So recently my work, a mid sized engineering firm, decided to start upgrading their IT security. The rumor is that we have potential DOD work coming our way. Over the past few months there has been multiple company decided changes to our 2 factor authentication mobile app. I willingly installed the app on my phone over a year...
legions of brainwashed drones roaming around blasting off assault rifles randomly in an expansion called american revolt. . . did this get back on-topic?
yeah persuedertron was pretty much my plan A on most levels - at least when i replayed it a few years ago on a decent computer. A nice layer of human shields.
We were away for a week and left it on the side of the road. Doesn’t look like they were particularly competent, as they ruined the ignition but didn’t manage to start it....
A North Texas man has filed a class action lawsuit against Cinemark, claiming the movie theater chain is lying to customers about the size of its drinks....
If they get punitive damages it might be a lot more than that.
Lawyer might do it for 0 upront and % of settlement if they think there's a decent prospect of that.
Today in a Privacy community a post about YouTube. No word about privacy but all about which software or settings are needed to watch videos and the money needed to host videos. It made me wonder whether some of you can lead a meaningful life without YouTube. Or will a cold turkey bring the worst out of you ?
Yes, I can live without youtube I survived the 1980s and 1990s - I'm not saying my life is or was "meaningful" though - that'll be discernable if the maggots enjoy their dinner whenever the time comes.
I also think there were at least a few generations of humans before that, some of whom may think they led at least slightly meaningful lives.
I don't think youtube makes anyone's life more or less "meaningful", it's just a way to pass the time - but that's just my opinion on carbon-shuffling in general. If you accept peoples own objectives instead of mine, then youtube might help them learn stuff - but even then I'd look to measure the content of their consequent actions, much more than learning in abstract. They've still got to put their new knowledge together with skills , practice and the real world circumstances to before anyting "meaningful" happens - and that's due as much to their hard work as much as to their teacher.
But I do prefer to watch a few people's videos on there as entertainment, only a few of them post on that p2p thing "lbry" or whatever so i dont use that. I will continue to watch youtube videos given the choice, and not having somethign better to do, until those people move their videos to somewhere else.
I've recently been finding out that freetube client removes much of the front end unpleasantness.
Develop own software or support indepndent sw development however you can.
If you really need something, think about your personal dependencies and try to build some resilience / backups , one way or another.
Whatever your craft, a pathway towards ownership and control of tools and maintenance should be a traditional part of mastering the craft.
So that you can eventually do things like extend the toolset, or adapt tools to niche circumstances and advance things along.
If you don't have that pathway, then you might end up trapped as an apprentice or journeyperson and will continue to be exploited by those who control the things you depend on.
If there's no freedom and no way to develop competition in the supply chain, then you probably would benefit from - collective organisations such as trades-guilds, or professional associations or trade-unions to counter the power imbalance, and represent your needs - but they can also get captured/bribed so those probably need a bit of effective democracy / transparency/accountability or something. I'm not going to suggest govt regulation, becasuse that's super easy to capture and national-election democracy is a weak control, but you might get some progressive govts like some European ones that'd think about doing something suppoting foss projects, maybe.
It might not be easy, but you have to look for and support those types of features for the good of your industry.
Corps will eat their industry for a quick $, it's the workers, tradespeople and masters of the craft and some small businesses who care about the long term. And maybe any enlightened customers if you're lucky enough to have them.
As an example, for physical 3d cad, personally I don't like freecad much it's complex and not very intuitive; but it lets me do all the maths I want in python, with my own made up data structures / object model. So i'll use and support freecad 100% over all the other more user friendly CAD that i've seen - it really is the freedom, and not being so dependant.
That's what the win XP search dog was for.
They'd send it out hunting for frogs so that they can boil them all.
Bill Gates first programme was a reverse frogger game, he'd get to drive the cars and score get points for squishing frogs.
I think it was called Grand Theft Amphibian or something. The dude just really hates frogs.
