rekabis
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- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 12 hours ago:
…And it’s bound to be stupidly expensive.
Wish I could afford 20 of them, but not without winning the Powerball.
- Comment on Is a DRM-Free Ebook always better than a physical book? 1 week ago:
but you’d already be hard pressed to read the data off a deck of punch cards or reel of magnetic tape
Even something like a 3¼″ floppy is getting hard to find a drive for, because not many USB drives were made, and non-USB drives need a motherboard with floppy compatibility. Which would be more than a decade old by this point.
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 1 week ago:
And I self-host precisely because of the money I save using surplussed hardware. I have a symmetrical 1Gb SOHO fibre connection from my ISP, so I can host whatever the hell I want, I just need to stand it up. And a beefy older system with oodles of RAM is perfect for spinning up VMs of various platforms for various tasks. This saves me craploads of money over even a single VM on cloud platforms like Vultr. Plus, even if I were to support a “heavy” service sufficiently in demand to warrant its own iron, it still costs me less than a year’s worth of hosting to obtain a decent platform for that service to run on all by it’s lonesome.
My only cloud costs end up being those services which are distributed for redundancy and geographical distance, such as DNS and caching CDNs.
- Comment on Exposure might cause suffocation 1 week ago:
This one is identical to the pic, and comes in various different sizes: www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/…/85791225.EJUG5
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 1 week ago:
Holy shit, those prices. Like, I wouldn’t be able to afford any package at even 10% the going rate.
Anything available for the lone operator running a handful of Internet-addressable servers behind a single symmetrical SOHO connection? As in, anything for the other 95% of us that don’t have mountains of cash to burn?
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 week ago:
We have high technology because we don’t have anything else to leverage.
I suspect a world with strong magic is liable to leverage that to the exclusion of technology.
A now-ended iseki story on Reddit’s HFY subreddit called “Wait, is this just GATE?” Asks the question of what would happen if a universe of only technology and no magic (ours) made contact with a universe of pretty much only magic and almost no technology beyond that found in the Middle Ages. It contains some tropes (used mainly as comedic relief or irony) and plenty of references to current magical-universe plot elements from games and novels, but is a surprisingly fresh and compelling examination of the cross-universe idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Not all of them. Sabatier (with the elephant mark) made a Bec Oiseau with a straight blade. It was marketed with that knife-type name in Canada, specifically through Lee Valley, for a good two-plus decades.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There is one knife I find absolutely essential that is missing:
Bec Oiseau. Sometimes also known as a sheep’s foot knife.
It’s a paring knife, but one where the blade is absolutely straight and it’s the spine that curves over near the tip. It works far better than any curved paring knife at cutting apart small items in the hand, like fruits.
- Comment on Call to defederate from feddit.org over zionism 2 weeks ago:
It is possible to be pro-Palestinian and anti-Hamas at the same time.
Similarly, it is possible to be pro-Jewish and anti-Israel at the same time.
They key is to be in favour of, and supporting, the innocent civilians that are not wielding hate and bigotry, and in direct and vociferous opposition to the power structures on BOTH sides that have looked true evil in the eye and said, “hold my beer and watch this”.
I am as anti-Hamas as I am anti-Israel. Both power/political structures are among the most reprehensibly evil orgs on the planet at this time.
I stand with the innocent civilians; with THE PEOPLE.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
Depends if I have my shower directly before going to bed. If so, it’s 20, otherwise 4.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 2 weeks ago:
I knew of an African-American named Le-a.
Not spoken as “ley-ah”, but as “ledasha”.
Because you are supposed to say the dash.
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 2 weeks ago:
- get a sniper rifle
- train to take out targets at a large distance
- know where and when ICE will be, especially where they will muster before one of their “raids”
- in many cases, there will be little to no difference between ICE and LEO. Both are putting on brown shirts and violently attacking their own communities.
Fascism can only be perpetuated when fascists do not fear being killed. If you are not with them, they will gladly kill you – it’s time you took steps to protect yourself and your community.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
He’s gone even further off the rez: “Tariff supporters are socialists”.
Like, no. It’s the exact opposite.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 month ago:
This ignores that the inventor has less motivation to actually invent. Author have less motivation to create.
Tell me you haven’t read the entire book without actually saying you haven’t done much more than browse a few pages.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 month ago:
Businesses were innovative long before patents and copyright became a thing. In fact, evidence shows that society was more innovative without patents and copyright than with.
