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  • pixelscript@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlBut this... does put a smile on my face
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    1 year ago

    I replied to that thread.

    OP was claiming to be working on a static HTML-serving search engine. They suggested that because it’s just HTML and CSS, and that interested parties can use Inspect Element to read the network requests, that it constituted “open source”.

    Commenters then got on his case about not open sourcing the server backend. OP defended that choice saying they didn’t want a competitor taking their code and building a company off of it that would “drive [them] out of business”. Uh-huh. So, proprietary software, then. Bye.




  • pixelscript@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlApple
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    2 years ago

    In a rather unorthodox way, yes.

    Android is one of those rare examples of a Linux kernel not being paired with GNU tools. I believe Android wrote their own versions of all the tools they wanted.

    The kernel is also extremely locked down by default. They very intentionally designed the OS in such a way that every facet of the kernel is kept abstracted away from you. It’s about as black-boxed as you can get, to the point where the fact that it’s Linux underneath is almost meaningless.


  • Too many experts who value the deeper teaching potential angle seem to never want to acknowledge the bounce rate it will also have.

    No, not everyone asking about how to get into the Linux ecosystem is doing so specifically because the knowledge itself is its own reward. Those who are will tighten their belts, whiten their knuckles, and figure it out just like you hoped they would. Those who aren’t will collapse under the sheer weight of all the bullshit and bail out. Frankly I’d consider the bulk of curious new users to be the latter and I default assume it for everyone who appears unless they indicate otherwise.

    Some people think this kind of filtering based on willingness to learn is a good and healthy thing. I call it elitism and gatekeeping.





  • pixelscript@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 years ago

    If all characters are equally likely, it’s a fine password. It’s long and certainly immune to any dictionary attack.

    But if the attacker knows it’s generated with this method, then it is probably a poor one. Bottoms tend to spam only homerow keys, either in all lowecase or all uppercase. The restricted character set vastly reduces the search space.


  • pixelscript@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlIT Help Desk
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    2 years ago

    It bumps the speed and officially supports Displayport and PCIe protocols being tunneled through.

    Also, as a tiny nit for seemingly no other reason than to piss us all off, they have decided the “correct” way to write it is “USB4” (no space). This is in contrast to every previous version of USB such as “USB 3” (space).





  • pixelscript@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlGotta get it right
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    2 years ago

    I have lived in a home with a ceiling fan for nearly 30 years and I cannot confidently answer this question off the top of my head.

    Maybe that’s just tremendous skill issue on my part, but recognizing that all ceiling fans are standardized to spin only one way and knowing which way that is seems like a weird thing to ask of someone who also needs a mnemonic for which way to tighten screws.



  • pixelscript@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlGotta get it right
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    2 years ago

    Those are some really theoretical ways to observe a clock face.

    How about we just start saying, “torque in, torque out”? When the torque vector points in, the screw goes in (tightening). When it points out, the screw comes out (loosening). As long as you are standing on the side of the screw you can actually work with while working with it (and why wouldn’t you be?) this is never ambiguous.

    Of course, now we’re kicking the can down the road and relying on people wrapping their heads around the right hand rule… Hmm…



  • I believe your “checkup” and their “routine cleaning” are the same thing.

    Lots of people (myself included) refer to it as a “cleaning” because, well, regardless of anything else, that’s what they actually do to you. I don’t know anyone who goes to a dentist just to have them look but they don’t touch. They clean you, too. That’s almost always the only physical takeaway effect of one of these visits.

    Also, a dentist cleans your teeth in a way you almost certainly can’t. Their practiced hands know exactly what needs to be scraped away, and they can make informed decisions on what tool to do it with and how aggressively to not cause enamel damage. Not to mention they can, y’know, actually see what they’re doing in there. So a “simple cleaning” isn’t quite as pedestrian as it sounds. It’s not something you can fully replicate by scraping around blindly with a metal pick in your mouth.