Kethal
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- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 3 weeks ago:
Use infinite monkeys.
- Comment on Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating? 3 weeks ago:
Volts are not a unit of power. Watts are a unit of power.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
Never heard of Android I guess?
- Comment on Which adjective should come first, modular or versatile? 4 weeks ago:
Although there is a common adjective order, it’s not always clear which category a word belongs in. People insisting that the words “modular” and “versitile” fit into whatever category they chose are presenting a lot more certainty than is warranted. I am a native speaker, and either order sounds fine in this case.
- Comment on GitHub - sv1sjp/lemmy-rss-pybot: Lemmy RSS PyBot is a powerful Python bot that reads RSS feeds and posts new articles to your favorite Lemmy communities. 4 weeks ago:
People know what it is. That’s why they’re down voting it.
- Comment on Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public! 1 month ago:
CloudFlare has more than a billion dollars in revenue. The work done for this project is probably worth millions to them and they paid out $100,000. That sounds like bullshit to me. Let sitty corporations hire lawyers instead of doing their work for a pittance.
- Comment on Creating a Lemmy assignment for college level comp course 1 month ago:
If I were to create an assignment, I would make a learning goal the purpose. Learning critical thinking is a good goal, but I wouldn’t peg it to Lemmy. If the point is thinking critically about social media sites, then you could offer suggestions of places to look, including Lemmy.
- Comment on Chromecast / Firestick Self Host Replacement 2 months ago:
I haven’t used this in a bit so i thought I’d check it. They sort of recently updated the desktop program and nothing works at all now. It appears to be just Edge pretending to be another program. It’s literally just a browser so surround sound doesn’t work now.
- Comment on Chromecast / Firestick Self Host Replacement 2 months ago:
I attach a computer to a TV and open streaming Web sites in a browser. There aren’t much benefits of the streaming devices compared to that unless you’re using surround sound. The Netflix desktop program has surround sound, but that’s the only service I know of.
- Comment on Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results 2 months ago:
Google is genuinely bad now. I switched to Ecosia which is just Bing with a simpler front end and they use their profits to plant trees. I dint think Ecosia is particularly special though. Duck Duck Go, Bing whatever. They’re all better than Google.
Whenever I set up a new computer then search for something, I’m always surprised at first seeing the awful layout and quality of the search results before I realize that i haven’t changed the default search from Google. Its awful now. Seriously, how are people using it?
My new favorite way to search is perplexity.ai. It’s an AI search tool that summarizes the loads of crap out there so you don’t need to read through the junk that people write. It provides sources, unlike using ChatGPT, which is incredibly valuable. All AIs make shit up, so having links to double check it is a must. Unlike Bing Chat, or whatever Microsoft calls it this week, you can ask follow up questions to home in on what you want.
- Comment on What other animals "make music" together? (Specifically harmony or rhythmic coordination) 3 months ago:
I don’t know that it’s technically harmonization, but sometimes when wolves howl at the same time, they will each choose a different pitch. Presumably it’s so the group sounds like it has as many individuals as possible.
- Comment on Should I insulate my garage attic? 4 months ago:
I have an attic that gets direct sun until the afternoon. It gets quite hot. I had easy access to the rafters so I used radiant barrier, and the difference is very big. As you’re putting it up you can tell that it’s blocking the heat standing in an a covered vs uncovered area. In subsequent days when it was all up it was obviously cooler. It’s still hot but not unbearable.
Radiant barrier is more expensive and fiberglass probably would have worked just as well in this situation, but I didn’t know enough about air flow in that space to tell whether fiberglass would impede anything,so I used radiant barrier and left a gap at the bottoms and tops. It is very easy to install. Fiberglass wouldn’t be too hard either, but the barrier is daed simple and there’s less volume to move around.
In general, my experience say it’s going to help, and whether you do fiberglass or radiant barrier is up to you.
