BartyDeCanter

@BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There are still so many problems with this. In addition to the general fuck you, it’s my computer, and fuck the state for forcing creeping surveillance on people, and how the hell would you enforce this, how would this even work for any of the following:

  • My RaspPi, running an older version of Linux. As far as I can tell, if I compile the kernel or write some code for it I would become the OS Provider.
  • A multiuser computer
  • Retro computing
  • A home media server. Maybe a NAS, maybe a home built machine.

  It also looks like it applies to “covered application store” and from how that is defined, every public deb, apt, or yum repo is an application store, along with things like PyPI, crates.io, GitHub, and probably my own fucking git server that I share with some friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god, it’s been a long time since I took Vibrations and Waves, but I still remember filling notebook after notebook with Fourier transform equations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings, please give us your info dump.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, ok thanks! I’ve been wondering about the split 2.5/10G switches I’ve seen and wondered why. That makes a lot of sense now! I’ll take a look at them again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can log into 28 vintage computer systems in your browser for free, thanks to the Interim Computer Museum. Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  BeOS is my favorite desktop OS of all time. Nowadays I run Linux on all my machines, but there are things that it was better and faster at on a Pentium 75 with 16MB of RAM than today’s multi GHz and multi GB systems running Linux, MacOS or Windows. I’m not sure how much of that you will see in a demo like this, as is was more day to day things from back when we cared about local files and applications and weren’t permanently connected to the internet. But still, it was amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings, please give us your info dump.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In my home state there is a very small town that supposedly was going to be the recipient of a large investment that sank on the Titanic. Or possibly it was just the investors? Either way, I imagine that there must be a number of such stories of what might have been if it had made it to dock. Do you know of any?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings, please give us your info dump.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I set up my house with cat6 when I moved in. The overall setup looks like 10G fiber to the house -> 2.5G capable router -> 2.5G capable NAS running *arr stack. Also off the router is a single cat6 downstairs -> 8 port 1G unmanaged switch, which is connected to my desktop, work dock, parters dock, TV, and backhaul run to the back of house wifi extender. The desktop, both docks and wifi extender are 2.5G capable. This has been extremely reliable. I plan on upgrading the switch to a 10g capable one at some point, and then the router. Since the switch is unmanaged, is there a good way to know when it is the limiting factor and I should update it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save as PDF⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I agree, I’m not saying that PDF is some sort of document format perfection. But it is a fully open one with a spec that fits in 250 pages, as opposed to docx’s 7500(!!) page spec with undocumented binary blobs mixed in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save as PDF⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you too are a person of culture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save as PDF⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are fine, but not 100% compatible with all Office files and very heavyweight for viewing a document.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save as PDF⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I don’t want to spend several hundred dollars per year to use a proprietary program that doesn’t run on my computer just to look at some documents?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you take the tree of life showing the evolutionary branch, you won’t be able to pick off a branch that includes all of the things you would think of as “fish” but excludes all of the things you think of as “not fish”.

  The reason for that is that all land animals with a four limb body plan, including reptiles, mammals, and birds dinosaurs evolved from a family of fish called tetrapods. But there are still tetrapods in the ocean that you would think of as “fish”, and I don’t mean whales.

  Hank Green has a much more entertaining and complete discussion at youtu.be/-C3lR3pczjo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And almost all of these are fishes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A gourmet meal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, I’m pretty sure that is a jacemat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cold weather stud finder⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damnit, now I have another toy to add to my “need” list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would also add that the presidents party almost always loses votes in the midterms. This is particularly true for republicans since 2016 because a lot of trump’s supporters only care about him and won’t bother to fill out a ballot without him on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did you accomplish during the twice monthly outage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Worked on my house and contemplated finding a new server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember my copy had Buddy Holly by Weezer, and I think something called Good Times. What was the third?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Take your pick: oil, trumps feeling were hurt by the Peace Prize committee, oil, trump trying to shore up support, oil, trump seeing just how much he can get away with, trumps ego, and maybe oil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hold on a second...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did you get “he must be a woman” out of that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3188: Anyone Else Here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone else reading this in 2037?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Electric Bills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh! Planet Money just did a really good episode on this exact topic.

  It’s complicated and I recommend a full listen to the episode, but the big two reasons are:

  1. The cost of building out all the new infrastructure is partially paid for by the data centers, but the majority is paid by all customers.
  2. The demand for electricity is growing much faster than supply can be built.

  Those two, combined with the deregulation in most markets, has meant that the price for everyone is going up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, I had never considered deaf slang before. Is there somewhere to read up on this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Printing’s Biggest Scam Is Even Worse Than We Thought! (PLA-CF)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It has all of the typical YT influencer bullshit. “Wait 'till then end”, slightly faster than normal speech, reaction memes, overly long descriptions of things in order to pad in more time for ads, flat out ads in the middle, etc.

  My old person trait is that I’d rather spend five minutes reading an article than 15 minutes watching a video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How solar panels generate electricity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve gotten cheap, in fact, that the panels are sometimes less expensive than the labor and mounting hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious, what AI features do you use and why? I can’t even figure out what one is supposed to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've probably met someone who has killed a person⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, no. Most members of most militaries haven’t directly killed anyone, even during wartime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've probably met someone who has killed a person⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My ex-brother-in-law killed a family of four while DUI. The cops really screwed up the investigation so he was able to get the charges down to a minor moving violation. He never saw the inside of a jail.

  When I was in high school a friend of a friend that I knew and had hung out with at a couple of times was a serial killer/rapist. He was one of the last people executed by that state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piano man⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What?!? Someone played with the English language in order to make lyrics rhyme and scan? How terrible!! glances at Shakespeare

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love 1&2, but haven’t played any of the others. I’ve played some of The Dark Mod and it also has that same feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive started a replay of BATTLETECH (2016), this time with all of the DLC. I need something turn based for now and this really scratches that itch. I love how good the gameplay is and the gritty graphics fit the setting so well.