redcalcium

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Blocking adblockers apparently doesn't work well enough so google resorts to various forms of gaslighting (delayed video playback, api randomly returning wrong video, and now skipping video straight to the end).

redcalcium ,

Due to how federation works, downvotes are actually somewhat public because instance owners can query them in lemmy database, though instance owners probably won't tell you if you ask due to privacy reason. If you're interested in something like this, you can run your own instance.

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Since both Russia and Ukraine now have prisoners in their military force, how likely it is to have an Ukrainian prisoner serving Russia fighting a Russian prisoner serving Ukraine in the battle field?

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Generally yes, but keep in mind that apt packages are maintained by canonical, while snap packages could be maintained by canonical, the apps' original developers themselves (e.g. Firefox snap is maintained by Mozilla), or a 3rd party unrelated to canonical or the app's developer (i.e. random dudes packaging apps into snap and submit them). If the snap packages are not maintained by canonical, there is nothing stopping the snap packagers to use a different versioning scheme, though it's unlikely. In general, it's a good idea to check the package entry on snapcraft.io to figure out who packaged them so you can decide if it's trustworthy or not.

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The Philippines and Vietnam, which are on the front lines of territorial disputes with China, maintained strong support for the US. In 2023, the US and the Philippines updated their mutual defense treaty and expanded defense cooperation agreements. Vietnam upgraded its bilateral relations with the US and entered into a maritime cooperation agreement with the Philippines in January 2024. ​

I think it's wild that Vietnam, a communist country, aligns more to US instead of China.

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I'm truly torn with this. The first one seems sensible (action -> target) and easier to read and reason about (especially with long names), while the other one looks more organized, naturally sortable and works great with any autocompletion system.

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Remember when google was beloved by everyone back then when they're still have "don't be evil" motto? Cloudflare right now is like google back then: super useful, provides a lot of free services that would be expensive on other providers. But unlike google, if cloudflare go full evil in the future, the impact will be much larger because they're an mitm proxy capable of seeing unencrypted traffics across all websites under their wing. Right now they're serving ~30% of top 10,000 websites and growing.

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Do they strip off HTTPS somehow?

Well yes, how else they can provide their services such as page caching, image optimizing, email address obfuscation, js minifications, ddos mitigation, etc unless they can see all data flowing between your server and your visitors in the clear?

Cloudflare is basically an MITM proxy. This blog post might be helpful if you want to know how mitm proxy works in general: https://vinodpattanshetti49.medium.com/how-the-mitm-proxy-works-8a329cc53fb

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I always knew my English teacher was impolite.

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Regardless of who's right or wrong in this dispute, it's just another example of why getting deep into cloud vendor lock in is not great for your company. If you went balls deep into cloudflare's offering, e.g. using cloudflare workers, kv, cloudflare access, etc, you can't afford to get kicked out of cloudflare for any reason. What are you gonna do when their sales rep tells you to pay more this year? Refusing is not an option because it'll screw your company hard.

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They don't say unlimited, but they also won't say the limit of their reverse proxy service. It's intentionally vague.

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Lemmy is getting bigger now, and you can see the quality of discussions in large Lemmy communities take a hit lately. If you want quality discussion, go to smaller communities.

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Man, if it were me, I'd probably bit the bullet and bought a new motherboard instead of returning the processor. With my luck, I'll probably run into some issues with the ram sticks and bought some new ones. Heck, maybe I'll run into some issues with the old gpu and buy a new one too! Then the psu would probably need to be upgraded to power the new gpu. The temperature would probably kinda hot so the case must be replaced with new one with better cooling. Heck, now the monitor is too shitty for the hardware and need to be replaced with a new one with hdr and high refresh rate. Then the mouse would suddenly died and need to buy a new one too.

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Transreflective lcd doesn't look great though, especially when viewed at angles, or when the room is bright enough to light the reflective later but dark enough to require the backlight.

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"Good news! The tankette survives the battle! "

"Excellent! Was the crew unharmed?"

"..."

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So you can put raw chicken meat inside your armpit and it's done? Sounds legit.

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Do they really apply subsidies to exported cars though? 20k is about the same price as comparable Japanese mini EVs like Nissan Sakura. If the exported seagull were subsidized, surely it should be even cheaper than that?

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Used Tesla battery is actually in demand though. Is the exploit is accessible enough, eventually thieves would target it to sell the battery in the used market for electric car conversion kits, solar power storage kits, etc.

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People usually use flipper zero (banned in Canada) to play with these kind of stuff. Not sure if this exploit can be implemented in flipper zero though.

