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- Comment on Work from home 5 hours ago:
Surely not. But also many employees won’t even ask for it, and change will only happen if people care about it.
So first, raise awareness, and naturally, implement those things at any companies you manage or own.
I’m not saying quit your job and become homeless if your employer won’t corporate with you on the issue. Everyone should think about how this could potentially affect them and what they can do within the constraints they operate in, though.
As someone else in this thread said, a separate (VLAN, guest) network for work devices, reasonable access rules etc. can go a long way. Eventually, I would like this to become unacceptable though.
- Comment on oh, sovol. get some quality assurance. sv06+ x pulley is off center 6 hours ago:
I think with a lot of import products you need to be aware that you’ll be doing the QA and will in fact be working on the parts / product to get it to where you need it to be.
If you have the skills and the tools $280 + $3 for an unfinished pulley plus some time on the lathe or mill can still be worth it. I know this is asking a lot from a customer and maybe this particular example of a printer is not the best, i. e. it would totally be possible to manufacture this part within specs at cost, but I think the general notion still holds true.
- Comment on Work from home 8 hours ago:
No, have the company buy a laptop, and if necessary, also have them buy the hardware that allows for proper network separation, if not already available.
Just another thing to be aware of.
- Comment on Work from home 8 hours ago:
I know it is somewhat of an accepted practice, and a lot of people lack the means or the knowledge to handle it any other way, but I’d still like to raise awareness that you’re basically inviting a foreign actor into your network.
The days were people would trust corporations, including their employers, to be generally benevolent and to do the right thing are long over.
- Comment on Work from home 18 hours ago:
This is absolutely correct. Heck, you’re free to deny that based on any reasoning, maybe the shoddy icon of the work app doesn’t match your phone wallpaper.
The phone is your private property, if an employer requires an app to be installed to do your job, they can provide a phone.
I would also never let corporate IT manage a device, e. g. a notebook connected to my private network at home.
- Comment on This is what we used to worry about in the 80s. This and global thermonuclear war. 3 days ago:
Given how political punk was right from the start, I wouldn’t call it “just a music movement”.
- Comment on Does anyone print planter heads? 1 month ago:
You’re right about the plastic, but just drop the enlightened snark.
As for pottery, forging, casting etc.: completely different processes, different requirements, “vibe” - may not be possible for OP (ever tried operating a forge in a New York city apartment?), might not be aligned with their skills / interests, financial situation etc.
So, what remains is the question: do you believe 3d printing with plastic should be outlawed or at least strongly regulated as a private hobby?
- Comment on US races to develop AI-powered, GPS-free fighter jets, outpacing China 1 month ago:
Yeah, I wish
- Comment on US races to develop AI-powered, GPS-free fighter jets, outpacing China 1 month ago:
Yup, you’re absolutely right - GPS is used in high frequency trading:
- Comment on Gotta get on that grindset 2 months ago:
Sure, here you go:
- Comment on Where is the best video viewing application today in 2024? 2 months ago:
None of these are applications, and the whole post reads like it was written by a machine, not sure what’s the point though.
- Comment on "Control" 2 months ago:
It’s called the Stoned Ape Theory:
- Comment on Critical 'BatBadBut' Rust Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Attacks 2 months ago:
You are right, I was kind of a dick about it. I even realized that, deleted the most offensive lines twice and then still sent it.
On top of having a bad day in general, I encountered countless similar responses in other places, some of which were so borderline in(s)ane and over the top that I was… let’s just say taken aback.
As I said, the headline could have been better, whole article honestly, same goes for the reaction of the Rust community though.
As for my own replies, I’ll probably follow my gut feeling next time when having second thoughts about posting.
- Comment on Critical 'BatBadBut' Rust Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Attacks 2 months ago:
Jeez, I love Rust as much as the next guy, but people in this thread are getting weirdly defensive about it.
Yeah, so some standard libraries don’t offer that particular feature, what’s the point? They also don’t “offer” that vulnerability then. I can’t even twist my mind around to see what kind of argument this is supposed to be.
