cecilkorik

@cecilkorik@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russian Internet users are unable to access the open Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They are freely expressing their fear of dangerous western ideas which must be censored to protect the motherland /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  KSP1 is the bees knees and the modding community is still going as strong as ever. Still worthwhile even at full price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t absolutely know what the future holds for our own planet much less the universe, so it’s impossible to answer this with any conviction, but based on my current understanding or the general scientific consensus, and the fact that the universe is expanding and that expansion is accelerating, no, by placing them at the edge of the observable universe and the effects of relativity, their hypothetical signals will never reach Earth and almost certainly not the Earth that we know of that’s orbiting Sol and full of humans patiently observing the universe for signs of their lost ancestors.

  But we don’t know with any certainty that the universe’s expansion or acceleration is going to continue indefinitely, we don’t even fully understand why it is happening. However, if the universe is infinite, and is going to last an infinite amount of time, well “infinity” is a very long time and you can’t rule out the fact that another wormhole could open and bring them (or their signals) home at some point now that you’ve proven such a wormhole can exist. So when you put all the things we do know and the things we don’t know together, I’d give them about 50/50 chances, with a margin of error of plus or minus 50%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Stellar Blades] This game completely broke them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most game media/advertising/reviewing is garbage and cannot be trusted. I play games that look fun. I have a particular definition of fun specific to me alone. I’ll watch actual gameplay to decide if it looks fun to me. I might watch technical reviews and benchmarks that tell me if my hardware will be able to play it. IDGAF what culture war moralizing poop that some idiots want to headline it with and babble about to get views on their articles and channels.

  I don’t think Stellar Blade looks like the kind of fun I personally enjoy so I’m going to pass, but I’m not going to judge or shame anyone who’s enjoying the fuck out of it because there’s nothing to shame. It’s a game. It’s made to be played and be fun for people to play. Have fun. Don’t worry about the drama storms. They’re pointless and devoid of meaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I see I’ve found a fellow member of la révolution. I applaud your scientific curiosity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really curious what brainrot is in that man’s head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With all the animals that die in the sea, is it possible they get pickled in there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ocean salinity varies slightly but averages around 3.5%. Brackish water would be less than 3% as long as it’s saltier than freshwater, which is limited to 0.05%. Brine, which OP is asking for, is water with 5% or greater salinity. The ocean doesn’t get that high but salt lakes definitely can, the Dead Sea is almost 35% salinity. Also why it’s called the “Dead” sea, FWIW. Maybe you could pickle stuff there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm trying to understand a financial question in a video. A lady is saying that she will Payback equity when she refinances, but I'm not sure how that helps her in the context to the video.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From my understanding of this messed up situation:

  She has half of the equity in the house, he has the other half, maybe not exactly half and half, this is common after a divorce and the actual proportions are irrelevant. In order for HER to acquire full equity in the house (the house she lives in and considers hers and that the divorce has apparently assigned to her), she must pay his half of the equity BACK to him when she refinances. Thus, she both “has” equity and “owes” equity. Both are true. She has her half (which is money on paper and represents her ownership of the house, not money you can spend), she owes the other half which is also equity, just not hers (which is real money she DOES need to spend, and will be refinanced into the form of a larger mortgage with higher payments). Once she refinances, he gets the lump sum representing his equity, and she gets a bigger mortgage. He could then use that lump sum to pay back the alimony with. But that’s all in the future, and the future is an uncertain place that doesn’t help anyone now and that nobody wants to wait for.

  So she suggests that she’ll forgive his alimony if he forgives the equity she owes him, because that is probably a much bigger amount of money that she owes him and would then get to keep, compared to many many years of alimony that she might not even get if he’s not going to be around that long and isn’t working or goes bankrupt or whatever else might happen in the intervening years.

