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sunbeam60 , (edited )

Not sure if a serious question. So forgive me if your question was meant to be a statement.

The internet is a large set of computers connected via a set of protocols: IP and on top of that TCP, UDP or very occasionally SCTP (more common on mobile networks).

There’s 65000-ish ports (channels) available on the internet (IP network).

The web runs on port 80 and 443 via TCP (mostly).

The internet supports all sorts of other traffic/channels too: Time synchronisation, games, file transfer, e-mail, remote login, remote desktops etc. None of these run on the web, but is traffic that runs in parallel to the web, using either TCP or UDP protocols.

The distinction is getting blurrier as lots of traffic that used to be assigned (or simple chose) its own port number is now encapsulated in HTTP(s) traffic. But the distinction is definitely not gone.

sunbeam60 ,

Lemmies unite!

sunbeam60 ,

Ah yes, I’ll tell my mom that.

Of course the real way to do it is force a browser choice on OOBE.

sunbeam60 ,

Surely hardly any believe there should be NO regulation?

sunbeam60 ,

What are you talking about? Most suppliers allow you to buy the hardware without forcing Windows on you.

sunbeam60 ,

The behaviour required of you when you have a monopoly is different when you don’t.

These days IE isn’t a monopoly. Chrome is. So Microsoft is allowed more leeway to nudge its users.

This isn’t a verdict. There’s been no court case. This is Microsoft complying with EU regulation, which is very recent. Microsoft has responded to it quite quickly.

sunbeam60 ,

Genuinely curious: Does that actually work? Don’t you have to have your credit card registered to an Irish bank to make payments in that PC’s Windows Store?

sunbeam60 ,

I guess it depends on where you live. In the EU, I’m fairly happy with the regulation the market receives.

sunbeam60 ,

One reason Telegram is doing so well is that its clients are just so DAMN good and feature rich.

sunbeam60 ,

I’m very lucky that all my friends adopted it - it was one of the few clients that everyone knew of (we are distributed across a lot of countries now; US, UK, France, Brazil mainly).

When I’m forced back to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger or iMessage I feel like a race driver being told to ride a bicycle. Telegram’s feature set isn’t just the fullest, it’s also revealed in the best UX, where it somehow manages to be fully decked out but not seem bloaty.

sunbeam60 ,

Did OmegaStar finally provide ISO timestamps?

sunbeam60 ,

Went into comment section to suggest Watership Down. It’s a children’s book which reads like an adult treaties on free will, totalitarianism, good vs evil, leadership … and, oh yeah, the value of overwhelming seagull power.

sunbeam60 , (edited )

My Darwin, the teeth in that show. All of them have PERFECT Hollywood teeth, shining brightly like magical lanterns.

sunbeam60 ,

It’s often an indicator of poor films/shows for me. Look at Killers of the Flower Moon - it’s not like the actors don’t all have amazing looking teeth, but the film has gone through the trouble of making them all look normal via prosthetics.

Yet so much cheap tv/film doesn’t bother and it just immediately cancels my suspension of disbelief.

sunbeam60 ,

Comac is coming. They might not ever sell a plane in the US but Africa, then wider Asia, then Europe will buy some.

Boeing will continue to exist though, agreed.

sunbeam60 ,

Yet flying has gotten safer and safer, statistically.

sunbeam60 , (edited )

The A220 is tough to compete against though. If Airbus goes up to a A220-500 they’ve got a small, hyper-efficient 737 already. And it’s not like the A320 neo isn’t already in place.

Definitely agree that no US airline would be willing to stand the political fallout from buying a C919, whatever deal they could secure or however confident they felt in the reliability and safety of it.

sunbeam60 ,

Totally true. I read some interesting research some years ago, which I can’t find now of course, that people who speak smaller languages (ie with less global speaking population) feel safer because they simply aren’t exposed to as many bad things happening in their own language. So when a plane crashes in the US, UK people feel more impacted from it because they can see victims and relatives speaking about it in a language that feels like their home language. Though to people in Denmark that crash was “abroad”, so “nothing I need to worry about; it was far from home”.

“Near” is people who speak your language. “Far away” is people who don’t.

sunbeam60 ,

Hmmm.

