geraldhh (u/geraldhh)

geraldhh commented on Start your own Internet Resiliency Club bowshock.nl/irc/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

tcoff91 · 3 months ago

It’s absurd that we don’t require gas stations to have generators on-site. They have all the fuel they need to power them right there!!!

Now nobody else can get more fuel for their generators when the gas stations don’t have power either.

This was a big issue during the power shutoffs during LA fires this year.

geraldhh · 3 months ago

absurdities not withstanding, this might actually be a good idea.

geraldhh commented on Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own ssp.sh/blog/self-host-sel... · Posted by u/articsputnik

cherryteastain · 3 months ago

Yes but arguably anything below the equivalent of RAID6/RAIDZ2 puts you at a not inconsiderable risk of data loss. Most laptops cannot do parity of any sort because of a lack of SATA/M.2 ports so you will need new hardware if you want the resilience offered by RAID. Ideally you will want that twice on different machines if you go by the "backups in at least 2 different physical locations" rule.

geraldhh · 3 months ago

> Most laptops cannot do parity of any sort because of a lack of SATA/M.2 ports

raid is NOT media or connection dependent and will happily do parity over mixed media and even remote blockdevs

geraldhh commented on Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) tech.slashdot.org/story/2... · Posted by u/miles

cguess · 3 months ago

It's not encrypted by default, WhatsApp is.

geraldhh · 3 months ago

yes it is.

it does not do the e2e hat-trick thou

geraldhh commented on Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) tech.slashdot.org/story/2... · Posted by u/miles

1vuio0pswjnm7 · 3 months ago

Text-only, no Javascript:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1GecPs

geraldhh · 3 months ago

unformatted html with sugar is not really helpful to humans, is it?

geraldhh commented on It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life ourworldindata.org/foreig... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

skrebbel · 6 months ago

I upvoted you before I read the last sentence, and then removed my upvote again.

The US is a terrible ally, for all the reasons you cite, but unless they somehow become a democracy, China would be worse in every way.

geraldhh · 6 months ago

not to dispute, but the fact that most of our stuff is 'made in china' might play into the public perception of this dynamic more than the political labels attached.

geraldhh commented on What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs? unix.stackexchange.com/qu... · Posted by u/josephcsible

jjcob · 7 months ago

I was so happy when HDMI caught on that the troubles with VGA ports in meeting rooms were finally a thing of the past.

But now I randomly get "HDCP not supported" messages when trying to make a presentation because... I have no idea why. It's just a giant fuck you from the recording industry.

I could download a torrent of any movie I want, so the tech is obviously not preventing piracy.

It's just making random things in life harder than they should be.

geraldhh · 7 months ago

> the troubles with VGA ports in meeting rooms

please elaborate

fwiw vga is plug and play, but multi-monitor support in operating systems was indeed a pia

geraldhh commented on UK's hardware talent is being wasted josef.cn/blog/uk-talent... · Posted by u/sebg

ttoinou · 7 months ago

What is this spirit we retain that US looses ?

geraldhh · 7 months ago

humanism

geraldhh commented on Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle reuters.com/business/reta... · Posted by u/saaaaaam

wao0uuno · 8 months ago

Mail got category buttons on top that split your inbox so now to check your mail you have to click around because shipping notification are in a separate list from work emails. Photos had a perfectly fine interface with tabs that got changed into a long list of often redundant categories. Thankfully it can be customized a bit. New control center (wifi toggles etc.) was replaced with a customizable grid of widgets that is buggy, slow and looks ugly and unprofessional in comparison with the old interface. Gimmick. Home screen icon size and color is customizable now and it looks out of place. Gimmick. If you have a dark theme enabled then icons in settings become themed and look different than icons on the home screen with is weird and inconsistent with the rest of the interface. All animations were reworked and feel like crap. There is a delay to every action and it feels like animation smoothness takes priority over interface responsiveness. Home screen swiping animation stutters every time. Even though there is not a single new feature available for EU users other than the interface changes the entire OS feels sluggish, bloated and unfinished. Performance is terrible. This update made my iPhone 12 slow down to a crawl. Feels like running Vista on a Windows XP machine and since they dropped security updates for iOS 17 I had no choice but to upgrade. This combined with the recent news about iPhones listening to people at homes makes me want to get rid of my phone entirely. I don’t want a new iPhone and I sure as hell don’t want an Android.

geraldhh · 8 months ago

amen

home screen icon theming hit like an empty bus

geraldhh commented on Right to root access medhir.com/blog/right-to-... · Posted by u/medhir

TechDebtDevin · 8 months ago

So basically a TDM?

geraldhh · 8 months ago

basically a hardwired authenticator dongle that the user cannot touch

geraldhh commented on I deleted my social media accounts asylumsquare.com/backstag... · Posted by u/joemanaco

amelius · 8 months ago

Also:

TSA officer: "please log in to your social media account"

You: "I have no social media"

TSA officer: "step out of the line please"

geraldhh · 8 months ago

surely annoying, probably illegal