Treczoks

@Treczoks@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not. Our wireless communications, with the rare exception of large radio station, is rather weak - on purpose.

  You get more radiation from a summer afternoon outside than from sitting in the same room as the router for decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What editor or IDE do you use and why?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  KEIL, because I develop embedded systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Five years in, they either grew into a real couple, or they are about to murder each other. In the latter case, well, having good, new knives could be advantageous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi, kiddie!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you would not mind, before you dump them, hand them to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, with what would you replace the materials of LEGO bricks?

  This is not a trick question, but one that LEGO has already spent millions on research on. They found an oil-free alternative to the soft plastic used for leaves and other plant parts, but are stuck on other types of plastic they use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So it begins...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That was a quick march from Germany 1933 to Soviet Union 1940. If he could now please move to Berlin, April 30, really really fast…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So it begins...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I was wrecking my brain. I knew it was Stalin in the original, but could not remember who they had removed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  YT is only usable with ad blockers nowadays. And then it does not make a difference if you have a subscription or not.

  I would subscribe YT if they had a reasonably priced ad free tier, but if it does not make a difference, I’ll watch it for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe it's necessary to ask the question...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I roast the roast, as it’s proper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe it's necessary to ask the question...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not British, so I don’t cook my roast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to at work, but I’m using some win-only software with a f-ed up licence manager that I cannot stuff into a VM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So I could have a usable machine at work? Good. I am forced to upgrade from win7 to win11 in the lab, and current win11 crap did not appeal to me at all. And it has WSL, so at least it can actually be used for work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get to Santa Claus beard status⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, story time:

  Our town twinning committee (Where a good friend is president and my wife is member of the management team) did this St Nick thing for ages. Two years ago, the original St Nick retired, and the quest was on to find a new one. The committees’ president even asked her husband if he would glue on a beard - and the reply was rather negative ;-)

  I was blessfully unaware of those struggles, until one fateful day, when our families met about something completely unrelated, Monica exclaimed: “YOU have a beard!”. Well, I had one for decades by then, yes, thank you that you noticed…

  And thus I was volunteered. It is a rather interesting job, actually. I don’t get paid, I get reimbursed the money for the fuel of my car, and the ferry and hotel is sponsored, but those are always quite tough days. On top of that comes loads of preparations like asking for donations, collecting those donations, buying sweets for the kids, packing up everything (I’ve got a big car, but it’s stuffed to the brim every time!), and the occasional “meet the press”.

  I’m usually visiting elementary schools and kindergardens, spooling off a two-pronged spiel: The start is always “Who do you think I represent?” (I’m not St Nick, I act him, thus avoiding issues like “Santa Claus is/is not real”). I tell them about St Nick, that he was a real person, where and when he lived, what he did and what made him special, and his relation to Christmas and the gift-giving tradition. The second part is telling the kids that we are from another country, which they might have noticed from my foreign accent and the German carol my “Angels” and I sang when we came in. According to the kids, I’ve come from about everywhere in the world. I then tell them about town twinning, that it is a kind of friendship between cities, and that people knowing each other and who become friends is good for a peaceful world.

  Last year I had two special visits: A christmas party from an organisation for (mostly mentally) disabled people. And wow, they had fun! And a visit to a childrens hospice, which was not easy, dealing with kids who will probably be dead when I visit next time…

  One of the funniest moments was on my first trip. I was through with my spiel and asked if they had any questions. One little girl piped up: “Is that beard real?” I happily exclaimed “This is the question I was waiting for from the very beginning!”. I went to her, bent down, and told her to give it a try and pull. You should have seen that face. And she accepted that it is real without pulling ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get to Santa Claus beard status⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Until summer, I keep my beard trimmed to 30mm. Then I let it grow freely until December, where I get a professional trim before I put on my costume and mitra, take my staff, and start being St. Nicolas. This is not about having a long beard, it is about having a full beard instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germany | Major evacuation in Cologne after second world war bombs discovered⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone living two cities over, I can tell you this is a real and big thing. While German specialists still disarm WW2 unexploded ordinance about three to four times a day, and there is no week where there is not at least a minor evacuation because of this somewhere, this one is big. Since 08:00 local the roads are closed, nobody gets (back) in, police, firemen, etc are going from door to door to alert people living under rocks.

  This is more or less in the city center of the biggest city in the state; if not a large part of the area (1km radius) was the river Rhine, it would be way more than the 20k people that need to move out. On top of that, there are 58 hotels, a hospital, senior citizens homes, loads of companies and factories, schools, kindergardens. And everyone must go.

  Three bridges crossing the river are in the evacuation area, most importantly the Hohenzollern bridge, which not only connects the two big central train stations (Cologne has one on both sides of the Rhine), it is one of the most frequented east-west connections for trains in this part of Germany. The western station, which is the official Central Station of Cologne, will still be accessible, as it is just outside the evacuation area, but it will only have access to the track network from one side. The other station Köln/Deutz is closed, and with it the north/south train links along the river Rhine

  The famous Cologne Cathedral is just outside the evacuation area. But a lot of historic buildings, museums, theaters, the Philhamony are inside the zone.

  Nobody can say when this will be over, as they can only start to disarm the bombs as soon as everyone has left the evacuation zone, and there are always some people who refuse to leave and have to be forced out, which takes a lot of time and efforts. I would not be surprised if they could start the actual disarmamant process sometime this night.

  And the bombs themselves have been extraordinary, too: Two unexploded bombs with tricky fuses and a metric ton of explosives each right next to each other, with a smaller (500kg) one not far off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read that article. They used something they called an “MRI for AIs”, and checked e.g. how an AI handled math questions, and then asked the AI how it came to that answer, and the pathways actually differed. While the AI talked about using a textbook answer, it actually did a different approach. That’s what I remember of that article.

  But yes, it exists, and it is science, not TicTok

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a more convenient way to do this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Make it a good wine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if the also take the full legal responsibility for the AIs actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bee Aware!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you unfocus your eyes, it's Boston baked beans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So the Americans suddenly remember when they seriously started shooting on Nazis…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bee Aware!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A bee expert is present? They might think of getting maybe another one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Short answer: Yes.

  There are actually so-called “three phase combs” for the fuse panels: Sample Image. You put your fuses on a hat rail (in this case eight fuses, but those combs are available in different sizes), you stick that comb in from below and tighten up the screws. Then you connect the three phases to the connections on the left, or, in some fuse boxes, screw them right onto the bus bars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At the moment, I would not trust the US farther than I can toss Trump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Happened not long ago that, for the same reason, police raided a tomography & XRay clinic. Guess what, an MRI needs serious power to work…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If a business cannot survive without breaking the law, then it is not a business but a criminal organisation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These-phase 400V is the standard house connection here in Europe. Wall sockets are 240V/16A (any phase to neutral), but we also have devices running on three phases, like the oven or the geyser in the kitchen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely normal here. Three phases, now 400 instead of 380V back then, 64A. Standard house connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A former coworker was abroad most of the time. Still, his power meter showed lots of usage during his absence. A tenant in the same house had used such a cord to leech power across the common laundry room.

  Now that coworker knew his way about electricity. So instead of the 220V between common and a phase, he rewired his washing machine socket to two different phases, aka 380V, and left for a week.

  When he came back, he saw a number of kitchen- and other appliances waiting for trash collection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. Simply that. If a business is not sustainable without breaking the law, it is not a business, it’s a criminal organisation.