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- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 1 day ago:
Cause things get named CENTURIES before we understand them, and as we learn more, sometimes it makes sense to rename them, sometimes it is so engrained in daily life nobody would use the new names.
- Comment on Do the right thing and lend a friendly hand 3 days ago:
Cause using superman for his actual ideal use would be pretty boring for a comic book.
- Comment on The Lord of the Ringsy-Wingsy 3 days ago:
No, the Teletubbies are the Eloi from The Time Machine. They are simple creatures that can’t possibly understand the technology they use, so they don’t make it or maintain it.
They freak out and go to bed when the sun goes down. Probably because the Morlocks are coming.
The world is far too technologically advanced for it to be Hobbits. The Hobbits are specially written to be essentially self sufficient and don’t desire anything more advanced than beer (and magic fireworks.)
- Comment on Trim around door warping 6 days ago:
That’s probably too much warping for humidity. The hinges are probably pulling that side of the door lower.
Do you own this property? If so, I would pull the trim off completely, rehang the door properly, with longer screws through the hinges to hold them up to the framing, and then put the trim back on.
If you rent, call your landlord to do the above.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 1 week ago:
It CAN be time based, but there’s also a “hot” and an “active” sorting. Both of which are “algorithms”.
It’s a lot more simple of an algorithm, and doesn’t intentionally push specific topics, but if you open lemmy.world anonymously, you’ll see a default “All/Active” feed which is sorted by engagement.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Only if there’s laws in place to keep the ultra rich from buying up multiple properties, otherwise it’s just an opportunity for people to keep hording homes to rent out.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 1 week ago:
McDonald’s STILL has newspapers sitting in a rack next to the counter where I am. Growing up these places had magazines and newspapers available to read. People “back then” didn’t just randomly talk to strangers, they just kept themselves busy with other things.
Yes, there’s a problem with people not interacting physically anymore, but it’s not cause we have electronics, it’s cause people don’t have a place to go outside the home anymore. This is a problem with a lack of community centers and walk-able neighborhoods, not a problem with phones.
- Comment on Subnautica's Original Creators Have Been Removed From Unknown Worlds "Effective Immediately", As Krafton Makes Concerning Leadership Changes 2 weeks ago:
Yup, sounds like I need to wait for quite a few patches and some real reviews before I buy
Kerbal Space Program 2Subnautica 2 - Comment on Plan for my first homeserver 2 weeks ago:
Get two external hard drives and swap them into a fire safe occasionally.
That way if there’s a need to evacuate you can just grab the fire safe and run.
- Comment on Trying to pick a printer 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Steam Big Picture Mode allows you to install non steam apps.
- Comment on xkcd #3100: Alert Sound 5 weeks ago:
Grindr notification sound.
- Comment on I got a free HP DL380 G5, so I blogged about it ! 5 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 5 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 5 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.