SnotFlickerman

SnotFlickerman , 1 month ago

The Lion, the Witch, and the Audacity of this Bitch.

I remember when Comcast was caught illegally using Sandvine to throttle people using bittorrent.

SnotFlickerman , 1 month ago

Seriously, who other than a god damned masochist uses Internet Information Services as a server?

SnotFlickerman , 1 month ago

The only thing private corpos are more efficient than government at is funneling money into already rich people's pockets.

SnotFlickerman , 1 month ago

Dude, I learned how to write HTML in the 90's and even back then everyone knew that apache2 was clearly fucking superior. IIS has been a joke since the 90's when it was released.

SnotFlickerman , 1 month ago

I remember trying to get it to work with MySQL, failing, and moving to apache.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Stop trying to make Teams happen. It isn't going to happen.

There's already way better solutions out there, and Microsoft keeps making their dogshit service even worse.

Decoupling it like this is the first step to it being wound down and then shut down.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

You'd think businesses wouldn't want to give all their communications to... a bigger business, especially one currently invested in AI training.

It would be like a company doing mapping/GIS stuff using Gmail for communications. You're just handing your data over to your largest competitor. It's fucking stupid.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

So is Matrix and it includes self-hosting and end-to-end encryption enabled by default.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/servers/

There are multiple options for homeservers and the Python one is just one of several implementations. There are others written in C++, Rust, Go!, etc.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

The biggest risk of "sharing DNA" is pregnancy.

...I'll show myself out.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

There's a button for it in taskbar settings.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

OP didn't post what code they put in, and they only said it was "gone from my taskbar," not that they had ensured it was nowhere on their system.

The code easily could have just flicked the button in settings.

We have no idea without the code in question.

Also, even if its fully removed, Microsoft will just re-install it next update anyway? Like they do with everything the fuck else you manually remove?

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Fucking jesus christ it only took 50 years for it to happen.

And people wonder why women don't feel welcome in these disciplines.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Maybe the mousey girl in class might get uncomfortable knowing its from a porn mag when it's thrown up on the big screen for the class to see? Maybe it's about more than just Lena herself? Maybe women don't feel comfortable going in those spaces because they feel like they'll be sexualized or worse. Why wouldn't they expect that when the men involved think its totally appropriate to use the top-half of a nude photo of a woman?

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Censorship is a slippery slope.

So I take it you think the Washington Commanders should have stayed the Washington Redskins because not censoring is more important than it being disrespectful to a large group of people? My eyes would fall out if they rolled any harder.

No one's censoring the history or saying it never happened, we're just saying "Maybe there's a better, less controversial image to use for this purpose." Which really shouldn't be a very controversial take at all.

It's not like you can't see the old Redskins logo on Wikipedia, or that the Wikipedia entry for the Lenna image would disappear. That would be censorship, not this. This is just "don't use this controversial image in professional documents like science research." Literally, specifically, IEEE journals.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

I don’t imagine most of those computer scientists would have been nearly as accepting of a photo with “high contrast and varied detail” if it had been a naked dude hanging dong.

No shit, but apparently all the fellas in this thread seem to think it would have totally been the same. Either that or they just continue to ignore that as an option.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Fully agreed, it was a symptom of a larger problem, not the problem itself. I hope in professional circles this trend continues.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Censorship is a slippery slope.

I read it very carefully. I'm sorry you aren't capable of backing up what you said in the face of someone pointing out that isn't actually censorship.

Further, as many have pointed out, there are plenty of similar reference images available. Not using this image will not impede scientific progress, as you have so implied. (Honestly after 50 years, it's arguable that we have much better reference images now.)

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Pedantic ass is pedantic, who knew?

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I love for you that what you just said is literally the definition of what I'm talking about. Attitudes like "well what's her problem" are why women don't want to be in STEM fields. You even immediately came up with a diminutive nickname for her, to make sure this woman would feel chided and demeaned. Stay classy.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Headshot of a male model selectively cropped so you don't see the hanging dong, you mean. I wonder if that context has any relevance. Hmmmmm. I wonder how many men might go "ick" if they knew the source?

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Pom Poko has entered the chat.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

From an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 1997:

When you look at that process of waiting on somebody who has told you they were going to do something and told you they were going to be there for you and they were not, they are showing you in that moment exactly who they are. That means that's somebody who cannot be trusted. So why would you the next time trust that person?

So, Maya Angelou said to me, when I was telling her one of these stories about, "I'm waiting and I couldn't believe it and he didn't call me and I don't know what happened," she was saying, "My dear," in her Maya voice, "My dear, when people show you who they are, why don't you believe them? Why must you be shown 29 times before you can see who they really are? Why can't you get it the first time?"

And so the adjunct of that is, when people show you who they are, believe them the first time. Don't wait for the twenty-ninth time."

The full quote is "When people show who you who they are, believe them the first time."

Which I think is the best version of the quote, honestly. We've been letting conservatives scream about who they are without really believing them for 70 fucking years now. Now they're not even afraid to put on a mask, they've gone fully mask-off on abuse and racism. This is what you get by enabling them through not believing them the first time. To me that's the further issue that Angelou didn't touch on. You're enabling that behavior by treating them as though they will somehow magically change. For Oprah it was assuming that man would suddenly start calling and treating her right. For the US political establishment it's for assuming conservatives are operating in good faith.

(It is Oprah Winfrey rephrasing statements she had been told by Maya Angelou. So the quote often gets attributed to them both, but I would consider it a Winfrey quote simply because she's paraphrasing someone else, using her own words.)

(Also, while the quote is good and Maya Angelou is good. Fuck Oprah Winfrey and all the fucking snake oil peddling freaks she promotes.)

