redfox

redfox , 1 month ago

My mid life birthday gift was an electric zero turn mower. Already had all electric yard tools. Will buy Tesla or best option in couple years. Never going to a gas station again!

So indeed, fuck gas

redfox , 2 months ago

It's pretty plain to see IBM afraid of loosing vendor lock-in, but running a software solution designed for an open or distributed platform shouldn't be that big of a threat, right?

All their selling points for z series are the insane hardware performance, redundancy, and tuning.

Isn't it unlikely you're going to get that on some virtual or abstracted mainframe platform?

If I was one of the businesses that's been paying the fortune keeping IBM mainframe alive, I'd stay on it. They measure profits in the billions and saving some money going away from IBM and risking loosing countless dollars per minute seems like a risk...

Oh wait, I forgot, all American Corps are currently (since the 80s-ish), worthless greedy fucks solely focused on short term profit and stock price regardless of long term consequences. Maybe they should save some money on one of the things that's helps make them billions...I bet that golden goose tastes amazing 😄

redfox , 2 months ago

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I worked for a company where the previous IT dorks named the servers after startrek ships. It's cute at home. Had to rename everything and readdress the whole organization.

redfox , 2 months ago

Office culture nuances...
I enjoy them.

redfox , 2 months ago

We are just a little behind trying to elect our new dictator...

But just for a day...

/S 🙄

redfox , 2 months ago

Here's a clue:

If the paper isn't terrible, it was AI...

😋

redfox , 2 months ago

Wow, classic.

Merica

redfox , 2 months ago

Nice. Then what's the Spanish equivalent?

I have only visited Rota. Neat place.

redfox , 2 months ago

I think it's because people (some) are all talk. We bitch about corporate greed and stuff like this, but when it comes down to it, when you need a new electronic device and one's half the cost, which one do people buy?

The one with ads and that's made by slave wage third world workers, or the one that's twice as expensive?

As a whole, we tend to be garbage and materialistic...

I won't be buying Roku either.

redfox , 2 months ago

Agreed.

redfox , 2 months ago

Every piece of shit greedy corporation can't hide from their lies when they say things are too expensive to implement correctly or pay people appropriately when they are simultaneously posting profits measured in billions...

redfox , 3 months ago

Vote with your feet. Have to leave the platform if you want to stick it to them.

redfox , 3 months ago

Fair enough.

Maybe everyone agrees it sucks and all change?

Turn it into a group 'stick it to the man' effort?

I don't have friends,.no problem for me 😋

Also,.I'm old and just text my friends!

redfox , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Don't do this.

Downloading an exe from some random place is a huge red flag.

Windows lets you pause updates.

Might download some of these on an analysis workstation and run them through virus total and sandboxes. This could be fun.

redfox , 3 months ago

This story, like most corporate stories these days, frustrates me.

This is a tale as old as time...the time when American corporations went to shit as our elected officials ensured there was no liability and realistic legal consequences to executes or MBA decision making.

I'm not a business scholar obviously. I've always been led to believe that in order for the world to turn and air to be breathable, corporations and businesses need liability protection for those who run it. Why?

If I kill someone with my car, even if it was completely an accident, I'm still liable right? Should I account for the death of that person, child, etc?

How would things not be better if, instead of the bottom line and stock price being the ultimate concern of CEOs, it was them not going to court to face charges because they allowed their company to kill people with its negligence? I know there's some nuance here, but ultimately, I feel like everything sucks because there's no incentive to care about anything but investors and greed.

If industry, aerospace or other, was run by people who cared about not killing people and going to jail, would they in turn ensure their design and production met the quality and ambition of the type of people here, discussing their accounts of cutting corners or experienced personnel just to save money?

redfox , 3 months ago

Agreed.

Lemmy, you are biased. You probably don't intend to be, but it's true for now.

Going to sound weird, but I came here because of who I knew the vocal people were. I didn't understand many of their view points and reasons for being mad/hateful/etc. I am much more enlightened now and learn different perspectives everyday.

It is a giant echo chamber though if you are already very rooted in the spectrum here, and voicing decent usually leads to dog pile.

