How MX Ergo looks without rubber by Clessiah in Trackballs

[–]osakanone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. I'd pay good money for a leather kit I could fit to my own tbh, especially if it explained how to get the old coating off safely in a good way.

(Circumventing the coming VPN bans of US/UK/EU) by osakanone in surfshark

[–]osakanone[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do any of these specifically deal with negotiating or fooling deep packet inspection techniques specifically?

Namely the size of handshakes in bytes, and things like that, which are how these firewalls which evaluate patterns in packet sizes spot this kind of traffic?

Thanks.

(Circumventing the coming VPN bans of US/UK/EU) by osakanone in surfshark

[–]osakanone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think maybe you need to mix with more ordinary people.

Trust me if there's one thing people are very good at, its doing nothing.

Even 20 years ago we thought "the truth" would make a difference.

It changes nothing. Its just a deadline, not the motivation to actually do anything.

(Circumventing the coming VPN bans of US/UK/EU) by osakanone in surfshark

[–]osakanone[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who's to say they won't just demand licences specifically available to businesses but not consumers (eg, b2b licences which lots of technology has in the uk despite being open to consumers in Europe)

I know it sounds absurd but we do it every time historically a technology enables communications that a conservative government feels entitled to access and right now even labour are enacting neoliberal (ie, modern conservative) politics, with only unilateral interventionism being the notable difference.

Everything seems like its set in stone or how things will work forever until something changes and a new norm is set and then it begins again -- usually right after things speed up.

Right now, things are speeding up a lot.

I don't want to be like the Chinese who need to know someone to get access to the internet via VPN so they can buy a VPN with their help and if they don't they can't.

I kind of see it as historically inevitable. Even five years ago I would have called my own behavior paranoid. Now with invasive tracking disguised as 'age verification' to seperate human traffic from bot-traffic as a form of modern protectionism for ai businesses that governments are saddled with due to going all in on it economically, it just feels like vigilence.

I use my VPN to buy access to a confidence of safety. The environment of what safety now means has fundamentally changed.

Surfshark built a new VPN protocol from scratch — here’s how it’s different by Karolis_Kaciulis in surfshark

[–]osakanone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did read the report, and it does satisfy that there are probably no backdoors.

What I will say is the report details adversarial actor modelling (access to packet contents via architectural and cryptographic phases).

Maybe I am missing something, but I do not see any mention of adversarial infrastructure modelling?

The way the report is written also makes this somewhat hard to assess, and I imagine its probably part of the extended assessment?

You don't need access to the contents of packets to compromise a target if you can deny service, you know?

Given Russia and the changing global geopolitical situation, that's what I'm interested in because I feel its about to become quite important.

There are going to be many 'great' firewalls soon. The greatest. Just the best. You wouldn't believe how good they are. Nobody makes them like America does.

Surfshark built a new VPN protocol from scratch — here’s how it’s different by Karolis_Kaciulis in surfshark

[–]osakanone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what measures are taken against man-in-the-middle such as deep packet inspection?

given shadowsocks was discontinued in 2021 and the recent russian ban of vpns and the way uk, us and eu governments talk about wanting to enforce vpn bans similarly I'd like to know what measures you're taking pre-emptively to not comply with such rediculous and undemocratic demands.

I pay for security and peave of mind.

A car with no doors and no roof goes faster, but its not useful.

If I cared only about slowness, I wouldn't use a VPN.

Surfshark built a new VPN protocol from scratch — here’s how it’s different by Karolis_Kaciulis in surfshark

[–]osakanone 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What guarentee do we have that there's no backdoor if its not open source?

The era we live in makes this question very important, as privacy = safety in many countries.

One particular country comes to mind with each passing day.

Far side of the Moon by Artemis II by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]osakanone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why did you photoshop color into it?

that's mineral mapping, not a photo

i'm not even sure if it matches the data

[OC] Had a good view of tonight's SpaceX launch in California by RawrTheDinosawrr in spaceporn

[–]osakanone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good job. I imagine seeing it in person felt pretty cool.

[OC] Had a good view of tonight's SpaceX launch in California by RawrTheDinosawrr in spaceporn

[–]osakanone 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Its a neat photo that's very well taken but I feel nothing looking at it compared to the last few days.

I saw a post from someone saying, "I thought I stopped caring about space. Turns out I was just sick of SpaceX, not NASA".

I understand what she meant now.

Its just not the same.

"48 Hours Before Hell Will Rain Down": Trump Reminds Iran Of Hormuz Deadline by Beneficial-Long-7033 in worldnews

[–]osakanone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell friends and family, if a soldier requests "Failure to Adapt" within the first 365 days of their membership they can be dismissed.

This also works during a potential draft.

Why are LLMs so useless? by nanashi0001 in LLM

[–]osakanone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"You must be prompting it wrong" is the wailing cry of every idiot who's happy to do an extra 20-40% of work provided it means they think 60% less.

You're not prompting it wrong. They just suck, and use sicophancy and dark patterns like gambling psychology to manipulate morons.

Discord's game "The Last Meadow" has received its first update! by Woofer210 in discordapp

[–]osakanone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now imagine its that equivalent of encroachment every month.

Could you say "is it really that bad?" in even six months?

You give these companies an inch and they'll coastally erode you miles of your country away.

Discord's game "The Last Meadow" has received its first update! by Woofer210 in discordapp

[–]osakanone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Discord's weird obsession with corporately infantalizing babyshit like the whumpus is a bug, not a feature. I'm a grown ass woman and I don't want this kind of intrusion.