For your reading pleasure:
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 2 months ago:
I don’t have a problem with actual pedophiles that are caught in these dragnets.
My problem arises from the lack of rigorous and well-documented investigation into the target before shite starts popping off. As the article pointed out, there is nothing wrong with a 22yo dating an 18yo. And the problem here is a sense of vindictiveness trying to manufacture targets where not all targets are guilty of pedophilia.
So: you want to take a pipe wrench to warm over a pedophile? Make sure there is oodles of evidence that clearly and unambiguously makes the person a pedophile, and sure as shite I will look the other way. But the problem is that there is no self-reinforcing framework in place within the vigilante system to ensure and enforce this threshold of evidence. And without this system, innocent people are going to get hurt or killed.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 2 months ago:
Looks like I’ll finally be migrating my final workstation off of Windows 11.
I mean, I still have a while. The Dell T7910 still meets all of the Windows 11 Workstation 24H2 requirements, so Rufus only needs to modify that one part of the installer. And once I have Windows installed, I can do upgrades over Windows Update.
But once the machine gets too old for that…
At least OpenSUSE meets most of my needs.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
Oh, absolutely! Still have mine in my desk drawer for any long-chained calculations. The Deci-Lon was the absolute GOAT in both its long and short forms.
IMHO the only slide rule that was consistently better was the Faber-Castell 2/83N.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
You use a click eraser or a normal block eraser.
Only filthy casuals suffer one at the end of the pencil.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
.5mm or .3mm for me, the only place I use a .7mm or a .9mm is with woodworking.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
No K&E either. Which for any draftsperson, ex or current, is a heretical omission.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
I find myself inordinately amused by the unsolicited vitriol of your comment. Sounds like you have a lot to unpack with that particular model.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
The fact that Rotring, Staedtler, and K&E mechanical pencils are missing is deeply troubling.
I also have an emotional thing for the Pentel P200 series, and the Pentel Techniclick in black has been my absolute personal favourite for light-duty scribbling and note-taking since the 90s.
- Comment on (Blog) How I'm Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech 2 months ago:
The MacOS link for Iridium Browser goes straight to a 404.
Anyone have a direct link to the latest DMG?
- Comment on Anyone remember this? 3 months ago:
Oh, most definitely. Used it nearly every day.
I have used the same web browser, in terms of ideology, codebase, and heritage, for nearly a third of a century, now.
NCSA Mosaic -> Netscape -> Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.
I now hew more to alternates such as LibreWolf and Floorp, but I still run Firefox EME-Free as my default.
- Comment on Ukraine: Zelenskyy offers to quit in return for NATO entry 3 months ago:
I think the rest of NATO should eagerly take him up on his offer… sans the resignation. Because Ukraine needs Zelenskyy at this point.
That alone would enrage Putin and his KGB puppet currently sitting in the Oval Office.
And then the rest of NATO can go completely weapons-free at Russia and Belarus.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 3 months ago:
How does this not flagrantly violate the First Amendment?
I mean, besides the fact that Trump has dismembered the rule of law and has rendered the constitution unenforceable and irrelevant - we should still be holding the government to account as much as possible.
- Comment on MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs 3 months ago:
Canada might need these sooner rather than later.
With the breakdown of democracy and the rule of law in America, the Constitution just became wholly unenforceable and therefore irrelevant. That means that Trump could make good on his fever dream of invading Canada.
And there are many Americans who would jump at the chance to obey his command to slaughter Canadians. With only 40M against America’s 334M - and 0.097M military personnel against America’s 2.1M - it would be absolutely no contest.
Our only way of making such a fascist act of aggression as painful as possible would be with asymmetrical warfare using tiny, hard-to-defeat drones that could act independently and strike without warning. Deploy 10k of these suckers onto a battlefield, and the only survivors would be those within sealed armour or flying at high altitude. Because even an A10 Warthog can be taken out if it unexpectedly ingests a half-dozen of the explosive buggers.
- Comment on If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once? 5 months ago:
The rectum is considerably larger than your mouth, and can hold a lot more shit.
- Comment on Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is 5 months ago:
Some people were never meant to operate machinery of any kind, much less machines physically larger than they are.
Like, don’t even let this person touch a lawnmower.
