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@robotica@lemmy.world

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robotica ,

I'm curious, does running open source software somehow exempt you from getting malware?

robotica ,

Is the recent XZ backdoor (and something that had to do with SSH too) anything to worry about in terms of the probability of there being a backdoor even in open source router software?

Not trying to dissuade anyone here, I love open source software, I'm just wondering how much effort is reasonable to be put into securing your local network (i.e. buying your own router, also installing open source software, or writing your own router software if you don't trust existing solutions) given that not everyone is tech savvy and you get diminishing returns for every additional security measure. And when is the usual point at which you would say "okay, this is secure enough"?

My router is not from an ISP, but it does get frequent firmware updates and I don't use any cloud management features, only local configuration.

robotica ,

Orrr it's because a lot of people don't care about E2EE and just want their files to be backed up. Can we stop demonizing every single IT company ever for anything they do?

robotica ,

It's a bit fascist to force people to do what you think is right, no?

robotica ,

Thank you. I noticed afterwards that this was lemmy.ml, an instance I steer clear of 🙊

Anyway, I remember how I once had to break news to a person who had either voluntarily or involuntarily set up BitLocker on their work computer and didn't know how to access their data anymore, and I had to tell them "sorry, you're out of luck" (now that I'm thinking, maybe there was a recovery code backed up in OneDrive?..) It's for the best to leave it opt-in for now.

robotica ,

Do you live in the EU?

robotica ,

That's why you don't see any ads

firefly , to Memes
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Government education is the best defense against brain-eating zombies.

@memes

robotica ,

!memes has become a dumpster fire. Did you mean to post on !politicalmemes?

robotica ,

Probably commented on the wrong thread

robotica ,

English is not a grammatically gendered language. Otherwise, all languages have gender.

robotica ,

🤦‍♂️Yes, in that sense, English could be gendered. But what it actually means is that English used to be gendered and retains some gendered words from that time.

Another example, Russian has noun cases, but not the vocative case. However, it does have two words that have a vocative case from when the language as a whole did use to have the vocative case - Бог (Боже) and Господь (Господи) - but that doesn't mean that Russian has it now.

Also, blond/blonde are pronounced the same so the distinction is lost in speech and probably soon in writing as well, and words like fiancé/fiancée (which are also pronounced the same), widow/widower, actor/actress do not signify grammatical gender by itself.

robotica ,

I love you how specified "as far as I know" even though it's literally your native language lmao

robotica ,

This one is missing the "non-stick spray cooking" with an image of a flamethrower

What do you think about Abstract Wikipedia?

Wikifunctions is a new site that has been added to the list of sites operated by WMF. I definitely see uses for it in automating updates on Wikipedia and bots (and also for programmers to reference), but their goal is to translate Wikipedia articles to more languages by writing them in code that has a lot of linguistic...

robotica ,

Disclaimer, I didn't do any research on this, but what would be bad with just AI translating text, given a reliable enough AI? No code required, just plain human speech.

robotica ,

Thanks! I'll come back to this thread once I read more.

robotica ,

Oh it's you again, Mr. Edible Friend...

A couple days ago I posted a comment on the negatives on Linux, but honestly, if you play normal games on Steam, like not some weird obscure Atari 2600 emulators, you can try Linux fearlessly.

99% of games work on Linux, I personally have played many Steam and non-Steam games, such as Cyberpunk 2077, War Thunder, world of tanks, rimworld, factorio, Overwatch etc. All ran flawlessly for me, and I even have an NVIDIA GPU, which is supposedly very bad on Linux!

[OC] Anyone else insist on using the generic name for all meds? (lemmy.world)

Image: 4 panels organized in a rectangle following a sequential order like a comic strip. The first panel is of a man with a very serious face stating, "Hey man, got any diphenhydramine?" The second panel is a grainy picture of the actor Robert Downey Jr. with a slightly inquisitive face and saying, "What's that?" The third...

robotica ,

ITT: Americans who can't fathom generic medicine names

Tylenol isn't the medicine, paracetamol is. I love having grown up in a European country which mandates pharmacies to very clearly inform you, not just in some fuck ass place, but repeat to you 3 times, that there is a cheaper generic version which does the same thing.

robotica ,

Touché, though I love knowing names like paracetamol or acetaminophen, ibuprofen, diclofenac, acetylsalicylic acid etc.

I can't come up with many names because I don't remember every single drug, but when I see a drug, I always read the chemical, never the brand, and I'm glad for my country and my parents for that.

robotica ,

I know it as "ceet", but my language pronounces that part as "tset".

robotica ,

Yeah, there are clueless people everywhere, but I'm still glad that it's easy to get generic medicine.