This is related to attitudes about news, politics, etc.

redfox , 3 months ago

I'm guessing by the down votes this is better in a community for more specific IT, like sysadmin or homelab.

Also, the download link and password protection is a huge red flag.

redfox , 3 months ago

Seems like meta views fediverse as a threat to monopoly.

I also wouldn't say fediverse needs to embrace meta. It can continue being what is wants and meta has to account for it. Fediverse doesn't have to be mainstream. Aside from Dev support, it's probably better to stay niche.

redfox , 3 months ago

This isn't necessarily the case anymore. They realized they could charge more money after all this parts pairing and proprietary stuff started.

Dealerships can make more money from repairs than selling. Especially if sales margin is lower due to online competitors selling cars cheaper.

This bill attacks one of the things preventing cheaper repairs and shops from helping .

redfox , 3 months ago

I'm sure corporations like this would give you free Internet if they could collect and sell all your data. I'm also sure people would still do it, regardless of how much they are being monetized as a product.

Since companies like Facebook own legislators, our only real choice is to stop using it. Unpopular opinion, but If you really want fuck Zuck, delete your account, and get all your friends and family to as well. Maybe there's some alternatives for the people who truly use the service to connect with friends/family?

redfox , 3 months ago

Wow, that is weird. I honestly just made that up in my head when I wrote it.

The saying is true, if it's free, you're the product.

I don't actually know why I care about that level of privacy. Some of us are quite fine with companies or their government having any information about them. Some are very opposed.

Maybe I dislike the idea that information could be used against me somehow or they're making even more money than I'm already paying in some hypothetical case. Not sure.

redfox , 3 months ago

I watched that. Didn't surprise me one bit.

The overreaching government apparatus doesn't inherently bother me, but we're really placing a lot of power and trust in those people, and that does concern me.

redfox , 3 months ago

Doesn't the Democratic party have complete majority control of most cities and the state legislature?

That's a party which usually claims to be about taking care of poor people or 'housing is a human right', but I keep seeing evidence that part of California's issue is residents eliminating any/all zoning that isn't classic single family homes in places where there's tons of good jobs, but super expensive housing.

It's hard to wade through political party propaganda, but I thought this was well documented.

I don't live in CA, so I don't really know more than articles publish, but it just seems like they voted for the more American liberal/progressive party and still aren't getting those values?

redfox , 3 months ago

Yeah, I don't know this, but did we very gently slay a ton of animals learning how to do surgery and heart transplants?

I'm not a huge fan either, but how do people feel when the procedure saves their mom or kid?

redfox , 3 months ago

Lol, no way. They'll basically say they own the software, and you can't do anything except not get one. They already say you don't own the OS in your phone 😋

redfox , 3 months ago

It's hard to see, but I know people who went through the pig trauma program and it was huge. Way more real experience than any training aid ever. Just sucks.

redfox , 3 months ago

I do t think I knew about that, interesting. Thanks.

redfox , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

It's not terribly different from law enforcement getting a search warrant for a video feed covering the apartment of a known pedo video distributor and then tracking down everyone.

The problem would be violation of privacy for everyone who went there who wasn't a pedo.

Obviously, that's not a perfect comparison for the Internet because it's acceptable from anyone, but they're following the same playbook.

How much privacy are you willing to trade to stop pedos from hurting kids?

Edit: in thinking about this, the save the kids stuff has been worn out by a certain group that even I'm tired of. I didn't really think about that when I came up with the example, not that I expect it would matter to people's personal feelings on the matter.

redfox , 3 months ago

Damn! That would be epic and well played for sure. Not advocating.

redfox , 3 months ago

Yeah, I just edited the comment. That narrative is tired and political, and I honestly didn't think of that at the time.

Not that it really matters what the example is.

redfox , 3 months ago

Since someone else brought up superapps, do they seem like an initial attempt to get around the manufacturer's app store lock-in?

Super apps allow adding mini apps. Seems like an app store.

The goog/apple app stores are already saturated by malware, I can't imagine some mini app store would do better. Even if the big two did do a better job, how would they go about vetting all the code these super apps might have access to?

