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- Comment on Any tips for setting up a Mac? A 15+ years Linux user needs help 1 day ago:
If they won’t pay with it, isn’t it just an email address with a password? If the laptop is company issued OP can just use their new compwny email address, than don’t use that address for anything outside work related stuff.
- Comment on From questions to discoveries: NASA’s new Earth Copilot brings Microsoft AI capabilities to democratize access to complex data 4 days ago:
It’s a marketing article with nearly zero actual facts. One screenshot about the actual product.
MS and others already use AI for drawing building countours for OpenStreetMap and OvertureMaps from aerial imagery. In osm these AI generated lines are only allowed to be imported after a human supervision and currently it’s very hit or miss. On low density areas it’s mostly good, but in dense city centers it’s unusable.
In overture maps these lines imported automatically, that’s why you can see buildings on rivers.
They don’t write about these shortcomings in the article, and how they solved AI hallucinations
- Comment on Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software 1 week ago:
They are users not developers. An academic or civil engineer who uses a CFD simulator usually has not enough programming knowledge develop such a complex application. The employer has not enough funds to pay for developers (see, they use a pirated software). Paying for developers is still more expensive than buying an already developed product.
Just look at the stage of FOSS CAD software. There are some, but they are very-very limited compared to proprietary alternatives. Most people don’t care, they just want to get the work done. Not everyone is a programmer, even if it looks like that from our lemmy bubble.
- Comment on Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software 1 week ago:
In the Register article they don’t copied from the source that the scientists were from Egypt.
Flow3D have different academic and research licenses: www.flow3d.com/academic-program/
- There is a free research license available, but it’s only for 4 months. It’s short, researches can take much linger than the.
- There is a free teaching license, but it can have limitations for using the software outside education. It may be forbidden to use outside classes, so it’s possible that they had a a teaching license, but you cannot use that for research?
- There are licenses for full departments, but it’s available for select countries only.
It’s strange that they went after these scientists. In 2nd and 3rd word countries software privacy for work is still common. Everything is cheaper, but software prices are the same as in the US, so they pay relatively more for the same tool. I found that a normal license for Flow 3D can cost USD 100k. According to a quick search civil engineers get USD 2000 yearly in Egypt.
Usually American software companies don’t really care about piracy by individuals in these countries. The rationale is that it’s better for them if they use their software without payment instead of using a software from another vendor. They go after only if bigger companies don’t pay for them, at least that’s my experience.
That’s why this story is strange to me, or at least something else is behind it.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
I was in highschool in the 2000s in Europe, and msn was our default way of communication with classmates.
- Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances 1 month ago:
My recommendations would be something like this: (I’m just a random user, so it’s just my point of view)
- Shut down the fully inactive instances. Noone will even even notice it
- Merge the semi active communities to a handful of instances, like sports and technology… . I’ve seen active communities move instances, it would be possible, take a look how !europe@feddit.de migrated to !europe@feddit.org. Give enough time for subscribers to notice and subscribe to the new one.
- Allow registration of moderators on these instances, so they can work around the current limitations of moderation tools. Maybe an invite only solution or something like this.
- You could find help more easily if you look for admins for 3-4 instances instead of for 18 instances.
This would be useful for you and other admins, because you would have to admin much less number of instances. They would be still considered small instances, compared to big one, so you still not at the “too big to fail” level. For users it would help community discovery, there are overlap between followers of similar topics, e.g. I have friends who follow both European football and NBA at the same time, I read both selfhosting related topics and about general tech support, etc…
- Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances 1 month ago:
I don’t like this kind of community/user instance because 2 instances have to deal with the same problem. E.g. a rogue user can troll on most community instances until they are banned by their user instance.
The instance fragmentatios is not as big issue as it’s quite easy to create new accounts. There was a thread about this some days ago here, I also use different accounts on different instances for different topics.
- Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances 1 month ago:
If a moderator is from a different instance, can they effectively moderate? So isn’t it a problem if all moderators would be from different instances?
I remember after the exodus community discovery in Lemmy was hard, and it made sense to create instances like these. But nowadays with Lemmy Explorer and with multiple community promo communities I think it’s not really hard to find the topics you are interested in.
