[-] beejjorgensen 17 points 17 hours ago

The FBI also doesn't want back doors... They just want a way for law enforcement to access any encrypted messages they want to.

https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/us-senator-calls-fbi-director-dumb-stance-encryption/

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submitted 2 months ago by beejjorgensen to c/technology@lemmy.world

I've never run a big system like this, but like the lead character in the story, I always figured exponential backoff would be enough. Turns out there's more.

[-] beejjorgensen 150 points 2 months ago

We need a competitor badly.

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submitted 4 months ago by beejjorgensen to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

This is a pretty cool analog arcade game. I never saw one when I was a kid... I'd have been hooked.

[-] beejjorgensen 143 points 4 months ago

If my ISP starts throttling my traffic, I'll just switch to one of the zero other providers in my area.

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submitted 4 months ago by beejjorgensen to c/technology@lemmy.world

This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

[-] beejjorgensen 77 points 7 months ago

I'm on the "OK but keep an eye on it" train, here.

Devs need feedback to know how people are using the product, and opt-out tracking is the best way to do it. In this case, it seems like my personal data is completely unidentifiable.

I was coding in the IE6 era, so I'd really prefer to not end up in a browser engine monoculture again.

[-] beejjorgensen 100 points 8 months ago

Related: Internet Archive hosts zillions of abandoned games. Publishers are currently trying to sue it out of existence. They accept donations.

[-] beejjorgensen 55 points 9 months ago

My simple home page is 10 KB now. And you might not think that's such a big deal, but it has more content than Google's search page and that rings in at a couple MB IIRC. 😁

[-] beejjorgensen 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to give Google money for services (Drive and YouTube), but I've already stopped doing that because of their evil ways. This just hammers it home that much more.

Edit: The shitty part is what a cool company it used to be. And to watch it destroy itself like this is just sad.

[-] beejjorgensen 67 points 1 year ago

I had the same experience moving from GIMP to Photoshop. 😂

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Can be yours for a mere $155,000. (No, I'm not the seller, but I'm curious who is!)

[-] beejjorgensen 91 points 1 year ago

I've been editing OSM for years. (896,339 edits in 3,427 changesets, apparently!) For me, it's all about the free data. I once got a thank you note from someone who worked for a city with a particularly large municipal park. I'd added almost all the trails to the park and other information, and they'd used it to produce a printed map for the general public. Exactly the kind of thing I'd hoped for!

Personally, I do a lot of dualsport motorcycling and most backcountry maps around here are subpar. I map tons of trails and 2track and put them on the Garmin so I know where I'm going.

OSM is also great in lots of Europe--tons of detail.

JOSM is great.

Someone just recommended Organic Maps for the phone--it's way snappier than Google Maps, but still not great with finding addresses.

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This coder rigged up GPT to create IF games.

[-] beejjorgensen 69 points 1 year ago

I think most billionaires have a bit of their brain set to believe in themselves rather more than is warranted. It's great for making money, but maybe not something you want to put your life on the line over.

[-] beejjorgensen 95 points 1 year ago

Amen. When people talk about how Reddit or Twitter will always be bigger, I say, "Let them be bigger." What we have out here is fantastic just the way it is. In a global world, "small" is still millions of people.

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submitted 2 years ago by beejjorgensen to c/programming@beehaw.org

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you write a C program? How does your code transform from lines of text into a fully functional binary executable? If you’ve been curious about the intricacies of the C program compilation process, you’ve come to the right place.

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