wuphysics87

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[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

We all have a fundamental right to privacy, which is constantly violated. Not just on a daily basis, but on a minute by minute basis.

But to play devil's advocate for a moment to assuage some FUD around posts like this, how many of the absurd amount of cookies overlap in otherwise innoculous ways. For instance, product tracking cookies. Say you bought a pumpkin on Amazon, and that drops a gorde cookie, a pumpkin spice cookie, a cornucopia cookie etc.

That's certainly not the same as buy a pumpkin, track your location around the nearest pumpkin patch, read your grandma's emails about pumpkins, and collect information to determine your likelihood of buying another pumpkin based on your sexual orientation.

The latter certainly exists, but does anyone know much about the former? How prevalent would they be in that 850?

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

In 14 hundred and 92 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. And also committed genocide

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

They still cost about the same now as when I got mine in the late 90s

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Define the speed of light to be 1 (gaussian units). Then Einstein's E=mc^2 becomes E=m. Mass is energy. In physics mass is not fundamental. Energy is.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I'm a 36 year old professor. My only negative evaluation this past semester was that I didn't give homework. Though, most of them hated my guts from using grades to tell them their work was mostly average.

The students realized they needed to change to improve their grades. And subsequently, they grew the way I expected, which was far more than they thought they would. They recognized I was teaching them more than the material: I was teaching them the meta. That was valuable enough to them to forgive me for being such a dick about the numbers that define their self worth.

So, want the students to give you those glowing 10/10 evaluations? Piss them off and make them glad that you did. Give them something of value that no one has. But, based off of how much you seem to care about the difference between a 95% and 100%, I think, much like my students, you are chasing your participation trophy. Think on it.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago (9 children)

'i' before 'e' except after 'c'

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

This sounds illegal

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My sell on password managers is quality of life. You never have to reset your passwords and you can use a hotkey to enter it faster than typing. Gone are the days of fat fingers.

But I get where people have an issue. It's one point of failure vs. many, but they don't realize It's easier to well secure the one than it is to not spread the same vulnerability everywhere.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

As Kramer said. Levels. If tou layer your security 2 becomes a non issue. What you have, what you know, and who you are. Which plays into 1. The 3-2-1 of backup. 3 copies of the data. 2 different media. At least 1 off site. Suprising as it might be, writing a great backup is to write your password down. I have a piece of paper with my password in a lock box in my apartment, in a safety deposit box at my bank, and at my parent's house

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