- Comment on Google Cache Is Now Fully Dead. 1 month ago:
PR open since February: github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/pull/1481
- Comment on Huawei's revamped Android competitor is launching with support for 10,000 apps. 1 month ago:
Harmony Os exists because of the US trade embargoes, they would put Google Play Services on their phone if they could. I don’t know if Lemmy is blocked in China (I guess it is), so if you could write that comment it means you are not even the target audience.
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 1 month ago:
No it’s an RDP (Remote desktop) client
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 1 month ago:
If you would read the article you would know that the title is perfectly correct, as currently it’s only available to Win, other platforms are just planned.
It’s an RDP client you can connect to pcs on the network or vms on azure
- Comment on Recommend a KVM or Switch 2 months ago:
Use WSL on the laptop for ssh, that’s actually a VM. VM separation should work correctly, or we have a much bigger problem. Just reset WSL, everything should be wiped related to the ssh sessions. Work IT would maybe allow that.
- Comment on Recommend a KVM or Switch 2 months ago:
One of them is a laptop, why ssh to the server isn’t an option? Set up tmux on the server so it always connects to the same session, so you can just continue where you left last time. If you need desktop support, rdp in gnome works really well.
E.g if you connect with this command, and tmux is installed on the server, it will start a new session named “main”. If a session with that name exists it will connect to that:
ssh -t pi@192.168.1.2 tmux new-session -A -s mainAdd something to .bashrc on the server to always do the same if you work on that phisically:
if command -v tmux &> /dev/null && [ -n "$PS1" ] && [[ ! "$TERM" =~ screen ]] && [[ ! "$TERM" =~ tmux ]] && [ -z "$TMUX" ]; then tmux new-session fi
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance. 2 months ago:
Was it even a goal? Mastodon can be used for internal communication, e.g. social.kernel.org is only for linux developers, and I know a local university where they have a defederated mastodon instance where every student automatically got registered.
If they just needed it for posting news maybe simply having a profile on one of the big instances would be enough. I see they had only 270 users.
- Comment on Music related weekly promotion thread for active communities 2 months ago:
!idm@lemm.ee
- Comment on Is this an accurate diagram? 2 months ago:
It’s a strange diagram but shows what you have to know. If you ever seen different keyed m.2 cards, you should understand this. The important thing is the location of the keys, the notch. All m.2 cards has an ‘up’ and ‘down’ side, it shows only the ‘up’ side. You have to look inside the receptor to see the pins, that’s why it shows both sides, it’s not possible to see one side only on the receptor as they are in a plastic casing. Usually you can’t see the pins on the mobo, only the key.
You can see a similar diagram on wikipedia, both sides of receptor, top side if card:
The offset you were writing about doesn’t matter, iz actually helps. You can’t accidentally insert the card upside down. The location of notches also help with this, as not all possible notches used yet, but in the future it could change.
These connectors are really small. The receptor is similar how sodimm connector works, but smaller. Are you also afraid about inserting a ram in an laptop? It’s basically the same.
Read more about the connector in wikipedia, I’m really happy this slowly replaces sata, msata, mpcie and even pcie in current pcs.
- Comment on Is this an accurate diagram? 2 months ago:
You are right. That other user has no idea what they write about, as they confessed in another comment.
- Comment on Is this an accurate diagram? 2 months ago:
You seem to love spreading misinformation on the web. Why are you commenting 4 times if you are not familiar with the topic?
This is an m.2 connector. You have to secure it with a screw on the other side. It’s nearly impossible to mess it up.
Apple frequently uses proprietary connectors, I don’t know which one you are reffering to. I won’t guess because I’m not very familiar with all apple connectors.
You don’t have to comment on a topic if you are not familiar with. Please stop.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
How this photo related to the fediverse? c/lostlemmings?
- Comment on Follow-up post of my storage question from yesterday: Are there ANY storage extension options on my mainboard? 3 months ago:
It’s a Fujitsu W26361 There isn’t a lot of info about it on the net, all the links are rotten.
