tpWinthropeIII

joined 1 year ago
[–] tpWinthropeIII@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Interactive Brokers is also my next choice. Although, beware that you have to install Java runtime from Oracle in order to be able to log in to they servers. Java runtime environment has seen many beaches of security in the past, particularly the Internet was still in adolescence. Oracle claims to have solved those but this needs to be verified.

I'm waiting for Schwab mainly because, as it turns out, there is magic there. Namely, our assets are protected from online fraud. I'm sure there are limits to that protection. And that protection has applied to their normal online accounts. Will it apply to API accounts? We will have to reread the fine print when it's final.

[–] tpWinthropeIII@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yes but I've read that Schwab will have its own API. I read that within the last two months. I've also been told as much by a rep, with disclaimers of course. That was a year ago.

Either way, I expect schwab to have an API. Why else buy TD?

[–] tpWinthropeIII@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I understood that TDA accounts with API would continue to work. Did yours stop working?

I delayed moving an account to TDA with API because I wanted to wait for the first to settle.

[–] tpWinthropeIII@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The community can only read the source code, as of yet. All of the source code has been provided by a set of internal developers.

The fact that it is open source means that, if somehow two malware elements have made it into the source code, then someone will eventually report it. But this doesn't mean that two malware elements cannot be there right now.

These two malware hits on total virus scan should be communicated to the developers.

 

For NSFW images, in card mode where images are shown in full size, the default level of blur allows others to see the essence of the image. It would be nice to be able to increase the level of blur further. Perhaps three levels would be good.

[–] tpWinthropeIII@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Locally, an attacker still needs to know your password. A strong password can make it too expensive or impractical to brute force.

[–] tpWinthropeIII@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Filen.io

Works well so far, is end to end encrypted, open source, and the apps are nice and solid.

[–] tpWinthropeIII@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Works great for me. I'm running mx23 after running mx19 for a few years.

I hope mx23 is better with updates, or making easier to update, as updates broke in mx19 not long after I first installed it. My only complaint. Otherwise great.

[–] tpWinthropeIII@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Checking out !main@soccer.forum I saw very few posts by bots. Mainly saw posts by you. I saw one post coming from alien.top .

What's interesting is that only posts by bots have any comments. So maybe this could be a good way to get communities started.

Therefore, if it's okay with the admins at the following community, I'd nominate !tennis@lemmy.world

There's almost nothing happening there.

[–] tpWinthropeIII@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Did you check with the admins on lemmy first or are you bot posting without permission?

[–] tpWinthropeIII@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Take the free ones. Ignore the discounted ones, don't buy them.

There is too much concentration in your livelihood when you invest in your employer. For example, and I know too many examples of this, if your employer starts doing badly, you can not only lose your job, but they might move out of town leaving your home in a state where you may need to sell it in a depressed market. Often the shares you would have invested in the company are worth too little to sell. Your assets, your job, your home, all take a hit at the same crazy time. Not worth it.

Instead, invest in broad-market index funds. Go to Bogleheads where they discuss this and ask there. If you like momentum, arguably the greatest investor that has ever lived, Warren Buffett recommends a split between 90% SPY or IVV (S&P500) and 10% cash. The S&P500 is something like a momentum fund of the top winners of the US economy, and constantly changing.

Your employer is only trying to tie you down and have real skin in the game so that you'll work harder. Ignore the tendency.

Best of luck.

[–] tpWinthropeIII@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Let's say I have a favorite sport and there exists a sub_ named: r/.

Let's also say there already exits a Lemmy community and that community is struggling to get off the ground: !@lemmy.world

I can see a value add if your project directly helps !@lemmy.world get started; but I don't see how it does. If anything wouldn't your project compete with !@lemmy.world and therefore hinder it?

It might be different if your project directly tied r/ to !@lemmy.world but it doesn't.

 

In the Fediverse, what is the solution to instances or servers going missing?

To elaborate: The problem with commercial aggregators like Reddit, Twitter/X, Facebook, etc. is enshitification, for one reason or another. Of course, Lemmy, etc. on the Fediverse is the alternative solution, seemingly. But let's say that the hardware for a large Lemmy instance just disappears. What happens to all of the posts? Yes, old posts will still be available for a while on other instances. But, seemingly, there won't be any more updates. How is this addressed?

Moderators would of course be interested in continuing but they may not have the skills and resources to set up the hardware.

Instances/servers can disappear for many reasons: retirement, illness, confiscation, war, bungee jumping or parachuting accident, ... the list goes on.

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