Yes, the Windows API is a cesspool in many places, and yes, other standard libraries might still be affected by a similar issue, but Rust’s stdlib also fucked it up. If you offer an interface, it’s your responsibility to ensure it does what you claim, not matter how batshit insane the underlying 3rd party implementation might be. If you can’t do that, I’d actually prefer if you didn’t offer said interface. In any case, they handled the issue, and now it’s hopefully fixed. That’s fine, commendable job.
I agree the headline could have been worded differently, but we can still use Rust, it’s still a great language, great goals etc., why try so hard to make it look like there wasn’t an issue?
You are not your standard library, you have not been defiled. You can still open that bedside drawer and put on your little purity ring every morning if that’s your thing, we won’t judge you, just don’t be all weird about it.
- Comment on Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs Review by MandaloreGaming 2 months ago:
To add to OP’s comment: reviews are not only a means to form an opinion on wether to buy an upcoming title.
Yeah, the game might be older, but there are still people out there who have not played it. But that’s beside the point - I, for example, watch this channel because I’m interested in Mandalore’s opinion, his take on a game. I have absolutely played A Machine for Pigs back in the day (and found it mediocre compared to the actual Frictional Games titles), so watching the video is akin to taking to a friend over a drink: “hey, remember xyz? that was a (great | crappy | forgettable) game…”
This kind of content might take me back to a game I haven’t played in ages and makes me mentally engage with the title again - or it might put the spotlight on an obscure title few have ever heard of, or a rare forgotten gem that somehow was overlooked.
Many players do not have a desire to only play the latest and newest games, but actively look for older titles, maybe due to nostalgia, maybe due to the games having a different focus, structure etc. back then. Not saying that “everything was better” in the olden days, but different strokes for different folks, right.
- Comment on This is a Test 2 months ago:
This explicitly estimates civilian gun ownership.
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov 2 months ago:
I switched to Kagi about 6 months back. It is overall better, but at least on par with Google, also as far as tech / programming - related questions go. Whenever I do not get a useful result from Kagi, it literally finds nothing - I then try Google for verification, which also lists absolutely no results. That happened approximately 4 times since I switched.
Kagi is worse than Google for: reviews, memes, porn, as well as “descriptive” searches, i. e. when trying to describe the desired result using natural language, e. g. “video game character that swallows everything” (I made that up just now for Kirby).
Kagi’s ability to use lenses and assign weights to sites can make a big difference.
At first, they didn’t have anonymous payments and an unattractive pricing model, but that has been fixed for a while, otherwise I wouldn’t have switched.
Overall, I am very satisfied and have absolutely zero plans of ever using Google again.
- Comment on This is a Test 2 months ago:
Amassing guns does not mean amassing knowledge and training on how to properly use them. On a side note, the actual number is more like 1.2 guns per civilian, which is (terrifyingly) impressive.
Even if that number wouldn’t be a simple average, it still doesn’t mean each civilian has received proper training or is even fit for handling a gun, even though 72% have apparently at least once fired a gun in their lifetime - though that can literally mean they onced pulled the trigger on a hunting trip with dad at age 7, with him holding the gun.
Honestly, let me speak as an American as well: People shouldn’t be handling guns at all.
- Comment on Crypt of the NecroDancer: Hatsune Miku Character DLC Trailer 2 months ago:
I know nothing about the character, but it’s sure possible to have some fun with even the old Vocaloid technology.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hk-kOPdHAY
Musical stuff starts at around 2:00
- Comment on Phantasmagoria (PC, 1995) 2 months ago:
I suggest you read the Wikipedia article about it, Sierra really went all out on Phantasmagoria. It was budgeted at 800k, but eventually cost $4.5 million, with the custom built studio solely dedicated to filming it weighing in at $1.5 million - thats quite something, considering we’re talking 90s money here. Again, dev costs for AAA titles today are a completely different beast, but as you said, video games have come a long way since then.