I guess I'm too jaded, but it seems like just another malware loader you intentionally install.

Am I being too hard on the concept? Are there any really good ones you've used?

redfox , 3 months ago

Ha, You don't think that's already happened?

redfox , 3 months ago

how to make computer people care about everything else as much as they care about computers

For me, you can't. 😆

redfox , 3 months ago

So well said, up vote wasn't enough.

I attended three different institutions at various points of my life and still didn't see some of the soft skills and basic business etiquette taught. I see young career people come into business with no idea how to attend meetings, answer phones, deal with expectations, etc. I'm not saying those can't be learned on the job and added on top of an education that was meant to empower people to learn things on their own, but when they're also tens of thousands in dept and can't do basic professional tasks, makes me question what right looks like.

redfox , 3 months ago

Holy shit, I can make that kind of money for driving like a maniac while wearing brown daisy dukes? I picked wrong...

Edit, I also think any task that can be automated with sensors, robotics, and programming is a risk.

Probably will be lots of robot repair and automation engineers though...

redfox , 3 months ago

That's because high schools have been teaching that trades are for losers and college is for successful people for about 20+ years.

Mike Rowe comes to mind.

redfox , 3 months ago

I would not have thought of this perspective if you hadn't mentioned it. Thx.

redfox , 3 months ago

Google IBM m1015 hba, there's a ton on eBay for no money. It used to be TrueNAS go to. There's newer HBAs that are faster, but I don't think it will matter for you

If you do TN, you MUST read the manual and look at their ZFS intro guide. Trust me.

redfox , 3 months ago

Just make sure it's HBA mode and it'll be fine. Sometimes called IT mode.

redfox , 3 months ago

You remember how all the US politicians are funded by the same huge corporations and rich people who all benefit from the regulators doing nothing but pretending to care?

Remember how the politicians pander to Americans by blaming rich people for all of life's problems and saying they'll make them pay their fair share, but those politicians have multiple houses and blatantly conduct insider trading every day, but Americans still vote for them time after time?

I'd like to say you could just not use their products, but that means you have to replace windows with some other os, not buy a major manufacturer cell phone, or do much else 🤷

redfox , 3 months ago

These are good suggestions for tech people IMO. I was thinking more general population that just wants to buy a product and use it as is. My mom isn't going to get a laptop and then install linux. I'd have to. 😇

I've never heard of BQ before, so that was an interesting mention. I didn't look hard enough to find out if it was available in the US.

I think the overall sentiment I'm conveying is that as a consumer, I'd like to just stop doing business with entities I deem bad faith (which is easy to say until you need a new TV and the 'good' company TV is twice as expensive). There's not a lot of choices for average people in this category (big tech). You'll be exposed to them almost out of necessity. I suppose appropriate regulation for those giant companies, and the US wont, but at least the EU will.

I also wonder if MS/Google/Apple were EU based corps, if they would take the same actions? I can't say how much of an average EU country's economy a company like Microsoft would be, but just the thought of how much that would be makes me think they'd get preferential treatment in which ever country that would be. I'd have to look at brands like BMW and see how they did doing that MPG scandal, things like that.

redfox , 3 months ago

I hear what you're saying. I counter with low effort LLM reply. I don't live by what LLMs say, but they generate some good starting points to go and do much more narrow research.

I don't think it's entirely Reagan's fault, I think the idea existed before him. He just sold the idea to the American public. So I guess I could fault him for either believing in it, or just saying he did to support the desires of the wealthy.

this really is Reagan’s fault with his so-called trickle down economics

CLAUDE 3:

"Did any American politicians, economists, or general capitalism principles regarding 'trickle down economics' exists before president Reagan?
What examples of trickle down economics existed before him?
Did he invent the idea, or just the phrase?"

The concept of "trickle-down economics" predates President Ronald Reagan and his administration's economic policies. However, the specific phrase "trickle-down economics" became more widely used during Reagan's presidency to describe his economic policies, which were based on the idea that reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy would stimulate economic growth, creating more jobs and wealth that would eventually "trickle down" to the broader population.

