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CoderKat

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  • They started searching for port locations

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  • Yeah, like, what the fuck? Why on earth would anyone do that? Do they not own a phone?

    Browser history is the most minor part. You should assume that your work sees everything you do to at least some degree. They may have full access to everything on your computer and private browsing won't do anything against that. It's also common that work computers would use a work owned VPN, so they'll at least know what sites you're visiting. HTTPS prevents knowing exactly what you're doing, but a VPN provider will know what IPs you're connecting too and thus will have a high level of what you're doing.

  • This has 29k likes 😵‍💫

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  • Ah, that one's a great video. Real short, succinct summary.

  • Biden to walk the picket line in Michigan to support UAW strikers

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  • It should be that easy. The US is such a bizarre place. They call themselves a developed country and have a GDP that outpaces most others, yet they can't even offer the things that many developing countries can.

    But sadly, I don't think it's as simple as you hope. About half of the elected US politicians want nothing to improve. The president can't do that much on their own. If Americans gave a shit, they could fix this in a single election cycle by electing some actual progressives, but Americans are pretty fucked up and most either don't give a shit, or give negative shits (as in, they want to see things get worse for certain people).

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  • Wait, so I know furries exist, but do people really crush on the statue of Liberty, of all things??? I've literally never heard anyone say they crushed on that before.

  • Dallas Elected a Longtime Democrat as Mayor, but Now He's Defecting to the Republican Party

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  • Yeah. It's frustrating seeing the right act like their view is somehow scientifically correct or whatever, when it's actually against medical consensus.

    They love to make claims about how they're all about "facts don't care about your feelings", which they'll back up with stuff they learned in 6th grade science while pretending college level science doesn't exist lol.

  • The Man Amazon Erased

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  • You definitely still want locks because most people have no idea how to pick a lock and a lot of crime is crimes of opportunity. But I don't think there's that much of a difference in most locks. A slightly better lock might dissuade a thief who learned how to pick cheap masterlocks, but someone who truly wants to get in doesn't even need to pick a lock. I'd hazard a guess that break-ins happen far more often by breaking the window than picking locks.

  • Having separate dongles for network, audio, video etc. is even worse than just having specific cables for each

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  • You can get laptop "hubs" which usually have a few USB ports, a video connector or two (often HDMI and/or DisplayPort), ethernet, and some will function as a power cable, too (one of mine does and one doesn't).

  • A 9/11 defendant is ruled unfit for trial after a medical panel finds torture left him psychotic

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  • Fuck Biden. He's the old school "tough on crime", cop bootlicker type. The only thing he has going for him is that any candidate the GOP puts forth (especially Trump) is even worse on all those things.

  • Dallas Elected a Longtime Democrat as Mayor, but Now He's Defecting to the Republican Party

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  • Yeah, it's not the Democrats who focus so much on trans people. It's republicans that are passing laws to try to ban their existence and wellbeing.

    It's bizarre that there's people acting like Democrats are all about identity politics when it's the core piece of the GOP's platform to the point that they barely seem to have any policies beyond it (and the occasional "reduces taxes on the rich and corporations -- it'll trickle down, we promise!"

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  • I still use Reddit to read episode discussions of TV shows and such. Those largely don't exist here, outside of a handful of shows. And probably would struggle to take off even if the threads existed, as they need a lot of people and good SEO.

  • McDonald’s once again sued after customer burns herself on hot coffee

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  • You can't test it. It's Lemmy.ml that has the extremely strict filter.

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  • Even without robbing people, video games are often heavily oriented around plundering abandoned dungeons. Not a lot of those in the real world. Heck, they don't even make sense in game. If there's dungeons full of gold, surely they'd be plundered to death by now? A couple of draegr aren't gonna keep people away from life changing wealth.

    For games with no combat, the economy is usually just hyper exaggerated. Like Stardew Valley. You can spend an in-game month or two farming by hand with no automation and you'll make enough money to double the size of your house.

  • How Unity makes decisions

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  • The action system is definitely way better. It's simultaneously simpler and more flexible. No confusion about whether something is an action vs bonus action (and how movement ties in). You just have multiple action units and abilities have a written number of action units they use (and some are variable).