I watched a (much longer) complete walkthrough sometime last year when I was down with the flu or whatever and I have to say, re-watching it is a bit more fun than re-playing it, the pacing was quite a bit off.
Roberta Williams is a good enough writer when it comes to early adventure games (I do love King’s Quest), but this was her first horror project, her script was maybe overly long and the project too ambitious in places, and yeah, the complexity of plot lines probably have grown along with the expectations and the maturity of the audience.
It’s still a great project and a major milestone as far as FMV games are concerned, a genre I somewhat miss overall. The mixture of animation and real footage using 90s technology has just the right amount of schlock/cheesiness to be highly entertaining.
- Comment on What is the word for someone who is friends with different groups but doesn't have loyalty to any one group? 3 months ago:
Paigon
- Comment on What's Your Preferred Server Monitoring Method? 4 months ago:
I can second that. We had some really good experiences with ClickHouse and its performance. If it fits the bill, it’s a very nice piece of. software.
- Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ 4 months ago:
But all that requires effort. For many people, if there is an obstacle that takes away even just several minutes prior to actually playing the game, an important time window might be missed and the opportunity gone.
Also, sitting down in a dedicated space that more often than not features associations of work, an office etc. to play a game has a completely different vibe to it. You pretty much are required to switch your head space to “gaming”, it becomes a thing, something serious, non-casual. Depending on your living arrangements, you’re isolated from your family sitting in the living room while you’re in the “office space”, playing. You’re not lounging on a couch since that isn’t all that compatible with the input style of most games (ever found a relaxing pose operating a keyboard and mouse? For the love of god, teach me). I know PCs handle controllers just fine, but IMHO, not many games are optimized for controller usage on PC.
All that doesn’t really lend itself to a lifestyle where gaming, while still being enjoyed, simply doesn’t have the same goals or can even attain the same priority in life.
Let me shave off 25 minutes of my day to just relax on the couch dude, life is hard enough.
- Comment on VS Code Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support, Devs 'Screwed' 4 months ago:
Let’s not forget that Ubuntu 18.04 has reached its end of life stage in what, April 2023? Pretty much everyone has been dropping support for Ubuntu 18.04 by now, even more impactful dev packages like CMake.
- Comment on Soap 5 months ago:
- Comment on Protecting HDDs from (external) train vibrations 5 months ago:
Hey, great that you chimed in, I agree with the points you’re making. As for my remark regarding amplitude, what I wanted to convey was: in the measurement scenario using the PhyBox smartphone app, OP should see an overall smaller signal envelope if the NAS was properly decoupled, compared to the previous plot.
As for your comment regarding the Nyquist theorem, PhyBox maintains a list of devices and their sensors so it would be possible to lookup the available sampling frequency. There are other factors potentially limiting the sample rate (e. g. switching offl microphone access for the app on Android), but it’s a good starting point.
However, I think we agree this should be solvable without much theoretical effort.
- Comment on Protecting HDDs from (external) train vibrations 5 months ago:
Honestly, I think your approach using the MEMS accelerometer in your smartphone is fine - just make sure to tape the back of your phone firmly to the board to get a rigid connection. This will be of particular importance if you want to do any kind of tuning, as you might measure spurious frequencies if the device is not properly attached.
Smartphone accelerometers are actually used in civil engineering / industrial applications to determine frequencies of e. g. bridges or check for bearing wear. If you are interested, here are some papers:
www.spiedigitallibrary.org/…/12.2222097.short#_=_
www.scielo.br/j/lajss/a/ZnWZ8T86HHBLFvdksCh7g9s/?…
www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/14/3143
www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/2/2980
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9824767/
That being said, the accuracy of the frequency readings is not super important for your application, as what you are after is pretty much only a reduction in amplitude. I would assume spinning hard drives show different responses to different vibrational frequencies, but I did not have the time to research this myself. However, here are two papers that explore what you are trying to do, which I will link since they also mention a few related papers that show the impact of vibrations on hard drives:
link.springer.com/article/…/s00542-012-1592-z
content.iospress.com/articles/…/sav00458
As for a practical approach, I’d probably simply start out with some super cheap foam obtained at the nearest home improvement or crafts store and see how a sandwich using that affects signal amplitude. You could even introduce artifical vibrations using a DC motor with a weight mounted off-center on the shaft, which you can get ready-made for next to nothing on eBay (“vibration motor”, ~ $2).