  The key moment in the video as far as I’m concerned is when she mentions her husbands “new wife and kids”. I think that if you strip away all the reasonable-sounding explaining and arguments, that’s what this is really about, she wants to get as much as she can in cold hard cash right away, even if it means cashing out some of her ex-husbands 401k now, so that the other wife and kids don’t get their hands on it and then she doesn’t have to worry about them anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The “Unhook” addon (increasingly required for Youtube now, in my opinion) will still completely block this as it blocks all shorts. Fuck shorts anyway. Also as TechnologyConnections pointed out in a recent video, the subscription feed still and always has completely bypasses Youtube’s recommended brainrot anyway and allows you to subscribe to and follow the creators and topics you actually care about. Until we have a viable alternative to Youtube (and hopefully stuff like this will drive that to happen sooner rather than later) the other option is to stick to subscriptions as much as possible and only subscribe to creators that don’t abuse this or use shorts at all, preferably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First time setting up a NAS⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For RAID that’s pretty much it as far as I know, but I’m pretty sure it can be a lot simpler and more flexible using some of these newfangled filesystems that are out nowadays like LVM and ZFS and maybe BTRFS? I can’t pretend I’m super up to date on all the latest technologies, I know they can do some really incredible stuff though. I’m not familiar enough to recommend it, but it might be worth looking into what they can do for you if your NAS supports it. From what I understand they don’t use RAID at all, although they might be able to simulate it, instead they treat disks as JBOD (just a bunch of disks) and use their own strategies to spread whole filesystems and partition structures across them in various safe and redundant ways that are way more flexible, that don’t care about disk size or anything like that, they’ll handle any shapes and sizes and I think they can be expanded and contracted pretty freely. I think ZFS in particular is really heavily used for this and supports some crazy complicated structures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First time setting up a NAS⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At the end of the day it doesn’t matter so much if they’re in 2x 2 bays or 1x 4 bay that’s backing itself up. It might give a little extra redundancy and safety to have them on separate NAS but the backup software is what’s going to be doing the heavy lifting here and it shouldn’t really matter whether it’s talking to two different disks/arrays on the same machine/NAS (as long as the NAS allows you to split the 4 drives into 2 different arrays which from my experience they do)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First time setting up a NAS⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what kind of data this is but when you say the whole household’s data is going to be on it, I want to take a moment to point out that while RAID1 is redundant, it is NOT a backup. Both drives will happily delete, overwrite, corrupt, or encrypt all your data as quickly as you can blink the moment they believe something has told them to, and will both do it simultaneously to both “redundant” copies of your data. It also won’t help if your powersupply blows up and nukes both drives at once. It only guards against individual hardware failure of a single disk, nothing else. While that failure mode is quite common (and using RAID actually increases the risk of it) it’s important to remember that it’s also not the only cause of data loss.

  If any of this data is important and irreplaceable, consider whether you’d be better off spending your additional future budget setting up another pair of drives to maintain continuous backups. There are a variety of simple tools that can create incremental, time-machine-like backups from hard-drive based storage to other hard-drive based storage while using a minimal amount of additional space (I use this rock-solid script based on rsync but literally there are dozens of backup tools that do almost exactly the same thing, often using rsync under the hood themselves). This still won’t help you if say, your house burns down with both drive arrays inside it, but it’s an improvement over a single huge RAID NAS and gives you the option to roll back from a known-good snapshot or restore a file that was deleted or corrupted long ago and you never noticed.

  To answer your original question, it generally isn’t possible to do what you’re asking. You might be able to get away with starting the RAID array as RAID1+0 and pretending that half the drives (the RAID1 mirror side) have failed, but that will mean your two existing disks are running in RAID0 striping mode with no RAID1 mirrors, and a failure of EITHER one will lose all your data until you get the second two drives installed. And that’s super sketchy and would be tricky to even set up. You cannot run a RAID1+0 with only two drives in mirror mode because they’ll both be missing their striped RAID0 volume. In fact, if this happens on a live array, you lose the whole array in that case too. Despite having 4 drives, RAID1+0 is technically still only singly-redundant. Any single failure can be tolerated, but two failures can make the whole array unrecoverable if they happen to be the wrong two failures (both failures from the same stripe, leaving only two working RAID1 mirrors of the other stripe), and due to striping it really is unrecoverable. Only small chunks of each file will be available on the surviving RAID1 mirrors.

