Windex007
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- Comment on He thinks they'll just GIVE him money? 1 week ago:
A lot of people will find themselves on the unpleasant side of gentrification. You think you’re priced out of the housing market now?
- Comment on Donald Trump Is a Gift to Canada’s Liberal Party 1 week ago:
Previously branded as the Canadian version of Trump, he has now shifted from his “Broken Canada” messaging to a new slogan: “Canada First.”
Imagine trying to distance yourself from the idea that you are like Trump by recycling his “America First” slogan. What a fucking idiot.
- Comment on How do I point a reverse proxy to a VPN client on my VPS? 1 week ago:
May or may not be applicable to your case, but often applications need additional configuration to work with a reverse proxy. Usually setting from what IPs it will accept forward headers from (your reverse proxy) and what the original requested host was (externally requested domain, eg: yourservice.yourdomain.com)
If your new setup has resulted in changes to either of those things, the issue might be a now-incorrect config of your apps behind the reverse proxy.
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 3 weeks ago:
You can set up a “personal cloud” on a machine in your house that you can use as a “cloud” from anywhere. There are a lot of free software options to achieve such a thing.
“Nextcloud” it a pretty broad way to do that. You can run it from an always-on desktop.
There are a ton of nerds (myself included) who do this kinda thing, and we have our nerd communities on Lemmy and elsewhere. The general term is “self hosted”.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 3 weeks ago:
JD is drawing false equivalence, to lead to the conclusion that law doesn’t matter.
Does a judge plan a military operation? No. But they can establish if it is legal.
That’s their whole job, to establish if actions violate the law. If they violate the law, they can order them to stop.
Judges don’t write the law. You don’t like the judge’s ruling? Change the law. Judges don’t write the laws, they just interpret the ones that exist.
JD is arguing that judges (and by extension, the law, and by extension the fundamental concept of the rule of law) don’t apply to him and Trump. It’s literally an argument for monarchy.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 4 weeks ago:
Oh nice, I’ll give that a shot. I was using IOTlink but the service wasn’t reliable on my machine and needed to be restarted constantly…
I’ll give HASS.agent a shot! Thanks
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 4 weeks ago:
If you get a reliable way to sleep a windows machine via MQTT (not sure if that’s a route you’d take) but I’d be super interested in hearing about it.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 4 weeks ago:
I had a similar revelation. Home assistant has a WOL component, so you can set that up for easy starts. I’ve had mixed success with mechanisms to get HA to sleep the computer, though.
Ideally I want the machine to be sleeping I’d I’m not using it.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 4 weeks ago:
That makes sense as long as you’re not writing code that needs to know how to do something as complex as …checks original post… count.
- Comment on Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit 1 month ago:
You have to get people hooked on your product, though.
If they and every other AI company just evaporated no one would really be bothered.
You can’t capitalize a market that doesn’t really exist.
- Comment on Looking for advice for media server storage expansion 2 months ago:
As others have said, running out of motherboard SATA slots doesn’t mean you need a new machine to support expansion.
You can get m2 adapter slots for more SATA drives.
If you think you’ll be building a NAS in the future, and are cheap like I am, you might consider getting a pci-e expansion card for SAS rather than SATA drives. They’re backwards compatibile with SATA drives, but open you up to being able to use SAS drives which are common in enterprise data centers. You can get used lots of those drives on eBay WAY cheaper per TB when the data centers hour them out.
I’ve got a machine with 16 SAS drives running the unRaid OS, and I’m very happy with it for data hoarding and media serving. The drives (with shipping) cost $5/TB.
- Comment on can they?? 3 months ago:
Can they SEE why…
- Comment on The Philippine vice president publicly threatens to have the president assassinated 3 months ago:
I mean, the Marcos dynasty has been assassinating political rivals for decades. It’s almost refreshing to see someone stop pretending assassinations aren’t the political reality in the Philippines.
- Comment on Petrichor 3 months ago:
I’m still missing something here. For it to be useful, I’d imagine that it would need to inform decisions, and do so where existing senses would fail.