If you want to get into tuning / experiment / analysis territory, I would like to include additional motivation. Not only might proper decoupling increase the lifetime of your drives, but it could also improve performance. I will include the following video as humorous proof of that:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
P.S.: I firmly believe that research should be freely accessible, so I feel obligated to mention that all papers linked above are, if not available for free on their respective webpages, obtainable via a certain scientific hub.
- Comment on Protecting HDDs from (external) train vibrations 5 months ago:
I believe it doesn’t really matter much whether you want to protect the environment from vibrations of the machine vs. protecting the machine from vibrations of the environment - in both cases, decoupling the systems is what you want to achieve.
Eventually, you want to build a TMD: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_mass_damper
I personally had to deal with the case of a large format CNC machine transferring stepper motor vibrations into an adjacent office via the wall-mounted brackets it was sitting on. People started to complain shortly after installation since the noise was very audible in the otherwise quiet working environment.
The solution involved placing the machine on a plate mounted via rubber decouplers (see www.dayco.com/en/product/decouplers) which in turn was mounted to a shop-built TMD using a rubber core sandwiched between two foam plates. The rubber core works as both mass and absorbs additional vibrations. It was built following a paper, but unfortunately, that was around 7 years ago and I’m not sure I’ll be able to dig the publication out again.
You can in fact simulate the TMD and do the tuning (see for example mathworks.com/…/mass-spring-damper-in-simulink-an… , though dedicated software packages also exist) but in all honesty, that will probably be overkill for your case.
Having your NAS sit on a 1/2" board of baltic birch plywood resting on a foam sandwich is probably going to do the trick in your case. You can easily create such a sandwich using foam, a rubber mat and some spray glue. Different foam densities will give different results and yield different “tunings” - you may have to play around with this a bit. I could imagine you’ll most likely even be able to skip the second decoupling step (rubber feet/decouplers), in the aforementioned case the second decoupling allowed for another set of frequencies to be dampened (via a different overall rubber hardness) but also brought overall amplitude down.
Don’t use super soft foam, as this will yield a wobbly base, something you probably want to avoid for your NAS. Also, make sure not to attach the base board to anything else apart from the foam, or you’ll transmit vibrations again. If you don’t like the appearance of the foam, you can build a small fence around it that goes up to the top of the base plate.
All that being said, there are also ready-made solutions like speaker dampening feet available: www.amazon.com/…/B09QC2L7N3
Most of them are made to decouple subwoofers, so they might fit into the frequency spectrum you specified. Those couls certainly be an affordable and rather quick way to solve the problem.
- Comment on Alone i n the dark is playable online on this wonderful website. 5 months ago:
I played that game when it came out and loved it, naturally - it was pretty revolutionary when it was released, 3d graphics and all.
Later on (say 15 years ago) I got nostalgic and tried to play it again, but couldn’t get over the weird controls and camera angles and deemed it unplayable.
Funny enough, I remembered it a week before Christmas and re-played it in DOSBox. To my surprise, I actually made fast progress and didn’t even die in any fight until midway into the game. I had a totally different experience in terms of difficulty, clunkiness etc. and really enjoyed it.
- Comment on Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison 6 months ago:
Yeah, that is about what happened. According to the BBC, he had purchased a keyboard, mouse and Fire TV stick to “connect to cloud services”:
In a “flagrant disregard for his bail conditions”, jurors were told that police found an Amazon Fire Stick in his hotel TV allowing him to connect to cloud computing services with a newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse.
www.bbc.com/news/technology-66549159
Naturally, almost all “news” sources cook up a headline like “hack carried out with only an Amazon Fire Stick”. Ugh.