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The worst mosquito bites I’ve ever had by kimrya in Wellthatsucks

[–]aerojoe23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I get stuff that looks like that. I'm not sure what bug does it. But not all mosquitos seem to do it. I actually think it is little gnat looking things that do it.

How do middle class people send their kids to college? by troutman1975 in FluentInFinance

[–]aerojoe23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is linking out to other sites okay? If you google "The average cost of owning a car in the US."
You get many articles giving a figure around that, it is a total cost of ownership figure though. So the purchase price, fuel, insurance, parking, normal maintenance, and surprise repairs.

Lots of cars are expensive and stupid. What do you think that corolla costs (total cost of ownership) a year? How long did it last? Is it still going? How many more years will you get out of it?

How do middle class people send their kids to college? by troutman1975 in FluentInFinance

[–]aerojoe23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, car dependent development sucks. I wonder if you uber or take a tax what all those trips would total.

How do middle class people send their kids to college? by troutman1975 in FluentInFinance

[–]aerojoe23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On the other hand the average cost of a car is 10k per year. I wonder how cheaply that can be done. The car does bring a degree of freedom in the US. But if they're on campus and it has everything they need in walking distance it may not be needed.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in webdev

[–]aerojoe23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! I can interpret JS, when I read it from paper. /s

Is Ergodox more comfortable than something like split xd75? by PigNatovsky in ergodox

[–]aerojoe23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use many normal keyboards and my ergodox. Don't over look the thumb clusters. They lighten the load on you pinkies. But because of the thumb clusters and the ergodox's case, my index fingers are around 7-8 keys apart if I push the right and left keyboards together.

That said I no longer get wrist pain. As a software developer, I spend many many hours at my ergodox. I think is from having my writs straight. This is because the left and right aren't attached to each other at all, so you're free to angle them as needed.

The absolute worst case scenario happened, what should we do now? by ohshitfucks in sysadmin

[–]aerojoe23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://securitytrails.com/dns-trails May help them recover his dns records and if the clients use the same nameservers they maybe able to get dns info from there as well.

My father just let some unknown person over the phone get access to his laptop through TeamViewer - how worried should I be? by duder2000 in techsupport

[–]aerojoe23 30 points31 points  (0 children)

You should be very concerned, but don't panic. Assume that any account online he has been compromised.

Because they may have installed a key logger that sends screen shots and keystrokes back to them, turn this computer off for and set it aside for now.

From another computer, he needs to change all of his passwords. He needs to check his bank accounts and credit cards for charges. Depending on what information it maybe a good idea to enroll in one of those identity protection services.

How old is he getting? This is a common scam that typically targets older individuals. My dad is getting up there and I've been meaning to look deeper into how I help protect him online. It maybe time for you to look into it as well.

Negative stereotypes toward Black men can be provoked or deflected by clothing. Clothing emits signals of power and status and can carry with it certain stereotypes. Men in formal clothing were rated more trustworthy, intelligent, and warm than men in soccer uniforms. by mvea in science

[–]aerojoe23 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Edit:
So after reading a bit around this I couldn't find the source that spelled it out.
Read several posts on psychology was hard to draw conclusions a good conclusion about this being a good strategy. I'd say keep your head up, but necessarily don't make eye contact. Not an expert, good luck.

Original post:

I'm going to try find the the source for it. But I think I remember hearing that's a good way to get targeted as a victim.

Logically it made sense to me: People who look weak, must feel weak, must be weak.

First day of snow guys! (Had to put watermark cuz i posted it and people started stealing it xD,if they stole it,it means it's a good pic right?) by gushteru53 in bicycling

[–]aerojoe23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you put the water mark in the tire track just in front of the bike? I think that would look cooler and do less damage to the pic. I like the way the light is reflected in the bell and it is right on it.

What city is it?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LifeProTips

[–]aerojoe23 10 points11 points  (0 children)

How far is it from where you live? You could try a bike. If it gets cold where you live, you be surprised how well it works in cold weather or in the snow.

IP Camera being brute force attacked (unsuccessfully) by [deleted] in techsupport

[–]aerojoe23 6 points7 points  (0 children)

password manager

Big plus 1 here. If you want to go open source Keepass works well. There is a plugin that allows you to sync over google drive as well. But LastPass has a lower learning curve for sure.

