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5·13 days agoLemmy is not encrypted, my comments are public, your comments are public, we both know that. Anyone with a raspberry pi or an old netbook can scrape them.
If I use an encrypted service and all of a sudden everything that I thought was encrypted was decrypted by the service provider without my consent? That’s breaking encryption.
If on the other hand I use an encrypted service and they tell me that they can no longer offer the service, my data will be destroyed after X days, and I need to find another way of storing my encrypted data because of privacy invading government policies? That is not breaking encryption.
For many things I completely agree.
That said, we just had our second kid, and neither set of grandparents live locally. That we can video chat with our family — for free, essentially! — is astonishing. And it’s not a big deal, not something we plan, just, “hey let’s say hi to Gramma and Gramps!”
When I was a kid, videoconferencing was exclusive to seriously high end offices. And when we wanted to make a long distance phone call, we’d sometimes plan it in advance and buy prepaid minutes (this was on a landline, mid 90s maybe). Now my mom can just chat with her friend “across the pond” whenever she wants, from the comfort of her couch, and for zero incremental cost.
I think technology that “feels like tech” is oftentimes a time sink and a waste. But the tech we take for granted? There’s some pretty amazing stuff there.
3·13 days agoSeriously, it is the lowest-latency and highest-bandwidth communication method we have, when used appropriately.
3·14 days agoMy usual:
- Peanut butter and jam sandwich on multi grain.
- Beans (garbanzo or a melange — start with dried and cook in instant pot or other pressure cooker)
- Fruit (banana, strawberries, maybe other berries)
- Veggies (carrot sticks, broccoli, cucumber)
Sometimes throw in some rice, a mandarin orange, or just leftovers from dinner. I’m vegetarian so the kiddo doesn’t get meat in their packed lunch (they can eat whatever they want though, and do at restaurants).
6·14 days agoThey were thinking of making a Minority Report adaptation (with Arnold, not Cruise) as the sequel to Total Recall, with the mutant Martians as the precogs. Could have been a fun one!
5·18 days agoI prefer the phrase “testicular manifold.”
We had kids — we wanted to make friends in our 30s, so we just made the friends. Problem solved.
(In all seriousness, your friend — or at least, acquaintance — group explodes when you have daycare/kid activities.)
5·19 days agoSome bulk food stores let you bring your own. You put a sticker on them with the bulk item # and also the dry weight, so it’s a little more work, but then you can put your jars to use!
6·20 days agoI thought it was just “Slashdotted.”
0·20 days agoNewer macOS is not Unix certified.
It’s UNIX 03 compliant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification
One or two Linux distros were (are?) UNIX certified, though.
Indeed, the 1st and 3rd worst offenders for plastic per capita are administrative regions of China (Macau and Hong Kong) https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/plastic-pollution-by-country
There’s a bulk food store near me and it allows BYO containers (or you can use one of their compostable bags). It’s great! A little bit more work (you need to tare your/container write down the empty weight), but you get your goods in the container of your choice.
1·21 days agoWhat’s the alternative? Strong arm a democratically elected — even if stupid at times — government to change policy? That’s a terrifying precedent.
The other alternative is to backdoor or otherwise compromise users in other jurisdictions. Glad they didn’t do that.
If your distro can’t be forked into a “beginner distro” then it’s fundamentally flawed IMHO*.
To be clear, I’ve used Arch as my daily drivers for a while, and while it’s not the best fit for my needs (I use Debian mostly), there’s nothing that I experienced that was incompatible with a “beginner” distro.
That character is from the 20s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddy_Kilowatt
You can also drop cache for debugging by running something like
echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop-cachesBut remember that the kernel knows best — this RAM will be automatically be freed up when needed and you should never run this except for debugging (or maybe benchmarking).
As someone from San Francisco, I’d suggest at least looking into it as an option. (I’m a straight white guy though so maybe not the best source here…). In particular https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_District,_San_Francisco
For some color on the type of neighborhood it is, here’s a recent incident. Unfortunately it involved some violence, but the good guys won (I don’t think it should be triggering…): https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/11/nudists-save-tourist-attack-castro/
Of course, San Francisco being in the US, I wouldn’t blame you for trying to find somewhere else. But California (and SF in particular) is very different than Trump country.
But this is a weird thing to lie about — the only reason to implement toner DRM is to get people to buy your cartridges. But if your public statement is, “it’s ok to buy off brand cartridges,” then…well… that’s kinda weird.
Not saying you’re wrong, and they could be trying to have their cake and eat it too (court the anti-DRM crowd but also scare people into sticking with their toner). I’m just saying your snarky/sarcastic response seems unwarranted here.