You’re probably right. But to any student reading this I’d say you’re likely to become a significantly stronger programmer, and thus find it easier to find employment, if you understand and feel comfortable knowing how to use a memory-unsafe language. Eventually you’ll arrive up in a problem that’s caused by it, or a required optimisation that benefits from manual memory management. If you want to work in games, too, there really is no other option.

In that sense it’s the same as assembler. One day you’ll sit there and not understand why something breaks only to realise that the underlying assembler doesn’t quite do what the source alludes to.

So, I’m not sure you need it, but I’m pretty sure you’ll benefit from it.

sunbeam60 ,

IIRC Steam uses BitTorrent to help users download game assets. There’s an option to switch it off, still, so must still be going.

sunbeam60 ,

Unigram crowd checking in!

sunbeam60 ,

I think the client is actually built by Telegram itself. The main developer certainly seems employed by Telegram. While not 100% as speedy as the original Win32 client, Unigram is a proper Windows citizen, with support for a range of modern features (including the reason I shifted, namely that it handles multiple monitors with different DPIs without any problems)

sunbeam60 ,

It’s not a clown show. It’s intentional. And it’s working. I’m 99% this was an intentional leak by the West. The first sign is that it was released by TASS, not the Russian government. They were supposedly fed information by a Russian group of hackers. But it smells a lot like these hackers may have been an EU/US intelligence agency.

Why? Because this pops the cherry around the West having soldiers in Ukraine. Unless Russia fires its nukes or attacks a NATO country, this now makes it a fact that the west has soldiers on the ground in Ukraine. This achieves two things.

Now, gently, the West can expand the envelope, and Russia’s boiling frog situation prevents it from having an explosive reaction.

Secondly it derisks Western soldiers dying in Ukraine. Think about it: What’s a better, less risky news story; Russia has killed western soldiers in Ukraine by accident or WE HAVE FUCKING TROOPS IN UKRAINE?!?! AND RUSSIA HAS KILLED THEM?!?!

sunbeam60 ,

I’m not quite sure why you thought this was worth typing out. Feel free to disagree with the position I took, I’m happy to debate it. There’s probably something I’ve missed and I’d be happy to be enlightened.

sunbeam60 ,

I’ll bite.

The article is about how the news was leaked that the west has a limited set of boots on the ground in Ukraine.

sunbeam60 ,

I’ll bite.

The article is about how the news was leaked that the west has a limited set of boots on the ground in Ukraine.

sunbeam60 ,

Touch screens are so dumb.

  • AC controls, control surface heating heating/cooling (steering wheel, seat etc)
  • Volume controls
  • Turns, wipers, lights
  • Fog lights

Basically everything you might touch during the drive should be physical.

sunbeam60 ,

Tesla and VW’s idiotic light controls are touch (but not a screen) so you have to take your eyes off the road to turn fog lights on and off. The panel is completely flat and there’s a risk you might turn the main beam off. I mean, the mind boggles.

EU Commission fines Apple over €1.8 billion over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers (ec.europa.eu)

The European Commission has fined Apple over €1.8 billion for abusing its dominant position on the market for the distribution of music streaming apps to iPhone and iPad users (‘iOS users’) through its App Store. In particular, the Commission found that Apple applied restrictions on app developers preventing them from...

sunbeam60 ,

And it’s so utterly ignorant of WHY the fine was issued. This isn’t about a competitors market position, it’s about Apple using its own dominant market position to push its own service. Using a monopoly to create another monopoly is anti-competitive.

sunbeam60 ,

The problem is Mozilla started thinking about itself as a company, with its massive revenue from Google.

It isn’t. Firefox was most alive and most growing when it was still a grassroots initiative to build a better web browser.

When they go back to that - or someone forks and creates a charity with one sole focus (a great browser) I’ll start supporting them. I just don’t think Mozilla needs this size of org to build a better browser and and now they’re trying to do a bunch a crap I’m not interested in to justify their org size. They’ve got it back to front.

And I say this as a lifelong Firefox user.

sunbeam60 ,

It’s hard for them to find a stable source of funding for the massive size of their org, correct.

But how many developers do you need to create a great browser? They don’t need 1100 people, that’s for sure.

sunbeam60 ,

Ninjas, super-heroes, black-belt and terms like that are known gender-excluders. I’ve been through a couple of adjustment sessions for company standard job descriptions and it’s unreal how you can change the applicant mix by wording.

sunbeam60 ,

In many countries the term “engineer” is a protected title.

sunbeam60 ,

My Seat Leon. I had been warned about VW Group’s new platform but holy hell, even the most dire warnings didn’t tell the truth.

