentWeb Environment Integrity will get us close to that "authorised clients only" reality, only difference being our internet overlords will be Google.Web Environment Integrity will get us close to that "authorised clients only" reality, only difference being our internet overlords will be Google.
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Comment on UK's Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed in ~tech
sleepydave Link ParentI wasn't advocating for terrorism, theft, scams etc. at all. What you're talking about are crimes that have existed since long before the internet, and should be treated as such in that they...I wasn't advocating for terrorism, theft, scams etc. at all. What you're talking about are crimes that have existed since long before the internet, and should be treated as such in that they should be penalised by law enforcement efforts on a case-by-case basis where the penalty is appropriate for the crime, not overstepping communications control legislation.
"How will society function?"
As it always has. Scamming and dishonesty have existed for as long as intelligent life has existed, and will continue to be perpetrated regardless of the internet's existence.
Believe it or not, people do not live their entire existences under oath - there are only a handful of circumstances in life where you're legally obligated to be truthful. It's the responsibility of the consumer to make sure they're sourcing reliable information and to fact check anything they're not sure of - not the responsibility of any public-access platform to act as the Police & Gatekeepers of Truth®, and certainly not the responsibility of the poster of information to actually be telling the truth in the first place (obvious legal exceptions aside).
"The concept of internet regulation and oversight have to be implemented if we are to retain functioning liberal democracies. That's what's at stake: our entire mode of civilization and nothing less."
"We must control the people's means of communication. Our freedom depends on it."
"...those with money/power/means can simply encrypt their communications and then get away with all sorts of crime..."
Anyone can encrypt their communications if they want to, and I strongly recommend everyone does just that. Try Signal if you haven't already. Just like any other tool, there is obviously potential for abuse. The UK currently has a significant problem with knife violence, would you disallow everyone from cutting their vegetables and buttering their toast because a tiny fraction of the population used a knife with bad intent? Most people are law-abiding citizens who just want to be able to communicate with others knowing that the three-letter mafia can't just rip their messages out of the air in clear text.
"...with zero probability of getting caught.
Encryption is not infallible. Read pretty much any article on the Snowden whistleblower docs to find out that...
Spoiler Alert!
The NSA has been decrypting the public's emails and other message formats for decades.
Just because you see no value in privacy or freedom of expression doesn't mean others' lifestyles should be beholden to your feelings.
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Comment on UK's Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed in ~tech
sleepydave LinkSimilar vibes to a recent headline along the lines of "China will crack down on speech/content/people that offends national sensibilities and pride". I'm all for removing actually harmful content...Similar vibes to a recent headline along the lines of "China will crack down on speech/content/people that offends national sensibilities and pride".
I'm all for removing actually harmful content from the open internet (CSAM and the like) but for better or worse the internet as I've always seen it has been a wild west, and should stay that way. Legislation written like this is a very slippery slope towards public discourse being molded into "parroting the state-sponsored popular opinion for fear of penalty" discourse over time (again, China vibes).
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Comment on Leaked Wipeout source code leads to near-total rewrite and remaster in ~games
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Comment on Italian man crushed to death under falling cheese wheels in ~food
sleepydave Linkplayer.AddItem 00064B34 2000 I'm sorry you had to read that. We all took an arrow to the knee today.I'm sorry you had to read that. We all took an arrow to the knee today. -
Comment on Shutting down Feminist Frequency in ~games
sleepydave Link ParentI've read a fair few articles about his legal issues over the past year, I wasn't writing quite as literally as I usually do - what I meant was that I'm not super well-informed on the finer...I've read a fair few articles about his legal issues over the past year, I wasn't writing quite as literally as I usually do - what I meant was that I'm not super well-informed on the finer details like whether or not he doxxed any information about the victims that wasn't already publicly available. I don't watch his videos so I also don't know whether or not he actually incited harassment against the families in a literal sense, ergo whether or not he should be held liable for the actions of others.
As for your "if you were informed you would know" statement, the monetary value is truly irrelevant. Some Sandy Hook survivor families might see the ordered damages as not enough while others might see them as far and above what they were expecting, and that inherent subjectivity is the proof that a monetary value awarded by a court cannot possibly represent damage to a person's livelihood, health or well being. On top of that there are any number of confounding factors during a trial that would affect the outcome of damages, which could be as simple and transient as the mood of the judge and jury on the day of ruling.
Most importantly, and the point I made in my earlier comment, the legal damages are irrelevant because no dollar amount can change what the victims' families had to go through. The nature of immeasurable damage to a family's wellbeing is very self-explanatory.
