BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How much money's out there? 10 hours ago:
Unless you’re in a desert with no stores around, in which case the person with 50 waters is going to tell you to go take a hike because that dollar is useless to them but the water will keep them alive.
- Comment on Why does no one in the bible have a last name? 1 day ago:
Because there were few enough people at that point in history, and they rarely moved around enough, such that a second name would be necessary to tell people apart.
- Comment on How will the Military be after this mess with Trump? 1 day ago:
The vast majority of people who join the military aren’t thinking so logically about the situation. They’re young, stupid, and often the money and benefits are the only real priority.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 days ago:
It really just helps in cases where you get hacked, but the hacker doesn’t have continued access. Say someone physically penetrates into your building, grabs the key through an unlocked station, and leaves.
That being said, like you mentioned, if someone is going through this effort, 45 days vs 90 days likely won’t matter. They’ll probably have the data they need after a week anyways.
Encryption key theft really requires a secondary attack afterwards to get the encrypted data by getting into the middle and either decrypting or redirecting traffic. It’s very much a state level/high-corporate attack, not some random group trying to make a few bucks.
- Comment on OPSEC social media related question 2 days ago:
Just sell it through someone else who has an account.
A family member, friend, neighbor, etc.
- Comment on Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech? 1 week ago:
You mean Comprehension?
- Comment on [NSQ Friday] Are sunchips really from the sun? 1 week ago:
The molecules are also mostly created through the use of energy from our sun.
- Comment on Noob RAM speed question 2 weeks ago:
Part of that is going to depend on what exactly you’re doing with the computer, and how fast the other components are.
If you’re just browsing the internet and want to be able to have more than 5 tabs open before your computer starts stuttering, the extra ram will be far more important than the speed.
If you’re playing games, and your CPU and GPU are really good compared to your ram already, the bottleneck from the ram speed dropping may slow things down rather than speed them up.
- Comment on What types of cleaning products do you *really* need to clean the bathroom? 3 weeks ago:
Each thing gets washed once, with the appropriate chemical if needed.
Generally for the toilet bowl, something with bleach.
For surfaces like the toilet and sink, especially in a bathroom, I usually swap between using just some vinegar and Fantastic all purpose cleaner. Vinegar is fine most weeks, Fantastic once in a while to get some of the stuff Vinegar may not have got properly with those extra chemicals that it has but I could easily go months without needing it.
I use water and a microfiber cloth for the mirrors and the faucet, a drop of dish soap if there’s something on it (like dried toothpaste spittle). This also works for walls most of the time if you wipe those, but I don’t wipe my walls very regularly, maybe once a year.
Hot water is fine for the tile floor too, maybe it gets something stronger a couple times a year.
You don’t need a lot unless someone in the household is sick with something that could be transmitted through a bathroom. Then hit it with harsher chemicals.
One thing to note may be that in certain warmer climates, there are other considerations for mold and bacterial growth that I do not have to worry about where I live (in a cooler climate)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s a fucking struggle right now, and It’s not supposed to be like this.
You shouldn’t have to work a full time job, and take care of the house, and take care of the kids. Neither should the wife/partner.
The fact that it requires two working parents at this point to afford life is the problem. There’s enough to go around even if just one parent was participating in the economy, if it was distributed more fairly.
The pendulum has swung too far on capitalism, and it’s sucking the vast majority of people dry just to feed itself. There’s a reason why birthrates have jumped off a cliff.
- Comment on Self hosted hands free app 3 weeks ago:
So there’s an answer, and then there’s a problem.
The easy answer is that Home Assistant has Voice Assistants now, and you can use Ollama, Whisper, and Piper to do that all locally.
The problem is that it really only talks to Home Assistant, there’s no ability to have it search the web, or make a phone call, or really anything else outside of Home Assistant without significant addon stuffs.
It also requires a reasonably significant amount of RAM on your computer to run the VM for Home Assistant while supporting Whisper and Piper and Ollama.
- Comment on Self hosted hands free app 3 weeks ago:
Agent voice response
It’s even mostly open source.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 5 weeks ago:
That’s neat.
Why does that article contain no references more recent than 1806 though. Is it called something else these days? It seems like there should be more modern information on the practice.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Based on your question, and your other comments, it sounds like the only way you’re getting laid is by paying for it.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 1 month ago:
That does not apply to humans who are capable of intentionally avoiding certain breeding problems, and also who have medical knowledge that can apply even if it does happen.
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 1 month ago:
Hockey, started in my late thirties, couldn’t even stop at the time.
Great exercise
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 1 month ago:
British Columbia
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 1 month ago:
The simple answer is most desktop PCs will not come even close to that at idle. Even just having a few case fans may draw more than that, without involving the CPU at all.
Laptop devices can do that in some cases with their extra power management features.
That being said, do the math to see if it matters. The difference between 10w and 40w is 0.7kwh per day, at least where I live that’s about 7 cents or about $25 per year.
In my case it would be more expensive to purchase a dedicated low power device than it will save me in 4-5 years compared to just using something I already have laying around.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In terms of time investments, working out may be one possible consideration.
- Comment on How do Ghostwriters work? Does the person the book is about say to the writer I will give you 2 or 20 percent of the sales or is it a 50 50 split? 1 month ago:
It’s definitely not 50/50, there would be a negotiated amount (Fixed or percentage) less than that. The ghostwriter may be employed by the publisher and just receive a salary too.
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 1 month ago:
Never again?
China unfortunately. I enjoyed the country the last time, but I see no future where I go back in my lifetime. It’s not safe for me.
Not till they clean up their act a lot more?
The US, I live right next to it, I’m the right colour and gender to not get harassed, but I’m not crossing that border anytime soon.
- Comment on [META] Is it ok to ask for advice here? 1 month ago:
That question is fine here in my opinion.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 2 months ago:
“For essay writing task”
I’m not using it to write essays. I’ve been programming far beyond my normal capabilities.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 2 months ago:
My daily use of said tool disagrees with your assertion.
- Comment on Why does information want to be free 2 months ago:
Gases expand to fill their containers due to the random, high-speed motion of their individual particles and the minimal intermolecular forces between them.
The translation for humans is that humans like to move around and talk, and there’s not a lot stopping them from doing it.
- Comment on Why does information want to be free 2 months ago:
It’s the same reason that liquids and gasses expand to fill their container
- Comment on Should 21-23-year-olds be allowed to date older people? 2 months ago:
The age of majority (or various ages) are somewhat arbitrary, but it has to be drawn somewhere because it’s used to allow a whole bunch of activities rather than just for relationships.
There’s a significant difference between “you must be this age to be considered old enough to make your own choices on a variety of things” and “here’s a specific range of people who you are not allowed to have sexual intercourse with”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I have a couple Tapo cameras set up with HA, I had to use the tapo app initially to set up but once they’re set up you can ditch it and run the system entirely locally. I saw someone had a way to configure them locally too, but it wasn’t simple enough for me to bother and I was fine with the one time step.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Blame the democrats
- Comment on What does it mean if I’m the first person my former friend turns to? 2 months ago:
It means you should move on