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- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 3 weeks ago:
What would be the utility for someone, who cares about privacy and currently uses Signal and email for communication?
Matrix is more like discord, no phone numbers, just email, and you can make big groups with different channels within. More meant for communities then something like Signal, that’s mostly for 1:1 conversation or small groups
What advantage would it give me over other services? Keeping the discord example i said above, no tracking, possibility to have end to end encryption, and open source code, along with the ability of having different instances that can communicate to each other, just like here on lemmy, so if you don’t trust anyone else you can run your own instance
Is Matrix anything good already, or is it something with potential that’s still fully in development?
It’s good already, but as with many other privacy focused services it lacks a wide adoption, so most of the communities there are about privacy, Linux and that type of stuff
How tech savvy does one need to be to use Matrix?
The most used client, Element, is IMO very easy to use, you can directly register through there, and you get the choice of choosing between the official matrix.org instance (which on certain occasions is laggy due to the many people using it), or other instances
- Comment on Candy 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
the concept of homework was dumb in the first place anyways
- Comment on bitey 3 weeks ago:
Given:
Bite Force of T. rex: 45,000 Newtons
Jaw Closing Distance: Approximately 0.3 meters
Energy=Force×Distance=45,000N×0.3m=13,500Joules
Say we have a typical 10w led lightbulb, how much could it power it for?
Time= Power/Energy=13,500J / 10W=1,350 seconds, or approximately 22 and a half minutes with a single T-Rex chomp, assuming 100% conversion efficiency
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
the sequestering step is actually kinda easy, it’s the sun shield that’s the hard part
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 4 weeks ago:
many people who work from home have flexible work hours (they can decide if to work in the evening or morning) and so they need to be reachable at any time, even it it might be off hour
- Comment on 3D printed 'suicide pod' used by a human for the first time 1 month ago:
the 3d printing part is only aesthetical, people have been taking their lifes by just using a bag or whatever else can contain the nitrogen from a tank
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 1 month ago:
1000°C aint that much, a blowtorch could easily reach that
- Comment on Horseshoe crabs be like 2 months ago:
- Comment on Bim 2 months ago:
am I dumb or just not getting it? where is BIM written
- Comment on Happy Weekend boiz 2 months ago:
methylated spirits are the ones used for cleaning, lab grade ethanol needs to be just ethanol or some reactions might fail, however in some badly managed labs you might find mislabeled stuff and have contaminants
still, you shouldn’t drink it anyways, as some producers use the highly carcinogenic benzene to make pure 100% ethanol, as distillation with water can only get you up to the 95,6% azeotrope, and some benzene might make it’s way in the product
- Comment on Happy Weekend boiz 2 months ago:
he’s lucky to have a big enough channel to be able to afford 40000$ NMR machines, so a couple beakers aren’t that much of an expense for much more safety
but as a home chemist, there is NO WAY I’m getting new beakers every time I wanna do edible chem, especially pyrex branded ones like Nile does. Lab equipment, even basic glassware, is ridiculously overpriced
- Comment on Happy Weekend boiz 2 months ago:
could also check for urea content, or proteins, but sure why not drink it
- Comment on Happy Weekend boiz 2 months ago:
rinse -> acetic acid -> rinse -> Acqua regia-> Rinse -> Pirahna solution -> Rinse -> 500°C oven -> Rinse
I would then drink from it without even worrying
- Comment on Happy Weekend boiz 2 months ago:
distilled water, lab grade ethanol, a couple drops of limonene, and there you go
- Comment on Worst PC hardware trends that disappeared 2 months ago:
right, you fan disabile them using their unique software which you have to install for every component, signing away your life (cough cough Disney) in the process
- Comment on Cords 2 months ago:
and you’d be right. If you are sure about it, and you know how it works, just make it yourself, so that you don’t need to put anyone else in danger of getting sued
- Comment on Cords 2 months ago:
in AC, which is what home electricity uses, the polarity is constantly switching, from + , then - , then + , and so on, 50 or 60 times a second depending on where you live. This means that, unlike batteries, it’s symmetrical, and you can just splice the cables and attach two male plugs together and they will work regardless, even if you somehow attach the neutral to live and live to neutral, in fact in many countries you can actually buy just the plug without the cable and then you can assemble it yourself in whatever way you please.
of course tho, this should be done only if you have a decent understanding of electricity, and it should not be attempted by someone who lacks those competences, hence why hardware stores “gatekeep” male to male plugs. If you really need one and are sure you understand how they work, you can probably make one yourself.
- Comment on xkcd #2972: Helium Synthesis 3 months ago:
what do they even need all that helium for?
- Comment on X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum 3 months ago:
I’m just sad we aren’t at calling it “formerly facebook” instead of meta
- Comment on Just why?? 3 months ago:
FYI, the coin smell isn’t actually the metal, but it’s an oil layer made when metals are touched by us
- Comment on New Samsung phones block sideloading by default 3 months ago:
the problem is the one we’re gonna have in a few years if nobody steps in now and does something
cough cough EU please
- Comment on Tesla loses EV market dominance, falls below 50% in US [unit sales in 2024Q2] 4 months ago:
chinese EVs are cheap, plentiful and work just as fine as teslas
- Comment on Onlyfans creators will eventually market meat of themselves 4 months ago:
but most importantly, did you inject or snore
- Comment on Onlyfans creators will eventually market meat of themselves 4 months ago:
the same people who bought the bath water, I guess
- Comment on What devices should i look for to get a -30V power supply. 4 months ago:
i didnt quite understand the issue, but if you just need -30V you can get another 30V power supply and join them in series (the ground wire from the old and the positive wire from the new supply), then you can use the joined wire as ground, the ground side of the new supply as -30V and the positive of the old supply as +30
- Comment on ochem 4 months ago:
one is food for animals, the other is food for cars
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
wasn’t that the whole point of capitalism anyways? /s