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

I didn't say them by name, but Democrats are who I was thinking about when I discussed how pretending they are operating in good faith is enabling that behavior.

Democrats enable Conservative criminality, because they play an endless shell-game of "but they're really operating in good faith this time, we promise. We just need to reach across the aisle get a reach-around."

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say if it can run Quake, it can safely run Doom as well.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

I remember early YouTube where there wasn't a financial incentive to make content and they clearly did not suffer from a lack of content.

People weren't saying "Oh, well, you can't make money on YouTube so why would you" back then. They made content because they wanted to and because it was fun.

YouTube is just entrenched in the public consciousness much like television was when YouTube came around.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

community shared content hosting

It's technically still a thing you're not supposed to do, for the most part. Still something can be sued for, civilly liable, and when you get to hosting for a massive group of people, you're risking entering criminal liability territory. However, private torrent trackers exist, and those generally function as those types of communities. Some trackers even have nice people on them.

Further, the depth of knowledge these people have about encoding/color profiles/sound engineering etc. is fucking astounding. It's always people doing it for the good of the community who seem to have the most real competence over a variety of disciplines. It's not surprising a lot of them live and breathe FOSS and GNU/Linux.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

It's an interesting idea, but as many have pointed out before: if you tried to propose Public Libraries in modern America, the idea would be shot down.

This proposal is Public Libraries on steroids and opens a lot of questions about ownership of the data and who can request their data be removed, etc. If its publicly funded, they can't hide behind "we own all this content because you uploaded it" like, say, Facebook does. They would be much more liable for people wanting to control their data, and if people wanted videos removed, they'd have fewer legal precedents to lean on.

Like I said, interesting idea, but it raises a multitude of questions in my mind. Who do you entrust to run it? Would it be a government organization, or something more like the BBC, where it's government-funded but separated?

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

The Waldo Moment manifest.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

:: D :: R :: U :: G :: S :: I :: N :: B :: I :: O ::

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

It's how Reality Winner got real fucked.

via Wikiedpia:

Both journalists and security experts have suggested that The Intercept's handling of the reporting, which included publishing the documents unredacted and including the printer tracking dots, was used to identify Winner as the leaker. In October 2020, The Intercept's co-founding editor Glenn Greenwald wrote that Winner had sent her documents to The Intercept's New York newsroom with no request that any specific journalist work on them. He called her exposure a "deeply embarrassing newsroom failure" resulting from "speed and recklessness" for which he was publicly blamed "despite having no role in it." He said editor-in-chief Betsy Reed "oversaw, edited and controlled that story." An internal review conducted by The Intercept into its handling of the document provided by Winner found that its "practices fell short of the standards to which we hold ourselves".

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

You're very welcome. It's good to be able to show real-world examples so people are less skeptical. A lot of people won't read a deep technical document describing printer surveillance, but they will read a paragraph excerpt from Wikipedia.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Oh man it's been a while, but I used to be super interested in getting an Air Quality Monitor going. There's definitely ones that can seed their data to public databases.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

United States: I've even tried to coup myself a few times, calm down.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

All wars on bots that aren't written in legislation and funded for enforcement are not real wars on bots.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Is this some sort of Lemmy joke that I'm too Blahaj to understand?

https://c.tenor.com/MaKLmuQyh0UAAAAC/tenor.gif

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Uhhh 404media???

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/17b1c844-c603-43e6-a9dc-c470397c4dbb.jpeg

Obligatory Peep Show

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Mostly yubikey users in here so shout out to fully open source SoloKeys.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

This is pretty slick.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

This doesn't seem that much worse than American rules that have already been in place for a long, long time.

As it is, large payments or withdrawals must be reported to federal agencies, anything over $10k. This applies to cash transactions as well and the forms the IRS requires you to fill in a $10k+ cash transaction can be found here.

The biggest difference would be the impact on cash transactions and crypto transactions in the EU.

I'm pro-privacy, but a lot more crypto facilitates crime than not, so I don't really know why people would be shocked that governments would attack crypto specifically here (literally almost all ransomware uses crypto). Looks like way more of a crackdown on crypto than cash, but maybe that's just me. (On top of the fact that a lot of crypto isn't privacy-oriented. Looking at you, Bitcoin)

Related: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/venmo-paypal-zelle-must-report-600-transactions-irs-rcna11260

Two years ago USA put in rules for commercial digital transfers over $600 to be reported. Just pointing out that the EU's rules don't seem particularly draconian when weighed against already existing rules elsewhere.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

That's all pretty damn reasonable...

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

The US government has a long and storied history of closing the gate after the horse has bolted.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Ween fans understandably upset over this opinion.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

I love Valve, but let's not mince words: They invented and created the problem of Loot Boxes, which were the first true iteration of modern gambling mechanics in Valve games. They hired none other than Yanis Varoufakis to help them research and roll out their "digital markets" in 2012.

To be fair, however, gambling and psychology have been abused in games for decades. I've said for over 20 years that Diablo II/World of Warcraft and offshoots like them are glorified Skinner Boxes.

It's time for some god damned rational gambling laws in regards to "gaming" and fast. And I don't mean the idiots who overnight re-rated Balatro as an adult game because they assumed based-on-poker-rules-means-Gambling. Idiots.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Nice catch, I'm not a sports game guy, so I'm not familiar with the FIFA history. It looks like it happened about a year before Team Fortress 2 first added loot boxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box#History

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

Man, its so easy to get confused about which direction you're going when traveling takes days at a time and the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

SnotFlickerman , 2 months ago

I agree with this. Also Lemmy likes to reformat images when you upload them. Its stupid. I have to hotlink from elsewhere anyway so yeah removing it makes more sense.

It would also help reduce the proliferation of things like CSAM thus reducing admin overhead.