caymanjim (u/caymanjim)

caymanjim commented on Starship's Tenth Flight Test spacex.com/launches/stars... · Posted by u/d_silin

SpaceX is a private company, but a significant part of the funding for the development of its Starship spacecraft, especially for lunar missions, comes from U.S. taxpayer money via NASA contracts.

The Starship rocket is the most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed. If controlled by a maniacal megalomaniac it could be turned into a powerful weapon. Hopefully that won't ever happen. But it raises the question: should a private citizen ever be in control of such powerful technology whose development was funded by taxpayers?

caymanjim · 2 days ago

Do you think Musk is going to build a secret volcano lair and stockpile nuclear warheads? The entire US military arsenal is constructed by corporations, doing far more dangerous things than Musk has any access to.

caymanjim commented on Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect github.com/dani-garcia/va... · Posted by u/speckx

crimsonnoodle58 · 11 days ago

If you're running on kubernetes, a simple network policy and blocking the container from using DNS will stop any compromised image from performing a data exfill.

I do this for most containers.

If the container must have web access in some form, setup a squid proxy and only whitelist safe and trusted domains that can't be exfilled to.

caymanjim · 11 days ago

Why do you think that DNS is required? Anything malicious could (and likely should) hard-code an IP.

caymanjim commented on High-fidelity simultaneous speech-to-speech translation arxiv.org/abs/2502.03382... · Posted by u/Bluestein

nottorp · 2 months ago

He's not, because those locals will stop being able to speak English in a few generations. Either you'll have battery and signal or you'll point at things and make monkey noises.

caymanjim · 2 months ago

What do we care what happens in a few generations? We'll all be dead, and the people alive will probably have universal translators implanted in their brains at birth. We absolutely won't need a "signal" to translate on a device anymore (that'll happen in just a few years, forget about generations), and there won't be anyplace on the entire planet that doesn't have network connectivity (that will also happen in just a few years; it's already reality with Starlink cellular).

caymanjim commented on Kubernetes is a symptom, not a solution andreafortuna.org/2025/06... · Posted by u/gsky

refactor_master · 2 months ago

> Docker is essentially a sandwich of disk images where you can shove absolutely anything, and then these images get executed by running whatever legacy software you’ve crammed in there, regardless of how horrific or inconsistent it might be, with zero behavioral controls.

Is this a problem with Docker, or a problem with people who use Docker? Without much controversy I feel this argument could be made about literally any abstract entity in society from `get_foo` to national institutions. Abstractions seem to be a necessary evil in corporative societies.

Also, the article is way too short and meatless to provoke any real thoughts, and comes across as "If you don't already know what Kubernetes is, just know that it's bad". I don't see how that's going to sway anyone's opinion on anything.

caymanjim · 2 months ago

It's not a problem with anything. Docker can be misused like anything else. It's a massive net win for security and maintainability because it completely eliminates barriers to updating software.

caymanjim commented on High-fidelity simultaneous speech-to-speech translation arxiv.org/abs/2502.03382... · Posted by u/Bluestein

nisa · 2 months ago

It's not personal but I can't help myself to think that's such a sad post here. Reducing learning a different culture through language by plugging in an earbud. Is the battery is gone or your phone is stolen you realize you can't automate anything and that you've learned nothing. It's not about the tech if it works it's amazing it's like babelfish but it's so shallow to assume everything has some direct and simple "value" that can be replaced by some machine or even better some paid service. It's so common here. Is this an US thing?

caymanjim · 2 months ago

I think it'll greatly increase cultural learning, by increasing the opportunity to interact with people. I've traveled to a lot of countries, and never learned more than a handful of words in each, primarily related to basic service interactions. I enjoyed talking to locals when they spoke English. I couldn't interact in any meaningful way with the vast majority of people, though.

Learning languages is great. If you can become fluent in two that's impressive. Even simple conversational ability in a few languages is impressive. But it's a big world.

caymanjim commented on Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over newyorker.com/culture/inf... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien

corobo · 4 months ago

I've just loaded my Facebook home page. 6 'pages' (I know it's infinite scroll but you know what I mean) before I saw an actual friend's post, and it was from 2 weeks ago.

Jeez Zucky, I wonder why social is dying. Is it because there's no bloody social between the ads and random algorithm shite anymore?

E: haha, the rest of the comments say likewise. Redundant comment but +1 anecdata.

