ShaunaTheDead

@ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for cheap hardware upgrade⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think upgrading the RAM as you mentioned is going to make a big difference. While the physical RAM might be soldered to the motherboard, you could buy a fairly cheap SD card or USB and set the system up to use that as virtual memory. It won't be as fast as actual RAM but it might help and large SD cards are honestly really cheap these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Mystery of How Ancient Egyptians Built The Pyramids Finally Appears Solved⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To everyone saying the Great Pyramids were built by slaves, no, that's a misconception and was accepted historic fact in the past but has been amended.

  From the Wikipedia article on Egyptian pyramid construction techniques:

  The Greeks, many years after the event, believed that the pyramids were built by slave labour. Archaeologists now believe that the Great Pyramid of Giza (at least) was built by tens of thousands of skilled workers who camped near the pyramids and worked for a salary or as a form of tax payment (levy) until the construction was completed, pointing to workers' cemeteries discovered in 1990. For the Middle Kingdom pyramid of Amenemhat II, there is evidence from the annal stone of the king that foreigners from Canaan were employed.

  ... Evidence suggests that around 5,000 were permanent workers on salaries with the balance working three- or four-month shifts in lieu of taxes while receiving subsistence "wages" of ten loaves of bread and a jug of beer per day. Zahi Hawass believes that the majority of workers may have been volunteers. Most archaeologists agree that only about 4,000 of the total workforce were labourers who quarried the stone, hauled blocks to the pyramid, and set the blocks in place. The vast majority of the workforce provided support services such as scribes, toolmakers, and other backup services.

  Link to the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_techniques

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like you've run some bad distros. Every problem you've described I've seen solutions for, and GUI solutions too, not just command line. Linux certainly was as you've described, but there are loads of user friendly distros that never require you to open a terminal window, ever, for anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just switch to Linux. It works flawlessly with everything except games that with anti-cheat that refuse to support it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like this vehicle comes with (as far as I know) the first solid state battery in a commercial vehicle which is HUGE news if true! I'm slightly skeptical because of this claim coming from the Chinese government, but who knows, it would be a huge boon for all of humanity if they've figured out solid state batteries.

  The huge benefits we'll all see are increased capacity so batteries last longer, and INSANELY fast charge times. You could recharge your car to 100% in the same time as it takes to fill it up with gas currently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I get the feeling Tom Paris' unspecified crime might have been storming the Federation capital?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lol yeah I never really understood why they tried to sell Neelix as this tough, no-nonsense scrapper when they hired this guy to play the role. Star Trek has some very questionable casting sometimes. Not that Neelix isn't great, but he definitely isn't a "tough guy".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I get the feeling Tom Paris' unspecified crime might have been storming the Federation capital?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always assumed it had more to do with him smuggling goods into federation colonies or some such. He's a very good pilot because he knows how to slip between the cracks of sensor fields and how to use unconventional maneuvers to throw off anyone chasing him. Sounds like the behaviour of a smuggler to me.

  Also, I'm pretty sure the pitch for Tom Paris was basically "Han Solo but Star Trek".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else notice the fediverse is quite close knit?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if others have some favourite posters that you they quite often?

  For me, it's Stamets and ThePicardManuever but I've noticed a couple other prominent posters lately although their names haven't stuck for me just yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is less religious: Xmas or Christmas?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Christmas is basically a secular holiday for a lot of people these days anyway, but if optics really matter to you, just call it "Yule" or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative github frontends?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gitlab is quite good and used by a lot of open source developers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a vibe⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think it has to do with being female or anime. I think OP is saying that they're either a transgender woman or a femboy who is still in the closet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say in an infinite multiverse versions of you exist. Yet there's an infinity of fractional numbers between 1 and 2 with no whole number 3 between, so infinity can exist without every possibility.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You're assuming that physics would be the same in every other universe. Physics works the way it does in our universe largely because of constants, but we don't know why many of these constants exist and we probably never will. The idea of a god creating out universe seems like an obvious explanation, but more likely it's survivor bias. Specifically, the idea that since we happen to live in a universe where everything is just right and so we look at that as a miracle and probably planned. In reality, it's more likely that there are actually an infinite number of universes with different physics where life is impossible, but that means that even if less than 1% of all of those infinite universes is unable to support life, there are still so, so many universes in which it was. Many of them being nearly identical to our own, and many of them being so strange and alien that we probably couldn't even wrap our heads around the strangeness even if we had an eternity to study them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SSH keys stolen by stream of malicious PyPI and npm packages⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think using a custom ssh key directory would prevent these malicious apps from working correctly or is there some environment variable that always points to the ssh key folder or I guess they could just run a search on the system for any files like *.pub. Are there any safety procedures that one can take to circumvent these kinds of attacks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SSH keys stolen by stream of malicious PyPI and npm packages⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like a great application of AI to root around through the code of packages in these repos and find ones that access the ssh key directory at all to be looked at more thoroughly by a human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It might just be a coincidence but I've had a lot of trouble using Invidious or Piped lately too. Videos load and titles load, but video thumbnails don't load for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aLiEnS!!1⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There's a lot of evidence to show that a small team of skilled craftsmen could have used water channels and animal skin floaters to lift the blocks into place.

