BearOfaTime
@BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
- Comment on Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean? 7 hours ago:
There’s so much variability in tonal systems, I don’t think we can make any kind of claim about “natural”.
Western Europeans are used to an 8 tone system that’s been even tempered. Move away from that at all and it sounds weird to most people. Even what most people think of as classical would sound odd to them in their original un-tempered forms with contemporary instruments.
Hell, most people don’t know what to make of minor chords, let alone something like pentatonic systems or even more “weird” to us.
- Comment on Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean? 7 hours ago:
We do?
- Comment on Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | The ten stages of genocide 12 hours ago:
Guess they bit off more than they could chew when they said all Jews must die and the state of Israel must be destroyed.
- Comment on How come there aren't any moral geniuses? 14 hours ago:
There aren’t any?
Got some stats on that, or are you just begging the question?
- Comment on Server as heating device - how do I do this? 16 hours ago:
I think OP’s point is he’s going to be running the server regardless, so why not recoup the heat.
- Comment on Server as heating device - how do I do this? 16 hours ago:
Anecdote:
I have a server running 24/7 in my office, drawing 120 watts average (tested). Office is 10x10. It alone keeps that room 2-5 degrees warmer than the rest of the house. If I turn it off, room equalize to house.
As for comparison, those little square plug in space heaters consume 500 to 1500 watts, and you can see how much th heat.
1 watt = 3.4 btu
Depending on your use case, why not look to reduce power consumption? I’ve replaced that server with one that draws <20w at idle. That’s negligible.
- Comment on remote assistance software suggestions 22 hours ago:
Since it’s family, go Tailscale (mesh network).
There’s a couple ways to use it:
You can run the client on every machine, so they’re all members of your mesh net. Easily access any of them from anywhere, at any time, using whatever remote utility you choose: VNC, RDP, Dameware, etc. You can easily map drives too, since your on the same LAN. (Just turn off MagicDNS - it can interfere with local name resolution).
You can run it on a single device in each location, enabling Subnet Routing, and that device will route traffic into the LAN on which it resides. I use a Raspberry Pi W Zero for this, and it works fine. I can print, configure my NAS, cable modem router, from anywhere. Q
I run the TS client on anything that can, Disable MagicDNS, set the TS network metric to 5000 (this pushes it’s routing priority way down, preventing accidental routes over TS when I’m home), and enable it to run as a service.
Worst case, if someone doesn’t want to run the client, you can setup Reverse VNC using your Tailscale network with the Funnel option enabled. This Funnels traffic into your network via an internet-exposed interface hosted by Tailscale (you can also host it yourself on a VPS).
- Comment on ACLU backs efforts to sink bill stripping any nonprofit that 'bankrolls terrorists' of tax-exempt status 1 day ago:
Hahahahaha… Oh, you crack me up
- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 1 day ago:
That’s why I said be repetitive. It takes time. When they learn that all you do is go off on a tangent, they’ll stop trying to use you for their personal sounding board.
In a way, you’re responding to them in kind by reframing the convo to a subject in which they aren’t interested.
You wanna be insensitive to others, and ignore the social cues that other’s aren’t interested just so you can selfishly rant? OK, I’ll do the same, only with a subject that isn’t divisive or inappropriate.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 3 days ago:
No, that’s not how it works.
With streaming, you’re licensing the use of the media, but only until said media is no longer licensed to the streaming service by the media copyright holders.
I’m guessing you haven’t seen shows fall off your streaming service? Hell, Netflix warns you of things dropping off. Doesn’t sound like ownership.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 3 days ago:
MakeMKV and Handbrake are godsends.
MakeMKV hasn’t failed to rip a DVD to MKV for me yet. I have hundreds of videos from DVDs.
Most I convert to MP4 using Handbrake to save space and for compatibility.
