MajorHavoc

joined 2 years ago
[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

I've done the same. This sucks, but I didn't realize I was donating to an organization without a workers union agreement in place.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nice. That is what I did, at first, as well.

One thing I discovered is that the vast majority of 2FA uses a shared open standard. I was able to cut way down on the count of 2FA apps I had to install, and just use Aegis for almost everything.

Aegis runs fine on GrapheneOS, too.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Great point about bank apps.

Thankfully I never got in the habit of tap to pay with my phone.

The amount of data that bank apps want to slurp up in the name of "security" makes me uncomfortable, anyway.

I just bank via web browser, today.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nothing is perfect.

But every alternate Android ROM I have tried has given me a dramatic speed boost over what shipped with the phone.

I guess there are other definitions of "good", haha.

For me good==fast, and GrapheneOS is the most responsive phone OS I have used, and therefore the best.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

As a fellow former CyanogenMod user, I run GrapheneOS. I like that it gives me the most control over my hardware, of any of the Android variants I have tried.

Edit: I buy phones specifically looking for GrapheneOS support, now. But for non-pixel phones, I have found LineageOS to be fine.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

CyanogenMod was for iPods and iPhone, and released in 2009, so if we round a smidge, 20 years.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes. And then sign another authorization for each other topic - another for disposal of my property if I die, one for my funeral preferences, one to pick up my prescriptions, and hope I don't forget any.

Or, courthouse, one time, 15 minutes, and done.

A marriage license acts like a super convenient combination of othet legal documents.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If we allow Discovery as evidence, Klingon technology has been in steep decline for centuries, only recently falling to as primitive as 24th century Federation technology.

It's possible that Kligons had better medical treatments available in the 21st century than in the 24th.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The point, to me, is using the government to tell hospitals what to do. I don't want my parents making big decisions for me - I want the family I chose, my spouse, to do that.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Marriage is how I tell the state, and everyone, who my chosen family is.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

Sure!

But I don't expect it to change much.

I could already do that, by hand as well.

It's a bit like how there's so many different superheroes who are obviously just off-brand SuperMan or off-brand Captain America.

Minor changes to avoid intellectual property law and branding has always been an option.

And I suppose all of these are easier now with the remixing slop-o-trons.

But they weren't terribly difficult, or particularly uncommon, even before.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Why learn Lua?

Lua is quite popular for writing games and mods forn games.

Also, and I can't emphasize enough how much this means to me, personally: it's not Java.

 

I got tired of having to search and sign up for wherever my favorite movie is streaming this month, so I'm going back to DVDs for the foreseeable future, until the streaming overlords get their shit together. So... maybe forever. But at least for now.

It's nice. I put a disc in, and press play, and it plays.

I hadn't quite realize how much messing around the streaming services had added to my movie nights.

(Recover password, verify my email, sign up with a credit card, authorize the TV, remove the old iPad because of a device limit, sign in at least one extra time for no certain reason, sometimes discover I chose the wrong service and start over.)

 

Cory Doctorow details the path to the enshitifications of Facebook and Twitter.

"This is what changed: the collapse of market, government, and labor constraints, and IP law's criminalization of disenshittifying, interoperable add-ons. This is why Zuck, an eternal creep, is now letting his creep flag fly so proudly today. Not because he's a worse person, but because he understands that he can hurt his users and workers to benefit his shareholders without facing any consequences. Zuckerberg 2025 isn't the most evil Zuck, he's the most unconstrained Zuck."

 

Cory recommends a response for Canada to the USA's promised tariffs: break ranks on oppressive IP laws and build a local right-to-repair economy.

Edit: Corrected link. Sorry about that!

 

This came across my GamingOnLinux feed, and I figured y'all might share my interest.

I'm excited for this dock release because my simple JSAUX HDMI dongle has always been a more reliable SteamDeck dock, for me, than my official SteamDeck dock.

I understand recent patches to the SteamDeck official dock may have solved many of the issues I was having.

But it's still cool to see a brand I already trust adding a targeted SteamDeck product.

I don't see whether it accounts for my habit of keeping my SteamDeck in a protective case, though.

 

I'm usually the one saying "AI is already as good as it's gonna get, for a long while."

This article, in contrast, is quotes from folks making the next AI generation - saying the same.

 

"We need policies that keep middlemen weak."

stood out to me.

Many of my influences have railed against middle men, and I think that's unfair. I've worked with plenty of middle men that made everyone then better off.

I've also had the unique displeasure that at least half of all links shared with me in recent years have been to a site called "Instagram", where I am unable to access the content without an account (which I refuse to make because Zuckerberg is a creepy stalker.)

I find it deeply weird that such a locked ecosystem now controls so much attention.

I find Cory Doctorow's thoughts on the problem and potential solutions to be both hopeful and cathartic.

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The Cult of Microsoft (www.wheresyoured.at)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MajorHavoc@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

Kind of an inflammatory title, but I like to let it match for accessibility.

I've been enjoying Ed Zitron's articles lately, because they call out CEOs who aren't doing their jobs.

I'm sharing this partly because I'm honestly surprised to see criticism of Satya Nadella's leadership. I think Satya has been good for Microsoft, overall, compared to previous leaders. And I was as convinced as anyone else when the "growth mindset" first hit the news cycle. It sounds fine, after all.

TL;DR:

  • Satya has baked "growth mindset deeply into the culture at Microsoft"
  • Folks outside of the original study authors have generally failed to reproduce evidence of any value in "growth mindset"
  • Microsoft is, of course "all in" on their own brand of AI tools, and their AI tools are doing the usual harmful barf, eat the barf, barf grosser barf, re-eat that barf data corruption cycle.
  • Some interesting speculation that none of the AI code flaunted by Microsoft and Google is probably high value. Which is a speculation I confidently share, but still, I think, speculation. (Lines-of-code is a bat shit insane way to measure engineer productivity, but some folks think it's okay when an AI is doing it.)
 

You might recognize me from such comments as "All AI hucksters are scammers.", and "AI is just an excuse to enshitify while laying off real engineers.", and "I actually use current generation LLMs for a bunch of things and it can be pretty great."

In this article science fiction author and futurist Cory Doctorow is on my favorite AI soap box, and raises some interesting points.

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PSA - MineTest on SteamDeck (blog.rubenwardy.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MajorHavoc@programming.dev to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
 

MineTest on a SteamDeck is so fun, y'all.

(Edit: MineTest is a free and open source game engine that started as a clone of Minecraft, and has grown to be that, and much more.)

I would have tried it sooner, if someone had mentioned it to me, so I'm mentioning it to you.

Edit: Disclaimer, I'm not the author of this blog. It's the walkthrough I followed to start playing.

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