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Comment on Shutting down Feminist Frequency in ~games
sleepydave Link ParentThe monetary value is irrelevant, he could have been ordered to pay 50 cents or a trillion dollars and it wouldn't change the impact his speech had. That being said (and as much as I would...The monetary value is irrelevant, he could have been ordered to pay 50 cents or a trillion dollars and it wouldn't change the impact his speech had. That being said (and as much as I would personally disagree with his views), if he wants to question the legitimacy of a national tragedy that's his prerogative, just like how people can claim to believe the earth is flat despite how counter-productive to collective education those claims may be. Doxxing victims with intent is another matter entirely if that's true, but I'm not super well-informed about Jones other than the fact that he's a pretty wild conspiracy nutter.
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Comment on Shutting down Feminist Frequency in ~games
sleepydave Link ParentOpening such a brazenly incorrect statement with "let's be real here" is just an insult to the intelligence of anyone who reads this. As someone who holds no particular allegiance to either side...Let's be real here, no one on the left is the equivalent of Alex Jones, the left is just factually not as shitty as the right is.
Opening such a brazenly incorrect statement with "let's be real here" is just an insult to the intelligence of anyone who reads this. As someone who holds no particular allegiance to either side of American binary politics and considers myself a pretty strict centrist I've seen some awful behaviour from either side of the aisle in the name of their political ideals, the key difference being that extreme liberalism is considered socially acceptable while extreme conservatism isn't. Alex Jones may have said some moronic shit that I would never agree with, but I've also heard extreme leftists preach their extreme ideals only to denigrate anyone who has an opposing opinion as a Nazi or other similar slander.
Nobody should be absolved of their shitty behaviour simply because their political cause happens to be the more socially-acceptable one at any given point in history.
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Comment on Twinkle Tray: FOSS display brightness control in ~comp
sleepydave LinkI thought I'd post about this invaluable tool since only a small handful of desktop/external display users know it exists :) Twinkle Tray is an open-source brightness and contrast control utility...I thought I'd post about this invaluable tool since only a small handful of desktop/external display users know it exists :) Twinkle Tray is an open-source brightness and contrast control utility for Windows that works with any DDC/CI-compliant display (pretty much any monitor made by a major manufacturer over the past ten years) so you don't have to do the induce-early-onset-arthritis-while-you-blindly-fumble-at-the-inconveniently-placed-OSD-switches dance. It actually interfaces with the display itself to control the OSD brightness/contrast values rather than artificially changing brightness through image processing.
I highly recommend setting it to run on startup and bind hotkeys for brightness up and down commands, I've set mine to Win+Shift+F9 (down) and Win+Shift+F10 (up) for those who want an easy jumping off point that won't conflict with other program shortcuts.
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Twinkle Tray: FOSS display brightness control
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Comment on Anyone daily driving a jailbroken iPhone? in ~tech
sleepydave Link ParentI think it's a valid question - if the OP is actually looking for a functional user experience and isn't stuck in iOS's proprietary walled garden they would likely find that jailbroken iOS is...I think it's a valid question - if the OP is actually looking for a functional user experience and isn't stuck in iOS's proprietary walled garden they would likely find that jailbroken iOS is functionally equivalent to stock Android.
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Comment on Moog bought by inMusic in ~creative
sleepydave LinkJust after Native Instruments announced Plugin Alliance/Brainworx et al. will be merged into their proprietary DRM software centre crap - I feel like the pro audio sector is heading down a pretty...Just after Native Instruments announced Plugin Alliance/Brainworx et al. will be merged into their proprietary DRM software centre crap - I feel like the pro audio sector is heading down a pretty grim path. Moog is the last company that I would have ever imagined allowing themselves to be bought out by a company like InMusic and it almost seems to mark the end of an era for pro audio.
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Comment on How to get back into recording music? in ~creative
sleepydave LinkReaper may seem intimidating on the surface but the most difficult thing about it is the small period of time where you don't know much about it at all. Learning Reaper's workflow will take a bit...Reaper may seem intimidating on the surface but the most difficult thing about it is the small period of time where you don't know much about it at all. Learning Reaper's workflow will take a bit of getting used to if you're coming from Logic but it will be worth it and it's only a short time before you're over the hurdle.
Adding to what @Kazarelth said, Kenny Gioia's tutorials are a great resource and you should not only use them during your "tutorial island" period but also as a reference while you get a better handle on things. I wouldn't personally recommend applying a custom theme until you're pretty confident in your ability to navigate the system though, it will just make things more difficult if you find a tutorial video for what you need but you have to figure out the UI disparities for yourself.
The more important aspect you should focus your efforts on is your monitoring & room acoustics - if you want to take your music seriously headphones are likely not going to cut it. Find yourself a well-regarded pair of studio monitoring speakers with an appropriate cone size for your room and a quality audio interface (I'd recommend MOTU M2 or M4 in your case if you're not satisfied with your current one) and learn how to acoustically treat your recording and mixing space - your speakers can only ever sound as good as the room they're in so I'd recommend a bit of heavy reading for that. The Master Handbook of Acoustics is the gold standard reading material - you may get thrown off by the physics thrown at you in the first few pages but you don't need to know that much, what you need to know is about room tone and how it relates to size, reflectivity of your surfaces, phase correlation/cancellation nodes and how to treat it. Once you've gotten past that you can use something like SoundID Reference to automate impulse tests of your room and correct for any further deficiencies.