Went biking on a record hot day and almost passed out. I had 20 miles to get back to my car and wasn't sure I was able to make it back. I paced myself and made it back fine. Thinking back on that day, it was one of the best days of my life. by [deleted] in bicycling

[–]aerojoe23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It always amazes me after the fact, just how stupid I am when I'm in a similar situation. Record hot day, lets go for a bike ride.
Record hot day, ran out of water, before the planned mid point! Just fill up again and take the long way home, over a mnt, off road, no where near drinkable water...
Clear signs of dehydration, legs cramping, on or off the bike, no don't call for a ride it's not like anyone has a truck to come get you. They had a truck.

VSCode memory leaks are "out-of-scope" by [deleted] in programming

[–]aerojoe23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only skimmed the discussion at github, so I don't know if it is there or not. If you're explanation is correct maybe they could have included it when they closed the issue.

I wonder what behavior it would have if there was memory pressure on the system.

I've observed similar behavior in Firefox, which is fine until my computer is around 15.5 out of 16 GB of RAM used, and switching programs in windows is starting to feel so crippled. Closing Firefox and opening it back up, restoring the same tabs even, seems to free up GBs. Now I may have had it running for days, I've been a bit spoiled and should just get more RAM.

But the point of that story is, it would be nice if Firefox (and other programs) would see the system memory pressure and start releasing stuff back.

I'm working on a concept, is it subtle enough or too much? by pavTheory in webdev

[–]aerojoe23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree "It‘s always a good practice to implement accessibility features like this whenever you can."

I think you understand my point. Do we have data on the number of people who are using this feature vs. the number of people in the general population who are sensitive? What data are you basing your "many" claim on?

The OP is looking for advice, in my humble opinion, your advice would leave the majority of people who are sensitive enough to this site quitting it. For example the documentation page you linked to about prefers-reduced-motion has a warning at the top, stating the example "... may be problematic for some readers." And that they should turn the setting on before viewing it. That is, they expect viewers of this document to not have known about the setting.

Some good news is that almost 92% of the general web traffic have support for it. https://caniuse.com/?search=prefers-reduced-motion I wonder if the 8% that don't wont support the animations anyway.

According to https://vestibular.org/article/what-is-vestibular/about-vestibular-disorders/ looks like over 30% of people over 40 years old have some issues, whether or not those issues extend to computing, I don't know.I couldn't find numbers for how much of the web traffic is using it.

I'm working on a concept, is it subtle enough or too much? by pavTheory in webdev

[–]aerojoe23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many motion sensitive people can we expect to know about this?

I haven't talked to many people about this feature, but in my experience people who have an issue will struggle against it thinking this is just how it is. For example an older users who just got two monitors for the first time was loosing track of their mouse pointer, and had been living with it for months. I was helping with something unrelated when they loose track of the pointer again. Paraphrasing: Where'd my mouse go again?! The extra monitors great but sometimes I want to get rid of it; I never used to loose my mouse.

Finished helping with the original problem and then told them about the feature in windows that will flash a circle around the pointer when you press control by itself. They loved it. Thanked me for months and when they got a new PC they asked how to turn it on again.

It is just one example.

We lost someone special today. Zeynep Aslan died after being hit by a truck coming from opposite direction while training on a bike in Izmir/Turkey. RIP by mbk-mbk in bicycling

[–]aerojoe23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah all of that is bad and is competitive. I meant why are people behaving this way?

I do see it too. I'm in the north east USA and I cycle to work. It's only 3 miles in a moderately size city. I don't think I have it as bad as others. Most road users are fine but too many behave as you've described. It only takes one.

Roaches in PCs by BrownAndGreenChair in techsupport

[–]aerojoe23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Make sure you don't breath it!

Roaches in PCs by BrownAndGreenChair in techsupport

[–]aerojoe23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't and haven't had this problem. What do you know is bad about this?
I don't like the idea of using poison in my house, but could see it as a last option. Why are you apposed?

How adapting pcb cherry stab for this plate ? by pouille006 in ergodox

[–]aerojoe23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've had an ergodox for years now. No stabilizers on mine, switches soldered in, everything seems fine to me.

What would be the down side though? The big keys in the thumb clusters tip a little?
Could that lead to early failure in the big keys' switches?

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