Dark_Arc

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

I mean, Proton Mail has been around ages and if you pay them … really anything at all you get access to their bridge application. Which… That runs a local plain old IMAP server you can use as if it was any old IMAP email provider.

All the encryption happens on the bridge side, your email client doesn’t need to worry about encryption keys or anything.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

They do have an email only plan. It’s called mail plus account.proton.me/mail/signup?mode=sps&ref=ma…

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Notion is a cool product and I’m cautiously optimistic this means they could be trying to bring more encryption into the product suite.

Standard notes sounds like it fits your requirements quite well though, I’d give it a peek.

Maybe Proton drive or pass in the long term. They seem to slowly be working their way towards notes/document editing.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Yeah I’m cautiously optimistic that maybe they’ll be bringing some of that end to end encryption tech with them and making Notion’s very powerful system more privacy respecting.

Maybe they also acquired them to help fill in some of the gaps like the calendar you mentioned.

At this point… I’m rooting for Proton. I currently have Proton, Privacy, Bitwarden, and Standard Notes. Proton already has an “almost there” replacement for Bitwarden that’s got (IMO) a better UI and better integrates with SimpleLogin. They’ve talked about expanding SimpleLogin to phone numbers and credit cards which would gobble up Privacy for me. They have a fundamental notes system in Pass (their password manager). If they fleshed that out to where it could compete with Standard Notes (… which while getting better has always been a little clunky) I could see myself consolidating around their ecosystem.

At the same time I might stick with Bitwarden and Standard Notes just because I think Proton being a “monopoly” of sorts isn’t necessarily for the best.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I’m somewhere in the middle. I’ve thought about getting an EV my case is a 2012 Camry… And it’s still doing fine, but it is getting up there in the years.

I don’t drive much at all three days since I work from home.

When I do drive it’s roughly 150 miles to my parents or my grand parents. It looks like without installing something at their houses I could charge up 120 miles in a 24 hour period with the car entirely on the charger (but sometimes I want to go drive around and see friends or things and that’s time the car is not charging so … 120 miles might be an over estimate in some cases). That’s a bit uncomfortable especially when the cold weather makes the range drop so the “320” miles total becomes closer to “270”. Then there’s the whole thing where batteries lose capacity over time…

That means I’m going to potentially need to plan for stopping at a charger. There really aren’t that many chargers available between, e.g. where my parents live in Marietta Ohio, and where I live in Akron Ohio. When looking at a map (provided by Ford for the Mustang Mach-e I was looking at) there were maybe a dozen charging locations with pretty much 1-3 chargers each … That’s compared to a dozen busy gas stations I’ve encountered with ~8 pumps each.

I’d probably be fine but … I think I’d be better off waiting a couple of years and seeing if the 600 mile EV range becomes a reality. At that point all of my regular trips are accounted for and I’m okay looking for charging on the odd times I go on a large trip.

Alternatively, maybe there will be more chargers by that point (or charging will be faster) and I’ll feel more comfortable that I’ll be able to find a charger when I need it.

I don’t want my long 2 1/2 hour trip to turn into a 3+ hour trip on the way back … or turn into a particularly dangerous or sketchy situation because the charger I need is being used by someone else/down for maintenance/broken and it’s very cold outside.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

I’ve thought about that too, but the stretch of road there is basically an interstate through the country side the majority of the route. There’s very little in terms of interesting cuisine or places to really walk around.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

It’s a fine app. That article is pretty unjustly biased against it acting as if there are no rules. There are… telegram.org/tos

Also the app doesn’t promote anything, for those social channels you have to explicitly seek them out or be referred into them in the first place.

The founder has also shared personal perspective about this previously t.me/durov/230

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

There’s some irony in that I was literally just reading this

wired.co.uk/…/katherine-hayhoe-climate-change-cle…

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Yeah… It seems to be a management issue. They underinvestment, under communicate, then drop the product when it’s not magically successful because of the brand that launched it.

Stadia is my prime example where they just needed to stand their ground and work on the platform’s software. Hardware wise, they could just resell GPUs people aren’t using in Google cloud.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

They should’ve just made a public legally binding promise to run the service for at least 15 years or all purchased games and hardware will be refunded.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Because we don’t want to interfere with the system and make it a politically orchestrated arrest.

The normal forces that be are working on it… It’s just taking time… Due process and all that jazz

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

There are plenty of ways a vote matters even in those circumstances.

EC and gerrymandering have no effect on governors or senators. Those are absurdly powerful positions.

