bjorney
@bjorney@lemmy.ca
- Comment on brains! 1 week ago:
Brain uses more wattage than a lightbulb, unless we are counting incandescent bulbs because it makes the stat seem more impressive.
- Comment on Authorities hack cryptocurrency seed phrase 2 months ago:
The word ‘decipher’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I’m wondering if they socially engineered or just found it written somewhere in the house?
You can plausibly brute force up to 4, maybe 5 words of a seed phrase. It takes longer than a normal password because every seed phrase is technically valid, so the only way to know if your brute force is successful is to generate thousands of addresses at each of the different derivation paths you may expect funds to exist at.
The same seed phrase is used for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, etc, but each currency uses the seed phrase to generate addresses in a slightly different standard. Additionally, each wallet uses a slightly different variation of that. Within each wallet is a notion of accounts, and within each account you could have dozens of addresses. You need to generate each of those addresses, and scan each cryptocurrencies blockchain to see if those addresses have ever been used.
Realistically one of three things happened: his seed phrase was written down and they found it, it was password protected or on a drive with weak AES encryption and they cracked THAT instead, or finally, he used a hardware wallet and they exploited a firmware vulnerability to lift the PIN and transfer out funds and/or read the seed from the device
- Comment on The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. 2 months ago:
Does Google Cloud not count as “own hardware” for google?
That’s why the bars are so different. The “cloud” price is MSRP
- Comment on Cords 3 months ago:
Yes, but if someone trips over the cord there is a 50% chance the wrong side comes unplugged and potentially kills them, hence why they don’t make these cords
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 3 months ago:
I haven’t used dual shock so I can’t speak to that, but as far as Xbox 1/S controllers, there is no 1st party support - literally all the drivers are from some non-MS affiliated GitHub page. 360 controllers required the xpad driver as well - that isn’t 1st party support. Yes they work out of the box with steam if you are using a wired connection, but that’s because it’s going through steaminput (not 1st party either), and making the controls of the submarine dependent on being launched through steam is even more absurd. Gen 2 series 1/S controllers didn’t work via Bluetooth for a long time after they (silently) launched on most LTS Linux OSs due to the kernel missing requisite BLE functionality
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 3 months ago:
That’s only assuming the sub was running windows, where Xbox controllers work out of the box. On Linux there are no first party drivers, and Bluetooth support on the 1/S controllers simply didn’t exist at the time this happened. If it was an embedded system there would be no support whatsoever.
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 3 months ago:
theverge.com/…/us-navy-military-xbox-360-controll…
US Army used to spend $38,000 per controller until they found out Xbox controllers were better
- Comment on Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator 4 months ago:
Newer windows versions lets you set up scheduled defrags, yeah, but also if you aren’t using your HDD for your OS there is little to no opportunity for it to become fragmented in the first place
- Comment on Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator 4 months ago:
Yes it happens in the background, but also, people’s use case for HDDs nowadays doesn’t even really necessitate defragmentation in the first place.
If you aren’t using your disk for your OS where frequent temp writes etc are occurring, there is minimal opportunity for it to become fragmented, and if you aren’t gaming, you aren’t going to notice any performance hit associated with a minimally fragmented HDD
- Comment on Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator 4 months ago:
It’s not that it happens in the background, it’s that you don’t defrag SSDs
- Comment on OopsGPT - OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong. 4 months ago:
AI isn’t supposed to be creative, it’s isn’t even capable of that. It’s meant to min/max it’s evaluation criterion against a test dataset
It does this by regurgitating the training data associated with a given input as closely as possible
- Comment on Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% 4 months ago:
Tesla still sells nearly 10x the number of EVs (BEVs) to the next most popular brand (globally).
Tesla only sold 4% more EVs than BYD last quarter
- Comment on Why don't we put butter and sour cream on French fries? They're basically like tiny skinless baked potatoes... 4 months ago:
It’s pretty common in Canada to be able to order fries with sour cream, green onion, tomatoes, and cheese/queso.
