SkaveRat
@SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 4 hours ago:
but what if they glare at me very menacingly, surely I can then shoot tear gas, pepper shot, beat people, and shoot non-lethal rounds at them, right?
- Comment on hell yea, brother 20 hours ago:
Letting the fish fuck you?
- Comment on hell yea, brother 20 hours ago:
Life, uh, finds a way
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 22 hours ago:
Annoyingly, already registered
- Comment on Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time. 1 day ago:
I’d have expected then meeting by chance at a conference at some point
- Comment on wtf 2 days ago:
“ah shit, it’s that weird human again. Better hide or it will get awkward”
- Comment on wtf 2 days ago:
involved just wounding an animal
not even wounding. Just persistent tracking and following. Most prey animals can run away quickly, but need lots of rest.
Humans can just keep going. And going. And going. Until the prey just is too exhausted to run.
- Comment on lik lik lik 4 days ago:
Murder mittens
- Comment on XMPP vs everything else 1 week ago:
I never really did very much with IRC on a protocol level. I just know that it’s ultra simple, and suffers similar problems as xmpp: it’s not really meant for multidevices with a shared backlog.
I’m sure there are projects to enhance IRC with proper e2e encryption and chat sync, but you really want something that has modern usage in mind from the ground up. IRC and xmpp are just very 90s.
note: it’s now been a couple years since I last took a deeper dive into xmpp and matrix, so things might have changed. But especially for xmpp, I can’t really see how without breaking compatibility. The protocol is just very… special in its own way
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 1 week ago:
Impressive that it has the resolution to identify fonts
- Comment on XMPP vs everything else 1 week ago:
Eh, only if you squint reaaaaally hard
In practice, you will run in constant compatibility problems. Let alone barely functional multi device support
- Comment on XMPP vs everything else 1 week ago:
Granted, it has been a couple years and it could be a bit better, but XMPP is a horrible, horrible protocol to work with. From the ground up.
Matrix might be bloated nowadays, but that’s nothing to the horribleness of xmpp.
source: I wrote the first xmpp/matrix bridge in 2015
- Comment on this thing fucking sucks 1 week ago:
Same
- Comment on Radio transmissions 1 week ago:
Coming out in March
Very excited
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 1 week ago:
Spoken like someone who didn’t work with the xmpp protocol
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 1 week ago:
Now we know you’re not a mole
- Comment on Fans spot bizarre mistake on Disneyland poster... sparking theories the company used AI to create it 1 week ago:
dailymail?
really?
- Comment on We have to solve the money problem! 1 week ago:
Fuck you :)
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 1 week ago:
Always remember that the vomiting emoji looks like it’s sucking Shrek’s green dong
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 1 week ago:
And when the choctaw faced trouble during the pandemic, Ireland returned the favor
- Comment on Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed. 2 weeks ago:
it’s on archive.org
web.archive.org/web/…/server-hosting
Server hosting This is a work in progress Slrpnk.net is hosted by F-hub.org, a volunteer driven and non-commercial effort to host federated community services in a resource efficient and ethical way. F-hub.org grew out of a community of open-source game developers (freegamedev.net) that has existed since the early 2000s. All the servers are operated and maintained (as a hobby) by one of the founding members and are currently located on the Azores in Portugal. Connectivity is provided through a dedicated high-speed fibreglass connection. Hardware The F-hub.org servers are based on second-hand consumer PC and data-centre hardware, but optimized for low energy consumption. Battery backup power is provided and data is stored with triple redundancy (off-site backups are still a work in progress). Electricity is currently provided by the utility grid (about 60% green-energy, mostly from a geothermal power-plant) but it is a work in progress to upgrade to a on-site solar PV system for near 100% renewable power. Slrpnk.net itself currently runs on a dedicated 6th gen Intel CPU server with 8 threads, 16GB RAM and SATA SSD storage in raid configuration. Image uploads are stored on a large HDD raid array. All data is snapshotted and transferred for backup to a second shared server on daily basis. External services Given how difficult it is to have outgoing email accepted by the large email providers, all emails are currently routed through an external SMTP server hosted by OVH in France (same as the domain registration and DNS routing). There are backup plans to move the servers to a co-location data-center owned by Altice, should this be required for scaling. However, monthly rent of rack-space is quite costly (starts at around 300€/month), thus this will require a substantial regular donation base to be possible.
- Comment on Lemm.ee communities migration megathread 2 weeks ago:
ah, makes sense. didn’t know that mbin hides the instance. Maybe as an additional link after the current one?
In any case: thanks for the work so far! Great service
- Comment on Lemm.ee communities migration megathread 2 weeks ago:
for the links to a discussion, yes. But for a link to the community which has been decided, it’s probably more user friendly to just do the exclamation mark style instead of a normal link
- Comment on Lemm.ee communities migration megathread 2 weeks ago:
Any chance of using the !-format for the links in the list? makes it easier to just visit and subscribe
- Comment on My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 3 weeks ago:
man, I’m going to steal that analogy. it’s perfect
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
the hard part is being able to export them from some apps (looking at you, authy…)
- Comment on Want a humanoid, open source robot for just $3,000? Hugging Face is on it. 3 weeks ago:
Every robot is a sexbot if you’re brave enough
- Comment on \( ・ω・)/ 3 weeks ago:
that in terms of
- Comment on \( ・ω・)/ 3 weeks ago:
human compatible, you say?
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 3 weeks ago:
Hard to calculate exactly.
Latency is lower through the atmosphere than in glass (I thought that air was worse, but turns out it’s not. Makes sense. Glass is solid after all)
So it could be even closer than that. But there’s also the problem of the SL base station having to do the last bit of the route through fiber to the destination again. Do it also depends on where the base station is located in regards to the destination
