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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horse denier⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  neigh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How do they if you dont plug them in to the network, do they have cellular, or some sort of PLC? Can they hack WPA? maybe they’re more powerful than i’d creditt them for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux doesnt “force” chip makers. It tries to collaborate , that’s the point of what Linus has been saying and doing for several years. I don’t know which market you’re talking about though, embedded - which is relevant here, or consumer PC. I don’t even think MS gives a shit about consumer PC, it’s worth next to nothing to anyone - maybe apple does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d think most people woud go for a cheap used ultra Small Form Factor pc or raspberry pi set up as an htpc. Plug in to either tv screen (via hdmi ) or monitor / projector directly. Never connect the tv to the internet - or even to your LAN if you’re really paranoid. You can arse around with a remote control a bit bodgy, or just use wireless Keyboard/mouse.

  I cant imagine spending the time to jailbreak a tv to get less functionality for more hassle - but i’m sure some crazy will have done it - good luck finding them though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he needs to work with HW manufacturers and chip designers/manufacturers to get drivers. They’re always going to have some proprietary HW and FW and communication protocols somewhere in their stuff. I think if he pisses them off too much he has to to bit-bash or reverse engineer all drivers for loads of stuff - which is never going to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calcrelatable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks I was looking at the answer and thinking it didn’t fit my memory. i’m sure most of mine were ACs. TBF with things like VPAM coming in the late 90s, you did have backspace and all sorts of stuff like that.

  I still remember doing linear regression in a stats exam on i think a casio fx-115W something like that . Excellent calculator - but just no, it was time for some things to be on a real computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best replacement for excel is: anything that doesn’t rape your data whilst pouring sugar in you gas tank. /s

  TLDR - R, Python, mariaDB, for real data analysis stuff + minor role for whatever spreadsheet package.

  For hobbies / analysis / data manipulation , storage , graphs and general stats fuckery here’s my advice; as someone who does this stuff - “badly I might add” - for a shitty public sector organisation that just can’t decide whether to bend over M$ barrel or Oracle’s barrel:

  • use R (via R-studio if you need an “environment”) for more statsy stuff and easier graphs.

  • Python for more general mathsy / programmy / web scrapy stuff - can do decent graphs with libraries like plotly and matplotlib stuff like that, scipy, numpy, and pandas are the other basic libraries for analysis and maths and large datasets. peopl like using ‘jupyter notebooks’ - I don’t get it personally - but 50 Phil Ochs fans cant be that wrong.

  • Set up a mariadb or something if you need databasey stuff, I doubt you need to look at more hardcore stuff like postgresql for “hobbying” ; my personal (1 user) databases were built several years ago and mariadb is just fine for that. but some of the high vol transactional DB at work do use postgresql.

  These are all good to learn in my experience, even if you think they’re harder than excel; ( are they tho’? array formlae!?). They’re sort of interoperable - subject to learning. They - naturally - have their open-source annoyances.: a million ways to do everything, and versioning issues. (Excel still has fucking vlookup() tho’ - talk abut legacy baggage - but no it’s not as bad as the open souce maelstroms).

  You can still ouput data into a spreadsheet for viewing formatting and messing with stuff - but there are other ways.

  Footnote: Yes I do still use excel, but normally mostly for final formatted report for customer who wants it. Having R/python directly write data into excel is so much better than letting excel open anything. Excel just can’t let an innocent SNOMED code go unmolested; you have to be on high alert if you let excel actually do anything.

  Also spreadsheet for messy data cleansing - for looking at mess, to help refine the R/python cleansing script. I’d happily use libre/ods for any of these but I don’t fancy putting the request in to IT and . . . having to speak to IT about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh “online community” , sorry I think I’ve misunderstood this whole thing. I mean, I don’t even know what a GenZ are. Is that, like, doing the emails? https://youtu.be/jK-ZRxeJIiU?t=14

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d call that a “webpage” though, one with an ill-fitting name. One person with a sandwich board and a megaphone yelling at a few passers by who at best smile, give a half-hearted thumbs up, then walk away.

  To me, for it to live up to the name “community” that implies several people sharing stuff and a bit of reciprocity.

  Of course that might take time, the first poster might be one of those proverbial people planting those trees that they’re never going benefit fron the shade of. Theres no harm in just creating it making a few posts and leaving them there- it might become active eventually. But it could be never and it will inevitably take a lot longer if the platform only has a million users a day total than if it had a billion.