EC and gerrymandering also don’t affect local county and city offices which can play an outsized role in how your local government and community interact.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Every arrest is politically orchestrated.

Oh give me a break.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Investigating, bringing charges against, and prosecuting a large scale criminal enterprise does not happen overnight.

You can say I’m “dead wrong” all you want but if this happened “instantly” or anywhere near instantly, it would not be sound, and it would not be right.

Trump would walk because they jumped the gun and entered the room under prepared.

This isn’t a gang, the Democrats can’t just say “go throw him in jail” and even if they could I would argue that would be a bad thing. Political prosecution is the opposite of a system running on the rule of law which is what the US system aspires to be.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

As an Ohioan this is a weird way to find out there’s a Columbus Nebraska

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Haven’t been on it since Elon purchased the company. I do know that Twitter by virtue of being powered by who you follow can have a vastly different feel to different people.

If you start getting into political stuff, even in the before times, it could get pretty nasty. I can only imagine that’s worse now.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Loopholes aren’t bad, they’re incentives for companies to do certain things rather than hard requirements for companies to do certain things.

It’s when it’s to such an extreme no or little tax is paid that there’s a problem.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

There’s a big difference between pushing the limit and significantly exceeding the limit though.

One gets you across the bridge. One gets you a nice dip in the river.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

I hate that. They’ll just say something like “well how can you support solar panels when it kills the rare ballet fork bird?! Or when the solar panels kill the nearby trees!? Or when the toxic chemicals leak into the streams and the kill the river!?”

It’s just like this slew of crap and you can’t possibly know it’s totally crap when you start talking to them. Then you go back research it and it turns out it’s from some (typically CCP or Russian financially backed) fake news website “pRoMOTinG fReeDoM aNd tHe AMeRicAn wAY.”

Then they just don’t want to hear about how freedom4everything.scam is a scam and think you’re being political and close minded for insisting they check these things out and look for collaborating sources with more credibility, NYTimes, Washington Post, WSJ, etc.

Then that turns into a whole “but the NYTimes is too liberal to ever mention mutant fish caused by renewable energy” … and it just goes on and on…

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

With a name like PP_BOY_ how could you be anything but legit? /s lol

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Or just RuneScape in general

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

If he was in pass thru he’d be vommiting because there’s no faster way to make yourself sick.

The issue I have with your comment is this. You’re asserting that the experience you had with nausea and VR is the experience everyone has or will have with nausea and VR.

Some people can’t read a book in the car without getting motion sickness. Some people can read hundreds. Some can read a few pages.

Some people can read a book but not play a video game. Some people have the opposite problem.

There’s no way this was “fake” maybe staged, but this person was clearly in the driver’s seat driving down a public 4-lane highway. Staged video or not, that’s dangerous.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

I don’t think that’s the case. I’ve seen videos of them being used on the subway. I also know somebody that has one and it definitely doesn’t mind if you walk around.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

I think the other comments have touched on the motion sickness point enough…

I’m not sure where your line is between “fake” and “staged” but if they are only putting the headset on for the purpose of the video and they don’t actually drive around that way, I’m calling that fake. Because they aren’t actually using the headset except to draw attention to the fact that they are wearing the headset. People aren’t actually doing this. They created a fake controversy.

As for this, I only use fake if what appears to have happened didn’t actually happen, e.g. it looks like somebody got stabbed but they definitely didn’t (be it CGI, camera angles, fake knives, etc).

Where as staged is more “that’s what actually happened” but it happened intentionally to make a video. “Here’s your sign” and influencer videos can definitely qualify lol

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Having global addresses instead of NAT means less control over your LAN

You can still have internal IP addresses and things like the router firewall work pretty much like they always have. I’m not sure what you mean by less control really.

these unique public addresses can track users more accurately

I feel like that concern is overblown. You get way more information from DNS, for way cheaper, than you get from “there were 27 devices, now there are 28!” and both takes being the ISP and observing the traffic.

It’s also not like VPNs can’t work in IPv6 land for people that really are conscious of hiding as much information about what they’re doing from their ISP as possible.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Because you shouldn’t. NAT causes so many issues, nobody sane is implementing NAT for IPv6 as an out of the box option.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

In a large cooperate network, or even a small network, there’s nothing fixing a device to a specific network address. You can shuffle those around between people entering and leaving the building and device power cycles just like DHCP does for IPv4.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

I mean there are advantages to using AV1 for photos… Hardware accelerated decoding being one.

