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- Comment on Cloudflare is bad. Youre right. 4 days ago:
It looks like Quad9 supports DoH: quad9
- Comment on The Power of Sand Batteries -- Revolutionizing Energy Storage... - YouTube 1 month ago:
While it can be used in localized electrical power generation, this isn’t exactly best suited for just that. According to the video, the typical household uses 60% of their energy towards heating on average. This type of battery would already be storing thermal energy in the form that you need for this, so any conversion losses would already be accounted for; it would just be radiative losses while distributing the heat.
- Comment on Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window 2 months ago:
Maybe a tilde file would work? You could add all of the relevant data there and when translating between one language or the other it would prune any comments or unsupported features as the output is generated.
- Comment on Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window 2 months ago:
Oh, my mistake. Disregard me then.
- Comment on Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window 2 months ago:
That’s hilarious. I didn’t know that
- Comment on Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window 2 months ago:
I think the difference is that it sounds they are just looking for something JSON-like, just enough to edit and save a change. It might not be to be valid.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 3 months ago:
Agreed 100%. They should be forced to add the cost of handling and recycling the material. Honestly, this should’ve been done with all plastic from the get go too.
- Comment on Smaug-72B-v0.1: The New Open-Source LLM Roaring to the Top of the Leaderboard 4 months ago:
I’m pretty sure you can load the model using RAM like another poster said. Here’s a used server under $600 that could theoretically run it: ebay.
- Comment on Smaug-72B-v0.1: The New Open-Source LLM Roaring to the Top of the Leaderboard 4 months ago:
I think I read somewhere that you’ll basically need 130 GB of RAM to load this model. You could probably get some used server hardware for less than $600 to run this.
- Comment on Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware | Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication 5 months ago:
You’re right, something like what I described wouldn’t necessarily need networking to work like that. However, think if you had to manage 100 or more of these devices for people in an assembly plant. Deploying new torque specs to all of the workers’ tools wirelessly would be much faster than having them bring them in individually after each batch job had been completed.
- Comment on Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware | Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication 5 months ago:
For efficiency and quality of service. If you have to tighten a hundreds of fasteners with specific amounts of torque then this would make the work go much more quicker than using a manual torque wrench.
- Comment on Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware | Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication 5 months ago:
This really isn’t shocking news. Tons of industrial devices have poor or out of date security. This is why you always segment off your Operational Technology on your network.
- Comment on Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents 5 months ago:
And yet they are still generally more efficient than ICE vehicles.
- Comment on China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol 5 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they’re taking about Xi.
- Comment on AI-screened eye pics diagnose childhood autism with 100% accuracy 6 months ago:
For real.
It looks like the actual number of candidates were 958 and only 15% of that number were reserved for testing, the rest were used in AI training data. So in reality only 144 people were tested with the AI and there’s no information from the article on how many people were formally diagnosed of this subset.
- Comment on How to take ‘forever’ out of forever chemicals 6 months ago:
I think the key is using argon bubbles as a method of nucleation for the PFAS as well as an efficient medium for the plasma to be carried to the chemical. I’d imagine it would function like a neon light with water and a bubbler in it.
- Comment on How to take ‘forever’ out of forever chemicals 6 months ago:
It seems like they are still researching the actual effect but it’s sounds more that it’s breaking the chemical bonds apart by using electrical energy on concentrated areas of the chemical. My hypothesis is that it’s like how electrolysis breaks the bonds between hydrogen and oxygen in water.
- Comment on I can barely tell the difference between 60 and 165 hz on my monitor 7 months ago:
You may have to set the refresh rate manually to go higher than 60hz. Things should look much smoother.
Run ‘xrandr -q’ and see if it gives you multiple refresh rates for your displays.
Also, what GPU are you using?
- Comment on [Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful 7 months ago:
In my mind it makes sense that the more extreme people tend to gravitate from public circles and tend to land in places that have less moderation and more freedom of speech unfortunately.
- Comment on [Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful 7 months ago:
For real. I didn’t realize how bad all of the YouTube alternatives are. They are just flooded with neo-nazis and bigots. It just sucks with how we really don’t have much choice other than to use something like newpipe.
- Comment on Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs 8 months ago:
From what it’s describing, it sounds like it would only impact Linux computers that allow SMB1 access, such as domain-joined systems with samba access allowed. It sounds like this would target mainly enterprise Linux deployments.
- Comment on Kids Online Safety Act will allow Attorney Generals to Censor the News. 8 months ago:
It’s not different for the Internet. We’ve always had people that have been opposed to ideologies separate from their own. Book bans aren’t anything new and neither are restrictions to free speech. Nazi book burnings and the US Red Scare are extreme examples of this. It’s all a symptom of nationalism and ethnocentrism, just a different place/time/media. What really sucks is that the nationalists have a lot of power now all over the world, and we’re slowly seeing the results of that.
- Comment on The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. 8 months ago:
I’d honestly say it’s a bit of both. The regulations affecting this are pretty terrible and allow for the loopholes that are creating the issues we’re seeing today. But from my perspective, reducing these regulations won’t solve the problem. I would argue that we need both incentives and regulations that address this directly. That way, any companies that are still producing larger vehicles just to shirk regulations would be doing it at their own expense and for (hopefully) a niche market that still wants larger vehicles.
- Comment on The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. 8 months ago:
The more I read about them, the worse it gets.
It seems like auto manufacturers are using vehicle footprint as a means to reach higher safety statistics instead of actually designing safer vehicles, which in turn directly impacts gas efficiency.
It’s like a rat race to the biggest consumer trucks we now have on the road; the more truck-class vehicles we have, the less safe it is for cars. So they make bigger vehicles to accommodate and the cycle continues.
- Comment on Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor 9 months ago:
The originally posted article looks like it linked to the older version of this malware. I just linked the newer version of the report from yesterday that I found through a different article.
- Comment on Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor 9 months ago:
Here’s a link to the actual Trendmicro article: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/23/i/earth-lusca-employs-new-linux-backdoor.html.
Not sure why this article linked the version from 2 years ago.
Also an article with more info: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-sprysocks-linux-malware-used-in-cyber-espionage-attacks/.
- Comment on Intel announces Thunderbolt 5 with double the bandwidth (40 Gbps to 80 Gbps) 9 months ago:
Looking at Wikipedia, it seems like USB 4 has a 120Gbps asymmetric mode as well. That’s wild!
- Comment on How Dead Is Moore's Law? (Sabine Hossenfelder) 10 months ago:
Sure thing. The trans video that trashgirlfriend mentioned and the hydrogen videos were the ones I had in mind. I haven’t watched them recently but they both were missing information that would make the videos slant in one direction. The trans video was especially disingenuous and upsetting to be honest.
- Comment on How Dead Is Moore's Law? (Sabine Hossenfelder) 10 months ago:
Sorry, but Sabine Hossenfelder is a no go for me. In several of her videos, she cherry-picks her sources to fill the narrative she wants to portray and misleads the viewer into thinking what she says as pure facts rather than her own take. She actually makes me question if she’s a right wing shill.
- Comment on Best secure router for home use? 10 months ago:
Ohh, sorry I misread your comment. Yeah, 2.5G WAN is a little trickier unless you go with something enterprise grade it seems.