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- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 47 minutes ago:
Don’t conflate opt-in local facial recognition with mandatory cloud facial recognition, especially when it’s being sold to cops. It’s a bad take and weakens your credibility.
- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 3 days ago:
Someone should tell them that freemium doesn’t work well when there’s a linear increase in cost for every additional query, and when the business value for your exceptionally expensive product is nebulous at best.
- Comment on YSK that 55% of Gazan Children has suicidal thoughts in a 2022 report 3 days ago:
I don’t agree that there’s a biological need to procreate. There is a biological drive to procreate. But there’s no need.
It is resistance to occupation, and ultimately resistance to the ongoing genocide. But personally, I’d feel so much guilt to bring a child into that situation. Is it worth allowing a child to suffer so much to stick it to Israel? I can’t imagine what couples go through making the decision to try to have kids.
- Comment on YSK that 55% of Gazan Children has suicidal thoughts in a 2022 report 3 days ago:
That’s not an assumption I made. I acknowledge there is a blockade. In fact, that’s kinda the point.
- Comment on A priest is the only employee who actually HAS to drink on the job. 3 days ago:
I know a couple deal maker type people who are teetotal. I suspect it’s common in some cultural groups. They just drink nonalcoholic beverages. Some people handle it well, some people don’t.
- Comment on YSK that 55% of Gazan Children has suicidal thoughts in a 2022 report 3 days ago:
That’s not what I said.
- Comment on YSK that 55% of Gazan Children has suicidal thoughts in a 2022 report 3 days ago:
It’s not too surprising. But I do have to seriously question why anyone would try to have a family in the circumstances of Palestine. I struggle to justify it, living in a first world democratic country because of climate change and overpopulation concerns I have. I can’t imagine considering it in a country that’s permanently under oppression by their ethnic supremacist neighbours.
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 3 days ago:
It doesn’t matter, so … the CEO is perfect application!
- Comment on Electron apps are causing system-wide lag on MacOs Tahoe 4 days ago:
Indeed! It must be a lot of lag to notice a difference.
- Comment on Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services? 4 days ago:
If I had time to make dashboards, I wouldn’t waste it making dashboards. Most of the stuff I have just works without a lot of attention, and that’s the way I like it.
I just wait for someone to scream if it breaks.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I just use TrueNAS for my storage layer. I don’t love the idea of a proprietary OS running my storage system. It’s just a bunch of ZFS under the hood which a competent data recovery company should be able to handle, if I don’t have backups of my 3TB of clown porn. The proportion of FreeBSD that’s a mystery to me is slightly less than it was in 2015 when I built it but it’s still pretty high.
My recommendation is to KISS with the fundamental layers and play higher in the stack with less critical workloads. Build a web server and a DNS server and reverse proxy and get a feel for how it works before
mucking withoptimizing the VM host. - Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 6 days ago:
I suspect you are right right in mentioning single serve waste producing machines.
I think there has been a greater split between those who tolerate crappy coffee and those who don’t - the crappy coffee people have moved to the expensive single serve machines, and the people who are picky grind at home (and probably also don’t buy at the grocery store). The rest evidently use pre-ground.
The gap between commodity coffee and snobby coffee has grown, and the availability of snobby coffee has grown between the multitude of roasters and online shopping. If it’s, say, $10 for a bag of premium coffee beans that’s of unknown age (at least 2 months) and lists only “south American” as its origin, or $15 for a bag of 3 day old locally roasted beans from a specific farm in Colombia, I’d go for the latter. I think my prices are a good 10 years old, but let’s just use it as an example.
Ironically the k-cups are quite a bit more expensive than that.
The in store grinders are still around in some stores.
- Comment on Whizzing up some Centennial Incognito 1 week ago:
It’s intriguing to me. For professionals (even or especially small ones) the loss of product to vegetable matter is a significant concern especially in jurisdictions that are taxed on the wort rather than the product. I’ve heard of 20% or more loss, but that’s got something to do with being a tiny 3hL system and brewing triple IPAs. Still, it is expensive to throw away so much product.
One of the problems, I think, with nonalcoholic beer is that some of the compounds we like best in hops are not water soluble and depend on the alcohol to pull them out of the dry hopping. I wonder if this product changes that calculus.
- Comment on French consumer group seeks Perrier sales ban 1 week ago:
Nestle is a horrible company but to complain about a carbon filter and UV light is just preposterous. Want a side of E. coli and microplastics? Cuz that’s how you get that.
