Damn.

I suppose the obvious question of why Amazon doesn’t have an intuitive way of rate limiting those can be answered by the huge bills people rack up.

Never used AWS but would it help to bake a daemon into your default OS image that shuts it down after 24 hours? That way you need to manually disable it for the ones you want to keep.

Shouldn’t it be MANGA now that Facebook renamed itself to Meta?

We speak Mandarin at home and microwave in Mandarin is 微波 “way bo” (literally means “micro wave”). To “microwave” as a verb usually gets shortened to the first character in colloquial speak. We 微 “way” our leftovers.

微波 means microwave as in that particular frequency range on the electromagnetic spectrum. When referring to the kitchen appliance as a noun, we specifically say 微波炉 “way bo lu” which means “microwave stove.”

Additional fun fact: If you think it sounds like Weibo the website, you’re right. It has almost the same pronounciation but has a tonal difference on the second character. Weibo means “micro blog,” same first character but the second character is 博 which is a loan word for blog.

Wouldn’t that also mean that when the file gets overwritten, i.e the next time the system hibernates, you can potentially run a data recovery program on the C filesystem to leak its previous contents since modern filesystems don’t necessarily immediately overwrite the underlying data anymore, but usually just change the regions on the drive the file points to? So you could have ghost memory dumps hiding out in your free space just waiting for malware to access. You can definitely recover data from the free space of a Bitlocker volume because the encryption is transparent to the filesystem.

This is also why I don’t like swap files and always disable them (or use an OS like Fedora that doesn’t have them by default), because it kind of defeats the point of only storing some data in RAM for security.

I could just be ignorant of how memory files in storage are managed though.

Thanks for the corrections! I edited my post to reflect them.

Also doesn’t hibernate write your RAM contents to your disk? That sounds like a great way to leak your passwords and encryption keys in plaintext. Also you need to always reserve the same amount of space on disk as your RAM and can’t use that space for anything else on the off chance you might want to hibernate.

TBH all the claims you commonly hear about Macs are either outright false or outdated:

• Macs don’t get malware? Yes they do.

• Macs are more private? More than Windows maybe, but that’s like saying you should go to the restaurant that gives you explosive diarrhea instead of the one that gives you botulism. The one that serves normal non-infected food is not an option I guess. Apple being “not as bad” as the worst offender is not praiseworthy and still means they’re in no way private.

• Macs “just work?” Unless Apple decides it shouldn’t. They can prevent you from installing paid apps you already own because the latest version arbitrarily doesn’t support your older device anymore. Want to install an older version? Fuck you, stop being poor and buy a new Mac. Oh you installed a genuine Apple replacement part with the wrong serial number? Fuck you, your device is banned.

• Macs have better support than Windows computers? Yeah maybe when the Apple logo was still rainbow coloured and they had CRTs built in. Now a battery replacement costs nearly as much as a new device and they go out of their way to make sure you can’t do it yourself.

• Macs don’t come with bloatware? Then what do you call that bullshit AI they’re pushing to compete with Copilot? What do you call Safari? What do you call Photo Booth? Has anyone ever opened Photo Booth once the novelty of their first time using a Mac wears off?

• Macs are intuitive? Look, maybe I’m just a tech illiterate idiot, but I had more problems figuring out how to drag and drop on my friend’s Macbook than I had tinkering with the Linux kernel and systemd.

• Macs are good for developers? Yeah they’re so good they’ve recently had to cave and introduce a WSL-like system so you can run Linux containers.

• Macs are innovative? Yeah they’re so innovative they don’t even support snapping windows to half or a quarter of the screen when Linux desktop environments and even Windows have had it for ages. Gotta either leave all the windows floating, or full screen them all and swipe between them, or manually resize the windows to the layout you want. (They have this now.)

• Macs are convenient? Yeah I just love carrying HDMI (some newer Macbooks have HDMI again) and USB A to C adapters forever because they couldn’t be bothered to install those ports on a laptop sized device that can clearly fit them. Also fuck Apple for giving other laptop companies the idea that everyone wants only USB-C on their devices. No, we want ports we can use today, not in 10 years when all the peripherals switch to USB-C and all the computers bought today will already be obsolete regardless of what ports they have. I’ll buy a computer with only USB-C when everything else I own actually uses USB-C.

• Macs are more secure? How do you know? Do you control the disk encryption keys? No, Apple does. Can you encrypt the drive yourself with a key you control like you can on Linux? No, fuck you for even thinking about that.

