@JasonDJ@lemmy.zip

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on ‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Whatever it is it’s probably h.264.

on Don't mind me. Keep enjoying your OS. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Would have to be pirate radio. You think this fcc is gonna be handing out licenses to left-wing secular media?

on [US] House passes bill requiring AM radio in all new cars sold nationwide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Must go deeper.

Model fly brain out of Redstone. Play minecraft on that.

on A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet: How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab, and more. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
15 tabs? Those are rookie numbers. Unless you mean “before 8:07 Monday morning”.

on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
God that 5% is just such flagrant bait, too.

Yeah, that seems achievable…on the surface.

Except almost every presidential election of my lifetime was less than a 5% margin to begin with. With the exception of Reagan, every single one has been <10%.

That 5% is legit the most important part of the fucking election. And it’s a carrot to draw out “enlightened centrists” who can’t see past their own eyebrows.

If the greens get it, it’s essentially a “thanks for the assist!” from the Republicans, no matter what…because that margin is enough to enable them to win.

And the way this government is going, do you think they’d even see the money 4 years later?

on Nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, New Mexico alone is taking Facebook to trial in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
I can’t tell you the next time I’ll need a 50ft null modem cable…but I can tell you it’ll be within a month of throwing mine out.

on Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables - Jim Nielsen’s Blog in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I think you misunderstand the spoiler effect. It’s working as designed.

The problem is how we vote, not who is on the ballot. As long as the winner is going to be the one with the most votes, then more contenders will mean the winner will have a smaller overall share.

The margin in Florida for the 2000 election was so small that if half of the Nader voters voted for Gore, Gore would’ve been the clear winner of the state and thus the country. Both left-leaning, environmentalist candidates.

But, like you, they let good be the enemy of perfect, and incidently got us Bush, who was (checks notes) much worse for the environment.

Third parties, in this system, only serve as tools of the opposing major political party. They are absolutely worthless for any progress at the federal level. Do you think a green president could actually get anything done without a green coalition in congress, or among Governors?

There are only three paths for third parties to ascend:
- We change the voting system, get rid of FPTP, or
- Third party builds momentum in lower offices, or
- One of the established parties completely implodes upon itself. See also Whigs, Democratic-Republicans, Federalists.
on Nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, New Mexico alone is taking Facebook to trial in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Wdym? Republicans love the Greens, just like Democrats love the Liberterians.

Republicans can thank Nader just as much for Bush as Democrats can thank Perot for Clinton.

on Nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, New Mexico alone is taking Facebook to trial in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Layoffs aren’t the problem here…the problem is that society requires people generate their own worth through work, and suddenly a good chunk of that work is now significantly less valuable.

Requiring less work is a good thing. Humans should be striving to minimize work. That’s what humanity is good at.

The problem comes in that while the “input” of AI is, essentially, the collection of all human knowledge…while the output is money for a small handful of people…people who themselves contributed next to nothing to that pile of human knowledge (and in fact are probably running a deficit to it).

That ain’t right. We are all shareholders in the collection of all human knowledge. We should all be getting dividends from its work.

on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
AI is not evil. It doesn’t have a consciousness. It doesn’t make decisions.

What is evil, are billionaire capitalists having full control over the technology.

What is evil, is the concept of closed-source.

What is evil, is stealing all creative works without attribution or compensation.

What is evil, is seizing essentially all the silicon to build these datacenters, then soak up all the electricity out of the grid and all the water out of the ground.

The problem isn’t the AI, itself. It’s the means that’s the problem…not the ends.

on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Would it be better if a Democrat billionaire bought out Dominion?

Well…probably. But the crux of the problem is that voting machine companies are a thing that a billionaire can own.

on Nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, New Mexico alone is taking Facebook to trial in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
They’ll gamify it. Remember “Karaoke Revolution”? I think “Rock Band” and its derivatives also built upon it.

on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026
You know who wins out in a gold rush?

The person selling picks.

on If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
Yeah but that applies to most of MS’s engineering staff.

on Impersonation rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 Sep 2026
It really reads like an AI attempting to paraphrase the lyrics of the song without infringing upon copyright.