- Comment on YSK that there is no such thing as an "alpha wolf" 4 months ago:
There’s no shortage of well meaning dog owners who don’t know any better.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix 6 months ago:
Yeah, maybe they should encrypt it a third time. You never know.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
The only thing I value in Windows 10 or 11 over 7 is better multi monitor support, and even that is not a giant issue. It’s faster, uses less resources, is better organized, and looks nicer, especially nicer than 10 that looks like a lazy highschool kid spent all of a day on it.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix 6 months ago:
My workplace requires VPN for Web sites that are authenticated, require 2FA and are encrypted. It’s infuriatingly stupid. I feel like someone higher up got sold a useless contract by a god VPN salesperson.
- Comment on Door hinge pin keeps coming up. How to solve? 6 months ago:
Other people have better ideas, but a very small dab of blue Loctite (the one that isn’t permanent) on the bottom knuckle would keep it in place but probably be removable with a hammer and pin.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 7 months ago:
Are you guessing?
- Comment on What kind of valve is this exactly? Never seen that exact connection type 7 months ago:
I’m guessing it’s a right angle quarter turn ball valve. It’s crimped on one side and looks like a compression fitting on the other. Maybe it’s a gate valve, which in my experience are far more prone to leaks, but the notches in the handle make me think ball valve.
Which part leaks?
- Comment on I'm Heading to Phoenix Can Anyone Recommend Anything Cool To Check Out While I'm There? 8 months ago:
I visited for a few days once. If you like the outdoors, the parks in the surrounding area are nice. Camelback in the city is packed and not particularly fun.
Overall, I found that Phoenix was not at all a place I’d like to spend time. You might try Sedona just a little north of Phoenix. I haven’t been there, but I hear it’s not Phoenix.
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 9 months ago:
There are small annoying differences. The way it handles downloads is irritating. The settings menus are not well organized. There’s a big stupid Bing button unless you remove it. It randomly fails to honor the option to open PDFs in an external app. It’s nothing big, but if you’re forced to use it for work, it’s constantly annoying.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
It’s not much: file.io/PYHlCpv2LgdE.
The Nowar thing is from a GitHub repository and there’s probably a newer version. I pick parts from it to run rather than running the entire thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I have a folder with notes about what needs to be done. It’s not even 20 things. Can you share your list so I know what I’m missing?
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 10 months ago:
I think the largest group by far isn’t listed: people who bought an appliance and didn’t care at all that it had WiFi and never connected it their network.
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 10 months ago:
It’s a a rival of Hardvard.
- Comment on Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm 10 months ago:
People are giving some advice but it doesn’t seem appropriate for an absolute newbie. Here’s what I’d say. Absolutely do not run telnet. Because it’s so insecure and everyone knows that, it’s usually not on by default, and you would have had to start it yourself somehow. It’s unlikely that you did that, but you can check to see.
If you’re new, you very likely don’t need an SSH server running. Unless you’re logging into that computer remotely, you don’t need it. It’s probably not running, but it’s conceivable that it could run by default. Check to see and disable it if you don’t need remote login.
If you do need remote login, use SSH and use a good password. Ideally, you’d need to leave newbie territory and use public-private keys instead of a password. It’s also not a bad idea to use a nonstandard port, instead of 22. That doesn’t beef security much, but many scanners are going to look for 22 and nothing else.
- Comment on Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them | It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever 10 months ago:
Firefox did this 4 years ago and didn’t replace them with an alternative tracking method.
- Comment on Siding repair 10 months ago:
Maybe the insulation built into the siding isn’t worth it, but my last house had foam installed beneath the vinyl siding. I noticed that the house was much more comfortable before I knew that insulation was there. I’d recommend getting the price estimate at least, especially in a cold climate.
- Comment on PeerTube stress tests: resilience lies in your peers! 10 months ago:
Rather that individuals setting up or seeking out an instance, I could see institutes whose members produce content using it, but they’d have to really care about avoiding YouTube. Blender foundation is an example, and they have a peer tube instance, but maybe universities, nonprofits, or research institutions.
- Comment on What Would You Like To See Improved in GNU/Linux? 10 months ago:
There’s not exactly a shortage of things that don’t work well on Linux, but Bluetooth problems seem unfair to pin on it. Bluetooth doesn’t work anywhere.