  In almost all cases, changing the geometry of the array means rebuilding it from scratch, and you usually need some form of temporary storage to be able to do that. The good news is, if you decide to add 2 drives to an existing 2 drive RAID1 setup, you have 4 drives, each 4TB. and you cannot possibly have more than 4TB of data because your existing two drives are RAID1 and only have 4TB capacity between them. You can probably use 3 of those drives to set up a 4-drive RAID 1+0 with a missing drive, after copying all the data from your RAID1 array onto drive #4 temporarily. Then once the 3-drive array is up, copy it back onto the NAS array. Finally, you can slot drive #4 into the NAS as well, treating it as a “new” drive to replace the “failed” one, and the array should sync over all the stripes it needs and bring it into the array properly. This is all definitely possible with Linux’s built-in software RAID tools (I’ve done stupider things) however whether your specific NAS box will let you to do this successfully is something I can’t promise.

  It’s important to keep in mind this is all sketchy as hell (remember what I said about backups and asking whether this data was irreplaceable? yeah. don’t stop thinking about that), but technically it should work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky is more open than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, but it’s also necessary sometimes. If governments didn’t have any power and could just be ignored or openly defied without consequences, we wouldn’t have to care about what they want to censor. But they do have power, despite all our wishing that they didn’t, and we can’t organize a resistance to them without careful maneuvering and sometimes at least making an appearance of playing by their rules. Government censorship you can unsubscribe from is objectively better than censorship you can’t. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child Welfare Experts Horrified by Mattel's Plans to Add ChatGPT to Toys After Mental Health Concerns for Adult Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “But first, we need to discuss the white genocide in South Africa!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What peertube channel do you recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not Peertube, but as at least a step away from Youtube I’ve found a lot of my favourite creators immediately cross-post all their videos to Odysee (including electronics guys like Louis, Bigclive, GreatScott, etc) and I’ve also found some new channels to watch there. It’s not a great site, it’s marginally better than Youtube, which is not a high bar. For obvious reasons, I’m looking forward to finding recommendations in Peertube too though so I’ll be watching this thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “remove any thing that they might be able to do” is a hilariously broad brush to apply to three letter agencies in this day and age that were doing things like this 50 years ago.

  I’m not saying it’s realistic that OP is being targeted for such surveillance. But if they are, good fucking luck! Flashing your firmware ain’t going to do shit when they’ve just gone ahead and replaced the chips on your board with their own that act exactly like a normal chip but have extra code that doesn’t get flashed when they don’t want it to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You absolutely can slap a Lambo body on anything (provided it fits) and there is a literal cottage industry that exists around doing so. It’s not popular because, let’s be honest, it’s pretty silly, and everyone involved acknowledges its pretty much just for fun and entertainment. The status symbol of “owning a Lamborghini” goes away forever the second you start the engine.

  There is a lot of psychology that goes into designing the appearance of cars. Like, an extreme amount. Car companies spend millions designing and refining body shapes and styles, and building brand images, and pushing commercials that seed these ideas into your head about their brand looking a certain way and that look therefore implying quality, they’re connecting all those dots in your head, one marketing campaign at a time, and it works because we’re honestly pretty gullible creatures at least when somebody wants to spend millions upon millions of dollars researching exactly how they can weasel their way into your brain.

  And this might surprise you, but the same “looks incredible but the worst piece of shit ever” can certainly apply to luxury vehicles. Aside from notorious reliability and repairability issues, Lamborghinis don’t usually win any races either. They won’t win a drag race, they won’t win an oval track race, they won’t win a rally race. They’re fast, certainly, but they’re not the fastest and for what you pay for a Lamborghini you could build a much, MUCH better purpose-built race car. You could probably build 10 purpose-built race cars. Hell, people build race cars out of junkyard parts that can beat Lamborghinis. They’re not the end-all-be-all of cars, nor are any of the other luxury brands. They have some nice features but they also have a lot of dumb features and yes, a lot of cut corners too. They’re designed to be desirable and profitable, not to be the best.