  You can probably do some sort of critical-mass / chain-reaction / markov chain type model to get a handle on the chances of a niche community becoming active in small population. Like that ‘Drake equation’ for trying to stop people wasting resources on SETI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can’t forget terrormisu 🤌🏼⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  torturelini spookghetti penne arra-bat-a Pizza Morguerita

  and you can serve Vampolicella or Mortepulciano

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do update freetube about 1 time a week these days (which is approaching the annoyance level of ads).

  I used to have a lot more issues with it when I didn’t update so frequently - or maybe that was just a different stage in the arms race; I’m sure the reliability will vary, and eventually the developer of freetube will give up.

  I mean, I wont be throwing out the bat or anything crazy like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i find using freetube keeps Ernie calm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Worst Apology Video on the Planet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That might make it less dystopia-ish. Perhaps they can rent a mod-bot from amazon.

  Seriously though the first rule does suggets bots are not allowed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

           LEELA
                       Should we really be celebrating? I mean, 
                       what if the second garbage ball returns 
                       to Earth like the first one did?
  
             FRY
                       Who cares? That won't be for hundreds 
                       of years.
  
             FARNSWORTH
                       Exactly! It's none of our concern.
         
             FRY
                       That's the 20th century spirit!
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm back with another great recipe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I totally made that up by the way so don’t rely on it at all with actual Germans.

  Don’t forget their neighbour with numbers like “quatre-vingt-dix-sept” though, I think theres a reason for so many renowned French mathematicians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “cost” or “price”? If a high price isn’t clearing a market . . . something uncompetetive is probably happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s student accomodation - short term , probably ok for youths for whom sharing with strangers as part of the “experience”.

  That’s no place for putting down roots, or for a full time worker. It’s not a bad idea in principle - i agree. But each unit should be 2-3 times the size and include a private shower room, toilet. and at least a small kitchenette. And the conversion should be nominally permanent - i.e. require a plaanning application to reverse.

  That plan doesnt even have a washbasin/water supply. My guess is they want to cheap out on plumbing - hence the communal bathroom and kitchen. So that it is reversible back to office space - they’re not building a home if they want it reversible - it’s temporary “accomodation”. No good for a lasting comunity. I’d want this type of accomodation to be no more than a few percent of the homes in an area.

  To me the fact they scaled down the plan of the “traditional studio” to make their plan look bigger betrays the fact that these are disingenuous salespeople not actually interested in making viable homes for people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm back with another great recipe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hard-boiled hexegg. It’s better in German, hartgekoctsexei

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were god I might do all sorts of shit to test the supposed intelligence of my creations. That might include including telling them “do some pointless thing, or else”.

  It might interest me to see if they’re capable of reasoning or testing to determine that the task is pointless and the threat is empty. Probably not, but its hilarious for them to think they matter to me; It’s like a videogame to me.

  It only takes 6 days for me to start whole a new game. I’m probably bored of it long before now or at least well ino my hundred and somethingth play-through light-years away. I prefer keeping the dinosaurs because they’re way cooler than humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, did you ever get a sense of dejavu?
  QED.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend staying in abstract then. Real world stuff like latent heat and state-changes might maky it boyle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Solved global warming. Nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I they call it Windouze I’ll consider it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar panels between railway tracks?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i think they’ll crack from the vibrations, or to avoid that they’ll need to be built a lot sturdier than normal.

  In which case just make the cheap version put them on top of buildings, in cities, near to demand; like everyone with a quarter of a brain has known since their invention.

  Don’t install sensitive/ fragile equiipment in dangerous places near massive energetic machines uness it’s neccesay for those machines or there is really no where else to put it.

  Can I get 60 grand to shove a solar panel up my arse as an “experiment”? Maybe some of these dumb experiments will help figure out a way to manage all the challenges of idiots who have more money than sense - that might be worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There you go little guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s well in the shade already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I appreciate that. I paid an independent IT security consultant lot of money to help me come up with it - so I don’t want to have to change it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry I don’t use that for my internet bank: 19513FDC9DA4FB72A4A05EB66917548D3C90FF94D5419E1F2363EEA89DFEE1DD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the points on the licence that really matters for speeding though in my country. When they accumulate enough points they get banned from driving for a period like a year or maybe more.

  I hope this applies to meta. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope i dont get fined for

  5e884898da28047151d0e56f8dc6292773603d0d6aabbdd62a11ef721d1542d8

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I make games and this literally happened to me this morning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying to sell 'owt without becoming a sell-out.