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[–] notabot@piefed.social 22 points 5 hours ago

While there's probably no global solution, personally I use a QR Code reader that doesn't actually use the URL, but just displays it and lets me copy it to the clipboard. That way I can inspect it, and if it doesn't look right, ignore it.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

This is as bad as Zebras not understanding quadratic equasions. Do they teach their young nothing?

[–] notabot@piefed.social 39 points 2 days ago

This is excellent article on enshitification, some of the factors that can lead to it, and ways founders could think about it to hopefully avoid it. What it doesn't seem to talk about is how Tailscale intends to avoid it, now and in the future.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago

The joys of distributed algorithms. You can now get more errors, more quickly than before!

I remember writing a chat system in assembler, for DOS, using, IIRC, IPX networking. When it went wrong, one or more machines would just freeze, with the string "NETWORK ABEND" in the middle of the screen.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 19 points 4 days ago

I should fork vim and call it 'death', so I can shout "give me vim or give me death!" any time someone suggests a different editor.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 53 points 4 days ago

Surgery, especially on animals.

In any other context, someone cutting you open, slicing bits out or rearranging them, them sewing you shut would be considered horrific, but we do it because we know that the short term suffering out weighs the long term harm of not doing it. When you choose it for yourself it might not be too 'evil', but an animal would not understand, even if you know it will mean they get to live a long, happy life, free of the pain and suffering that issue would otherwise cause.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That has unironicaly made me nostalgic for the days when the web was a place of experimentation, joy and just a bit of crazy.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Piefed seems to have this, and the ability to subscribe to posts as @TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works asks about below.

Migrating is fairly straightforward, it can import your lemmy settings to get you up and running quickly, and the systems interoperate seamlessly, which is fantastic to see.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

This is painfully true. I want to say something pithy about it, but my brain is filled with cotton wool and sludge.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago

I presume trump thinks he can do their job with with a marker and some poster board.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 87 points 1 week ago

“They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,”

Well, that's a horrifying image.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, the IMEI uniquly identifies the phone itself, so if the GSM radio is on, the network can monitor it's approximate location.

There's a couple of caveats: IMEI cloning is possible, but unlikely, and he accuracy of the triangulation will depend on a lot of factors including how far apart the towers are and what sort of obstructions there are between you and the towers. My understanding is that it is done by comparing your signal strength at each of the towers as a proxy for distance. If there's a large obstruction that reduces your signal to a tower it could throw those measurements off. They'll know you're in the area, but not exactly where.

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