CompactFlax
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- Comment on Apple’s Next-Gen AirPods with Brainwave Monitoring 2 days ago:
In comparison to tech rivals, they actively don’t collect a lot of the data they could be gathering and its been argued it’s one reason Siri is so ineffably stupid in comparison to eg google.
- Comment on Apple’s Next-Gen AirPods with Brainwave Monitoring 3 days ago:
Not to defend Apple’s other problems, but they do market the concept that they are one of the very few tech companies that don’t sell data.
For now.
- Comment on How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known? 3 days ago:
Melted down and gems re cut.
It’s a bad deal for everyone.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 4 days ago:
I just saw that they’re bringing back local controls but I bet it’s going to time out if the service is down for more than X time to refresh your license.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 4 days ago:
But then you might be able to bypass the €25/mth subscription on your €3059 mattress cover.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 5 days ago:
I wonder how it compares in functionality - to be clear, there’s no functionality I’m aware of that would require cloud (perhaps historical data).
Still, they’re wildly expensive.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 5 days ago:
I’ve heard these beds are actually quite effective at helping you sleep and then wake up more naturally.
But they have wrapped entirely local events (it’s all just timers, folks) behind a cloud-exclusive subscription and the product is useless on a sunny day like we had yesterday.
They’re enormously expensive and the subscription serves no useful purpose other than to line the pockets of the investors.
I have a strict rule of no cloud dependency in my house. Otherwise, I’d be interested - if the price was remotely reasonable.
- Comment on Is Tailscale ok? (Spoiler: no) 5 days ago:
How many people are CGNAT and also no ipv6?
Actually, I don’t want to know. It’s too damn high.
- Comment on Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? 1 week ago:
HAOS has add-ons to run a sort of managed version I think of pihole. Speaking of easy.
RAID0 is not RAID, because R stands for redundant and RAID0 has dependency on as many drives are in the machine. You need to change that. One drive fails you lose everything.
The question is pertinent to my interests and the answer is to spend some time learning about the benefits and disadvantages of chipsets and processors unfortunately.
- Comment on Update on my Home-Lab now featuring a fully custom built 10" Aluminumm rack 2 weeks ago:
Cool. I’m considering replacing my aging Pfsense box (which there’s nothing wrong with) with a UI router; presently I don’t need more than 100mbit. The integrated wifi doesn’t meet my needs though.
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 2 weeks ago:
Maybe I should, to establish a pattern.
But then I’d have to go to the office. Ew. HR is there.
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 2 weeks ago:
I feel like there’s some kind of middle ground between the notoriously insecure HID style building access card and providing biometrics.
I wonder if this has anything to do with a RTO push and people badging in for others. But then VPN usage would show that…
- Comment on Update on my Home-Lab now featuring a fully custom built 10" Aluminumm rack 2 weeks ago:
What are the unifi bits?
- Comment on I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions) 2 weeks ago:
In response to your edit - micromanaging is standard. It’s super awesome when the PI is telling you how to run a procedure they haven’t run themselves or haven’t done in 10 years. /s
One thing I forgot to mention is that you’ve got people with zero industry experience and zero managerial training walking into their supervisory role on the merit of their educational and research background. They just don’t know (and have the Dunning Kreuger effect in spades) that they’re being managerial jerks. ASD or not. Huge “manage your manager” challenge in academia.
And with ASD, we get into a habit of trying to communicate with neurotypicals and in America especially it’s expected to sugarcoat and kowtow in every communication with the manager but that’s not always a great thing to do with ASD people as you’re aware. Clarity without confrontation is the fine line that you’ll need to walk.
- Comment on I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions) 2 weeks ago:
This may be unhelpful but my experience working in academia is that clear explicit communication helps a lot, and suspending judgement until a relationship and trust is established helps too - and that can take a really long time. Try to take a step back and not get emotionally involved with things, but keep the receipts and escalate if things do truly get out of hand. Having someone you can talk to and trust to be critical of your method of handling the situation can helps with perspective.
Some academics are just assholes. Seems most are on the autism spectrum, and that makes it hard to interact with. Aside from neurodivergence, it’s not hard for a perceived slight to get blown out of proportion for a variety of reasons.
As you’re noting you’re going to have to grin and bear it for a while until you can get the residency sorted out. Doing excellent work that’s in demand can definitely help with establishing relationships, but obviously that depends on the situation.
- Comment on Disabled man denied access to train at Homerton station over ‘made-up rule’ 2 weeks ago:
Bureaucracy will protect the station staff.
The driver then got the ramp out, allowing Mr Kaplowitz and his four friends to board the train, and comforted the group. The train departed six minutes late.
Common sense hero right there.
- 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... 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
That’s not what I said.
- Comment on YSK that 55% of Gazan Children has suicidal thoughts in a 2022 report 3 weeks 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 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter, so … the CEO is perfect application!
- Comment on Electron apps are causing system-wide lag on MacOs Tahoe 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.