I have an extension that can individually disable all the most useless/addicting components of the Youtube site, such as shorts and whatnot. On the search page, I have turned on:...
Sorry, that was my lame joke about the simlar sound of the windows essential tool "regedit".
My only surviving knowledge from when I used to be able to do things on windows was that it was always a bucket of shite until you "regedit" a bunch of things. These edits were arcane secrets known only to mystical internet guru's like some bloke called "Fred Vorck" and impossible to figure out by logic, reason or even through mundane hard work. I assumed that's what the lower panel in the OP is getting at.
But on reflection, I'd be sad if there's not a forum on reddit called "regedit" will all the advice on what registry keys to fix - so unintentionally it might not be the worst advice - apart from the word "simple".
I’ve been discussing with my sister (a big fan of her cats) about what lives we would save in an emergency. I think a human live is worth more than an animal’s no question asked but she thinks otherwhise. So to end this discussion I’m writing here....
I'd pick any random manatee over a human.
Why? Manatees seem nicer than humans, as far as I can tell.
I don't know that much about manatees though, given a sniff of power maybe they'd turn into arseholes too; but I think I'd rather someone else had a turn than yet more humans.
Crow removing anti bird spikes (chaos.social)
Seen this countless times
There are only 4 serious consolidated Linux Distros: Fedora, OpenSuse, Debian, Ubuntu (lemmy.ml)
Factos.
Do I need a new phone for 2FA? (Tad Long)
So recently my work, a mid sized engineering firm, decided to start upgrading their IT security. The rumor is that we have potential DOD work coming our way. Over the past few months there has been multiple company decided changes to our 2 factor authentication mobile app. I willingly installed the app on my phone over a year...
Could Trump Go to Prison? If He Does, the Secret Service Goes, Too (www.nytimes.com)
The U.S. Secret Service is in the business of protecting the president, whether he’s inside the Oval Office or visiting a foreign war zone....
Get rid of landlords... (lemmy.world)
Let π = 5 (files.catbox.moe)
Man who won primary election while charged with murder convicted on lesser charge (apnews.com)
A Boone County jury convicted Andrew Wilhoite, 41, of Lebanon on Thursday, local news outlets reported....
Someone tried to steal our Subaru in Christchurch (lemmy.nz)
We were away for a week and left it on the side of the road. Doesn’t look like they were particularly competent, as they ruined the ignition but didn’t manage to start it....
North Texas man sues Cinemark claiming 24-ounce beer cups can't hold 24 ounces (www.fox4news.com)
A North Texas man has filed a class action lawsuit against Cinemark, claiming the movie theater chain is lying to customers about the size of its drinks....
Gen Z workers in China are picking 'gross outfits' over corporate glam because they don't get paid enough to look fly (www.businessinsider.com)
Can you live without YouTube ?
Today in a Privacy community a post about YouTube. No word about privacy but all about which software or settings are needed to watch videos and the money needed to host videos. It made me wonder whether some of you can lead a meaningful life without YouTube. Or will a cold turkey bring the worst out of you ?
Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad (www.neowin.net)
Youtube is now unusable without a frontend (lemmy.world)
I have an extension that can individually disable all the most useless/addicting components of the Youtube site, such as shorts and whatnot. On the search page, I have turned on:...
Hey you, you wanna install Linux? (files.catbox.moe)
To be honest, it is quite complicated now as well with all of the proprietary software (sh.itjust.works)
I think the original name was "dysaesthesia aethiopica." (lemmy.world)
How the Media Treat Linux (www.youtube.com)
Just sharing this really well produced video on Linux’s public perception (since this channel has suprisingly not a lot of subscribers)
Who would you save between your cat and your worst enemy?
I’ve been discussing with my sister (a big fan of her cats) about what lives we would save in an emergency. I think a human live is worth more than an animal’s no question asked but she thinks otherwhise. So to end this discussion I’m writing here....
systemdeez nuts (sh.itjust.works)
UN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Study released at Cop28 misused research to underestimate impact of cutting meat eating, say academics...