[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 78 points 2 weeks ago

Question closed as off-topic.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 weeks ago

The tariffs put pressure on companies with cross-border supply chains to either move all of their manufacturing into or out of the US. Since the US doesn’t have enough infrastructure right now and US citizens wouldn’t want to work in those factories anyway, the tariffs are essentially killing what little manufacturing the US had left.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 98 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’ll just change my web browser’s user agent then; you’re a fucking website, you don’t need to know which OS I’m using.

It’s amazing how many “unsupported” web apps work perfectly fine once you change the UA. It’s often a completely arbitrary limitation so that they can hire less qualified support staff.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 months ago

Thank you daddy Trump for temporarily slowing down the financial disaster you caused. I barely even remember that the economic wars you started were completely unnecessary and counter-productive.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 46 points 3 months ago

X's official support channel, which has been dormant since August, has so far remained silent on the outage, but one user asked Grok—X's chatbot that provides AI summaries of news—what was going on, and the chatbot echoed suspicions about the DDOS attack while raising other theories.

That's not how LLMs work... Why is Ars endorsing that brain-rot?

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 57 points 3 months ago

My job title is "Linux System Administrator". I'd quit if they tried to make me drop Linux.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 year ago

It's a nightmare to search for anything about GUID Partition Tables (GPT) now.

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I need to transport multiple very large files over an unstable and untrusted network, and the file contents are outputted as a data stream. I wanted to use OpenSSL for streaming authenticated encryption, but they purposefully don't support that and are preachy about it.

Well, it turns out that XZ has checksumming built-in! It even has different algorithms (CRC32, CRC64, and SHA256). It's part of the same file, within/before the encryption, and automatically verified by the decompression tool. I'm already using XZ for compression before encryption, so this is just super convenient and useful. Also, it seems like XZ supports threaded decompression now, when it didn't before. Thanks XZ devs!

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 years ago

In exchange, FF uses Google search by default. So they're also getting direct value from the deal.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 years ago

The real problem is the government not protecting consumers from such predatory business practices. It's almost certainly not legal, and if it is then it shouldn't be. After 3-4 companies are absolutely destroyed, companies will stop doing it.

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I'm not complaining, but I didn't realize how much work it was. It makes me really respect the people who do it on a regular basis.

For example:

  • You know how to use your software, but other people don't. So you need to write documentation.
  • You can just modify the source files, but it's impractical for everyone to do that. So you need to add a config file.
  • You can just drag the output files into place, but that's impractical for everyone to do. So you need to package it.
  • You trust yourself, but distro maintainers rightfully don't. So you need to package your source code and configure the package to compile it.
  • You will abide by your idea of how the software should be used, but other people might not. So you need to pick a license.

Sometimes I think there must be an easier way, but I can't think of any. I guess it probably gets easier with experience.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 years ago

I've thought WD was sleezy ever since they secretly switched from CMR drives to SMR drives, including in their NAS products (for which SMR drives are particularly unsuitable). So this doesn't surprise me at all.

People need to stop buying WD drives and buy Seagate instead. They had their own SMR scandal, but at least they never put them in their NAS drives.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of lolcode:

HAI 1.2
CAN HAS STDIO?
PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?
    AWSUM THX
        VISIBLE FILE
    O NOES
        INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
KTHXBYE
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My main server is named Postulate (an idea that you assume for the sake of argument), my desktop is named Axiom (a proved postulate), and my backup server is named Corollary (an idea that follows from an axiom).

What are your computers named, and why?

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 years ago

"Vending machines are more deadly than sharks".

While it's true that (at least for some years) more people are killed by vending machine accidents than shark attacks, your personal risk depends on what you do. If you're a vending machine factory worker who never goes into the ocean, you're far more likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark. But if you live in a part of the world that doesn't have vending machines and you swim in the ocean every day, the reverse is true.

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