Zak

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[–] Zak 19 points 3 days ago

I don't know where you live, but it is not normal for prospective employers to ask for your medical history most places, and is legally questionable if not outright banned under the anti-discrimination laws of many countries.

[–] Zak 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Power corrupts, and concentrations of power attract the corrupt.

It can be subtle, such as business deals just favorable enough an impartial observer would say they're not bribery. The not-bribe leads to a not-favor. The lines become blurred.

[–] Zak 2 points 5 days ago

I see no reason to believe that it is.

I find it useful when outside the USA to be able to communicate with American luddites who refuse to install messaging apps.

[–] Zak 30 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Messages between two Apple devices are safe, and messages between two Android devices are safe, but messages between an Apple device and and Android device are vulnerable.

This is not very accurate. Some Android devices come with Google Messages, which will use Google's encrypted version of RCS if the carrier supports it. People who don't know what all of that means should not assume their messages are encrypted.

[–] Zak 3 points 1 week ago

What they probably can do is issue an update that lets owners point it at third-party servers, and publish the API. They might even be able to publish the source code, though there's a chance they don't own all of it.

[–] Zak 14 points 1 week ago

Linux is a kernel which is often bundled with proprietary components. Android, for example uses the Linux kernel. The whole desktop operating system you seem to be thinking of is a Linux distribution.

There have been many Linux distributions with proprietary components over the years. SUSE's YaST configuration tool used to be proprietary, for example. There's probably something current along the same lines, but there's not much demand for semi-proprietary desktop Linux.

[–] Zak 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People who currently use drugs illegally are also forbidden from having guns in the USA. Hunter Biden was convicted of the related offense of lying about it on the background check form.

[–] Zak 1 points 1 week ago

Yes. I'd rather not be, but most people I know in person use it, and do not regularly view or share content using anything else in a one-to-many format.

What I won't do is install any of their mobile apps or regularly use their chat. When people try that, I reply hours later using something else.

[–] Zak 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's concern about it where the content has utility beyond art, such as academic research and raw datasets.

That's not to day art isn't useful, but much of what people value about it is originality.

[–] Zak 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does it count if I already know whiskey is bad for me?

[–] Zak 5 points 1 week ago

That's comparable to alcohol. I'd be good with that.

[–] Zak 29 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The illegality of production and sale makes the drugs far more likely to be adulterated or a concentration other than advertised, which kills people. Prohibition causes black markets, which leads to people resolving disputes through violence since they can't use the courts.

Legalization would make all of that go away, almost instantly.

 

I don't actually want to do this right now, but I do want to know if it's really decentralized yet. Completely looks like it means each of:

  • A client ✅
  • A personal data server ✅
  • A relay ❓
  • Labelers ✅
  • Feed generators ✅

It looks like the relay might be the bottleneck. If I'm understanding the protocol correctly, a relay could consume less than the whole network so it doesn't have to be ridiculously expensive to operate, but I'm not finding examples of people doing it.

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Election day carry (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by Zak to c/[email protected]
 

I fear if I carry anything else today, I'll lose it or cut myself with it.

 
  • Old leather wallet
  • Flashlight (Skilhunt H150)
  • Knife (Spyderco UKPK)
  • Pepper spray (Sabre Red, with a pocket clip from a random flashlight)
  • Phone (Pixel 4A)
  • Keys, and another flashlight (Skilhunt EK1)
  • Flash drive (Sandisk 128gb)
  • 1.38€
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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Zak to c/selfhosted
 

I've been self-hosting email with Maddy for a bit, but haven't shared any of the addresses widely yet in part because I haven't set up a spam filter. I'm pleased with Maddy; there's much less to learn to get a server up and running with sane default behavior than with the email software of old.

Ideally, I'd like to go beyond just spam filtering and have something with arbitrary categories like newsletters and password resets. I would prefer that it learn categories when I move messages to IMAP folders from a mail client. Maddy can feed messages into arbitrary programs and pick a destination folder based on their output.

Web searches turn up a ton of classification programs, most of which seem to be more interested in playing accuracy golf with well-known corpora than expanding functionality beyond simple spam filtering.

 

I often use a commercial VPN service, which I suspect is not rare among Lemmy users. Most of the time, I'm able to post to lemmy.world, but on occasion I am not. The default web UI provides zero feedback, just a spinning submit button forever, but if I look in the browser dev tools, I can see it's being blocked.

I understand that some limitations are necessary to prevent spam and other abuse, however this is a very blunt instrument. The fact that I have a 10 month old account with consistent activity should outweigh any IP address reputation issues.

Perhaps the VPN limitations could be narrowed in scope to cover only account creation and posts from young accounts.

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submitted 8 months ago by Zak to c/flashlight
 

If I want to quickly pitch "you should follow X, Y, and Z using RSS because [problems with social media]" to people who have never heard of RSS, what readers should I recommend?

I want at least web (not self-hosted), Android, and iOS options. Native apps for Mac and Windows would be nice as well. Linux users probably already know what RSS is.

There absolutely must be a free option good for at least 25 feeds because unfamiliar tech is a hard enough sell without having to pay. I'll grudgingly accept ads if that's the tradeoff for something beginner-friendly.

 

When I attempt to upload images to lemmy.world via the desktop web UI, I get the following error message:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Looking at network traffic in dev tools, I see that I'm getting a 403 page from Cloudflare saying:

Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access lemmy.world Why have I been blocked? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks....

I also get error messages when trying to upload images using Connect and Sync on an Android device. I successfully uploaded images in the past.

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submitted 1 year ago by Zak to c/flashlight
 

We just hit 2000 subscribers! I’d like to thank everyone for showing up here to create a new community, and what better way than giving stuff away?

I’m giving away the Nitecore MH10 v2 I reviewed. I can ship it anywhere in the USA or EU, but EU winners will have to wait until mid September. This is a basic, beginner-friendly flashlight that can accept almost all 18650 and 21700 batteries.

To enter, leave a top-level comment on this post before midnight UTC on Sunday, August 27, 2023. Only accounts that have posted or commented on /c/flashlight prior to this being posted are eligible to win.

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submitted 1 year ago by Zak to c/geese
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1730120

Caught a cute moment on film. Look at that balance!

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