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[–] qqq@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is also far from my personal experience, you might not even realize what free software you're depending on?

Your browser is most likely the most complex piece of software you interact with daily and it is most likely FOSS. The Linux kernel is FOSS and is incredibly robust. Most compiler suites, FOSS. Most programming languages, FOSS. These are all incredibly well written and robust tools. AOSP, kinda FOSS, and the forks like Graphene are definitely FOSS. Hell even a lot of macOS programs are actually FOSS. I could go on and on, there is absolutely amazing work being done on FOSS by incredibly talented people.

There is great paid and proprietary software out there, sure, but no it's not the majority of top quality software in my personal experience and likely a lot of people's experiences and it is almost guaranteed to rely on a FOSS library somewhere

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Sounds like you're cherry picking both; I've seen plenty of garbage that costs money as well.

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh right, thanks

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Am I misunderstanding something? Wouldn't that just be 7! = 5040 possibilities?

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

This happened to me in Kansas on the way to college a long time back. The cop pulled out and started tailgating me and I slowly got closer to the car in front of me and then he put his lights on and pulled me over for "following too closely".

He wanted to search my car and tried to call in a drug dog. Put me in his car and turned the AC to fill blast while I waited for a dog that never came.

Wish I had the courage to have asked if I was being arrested and then demand being let go otherwise

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Alternatively, use your shell however you want. And which isn't POSIX so I wouldn't use that in a shell script you intend to share.

[–] qqq@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

I don't really find it infuriating and I don't think that makes me part of a problem. Self diagnosis can sometimes trivialize the people actually suffering from the problem, and there van be real harm there. So I definitely agree with you to some extent. But some people are so hungry for community that self diagnosing some problem like ADHD makes them part of something else. That's sad to me, but not infuriating.

I do understand that mislabeling normal things as a mental health issue can be problematic. I wish you didn't assume I thought otherwise from our small exchange. My point of responding was that I find it really annoying when people say "well everyone does or feels X so there's nothing wrong with you". I think that also does a lot of damage to people.

I'd say that the person on display in the comic doesn't seem to be showing "normal" or "healthy" procrastination to me, but there is room for disagreement I guess.

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Wow, people are so extreme on the Internet. One comment saying maybe take a step back and we're already at "fucking stupid".

This comic is relevant to general human experience and ADHD, both are true and valid. The comic didn't tell people to self diagnose and no one here has told anyone to self diagnose.

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Normal people feel sad. Feeling sad consistently and having it harm your life and not knowing how to fix it is called depression. People with these problems aren't aliens showing weird never been seen before behaviors or emotions, but their lives are consistently disrupted by these normal things. It's a problem of how often and how much the person can control it.

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have no skin in this game, but IPs are definitely not anonymous data. Also there is a lot of great info out there about de-anonymizing seemingly random data. Interestingly enough, this is similar to the Netflix prize dataset that was one of the more famous ones. Maybe a good introduction to that would be https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/anonymity_and_t_2.html

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Nobody is gonna be using a quantum computer to "crack email hashes" of Plex users in a few years... I'm not even sure there is a speedup to hash cracking with quantum computers.

But depending on the hashing algorithm used, it's likely pretty easy to crack hashes of email addresses today with a normal computer. They're not particularly high entropy.

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I see why it does this now. Debian does

CONFIG=/etc/samba/smb.conf
# stuff
ucf --three-way --debconf-ok /usr/share/samba/smb.conf "$CONFIG"

in the postinit inside the .deb file to create the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. They do it this way so they don't nuke an already created file. I take back that they should be shipping an empty file, this way is better, but it also means you'll never be able to query it without some changes to the packaging tools.

The man page should mention the path though that's a bit lame.

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