Also for what it's worth I've checked a few profiles and yeah friends are still posting, I'm just not seeing it. I guess I scrolled past some post about something too quickly and now Facebook thinks I don't care? Maybe the algorithm is just broken lol.

caymanjim · 4 months ago

This is the primary reason that I'm closer than I've ever been to deleting my Facebook account. I stopped using it in any meaningful way over a decade ago. I think I've posted about six times in the past decade. But I did still check at least a few times a week to see what my friends posted. Now I can scroll for 15 minutes and see only a tiny handful of friend posts, with about six ads and garbage meme posts (not shared by friends, just pure noise injected by Facebook) for each real friend post. I think the ratio is probably even worse than that.

The other day something popped up in the Facebook Android app advertising a new feature to "just see your friends' posts" and when I clicked on that, it really did only show me friend posts and a couple actual ads. I can't find it in the app anymore, though. It's what should be the default view. It's the only thing I will ever care about.

I'm willing to accept a reasonable amount of advertisement as a necessary evil to support the service. What I can't understand is why I'm seeing an endless stream of garbage memes from random accounts that I do not follow and couldn't care less about. Stop "suggesting" things to me. I don't want to "Follow" these morons. I never intentionally interact with any of them, yet I'm flooded with them.

There's little chance of me making it to the end of this year without deleting Facebook entirely. It does nothing to keep me connected to friends anymore, because it hides 99% of their posts unless I view their profiles one at a time, and the few things it does put in my feed are lost in the noise.

caymanjim commented on My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened? support.vizio.com/s/artic... · Posted by u/decimalenough

pmags · 5 months ago

I seem to recall that Vizio was added to my "do not buy" list quite a long time ago, when it turned out they were monitoring your watching habit (https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/7/14527360/vizio-smart-tv-tr...).

This seems to be more of the same I guess. Choice text from the link above:

Q: Why did I see an ad in Scenic Mode?

A: After Scenic Mode launches to full screen, you may see ads. We offer free, scenic content by supporting it with ads. These ads allow VIZIO to offer enhanced, built-in Smart TV features, 300+ live channels, and 15,000+ movies and shows at no cost through WatchFree+ while also helping keep the price of our TVs accessible and competitive.

Q: Can I turn Scenic Mode ads off?

A: No, not at this time. These ads allow VIZIO to offer enhanced, built-in Smart TV features, 300+ live channels, and 15,000+ movies and shows at no cost through WatchFree+ while also helping keep the price of our TVs accessible and competitive.

caymanjim · 5 months ago

There's a reason their TVs are basically free.

caymanjim commented on The internet is killing old PC hardware [video] youtube.com/watch?v=TE_eP... · Posted by u/hexage1814

rembicilious · 6 months ago

My favorite Firefox plugin is NoScript. There is often an incredible amount of third-party JavaScript running on commercial web sites. NoScript turns all the JavaScript off by default, and then you can whitelist it temporarily (or permanently, your choice) at the per domain level. (I will never whitelist google tag manager, how is it present on every freaking website?)

So I visit thing-i-want.com and it doesn’t load because NoScript is currently disabling JS for that domain. No problem, I temporarily enable JS for thing-i-want.com

The page refreshes and suddenly NoScript is disabling JS for 10 more domains!

That seems excessive, maybe the page doesn’t need ALL of those scripts to function. I will enable that cloudfront domain and that one that has “static content” in the name.

Page refreshes.

Okay it mostly works now but also NoScript is showing disabled JavaScript from 5 more domains!

..Anyways Sometimes sites are running scripts from 15 or more domains and sometimes they are nested 4 domains deep. It’s absurd and OF COURSE it overwhelms older devices.

If you want to use a modern browser on an older device, use a browser with a script blocking plugin

caymanjim · 6 months ago

Sounds like it takes you 20 minutes of logistics to look at a web page.

Ain't nobody got time to live like this.

caymanjim commented on Thomas Aquinas' skull reveals appearance and cause of death ncregister.com/blog/face-... · Posted by u/new_vienna

Rebelgecko · 7 months ago

It's crazy how standards for body size can change over even shorter time periods.

I was watching an old game show with Bob Barker and one of the competitions was for people to guess stats about the "average" man, and then run around Hollywood looking for a man who matched that description. So each competitor would guess the average age, height, number of kids, etc. One woman guessed that the average man weighed 180 pounds and Bob Barker mocked her mercilessly for thinking that the average man is such a fatso.

caymanjim · 7 months ago

I was about 180lbs by the end of highschool, and I was one of the fattest kids in my class. Not to the point that I was given fat kid nicknames or openly mocked, but I was almost always the fattest kid in any given group. Picked last for teams in gym class, chuckled-at when trying to do pullups for the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.

Now I'm 260lbs and fat by any standard. What I wouldn't give to be 180lbs again.