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- Comment on Trying to pick a printer 2 days ago:
Core One has a slightly larger print surface, and the enclosure means it can print more advanced materials.
Prusa is likely going to continue building off the core platform, so it’ll probably be more upgradable than the mk4s.
Also, I think it looks nicer, like an appliance instead of a project.
- Comment on Trying to pick a printer 2 days ago:
Why a mk4s instead of a Core One?
There’s a lot of right answers, but a QIDI or a Core One would probably be my two options here.
- Comment on YSK that military members cannot simply defy orders they object to 2 days ago:
It’s literally brought up in the video. Watch it before commenting.
- Comment on YSK that military members cannot simply defy orders they object to 2 days ago:
Watch the video, it’s more complicated than that from a legal aspect.
This guy is on your side, but knows the law backwards and forward on the subject.
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 6 days ago:
bleepingcomputer.com/…/developer-guilty-of-using-…
10 years in jail is what’s stopping them.
It’s REALLY hard to create a dead man’s switch that works, but also leaves no trace. Even if you delete the script after it executes, there’s probably backups or logs that show what happened.
- Comment on Make dinosaurs weirder 6 days ago:
Yeah, this is why people don’t trust science. They look at the surface level of the PRESS RELEASE and then assume scientists are just making shit up.
There’s a ton of work done behind the pictures and there’s lots of revisions and changes as new evidence comes in. AND there is disclaimers on ever single “artist rendition”
Science is fucking hard, and the pretty pictures of the press release are just the fun parts that they use to advertise their hard work.
Then people take a brief look at the picture, call bullshit, then go smear them online.
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 1 week ago:
I think that has more to do with safety laws and emission standards than anything else. How can you properly crash test a fully modular car?
I’d love it if cars were more repairable, but modular would be a really tough design problem.
Heck, you NEED a screen in the US on any car due to backup cameras being mandatory. If you need a screen, I can see why companies would just use it for the infotainment system.
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 1 week ago:
Just inject it straight into your brain
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what you mean by this. Any modern US house would have a similar capability, it’s just older homes that would struggle since there would never be a need for such high power devices in a garage.
Most older garages would only need enough power to run a single lightbulb, if it was slightly newer, maybe a low power automatic garage door opener.
It’s the same in any country with buildings over 100 years old.
- Comment on Is there any open source tv focused os/ui? 1 week ago:
Steam Big Picture Mode allows you to install non steam apps.
- Comment on xkcd #3100: Alert Sound 2 weeks ago:
Grindr notification sound.
- Comment on I got a free HP DL380 G5, so I blogged about it ! 2 weeks ago:
Powered off it uses almost twice the energy of my server.
That’s insane.
- Comment on iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original 2 weeks ago:
People like playing Nintendo original games. Mario games, Zelda games, etc.
The only way to legally play those is on the switch.
Yes, even non children play those games.
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 2 weeks ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)
It was released on DVD and Blu-ray, if he purchased the disc and ripped it to his media, and hasn’t shared those files with anyone, then it is legal, as an exception to copyright in the US, where Jeff and Google are both based.
Jeff has stated on multiple occasions that he purchases and rips his media, and does not use piracy.
- Comment on Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree? 3 weeks ago:
If it’s a larger corporation, then you might get fired later no matter what, if it comes out. HR policy might require it.
If it’s a smaller corporation, it probably isn’t necessary.
I wouldn’t chance it.
- Comment on Prusa Debuts TPU Filament Designed to Fix the Hassles of Printing with Flexibles 3 weeks ago:
This sounds like a different formulation to make a more reliable TPU for industrial or commercial applications that need more consistency.
Bambu made a slightly stiffer TPU to feed better into their AMS.
Sounds like both are useful for different things.
- Comment on The Engine of our dreams exists. It's Clean, Powerful, Supercharged and 2 Stroke 3 weeks ago:
I’m curious if this actually ends up being significantly lighter though.
