SeriousBug

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[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 2 points 8 months ago

I can vouch for the node 804, although I haven't used the others so I can't say which is the best.

[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 11 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Nope. And more importantly, it looks like nobody considered what might happen if the signal gets spoofed. The backup systems that are supposed to keep working if GPS breaks also break due to these spoofed signals.

[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same. I wanted to make video games... until I found out how terrible the working conditions and pay are.

[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Have you ever actually seen a laptop lid just break off because the epoxy failed, or is this just a hypothetical? I used my last laptop for around 8 years, I took it with me to college every day in a backpack, on public transit. It got thrown around, scratched up, but the hinges didn't break lol

[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 11 points 10 months ago (12 children)

It's not a walled garden though, Valve made no attempts to lock anything down. You can install something like Heroic Game Launcher on the Steam Deck and play Epic Game Store or GOG games too.

[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 39 points 10 months ago

This is worse. Let's go with an example: on an Android phone, you visit a website. The website asks for an integrity check, the browser works with Google Play Services to complete the check.

What if you have a de-Googled phone without Play Services, or if you made modifications to restrict Google's tracking? Then Google can refuse to verify you. What if you installed an ad blocker in your browser? Google can refuse to verify you.

If you fail verification, the website could ask you to complete a captcha, or just refuse to show you anything.

[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago

You can make an app with Tauri without writing a single line of Rust though. Tauri lets you trigger most native functionality you might need from the JavaScript side. If that's enough for what you are building then you don't need to write any Rust. You could use a Rust web framework that compiles to WebAssembly, but you could also just use React or Svelte or whatever else.

[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Severence pay is not mandatory everywhere. So you might get nothing if you are laid off.

[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes I agree with you, but I just don't see how getting rid of copyright laws would fix this. Copyright laws aren't helping artists enough, so instead of fixing copyright laws we should get rid of them? What do we do instead to protect artists?

[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 17 points 1 year ago (16 children)

how many musicians don’t have the right to their own work because record companies dominate the music industry?

But not having copyright law doesn't fix that, it makes it worse. Without copyright law if you make music, a big label can grab your music and sell copies without paying you anything. Sure you can try to sell it yourself and try to educate customers that they should buy it from you. But the big label can easily out-advertise you and get into the top spots on streaming services, online and physical stores etc. and get 99% of the sales.

Same for artists, writers, programmers, photographers, or anyone else whose work is protected by copyright.

I fully agree things are not great right now, but that's not copyright laws fault. I think you need other laws and regulations to fix things, like small creators should be able to sue large companies with minimal cost if they infringeme on their copyright. And there should be some sort of provisions so companies can't trap people in horrible contracts. I'd also love to see fair use exceptions broadened in cases where the copyrighted material is just not available anymore, like old games or movies that are not sold anymore. Shorten the length of copyright too. But getting rid of it completely would not work.

[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I already donate to Mastodon development, and to the Mastodon server I'm on. It's a good reminder to donate to the Lemmy server I'm on too.

[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Men will literally write a Business Insider article instead of going to therapy. No really, I feel like this guy could benefit from some therapy.

It wasn't until I met a few women on dating apps that I realized being a software engineer in a tech hub is far from special. Working at companies like Amazon or Microsoft just isn't interesting; it's the norm here.

It's weird to expect that you'd get dates just for being an engineer. What? Like if someone did date you just because you are an engineer, that would be such a shallow relationship.

I think one big reason for that is software engineering doesn't require socially demanding skills like in product management or UX design.

Strongly disagree, software engineering is mostly social skills. It's all about communicating problems, learning your users pain points, explaining your solutions, and coordinating work. Coding the actual solutions is typically the easy part unless you are doing cutting edge computer science research.

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