The car crashes every day. Nothing works. Even basic functions, like keyless entry on the door handles. If it rains, nope doesn’t work. How about the speakers switching into centre speaker only? How about a reversing beeper stuck until the car is not just turned off, but left turned off for 10 minutes? How about Apple CarPlay which doesn’t work? The list is endless. It’s so so poor. After one update, the car sensors got confused about being in a left hand driving country, so cruise control wouldn’t overtake cars in the slow lane.

And I can’t afford to switch to another one.

sunbeam60 ,

Fedora —> Red Hat —> IBM.

They are actually quite an innovation company and while their culture can be quite moribund in some of their offices, others are extremely buzzy places with lots of proud employees. It’s complicated, thus.

sunbeam60 ,

You’ve experienced the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory in practice. For all you know that statement could have been made by someone who’s never needed an IBM product/solution, or is 16, living in mummy and daddy’s basement. For those of us with 20+ years in software, we know what you do and contribute. While I may not always agree with the philosophies of IBM’s solutions, you fill a super important need in many areas where not that many people have the capability to play. I’ve hired from and lost people to IBM and have nothing but positive things to say; there’s very much a customer-focused execution culture.

sunbeam60 ,

Happy to see some alternatives, but I’m a very happy user of PhotoPrism (+PhotoSync) so will stay there for now. Agreed that encrypted at rest isn’t all that helpful for a self-hoster.

sunbeam60 ,

Hi, my name is USB-C!

sunbeam60 ,

I think it’s the going solution pretty much everywhere.

sunbeam60 ,

Compiled C# is about half the speed of C/C++

…pages.debian.net/…/box-plot-summary-charts.html

sunbeam60 ,

Definitely. I’ve worked professionally in both. They both have a time and place. I’d be fine with moving all the low level stuff to Rust, but transitions don’t happen by decree so C/C++ will be around for the next 100 years too.

sunbeam60 ,

Ding ding ding we have a winner. Unless you’ve done an official “right of erasure” request they’re perfectly entitled to keep your data, account deletion and all.

sunbeam60 ,

Maybe in 2022. 2023 had 25% of the VC deal volume that 2022 did and 2024 ain’t looking any better.

The age of cheap capital has finished. Unless you’re already healthy or can demonstrate a reasonable path to profitability, later-stage VC is actually really hard to find right now. Angel capital still abounds for people with good track record.

But it’s a tough environment for Reddit to do an IPO in and they probably know it. But they have no other option - they can’t continue into series H, J, Z. Those days are gone.

sunbeam60 ,

He is being paid $300k-ish. The rest is options that may turn out to be worthless or worth a lot less than currently valued.

sunbeam60 ,

I think it was from a time when you could notice the difference. Now it’s just a race towards marginal gains.

sunbeam60 ,

Funnily enough it’s exactly the opposite way of where the corporate world is going, where the LAN is no longer seen as a fortress and most services are available publically but behind 2FA.

sunbeam60 ,

Oh right. The last three business I’ve worked in have all been fully public services; assume the intruder is already in the LAN, so don’t treat it like a barrier.

sunbeam60 ,

Maybe but GPT’s answer at least has a sense of perspective:

Comparing the impact of individuals from vastly different contexts and times, especially with such a wide disparity in their actions and the scope of their influence, isn’t straightforward or appropriate. Adolf Hitler, as a dictator responsible for World War II and the Holocaust, caused the deaths of millions of people, widespread destruction, and profound global suffering. His actions are universally recognized as among the most heinous in history.

Elon Musk, a contemporary entrepreneur involved in ventures such as SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink, has significantly influenced various industries, including electric vehicles, space exploration, and renewable energy. His work has sparked controversy and debate regarding labor practices, public statements, and business decisions, but comparing his impact to that of a historical figure responsible for atrocities on the scale of Hitler’s is not a valid or meaningful comparison.

It’s important to assess historical figures within the context of their actions, the times in which they lived, and the direct consequences of their deeds. Doing so requires careful consideration of historical facts, ethical implications, and the diverse perspectives of those affected by their actions.

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