Examples of trickle-down economic principles before Reagan include:

1. The "Horse and Sparrow" theory, attributed to the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say in the early 19th century, which suggested that if the rich were allowed to get richer, their increased consumption would benefit the working class.

2. In the 1920s, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, advocated for lower taxes on the wealthy and businesses, arguing that it would spur economic growth.

3. The "Laissez-Faire" economic policies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which favored minimal government intervention and regulation, with the belief that unfettered capitalism would benefit society as a whole.

While Reagan did not invent the underlying economic theories, his administration's policies and rhetoric, particularly the use of the phrase "trickle-down economics," brought the concept to the forefront of public discourse and became closely associated with his presidency.

It's important to note that the effectiveness and fairness of trickle-down economics have been heavily debated among economists and policymakers, with critics arguing that it primarily benefits the wealthy and does not necessarily lead to broad-based economic growth or income redistribution.

redfox , 3 months ago

The comment was meant to be syndical and sarcastic.

Of course it's not representative of the entirety.

But it does express my frustration with political hypocrisy and insider trading. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find me any politicians that haven't engaged in that at some point, to some degree. One of the famous ones that comes to mind is Nancy pelosi, but she is not alone, and this is not particular to one party or another, they both definitely engage in it, it's been well documented and is irrefutable.

If you look past one party or another, you'd see that it's a broken system. The fact that it's legal for our elected representatives to conduct in activities that would otherwise be illegal for the general population is outrageous, and the fact that we all know they do it and they are the only ones that can control it in police themselves is also outrageous. It's the only self-serving career that I can think of that is completely unchecked, has unlimited benefits for only 4 years of service, and the only ones that can control it or police it is themselves.

redfox , 3 months ago

Now that I think about it, Johnny Harris did a really good report about insider trading by Congress.

redfox , 3 months ago

Imagine for a moment that the business world transitioned to Linux, and now there's enormous incentive for all adversaries from state sponsored to financially motivated criminals to spend all their time hunting through linux source code.

• Do you think the ideas above stand up? (I'm not saying they dont)

• Would linux vulnerabilities be found at a higher rate? I wonder if they aren't now because there aren't as many eyes on them. Sure there's corporate side project efforts and volunteers, just curious how that stacks up against the amount of research happening to break Windows systems.

• NSA would definitely want to keep some linux exploits around if their adversaries were using linux instead of windows. I think the result would be the same regarding eternal blue.

redfox , 3 months ago

Ha, if it was that easy, I think the NSA would have solved that problem by now...

redfox , 3 months ago

Yes. 🤷

Nobody wants to be spied on by their perceived enemies. Also, how do you expect us to maintain an appropriate level of hypocrisy if we don't constantly do hypocritical things?

I wish we would go after foreign investment, ownership, and political meddling as much as tiktok

redfox , 3 months ago

being spied on by the government of the country I live in than by a government from a foreign country

Ha, that's a decent point. I don't really care for either. I think about these things among others:

• China has proved they are interested in conflict. They haven't used any kinetic/traditional warfare against anyone lately, though they seriously want to with Tiwan.
• China has been using nonstop cyber related warfare to conduct espionage, steal trade secrets, position themselves for assisting kinetic warfare with cyber warfare, etc.

I am not a direct target of these, but China killing the power grid or disabling telecommunications does have the potential to have a huge impact on my life.

• The US government has used nonstop kinetic and cyber warfare over the last 20+ years.

The US playing world police doesn't directly threaten my safety, but I definitely would be more worried about the US than China if I wasn't a US citizen.

The US government spying on me:

• Super annoying mostly due to the principle of a lack of privacy, regardless of whether I do anything bad or not
• Becomes a serious problem if I was an active opponent of government policy and elected officials, and the government/leadership deems me a terrorist/insurrectionist/etc.

Their discretion of what's my free speech and right to criticize the government vs leading insurrection would be more complicated if they were using the NSA to own my life and try to use any excuse to lock me up.

I guess I weigh what's more likely to be a problem in my current/future life.

I don't like either of these scenarios.