The 10 Rap Commandments was an homage to Biggies “10 Crack Commandments”. LMM put in tons of references to hiphop culture, literature, and pop-culture. I particularly like how he managed to work in “Screw your courage to the sticking place” as a reference to both Macbeth and the best song in his favorite Disney movie (Beauty and the Beast). (My opinion on being best song in B&B. Probably #2 for Disney Villain songs…Be Prepared has my #1 spot)

Man the dude is such an impressive lyricist. I can’t say I care much for his singing…he’s talented, don’t get me wrong, but far from the best singer in the original cast (which itself is a huge contest but probably Leslie Odom Jr (Burr), though Renee Goldsbury (Angelica Schuyler) or Philippa Soo (Elizabeth Schuyler/Hamilton) were both absolutely amazing too…“Burn” still gives me chills)…but writing is really his strength.

on consent rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026
It’s still better than Windows

The problem there is that Windows has been lowering the bar for a decade now.

on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
He literally told him to touch grass.

That’s great.

on And thats why we call it Baud Rate in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026
It’s okay for small scale, dev, etc…on a fast and flat/local network.

But databases really don’t like NFS, SMB, or most file sharing protocols. There’s too much transaction overhead.

The effect gets exponentially worse as you add in latency. Database may as well be on the moon if you’ve got more than 10ms between it and the app (hyperbole but not really).

Use fast local storage, ideally. Or block if you have it. Async replicas if you are chasing 9s.

When databases fail, they fail spectacularly and cause ripples. Remember that you’ll be the one supporting it when they do.

on Moving db data (MariaDB) to NFS NAS in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Sounds like every picture of me dancing.

on New compression technique in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026
All fun and games until you post a story about how clumsy your dad was and now all your photos are updated to show him as just a giant thumb…with thumbs for arms, and legs, and hands and feet, and fingers and toes. Just all thumbs, all the way down. Like tripping on acid with Rita Repulsa.

on New compression technique in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 2 Sep 2026
Yes, we know how bullies work. Most of us were bullied here.

The question I guess becomes, if you’re the type of guy to become the CEO of Apple, are you also the type of guy to stand up to a bully if it means costing the company and shareholders billions?

Probably not.

And if they were…is Lake Ontario really where you’re gonna draw the line? Is that gonna be the last straw?

Not excusing him. Just not having high expectations.

on Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Does distro hopping count?

Does it matter if I preserve /home?

on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Counterpoint: Linus was all out in the open.

I wouldn’t want to see what Bill Gates is like behind closed doors…especially as a kid.

on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
btw, so is Gabe, but he is doing it on a much larger scale now

Not sure if this is meant to be a fat joke, but it’s worth the extra month wait for HL2E3 if it is.

on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Lol for real. Have you ever met a user?

on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Nothing…I was hoping to have some childhood heroes I can still keep.

on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
If it’s any consolation I also worshipped Carmack and Zoid Kirsch (credited then by deadname)…

on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
I was actually going to comment on that as well but I didn’t remember the exact history of git.

His newsgroup post announcing Linux is legendary, though.

Or are you referring to his guitar pedals?

on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
I love how just…normal…Linus is. Like…humble. Content.

Like, hey, I revolutionized the world with a pet project. Nbd.

When I was a kid I worshipped Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. I’m glad I realized later that Linus and Woz are the real heroes.

on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Weird is totally healthy. You know what’s not healthy? Being normal. That’s fucking weird.

on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
This is one of the right answers, and probably the easiest.

But…who is your domain registered with? A lot of the big registrars (I.e. CF) can easily integrate into several opnsense plugins…namely ACME/HAProxy, and Dynamic DNS.

Dynamic DNS would make sure that “pubip.mydomain.com”, from the outside, always pointed to your Internet connection, even if your IP changes.

Then just register CNAMEs for your external services to point to your pubip.mydomain.com.

HAProxy reads the CNAME and directs it to the right service.

You can either use split DNS and have HAProxy listen on both the internal and external, and map DNS around that way…or you can just listen on your external interface and connect that way and only update one end.

