JDubbleu

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[–] JDubbleu 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I wouldn't even be against mandatory organ donation so long as it went to those who've been waiting on the donor list. So many more lives could be saved. At the very least make it opt out.

[–] JDubbleu 1 points 8 months ago

Consent-o-matic/I still don't care about cookies both work really well. I haven't seen a banner in months.

[–] JDubbleu 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You could theoretically get around this issue by installing Steam via Flatpak so that everything is sandboxed though.

[–] JDubbleu 2 points 8 months ago

My go to coffee is Vietnamese coffee and if you don't bloom the grounds in the phin before filling it the coffee comes out watery and weak. I'm not even that particular about my coffee either, but blooming makes a massive difference in how coffee tastes.

[–] JDubbleu 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I wasn't blaming it on anyone. I was just explaining why so many young people, myself included, choose to not give any thought to things they can't control. It's not worth the mental energy and will make you depressed and miserable. I'm all for fighting for things that can be changed, but there's only so much one person can do. Prioritizing what one can give effort to is a much better way to go about it than stressing out about everything wrong with the world.

[–] JDubbleu 2 points 8 months ago

I've rooted many android phones including modern ones. Flashing the bootloader/recovery without the OS always changed the charging animation in the off state in my experience. Can't say this is how all Androids work, but I've never encountered one that didn't behave this way.

[–] JDubbleu 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Because many of us were thrust into an extremely fucked up world where caring all the time will give you anxiety and leave you feeling hopeless. It's much more productive to focus your efforts on things you can control instead of being upset about the things you can't. I'm very conscious of the world I leave behind. I respect nature, don't litter, don't own a car, limit my meat intake, and most importantly I'm not having children. All of these things will contribute to a better world, but they don't require me to care about anything outside of my control.

This has nothing to do with age, and everything to do with trying to be okay in an increasingly more depressing world. I just want to exist and not dread everything all the time.

[–] JDubbleu 2 points 8 months ago

Mine personally combusts into a giant ball of flames if I hit a small puddle. It's really annoying going through so many fire extinguishers.

In actuality I've driven my jank as fuck ebike in torrential rain without a problem. This is with an external battery I slapped on and wired in parallel with the integrated battery. The connectors are sealed by electrical tape alone and it's been perfectly fine for two years. Water is a non-issue of all the important stuff is integrated and sealed correctly.

[–] JDubbleu 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'd argue it's pretty important for working dogs too, especially ones that require specific temperaments for their jobs like border collies, livestock guardian dogs, and pointers.

[–] JDubbleu 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The great thing about open source is that anyone can read the code. Even if you don't read every line yourself there are others who will. In popular projects it's pretty much a guarantee any suspicious or malicious changes get caught almost immediately due to the visibility of everything.

As for local-only I trust Bitwarden and their encryption schemes enough that I use their cloud sync, but you can always self host it in a Docker container with no Internet access if you're concerned about it.

[–] JDubbleu 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Because by not using a password manager I guarantee you are duplicating passwords between services. This means the second a service you use is compromised, every single service you use with that same email/password combination is compromised. Even if every one of your passwords had a slight deviation malicious actors know people do this and will likely be able to write a program that attempts those deviations on other services. You're effectively leaving your security up to weakest link in services you sign up for, and security is more often implemented poorly than implemented well.

By using a password manager you generate a 20+ character long password that is unique to each service you use. These passwords being random and unique to each service protects you from rainbow tables and other hash table based attacks. In the event Bitwarden or another password manager you use is breached anything they get will be worthless as long as your master password is not compromised (which should only ever exist in your head) due to the data being encrypted at rest.

It is a similar concept to using a secure, trusted middleman for processing payments instead of giving your credit card to every single site that asks for it.

[–] JDubbleu 2 points 8 months ago

Software engineers*. Computer scientists are concerned with the math behind computing and are mostly found in academia. Software engineers generally have a foundational knowledge of computer science they combine with software engineering principles to create robust software. Generally software engineers do have computer science degrees though.

They share a similar relationship as engineers and physicists.

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