Decoding a large AVIF image grid should in theory work on a GPU and happen faster with less power than any software based image format implementation.

AV1 is also just an awesome format that’s entirely free to use out of the gate.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

I think there’s a lesson in there about teaching people that weren’t around for the formation of a movement about why targeted movements exist.

It’s not just with kids but with people that are tuned out… I think too many people fall through the cracks into white power, toxic masculinity, incel groups, etc because on the surface the questions are of course…

“well why don’t I have a support group for X? what makes that group of people special? why do they get their own day?”

Like yeah, if nobody’s ever explained what women have historically faced to you, feminism and girl power are especially strange concepts to confront.

Maybe having a more positive masculinity movement actually wouldn’t be a bad idea just to help people that are feeling a little lost and prevent them from finding “answers” in the wrong places(?)

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

I mean it’s the same problem broad labels always have … liberals the term is for everything left of Bernie Sanders to the ball park Joe Manchin depending on who you’re talking to.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Qobuz … check it out

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

For streaming they pay out the most of anybody last I checked.

For DRM free purchases I’m not sure, but it’s almost certain the lions share goes to the record labels and then goes to the artist (or directly to the artist if there’s no “record label”).

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

It might help if you described what you’re actually trying to forward … and why the source IP matters.

ZeroTier would be my recommendation personally (it does what tailscale does but it’s been doing it longer and you can use whatever IP ranges you need vs some public IPv4 address space TailScale pools from).

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

I think it’s an improvement, particularly for folks like my grandfather that have the UI/font scale increased.

On his phone there was basically 1-2 words that would fit in that old text box …

<span style="color:#323232;">so his
</span><span style="color:#323232;">text
</span><span style="color:#323232;">message
</span><span style="color:#323232;">preview
</span><span style="color:#323232;">looked
</span><span style="color:#323232;">like this
</span>

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Even more so… Maybe stop requiring ridiculously formal attire?

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Paramount definitely seems to be the worst about this … their app in general is really frustrating.

Max does it occasionally but it’s rare enough I don’t notice.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

I think the main appeal is basically a projected screen. You can face absolutely massive screens if I understand correctly vs having to buy those screens and position yourself in front of them.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Mildly concerned that definition could result in someone being prosecuted for rape for misreading whether someone wants a kiss.

Edit: I looked up the actual bill, it’s fine… I figured it probably was, but god damn lemmy thanks for the down votes and assumptions of the worst for stating a simple concern 🙄

legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S3161

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

I read that, I get the intent, I support the intent but “sexual contact” seems broad enough that “oral to oral” (i.e. a kiss) could fall under it.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Op didn’t really read the article or the changes in the law and so doesn’t understand that kissing isn’t relevant at all here, but decided to weigh in with a completely unrelated comment anyway.

The article does not say that. The article says the law has been Brian’s to include (among other things) oral sexual contact.

I did not look up the literal letter of the law, and I’m guessing you didn’t either.

A kiss could be argued as oral to oral sexual contact.

Which yeah, kissing someone without their consent isn’t cool … but I also wouldn’t consider it anywhere near rape if a date misread my comfort level and “went for it.”

Op understands the change in law and is worried about their questionable behavior.

👎

I have some words for you about that take, but I’m not going to go there.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

I still would wager this direction is good.

Anecdotally there’s seemingly been a plague of unnecessary or incompetent middle management (i.e. administrative overhead) in lots of places for lots of years.

Reducing the number of layers a bit is probably a good thing even if some people lose their jobs in the process.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

What did you switch to?

My shield has always been laggy… I’d like to find a TV “OS” that can run apps and is actually fast.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Thanks. It seems like the Apple TV is the best option if you need DRM… 😥

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

What an out of touch judge

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

Of all the laws to pick and choose on, I’ll happily pardon this one.

Trump literally said he’d do it and then didn’t.

Every other president in recent history has done it.

It’s not like someone forced him to eat his hat. He was forced to follow a convention that he’d already told people he intended to follow.

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

We keep fucking trying … Maybe soon … Frustrating

Dark_Arc , 6 months ago

Well they definitely aren’t going to start writing about the “mean American’s” debt 😉

Dark_Arc , 5 months ago

It’s a growing genre. I’m mostly talking about Hunt Showdown specifically as I haven’t done much with other games.

I will say, hunt does require 1-2 friends for the best experience.

You can play with random teammates (I’ve never done that) or play solo (but that’s particularly challenging).