  So to answer your question, it absolutely IS the case for cars, in fact it’s probably even moreso the case than it is with computer parts. Unless you really need to roar down the highway towing a 10,000 pound trailer at 80 mph and still get up to that speed in 5 seconds flat, you really only need like probably 30-50 horsepower max for most of the daily driving that people do, but people’s driving habits and attitudes would have to change and they would hate the feel of gradual acceleration, so they would simply never buy such a car. I think we really underestimate how incredible even the cheapest “crappiest” cars are. We’re talking about machines cheap enough for almost everybody in our society to own, that can drive at high speeds, in perfectly dry, climate-controlled comfort, carrying many passengers and cargo, in almost any weather short of a tornado or flood, with excellent reliability for hundreds of thousands of miles, that provide constant lighting and electricity and entertainment, all while maintaining a high degree of safety for the occupants.

  If you’d rather putter around on a riding lawnmower with a Lamborghini body kit on it, you absolutely can do that, but you have to understand that once you start comparing the limited features and abilities it provides you will quickly find what you’ve constructed is the real “piece of shit” in comparison. Just don’t forget your slow-moving vehicle sign!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe we could generate those with AI… oh wait, I think I see the problem…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with moths and lamps in lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s awesome thanks! (Community discovery is still something I struggle with on Lemmy)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with moths and lamps in lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit had a community “OutOfTheLoop” for these type of questions. It was very helpful for people like me who do our best to ignore these nonsense viral image macros that get blown out of proportion. The problem on Lemmy is, judging by the comments here, I think almost everyone here avoids those things like the plague, so there’s few if anyone “InTheLoop” around to explain for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That kind of irrational logic will no doubt serve you well. Enjoy your future!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bambu Lab’s Controversial ‘Authorization Control’ Hits Budget 3D Printers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never been happier about my Prusa, despite some of what I felt were their suboptimal choices in the last few years, at least they’ve never seemed malicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome!

  But I have to ask, why are you guys here and not on Reddirt?

  Hilarious typo if it wasn’t intentional.

  Where the population us much larger and its basically the same?

  First thing you quickly realize here is that larger is not necessarily better. Small is beautiful, you can have actual thoughtful conversations with individuals here without the incessant dogpiling and low effort meme replies. I have even got smacked down (and rightly so) for accidentally bringing some of that with me at one point. It’s not needed or desirable here.

  It appears a few instances dominate this landscape anyway?

  When you actually look at the comments I usually find almost everyone is on a different instance, in fact when there are relatively small numbers of comments like the are on most posts, you often won’t even see the same instance in the comments twice unless it’s the same person. Yeah, some instances have “huge numbers” of people and communities (lemmy.world) but I think a lot of them are honestly just rarely used, abandoned, or otherwise non-participatory, and the communities can be used by anybody (which is exactly the point of federation). The people actually spending their time here are on a wide variety of instances, often even using different frontends or software. And that’s great. To me, the ecosystem feels healthy and diverse.

  Its not like this is unchecked social media, they still moderate these places right?

  The point is you can choose an instance whose moderations suit you. (Almost?) all instances moderate to some degree, complete unmoderation is how you end up infested with child porn and other horrible shit. But the directions they moderate in, and the specific things they moderate, can vary wildly depending on the preferences of the owners and the countries they operate in. They also federate with and defederate different instances, which is a large-scale form of moderation. Most instances defederate (and have been defederated by) hexbear and lemmygrad. But not all of them do. Some also defederate lemmy.ml. But not most. And of course those three still federate with each other, and with some other instances. The point isn’t to completely prevent isolated echo chambers, it’s to allow the instances themselves (and the users who join them) to choose how much echo they want to hear compared to how many challenging views they disagree with. Everyone should be able to find a balance that suits them. Most of the people complaining about the content on Lemmy have probably just chosen the wrong instance, frankly, because most people don’t understand how this works and the biases and moderation attitudes inherent in all these different instances is not always super obvious at first glance.

  Reddit sucks now. I still check there regularly but I find both the content and the commenting less and less interesting and find myself spending less and less time there. It hasn’t been a sudden process, but the more time I spend on Lemmy the more I like it and the more communities I find and engage in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honesty, empathy and respect.