At least in my environment, if I can smell rain, I could also just as easily use my eyes to see the cumulonimbus clouds and say “rain, due east”.
In the savanna are there scenarios where the only awareness of rain would be smelling it? Can you derive directionality at 5 parts per trillion? Does it matter?
- Comment on Susan 3 months ago:
Oof owch owie
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 3 months ago:
My mortgage was many times my yearly income.
So then you just have frequency, which is easily gamed by getting fewer larger loans. Maybe one every three to five years? At that point it really is just a mortgage with stock as collateral rather than a house.
Like, you’re not wrong in your intuition that the system is problematic. Mine (and others) point is that the devil is in the details, and they’re not trivial.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 3 months ago:
How do you establish that a loan is or isn’t “acting as income”?
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 4 months ago:
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 4 months ago:
I completely agree that if there are tools that can allow a vehicle to “see” better than a human it’s absurd not to implement them. Even if musk could make a car exactly as good as a human, that’s a low bar. It isn’t good enough.
As for humans: if you are operating a vehicle such that you could not avoid killing an unexpected person on the road, you are not safely operating the vehicle. In this case, it’s known as “over driving your headlights”, you are driving at a speed that precludes you from reacting appropriately by the time you can perceive an issue.
Imagine if it wasn’t a deer but a chunk of concrete that would kill you if struck at speed. Perhaps a bolder on a mountain pass. A vehicle that has broken down.
Does Musk’s system operate safely? No. The fact that it was a deer is completely irrelevant.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 4 months ago:
Yeah. I mean, I understand the premise, I just think it’s flawed. Like, you and I as vehicle operators use two cameras when we drive (our two eyes). It’s hypothetically sufficient in terms of raw data input.
Where it falls apart is that we also have brains which have evolved in ways we don’t even understand to consume those inputs effectively.
But most importantly, why aim for parity at all? Why NOT give our cars the tools to “see” better than a human? I want that!
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 4 months ago:
If you watch the video, the deer was standing on a strip of off coloured pavement, and also had about the same length as the dotted line. Not sure how much colour information comes through at night on those cameras.
The point here isn’t actually “should it have stopped for the deer” , it’s “if the system can’t even see the deer, how could it be expected to distinguish between a deer and a child?”
The calculus changes incredibly between a deer and a child.
- Comment on Clever, clever 4 months ago:
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your point, so forgive me, but I expect carefully reading the prompt is still orders of magnitude less effort than actually writing a paper?
- Comment on here, kitty kitty 4 months ago:
Sadam in the tail?
- Comment on Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices 4 months ago:
Before the internet, every virus infected air gapped devices.
- Comment on What inspired you to get into clean energy? 4 months ago:
I agree it’s one piece of a much larger puzzle towards global sustainability. But for me, that’s still a very abstract concept and my actions are a less than a drop in the bucket in that regard.
However, being my own power plant, owning my own power… “Seizing the means of production”, if you will, is incredibly concrete. And selfish.
If I were selling PV to rednecks, I don’t even think I’d mention climate change.
- Comment on Poggers 5 months ago:
- Comment on If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine? 5 months ago:
No it is impossible for God to do that.
- Comment on Putin pressure 5 months ago:
I’m entirely unconvinced you read what I wrote
- Comment on Putin pressure 5 months ago:
This is why buddy said they’re being pedantic.
For example, if I found and posted a plain statement of fact headline for Russia, would that be evidence that manufactured consent isn’t a thing? No. Of course not.
To look at these kinds of things, you can’t just cherry pick. These concepts are laid bare as a result of aggregating reporting. It’s a statistical thing.
So while this is an example, for the reasons posted, it’s not a great one. And you could take that feedback and post a better one. You could understand the argument. You’re completely right, so why not choose examples that don’t leave yourself vulnerable to valid criticism of your specific choices?
- Comment on LLM's are just as revolutionary as Automated Assembly Lines were. 5 months ago:
Automated assembly lines had a net positive impact on productivity though.