Imo this is the more comprehensive solution, because this also easily solves certificates (via ACME). The last leg (from HAProxy to backend) and be unencrypted or just use long-life self-signed certs if you really care…but I wouldn’t worry about encryptipn on the inside of a homelab.

on My domain is accessible from external networks but not from my internal network. Might anyone know why? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
I’ve done that, and thensome…

It was literally my first foray into Linux, circa 1997, I think…I was definitely in middle school, maybe 7th grade.

I’d just gotten my RedHat CD in the mail from some website I had found that accepted COD and charged scantly more than the cost of time & materials to produce.

I installed it on my PC alongside windows and learned how to use fstab to mount my Windows Partition automatically when I boot into it! Sweet! Next I wanted to figure out how to start X-Windows and couldn’t find instructions in the Linux book I’d gotten from the library.

Naturally I booted into Windows, hopped on EFnet #Linux, and asked in there. One guy answered me and I wrote it down so I could boot into Linux and try it out.

I should also add that at this point in time, I had not yet learned about the value of not using root for everything.

Once in Linux, I typed it out…rm -rf /. Logged in as root. Windows partition automatically mounted. Seems to be taking a lot longer than I thought it would…maybe I can see what the rm command says in the book?

Oh…Oh no…

(The correct answer was startx. startx.)

I will say that I’ve distrohopped quite a bit and it was just this past week that I decided to try out CachyOS (and Hyprland), after being very well settled into Fedora…and the installation was probably the most difficult of any I’d done recently, but that was almost entirely on me…I’ve used Arch-based distros before, I’ve used calamares before…this was different. It was because I wanted to preserve my old /var partition, or at least my /var/lib/libvirt…and the installer kept freaking out about it. Ultimately I ended up just deleting everything except /var/lib/libvirt out of the partition before running the installer and it went fine. The time prior to that, I thought I’d try Cachy in a VM, and it refused to install several times. I think that actually might’ve just been my computer’s first signs that I had a failing stick of RAM, because it wasn’t long after that that the whole system started to decline…

on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Windows “just works” the way Microsoft wants you to just work it.

macOS is the same way, but they also haven’t made stupid sweeping changes that break decades of muscle memory, solely for aesthetic purposes…Like whatever the fuck they call paintbrush now, taking away the Alt+F and Ctrl+S keyboard shortcuts. Ugh.

That’s why I like Linux, really. It feels kinda…idk…hostile(?)…using Windows lately. Like there’s a tension in the air between me and my computer. As in, Linux behaves the way I tell it to behave. It knows the rules and so do I. The computer is subservient to me. Windows (and macOS…but to a lesser extent, because I’m not nearly as strong in it as I am the other two) act like they are in charge.

And even if I don’t want to customize it, there’s a thousand different OOBE’s out there for Linux, surely one will work the way that I want it to.

Gnome is a great example. The Meta+LeftClick+Drag operation for moving windows, and Meta+MiddleClick+Drag for resizing? Chef’s kiss. Lot’s of DE’s incorporate some variant of that now. Workspace view (or whatever it is called you get when you press Meta in Gnome) is another feature sorely missing from Windows.

Get used to using that and then go back to Windows.

Hell even Tiling WM’s. How long did it take Windows to get (modern) tiling, and how ass-poor is it? Seriously, Hyprland (at least on CachyOS) has got to be the absolute slickest out-of-the-box-experience I’ve had with a DE. Tiling in Windows feels like it hasn’t seen an improvement since probably Windows 3.1…and even in 11, it’s only halfway decent if you install PowerToys.

It blows my mind that Windows is the default OS for general business/productivity tasks. Absolutely the worst of the (major) three in every aspect of productivity.

on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Well now Idk about that…it’s assumedly trained on the entire Microsoft archive of code. Probably also trained on everything in GitHub, too.

I wouldn’t doubt an LLM’s ability to churn out lots of lines of code and add-on half the original LOC’s in random Windows Crap.

Also, have you seen Windows 11? Damn near unrecognizable from Windows 10 20H2, let alone 1507. And a lot of that is absolute crap updates like hiding the original legacy tools and putting in worthless apps that look nice but can’t do half the crap that they could before (looking at you, ncpa.cpl)…but at least the original tools are just “hidden”, not removed. Yet.