    I also like how Pathfinder approaches levels. Proficiency bonuses add your character level in, so higher level characters feel much more powerful at what they're supposed to be good at.

    And critical success/failure is neat. You need 10 over/under DC to have a crit success/failure respectively, but nat 20/1 moves you up a class. If you're 10 over DC, a nat 1 becomes a normal success. Plus many abilities have modifiers on crits success/fail.

  • DuckDuckGo CEO says Google kills competition through phone deals that make it hard for users to switch search engines

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  • Do people even use that? I've literally never. Even if I want to search something, I'd rather just use my browser where I have tabs. Relatedly, why don't more apps have tabs? Like apps for Reddit or Lemmy. Literally none that I ever tried have tabs. I know they don't perform that great, but not even an option?

  • DuckDuckGo CEO says Google kills competition through phone deals that make it hard for users to switch search engines

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  • Yeah, what the fuck is that number? Are we just straight up lying in court now?

    I decided to see how long it would take me to find out how to change it with no help. Took about 30 seconds. In mobile Chrome, it's basically the first setting on the settings page. So the steps are (1) open chrome, (2) hamburger menu, (3) settings, (4) search engine. Even if I have to count turning my phone on and opening Chrome if it wasn't on my home page, it still wouldn't even add up to 10 steps.

    I checked Firefox and it has one extra step. There's still a search option literally at the top of the settings, just it goes to a page with multiple search related options (default search engine is still at the top). The fact that it worded it as "default" also made me immediately realize you can tap the Google icon in the address bar to choose another option, which must be what you used. 2 steps in that case.

  • SpaceX Might Have Lost 200+ Starlink Satellites In Just 2 Months Shows Data

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  • I agree for some definitions of rural, but I don't know if you have an idea on just how remote rural can mean. Try looking around northern Ontario in Google maps if you've never done it before. It's fascinating. So many tiny towns that are only reachable by boat or plane. They're not islands, but they might as well be, with how isolated they are.

    But even for towns that aren't nearly so remote, no company is going to lay down quality infrastructure to accommodate every random farm that is spread several dozens of kilometers away from the nearest city. Even without capitalism, it's an expensive use of resources to connect isolated areas.

  • Fetterman Presides Over Senate Wearing Short-Sleeve Shirt, No Tie, And Shorts

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  • I am wet, so it must be raining.

  • there is Indeed a problem

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  • I agree. It pains me that I have to ask them. The ones my company does are very restrictive and high pressure. I personally try to choose reasonable problems with realistic scenarios (especially when interviewing entry level folks). I also have lots of follow up questions that I like to think are well grounded on realism.

    I personally give a complete pass for stuff like standard library functions and will outright tell the candidate about an available function if they're unsure what it's called or how its used. I'm testing problem solving and an understanding of language , fundamentals not their ability to memorize a standard library. I mean, heck, I can't begin to count how many times I've had to google "[language] sort list".

    Honestly, it sucks to have to watch a candidate struggle. It's awkward and not fun. I want to see the candidate do well. And heck, if they can't do well, I want them to at least be able to make progress, because I know it would feel bad to feel like you bombed the interview. Sadly, the environment of tech interviews isn't conductive to that. They're stressful and sometimes perfectly qualified candidates do poorly simply because of nerves.

  • there is Indeed a problem

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  • I feel like for software, the big barrier is getting past HR/recruiters. Once you get to talk to someone technical, it's a lot easier. But hell if I know how the heck the non technical staff decides how to progress people.

    I've done tech interviews. They're leetcode, which isn't great, but at least it's fair. There's no magic words there. I just want to know if you can reasonably approach a problem (and I don't pick anything I couldn't get hired on), can show problem solving skills, and show an understanding of algorithms and data structures. You don't even need to solve the problem if you can come close and your thinking out loud shows good skills. And most definitely don't need to be an optimal solution (though it helps).

    But getting to the tech screen, I don't even know. I've made internal referrals that never even get assigned to anyone, despite a glowing referral. Maybe it's just super competitive. Maybe there's a scarcity of low level positions (though I know many teams that are top heavy and only need low level positions). I really know nothing about what it takes to get to the tech screen level. But once you're there, I really do think it's a lot more reasonable (not at all perfect, but better).