• Macs are elegant and their design is well thought out? Because gluing the battery to the chassis with double sided tape is the elegant way to do it and not redneck engineering. And with glue so strong that you risk puncturing the battery and burning your house down if you try to remove it yourself. Another great attention to detail is soldering the SSD to the motherboard, thoughtfully ensuring you lose data when the motherboard fails. But hey, I’m sure the Genius bar will be happy to recover your data for you since they made sure you can’t do it yourself, and for only $999.99! Your wedding photos and your PHD thesis are each worth more than that right? So it’s a bargain!

Linux beats Mac in every one of those categories (other than the hardware ones) and you can install Linux on every device. Even ancient ones, and you get to decide if it’s too old to be usable or not, not the company who’s incentivized to obsolete devices as fast as possible so you’re forced to buy a new one. How many years before a brand new Mac stops getting OS updates?

Reject modern operating systems, return to punch tape

In what way is a suggestion for improving Lemmy anti Lemmy propaganda?

Apologies, I should have made it more clear that I was talking in general and not directed at you or this post specifically.

Judging people on the kind of food they like is literally the dumbest shit ever. You’re not the one eating it so why do you care?

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Mandarin:

No “the,” you just say the noun and that’s it.

“A” or any other quantity of a noun is generalized as a number, followed by a character indicating quantity, followed by the noun. “An apple” is 一个苹果 (yi ge ping guo), 一 literally means one, 个 is the character that denotes quantity (it’s the most common one but some nouns have different quantity adjectives), 苹果 is apple. Two is an exception because there’s a special character for it that’s different from the number two (两个苹果 as opposed to 二个苹果), but every other number quantity is the same as the number itself.

I’ll bite, in what way are left wing incels different? Genuinely curious because I’ve never heard incels split into right vs left before.

Pond scum is an extremely productive microecosystem. I won’t stand for you insulting it by comparing US soldiers to it.

Additionally, gonna hazard a guess that the majority of the protesters aren’t white or at least wouldn’t be considered white by the soldiers regardless of their skin tone. They’re literally protesting white supremacist actions by the government.

Just tried it. Am I Unique says yes.

Tor still reports your operating system and processor architecture which is dumb as hell. If you’re on Linux for example, that’s probably one of the biggest things making you unique. Why not just make everyone “Windows x64” since that’s the most common?

It also still reports extensions. Apparently it’s definitely possible to tell vanilla Tor and Tails users apart because Tails has uBlock Origin installed by default, and the generally accepted advice is to never install extensions on Tor, one reason being it could make you unique.

Also, apparently the default window size Tor chooses in an attempt to prevent the window size from being used in fingerprinting isn’t all that common, I got 1% and 5% on screen width and height respectively.

Tor doesn’t seem to have WebGL enabled by default so it can’t be used to fingerprint (though having it disabled is unique in itself).

Tor’s canvas data is unique but I’ve heard that it generates a new canvas fingerprint each time you restart it. I don’t know if that’s true or how well it works though.

Tor, like every other browser, also has something called “audio data” that’s a weird graph of numbers without units. No browser I’ve seen has ever not been unique for that category and Tor is no different. I didn’t mention it in the post because I don’t know what it is or if it has a genuine purpose or not.

I didn’t try Tor on my phone but I would hope it would block sensor access?

One of the biggest reasons websites need to run JS is submitting form data to a server. Like this website.

But old forums did all this without JS by just using the HTML form’s submit functionality itself. The issue is it causes the page to refresh meaning you can’t keep any other unsubmitted forms, and you can get those annoying “submit form data again?” popups. So every website writes code to submit everything asynchronously.

Another major reason for using JS is dropdown menus and panels. You need to either write code to listen for the click and reveal/hide it as needed, or you have to do weird CSS tricks that are usually inferior in UX to a JavaScript implementation, or you have to bastardize the form dropdown selector into your general purpose dropdown.

These shouldn’t be things you need to implement yourself using a Turing complete programming language. These should be natively implemented in the browser and accessible through HTML.

Remember when the only way to play videos on websites was with Flash or Java applets? But then video playback got natively implemented into HTML and now it’s way easier and doesn’t even require JS.

If browsers did the same for asynchronous form submission and dropdown menus, it would get rid of 80% of websites’ need to run JS. Including this one.

But obviously they want you to run JS so they won’t do that.

The majority of gang members also grew up poor and joined a gang to get out of poverty. Does that make it justified?