- Comment on How could I order a package without my parents finding it? 1 week ago:
Are you aware of the difference in mains voltage between Ireland and USA?
- Comment on Building a removable kiln vent outlet 1 week ago:
My first question, having a limited amount of experience with kilns, is how hot the hose will be getting? Depending on the temperature, a window vent could melt.
I would probably just use a simple aluminum exhaust vent though the building envelope. You can put some metal caging around the vent to keep animals out. Usually you’d also have a backdraft damper to keep air out too.
Typically vinyl siding will have a much lower melting temperature than electrical wires but I would as you say keep them separated. I wouldn’t want to make a lot of work of hanging the hose up every time.
One thing to note is that flexible ducting provides vastly more air resistance than solid ducting, so if you’re making a longer run and/or have a few bends, it may be worth considering.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 1 week ago:
Direct from Wikipedia
Paracetamol was first made in 1878 by Harmon Northrop Morse or possibly in 1852 by Charles Frédéric Gerhardt.
The left has misinformation too. Science is on our side; there’s no reason to propagate this shit.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You need a firewall and optimally a separate wifi network for this kind of thing, because they pretty much all call home. I’m happy enough with Reolink, but mine are PoE. I haven’t set up a NVR for them, just scrypted -> HomeKit Secure Video.
Because you want outside of home availability, self hosting now means punching a hole in the firewall for VPN or implementing Cloudflare tunnels or Tailscale or something. That’s where the handy cloudy apps come in.
- Comment on Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong? 1 week ago:
Just want to add a note that flipping the main breaker de-energizes the rails but there will still be hot wires in the panel from the meter box. Exercise caution.
- Comment on Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong? 1 week ago:
GFCI doesn’t change the fact that there is potentially no ground wire.
- Comment on Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong? 1 week ago:
The short answer is that there’s a really strong chance that you’ve got 2 conductor wire with no ground going to the receptacles if they’ve not installed electrical outlets with a third prong. Fixing that would require running a ground cable to every outlet so configured which means cutting a lot of holes. All things considered I’d probably do a re-wire at that point. It brings into question the type of wire used and the safety of the electrical panel etc. These things age, and standards change.
I would personally want to check the receptacles that have a ground to make sure that the ground is actually hooked up to something and that it is not simply connected to the neutral, which are both bad things.
Given the variables, you’d be best to consult a professional.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 weeks ago:
And that is why we need unions in tech. Tech is a cost center for most companies. It’s a space to beat down as much as possible to get margins up, just the same as the guys working on the line making the thing.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 weeks ago:
Master in computer science
Doesn’t know how to restart a web server.
I don’t mean “doesn’t know the flavour of Linux” I mean doesn’t conceptually know what a web server is so can’t restart the service running on the box.
Yeah, it’s going to be a couple years before you break into the high earner. The problem is that silly valley was hiring tech grads at $300k total comp when money was cheap. Money isn’t cheap anymore.
- Comment on Shipping costs will no longer exist if teleportation is invented. 2 weeks ago:
Why?
We traded energy cost for time when we stopped walking, and replaced it with an animal and a cart, and again with cars, and airplanes. We save time, but the energy input is greater.
Who’s to say that teleportation wouldn’t be a trade off between 5x the energy to take a jet, but instantaneous?
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
Back in the 50s and 60s fridges got cold. The racks were made out of metal so they lasted forever. We could build fridges like this, but we choose not to.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
LG is positively vicious on clothes. Also, fun fact, it’ll run a gentle cycle with the water turned off. It only seems to notice water level on runs that do load sensing.
Miele, Bosch, or gtfo for cleaning appliances.
- Comment on CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production 2 weeks ago:
As long as the efficiency is outweighed by price, it could move us in the right direction. Hopefully we can pick up the efficiency in time. These would also be good for my future load-shifting (charge during off peak, low carbon electricity) and maybe solar system at home.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m a fan of small scale wind, if there’s climate and space for it. 20hrs a day of a (small) 500w adds up really quickly compared to more panels, especially in grey winter weather. The problem is that there’s a bigger difference between megawatt scale solar vs homeowner scale, and megawatt scale wind vs homeowner scale, so there’s limited investment.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 3 weeks ago:
Because splashback.
- Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing? 3 weeks ago:
Fire and police tend to be male dominated professions.
Nursing is a female dominated profession.