andrew 3 weeks ago • 100%
Probably “shiny gold”- it was super impressive for the time period but was never finished officially and didn’t age super well.
andrew 4 weeks ago • 100%
Lowe’s uses a customized Linux distro for their department terminal computers. Most of what you do is in browser or terminal applications, if genesis is still in use.
andrew 2 months ago • 100%
Because Microsoft isn’t responsible for every program that runs on their OS.
CrowdStrike is an EDR that enterprises choose to install. The bug was caused by a dodgy content bundle update, which is something that’s meant to be 100% safe but evidently they found and triggered a bug.
andrew 2 months ago • 100%
Thanks for posting this for awareness! I love this theme now
andrew 3 months ago • 100%
Hell yes I’m so excited for graphics
andrew 3 months ago • 100%
But, eventually exploitable is still a pretty major concern for anybody who has systems running longer than a few days at a time.
andrew 3 months ago • 100%
Satellite sos was only available on 14 or newer on release, which is even less support for the prior gen than apples intelligence features (which at least supports the pro lineup from the prior gen, as well as every apple silicon Mac released)
andrew 4 months ago • 100%
The Wii didn’t officially support dvd playback (and didn’t support hardware video decoding of typical dvd codecs, so few dvds worked with the homebrew software to enable it)
andrew 4 months ago • 100%
Massgrave is a tool that can create legit (oem) keys for windows and office out of thin air*
- it’s not literally creating them from nothing, it’s using a system Ms themselves run to get working keys. Evidently they don’t have a huge problem with it.
andrew 5 months ago • 100%
It’s not unheard of in folks who are in software dev because they love the repetition and routine. Farming is pretty similar to programming a computer, just with tons more manual labor.
andrew 5 months ago • 100%
Umami has been pretty good to me. Plausible was a close choice but I ran into technical difficulties getting it going.
I didn’t get around to trying it, but goatcounter looked promising as well.
andrew 5 months ago • 100%
Classicube for that simple block-building itch
andrew 5 months ago • 100%
Classicube is pretty sick
andrew 5 months ago • 100%
It was more common for commercial discs and some consumer discs to have the data layer sandwiched between the bottom surface and label layer, especially later in cd/dvd’s heyday, to prevent tiny scratches on the label or sharpie marks from destroying bits in the data layer.
andrew 6 months ago • 100%
Cinavia! Allegedly it’s still around and mandated in all consumer Blu-ray players.
andrew 6 months ago • 100%
Plex has been good to me but I grow ever more concerned that they will drop lifetime Plex pass features as they become more focused on being a provider of media and not just a streaming middleman.
andrew 6 months ago • 100%
Nintendo made no legal demands nor threatened to sue any involved party, their letter just formally requests that dolphin wouldn’t be published on steam.
andrew 7 months ago • 100%
The Weeknd
andrew 7 months ago • 100%
Definitely not in my neck of the woods, unless they had thousands of crisis actors at every hospital in my area.
andrew 7 months ago • 100%
It’s relevant because it’s largely regional or circumstantial. The distribution of Covid deaths depends heavily on healthcare system capacity and population density, and when it was bad, it was really bad.
andrew 7 months ago • 100%
andrew 7 months ago • 100%
My manager at a previous employer died of covid while I worked there. This was long after the initial hectic period.
I personally interacted with hundreds of people who would end up passing away from covid-related complications.
Obviously working in healthcare exposes you to this sort of thing more. Outside of that, I had two direct relatives who nearly died (and likely would have if they had caught it when DME companies had run out of oxygen concentrators to rent out in 2020)
andrew 7 months ago • 100%
The lifecycle would continue. Xchat to ychat to hexchat to dodecahedronchat…
andrew 8 months ago • 100%
My gut feeling is that that is apples entire game plan with the Vision Pro- seed an expensive version of the tech, then refine it with what they learned into something leaner and significantly cheaper.
I could be wrong, but given the current price point that’s my guess.
andrew 8 months ago • 100%
I wouldn’t really bucket masimo into the little guy” team- from my time in healthcare, they are really not an ethical company due to their aggressively high pricing on simple products only they produce, stifling competition through artificial lockouts and patent trolling.
andrew 8 months ago • 100%
They make a lot off of paid repositories and enterprise contracts, id be shocked if they had to enshittify it
andrew 8 months ago • 100%
A gun would help stop those witches from flying in the sky.
