SlurpingPus
@SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
- Comment on The ultimate "flex" 42 minutes ago:
It’s embedded from Giphy in a neighbour comment here. Just need to get the correct image url.
- Comment on The ultimate "flex" 1 hour ago:
Idk what’s anyone’s problem with Giphy, but Catbox certifiedly doesn’t open for many, even via tor.
- Comment on Acciracy 1 hour ago:
USians are so poor, they can’t even get a name of its own for their country.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 17 hours ago:
Ironically, YouTube is one case that’s much better with personalized recommendations. I even open links from social media in an incognito tab so as to not pollute my recommendations accidentally.
- Comment on How can I develop software for a PowerPC? 1 day ago:
That’s the name, yeah.
Personally I don’t expect to be fiddling with this stuff again anytime soon, although ‘Deja Vu 2’ remains on the tablet unfinished, so far.
- Comment on How can I develop software for a PowerPC? 1 day ago:
I mean, I’ve played ‘Deja Vu’ in a MacOS emulator on my Android tablet. Having first to boot from a system floppy image, then adding the game image. I’m quite sure there are archives of old Mac software around, just archive.org should have plenty.
The most annoying aspect of getting software into the emulator was the fact that a lot of it is distributed in archives made by a popular compressing utility for Classic MacOS, I forget what it’s called. The util is proprietary, and even with my flexible morals I didn’t want to sully my emulator with it.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 1 day ago:
That’s what’s often missing from stories about patents: big companies churn out patents in case they ever need to use them in patent warfare against competitors. For the sole reason that the competitors are doing the same thing.
However, I doubt it that BMW would ever have a chance to use this particular patent on a competitor.
- Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how?? 1 day ago:
Well, that’s not what I meant. If you have directories with torrents or VMs,
dumight report different size for those directories on the source and target disks. Then it might’ve meant that those are the culprits.With just the source disk, you can check
du -hsc dirnameversusdu -hsc --apparent-size dirnameto check if the disk space used is much smaller than the ‘apparent size’, which would mean there are sparse files in the directory, i.e. not fully written to disk. rsync would copy those files to full ‘apparent size’.As mentioned elsewhere, btrfs might also save space on the source disk by not writing duplicate files multiple times — but idk if
duwould report that, since it’s specific to btrfs internals. - Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how?? 1 day ago:
Ah, I knew the mention of btrfs heebied my jeebies a little, but forgot about the CoW thing.
- Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how?? 1 day ago:
Yeah, that would do it. If OP has such symlinks, they probably need to add an exception for rsync.
- Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how?? 1 day ago:
By the way, do you have lots of torrents downloaded or large virtual machines installed? Both torrent clients and virtual machine managers use ‘sparse files’ to save space until you actually download the whole torrent or write a lot to the VM’s disk. Those files would be copied at full size to exFAT.
If you have folders with such content, you can use e.g. Double Commander to check the actual used size of those folders (with ctrl-L in Doublecmd). Idk which terminal utils might give you those numbers in place, but aforementioned
ncducan calculate them and present as a tree. - Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how?? 1 day ago:
For a typical user, hard links would be mostly employed by git for its internal structures, and it’s difficult to accumulate over 300 GB of git repos.
Sparse files would actually be more believable, since they’re used by both torrent clients and virtual machines.
- Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how?? 1 day ago:
Means a file that’s 512 bytes in size will take 512 bytes on the external disk, but at minimum 4 KB on the internal one. If it were the other way around, that would partially explain the difference in space used.
In any case, I doubt it that the block sizes would make so much difference in typical usage.
- Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how?? 1 day ago:
The simplest explanation for the size difference could be if you have a symlink in your home folder pointing outside it. Idk if rsync traverses symlinks and filesystems by default, i.e. goes into linked folders instead of just copying the link, but you might want to check that. Note also that exFAT doesn’t support symlinks, dunno what rsync does in that case.
It would be useful to run
ls -R >file.txtin both the source and target directories and diff the files to see if the directory structure changed. (The-loption would report many changes, since exFAT doesn’t support Unix permissions either.)As others mentioned, if you have hardlinks in the source, they could be copied multiple times to the target, particularly since exFAT, again, doesn’t have hardlinks. But the primary source of hardlinks in normal usage would probably be git, which employs them to compact its structures, and I doubt it that you have >300 GB of git repositories.
- Comment on Sleep well 2 days ago:
I’ve seen stuff on r/embroidery that’s difficult to believe. E.g.:
‘Well, I have finished my new embroidery, now you can admire it’
‘I can finally reveal my latest embroidery project’
‘I tell my gran I’m into embroidery and she casually drops she used to be a master’
- Comment on xkcd #3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination 2 days ago:
Scandinavia, Novaya Zemlya, and Taymyr Peninsula went all kinds of askew.
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 3 days ago:
The whole StandupComedy has a hold on me like no TikTok could.
- Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism. 3 days ago:
Null sweat, mate.
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 3 days ago:
As someone who will live and die by snark in my online comments, I agree. However, annoyingly, I’ve had a noticeably higher proportion of replies on Lemmy from people who don’t know how sarcasm works, than on Reddit.
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 3 days ago:
How Eastern Europeans see USians:
😁°º︎○︎( please help )
- Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism. 3 days ago:
It’s linked in my comment above.
- Comment on Truly identical twins as actors would present really interesting opportunities for a stage play 3 days ago:
Also most famously in the scene where Connor is messing about with T2’s head or whatever, before a mirror. They had a stand-in for Schwarzenegger, but had Hamiltons on both sides of the ‘mirror’. But that scene might’ve been deleted or only in an extended edit, idk.
And iirc when Connor has the nuke dream, she sees herself on the playground, again via the power of having two of the twins.
- Comment on Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket. 4 days ago:
The top amperage is typically about the same as in the US, actually, at least where I am: 15-16 amps. So we get 3000 watt kettles instead of 1500, and such.
- Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism. 4 days ago:
Try looking through those listed on Alternative To. Not all of them are really YouTube players, though.
- Comment on Website 4 days ago:
FrontPage was initially created by Cambridge, Massachusetts company Vermeer Technologies, Incorporated, evidence of which can be easily spotted in file names and directories prefixed vti in web sites created using FrontPage. Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft in January 1996 specifically so that Microsoft could add FrontPage to its product line-up, allowing them to gain an advantage in the browser wars, as FrontPage was designed to create web pages for their own browser, Internet Explorer.
- Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism. 5 days ago:
I’ve gotten a lot out of YouTube by leafing through the recommendations on videos that I liked and saving any promising ones to ‘watch later’ playlists by topic. I have a couple dozen of such playlists, each with multiple dozens of videos. Could live off these for a year at least.
Of course, as mentioned, this is the opposite of poisoning the data.
- Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism. 5 days ago:
- Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism. 5 days ago:
YouTube is actively blocking Invidious and other proxies and bots for the past couple years or so. Additionally, for some reason some Invidious instances consistently don’t work for me, while other ones consistently do.
Frankly, if YouTube works for you directly, I’m gonna advise using it via NewPipe and various desktop apps, as Invidious instances could be easily overwhelmed, what with them being hosted by individual volunteers. Video traffic is heavy.
- Comment on The bushes were people 🤯 6 days ago:
As an outsider, I’m impressed that the NFL somehow managed to troll people with the show for two years in a row. It would be super easy to choose someone inoffensive. Didn’t expect the handegg organization, of all people, to be leftist in any way (by US standards).