Everyone suggests proton and their whole infra just makes me sus. Just because of how much they are the “go to” alternative.

Maybe I’m paranoid. But I feel like these companies that focus on “privacy” are just not as good as we all assume.

It’s like all the YouTube sponsored segments of “Ingogni”. It just makes me feel like these companies that sell “privacy” are just consolidating data on the people that are worried about their privacy.

This is less a comment about proton I guess. But, incogni, is sus as fuck. Like, really, “give us all your personal info and we’ll “scrub” it from the internet, trust us.”

Are they sharing your emails. Probably not. But I just don’t really trust anything.

Edit: lots of strong responses. Which I appreciate. But, my comment was more “vibes” based on Proton. But I’ll take a stand on these “Ingogni” types services. I think they are sus as fuck.

I appreciate the response. But “golfing” was likely just an autocorrect from trying to type “coding” when they made the meme.

Or maybe you’re making another joke. If so, /woosh to me.

And as a kernel engineer I really don’t do any golfing.

In this economy?! Shit, I’d take an IT job at this point. I swear I’m on a blacklist for responding to job applications.

Religion has a little bit to do with it. Zionism takes full advantage of its “holocaust industry” (as Norm would say) to continue it’s genocide. Jewish people can absolutely separate themselves from Israel and Zionism. But Zionism is absolutely dependent on people believing in Jewish supremacy.

Nice sounds similar to what I do. I bought Unraid because everyone always suggested it. No regrets. It really makes things simple and have only had minor problems (usually related to docker). I had a HDD fail and recovery was easy (besides the 18 hours of rebuild). But the drive is emulated during repair so no real downtime.

Family photos I use cloud storage for. I could probably get away with just doing local because I do hate that I’m sure they are being used to train AI. But I’d have to do off-site storage somewhere anyway. Parity drives don’t really do well in the “fire” scenario. Don’t want to have any risk of losing photos of my daughter growing up.

You could budget this way down. I run 10+2 12TB with Unraid. No reason for a raid card if it’s for archive and personal use.

mkv and mp4 are the container not the codec. It’s a bit more complicated than just the file extension. You likely have more luck with mkv because of just more consistency as mkv is used more often when the file is meant to be played locally and not streamed.

So, you’re right. But just looking at the container isn’t going to ensure compatibility. The codec is significantly more impactful on whether playback is supported. That’s the part that’s literally taking the compressed video data and decoding it into viewable pixels/frames you see on your screen.

I’ve never downloaded an mkv that wasn’t just standard h264 or h265. So it’s still a good bet. But h265 is less universal and much more CPU intensive for playback (because it has significantly better compression).

I don’t disagree in general. However, my mom has been running Linux with a Windows XP skin for almost 8 years now without knowing she’s using Linux. Literally just keeps her from running a random .exe and she does everything on a browser anyway.

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Technically True. The IOF will blow them up if they try to feed themselves by fishing.

WE’RE PROTECTING YOU FROM US!

git submodule list

git clone <repo> -b dom_mommy

Zionism has always been an evil ideology of ethno supremacy. I think you might just mean the Zionist liberals have stopped pretending it’s not evil and just admit their crimes proudly.

I would say sending in robots full of explosives and suddenly leveling entire blocks with no warning might still be considered terror tactics. But that’s just me.

What’s the original version this of this meme say?

Wait, you’re telling me that the “Israeli” guy who’s family has lived in New York for generations doesn’t have claim to an arab persons home and land? You must be antisemitic!

Condom Hummus! Condom Hummus right now!

Yeah. They’ve been singing about Amalek since October 8th. The only news is that media outlets are finally reporting the intentions that that entire sick society has been proudly shouting loud and clear. With zero acknowledgement of their genocide propaganda for nearly two years.

My company got acquired by them. Not only did half our company get laid off. But the company was also sold for pennies on the dollar of what my coworkers bought their options for (I never exercised them. Way to much risk and I was right).

But a lot of people believed in a company that was aquiring customers. Especially when we got Microsoft as a customer. So, a lot of people were “encouraged to exercise their options as talk of a large order for our product from Microsoft was in talks”. Literally managers talking about how they were buying options so they could sell at long term capital gains.

Instead of being a customer though they ended up buying us out as we lost investors after COVID. Half the company was laid off. I survived somehow.

This was around the time that Israel began it’s genocide in Gaza. My hatred towards our small companies leaders and Microsoft was peak. I was fully remote and spent two years collecting a paycheck. The acquisition ended up throwing away all my previous work and I got placed in a “middleman” position that basically didn’t need to exist. Somehow I did almost no work for two years and didn’t get fired. I joined meetings, and basically just sat as a middleman communicating requirements between a team from the old company with the current Microsoft team.

Not until I started being active in criticism in Microsoft’s support of genocide in Gaza. That’s when suddenly I was told I "hadn’t met expectations and they said I had ‘abandoned’ my job. I was literally a remote worker and continued responding to all work requests. So I was fired but without any chance of unemployment.

So, yeah, I hate this company with a burning passion. Not only are their practices of company acquisition completely parasitic but they are actively enabling the slaughter of children in Gaza.

Tech companies aren’t “tech” companies. They are all war and genocide profitiers. I don’t think I can work in this industry anymore. And it’s nearly impossible to find a small company that isn’t already connected to these tech oligarchs in a major way. And if they aren’t they aren’t hiring.

Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Israel. Fuck Capitalism. Fuck this country.

I know people joke around about this a lot. But I was blown away by a recent switch to I did from using cv2 with python to using cv2 with C++.

I had literally hundreds of thousands of images to analyze for a dataset. My python script would have taken 12 hours.

I ported it to C++ and it literally destroyed it in 20 minutes.

I’m sure I was doing something that really wasn’t optimized well for python. I know somewhere in the backend it probably was using a completely different library with multi thread optimization. Or maybe turbojpg is just garbage in python. I’m still not even sure what the bottleneck was. I don’t know enough to really explain why.

But holy shit. I never had that much of a performance difference in such a simple task.

Was very impressed.