percent
@percent@infosec.pub
- Comment on Someone should put the 63 actual humans who are still MAGA on suicide watch after this past several days. 17 hours ago:
Ohhh I see. I suppose it’s all about the setting. For some reason I was imagining people wearing them like a fashion statement or something 🤦🏻♂️
- Comment on Someone should put the 63 actual humans who are still MAGA on suicide watch after this past several days. 18 hours ago:
🤔 I don’t think I’ve seen a bandage on anyone’s ear in my area (at least not in any recent years), and there’s no shortage of MAGA people here. Where was this happening? It sounds like it would have been funny lol
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 days ago:
If you’ve never used the terminal before, how do you know what to type?
Start pushing buttons. Start typing things, try pressing tab variously. Look up guides, introductions, help.
Sure, but my point is: I don’t think I’ve never seen a terminal present those instructions when you open it. Unless it’s immediately shown in some MOTD or something, the average user isn’t going to take the time to figure it out if they don’t have to.
If my grandmother wanted to draft a letter on her computer, she’d use something that looks more like Notepad and less like Vi.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 days ago:
Eh, I think it’s just about ease of use and discovery. When you open a terminal, it just shows a blinking cursor. If you’ve never used the terminal before, how do you know what to type?
In a graphical desktop environment, you see icons, menus, etc. If you open a GUI application, you usually see buttons and things to click, and maybe even some guidance on how to use the app.
A lot of people just want to use their computer without too much of a learning curve. Most people are not powerusers.
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 1 week ago:
lmao
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 1 week ago:
🤔 I wouldn’t guess that “commies” are the demographic that would go to a Kid Rock show
- Comment on Bacon 1 week ago:
How did the pig use the dog?
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 2 weeks ago:
Why? And which coins are good?
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 weeks ago:
How would a surveillance state even prevent that?
- Comment on So sad to see a really old guy driving an expensive sports car 2 weeks ago:
Why sad?
- Comment on OPNsense Bare Metal vs Virtualization 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on OPNsense Bare Metal vs Virtualization 3 weeks ago:
Sure! It’s completely solid-state; no fans or other moving parts. The case is designed to dissipate the heat. The CPU is some low-power Intel Pentium. I don’t remember exactly which model.
I ordered a pre-built one from Protectli because I needed it fast, but you can save quite a bit if you prefer to build one. These little motherboards and cases can be found pretty easily online.
- Comment on OPNsense Bare Metal vs Virtualization 3 weeks ago:
I went with a dedicated mini PC with one of those motherboards that are designed for building a network appliance. It has been running very smoothly for a few years, and I just log in occasionally to run system updates.
I want my Internet connection to continue working, regardless of my tinkering with home server stuff.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 3 weeks ago:
If I had to guess, maybe they already had a surplus of energy. I read the book years ago though, so I don’t really remember.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 3 weeks ago:
I suppose so. Maybe the concept could work with other forms if electromagnetic radiation, and visible light was just the one used in the book. Idk, I’m no physicist 🤷♂️
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 3 weeks ago:
I’m genuinely curious: Why censor the word “Nazi”?
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 3 weeks ago:
No, but it has some of the same letters
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 3 weeks ago:
In the (fiction) novel Artemis by Andy Weir, which takes place in a city on the moon, they have a heat management system that seemed pretty cool. They convert heat to light, and radiate the light out into space. Not sure how feasible/scalable that is, but I thought the concept was cool.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 3 weeks ago:
These guys right here, officer
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 3 weeks ago:
Welp, there’s my cursed upvote of the day.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for censoring the word “n•des” so it’s family friendly
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 4 weeks ago:
Ohhh a bread vending machine. That makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking lol
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 4 weeks ago:
we only have a bread machine now, no shops of any kind.
“We” meaning your village? Your village no longer has shops, but somehow shares a bread machine? Or am I totally misunderstanding this?
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 weeks ago:
Đere’s no escaping us, broðer.
Here’s
gemma3:12b-it-qat, the tiniest LLM I run on my home server.Though, any LLM is overkill for this, of course. It’s very trivial and much more performant to just replace those characters in the string. Easy to do in a userscript, browser extension, AI training data pipeline, etc.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t surprise me if the thorns get filtered/corrected in the pipeline before even being used as training data — maybe even by another LLM.
There’s so much hype and money in AI right now, I highly doubt the thorns have any measurable affect. It’s such a trivial problem to solve.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 4 weeks ago:
I almost agree with this, but I prefer just one more advancement over this: the thermostat kind. I like to just set the temperature so I don’t have to keep adjusting it.
Nothing fancy, no touchscreen bs, just simple knobs. I was perfectly happy with the thermostat feature in my old 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix GT.
- Comment on Tesseract and Voyager interfaces now available 4 weeks ago:
Hey, just a heads up: The HTTPS certs for these have expired.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 5 weeks ago:
Can it access a file without spinning up all disks in the array?
I haven’t used ZFS in like a decade, but would strongly consider going back to it if it can do that now.
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t heard DirecTV mentioned in such a long time, I’m a little surprised it still exists
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 month ago:
FWIW, I have had some Google (now Nest) Home Hubs for years and I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard ads on them.
I’m gradually de-googling my life though, so maybe I’ll just replace them with some DIY thing
