cybersandwich

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

3000 less people than last week

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (6 children)

I think you are obligated to share your entire known hosts file to prove this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

It's been allowed everywhere I have ever lived in the US.

The issues you'll run into is they get all stupid about it if your service ever goes down. They'll always blame your router/modem first. (Literally the entire neighborhood could be down and they'll act like it's something specific to your device). Sometimes they try to charge an install fee or a connection fee or other dumb shit.

I think their are local laws that require them to allow byod too. It depends on your area though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would you mind educating us plebs then? I had a similar question to op, and I can assure you, I definitely don't understand local auth services the way I probably should.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He has a legit point that Steve did not give LTT a chance to comment. "He doesn't have to!" Maybe. But he gave the other side a ton of airtime/chances to comment. It was very one sided and while GN made some good points, it felt like a hit piece. And Linux, imo rightfully, felt a little betrayed by a guy he'd worked with in the community.

His reaction wasn't great but it was that of a guy who was defending his team and from someone he'd probably consider a 'friend' impugning his integrity and dragging them without giving them any opportunity to comment or even letting him know it was coming--two very common practices/norms.

A unflattering view of GN vid is that he felt threatened by LTT labs entering the space and he wanted to get out in front of that an expose"how unreliable" they are. He didn't give LTT a heads up or allow them to comment because he knew they'd have a solid response. He blindsided him on purpose.

All that said, GN did Linus a favor. It accelerated his transition away from CEO and forced them to review their dumb production rates and the videos that are coming out now are better than ever.

Ironically, it left a sour taste in my mouth about Steve and I haven't watched any of his videos since.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Newborn diapers.

Get the cheapest Walmart special you can find. Newborns don't poop or pee enough to warrant fussing over fancy diapers.

Once they get bigger and the contents start getting...bigger, then spend more on better diapers.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is solid advice. If you buy a cheap one and use it so much it breaks, you'll know you use it enough to warrant a nicer one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Linus got phished out of his twitter account recently.

Respect where it's due. He owned it and was transparent so everyone can learn. Apparently he was at a pool party and just about to throw the burgers on the grill when he got an email that said his account was logged into from Turkey or Russia or someplace.

He panicked a bit, because of the last time his YouTube account was hacked he felt like acting quickly was the only thing that help it not be worse. I think he clicked the link in the email and "logged in" and boom. Got em.

Caught him at the right time and place and it all aligned to burn him.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

Floatplane is Linus' smartest decision he's made. It's going to be needed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It might be worth taking a step back and looking at your objective with all of this and why you are doing it in the first place.

If it's for privacy, then unfortunately that ship has sailed when it comes to email. It's the digital equivalent of a post card. It's inherently not private. Nothing you do will make it private. Even services like proton Mail aren't private--unless you only email other people on proton.

I appreciate wanting to control your own destiny with it but there are much more productive things you could be spending your time on the improve your privacy surface area.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

One thing that I've always found interesting is that silicon valley has a common start up strategy that is basically: do well enough to get bought buy your bigger competition. Basically, be a threat so your VCs can cash in when a Google, Facebook, etc buys you.

I'm other words, Silicon Valley has a start up culture that feeds an anticompetitive/anti-trust ecosystem. No one complains because they are all making money. It's the users who slowly suffer and we end up were we are not with 5 companies running the modern web and Internet infrastructure.

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