1TB favicons dumped in the root is an interesting problem for crawlers. Did they make the effort of dropping the connection in a timeout or proceed to gobble up the entire thing?
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A few takeaways from reading about the Stoic philosophy:
- Focus on what you can control.
- Amor Fati. The love of fate. Transmute everything into a lesson to be learned and something to grow from.
- If it's bearable, endure it with wisdom and grace.
- Does it agree with natural law? Is something in line with nature? If it's an abomination, leave it immediately.
- Memento mori. Remember you will die. Live every day as if it's your last. Don't postpone.
Frontend used to be just HTML, CSS, and a sprinkling of JS. Then the engineers took over and JS is no longer a sprinkling. It means build steps, web components, React, integrating best practices, learning new frameworks every month, performance, and a panoply of other things.
Maybe I'm missing something crucial here, but why does it dripfeed answers like this? Does it have to think really hard about the meaning of 1e100? Why can't it just spit it out instantly without such a delay/drip, like with the near-instant Wolfram Alpha?
What are people's thoughts on wireless keyboards? For me they're potentially leaky and it's trivial to intercept the keystrokes via EMF capture. My threat model is such that any bad actor can do an EMF capture and glean master passphrases and other sensitive data. So I avoid them. No radios, wired only.
That's within reason though. A VPN is another ISP afterall, so they have to 'bow down' to law enforcement requests. What LEAs can get depends on how zero knowledge the VPN setup is. OVPN[0] for example has been 'court tested' and Mullvad had nothing to give to authorities[1] since they don't collect it in the first place (apart from payment metadata).
I'm not affiliated with OVPN or Mullvad, just a happy paying customer.
[0] https://www.ovpn.com/en/blog/ovpn-wins-court-order
[1] https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subjec...
I've noticed this personally. In my early social media days circa 2012, going viral with a post of mine evoked genuine gratefulness for the post and appreciation for how much reach it got. Now, going viral is just a habit. 10,000 likes, 1000 shares on Facebook is my new normal. It's not 'special' like it used to be. I still appreciate my viral posts, just not to the extent of my early social media days (this is probably because fewer people were on it in 2012).
Also emojis are yet another data point to do things like sentiment analysis, and have been weaponized by social media companies to target more relevant ADs at you. Tweeted/X'd the beer emoji? Get ready for Heineken ADs.
[0] https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/warning-lemmy-doesn-t-care-...
> Federated services have always had privacy issues but I expected Lemmy would have the fewest, but it's visibly worse for privacy than even Reddit.
> Deleted comments remain on the server but hidden to non-admins, the username remains visible
> Deleted account usernames remain visible too
> Anything remains visible on federated servers!
> When you delete your account, media does not get deleted on any server
> Since the operator and developer of lemmy has very problematic politics (defending genocide and homophobia for example), and is demonstrably incredibly hostile to non-authoritarians, giving him permanent access to your data (even if you delete your account) is a very bad idea.
This is just yet another attempt at Lawful Interception[0], only this time, on steroids. They will continue to try and erode privacy, and therefore, erode democracy. But we do have tools to combat this at our disposal. My only worry is the outright banning of such tools, then we're royally fucked.
In other words, to hit the target, you have to miss it.
If it's a few weeks just to watch Ozark, then fine. Just be careful to abandon your account and never renew if you wanna watch just one show.
I don't have insider data, but I guess many people only watch Netflix merely because they are paying for it. It's this psychological mechanism that has people watching just because they pay for a sub.
Once you research the best shows to watch, you can watch them all in succession, then destroy your account and carry on with other duties.
You have that choice.
This is something Twitter doesn't have: the ability to silence entire political agendas and categories like porn, although porn still slips through the cracks on Mastodon, so it's not a given that you won't be ambushed by it.
[0] https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/mastodon-passes-the-10...
Worth reading this HN thread posted just recently:
> Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555
I wouldn't rely on them.
> Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555
I wouldn't rely on them.
Elon is listening to the music inside his own head. He has the right people working for him, and he's often mistakenly seen as the person who takes all the credit, but he's sitting on the work of countless engineers who work painstakingly to create his product range. As for Jobs, again, sitting on the work of countless designers and product people who make Apple what it is. Jobs & Musk are only genius tier people insofar as they piggyback on others hard work.
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them"
Mark Twain
Also have a small chat with him about not clicking on e-mail attachments, & not installing extensions. As an extra measure, turn on 2FA for all his accounts too.
It's a plausible story line that could happen.
This is what I do. I hate doing it, but it's for posterity's sake. I'd be lost without certain data. I have old virtual machine disk images that I've been using for years, ISOs of obscure software, and other rarities. Every 4 years I buy a new 4TB HDD and copy over files to a freshly bought disk.