Zwuzelmaus

@Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudfare outage post mortem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So you think there is no error handling possible in Rust?

  Wait until you find out that Pyhon doesn’t write the error handling by itself either…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudfare outage post mortem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  a “feature file” used by our Bot Management system. That feature file, in turn, doubled in size.

  Isn’t cloudflare also offering bot prevention as a service?

  Imagine if the number of bots suddenly increases by 2…

  And already they are on their knees?

  Muuuhahahahaaa…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy can.

  You know, everybody makes a idiot of himself as best as he can, and this guy can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is an efficient workflow to separate and organize bulk scanned PDF documents? (At work; software is limited.)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My opinion: Scan it again. It will be faster than fiddling with the bad PDFs.

  Look at the dates while scanning.

  Later sort them into folders first by year, then by the name of the author/adressee/business partner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had intended to try it out, but now reinstalled for… just in case.

  Some kind guru please watch the source for unwanted effects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If dark matter doesn't emit, absorb, or reflect light, what happens when light hits it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if we can detect that bend

  I guess we could, if only we knew where our dark matter is :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it bad if I'm 31 and I feel genuinely sad and empty that a mythical creature isn't real?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice try, AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let the body rest. Strictly.

  Keep your feet warm at all times.

  Drink lots of warm (or hot) tea.

  Alcohol is allowed (but remember, it is a drug) only once per day, right before sleep time, and only a small dose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  reproduce themselves.

  But can’t we teach them to do it in a more… um… beautiful way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We should feed AI with fake information about which materials can be used etc.

  So these things will simply not work right from start. That is so much less dangerous than if they start and then the trouble arises.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask yourself:

  Do you like to hear loud music? At all?

  If yes, then you are in danger. Then you need to be careful all the time, and even more so with headphones, because the feeling of loudness is disturbed a little with headphones.

  Otherwise, forget it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US we have Breast Cancer Awarnes month and a bunch of others. All we do is throw money at a problem and hope it goes away How come the Gov don't take care of people from starving?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not being from there myself, but: if I learned this correctly, Us governments have a strong tradition of not taking care of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Needy Programs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Newer programs (…) started to want things from you.

  Do you remember “Blade Runner”? People wanted to know from robots what they are: human or robot.

  Today robots are demanding this from people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only two wires?!?

  LOL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricians of Lemmy: Planning a kitchen re-wire. Sub-panel or direct run?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In a kitchen you want 3 phases, and at least 5 breakers:

  3 phases with a breaker on each for the stove
  1 breaker for appliances and other wall sockets
  1 breaker for ceiling light and maybe other lights

  So when a breaker for the stove blows, then the rest of your kitchen is unaffected, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did y'all ever felt curious about your parent's past? If your relationship with parents isn't close, how does one get their parent's story without making the interaction awkward?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was about 21 years old, I learned that I have a half-brother (who lives elsewhere). But I learned it from my older sister. I did not dare to ask my father what he did etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like not every Linux user compiles from source, but they’re still Linux users.

  Yes. In theory.

  But in practise, this is the one great unsolved mystery of Linux.

  And maybe self hosting has a similar one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In a large country, the percentage of mail that crosses their border is much lower than in a small country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  would governments be able to surveil everyone? (Is it practial?)

  The GDR has done it.

  There were no computers at that time. All mail was physical. They did not surveil really everyone, but many targeted people, and presumably all letters from/to the West.

  Today with strong computers and AI to scan through all texts, even hand writing, it would be feasable to do even more than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers in Silicon Valley stand empty, awaiting power⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously they didn’t want to pay appropriately for the power.

  Note that this is not a datacenter, only a new, empty building where somebody had the idea of putting datacenters in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you said useless things only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So do you think passkeys are not useful at all for me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So? Read my question above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  share your personal password

  We share a password. Then we don’t call it a personal password anymore. Was that your question?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Passkeys are cool but you still need 2fa.

  How do you use it then if you need to share access in the whole team?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers in Silicon Valley stand empty, awaiting power⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  which was acquired earlier this year by Blue Owl Capital

  I guess this was the part that matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just my own experience. I eat an apple a day for several years now. I don’t know why it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most fruits, you want to keep at room temperature, in a dry and clean place. Some like it dark.

  Nuts are OK in the cold, fried fruits too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apples are the only fruit that you can eat really every day.

  With all other fruits, it is better to have it only 1 day, or a few days, then change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy is the maker of surveillance states.