PlutoniumAcid
@PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Unpopular opinion: LCARS is utter garbage UI.
Sure it looks cool in the TV series, and its brand recognition is spectacular. But actually using it? Horrible.
- Comment on There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles 4 days ago:
There was one! Look up Forrest Fenn - the podcast *Cautionary Tales has a double feature about it (S6E44-45). True riddles, and treasure hunts, and some deaths despite no traps being set.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 5 days ago:
Eurovision 2
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 5 days ago:
Then use… a camera??
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 week ago:
Also depends on how you phrase the question to the LLM, and whether it har access to source files.
A web chat session can’t do a lot, but an interactive shell like Claude Code is amazing - if you know how to work it.
- Comment on Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland? 1 week ago:
Too old, maybe?
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 1 week ago:
In light of recent events, other countries should drag Trump to the ICC and thence straight to the gallows.
- Comment on Selfhosting with a seven year old 4 weeks ago:
This is confusing. So, Luanti is basically a clone of Minecraft? The docs say how to download the basic platform, and then to download any game.
But where do you start? There’s no recommended or default game or world?
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 5 weeks ago:
Imagine being so much snowflake that a simple font upsets you. Words fail.
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 5 weeks ago:
Recent studies by consumer organisations indicate that washing at “cold” is just as effective as higher temperatures, for everyday clothing. But it saves a ton of energy and is a lot cheaper.
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 5 weeks ago:
Recent studies by consumer organisations indicate that washing at “cold” is just as effective as higher temperatures, for everyday clothing. But it saves a ton of energy and is a lot cheaper.
- Comment on How many virtual machines can you nest? 5 weeks ago:
I’m thinking what if you created a Docker container that contained just Docker. Then you could run that container within itself, recursively. Much easier than starting from zero at every level.
- Comment on How many virtual machines can you nest? 5 weeks ago:
Mr Litch, reading your response was incredibly satisfying. Giving such a wonderful long-form response to a fairly simple question is remarkable. Thank you so much!
- Comment on Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting 1 month ago:
Yeah, biggest product feature for me, and when they dropped it I dropped them.
Why can’t we habe nice things? It’s all going to shit. Either because of greedy corpos, or because of bad people (sometimes one is caused by the other).
- Comment on Microsoft “Improved” Notepad. I Un-Improved It. - Dave's Garage 1 month ago:
Just use Notepad++ instead?
- Comment on CopyParty is kind of a great file server 1 month ago:
I checked my setup, and webDAV is indeed what I am using. Good that they made it impossible to accidentally use an unsafe method.
Thank you for the explanation!
- Comment on CopyParty is kind of a great file server 1 month ago:
Isn’t SMB the thing that makes it available to Windows? What’s the issue?
- Comment on How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me) 1 month ago:
Zip drives are known for the “Click of death” sound. If you hear it, it’s dead. You could probably google that term.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 month ago:
It only feels odd because that is genuinely an incredibly effective means of generation, and we found it very early on because steam is so fundamental. Nothing wrong with sticking to the best method ever discovered.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 month ago:
Yeah but photovoltaic has a yield of less than 50% even for the best panels. Lots of waste there, compared to steam.
- Comment on CopyParty is kind of a great file server 1 month ago:
Copyparty was mentioned here just the other day, and I started using it this weekend. There were comments about security risks though, based on being a small project with a LOT of integrations. Hit sure how safe I feel.
Docker path mapping is needed to let Copyparty show the files I want to access. I run my containers on a server next to my NAS that hosts my files; that’s a little complicated.
- Comment on What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones? 1 month ago:
If only it were mentioned in some article or something…
- Comment on What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones? 1 month ago:
You clearly didn’t even look at the article. It’s literally the first point they made.
- Comment on Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data 1 month ago:
The articles I saw mentioned that it would be fixed in software.
- Comment on Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data 1 month ago:
I work in the software industry and I have a guess regarding what the might do to “fix” the problem.
First, we look for the cause, but in this case it is external: we can’t prevent solar flares. So we will turn to mitigation instead:
Data gets flaky and erratic unter radiation, so what we would do is to double- and triple-check the data bits. By adding more levels of data correction, more bits can be wrong and we can still figure what it was supposed to be.
Adding more corrections means more overhead and slower performance, but it can still be made to work within the given constraints of real-time processing. They will need to find a balance between hardening and usefulness.
- Comment on YSK that Boris Johnson was one of the most corrupt Prime Minister in British history. He was obsessed about money 1 month ago:
Yeltsin’s Soggy Knickers
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 1 month ago:
I use a retired business laptop. 16GB RAM and Linux, mapped some shares from my NAS. Low power high performance.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 1 month ago:
Nextcloud is my nemesis.
It took me ages to even get it running at all. Maybe it’s more complicated as a Docker container, I don’t know, but it needs to run alongside manyther selfhosted services.
And once I finally got it working, it was slow as molasses even on LAN, nevermind access from outside. I never started using it.
- Comment on [NSFW] ysk: you can restore your foreskin 2 months ago:
Nerves don’t grow back, but the glans becomes more sensitive as the calloused skin heals.
- Comment on [NSFW] ysk: you can restore your foreskin 2 months ago:
Circumcision is abuse. Only rarely is it a medically sane practice. The glans basically becomes calloused, why would anyone want that?
Foreskin restoration is a way to return to a more normal state, with a softer and more sensitive glans. That is the reason people want to restore.