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AtmaJnana

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AtmaJnana ,

From the title and picture, I thought this was some weird diss on the depicted Brother laser printer and stopped by to defend it. Fortunately it is, instead, tauting the superiority of Brother laser printers.

I own the depicted printer, or one very close to it, and it is a workhorse. Brother laser printers are the way.

AtmaJnana ,

Between this Anthem, Target, and OPM, it seems likely that most Americans have their SSN out there for criminals to buy.

AtmaJnana ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act

AtmaJnana ,

Not a federal ID, but a federal standard for State IDs.
And not "only", but SocSec card is one of the several forms of ID you could use. Not required and not enough by itself.

AtmaJnana , (edited )

Isnt NewPipe still making calls to YouTube from your IP? I think you'd need to also configure it to use an Invidious or Piped instance.

AtmaJnana , (edited )

Commiting felonies to antagonize a DOJ lawyer personally would be a whole different level of stupid.

AtmaJnana ,

NAL, but it would likely be enough for a felony obstruction of justice charge. Add to that, depending on specifics of Apple's legal response (and whether they throw the employee under the bus,) a CPAA charge for exceeding authorized access in a computer system.

AtmaJnana , (edited )

Have a look at their profiles and decide for yourself.

https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines

https://github.com/dessalines

https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic

https://github.com/nutomic

AtmaJnana ,

The same Europe that is home to Orban and Vucic and Erdogan? Yeah, good thing you never elect right-wing ideologues with a penchant for authoritarianism.

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

AtmaJnana ,

I once got an Apple Watch as a bonus at work. Had to sell it to a buddy because I couldn't use it without an iPhone. So dumb.

It's Not Safe to Click Links on X (lifehacker.com)

As noted by security researcher Will Dormann, some posts on X purport to lead to a legitimate website, but actually redirect somewhere else. In Dormann's example, an advertisement posted by a verified X user claims to lead to forbes.com. When Dormann clicks the link, however, it takes him to a different link to open a Telegram...

AtmaJnana ,

I have Nitter Redirect installed, but Nitter stopped working. So it just blackholes all X links. Some day I'll add them to my pihole, I guess.

AtmaJnana ,

Reading comprehension is important. As is a highschool level understanding of how our legal system works.

AtmaJnana , (edited )

Is there a community for funny comics? I need more humor in my life, not whatever this is.

edit: there is !humor

AtmaJnana ,

As an outsider with a researcher PhD in the family, I suspect its an issue of how the institutions measure success. How many papers? How many cites? Other metrics might work, but probably not as broadly. I assume they will also care about the size of your staff, how much grant money you get, patents held, etc.

I suspect that, short of a Nobel prize, it is difficult to objectively measure how one is advancing scientific progress (without a PhD committee to evaluate it.)

AtmaJnana ,

More important question for me:

what is the oldest MacOS with xcode support (and therefore oldest I can run brew on)?

I keep meaning to figure this out.

AtmaJnana ,

Brother gang, rise up

AtmaJnana ,

You know, we also have a very sturdily built Brother sewing machine and I never noticed that they're the same company that made our printer.

AtmaJnana ,

What are you doing, step-printer!?

AtmaJnana ,

When you invent the www, you get to use w3.org as your blog... e.g.

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Charlie.html

more:

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

AtmaJnana , (edited )

So? He stays pretty busy with Solid / Inrupt and his other advocacy (e.g., the OP article...)

Perhaps he sees the personal blog format as a bit egotistical or otherwise not fit for purpose. Or perhaps he just isn't a naturally talented writer. Its not as if he's shy about sharing his thoughts outside that.

Also worth noting that he and Bruce Schneier, who is a much more prolific writer, share many of the same views and partner together at Inrupt.

AtmaJnana ,

Get after it, then

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    AtmaJnana ,

    Also a Stanislaw Lem novel about a similar premise.

    AtmaJnana , (edited )

    My candidate may not win, but damnit they will count my vote and know that I dissent.

    Which is the same exact reason I vote third party despite them mostly not winning.

    edit: keep downvoting me. I'm sure that will help convince me to vote for your team, just like the last 50 times it happened.

    AtmaJnana ,

    Yeah, let's turn our space into a cesspool! We'll show those darned invaders!

    AtmaJnana ,

    oof. Never noticed that about reincarnation. What could be worse than dying? Being brought back to suffer more.

    AtmaJnana ,

    just buy a little stick-on privacy slider. They're like 3 for $10

    AtmaJnana ,

    yeah for my macbook, i use gaffer's tape.

    After default password disclosed online, 1200 inmates have prison issued laptops seized by guards, threatening their ability to make class deadlines (www.opencampusmedia.org)

    Zhang, an electrical engineer in Boston, decided to post about trying to unlock his Justice Tech Solutions Securebook 5 on the social platform X. The thread went viral — also catching the attention of Washington corrections officials, who have used the device for college programming since 2020....

    AtmaJnana ,

    Intentionally inflammatory and misleading headlines on Lemmy? Pshaw. The hell you say.

    AtmaJnana ,

    may also need a burner phone. they sometimes require SMS verification, though that might be mostly for Tor or VPN.