I know this all sounds pretty intimidating, but believe it or not we were all in your position at one point and with effort and willingness to learn you can overcome it :) Assuming Reddit doesn't become another Digg incident in the near future, r/audioengineering as well as Gearspace and KVR forums can have some useful information (I wouldn't spend too much time on the last two unless you need something really specific) - otherwise feel free to fire any questions you have at me either here or in DM's.
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Comment on What are some of your most frequently visited websites? in ~tech
sleepydave Link Parent+1 for OzBargain, but I suggest you set up a keyword notification system otherwise you could spend half your life trawling for menial "deals" only to have a small handful of them being worth your...+1 for OzBargain, but I suggest you set up a keyword notification system otherwise you could spend half your life trawling for menial "deals" only to have a small handful of them being worth your time. Aussie aussie aussie.
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Comment on Haunting covers, or something like that in ~music
sleepydave LinkAndrew VanWyngarden (of MGMT fame) managed to turn that annoying Dance Monkey song into a pretty haunting doom & gloom cover - https://youtube.com/watch?v=NE9otdpMqCkAndrew VanWyngarden (of MGMT fame) managed to turn that annoying Dance Monkey song into a pretty haunting doom & gloom cover - https://youtube.com/watch?v=NE9otdpMqCk
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Comment on One more reason to hate cockroaches in ~science
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Comment on The value of artistic legacy in ~talk
sleepydave Link ParentThis is just a difference in opinion, but I was raised to respect the dead since all that remains of them in this world are the memories and legacy they left with us, and that's something to be...This is just a difference in opinion, but I was raised to respect the dead since all that remains of them in this world are the memories and legacy they left with us, and that's something to be valued highly and preserved where possible.
A quote from Milne himself if you're wondering whether he would have cared about what he was remembered for:
"I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next."
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Comment on The value of artistic legacy in ~talk
sleepydave Link ParentThanks for your thoughtful reply, lots to think about :) I'm well aware that much of what I wrote about is just down to my own bias/subjective beliefs, but it's easy to say that in a dismissive...Thanks for your thoughtful reply, lots to think about :) I'm well aware that much of what I wrote about is just down to my own bias/subjective beliefs, but it's easy to say that in a dismissive way and not place enough importance on it despite the fact that's how people typically function. When something with the title "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" is released to the world we immediately associate it with the original work involuntarily, there's no concious process for us to switch off that mental association. If the filmmakers had gone the way of The Orville and made no mention of the inspirational work in their branding and kept it identifiably separate that would be a different case, but here the issue rises from directly taking the life's work of someone else and (subjectively speaking) bastardizing it in a way the original creator would never have stood for, using the exact branding, story and characters as the original.
I mentioned some potential parallels about trademark law in my other reply in this thread if you care to read it for context, but I would equate a situation like this to a company creating a search engine platform called Google 2: Electric Boogaloo that only served links to and images of violent/gore content and Google somehow having no legal grounds to preserve their brand image or enforce their trademark.
The comparison to the Eragon/Artemis Fowl/Percy Jackson movie adaptations doesn't make a lot of sense to me honestly, they may well have been crappy adaptations (subjectively speaking!) but they were well-intentioned attempts at something faithful to the spirit of the original writing - they just missed the mark and that's perfectly forgiveable. Here we have a case where the filmmakers are deliberately violating the spirit of the original work by turning it into violent shock content - something that anyone with common sense can recognise is polar opposite to the values expressed in Milne's work and more so intended to shock & offend than tell a story. To reference my Mickey Mouse speculation in my post, I can fairly confidently say that many of those porn-y/gory Mickey parodies we'll be seeing in the not-too-distant future will be both posted and popularised by many people wanting to get their digs at Disney (corporation, not person) by violating their family-friendly brand image.
That being said I do always try my best to separate art from artist and let people enjoy art despite my own opinions, I just wanted to post my little philosophical experience here and get a grasp on some other perspectives :) I'm not a conservative at all but I found it really fascinating that I was feeling more understanding about certain conservative/'pearl-clutching'-type thoughts as a result of this.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying macbooks are unusable - I used to daily drive one for about 6 years. I think Apple's greatest accomplishment to this day has been making the first palatable Unix OS for the average end user. I'm just fed up with seeing the anti-consumer business practices, including but not limited to, the obnoxious memory pricing and the "just buy your mom an iPhone" mantra.