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- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 55 minutes ago:
Russian, computerized, and fake?
- Comment on As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts 4 hours ago:
I’ve had it used on me. Can confirm, it’s a massive improvement over human-hand-scale operation.
- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 4 hours ago:
It’s not going to be significantly unsafe. It’ll shed more microplastics and is more likely to grow mold due to the surface texture, but if you’re inhaling through the whistle you’re using it very wrong.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 5 hours ago:
And worse choice of new name.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 16 hours ago:
It depends. For anything going into space, especially microsats, the biggest concerns are space, weight, and power. SSDs are better at all of those, plus they don’t have any gyroscopic effects, and they’re much less susceptible to vibrations (e.g. the absolute earthquake at liftoff and the sudden jolts during each rocket stage). They are more susceptible to high-energy particles, but they can be hardened through shielding and parity/redundancy.
For a datacenter on Mars, you’re less concerned with SWaP, only as much as you need to be to get it there as cargo. Obviously that means space and weight are still concerns, but not power.
The other factor with using fewer larger drives is that when you have a failure, you lose a lot more data, and any recovery takes longer.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 16 hours ago:
That point was Jan 23rd. torrentfreak.com/ripping-clips-for-youtube-reacti…
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 16 hours ago:
No.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
It’s not that dangerous. They make strippers that will only take off the outer insulation, and then you can use vampire taps on the wires.
Or you might be able to pop the case and jump the power on the DC side. You could easily do that on an ATX power supply, but servers are a little more complicated, because hotplug PSUs use wafer connectors instead of molex plugs.
- Comment on (Serious) networking with other academics appears difficult 1 day ago:
I think a lot of them moved to bluesky.
Here, I would just hang out in the science communities and other relevant ones, post relevant things and follow people you’re interested in.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 1 day ago:
It’s not that rare of a joke.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 day ago:
Network? Nah, the bottleneck is always going to be the drive itself. Storage networks might pass absurd numbers of Gbps, but ideally you’d be resilvering from a drive on the same backplane, and SAS-4 tops out at 24 Gbps, but there’s no way you’re going to hit that write speed on a single drive. The fastest retail drives don’t do more than ~2 Gbps. Even the Seagate Mach.2 only does around twice that due to having two head actuators.
- Comment on Am I doing this (networking) safely? 2 days ago:
Safety is relative. How are you handling every hacker in the world knocking on your door?
Personally I only expose a VPN and use that, instead of exposing a bunch of services.
- Comment on Air Force bans smart glasses for troops in uniform 2 days ago:
Unsanctioned photography is already prohibited.
- Comment on Any Good Desktop or Phone Clients for Lemmy? 2 days ago:
Boost shows the hatched chick: 🐣
- Comment on What Happened To WebAssembly 2 days ago:
Maybe we should get away from “browser than can run apps” and move towards “app sandbox that also happens to render html”.
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 2 days ago:
*2 different types of media. But having an offsite copy is more important; this part of the rule is mostly just about avoiding failures due to stuff hard drives in the same batch failing at the same time. Or a tape drive that has gone bad and destroys tapes when you insert them, because if that’s the only format you have you’re SOL. If you have another copy on CD then you can use those.
- Comment on This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts 3 days ago:
We had six degrees of Kevin Bacon and the Erdos number, now we have the Epstein coefficient?
- Comment on Geo-distributed Jellyfin 4 days ago:
Define “slow”. Pages hang before loading? Or it often stops to buffer a stream?
- Comment on Geo-distributed Jellyfin 4 days ago:
It’s probably not bandwidth but latency and packet loss that’s the problem.
- Comment on Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce. 4 days ago:
And this is why quickly applying security updates is important.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 4 days ago:
Clearly not that invested because you can just turn RCS off, or use a non-RCS messaging app
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 4 days ago:
I had to fiddle with some stuff to get the Google location history and Android Auto working. But if you’re using it for privacy-from-Google purposes you probably don’t care about those.
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 4 days ago:
Desktop environments? On a server??
- Comment on This Autonomous Snow Blower Shovels on its Own, Recharges Itself, and Keeps Going 5 days ago:
Pretty hard to use if you’re disabled.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Yeah that’s exactly it. James Patterson, for example, has written dozens of books, and there are billions of his books alone. They’re taking one of each, cutting off the binding, and scanning the pages. This is standard procedure for common books.
So why don’t they want people knowing about it? Because a lot of people are anti-AI and will run misleading stories like this.
I’m as anti-AI as the next guy, but unlike other companies scraping all of reddit and stealing art off the Internet, these guys are doing it mostly properly by paying for the books. They still don’t have a license to use the material in this manner, though.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 6 days ago:
The CEO is Satya Nadella
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 6 days ago:
Full profile sync would be nice
- Comment on Supermicro iKVM BIOS keyboard input issue 1 week ago:
Does it have a BIOS reset button or jumper?
If not, pull the power and the CMOS battery and leave it for like 20 minutes. Hopefully that resets the settings.
- Comment on Digital picture frame from a monitor or TV? 1 week ago:
- Comment on System Redundancy 1 week ago:
Two firewalls in HA.
You can also get a little Cradlepoint or something with a SIM card as a backup Internet connection if you need uplink redundancy.