Keeping stuff airgapped and away from public networks isn't security through obscurity, what are you even talking about?
It's definitely the principle of least privilege applied to network access.
Readit Newscolonelpopcorn commented on DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier Than cyberintel.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/jc_811
Ehhh
Having tried to install a modern Linux on a 2012 laptop, it simply is not as cozy as your memory records it.
For reference even Linux designed for old hardware takes about 6 minutes to boot and even just using the console lags
SSD installs were, for the longest time, the single best ROI on upgrading a laptop. I think a SATA SSD in that 2012 bad boy could considerably boost its performance.
This video is great. One of the better uses of the Internet.
Google/YouTube/Alphabet should be doing everything they can to encourage high-quality educational content like this, rather than being party to suppressing it.
I agree, but the incentives for Alphabet to encourage content like this isn't there. The content that is encouraged is that which keeps eyeballs glued to YouTube.
It's probably not a great idea to point at a monopoly, as a defense of one's own monopoly, and claim "Yeah, but he did it worse."
Both Google and Apple's platforms need to be cracked open to competition.
But it is. For the savvy user you can run whatever you want on an android device.
colonelpopcorn commented on Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail maragu.dev/blog/go-is-my-... · Posted by u/markusw
How is it different than, say, java for this generalist purpose?
Just from an ergonomic standpoint it's a million times easier to deploy a go binary instead of a whole jvm and a jar file.
colonelpopcorn commented on Imperceptible sensors can be printed directly on human skin cam.ac.uk/research/news/i... · Posted by u/geox
Historians, skeptics, and sci-fi authors must all be evil-minded megalomaniacs
I can't think of a historian, skeptic, or sci-fi author who's had a level of power enough to disprove your statement.
colonelpopcorn commented on I made a note taking plugin for a PHP app in 2024 showmethecode.io/posts/no... · Posted by u/colonelpopcorn
Some folks had asked me to post this in a comment on a Kanboard thread, so I thought I'd just post it as a new submission. Enjoy!
The conclusion of this data presentation is that so of these people are our collective responsibility, and I just wasn't convinced. I wish they had shown percentages with the visualization. They choose not to.
I was underwhelmed by some points that seemed like they should have been more shocking. Look at the huge number of people in the many adverse experiences category who made it to college, and make a high salary. that was shocking! and look at the people who had no adverse experiences and still managed to end up poor. how does that happen?
I was left with the impression that if the government threw a lot of resources at it we might be able to move a noticeable percentage of those people in a better direction, but not most of them.
The questions that remain are, how many people's lives could we improve and by how much? And, critically, how much are we willing to collectively sacrifice to move that percentage of people in a positive direction?
You have to balk when anyone says that anybody is the same person they were 24 years ago.
colonelpopcorn commented on Embed Crystal code directly in Ruby github.com/wouterken/crys... · Posted by u/FrancoisBosun
Wonder if it would be possible/useful to have the Ruby interpreter itself identify eligible functions and "crystalize" them automatically
That's a very Ruby idea.