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@ricdeh@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed this simple and easy to print cable holder⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everything revolves around money. It is a hobby, in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah 4K is wonderful. The higher the pixel density, the better the display (for me at least)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mafs innit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s some weird 120° though. I guess 0° is the cake lying face down?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peace at last⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you write this yourself? Amazing! Star Trek and GNU/Linux cross-wet dream

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone ever seen a "10A" USB-C cable and can tell what their purpose is?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In what world are you living where 10 A is on the low side for general-purpose electronics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How many support LineageOS? Answer: a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  macOS is definitely Unix. In the literal sense that it is actually certified (unlike FreeBSD, for example), and it is very much Unix-y under the hood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Completed Assassin's Creed Blackflag And I'm Crying Why It "ENDED"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm I love Rogue, it’s such an emotional journey and to me the most compelling and interesting story-wise, seeing an Assassin turn into a Templar and underlining the hubris of the Order of Assassins

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unix is literally the most important operating system (specification) family on the planet. Even bigger than M$ Windows. You’ve got all the Android phones, all the Apple iPhones, macOS, FreeBSD and all the GNU/Linux distributions. Unix-like installed base is by far the largest of any on the planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. They tried desperately to build up an IT economy and therefore wanted to appease all the tech companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But that is not the comparison they drew, and you know that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dumbed down hardware? No, the hardware of smartphones is very impressive. It is the software that is dumbed down in the sense that it takes control away from the user or operator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How did any generation not grow up with the technology as it evolved? Gen X did not invent computers, nor did the Boomers, but every generation made valuable contributions, just as Gen Z will. Again, it is the actions and ideas of gifted individuals that count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a very enlightened take. As @nednobbins@lemm.ee correctly put it, tech savviness is the property of an individual and not of a generation. There are non-savvy Zoomers, just as there are non-savvy people from your generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the bitwise AND of subnet masks and IP addresses redundant?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s nostupidquestions after all :( I am not saying that anyone ever did anything worse, my question is aiming at the answer for why the current approach is the way that it is, on a technical level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the bitwise AND of subnet masks and IP addresses redundant?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, I agree. Though one could make a hypothetical argument for expanding the array dynamically when needed. Of course, due to the varying sizes of NIDs resulting from CIDR (which you correctly mentioned), you would need to have a second array that can store the length of each NID, with 5 bits per element, leaving you with 3 bits “saved” per IP address.

  That can end up wasting more memory than the 32-bit per NID approach, e.g., when the host identifier is smaller than 5 bits. And there’s the slowness of memory allocation and copying from one array to another that comes on-top of that.

  I think that it is theoretically possible to deploy a NID-extracting and tracking program that is a tiny bit more memory efficient than the 32-bit implementation, but would probably come at a performance overhead and depend on you knowing the range of your expected IP addresses really well. So, not useful at all, lol

  Anyway, thanks for your contributions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the bitwise AND of subnet masks and IP addresses redundant?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Though I would like to clarify that maybe my wording was a bit confusing. By “string of bits”, I did not mean the term as it is typically used in programming language environments, but rather a raw binary sequence, e.g., the first 24 bits of an IP address, therefore allocating 3 bytes of memory for storing the NID.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the bitwise AND of subnet masks and IP addresses redundant?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, that makes sense. Thank you.

• Is the bitwise AND of subnet masks and IP addresses redundant?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As many others have already said, Lemmy is fully indexable by search engines. In fact, in this very community there have been posts about Lemmy content being above other results from more prominent sites like Reddit for certain topics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What? There is no “Fediverse objection” to indexing by search engines. Who told you that? Lemmy is actively being indexed and is showing up when you search for posts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black and white are condensed rainbows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean? “Rainbows” relate to frequency while shadows correspond to intensity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that is true. Unfortunately, as I see it, this tragedy once again reinforces my belief that many humans can be so stupid and ideologically blinded that they forego any rationality and connection to reality. No rational person could ever want Trump to be their candidate unless they had something to gain from it. Almost no one has anything to gain from a potential second term except some schemers and ultra rich.

  This seems to be an inherent flaw in present-day democracies. I am from Germany, and we are experiencing the same thing with an alt-right party that is set to win the most votes in the 2025 election, with an ultra conservative party likely being second (or maybe their positions will be flipped, it does not matter effectively). Germany, just like the U.S., is on the cusp of losing freedom and democracy. And once it’s gone, it will be a hard fight to get it back.

  Anyway, for future attempts at democracies, I think we need even stronger constitutions that make such stances and policies like the ones from the Republican party illegal, and we need institutions that are willing to enforce such constitutions. Furthermore, rigorous civic education should be implemented so that the populace becomes less susceptible to populism. Finally, in order to qualify for the privilege to vote, would-be voters should pass some kind of (equity-compatible) test every election year that assesses whether they still possess critical and rational thinking capabilities.

  But I imagine that the most effective measure would be to treat conservatism and related ideologies the way that fascism / national socialism is treated in Germany. Exclude radical conservative and nazi opinions from the right to freedom of expression and make advocation for them punishable. Furthermore, outlaw all political parties along those ideological lines.

  These measures are not pretty, but as it stands today, much of the votership in Western democracies is just not qualified for partaking in national elections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is assasin's creed origins good?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, I agree with the sentiment and all, but don’t you think that your comment is a little petty when you are not contributing to OP’s question and instead hijack the post to push an agenda?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What? 1 °C is absolutely a fine enough stepping for everything the average human will want to convey about temperature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I have an account on Mastodon.Social, and another account on PieFed.Social are they technically on the same instance, since they're both on .Social?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think in your analogy, the county should be variable instead of the state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am very opposed to this. It means surrendering all trust in pictures to Big Tech. If at some time only photos signed by Sony, Samsung, etc. are considered genuine, then photos taken with other equipment, e.g., independently manufactured cameras or image sensors, will be dismissed out of hand. If, however, you were to accept photos signed by the operating system on those devices regardless of who is the vendor, that would invalidate the entire purpose because everyone could just self-sign their pictures. This means that the only way to effectively enforce your approach is to surrender user freedom, and that runs contrary to the Free Software Movement and the many people around the world aligned with it. It would be a very dystopian world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads spotted exploring ads, but says 'no immediate timeline' toward monetization⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand this metaphor. Is it about frog breeding for later eating? Why else would you want to heat your pond, irrespective of the frog. And why is there a greater incentive to heat the pond when there’s no frog, and vice versa? So many questions!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Friend, your brain is also just a neural network. “Advanced statistics” are happening in your head every second. There is nothing exceptional about humans, save for the immense complexity of our neural network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Few suggestions for lemmy world : posting on profile and live chat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that “live chat” is fitting for Lemmy. It is an aggregator in the first place. There are already other FOSS services for live chatting, such as Matrix. IMHO, adding such a feature to Lemmy would be out of the scope of the project and probably result in a bad and dysfunctional implementation.