  Good luck ever convincing me an LLM has any of those. I’m not even convinced most of humanity does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the benefits of a server having multiple public IP addresses?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mostly a relic from an older time, it can be useful for more traditional services and situations that struggle with sharing public IPs. In theory, things like multiple IP addresses (and IPv6’s near unlimited addresses) could be used to make things simpler – you don’t need reverse proxies and NAT and port forwarding (all of which were once viewed as excessive complexity if not outright ugly hacks instead of the virtual necessity they are today).

  Each service would have its own dedicated public IP, you’d connect them up with IP routing the way the kernel gods intended, and everything would be straightforward, clear, and happy. If such a quantity of IPs were freely available, this would indeed be a simpler life in many ways. And yet it’s such a distant fantasy now that it’s understandable (though a little funny) to hear you describe it as “additional complexity” when, depending on how you look at it, the opposite is true…

  From a modern perspective, you’re absolutely right. The tables have really been turned, we have taken the limitation of IP addresses in stride, we have built elaborate systems of tools and layers of abstraction that not only turn these IP-shortage lemons into lemonade, the way we’ve virtualized the connections through featureful and easily-configurable software layers like private IP ranges, IP masquerading, proxies and tunnels can be used to achieve immense flexibility and reliable security. Most software now natively supports handling multiple services on a single IP or even a single port, and in some cases it requires it. This was not always the case.

  It’s sort of like the divide between hardware RAID and software RAID. Once upon a time, software RAID was slow, messy, confusing, unreliable, and distinctly inferior to “true” hardware RAID, which was plug-and-play with powerful configuration options. Nobody would willingly use software RAID if they had any other choice, the best RAID cards were sold for thousands of dollars and motherboards advertised how much hardware RAID they had built-in. But over time, as CPUs and software became faster and more powerful, the tide changed, and people started to realize that actually, hardware RAID was the one that left you tied to an expensive proprietary controller that could fail or become obsolete and leave your array a difficult to migrate or recover mess, whereas software RAID was reliable, predictable, upgradable, supporting a wide variety of disk types and layouts while still performing solidly and was generally far nicer to work with. It became the more common configuration, and found its way into almost every OS. You can now set up software RAID simply by clicking an option in a menu, even in Windows, and it basically works flawlessly without any additional thought.

  Times change, we adapt to the technologies that are most common and that work the best in the situations we’re using them in, and we make them better until they’re not just a last resort anymore, but become a first choice, while the old way becomes a confusing anachronism. That’s what multiple public IPs have become nowadays, for most purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did Musk and Trump fall out over?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly my point. If they do in a few days “come back from” that and are all buddy buddy again, then I think that indicates it was just a staged performance for show and distraction and none of it was real fighting. Suggests it was all just an act. (IF they do come back from it. Which remains to be seen)

  Muskrat has already backed down from a few things he said in the “heat” of the argument, like that he was going to disassemble the Dragon capsules. So I wouldn’t jump to your conclusion that they can’t possibly “come back from” this, my point is just that if they do, it was probably all just an act to begin with because I agree if it’s real, stuff was said that either one of these vindictive sociopaths is likely to forget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did Musk and Trump fall out over?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m putting 50/50 odds that it’s an intentional, theatrical distraction from other more important things that are going on, or it’s just the inevitable outcome of two malignant narcissist sociopaths being in the same room together too often. If they quickly kiss and make up I’ll lean more towards the former than the latter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this genocide denial?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also sounds like sealioning. So yeah genocide denial by either shutting you up or making you appear to be the bigot would be the goal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonfire's new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We are reinventing our way back to Web 1.0, pretty soon we will be teaching people that they can design their own sites using simple tools or even just by typing in plain text and that they can use “links” to connect to other people’s content anywhere else on the web.

  And because this probably sounds like a facetious criticism, I need to clarify: it’s really not a criticism at all. This is how the web is supposed to work. Companies broke it in order to entrap you and make profit from you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using Nextcloud for almost a decade (started with Owncloud), publicly exposed to the internet with no VPN, and I’ve had no issues with security or with DAV. I do nothing special besides keeping it up to date.