adespoton

@adespoton@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  The main point is that with a regular backup regime, it doesn’t matter if SSD will lose your data if unpowered for a long time… because a) they won’t be unpowered for a long time (there’s rotation happening here, not archival), and b) you’ll have already hopefully moved off any specific piece of media before MTBF, and if you haven’t, hopefully all your devices don’t fail at exactly the same time.

  So yeah: SSD isn’t for archival purposes. But archival isn’t really what we’re after here, as backup of ALL data is a possibility. It’s not like we have a monk or vellum shortage to worry about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You missed a few terms… how about “influencer handle” instead of “pen name,” for example?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have 3 physical backups of all my stuff, one a rotating offsite backup. The backup media gets replaced over time.

  I don’t expect media (especially backup media) to last more than 10 years. But it doesn’t matter, as my NVMe backup solution of today looks nothing like my spinning rust backup solution of 20 years ago, despite holding all of that data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨would getting back with an ex be a bad idea?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Very much this. I’ve been happily married for 25 years and expect to be for at least 25 more, and the things that annoyed us about each other when we were dating still annoy us today. But we accept that those things are unlikely to change, and celebrate the stuff that’s great.

  On top of that, guys don’t tend to mature until they’re 21-25, but don’t start dating one who’s younger expecting him to change for the better; it’s more likely the common things you enjoy will change but the odd habits will remain forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented “backdoor” that could be leveraged for attacks.

  The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence.

  For those who were interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is best Lemmy App to use on iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I started on Memmy and eventually switched to Voyager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donald Tusk announces military training plans for all men in Poland - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it just me that saw “Donald Tusk” as a portmanteau of “Donald Trump” and “Elon Musk” ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t that be fitting? After all this, Elon comes to Canada and is put away for life for defrauding the Canadian government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Fails to mention he also was selling the discs online.

  But they want to sentence him for 15 years for this, even though his actions likely saved lives during the height of COVID if the allegations are true; if they aren’t true, he harmed nobody because those 10 million people wouldn’t have seen the movies in theaters anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, Usk is a Canadian citizen, so is allowed to buy cars in Canada. Even his own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada suspends imports from biggest US pork processing plant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So, the suspension was due to three strikes on sub-quality goods delivered, and unrelated to the tariffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands stranded as massive WWII bomb blocks Paris train station⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is one of the long-term effects of war. Ukraine will be experiencing similar disruptions in 2125.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada's tariffs to remain despite Trump postponing tariffs on many imports from Canada for a month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about more than the tariffs. It’s about market uncertainty and the US breaking its trade deals. Canada isn’t going to match Trump’s actions in a reactive manner; Canada is going to respond to Trump’s behavior in a manner that protects the future of Canadian sovereignty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there some special process by which musicians/producers arrive at an agreed-upon tempo for a song recording?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Came here to say exactly this.

  Beyond this, the sound engineer and the producers will also work with the musicians to determine the intended audience of the track. If it’s meant to be danced to, you’re going to want to record it at a tempo that’s easy to follow and is a multiple that aligns with other songs that are danced to.

  If a set or album is being recorded, the tempos will also have to be considered in comparison to the other songs, to create the right overall feeling. Set and audience combined will inform the max/min of all the songs, and sound engineers usually try to get performers to play to whole numbers in beats per minute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could your body adjust if you separated your macros into meals? Like all carbs for breakfast, all fat for lunch and all protein for dinner? What would happen?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most requirements your body needs are over days and weeks, so it would handle things nutritionally just fine.

  As far as microbiome and bowel movements go? Most people need more dietary fiber than they’re getting already. As long as you keep that up so you’re regular and not gassy, you’d be fine.

  After all, the human body is able to graze on roots and berries and eat a big fatty meaty meal once a week, or survive solely on meat and fat and water for 8 months of the year. Macronutrient division by meal is well within that spectrum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Trump’s order to make English official language does nothing but embolden xenophobia⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s… the point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My lesson in this was way back when LinkedIn came out with an app. I installed it and the first thing it did was ask me for all my contacts and start pinging tracking servers. I uninstalled it immediately and avoided apps for web services after that.

  Later that year, I found that if I HAD allowed that app to do what it wanted, it would have grabbed all that data and sent it to the company, who was selling it off to third parties. They got in a big class action lawsuit for it.

  Those were the days. Now it’s just expected behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨are "brush" and "blush" really pronounced differently? i pronounce them the same.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do the words “ruse” and “lose” also sound the same in your accent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i took an iq test and it was nice and i took my time doing it but the answer was 86, is that bad??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure… the trick to scoring high is being familiar with the type of test and what they’re looking for. Solve some puzzles on the mensa website and take a few different online IQ tests, and THEN do one of the official tests, and you’ll be more likely to know at a glance if one of your answers fits what they think it should be or not.

  But for the most part, unless you’re intentionally trying to understand a learning or thinking issue you have (with the assistance of a professional psychologist), or just find them fun, there’s no reason to take them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i took an iq test and it was nice and i took my time doing it but the answer was 86, is that bad??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  100 is average, with a distribution curving off in both directions. Most people are between 80 and 120.

  All that the number shows is how you compare to others who wrote that particular IQ test; without more context it is virtually meaningless.

  Any employer who hires based on an online IQ test result should be avoided.

  I say this as someone who averages around 143 on the various IQ tests I’ve taken and find the number mostly meaningless.

  Modern tests from an official testing body that are taken in person under supervision are pretty good for testing how strong your lateral thinking and reasoning abilities are compared to the average person.

  Most other tests have massive blind spots skewing the results; they assume you have a bunch of very specific cultural and social knowledge that’s usually specific to university students in the midwestern USA in the 1950s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conflicted about my coworkers' overpunctuality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You have a very different family than me.

  If work was like MY family, we’d all work in different countries and I’d visit my manager once or twice a year and get the jobs done that we couldn’t sort out over the phone or email. I’d find out about all the stuff they’d been letting slide and sort out as much as I could over a weekend. When I got home people would ask me if I had a good holiday.

  Wait. That IS how my workplace operates!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Meta is either being disingenuous or doesn’t know how torrenting works.

  You can’t download without sharing with others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨COSMIC Alpha 6: Big Leaps Forward⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s good… for a second I thought they’d integrated Zoom videoconferencing into the desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad I don’t use Google Chrome….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A monolithic and ruthless conspiracy: What was John F. Kennedy referring to?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he, personally, had made a lot of enemies because of how he spoke, and then conflated that with more general and organized resistance to his ideas instead of it being reactionary responses so his delivery.

  People are generally nowhere near as organized as we give them credit for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A monolithic and ruthless conspiracy: What was John F. Kennedy referring to?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe his observations were mostly correct, but wouldn’t tie it as closely to a “group” as he did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A monolithic and ruthless conspiracy: What was John F. Kennedy referring to?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagreed with it at the time and do again now… there’s no grand conspiracy; people are just depressingly predictable in how they respond to economic and cultural pressures. Some people recognize the trends and attempt to ride them or even control them (or stop them), but with a few notable exceptions, history tends to just roll on regardless — which can look to some as if there must be some cabal of puppet masters calling the shots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A monolithic and ruthless conspiracy: What was John F. Kennedy referring to?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For those of us who lived through it, what he said was blatantly obvious at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Delhi says it is looking into 'deeply troubling' information about USAID activities in India⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … which was spent on voter turnout in Bangladesh, not India.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, as a lot of us are on instances hosted outside the US, a very long time.