To be fair, you cannot force people to buy generic, let people make their own, though preferably informed, decisions.

robotica ,

Lithuanian, you got it right!

robotica ,

Yeah well it'd been difficult for him to be him and to live to a ripe old age, given that he was a severe alcoholic and overall incredibly crazy

robotica ,

Yeah but he drank himself to death by writing Requiem

robotica ,

Oh man, AI generated content all over the internet wasn't enough, now they're going to also generate our video games? It really feels like all our entertainment will be soon randomly generated.

robotica ,

There's quite a bit of difference between material and immaterial things being produced by robots, and while I cannot say much about the former, I am very disappointed in how the latter is treated. I'm not completely against AI generated content - I use ChatGPT all the time - but I want a distinction between what was made by a human and what was made by a robot.

robotica ,

Exactly, and also a backwards way to allow """competition""" on their platform, by forcing people to switch to a completely different system just so people can install apps on their phone.

God damn ridiculous.

robotica ,

This is very clearly anti competitive behavior and should be dealt with ASAP.

robotica ,

I love how you two seem to be arguing or trying to win over each other in some way, whereas you are in fact in agreement, just coming from opposite sides.

robotica ,

Um, how often do you set your building on fire?

robotica ,

This feels like kindergarten, but with billions of dollars. Gotta love capitalism

robotica ,

Why are people downvoting this? I sense strong sarcasm

anders , to Memes
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True 😄

@memes

robotica , (edited )

...for you.

TL;DR there are good and bad things, positives and drawbacks about all OSes, educate, don't gatekeep.

I have a laptop that runs Windows fine, then installed Linux on it.

  1. The trackpad was not well supported and glitched often, as was the fingerprint sensor. I personally am not going to not use fingerprint because some neck beard says it's very insecure and blah blah blah, I don't care. The fingerprint is for me to have any sort of authentication prompt.

  2. Often times, the computer would boot up without recognizing the WiFi adapter (classic).

  3. The DE that I used, Gnome, was riddled with shitty defaults and random weird behavior, also missing settings from the main settings app in Gnome 43! Not Gnome 1 or 2, 43. Isn't that a bit embarrassing? I've used KDE before, I like that one, though I like the aesthetics and simplicity of Gnome, I wish it just didn't come with retarded defaults.

  4. Bluetooth connectivity was hit-or-miss as well, sometimes not getting my device, sometimes not wanting to pair it, etc.

  5. The app store on either Fedora, Manjaro, Ubuntu or PopOS! all had some kind of missing, broken, or unintuitive functionality that seemed quite obvious how it could be fixed, just that I couldn't be bothered.

  6. Screen sharing with audio doesn't work on Discord, could not find any 1080p60 streaming software that was free or paid or anything. Scoured all of the internet and GitHub, so I'm not switching.

I could go on. Basically there's many shitty things about it. There are also loads of things I adore about Linux, like fast boot times, lower RAM and swap usage, less background apps, better extensibility and customizability, great development experience etc. I love Linux. However, it feels like work to actually get it to work sometimes, which gets in the way of most people's intention to just use the God damn computer for stuff they want to use, and it working.

Let people choose what they want, don't berate people for not choosing what you like, instead educate on what they may be missing out on, but at the end of the day, respect their decision. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

P.S. My laptop wasn't a DXFGFH Fuckbook 3938WGT or whatever with a Bluetooth adapter from Jupiter, it was a recent, but not bleeding-edge, ASUS VivoBook.

robotica ,

What the fuck are you on about saying "having every behaviour and text sent to Microsoft" and "arguing that Windows should be the number one". He never said that, nor does anyone say that, get your head out your ass.

He said "Windows suits me". That's it, stfu.

robotica ,

confused screeching

robotica ,

There's something funny about the phrase "paying for stuff so that it stays free"

robotica ,

Also I'd like to point out that it's not 1% of the population that's like that, more like 0.01% or even just dozens. There are many rich people, but few are crazy rich like that.

Source: dunno just google it maybe you'll find something

robotica ,

Ahh yes, the classic "it's not 100% good, so it's 100% bad" thinking

robotica ,

Man that was like the 2nd sentence where it said "satire"

robotica ,

Wow, that must mean that we're in captivity! /s

Even if animals in captivity did live longer (which @WallEx contradicts), wouldn't it make more sense to think it's because of better treatment and healthcare?

robotica ,

Website is completely borked on my phone on Firefox

robotica ,

Thanks a lot! Funny thing is that the website works fine now, something must've been bugged

robotica ,

More like pay gas

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