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Unlike AMD and Intel, they don't get along with the open source community well and generally do whatever they please, which is why they earned the ire of many linux developers. For example, they're really dragging their asses with implementing explicit sync.

redcalcium ,

Ah sorry, I got it backward. Nvidia is dragging their asses on implementing "implicit" sync, so Wayland devs and nvidia ended up with a compromise and implemented the explicit sync protocol. IMO it's just another example of Nvidia doing whatever they please and forcing everyone to do it their way or highway.

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Here, take one

https://lemmy.institute/pictrs/image/9bcbe4ed-e78a-44ef-8469-ab366e29973c.jpeg

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Let's not forget that crypto also enable wide deployment of ransomwares (which was not possible due to the lack of untraceable online payment at scale), while less and less ecommerce platform allow crypto payment. If this trend continues, eventually no one would use crypto except for speculation and paying off ransom.

redcalcium ,

The internet has far more beneficial uses than malicious uses. We currently can't say the same with cryptocurrency due to its diminishing utility.

E-commerce platforms were never the target anyway

What's the use of money if not for paying stuff? In the early days, a lot more shops (online and offline) accept crypto payments. These days it's mostly vpn companies that accept them.

redcalcium ,

Scams are not much affected by cryptocurrency existence, but ransomware existence specifically relies on crypto for scaling reason. They infect millions of computers, the ransoms are being handled automatically because it's way too much to be handled manually with gift cards.

redcalcium ,

The CIA played a long game for this one. First, they engineered the global warming, which led to cooler temperature than usual in that region, which led to fogs and low hanging clouds, which caused the crash of the helicopter carrying the president.

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The people with appropriate skills must have the tv (it's not cheap) and actually interested in jailbreaking them. So far noone has done so.

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Have you done the internet test from your Nintendo switch? https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22462/~/how-to-use-the-internet-connection-test

The most important result is the NAT type. What's the score?

redcalcium ,

Whelp, it's not great. Ideally, you'll need at least NAT type B to be able to play online without issues.

You may improve the score by assigning a static ip address to your nintendo switch in your router settings, then add it to the router's DMZ. But this is assuming the source of the problem is the router's firewall. If the source of the issue is your ISP using CGNAT, then not much you can do beyond changing ISP or talk to your ISP to see if they have any online gaming-friendly internet plans.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20240518020633/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/google-generative-ai-search-toilet-theory/678411/

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Fuck those third world countries.

Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea? Fuck those commies (except China apparently).

The whole continent of Africa? Fuck them (except South Africa because reason).

British and US minor territories? Fuck them too.

Middle East? Fuck them (except the rich ones).

-- Sony probably

redcalcium ,

It's a famous historical site:

Bamiyan, one of the poorest regions in impoverished Afghanistan, is a popular destination for foreign tourists because it contains Buddhist monastic ensembles and sanctuaries, according to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

The scenic city was also the spot where the Taliban destroyed two large Buddha statues in March 2001 during their previous rule in Afghanistan. The group said the statues were blasphemous under Islam.

redcalcium ,

There are certain kinds of people that love this kind of tourism. I mean, tourists visit North Korea every year. It might be the thrill of visiting forbidden countries that attracts them.

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Supposedly they found a new method (Q*) that significantly improved their models, enough to make some key people revolt to force the company to not monetize it out of ethical concern. Those people have been pushed out ofc.

redcalcium ,

May not exactly what you're looking for, but jupyter is excellent for documenting a session and you can make it works with C++:

https://blog.jupyter.org/interactive-workflows-for-c-with-jupyter-fe9b54227d92

redcalcium ,

They're probably marketing this as requiring zero infrastructure changes to attract buyers and investors. Just put the pod lifter at the end of the track and it's done.

redcalcium ,

Heck, Japanese manufacturers even sell $15K EVs in Japan (e.g. Nissan Sakura) but they don't seem to be interested in selling them elsewhere.

redcalcium ,

How long until we get Microsoft teams up with Mountain Dew to release xbox verification cans 2FA devices?

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You'll read a recipe huh? Not so fast! You gonna skim through the author's life story first.

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Yes, it's a painting of a... dog

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The poor girl got elephantiasis.

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You're probably one of those that missed the (3) boats.

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https://lemmy.institute/pictrs/image/9fa128f4-0779-4214-b065-4609f72d8f6e.jpeg

redcalcium ,

IIRC Samsung doesn't allow OEM unlock on snapdragon devices sold in US.

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The problem is, these new phones often have new speed charging protocols that only work best with their own charger, basically forcing you to pay more to get the charger if you want to utilize speed charging unless you already have a new-ish charger from that manufacturer.

redcalcium ,

Are you living in the same country as those that complain about ads in windows? From what I understand, this is not rolled out globally yet.

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It would be very inconvenient if you time it well, e.g. when they're playing games beside you and you see them about to land a decisive blow.

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