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SparroHawc

@ SparroHawc @lemmy.zip

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  • Password managers are less secure than promised

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  • If it's something that you don't really care about others seeing, that's a prime candidate for cloud storage and more power to you.

    This topic is about password lockers. I'm pretty sure you don't want some schlub who happens to work at Cloud Password Lockers Inc. to be able to get at your PayPal account.

  • Remember when car controls weren't complicated

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  • The problem is that it's fighting against gluing a giant iPad to the dash, which just hides all the complexity behind a pane of glass so that it -looks- simple when the car is off.

    With this setup, once you learn how it works, you can do just about anything with only a cursory glance away from the road to double-check your proprioception.

  • What was good while it lasted?

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  • You can still have that DVD experience by going to thrift stores. Most of them have a decent collection.

  • What unusual/uncommon item(s) do you always keep around for a perfectly logical reasons?

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  • You should re-read the entirety of my comment. :-)

    There's a 'game' that started on Reddit where people make a long comment chain where they correct the prior person, and then give an incorrect explanation of what the word actually means.

  • What unusual/uncommon item(s) do you always keep around for a perfectly logical reasons?

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  • No no, you're thinking of scallop.

    A scalpel is the medical term for the shoulderblade bone.

  • What unusual/uncommon item(s) do you always keep around for a perfectly logical reasons?

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  • With an allen wrench, when you need to get more torque without killing your fingers, you hold it by the long side and stick the 'handle' in the screw.

  • Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs

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  • The partnership will happen later on when the noise has died down, and it won't be publicized.

  • Password managers are less secure than promised

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  • Don't store your stuff in the cloud unless you don't mind someone else accessing it.

    If you store things in the cloud that you don't want other people to access, you better be encrypting it yourself and only opening it locally.

    This has been a cardinal rule since day 1.

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    What do I do? Boyfriend won't respond to my texts, am I overreacting?

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  • He might be in trouble with his parents and had his phone taken away. He might be embarrassed for some reason and is trying to avoid you because he doesn't know how to deal with it. Any number of things, good or bad, and you won't know until you actually hear from him next.

    You're at the age where emotions are still stronger than you know how to deal with, and at the same time your social bonds are getting stronger and less dependent on your family. It's a rough time, and you'll have to learn how to cope with situations that you can't fix right away in your own way. If he's not talking, then you'll have to accept that for now and leave it be.

    Personally I like finding a distraction. A good book or game can take your mind off of things. So can hanging out with other friends or chatting with family (if you have a good relationship with family, at least) or getting something done that you've been putting off (productive procrastination!). Anything you can dive into and immerse yourself.

    And when the jerk stops ignoring you, don't let him have the satisfaction of knowing you've been stewing over it.

  • Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says

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  • All those who are surprised, raise your hands.

    crickets

  • I tried AI, was impressed by it, and it's embarrassing; Need advice

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  • Two suggestions.

    First, take on a hobby project that you can build to your personal specifications, instead of having to push to meet deadlines and put out fires. This will allow you to learn rather than ride herd on an AI. You're never going to get the time to write code properly at work, so you're going to have to find time to do it yourself - or you risk losing what skills you have as you outsource your mental load to AI.

    The downside of AI is that it doesn't learn the same way people do. It can churn out code real fast, and if the language has a ton of examples on the internet it can do a pretty decent job of it, but it will never get better, and in fact it will get worse over time as AI output continues to flood the internet and gets scraped for training data. You need to get better, because without actual human learning and knowledge, programming skills will nosedive over time.

    Second, understand the limitations of how your workplace runs and accept that. If you cannot accept that, then look for work elsewhere. Lots of workplaces operate on the 'always move forward' principle. Tech debt is something that will always be put off, shoring up your processes is going to get in the way of productivity, and as a result, your job will gradually become putting out fires more and more until it's all you're doing. This process will only accelerate with AI coding, especially because it means the people doing the work won't know all the internals of what they're 'writing'. This will be your life, eventually. Get ahead of it if you can, and if you can't, then it's time to start looking for another job.

  • Running defense for a pedo, but with extra steps

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  • At least Democratic candidates might have been swayed by popular opinion turning against it.

    As opposed to FUCKING TRUMP, who seems to thrive on making people suffer.

  • Experimental NASA VR headset, USA, 1989?

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  • Nah, thumb is going for clit

  • Two women, in their own driveway, had assault rifles pointed at them. ICE agents broke their car window with a rifle stock and dragged them out.

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  • How do you know they don't regret it? Because they don't whimper on every comment 'Oh it was terrible and I wish I had never joined the armed forces' every time they write about their time there? Don't presume. Also, ad hominem attacks are dumb and you shouldn't use them.

  • Two women, in their own driveway, had assault rifles pointed at them. ICE agents broke their car window with a rifle stock and dragged them out.

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  • You're just going to insult someone for making a reasoned, informed reply to a comment?

    There are many reasons someone might join the armed forces, and whether or not you are a conscientious objector, you might consider thinking before calling someone a war criminal without knowing what they actually did during their time in the military. Plenty of people went into combat zones without committing any war crimes.

    Also, ad hominem attacks are dumb and you shouldn't use them.

  • Just in case you needed more reasons to hate Grok

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  • You could put a floatie on the ocean and a height chart next to it that says "How do you feel about sandwiches?" with demarcations from "hate 'em" to "love 'em", then any given wave would push the floatie up to the height of its opinion.

    This is exactly as accurate as asking an AI about its opinion on sandwiches.

  • OOP at home:

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  • I like interfaces as a supplement to inheritance. The strength of inheritance is getting all of the internal functionality of the parent class, while still allowing you to differentiate between children.

    Interfaces are useful for disparate classes which don't have much in common besides fitting within a specific use case, rather than classes that are very similar to each other but need specific distinguishing features.

  • OOP at home:

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  • Admittedly this is why I like C#'s 'implements' paradigm. Doesn't have to inherit, it just has to fulfill the contract, and then you can pass it to anything that expects the interface it implements. Keeps you from building giant trees.

  • Real Nazis

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  • Or a group that espouses its ideals AND calls themselves 'Nazis'.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

    futurism.com /artificial-intelligence/new-findings-ai-coding-overhyped
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Texas Ice facility shooting: two dead and one injured, and ‘anti-Ice’ shell casings found

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/sep/24/dallas-ice-shooting-texas-immigration-center-latest