As for playing, look into running something like a NUC (small PC about 2x the size of Apple TV), with Kodi on it. It can play your entire library either stored on it or on a NAS or practically from any storage on your network, and connect to your TV via HDMI. It’s effectively a local streaming box.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 3 days ago:
And piracy isn’t stealing anyway!
But I still enjoy that phrase.
- Comment on Sleep does not help brain wash out toxins, study suggests 3 days ago:
Well, damn, they stole my idea from 1975!!
Thanks for the link.
- Comment on Sleep does not help brain wash out toxins, study suggests 3 days ago:
So he has an arrhythmia and contues working hard? Do you know what type of arrhythmia? Everything I’ve read about them seems they’re rather debilitating when they occur (depending on the type).
Really interesting situation here, I can’t imagine working through something like that (I’ve had it happen, randomly, so docs can’t diagnose. But it’s no fun, and I can’t imagine trying to do anything while it’s occurring).
- Comment on EA are thinking about inserting adverts into games - but don’t worry, it’ll be “very thoughtful” 3 days ago:
Not in my games, because I ain’t buying such garbage
- Comment on EA want to put adverts in your video games to squeeze you for every penny 3 days ago:
Not in my games… Because I don’t have any of their games.
Problem solved.
- Comment on Sleep does not help brain wash out toxins, study suggests 3 days ago:
Serious question, what heart condition does one get from over exercising (we can over-exercise other muscles, so why not the heart)?
I’m not doubting, just wondering what to go lookup.
- Comment on Sleep does not help brain wash out toxins, study suggests 3 days ago:
And reindex, also to throw random shit together and see if any meaningful connections come if it - well that’s my explanation of dreams anyway.
- Comment on [Repost] Reliable alternatives to AWS Deep Glacier for ~5TB? 4 days ago:
I looked at storage.io a while back, prices seemed good.
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 4 days ago:
Right?
To whom is this not obvious? Top talent has options.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 4 days ago:
I’d say what you’re (possibly) describing is something that’s less specific to it’s writer’s time/age/moment, giving it broader appeal. If someone is 17 and writing classical style music, I’d expect most who appreciates classical to take an interest. That’s just looking for new music, not a focus on staying “hip”, which, again, isn’t really an effective approach.
This fits with the reasons media/arts appeal the way they do - the more “base” it’s appeal, the broader that appeal will be, because more/most people understand it.
These aren’t my ideas - ask a professor of music (especially music history) the difference between the different classifications of music, and why they’re defined the way they are.
One great example: today most people would consider Opera to be “high-falutin classical stuff that us regular folks can’t grok cause we don’t know Italian”, when the reality is it was the popular music of it’s day, with Opera performances being a rough equivalent to TV shows today. Some Opera composers knocked out 200 operas, per year.
Check out any lectures by Prof Robert Greenburg, especially “How to Listen to and Understand Great Music” or “Music as a Mirror of History”.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 4 days ago:
And since we’re not Youngs, how the music appeals (or doesn’t) is really not part of our experiences.
Pop music is a thing of the moment. Not to criticize, just an observation. Because of this, I don’t really get why an Old would want to try to stay hip with music. You’re not young during that time, not part of what the coming of age experience is like at the time. It’s not your time.
Plus pop music, by definition, appeals to the broadest group possible by being less complex - this is true of anything. I always use Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” (a massive avant-garde jazz hit in the 60’s), compared to something by the Beach Boys, Elvis, The Beatles, etc.
Everyone can grok what Elvis is singing, but even as someone who studied music theory, I find Kind of Blue challenging to grasp. And I hear/learn something new every time I hear it.
- Comment on Writers telegraphing their fetishes 5 days ago:
Who?
- Comment on Liberals are Getting Themselves Sterilized to Protest Abortion Bans - LifeNews.com 5 days ago:
Seems like a win-win
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 6 days ago:
Well, endpoints then were largely mainframe type systems, long before PCs existed, let alone network-capable PCs and http. So it was a different idea than what we have today.