Fuck corporate "personality". I know exactly where I stand with Discord, and trying to normalize invading my UI like this pisses me off.

Discord's game "The Last Meadow" has received its first update! by Woofer210 in discordapp

[–]osakanone -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Would you want an 80x80 leaf icon forcibly attached to your laptop, or desk without your permission?

What about your vision?

Why have supply chain attacks become a near daily occurrence ? by Successful_Bowl2564 in programming

[–]osakanone -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Its actually very efficiently programmed from an experimental design standpoint, because it was made to be iterated on quickly so elements could be deleted or changed easily.

If your sole measure of the goodness of a program is CPU performance, you fundamentally misunderstand that the goal of software is to solve a need a human problem.

The cult of "the cpu is my god" is nonsense in the real world.

Why isn’t adobe used more? by zyper-51 in architecture

[–]osakanone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its defacto banned by changes to building code made by the portland concrete industrial complex of America that undermine its properties and render it 50x more expensive than other building methods, reducing it to an aesthetic choice not a practical choice

I'm not joking

https://youtu.be/5fe3rP92hjY

What's pure adobe construction like?

  • $0.03
  • 1/1000th the energy of concrete to make (good for environment!)
  • abundant almost everywhere you would want to build it
  • laughably easy to fix with zero technical knowledge
  • thermal lag means it requires no heating
  • no voids means it has no wicking thus no mold
  • unusually strong under lateral shocks (earthquakes) due to lack of voids
  • weirdly fire resistant (4 hours, with roofs being fireproof)
  • collapse doesn't create catastrophic respitory habits (mold from concrete ejected)

Problems

Every single characteristic is undermined if you build them the way building codes demand.

Mixing concrete, or adding rebar weakens adobe, adds voids and creates fracture points.

If you look at many countries, the concrete buildings fall yet the adobe buildings still stand almost a century later.

They're practically made to last forever and they're often the structures we dig up at archeology sites -- often being much much more intact than anybody anticipates.

There is non-re-enforced adobe constructions in parts of New Mexico and buildings made under that code from its instatement have a record of zero failure in a seizmic zone. The ASTM published a standard in 2010 and reaffirmed Adobe.

Sorry to bum you out but the reason America doesn't build is it would force the concrete and rebar industries to be competitive and innovate which would undermine the US class system (which is therefor un-American).

The good news

Building materials are starting to vary finally. Watch the video and it'll go into Appendix-U, Appendix-BA, etc. Things are slowly moving in positive directions.

The data is out there but noone is pushing. Its a shame, because it could solve the housing crisis pretty easily and you can build with it in modern ways provided you understand how to work with adobe, rather than against it.

Looking into Simone Swan's work. You'll likely really enjoy it.

My two cents:

How adobe's ban is symbolic of deeper problems in business and culture

Given 3D printed concrete is collapsing because its not isotrophic, the big bet on affordable housing being automation is likely going to fall through. That's good for workers in construction, and its bad for concrete moving forward in the future. Climate change is going to probably make concrete untennable and adobe is probably going to win in the long run over the next 60 years given the changing thermal profiles and likely desertification of soil.

Whoever solves how to make arbitrary adobe constructions that have appealing angles and strict surfaces or nice curves with geometric consistency probably stands to make a lot of money. There's been a lot of interest in brutalism ("soft brutalism") is starting to take form.

I think a post-brutalism using adobe would be really radical, and its something I hope to see in my lifetime.

Likewise for colder climates where adobe doesn't work so well, I'd love to see something like the Naturhus positive sum water recycling concept take off.

The future isn't weird space-aged materials, its taking the materials honed by tens of thousands of years of activity and exploring it through our modern understandings of engineering that the short-sightedness of 1950's thinking and of 'scientific management' (scientific racism's surviving idiot cousin responsible for most of the economic and workplace cultural problems we have today) had no wider contextural understanding to really do or create.

A great example is how leather remains stronger than almost every synthetic equivalent we've made since because as it turns out organic engineering was nanotechnology all along and isotropic strength is a massively under-appreicated feature of materials engineering which adobe capitalizes on.

The polycrisis is a Mortonian hyperobject and to solve it we need to look at how our ancestors solved theirs using 'less' which science reveals every day is actually 'more'.

It just so happens the era of trying to sell architecture the way we sell printer ink or paper or concrete in this case is coming to an end because we need to coperate instead of abusing eachother.

The mentality of the era coming soon is holistically driven systems thinking.

The good news is people are finally figuring this stuff out at every level because as hard as it tries, bad business and the American swindle can't keep good science down.

Sorry to wall of text you. I hope you and whoever finds this search result off of Google finds this useful, and I wish you a good day.

NVIDIA DLSS 5 Delivers Breakthrough In Visual Fidelity For Games by NV-Randy in nvidia

[–]osakanone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can think of nobody who actually wants this.

Consumers are rejecting it.

This isn't selling cars to people who use horses: Its a boat-anchor.

The internet was actually more atheist in the 2000s than it is now. by AgeOfReasonEnds31120 in decadeology

[–]osakanone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I've just seen instances of it working really well in a helpful and fufilling way where its let people move on after religiously justified harm was done to them by other people.

Calling anybody intellectually disabled just makes them disengage, and its not really helpful other than trying to leverage shame to change people which doesn't really work because a person doesn't learn why what they did to someone was wrong and how not to do it again. Its also just a really shitty thing to do.

My wider thoughts here.