You have a sata port. You have to use an external power supply for that. Or maybe one of the pins next to it can supply the required voltage, you can use a multimeter to figure it out if you are brave. If you are not you can split the power of the other sata ssd or buy something like this:
You also have an mPCIe or mSATA port. It’s impossible to tell the difference from a photo, because they use the same connector.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#Mini-SATA_(mSAT…
Without any more knowledge I would guess it’s an mPCIe. Having 2 sata ports and an mSATA next to it would be strange, they could use the mPCIe for a 3G modem, it would make more sense in a thin client like this.
If it’s an mPCIe you can buy a sata expansion there and even connect up to 4 sata drives. Looks like something like this:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2b/f9/d2/2bf9d2eb08223b7267876bbaf2d39a21.png
You can convert it to normal PCIe or m.2, the possibilities are endless:
https://www.adt.link/Uploads/image/R6/3D/R65SF.png
If it’s not mPCIe but mSATA, you can buy mSATA SSD there, they are really rare nowadays. Or you can buy an mSATA to SATA port:
https://alexnld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PC0181L_1.jpg
- Comment on Google Chrome will let you send money to your favourite website 3 months ago:
In other words: Google selected a non standard tag again. It’s a W3C draft, but not a standard yet: webmonetization.org/specification/
Google is not following standards, and than W3C has no other way just accept the standard, as it’s already implemented by the majority of browsers… Whose decision is which standard to accept? Google or W3C? Will Google remove the tag if the W3C selects a different tag as standard? Or the internet is just another Alphabet Inc product line?
- Comment on Microsoft Ruined Windows 3 months ago:
18 minutes video about how windows is bad, posted to literally the biggest linux circlejerk forum of the interwebs. Oh a misleading ad trying to sell the same thing as haveibeenpwned, classic.
Nowadays if someone is annoyed by these things can switch to Linux, nearly all games work ootb, hardware acceleration and drm is also working in browsers. For a home user, competitive gaming is the only thing which is not on par with windows.
For company environments where they use software which is windows only, group policy is there, sysadmins can lock down computers that it basically looks like a kiosk with only the few programs the employee need, no notifications, no ai bullshit, these annoyances only affect home users.
- Comment on Dynamic IP - Self hosting 3 months ago:
Other free services I had good experiences with:
- Comment on Tasks.md: 2.4.0 released 3 months ago:
Caldav is a protocol to sync tasks and calendar events. Kanban is a way to sort/display tasks. The to things are orthogonal.
I used nextcloud deck, a kanban board. Lo and behold, it uses calendar tasks under the hood, and you can sync them with caldav. Obviously you loose some features from the kanban board, but it’s a perfect middleground if you are nit a heavy kanban user.
- Comment on Tasks.md: 2.4.0 released 3 months ago:
For my tasks I use Nextcloud Tasks via caldav. Do you plan to add caldav support? You could solve the problem of missing native apps with this as well, as caldav is supported in a lot of desktop calendar apps (e.g. Thunderbird), and android has the genial opentasks app which uses the same standard.
- Comment on Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal 3 months ago:
Most of the originalish content on lemmy are linux related stuff, memes and porn. The latter 2 are mostly image/video based, so you don’t search for that very frequently and easily. I can see that in the future it will become a very relevant source of info in linux admin and user circles.
I go back to r*ddit sometimes for some local content which is non existent on lemmy. I see that the tech related subs are mostly dead there, or at least only shadows of their former selfs. E.g. go to r/linux, sort by top all time. In the first 100 results you will barely find anything posted after the exodus.
- Comment on What do you prefer to selfhost? 4 months ago:
From what I heard is that the NPM project only has 1 developer and so they can’t really respond and fix security flaws in a proper timeframe.
It’s mostly just nginx with a webui. You can even see the nginx config files if you bash into the container. It has the same bugs as upstream nginx. Do not expose the management port to the internet.
Plus compared to normal nginx, it’s harder to misconfigure it. Most of my services are just the default config, so I can’t mess it up accidentally.
About lockouts: Once also happened me, but that was just a messed up update, next update fixed itself. If you lock yourself out you can usually edit the db directly, it defaults to sqlite, but I used it with mariadb.
- Comment on Rq: How to Mastodon 4 months ago:
Kbin is dead, mbin is the new kbin:
- Comment on MSI warranty claim database was publicly accessible via Google 4 months ago:
Yes, in my native language the two words are the same