    AtmaJnana ,

    I knew just what OP meant, based on context. Sure, it could have been phrased better, but there's no need to be rude.

    AtmaJnana ,

    Exactly. I also inferred all this from just the two word title and the context of which community it is in.

    AtmaJnana ,

    As someone with ADHD: please dont blame lack of meds for shit like this. You are contributing to the stigma. Just own your mistakes.

    AtmaJnana ,

    I aoologize, I should have realized it would feel like I was piling on and that wasn't really my intent.

    I'm not saying it aint the ADHD. Not to be presumptuous, but I suspect from the sound of it I am probably a lot like you in some ways. I'm just saying you dont need to bring up ADHD at all. Just accept that you fucked up, apologize, and move on. And that's what I meant by "own your mistake." I felt like bringing up ADHD is still deflecting unnecessarily. It doesn't mean you are a shitty person, it just means you were rude once on the internet.

    I understand that I didn’t need to respond at all and that I was adding negative energy where there wasn’t any… generally not a nice thing to do. Looking back on it, I see that.

    That's a very mature way to view it. I respect that.

    I fucking suck, I see that

    I dont think that is a healthy way to view having made a mistake, especially one so minor. Not that I generally manage to avoid the same trap. I think the mindful approach to guilt or remorse would be to observe and judge the actions, but not to judge ourselves. With this, give yourself some grace. You're probably your own worst critic.

    and I will endeavor to do better.

    I've always viewed apologies as best summed up by this sentiment. Almost every time I cause hurt or harm, it is unintentional. Unfortunately, that is rarely an excuse. The best I can do is try to make up for it and try not to make the same mistake, in the same way, again.

    Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)

    We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there's been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of...

    AtmaJnana , (edited )

    You heard it here first.

    2024: Year of the Linux Desktop

    AtmaJnana ,

    ixnay

    Statcounter says it gets its desktop operating system (OS) usage stats from tracking code installed on over 1.5 million global websites generating over 5 billion monthly page views.

    AtmaJnana ,

    Statcounter says it gets its desktop operating system (OS) usage stats from tracking code installed on over 1.5 million global websites generating over 5 billion monthly page views.

    ...

    Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally. These sites cover various activities and geographic locations. Every month, we record billions of page views to these sites. For each page view, we analyse the browser/operating system/screen resolution used and we establish if the page view is from a mobile device. For our search engine stats, we analyze every page view referred by a search engine. For our social media stats, we analyze every page view referred by a social media site. We summarize all this data to get our Global Stats information.

    So... because I am blocking any and all trackers, I
    may not count towards this at all? Presumably the same is true of many Lemmy users.

    AtmaJnana ,

    I struggled through the font and weird format but never found a joke. It feels like the point is that sometimes developers just want to write code, whether it's necessary or not. Perhaps OP (who seems to be the author) will weigh in

    AtmaJnana ,

    Dennis, what are your politics?

    AtmaJnana ,

    The nerdy looking dude in the gif touched grass. "Wasted" is from a video game (GTA?) screen shown each time you died. So from this we can infer that our terminally-online protagonist, Hiroshi, did not survive the attempt to disconnect, even if only briefly.

    AtmaJnana ,

    Especially for the users.

    AtmaJnana , (edited )

    You dont think who becomes POTUS will effect your country? You've blasted right past being a curmudgeon who doesn't like the US and moved into the territory of troll.

    IMO, it is a stretch to claim primary elections as the motive for this outage, but pretending you are entirely aloof and unaffected by US presidential elections is absurd. We get it, you hate the US.

    AtmaJnana ,

    This US-centric view that this worldwide outage is automatically due to US politics is just ridiculous, and you should be embarrassed.

    I should be embarrassed that another commenter thinks its related to the elections? Why? It wasn't my idea and my only mention of it was to say I think it unlikely. Go be churlish somewhere else. I'll longer see your replies.

    AtmaJnana ,

    I called him Hiroshi because he vaguely reminds me of the guy from Heroes (Masi Oka.)

    AtmaJnana , (edited )

    Eh, I'd say a better word is "progress." Or maybe "technological progress." Evolution is the change in gene frequency in a population over time.

    Agree, otherwise. Its like trying to tell people not to make things go boom using saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur. Luddites will always want to burn down the textile mill.

    AtmaJnana , (edited )

    I generate AI content (some of which is art) for fun, so I am not against it in theory. I just dont so far find much enjoyment consuming AI content made by others. So far the vast majority of it is mediocre. Which seems like a natural consequence of lowering the barriers to entry.

    The Sora demo, for example, is very compelling technologically, but it didn't impress me at all as something that would replace creative work, so much as provide a tool to get it done differently.

    As AI content becomes more prevalent, I will continue to further disengage with that content and prefer authentic human experiences, to the extent that AI content continues to feel mostly soulless and vacuous.

    AtmaJnana ,

    I have done this my whole life. My brain hates to shut off.

    AtmaJnana ,

    Its not a bug, it's a feature.

    AtmaJnana ,

    I miss the golden age when we had AIM, ICQ, or GoogleTalk, etc all on the client of our choosing.

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