I’ve only partially read over you wrote and am heading into the mountains on vacation, but I will try to read over what you’ve written here sometime this weekend.
I’m a staff software engineer at Sunrun, the USA’s largest residential solar installer.
I mostly work with kotlin, but also java, python, ruby, javascript, typescript. My hobby is picking up new hobbies. Currently bird photography and camping.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?bysnowe@programming.devEnglish
10 monthsI mean sure, but you can say the same about any resolution possible. At some microscopic distance on a 42k display you will be able to see the difference. Your scenario here is pretty much “if you use a display in a manner it wasn’t intended then you’ll be able to see the difference in resolution when you compare it to a display that is used in the manner intended”
Technology@lemmy.world•Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?bysnowe@programming.devEnglish
10 monthsBut that could easily be due to the quality of the projector rather than the resolution. Everyone in here saying they notice differences is completely missing the point. You’d need to compare against the exact same panel type, manufacturer, model year, etc with the exact same manufacturing processes in order to come to this conclusion yourself.
Linux@lemmy.ml•I just found out my fiancee wants to switch to linux, lets start a distro war, what should be her first? + other questionsbysnowe@programming.dev
10 monthsI’m honestly astounded at how many people are suggesting Mint. I recently switched full time to linux and even as a software dev, Mint has to be one of the worst experiences I’ve had with a computer. Not only driver issues, but software issues and general buginess. Along with being butt-ugly, I do not think any windows user is going to confuse Mint for Windows.
I switched my wife to Bazzite (not necessarily recommending that) and she literally didn’t notice it was a different operating system (even though I told her it was and walked her through it). Bazzite has a nice UI for installing pretty much anything a normie would be thinking to install. The only issue we’ve had so far is that Dropbox just outright does not work on it. I’ve filed a bug with them and have been awaiting a response from their dev team for like two months now. I’m sure they’ll fix it eventually, but if you need the Dropbox UI (you can use rsync otherwise) then don’t choose Bazzite.
As for myself, after trying out like 6 different OSes, I settled on CachyOS. There are still issues, but it’s pretty dang stable and they’re very fast to fix issues. It’s not for a person not willing to touch a terminal at least once though.
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that if you search "Password generator, [x] characters, [y] strength" at DuckDuckGo, it will generate a password for you.bysnowe@programming.devEnglish
10 monthsall they need to do is get you to install a sketchy browser extension and then anytime you generate a password on ddg they’ve captured it. No man in the middle necessary. Unlike generating a pw with your pw manager, then inserting it with your pw manager or just typing it into the field (which shouldn’t be accessible to extensions on any appropriately coded site).
I work for a solar company and they said that we would have to start using solar powered two factor authentication key fobs.
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcastbysnowe@programming.devEnglish
1 yearas an instance admin I will let you know that lemmy (the software) runs very very poorly.
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is a sentence that makes you predict the rest of the story?bysnowe@programming.dev
3 years“I’m not racist but the weather is nice today“
Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.bysnowe@programming.devEnglish
3 yearsJust so you know, companies already use drones for roof surveys. I work for sunrun and we use them to analyze roofs for solar installations and whether roofs need to be fixed before hand.
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I just developed and published a script to clear your pict-rs object storage from potential CSAM.bysnowe@programming.devEnglish
3 yearsCloudflare still has false positives, the NCMEC does not care if they get false positives. If you read some of those links I provided it wouldn’t be considered a generic filtering operation, from how I’m reading it at least. I wouldn’t take the chance, especially not with running the software on your own hardware in your own house, split from the server.
I think you’re not in the US? So it’s probably different for your jurisdiction. Just want to make it clear that in the US, from what i’ve read up on, this would be considered against the law. You are running software to filter for CSAM, so you are obligated to report it. Up to 1 year jail time for not doing so.
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I just developed and published a script to clear your pict-rs object storage from potential CSAM.bysnowe@programming.devEnglish
3 yearsHey @[email protected], just so you know, this tool is most likely very illegal to use in the USA. Something that your users should be aware of. I don’t really have the energy to go into it now, but I’ll post what I told my users in the programming.dev discord:
that is almost definitely against the law in the USA. From what I’ve read, you have to follow very specific procedures to report CSAM as well as retain the evidence (yes, you actually have to keep the pictures), until the NCMEC tells you you should destroy the data. I’ve begun the process to sign up programming.dev (yes you actually have to register with the government as an ICS/ESP) and receive a login for reports.
If you operate a website, and knowingly destroy the evidence without reporting it, you can be jailed. It’s quite strange, and it’s quite a burden on websites. Funnily enough, if you completely ignore your website, so much so that you don’t know that you’re hosting CSAM then you are completely protected and have no obligation to report (in the USA at least)
Also, that script is likely to get you even more into trouble because you are knowingly transmitting CSAM to ‘other systems’, like dbzer0’s aihorde cluster. that’s pretty dang bad…
here are some sources:
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258A
- https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10713
- https://www.missingkids.org/theissues/csam
- https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-application-services/#csam-scanning-tool-terms
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/reference/csam-scanning/#what-happens-when-a-match-is-detected
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/reference/csam-scanning/#what-action-should-i-take-when-a-match-is-detected









it’s not subversive. it’s a string, it has no effect on the code output. Only a rogue bot would interpret it as anything except a string. No human user would ever encounter an issue.