That being said fries are way greasier than a baked potato, and they are better suited to more acidic condiments (ketchup, malt vinegar, etc)
- Comment on Can you have local reverse proxies? 5 months ago:
You can just point your domain at your local IP, e.g. 192.168.0.100
- Comment on Server as heating device - how do I do this? 6 months ago:
A server produces an amount of heat equivalent to it’s wattage.
A 500W server rack will produce 1/3rd the amount of heat as a 1500W space heater. If your rack draws 100W at idle, than that’s how much heat it produces. So if it’s cold outside you could spin up folding at home or some other thing to burn excess CPU cycles
As long as your server is inside your house it is offsetting the amount of heat your HVAC system needs to produce - granted it is also greatly increasing the amount of work your AC needs to do
There is a cricket farm in Quebec that heats it’s enclosures with Bitcoin mining rigs.
- Comment on What's a good budget home server? 7 months ago:
Not with 64gb ram and 16 cores on that budget
- Comment on Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains 7 months ago:
So the “biologists and pharmacologists” you are citing are just armchair scientists in the Lemmy comment section
- Comment on Leading the world in technology and ecological transit.. on 3.5" 7 months ago:
They aren’t being made anymore - people are just reselling old hoarded stock
- Comment on Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024 8 months ago:
Could go either way.
I ALWAYS share my stats for the steam surveys, because higher Linux market share = better Linux support
- Comment on Docker - what use is it? 8 months ago:
“how dare they use the right tool for the job without taking the time to learn how to do it sub optimally first”
- Comment on More believable for a Linux OS 9 months ago:
OSError: File or directory not found “C:WindowsSystem32”
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 to enforce hardware requirement - gHacks Tech News 9 months ago:
To be fair, your arguments basically boil down to “show me equivalent Linux support for proprietary Microsoft products”
You could make all the same arguments and conclude Macs are less suitable for doing work than windows, yet there are tons of professionals using MacBooks who get by just fine. If you don’t need to be fully ingrained in the Microsoft ecosystem you don’t NEED to be on windows.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 to enforce hardware requirement - gHacks Tech News 9 months ago:
This only affects people running Intel/amd chips from 2008-2011
The last version of win11 supporting these processors is EOL in 2025. Windows 10 is also EOL in 2025
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 9 months ago:
There is nothing this thing can do that a dedicated hobbyist couldn’t replicate with parts bought off the shelf at a RadioShack, so where does the line get drawn
- Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature 9 months ago:
I feel like 99% of its usage was to avoid ads/paywalls on news sites
- Comment on Tesla charging stations become ‘car graveyards’ as batteries die in subzero temperatures, abandoned cars left in the lot after cars wouldn’t charge 10 months ago:
It’s a rest of the world unit. Fahrenheit is only used by America, the Cayman islands and Liberia
- Comment on Adding services to an existing Docker nginx container 10 months ago:
To elaborate a bit more, there is the MySQL resource usage and the docker overhead. If you run two containers that are the same, the docker overhead will only ding you once, but the actual MySQL process will consume its own CPU and memory inside each container.
So by running two containers you are going to be using an extra couple hundred MB of RAM (whatever MySQL’s minimum memory footprint is)
- Comment on How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity 10 months ago:
Every time there is a transaction the sender’s funds are mixed together with a bunch of other senders, and the recipients receive their money from this random pool, so there is no direct association between sender/receiver
- Comment on Adding services to an existing Docker nginx container 10 months ago:
it won’t necessarily take twice the resources of a single mysql container
It will as far as runtime resources
You can (and should) just use the one MySQL container for all your applications. Set up a different database/schema for each container
- Comment on If only it was like that 11 months ago:
“the perfect scale”
Proceeds to list completely arbitrary temperatures and link them to completely subjective opinions
I can make all the same points about celsius but they make even more sense
0 freezing 10 cool 20 room temperature 30 hot 40 very hot