I may be taking this analogy the wrong way.
andrew 8 months ago • 100%
I used Apollo and Relay extensively and not having those makes it so hard to even try for me.
andrew 9 months ago • 100%
Unless they are permanently only using specific addresses or blocks and will never change that up, I’d consider it a moving target.
andrew 9 months ago • 100%
A flatpak of the snap, running in a docker container inside a vm for maximum security.
andrew 9 months ago • 100%
Checking ip ownership is a moving target more likely to result in outcomes these sites don’t want (accidentally blocking google bots and preventing results from appearing on google).
Checking useragent is cheap, easier, unlikely to break (for this purpose, anyway) and the percentage of folks who know how to bypass this check is relatively slim, with a pretty small financial impact.
andrew 9 months ago • 100%
Year over year my insurance at huge companies would get both worse and costlier. It was to the point that the insurance that was costing me $200/mo was literally just acting as a safeguard against something costing me $10,000- which would have financially ruined anybody at those jobs anyway
andrew 9 months ago • 100%
Imo launch day nms is more varied (in generated content, at least) with less loading screens (so you get to do the fun action of atmospheric flight -> space flight yourself) - starfield is better in other ways but the end result is I find nms more fun (even on the day 1 version)
andrew 9 months ago • 100%
Most sites will do live inspection of browser capabilities rather than using the user agent to grok capabilities, simply because user agent is hardly reliable.
andrew 10 months ago • 100%
Looks like beeper got their stuff working again.
Can’t imagine this working out very well long term though
andrew 10 months ago • 100%
They’re trying to make steam think they’re actually running osrs so it tracks their playtime. Steam doesn’t track playtime of nonsteam games.
andrew 10 months ago • 100%
Generally you can’t reverse it into exactly what was written, but most of the time you can disassemble or decompile just about any program as long as the binary format is known. The legibility of the resulting unraveling may vary depending on language and any methods used to obfuscate the end binary.
andrew 11 months ago • 100%
Their point was that, on macOS, other browsers don’t use the safari engine under the hood like they do on iOS. That commonality is why the article states the exploit works in those browsers on iOS.
andrew 12 months ago • 100%
I mean, almost all outreach is automated until you get to a meeting. The point of the post is to show that Reddit is reaching out, either intentionally (possible, based on the previous outreach) or unintentionally, to somebody that many companies would rather not do business with.
andrew 12 months ago • 66%
Because I wanted to share something I found humorous because of the context preceding it, but don’t have copies of that context anymore because it was so long ago.
This is the third attempt they’ve made to work with that guy that actually got routed to me because their salespeople don’t do their due diligence. Shocking. Edit; a little extra context: I have an email alias on a domain similar to one he might use, and regularly receive email addressed to him. Reddit marketing folks reached out in a less cookie cutter manner a couple times last year, this is more of a mailing list outreach attempt.
The host I was using for radiation.party became extremely unreliable, extremely quickly, leading to an extended downtime while I worked on finding a good alternative. I've shoved my lemmy instance onto one of my other dedicated servers for the time being, with the goal of eventually migrating it to its own beefier server. There will be, unfortunately, a flood of posts for missed content on current sources. This has already happened as of me posting this post, so I sowwy. If you'd like to help fund shoving this community onto a beef boy server, let me know here - I might set up a tipjar or something to allow folks to contribute at will.
Hi all! I frequently see irrelevant garbage posts being published on these so-called tech news sources, frustrating you and me alike. This morning, I've updated the bot to support loading a list of blocked phrases from its config. As of writing this, the block list currently contains: ``` "blockedPhrases": [ "couches", "vegan", "diet", "progressives", "save $", "astrology", "disney plus", "hulu", "apple deals", "prime day", "linoleic acid", "freedom caucus", "mental health", "laptop deals", "smart gadget", "and your money", "folding phones", "chatgpt" ] ``` If there are common phrases that are usually used in blog spam, but not in real tech news, feel free to let me know and I can update the config when I have a few minutes to SSH in and tweak it.
The current list is pretty small, I’d love to expand it- so let me know what tech-oriented news sources you’d like to see!
A few that come to mind for me are * [ASCII Sector](https://www.asciisector.net/) - space roguelike that was released in the last 2000s * [Sonic Robo Blast 2](https://www.srb2.org/) - free 3d sonic fangame, built using a Doom engine of all things... * [ClassiCube](https://www.classicube.net/) - free sandbox block-placing game that is similar to 2009/2010 Minecraft Classic * [Chronicles of Denzar](https://chroniclesofdenzar.com) - free browser-based RPG similar to dragon quest (previously PhantasyRPG.com) running since the early 2000's