RaoulDook
@RaoulDook@lemmy.world
- Comment on Make sure you know what your kid is getting themselves into 20 hours ago:
Hell yeah, this is the best way. Full spectrum natural effect without combustion.
- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 4 days ago:
Oligarchs trying to buy up all the digital real estate so they can be the digital landlords of computerland
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Great use of tech and knowledge. Video-recording glasses wearers can’t complain about this because they are sending the Bluetooth signals to be detected.
We need to scale this idea up - apps to detect the known types of signals emitting from camera systems like Flock, Ring, and other similar mass surveillance garbage.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 5 days ago:
Sounds like it came from that article about the new kind of sodium batteries with vanadium that are doing that desalination business. I was describing the general technology rather than that specific new one in the article.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 6 days ago:
Sodium-ion batteries are not hype though, they are in production use in multiple industries already. They are generally superior to Lithium based batteries in all regards, with the exception of having a bit lower energy density. An equivalent LiFePO4 battery might be 70-80% of the size for the same storage. It’s not a big deal for large applications like cars and solar storage.
- Comment on Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon 6 days ago:
TLDR = money matters more than morals and safety to them
- Comment on Floating turbine towers above — the S1500 hovers to harvest wind at 131 feet 6 days ago:
The voltage being sent down would have to be really high to avoid loss going through such a long and probably thin cable. Like the difference in voltage loss going through a 100’ romex cable of 10-gauge wire with 12v DC vs 120v AC - you just can’t do it with 12v DC because the loss is far too high, but it’s no problem with 120v AC.
Magnify those losses times 500 for your 5000’ cable… maybe you need a 5000v line… then you have a dangerous high-voltage line flying around in the air. High-voltage transmission lines can arc to ground if they find a path, even though they’re insulated wires.
But I guess those guys probably know about that stuff too.
- Comment on Floating turbine towers above — the S1500 hovers to harvest wind at 131 feet 6 days ago:
It’s not that hard to comprehend both measurement systems. Both are valid and it’s up to the author to choose how they want to express their figures. You can send them a complaint if you want, but complaining about their measurements here isn’t going to change anything.
- Comment on 29 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us 1 week ago:
High-quality meme, 9/10
- Comment on Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I hear tell them cameras is full of valuable minerals like gold and copper!
- Comment on CONTACT LEFT! 1 week ago:
Dogs and cats also are great for helping you notice things, you can watch them and see what their super hearing directs their attention to. That’s why hunters sometimes use pointer dogs and stuff.
- Comment on Two sides to every story 1 week ago:
Uncle Baby Billy’s Healing Elixir will cure your ailments, even covids!
- Comment on Every so often, it's important for our community to pause, heal, and reflect together on what's truly important and why we're all here. 1 week ago:
Potatoes are just overgrown beans. They grew so big they lost most of that healthy bean fiber.
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 2 weeks ago:
That’s right, I forgot about that. It was 23.1 GB compressed for the “enwiki - pages-articles-multistream” version that includes pictures.
Uncompressed and set up with XOWA viewer it’s about 70 GB
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 2 weeks ago:
No, the data itself is inherently valuable even when it’s a little bit dated. We don’t need daily updates to learn about historical events, methods of irrigation, 20th century election results, mineral composition of transistors and diodes, and millions of other well-documented topics. It’s an incredible resource of collected knowledge with immense inherent value.
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 2 weeks ago:
It’s a good thing that lots of people have full backups of wikipedia.
I saved a copy for myself at the start of 2025. It took about 23GB of space if I’m remembering right. Maybe I’ll burn a blu-ray copy for long term storage - Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like creepy spyware
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 4 weeks ago:
Everything in this post is wrong, actually. But if you buy shit parts to build your desktop, you’ll have a shitty desktop.
Simple answer is at the motherboard level - you look at your motherboard’s future expansion capability and if you started with a good foundation you can do years of upgrades. Also your computer case needs to be big enough to fit extra stuff, full ATX motherboard size is great.
For example I have a VR gaming rig that runs VR games well on DDR3 RAM and a Sandy Bridge CPU, because it has a decent modern GPU and enough CPU cores + RAM.
- Comment on Installing **self-hostable** services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ??? 4 weeks ago:
Technically no, because it’s cloud-hosted infrastructure. Businesses usually call this IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service.
But it’s still a good way to build your own services that you can possibly trust more than public cloud services. IMO posts about setting up your own trusted services could be valuable content for the community even if you set it up on the cloud.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 5 weeks ago:
But you must consider the possibility that heroin and brain worms damaged his brain, contributing to the stupidity, and his own stupid choices led to those circumstances that possibly increased his stupidity. Thus he remains open to criticize on all those topics.
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 5 weeks ago:
Maybe you’d call that a black hole instead of bubble
- Comment on Reproducible alternatives to nextcloud? 1 month ago:
Docker compose Nextcloud could allow you to define your standard Nextcloud server in a yml config file that’s reusable.
Example near the bottom of this page - hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud/
- Comment on TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker 1 month ago:
There’s certainly more to it than just a gimmick. One of the most important things is web filtering for content, which is a useful parental control because children should not be exposed to porn, graphic violence, and other types of mentally harmful content. Controls may not be able to stop everything but they can definitely hinder and slow down the process at least.
- Comment on Can they???? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
Maybe they think they’re requiring verification, but they underestimate the Internet
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 2 months ago:
Had to “upgrade” my work laptop to 11 for security support. Nothing about it is better. Almost everything is slower, and many common operations take more steps to complete on 11 vs 10.
Absolute fuckin’ garbage.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 3 months ago:
Trusting any of that shit is the problem.
- Comment on Steam Machine is huge for indie development 3 months ago:
I think it’s “huge” for Linux gaming in general and for the general health of the gaming industry. It’s a Linux PC in disguise as a cool form-factor Steam console. I hope it drives more developers of all types to build Linux support instead of just Windows.
The timing of this is also great, with people getting forcibly dunked into the bullshit that is Windows 11 after the end of Windows 10 support. If all my games worked on Linux, I’d have no use for Windows at all.
- Comment on A hypothesis 3 months ago:
I started out with old Macs running System 7, and it was great. I had several good games installed from floppy disks and found some great shareware games online when we got our first modem and internet
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 3 months ago:
Just a little too unlikely to worry about. I’d rather defend my own words in court if it came to that. Yeah I said that shit, and it was fucking true and you know it.
