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- Comment on 1 day ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Schipkau_GICON_Wind_Turbine
3.8 megawatts.
- Comment on How do I deal with a very negative inner voice/second conscience that's constantly loud? It's like I have two different people in my head but they're both me, telling me opposite things endlessly. 2 days ago:
I think the stuff you’re describing is outside the range where we internet randos can give any concrete help. You’re doing the right thing in seeing professionals who have training in dealing with this stuff. I can only offer sympathy and best wishes. I find if I get agitated about something, I can often calm myself down with deep breathing. But I’m sure my experience is less intense than yours to start with, so I have no idea whether the same methods would help.
- Comment on Tape drive backups 2 days ago:
Tape is unfortunately uneconomical for regular people due to the drives costing so much, unless you get a used, older generation one.
How many GB’s do you mean? Maybe try some optical discs, BD-R at 25GB maybe.
Otherwise just rent some online storage. Hetzner Storage Box is cheap and Storage Share is only slightly less cheap, and has lots of sharing features (it’s really NextCloud).
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 3 days ago:
I hate amazon but haven’t been following stuff about newegg and have been buying from them now and then. No probs so far but yeah, B&H is also good.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 3 days ago:
I wouldn’t buy a Synology but either way I’d want a 5 or 6 bay for raid-6 with two parity drives. Going from 4 bay (raid 6 or 10) to 5 bay (raid 6) is 50% more user data for 25% more drives. I wouldn’t do raid 5 with drives of this size.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 3 days ago:
Well, largest this week. And
Yeah, $800 isn’t a small chunk of change, but for a hard drive of this capacity, it’s monumentally cheap.
Nah, a 24TB is $300 and some 20TB’s are even lower $ per TB.
- Comment on Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto. 4 days ago:
- Comment on Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto. 4 days ago:
ten distinct propositions, enumerated from 0 to 9,
11th proposition: write unreadable manifesto and make sure to maximize irony by posting on a Microsoft site (github) that uses everything there for AI training among other things.
- Comment on Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies: An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption schemes. 4 days ago:
This isn’t about random vs pseudorandom numbers, it’s about the use of hashing in protocols that are provably secure under the random oracle model (ROM). It’s a pretty near certainty that first year CS courses don’t explain what the random oracle model is. But basically, there have been known attacks for decades against protocols intentionally designed to be vulnerable in the standard model while still secure in the ROM. This is the first time such an attack has been found against a real world protocol.
Matthew Green had an explainer a few months ago that was more detailed than the Quanta article while still being readable: blog.cryptographyengineering.com/…/how-to-prove-f…
Anyway it sounds like caution is warranted but “ZOMG the sky is falling” is overreaction.
- Comment on If you had a huge slingshot, how much rubber band would you need to send a spaceship into space? 4 days ago:
You couldn’t do it with one slingshot, as several people have explained. But if the slingshot was big enough to launch a ship carrying someone with another slingshot, you’d do a little better. With the second ship carrying a third ship and so on, the slingshot round on the last ship might move fast enough. This is how multi-stage rockets work, by the way.
- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 1 week ago:
I wasn’t familiar with the term: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel#"Blackpill"
It doesn’t sound good at all.
- Comment on An AI That Promises to “Solve All Diseases” Is About to Test Its First Human Drugs 1 week ago:
Rfk Jr will use it for drug approvals too! Uh oh.
- Comment on Hardware Suggestions For A Beginner? 1 week ago:
Start with a vps so you can ramp up with the software.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No idea about aleph. I’ve used Solr for that (solr.apache.org), thus my username, but maybe that is considered old school by now.
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 1 week ago:
I hate to say this but there are still interesting people on Reddit.
- Comment on Owners of laptops with very cheap aftermarket batteries, is it worth the discount? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, they generally work fine.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 2 weeks ago:
10-15 meters might be good enough to conduct the attack from a neighboring office or apartment, while actual eavesdropping is not so easy.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 2 weeks ago:
So glad I use wired earbuds and refused to buy a phone that didn’t support them.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 3 weeks ago:
No need for vaccines with 5g chips when the wearable will have one right on your wrist.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 3 weeks ago:
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No it likely wouldn’t make them explode if they hypothetically were there.
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It’s reasonably certain that Iran didn’t and doesn’t have any usable nukes. The claim is that they were working on building them and that the bombing was to stop them from completing any such projects.
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There are conflicting opinions about whether they were really working on building nukes. One might reasonably also say that if they weren’t working on it before, they are NOW.
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IIRC there was some kind of religious fatwa against Iran building nukes, which made the claim somewhat credible that they weren’t building them. It looked to me like they were instead getting the precursor materials together without doing the final refining and assembly, so that if the fatwa was lifted and the clerics said build the nukes, they could do so relatively quickly. That’s just me though, and I don’t have any special sources of info.
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- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 3 weeks ago:
“How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works Hesitancy about vaccinations is on the rise, but studies show there are specific ways to address people’s questions.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01771-z
Optimistic, but a start maybe.
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes they are on a remote server that I sshfs mount and play the same way. Multiple people could use the server at the same time if desired, though for me it hasn’t been an issue. It’s audio, I don’t need a visual UI for it. I still have a fair amount of physical media too including LP’s, though my record player is long gone.
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 4 weeks ago:
I just don’t get it, I’ve seen people struggle with itunes, that stuff is way too complicated and I don’t see any need for it. Maybe I’m missing something but if I want to play some music and it’s in a file, saying “play this file” seems about as direct as it gets.
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 4 weeks ago:
…tumblr.com/…/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-h…
I just have a bunch of media files (.ogg, .mp3, etc.) and play them with mplayer from the command line. Playlist = shell script that plays some group of files. I use old school track numbering (01-whatever, 02-whatsit, etc.) though, so most of the time “mplayer *” is how I play an album and the tracks play automatically in the right order. I don’t understand the purpose of anything fancier. Now get off my lawn.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 4 weeks ago:
No idea about internet integration or “arr”, but the Inkplate series are completely open. I got an Inkplate 10 because of an app that I wanted to write for it at the time. The hardware is nice, software is lacking, but I’d buy it again if I wanted a basic e-reader. It has an epub reading app and I’d just download epubs to it from my PC by wifi or USB.
- Comment on Looking for an html-based secure message service 4 weeks ago:
I think I’ve seen some things like that, but you can never stop them from taking a screen shot, with a camera if necessary.
- Comment on Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup? 4 weeks ago:
Works best with an air hockey table.
- Comment on Best place for a community alternative to Facebook group? 4 weeks ago:
Reddit probably beats Facebook but it’s getting worse all the time. If you want to use Lemmy you might consider running your own instance. Lemmy as far as I can tell has usable photo uploading. Maybe the new thing you mentioned will be better, but idk anything about it. There is also Threads which is a Facebook thing, right?
- Comment on Best place for a community alternative to Facebook group? 4 weeks ago:
If you have the time for it I’d say run an independent site. Lemmy is ok for posting photos though.
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t understand the original post. It seemed like someone whining about a switch to AGPL. But that switch certainly sounds like a good thing to me. I didn’t know the old license was Apache but it still seems like a good switch. Redis (with a misstep in between) did something similar.