ExtremeDullard

u/ExtremeDullard@sopuli.xyz
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I'm a huge Kensington Expert Mouse fan. I've owned dozens of them for the past 3 decades and I have 5 in constant use, at home and at work. I use no other pointing device - apart from my MNT Reform laptop's trackball, whose buttons I remapped in the firmware to be like the Expert Mouse's.

I will most definitely get that new one. Thanks for putting it on my radar!

You’ve obviously not done a full round of cognitive testing.

Correct. You know why? Because unlike the POTUS, I don't need to: nobody has any doubt about my mental faculties.

Many people are surprised at how poorly they do the first time.

I suspect part of the test is remembering the first time, and doing better the second time 🙂

He's really proud of having undergone - and aced, according to him - two cognitive tests in one year. But he totally fails to see that this many such tests at such short intervals is a clear sign that his doctors are worried he's actively going gaga.

Not to mention, acing a cognitive test is about as difficult as acing a patellar reflex test: it's not a sign that you're smart, it's just proof that your noggin' is still working correctly at a basic level.

on And here we go again · c/sdfpubnix · 2 pts · 1y

I always assume there is someone working to fix things

After being a member of SDF for over 2 years, I always assume there isn't.

Have you asked the SDF community if there is anything you can do to contribute to better uptimes?

No, for three reasons:

  • I paid for SDF. That's more than I can say for most services I use that are orders of magnitude more reliable. In fairness, I paid once, expecting to pay every year, because I like to pay for what I use. But I never paid again because the service is utter shit. Sorry to be rude, but that's just the plain reality.

  • I tried to contact someone in the SDF shell chat thingy and it's always been crickets. I've given up on that.

  • What the hell can I do to "contribute to better uptimes" aside from running a server at home on behalf of SDF?

Putting out there that if you’re waiting for the next outage of a few days to move servers, [...]

I'm not waiting. I'm currently evaluating Piefed with a view to moving my communities over there if it proves good and reliable. As for my personal account, I already have this one on Sopuli as a backup (now my main account) and I've created another one in piefed.social and imported my settings there too.

I'm done with SDF. The next - and last - time I post from my SDF account is to lock my communities and redirect subscribers to their new home.

The orange utan is too busy fucking up his own country and making billions with his crypto grifts, corruption and golf courses. He doesn't have time for starving brown-skinned children.

on And here we go again · c/sdfpubnix · 2 pts · 1y

Let's hope it lasts this time.

Next time it goes down, I'll move my communities and my user account out to Sopuli permanently.

First of all, there are better ways to deal with anything than privateering. There's a reason why all countries in the world have abandoned it.

Secondly, everybody is operating under the assumption that cybercrime is something that happens and there's no way around it. I contend that if software vendors were penally responsible for vulnerabilities in their software, you'd see a dramatic reduction in hacks very, very quickly.

As in, if a piece of software is exploited, the engineers who worked on it, their managers and the CEO of their company had better come up with extensive documentation proving how they did their best to implement security before releasing the unfortunate piece of code, else one or all of that bunch gets to spend time in the slammer.

If this was implemented into law, I guarantee you software would become very secure across the board in no time flat.

But of course, in the age of tech monopolies and generalized corruption, it will never happen.