Before internet, you could connect two physically disparate systems using point-to-point, permanently switched connections (so it always consumed a potential connection even when no data was being transmitted). If you had Point A connected to Point B, you need a third connection to comm with Point C. The idea was, if B already had a connection to C, why not share that bandwidth/connection so A only needed one connection? And then apply a data-switching concept (e.g. Packet switching), instead of circuit-switching.
We were still using P-to-P connections in the late 90’s because internet capabilites weren’t quite up to what some systems needed for latency, timing, and bandwidth.
At first, just getting two endpoint mainframes connected was a big deal, and individual user devices wasn’t much of a thought, yet. Most stuff was still mainframe based, so having those connected was sufficient for user communication/data sharing anyway. Since user connectivity wasn’t the main concern - moving data from one system to another was, say an entity has 2 locations, and needs to sync the systems in those two locations. So you either use a circuit-switched P-to-P, with downtime for users when sync is happening, or send physical tapes (magnetic or even pinched paper tapes) cross-country to move data, with that data being out-of-sync and requiring manual updates to re-sync.
Routing was necessary primarily for backbone transit, secondarily for organizations with multiple systems, hence the IP Classful approach.
DHCP is a local network requirement - ask any Admin about static IP addresses - that’s a nightmare. I don’t even like it at home with a handful of devices.
NAT is a result of the limited IP address space, not DHCP - there’s simply not enough addresses in 32bits for every local device to have a public IP (nor would you want this), plus having multiple services behind a router using local addressing. Even with static local addresses, you’d need NAT.
Also, look at the time - if you had a LAN in the late 80’s, it was something like Banyan Vines or Netware IPX (neither of which was routable originally), for local comms between local systems. Any internet/external network requirements were for (again) moving data between disparate locations. The idea that a workstation needed specific internet/non-local access to (what?) really didn’t make sense. It would comm with a local data source (mainframe/IBM 360, etc), and that system would manage retrieving or syncing data from elsewhere. A workstation was largely a dumb terminal before PCs (other than actual “workstations” which is a different animal".
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 6 days ago:
Because I don’t have to carry the sunglasses with me all the time?
98% of my time I’m not in a car, and my not mediocre sunglasses work better than the clipons, since I prefer the color, they already block UV and aren’t too dark.
Why should I carry something else?
As it is, I put my glasses on when I wake up, and most days only take them off to clean them or go to bed. They’re almost hassle free, unlike carrying around sunglasses, putting them on, taking them off, yada yada , like I did for 10 years before I got transitions.
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 6 days ago:
It’s a mix of crap I’ve acquired over the years, all 1TB drives, 3.5",most 5-10 years old, in an old Drobo. Yea, it’s a massive risk, but it’s one of 3 storage systems replicating data locally, plus a Crashplan backup.
Since it’s 5 drives, I’m pretty sure it spins them down - at best if they drew 3w each, it’d be 15w in drives alone.
Running it on a smart switch, I’ve never seen it draw more than 30w, and that’s at boot time with 5 drives.
My 3-drive Proxmox box (a Dell SFF) drives are a mix of spinning metal and SSD (2.5"), it idles about 20w, peaks at 100w when I’m converting video files with a VM. That hardware is about 5 years old too, 32gb of ram, booting from an M2 drive.
- Comment on Cyberattack forces major US health care network to divert ambulances from hospitals 6 days ago:
When permitting security failures costs more than preventing, then companies will do something.
- Comment on Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail 6 days ago:
Por que no los dos?
I can see both sides:
Super humbling because nature’s complexity can provide data storage and retrieval capacity several orders or magnitude greater than the best we can do right now.
Also super exciting because look at what every brain on the planet is composed of, and how it functions, in a freakin’ square millimeter!
Crazy stuff. Wild.
- Comment on What's stopping you from using Ecosia? Your searches could plant trees! 6 days ago:
Fair words make me look to my purse (English proverb).