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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a question of effort. Sony has a shitload of public presence. For social engineering I can learn many mid level manager names from LinkedIn for example and their infrastructure is necessarily public facing to allow people to work there.

  And that’s not talking about their public web presence and services.

  And now we’ll switch to … You! If I’d try to target you I would have to first find anything from you to actually target.

  Once I have your phone number, public IP or anything that gives me a lead I have to find my way in. And that way in will be because you’ve made a mistake, are lax with your passwords or use an out of date service.

  But that’s like 2/3 of the work I had for Sony as well. And now I see that you’re a student with a net fortune of 50$ and a car from 1989.

  To out it another way: for companies I aim with s rifle as they are a worthy prey. For individual people I use a shotgun and hope something hits something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3106: Farads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whaaaaaaasaaaa

  I have no idea how I’ve missed that y today I’m over of the lucky 10,000 I assume. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3106: Farads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The concept of length is way older than these definitions, same for weight and so on.

  The meter is an awesome example for what I mean: the 1/1000000 wasn’t random. From my understanding it won over the alternatives in dezimal because of it’s relative closeness to an arms length and the definition was used to remove issues in France because of the (metric) fuckton of different measurements for length.

  And the second example of yours is even better describing what I meant: it’s just making sense and is practical not a deep scientific reasoning.

  And I won’t bliebe that the foot and inch was conceived by anyone who has a scientific approach.

  To be clear: you’re right that basically by definition the units were done by professionals. I try to point out that for the more broader used units practical aspects were at least as important (after all it wasn’t a square meter that was used for the gram but a centi of one).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3106: Farads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You sent me down a freaking rabbit hole, thanks! :)

  From what I found is that there is the simple reason that the weird ones are distance, time and weight - the rest I looked into are based on formal non-normalized definitions (including lumen, which surprised me).

  My guess is that in depends on where the unit comes from: science or day to day use.

  I learned about the Siemens, the Weber and the Gray on the way.

  Thanks again!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  German here: just creating and selling something is one thing that jumps to my mind.

  The concept of “I have an idea and a bit of money so I’ll just found a company” is … Tiresome. Possible, yes, but the legal hurdles both good and bad are ridiculous. You need way more time than in the US just for the formal overhead and even then you are way more in it with your own private existence.

  As founder “beschränkte Haftung” is not as limited as it sounds at first if you’re not firm in legalese for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accessibility is the only moral use that AI can have nowadays⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the OP so their point of view might differ.

  I’ve only seen LLM and ADHD connected via writing / homework tasks. Perhaps that’s the same link OP thought of.

  And the txt in the image is anyway just an aggressive individual opinion. I don’t get the logic of “I don’t want or use this so no one is allowed to see it as beneficial”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How can they mention that there were 0.3% not treu random numbers generated and not explain how?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the benefits of a server having multiple public IP addresses?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You got a lot of relevant answers so I want to point out something else:

  You’re hosting your own services. By yourself. Fuck everyone with a broom who tries to gatekeep that. And I don’t mean wooden side first.

  Seriously, your question is on point here from my perspective and as long as it has a connection to running services by your own I personally would love more diversity in hosting solutions.

  Personally, I’d love to see people share more about their provider agnostic opentofu deployment or someone who went all in on AWS lambdas for weird stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the 'it' in 'it snows' doesn't refer to anything⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really becomes time that it’s been made clear about that! It’s unbelievable that it took so long for someone to call out that it’s the time the It is referring to!

  (Now I wait for some nerd to clear up each reference point because I only wrote that because I had the first two parte in my head when I reset your reply!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If darker coloured materials get hotter in the sun faster, will a display with the screen on or off change how quickly it heats up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like the question, thank you! The answer is a clear “yes, but”:

  Your assumption is absolutely correct, light surfaces reflect more light back and heat up less because of this.

  Noe if your display heats up less depends on the amount of energy it uses to generate that white:

  For an e ink display it would be basically the same as a bright vs dark paper of the same color. But OLED for example uses constant energy to generate the white image: So it’s depending on how bright the sun shines vs how much heat gets generated by the display itself.

  Still only looking at the sun’s energy it would be smaller. If the overall temperature would be lower depends on exactly how bright the sun would be vs how efficient the specific display is!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Old knowledge disclaimer, but if they didn’t change it then:

  Because Apple literally tells people that they’re not allowed to charge less somewhere else - at least that was the case several years ago…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balcony solar is all the rage in Germany. Why not in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But this is exactly how they are designed to work.

  I didn’t say that you should diy this but the sets described in this very article works like I described.

  Here’s a random one with data sheets and installation guide.

  www.bauhaus.info/balkonkraftwerke/…/31970796

  Perhaps you should delete your shitty and wrong rant instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balcony solar is all the rage in Germany. Why not in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These setups come with a fitting transformer and you feed their generated power directly in your home power lines via normal plug. It’s quite neat actually in my opinion!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balcony solar is all the rage in Germany. Why not in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually it’s quite smart and simple l: you take any outlet in your house!

  The ac/dc transformer those things simply feeds it’s energy into your house - after all a plug doesn’t care in which direction power flows. .those systems have an upper cap though to prevent people from overloading the net.

  It’s really neat and simple! You basically lower your lower consumption by whatever these things produce.

  I don’t know or have seen anyone using these small balcony cells with a battery though - while technically not a problem I think there’s simply not a use case: they don’t overproduce that much at any given time anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this something only introverts struggle with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The impulse to start talking or interrupting people you can pin to ADHD no problem - but tunnel firing for a whole dialogue discussing a problem?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Kart Should Cost More - YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cheap and uninteresting clickbait.

  Why do you assume that the downvotes are “I don’t understand this” instead of “this is spammy bullshit”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree: there are no stupid questions - but there are loaded questions, questions with wrong assumptions baked in or statements with a questionmark attached.

  Small difference but I found my life way better when differentiating between “person doesn’t know l” and “person wants to be a troll”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So whatever is most comfortable for you :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume we’re in a similar boat so let me assure you: no, you won’t - because we wouldn’t even realize it happened.

  Only after s few months one of us will recall this thread and be like “oh, yeah. Twitter. Seems really dead finally. Good.”

  And to be clear I expect they person to be you because my memory is awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How fast can the body absorb vitamin B12?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You need a doctor’s for the exact figures. Just saying “a pill” without dose is btw completely irrelevant.

  And yes, you’ll pee most of it out what you can’t absorb.

  Something to check for is vitamin K (not sure about your local naming scheme though y shot seems to suffer internationally). You’re body needs that stuff to absorb the B. I actually have a K production problem, that’s why I was B deficient.

  Doctor prescribed 10k I.E. B with fitting K - daily! That’s a crazy amount that would be absolutely useless without my specific circumstances.

  And one more thing: ADHD or not you need to find your way to remember medicine. D just kills your mood, blood pressure in a few years might just kill you.

  My approach for example is a the tier alarm system, mix of voice assistant, a daily mail and push notifications. Plus I have my medicine both at home and at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've always wanted to forge a knife!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s no forgery, that looks like original work to me!

  Seriously though thanks for sharing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call me⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The"single cell pet" gets me even more… Like isn’t that a tad specific? Dogs? No prob! Rabbits? Be my guest. Amoeba? Fuck off, weirdo!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Respect⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh. That would explain the hashtags. I’ll edit my comment to point out yours!

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Respect⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hypothesis: the message seems to imply that the cliche nature lover needs to trample and destroy said nature to be close to it.

  This seems the most likely explanation to me.

  And I find it neither funny nor insightful.