RustedSwitch

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

I’d love to know who actually has this honor - I would guess Trump myself, but Elmu is a good guess too

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

“Let me agitate my potato in peace, for crissake”

• you, probably

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

I consider a double shot the minimum portion - do you have 8 of those?

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

Ok, 4 of those is more than me most days, but not too bad

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

You can simply look for an instance where that username is not taken yet… there are 1400 instances, though not all joinable or desirable, and some surely have a zaphod already… but it is really easy to obtain the exact username you desire.

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

For sure! I briefly debated using a different reference, but the explanation works nicely with that example given that it’s already taken at least once.

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

There’s a seiko kinetic watch in my collection that charges a capacitor with a rotor, and turns off the hand movement when it senses no activity for a period of time (I don’t remember how long). Eventually, the capacitor went bad and the watch doesn’t hold a charge anymore. It probably lasted me 12 years before this happened. It still holds a place of honor in my watch box, but I haven’t been able to wear it for probably 6 years.

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Having not read the article, I would wager a guess that because 401k balances are invested in diverse funds, and if the fund composition includes corporations contributing to emissions… and you are making money off their profitability… you are therefore contributing to those emissions. Pick other things to invest in.

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

Companies you invest in benefit from your investment in a variety of ways. Your investment provides the financial resources needed for the company to grow and expand. Your investment helps companies develop new products, hire more talent, expand into new markets, and improve their overall operations. Your investment essentially contributes to the company’s success.

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

Every company contributes - only a few base their entire business model on it.

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

TIL, thanks

Still, they do benefit from my owning stock, even if it’s just their reputation and indicator of financial health.

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

This showed up for me in c\all

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

you’re not wrong

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

I doubt it - This covers your screen if you try to view someone else’s instagram post when not logged into an account. I expect OP just wants to see the post without giving meta their data.

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

Soon^tm

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

I suppose I could be convinced, but my gut reaction is this is a bad idea. Most people aren’t security oriented, and would put themselves at risk with poorly updated websites that are an attack vector for bad actors… There’s a lot more at stake in regards to what personal data lives on your phone… the richest concentration of your PII.

Also, my battery life is already precious. And what if you’re out of cell range or the network is overloaded? Your site just stops working?

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

If you give people this ability, most of the ones who use it are going to put themselves at risk.

Maybe you feel that’s their own problem. Sometimes you need to protect people from themselves. The phone vendors sure as hell don’t want to start seeing news stories of their devices getting hacked all the time.

And how do you feel about your site visitors not being able to hit your page when your local network is overloaded?

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

Having my phone not be able to do something I want it to do is my problem

I meant, it’s arguable that if people use this feature and expose themselves, that’s their own fault. I’m not sure what you thought I meant.

That’s why you have it turned off by default

It’s off by default, but still there for uneducated and unskilled people to turn on and leave themselves exposed.

… significant improvement

Vs just paying a few bucks for linode that’s got multiple 9s of uptime? It doesn’t seem worth it.

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

Here’s what I’m imagining. The phone is listening on port 80, probably running some jacked up plug-in to play a favorite song. The user probably installs it and then forgets it’s there. The plug-in becomes severely out of date, running code with multiple zero day exploits. In the best case scenario it is running your battery down and using up your bandwidth, it’s commonly just unavailable because your metro area cell network is jammed so your visitors can’t access the site at all, and worst case it can be tricked into running local scripts that do nefarious things.

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

You are commenting as if everyone who would turn this feature on would have the technical acumen to understand how any of it works.

RustedSwitch, 9 months ago

The boat is already full of holes, so let’s poke more!

RustedSwitch, 10 months ago

you should be able to browse the base web page for a lemmy instance and see what the OP is talking about. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click modlog.

lemm.ee

Here’s an example direct link lemm.ee/modlog

RustedSwitch, 10 months ago

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RustedSwitch, 10 months ago

Maybe consider unpinning this one :)