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- Comment on salty 8 hours ago:
They’re just nearly equally reactive in two opposite directions.
You can absolutely make salts with acidic or alkaline properties by altering this careful balance.
- Comment on Rough draft NAS is complete! 11 hours ago:
I would argue either RAID 5 or ZFS RAIDz1 are inherently unsafe, since recovery would take a lot of read-write operations, and you better pray every drive will hold up well even after one clearly failed.
RAID6/ZFS RAIDz2 is the way. Yes, you’re gonna lose a bit more space, but added reliability is priceless.
(And, in any case, make backups for anything critical!)
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 days ago:
Data hoarders could be happy, but otherwise it’s mostly enterprise use.
I personally hold about 4 TB of files, and I know people holding over 30 TB.
As soon as your storage needs exceed 1-2 games and a bunch of old photos, demand for space raises quickly.
- Comment on Japanese researchers broke the fiber transmission record with 1.02 petabits per second 4 days ago:
Speeding up the Internet will speed up Tor as well.
- Comment on Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers 5 days ago:
Lol
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 5 days ago:
Yes, storage is complicated - but it can be done. Pumped hydro and other technologies exist to make storage cheaper than it would be in batteries, and sodium-ion options become cheaper and cheaper to serve as buffers.
As far as I know, the power outage in Portugal and Spain did not start with renewables, those were disconnected to protect the equipment later, when the voltage already dropped, along with other power stations. Moreover, they were the first to recover, and they handled some of the load during the blackout: euronews.com/…/did-renewable-energy-cause-spain-a…
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 5 days ago:
Up until quite recently, nuclear has been decently economical as it is - but indeed, a lot of nuclear investments of the previous century were made with obtaining weapon-grade plutonium in mind. It’s one part of why countries went with uranium cycle to begin with.
Modern research into thorium-based reactors that could be cheaper and not produce nuclear weapon material is too little too late. Renewables already took over the game.
- Comment on What would remain for a future species if humans were to vanish tomorrow? 5 days ago:
Earth the planet is totally alright with everything we do. It’s been through much tougher times.
We only endanger ourselves and other living creatures.
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 5 days ago:
Initially, world war very nuclear-positive
Then, Idaho, Chernobyl and much later Fukushima happened, slowly turning the world against nuclear as a dangerous energy production option. Association with nuclear weapons and Cold War didn’t help, either.
In the meanwhile, renewables like solar and wind, which were initially prohibitively expensive, got more traction and investment, and as a result of new developments and economies of scale, they eventually managed to become cheaper than nuclear in most areas of the world, rendering nuclear power financially inefficiny and thus generally obsolete.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 5 days ago:
Photon is solid and nice
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- Comment on Shitsharing 6 days ago:
.ml, hexbear and grad up left
Rest down left
Solved.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 1 week ago:
Fair. But standards need to be made eventually, or Fediverse will fail to deliver on its promise.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 1 week ago:
I’d rather see feature parity so that Fediverse and Threadiverse in particular won’t EEE itself.
(Longer translation without commonly accepted terms: I’d rather see Lemmy/PieFed/Kbin/Mbin have the same features overall, so that there wouldn’t be one of them trying to extend on others and then make it standard so that others die out because they lack something important)
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Makes sense, thought about this.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Ocean travel us very fuel efficient, and also bananas don’t seem to have the same effect despite also coming from afar.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
True, but still Why is it so much worse than other plant-based foods?
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Woah, didn’t know about cheese (although makes sense), coffee and chocolate.
Why do coffee and chocolate have such an impact?
- Comment on Anubis, The Opensource Defender Against AI Bots: I fight bots in my free time 1 week ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Anubis, The Opensource Defender Against AI Bots: I fight bots in my free time 1 week ago:
Lol
- Comment on Anubis, The Opensource Defender Against AI Bots: I fight bots in my free time 1 week ago:
Interesting, thanks!
Guess it’s the same kinda thing as amd64 on Intel lol
- Comment on Anubis, The Opensource Defender Against AI Bots: I fight bots in my free time 1 week ago:
Why does default config check Mozilla specifically?
{ "name": "generic-browser", "user_agent_regex": "Mozilla", "action": "CHALLENGE" }
Guess that’s why I’ve seen Anubis check screen quite a few times.
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates 1 week ago:
Yay!
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates 1 week ago:
Yay!
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates 1 week ago:
Can’t it automatically be renewed?
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 week ago:
Right as we speak, the US assists Israel in its genocidal mission to destroy Palestine - one condemned by nearly the entire world. So much for “global benevolent police”.
Sure, there needs to be some updates to ensure UN has what it takes to establish an actually useful peacekeeping force. Guess who’s gonna veto it before anyone else, though, and for what reasons. It’s so so profitable to declare yourself a world police without asking anybody, and ravage any place on Earth on demand.
Cheers.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 week ago:
So, bring in security by initiating wars?
My point is, these interventions have never been about democracy, or freedom, or security for that matter. They were about forcibly creating dependent puppet states acting in the economic interest of the US and reinforcing its hegemony, locals be damned. And it’s what every “successful” invasion has provided.
Take something like Chile as an example (it’s a particularly black-and-white one, but there are plenty more). It was a liberal democracy ran by an elected President, who just so happened to be socialist. The reforms he has introduced threatened foreign capital within the nation, including the American one; as a result, CIA has first launched a propaganda campaign, and when this failed, sponsored and armed a coup that led to the instatement of a brutal and bloody authoritarian regime.
Did the country become more democratic? No. Did it become safer? Hell no. But it suddenly became very dependent on and friendly to American capital, which this entire operation was all about.
If we want some real world police, we should extend the scope of the UN Peacekeepers, instead of relying on a country with a hundred year history of arbitrary invasions and covert interventions. We need the peacekeeping force to be globally recognized and supported.
I don’t know why do some people feel their country is entitled to carry world’s justice. It’s not better or more just, it’s just properly defended against retaliation.
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates 1 week ago:
F I N A L L Y
Now tell me it supports IPv6 and I’ll be the happiest man alive
- Comment on Made Ya Look... 1 week ago:
I’m not sire MAGAs are intelligent enough to know what it is
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 week ago:
For what it is in what respect? You tried to argue that Cold War is a good vs evil situation, I argued that it is very much not.
I fully admit Russia is and always was (I told you why nineties don’t really count) an autocracy, and that actions of Russian rulers have caused a lot of misery and suffering. This doesn’t stop me from admitting the US is a deeply flawed democracy, that American rulers are known to take plenty of unpopular decisions (including wars that no one asked for), and are generally known to not care about lives of people outside the country, causing even more misery all around the globe up to this day.
And this is exactly why I want the governments to have less power, and advocate for direct democracy. Any power is potential for abuse, and Russia and the US have likely proved it the most. Curbing the power of all governments, big and small, has great potential to reduce violence and abuse. With direct democracy and independent media, Russia could have never attacked Ukraine, Israel could never attack Palestine, and US wouldn’t threaten to enter Iran yet again. Russia also wouldn’t have opposition in jails or abroad, US wouldn’t send immigrants to Alligator Alcatraz, and level of human misery would be so much less.
As long as we lead ourselves to believe that this misery and suffering is righteous or “not that bad” to any degree, we empower the tyrants all around the globe.