I doubt it’ll end up replacing a conventional two stroke motorcycle, as it’s far more complex. But I could see it used in aircraft.
- Comment on Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is 3 weeks ago:
GNU isn’t entirely infinite though. After unpacking GNU is Not Unix 10^45 times, you actually find out what the final G is for.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 weeks ago:
I have Plex running alongside Jellyfin.
When transcoding video, Plex uses an extra 5 watts of power. Jellyfin uses an extra 55 watts.
Jellyfin also has security holes for accessing videos via URL without being authenticated.
I don’t feel like Jellyfin is ready for being exposed to the internet.
- Comment on Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors 4 weeks ago:
It’s off by default, but it allows you to turn it on in the advanced settings. Seems like a good compromise, especially since it lets you whitelist clients.
If you were using the router as a secondary network, like for IoT or homelab, it would kind of make sense to allow SSH or other logins from WAN, as long as the WAN was also your network and not the open internet.
- Comment on Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors 4 weeks ago:
Took a while to find a list of router models, I doubt this is an exclusive list, but at least bleeping computer has a list at all.
The threat monitoring firm reports that the attacks combine brute-forcing login credentials, bypassing authentication, and exploiting older vulnerabilities to compromise ASUS routers, including the RT-AC3100, RT-AC3200, and RT-AX55 models.
- Comment on Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors 4 weeks ago:
Kinda tricky to tell what exactly I’m supposed to check.
I run an ASUS RT-AX86S
To check if the settings have been compromised:
Log into the router under 192.168.1.1 Advanced Settings/Administration
System tab
Service section
Enable SSH should be set to OFF - Comment on What's your recommendation for a small NAS? 4 weeks ago:
I had a 212j for about 10 years before I got a 720+.
The j series are so underpowered the dashboard took literal minutes to load.
The + series is extremely energy efficient, but still powerful. I was running a Plex server along with a Terraria server on it and had no hiccups.
Now they were designed nearly a decade apart, but still. The + series is the way to go, don’t get anything else if you go with Synology.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 4 weeks ago:
Oh damn, I had no idea that’s why a lot of movies had OCR issues with my subtitles. I knew the information, and I had this problem, but I never put it together to realize that it had to be OCRd.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 4 weeks ago:
Piracy has none of these problems.
Once again, playing by the rules is a worse experience.
- Comment on How do you document your Homelab? 5 weeks ago:
There’s no such thing as too simple to document. If you spent time learning how to install it, you’ll need to relearn it if you want to make any changes in the future. If you don’t leave at least some notes as to why you make some decisions, you’ll have to redo your work.
It’s also good to make notes on every configuration setting. That forces you to understand why the settings are the way they are. If you have a -f in a docker config and you don’t have any understanding of why that’s there, you might not know if it’s a development flag for getting things set up, or if it’s a critical part of your environment.
It is especially important if any of those parts are exposed to the public Internet. You might have a config set to allow unauthenticated connections and not know it.
- Comment on Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze? 5 weeks ago:
As someone who lives solidly in corn maze country, this is a well used joke whenever the topic of corn mazes comes up. Which means I hear it about twice a week throughout the fall.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 1 month ago:
That only works after the video is out and has usage statistics.
This could theoretically start to identify those moments before the video is public.
- Comment on Scientists caution against charging electric vehicles at home overnight 1 month ago:
That’s how I read the article, yes.
It’s a little confusing, because they seem to also be speculating on how power generation and load will be in the future as well as people’s charging habits.
- Comment on Scientists caution against charging electric vehicles at home overnight 1 month ago:
I’m not sure you’re talking about the same thing the paper is about. The overall load is lower, but the mix of power types is different.
Specifically, in California, there’s a HUGE difference in power generation types overnight than during the day. There’s excess capacity until the sun goes down due to solar. If you look ahead to everyone driving EVs, and then assume that everyone charges at night, then the power problem is completely different than what it is today.