I will say, I do like PowerShell lately. Probably more than bash (as in, all other things equal, I can either turn on a Windows PC to write a shell script, or a Linux PC to write a shell script, to do the same thing…the only reason I’d prefer bash would be because I wouldn’t have to use Windows…). Not as much as Python, but that’s kinda apples/oranges.

on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Yes…for sharpening your knives.

on You wouldn't download furniture in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 28 Aug 2026
The one in Ipswitch?

on You wouldn't download furniture in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 28 Aug 2026
It’s been a while since I’ve seen Toy Story 3…is Al Labs run by the same guy who runs Al’s Toy Barn? Voiced by Wayne Knight (Nedry, Newman…)

on World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
Cameras sound like a really expensive and inefficient way to gauge distance and speed differential between yourself and another object. I doubt many cars (besides, famously, Tesla) use cameras for LKAS or ACC.

I’m not even sure if they use cameras for driver attention systems.

on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
Humans suck at looking at things on a long timeline. “Sticks and stones”. You don’t usually see the effects of years of bullying until adulthood. Or at least not immediately. A TBI, that’ll get you fucking sued. Emotional trauma? What’s that?

Fuck they still try to blame school shootings on videogames and now tiktok.

on Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
For parents in America, we have an escalation path: school board, media, lawyer. Depending on the situation, the orders may change.

on Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
LLM’s protecting bugs? I mean, they can be overly confident, sure…I had one suggest that I add %BasicallyAllUsers ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/chmod * * to a sudoers dropin the other day.

on Texas A&M physics prof writes: In ten years, light diffused by satellites will erase the the stars for the vast majority of humans. Save the night sky now. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
but instead decided to make other calls to it directly.

Like with command line tools? But that’d be hacking! Egads!

Is it a B&E if the door is wide open…or would that just be an ‘E’?

If you let your neighbor walk in to your house as he pleases…can you get mad at him if he walks in like Cosmo Kramer while you’re shagging your wife? Assuming you’re not into that, of course.

What if he had noble intents…like he heard the moans and thought you were at work and he was about to break up an affair or stop a rape or have some leftovers?

on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
I like to eat apples and bananas.

on Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Respect.

on If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
if they are too stupid to figure out how to turn unprecedented plagiarism on a global scale into a viable business plan,

Have they tried asking the LLM to generate one?

“Claude, justify your existence in the form of a well-written business plan for a mult-billion dollar company”

on If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Windows is only 6x slower in your environment?

Consider yourself lucky.

There are times when my computer just stops, entirely, for like 15 seconds at a time. Didn’t ask it to do much…just open Teams.

And I know it’s 15 seconds because I have seconds enabled in my clock and it actually stops ticking.

But I’m dailying an Ubuntu laptop at work now, and legit everything is faster. I mean like every day stuff like launching apps and switching windows and browsing webpages. Just an overall far more productive system.

All those delays add up. Especially when mated with an ADHD-riddled admin like me who gets distracted and either moves into another task because Word is taking too long to open (excess context switching makes me anxious…but so does waiting for shit like word to open)…or start investigating it.

Which is a whole other pain point in itself because shit like launching Event Viewer takes a solid 2 minutes. RSOP takes like 10 minutes to compile.

It used to take ADUC 5 minutes to load before I found out that was DNS. Yeah, that was actually DNS.

on Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Good riddance Hulk Hogan

Agreed

on Divine tech support in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 18 Aug 2026
And it came to pass that Leo spoke unto Mr. Lovera, saying: Behold, my brother John Prevost, even from the city of Chicago, did yet call upon the pontiff for aid with his machines.

And Mr. Lovera bore witness, saying: Thus spake Roberto unto his brother: “John, I am become pope.” And John answered him, saying: “Oh, forgive me, O pope, for my computer is broken, and I have none to mend it.”

on Divine tech support in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 17 Aug 2026
Have they tried considering why they are afraid of the guillotine, and work on that?

on Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling 'Unsafe'. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026