NeuronautML
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- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 3 weeks ago:
I mean where will Microsoft stop with this ? So force people to create accounts, people create accounts, then remove them and only use local accounts or find some other loophole. Then what ? Lockdown windows usage until you have a Microsoft account with a real phone number, always connected and at least one up to date copy of birth certificate and passport ?
Isn’t the money from selling microsoft products enough ? Is the AI slop that nobody wants so expensive ?
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 1 month ago:
Here’s a copy paste from superuser that will hopefully show you that what you said is incorrect in a way i find expresses my thoughts exactly
Magnetic Field Breakdown
Most sources state that permanent magnets lose their magnetic field strength at a rate of 1% per year. Assuming this is valid, after ~69 years, we can assume that half of the sectors in a hard drive would be corrupted (since they all lost half of their strength by this time). Obviously, this is quite a long time, but this risk is easily mitigated - simply re-write the data to the drive. How frequently you need to do this depends on the following two issues (I also go over this in my conclusion).
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 1 month ago:
Tape storage is the gold standard but it’s just not realistically applicable to low scale operations or personal data storage usage.
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 1 month ago:
I did not meant to come across as saying that HDDs don’t suffer bit rot. However, there are specific long term storage HDDs that are built specifically to be powered up sporadically and resist external magnetic influences on the tape. In a proper storage environment they will last over 5 years without being powered up and still retain all information. I know it because i use them. Conversely there are no such long term storage SSDs.
SSDs store information through trapped charges which most certainly lose charge through quantuum tunneling. As insulation loses effectiveness, the potential barrier for the charge allows for what is normally a manageable effect, much like in the CPU like you said, to become out of the scope of error correction techniques. This is a physical limitation that cannot be overcome.
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 1 month ago:
I doubt it. SSDs are subject to quantuum tunneling. This means if you don’t power up an SSD once in 2-5 years, your data is gone. HDDs have no such qualms. So long as they still spin, there’s your data and when they no longer do, you still have the heads inside.
So you have a use case that SSDs will never replace, cold data storage.
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 1 month ago:
Lol at the notion that you’ll get to speak to any engineer when your machine breaks. Best they can do is a call center in India that follows a script and circles around a bit between them until you either give up or they RMA your stuff to feed you a bill later for repairs.
- Comment on EU consumers don’t trust US goods: a look into Trump’s trade deficit claims 2 months ago:
When i was living in the US because i had to for work none of their olive oil tasted like olive oil. Turns out there was a study that showed that 80% of supermarket olive oil in the US is fake.
Yeah their products are shoddy. You do not sell fake olive oil to a European.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 2 months ago:
Yeah that’s the thing, this study analyzes how much of a substance is needed to kill you in one go, but not so clear on how repeated use translates to harm. So yeah there’s higher chances of getting killed in one go by coffee than joints, but in the long run with moderate doses the combustion carries a high risk of cancer.
Best stick with edibles or dry herb vapes.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 2 months ago:
Probably not, but i can guarantee you i could find volunteers by the truck load. Hell I’ve met several of them.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 2 months ago:
I had from professor Gable’s page which was linked on wikipedia, but his page seems down and i can only find it from non free sources, but perhaps you’ll be more lucky than me. The name of the study is Gable, RS (2006) “Acute toxicity of drugs versus regulatory status” in Drugs and Society: U.S. Public Policy, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 2 months ago:
Just to add a note that this graph comes from a study made on rats. I love the study and i use this graph frequently when discussing drugs, but i think it’s important to know.
Being done on rats also raises the point that it’s done excluding a mental component of using the drug, like for instance how some people use cigarettes in depression for its antidepressant effect or use alcohol to cope with mental health issues.
- Comment on Unwanted: The scores of migrants Italy refuses to take back 2 months ago:
Ok so from what i see it’s not really 1€. It is, but kinda isn’t. You need go pay 5k€ to the council and commit at least 30-50k€ to repair a ruined house. It’s in towns 1 hour away from anything else, like schools, jobs or other people, which is why they’re empty.
- Comment on Unwanted: The scores of migrants Italy refuses to take back 2 months ago:
What do you mean ?
- Comment on Europol chief says Big Tech has ‘responsibility’ to unlock encrypted messages 2 months ago:
Sorry Catherine, you need to learn how to do your job without having everyone’s personal lives and private details indexed at your fingertips in some government database. And she’s Belgium, like the guys who proposed chat control. What the hell is going on with Belgium trying to turn the EU into a surveillance state? Could you guys please not ?
- Comment on Israel supplied Iran with centrifuge platforms containing explosives, top official acknowledges 2 months ago:
Well, they’re both evil in some ways but one of them has killed way more children than the other. Like way, way, way more children. So many children in so many ways. Some with bombs, some with hidden explosives, some with snipers.
- Comment on Ukraine parliament bans organ harvesting from war casualties for transplantation 3 months ago:
Russia is currently returning Ukranian POWs with organs harvested, so they are funding the war with organs. Nobody is denying that they’re not saving lives, the problem is, can the process be verified accurately enough to prevent criminal harvesting of organs ?
During a war, things are hectic. Hectic enough that if there are rogue members harvesting organs, claiming they’re doing on official orders, but much later are found out to be acting on their own accounts, they are not detected and acted on promptly. Even if everyone sees it, who will question it ? Even during peace times in highly regulated countries, doctors still go on for a long time doing things they’re not supposed to before being caught. By then several innocents have suffered.
Personally I’m against this. I don’t think there are enough mechanisms to prevent abuse and the potential for harm is immense. I wouldn’t even trust a country with less corruption issues on this, and Ukraine has considerable corruption issues.
- Comment on Polish president says don't arrest Netanyahu at Auschwitz ceremony 3 months ago:
Isn’t the law applied independently from the government by the courts in Poland ? If so, then wouldn’t the arrest be up to the judges, rather than whatever the president or government says ?
- Comment on Ukraine parliament bans organ harvesting from war casualties for transplantation 3 months ago:
Here’s the problem when you say that in a war. You’re alive, you’re an enemy combatant and/or civilian, you are now dead and your lungs are still viable, cut the fuck out and sold to fund the war. If you were lucky, there was still anesthesia left.
It’s a terrible proposition to even consider accepting transplants from warzones. It’s begging for warcrimes.
- Comment on Lindsey Graham warns US allies over Netanyahu warrant: "Crush your economy" 4 months ago:
Ah yes, the US will crush everyone’s economy and live in this economic bubble of invulnerability.
It’s like US politicians don’t understand the two way nature of trade.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 5 months ago:
I tried looking around but this humble soul doesn’t have much in the way of receiving donations. I suggest contacting him via github.com/Catfriend1 to ask for an alternative and if he gets back to you, share it here for other people who dislike paypal.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 5 months ago:
Fyi the syncthing-fork guy who’s still updating has a donating button on F-droid via Liberapay. It’s up to you if your financial situation allows you to donate, but the more of us help the remaining developers for their time, in particular those of us that rely so much in their work, the better we’ll be off.