  Here's a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1y8N0ePuF8

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An old Hallmark commercial for Star Trek Christmas ornaments, with Leonard Nimoy (1992)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think I have that one, but I have a bunch of them! They're my prized possessions and it's such a delight to hang them up every Christmas :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why am I told that I'm a child on the internet?? I'm 20!!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There's something about the way you type that comes across as juvenile. I think it's the lack of capitalization and grammatical errors. Are you not a native English speaker? That would definitely explain it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Byzantine gold coin with 'face of Jesus' unearthed by metal detectorist in Norway⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lol but it's definitely a typo. If you click on the link the actual article says "700 year old".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trek Club⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was and continue to be shocked that there are conservative Star Trek fans. I just can't wrap my head around how they justify it. It's very clearly painting socialism and left leaning ideas as the universally correct ideals which will lead us to a utopia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The perfect marriage⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Garak is a Bashir-sexual and Keiko is not Bashir enough for him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can't believe nobody has said religion. All of it. Praying to god being a prime example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure they showed on Mythbusters that tapping the side of the can is actually much more effective. The reason is that bubbles form all around the edges (and top) of the can and they cause the massive bubbling up when the can opens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this right? Not a Star Trek fan.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Avery would absolutely deliver that line exactly as you wrote it. His acting in DS9 is so delightfully unhinged, way over the top and campy, I love it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What moment from a video game made you cry?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh yeah, FF7 when Aeris is killed by Sephiroth. And the scene where Cloud carries her into the water... I was bawling. Afterwards I think I just sat there dumbfounded, staring at the empty spot in my party until after like 5 minutes I turned off the game cause I needed a break to mourn. I know the graphics don't really hold up these days, but it was all to real to me as a child and it was one of my first experiences with death even though it was just a video game character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Traffic lights⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It means "if you are able to stop safely, you MUST STOP. Otherwise, you must go through the light quickly".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI's reported 'superintelligence' breakthrough is so big it nearly destroyed the company, and ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the hell would have guessed that we'd have to deal with not one but two potentially civilization ending threats in our lifetimes? I want off this crazy ride please!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when this was on TV every year?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You're right, my mistake. I was thinking of Existential Nihilism which is a school of thought within Nihilism, but is different in it's interpretation as I described in my original post.

  Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose... The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".

  ... Friedrich Nietzsche further expanded on these ideas, and ... has become a major figure in existential nihilism.

  There are also some quotes of note in the main Nihilism Wikipedia article

  Nietzsche distinguishes a morality that is strong or healthy, meaning that the person in question is aware that he constructs it himself, from weak morality, where the interpretation is projected on to something external.

  As such, the self-dissolution of Christianity constitutes yet another form of nihilism. Because Christianity was an interpretation that posited itself as the interpretation, Nietzsche states that this dissolution leads beyond skepticism to a distrust of all meaning.

  I think Absurdism is more what people are generally describing when they use the term Nihilism in popular culture. Here are a couple of excerpts from the same Existential Nihilism Wikipedia article I linked.

  The supposed conflict between our desire for meaning and the reality of a meaningless world is explored in the philosophical school of absurdism.

  With Kierkegaard, the concept of absurdism was developed, which explains the concept of humans trying to find meaning in a meaningless world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when this was on TV every year?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm so tired of people thinking that nihilism (Nietzsche's main philosophy for those unaware) is depressing. It's not at all, it's actually very hopeful and liberating. Nihilism can basically be boiled down to "nothing matters" which sounds depressing, but what it really means is that "nobody can tell you what matters from your perspective, only you can decide what matters to you". It was considered depressing and was railed against by the public at the time because it goes against religious teaching which tells you that religion matters objectively and unquestioningly.

  It's extremely liberating even today despite religion not having a choke hold on society as much as it did during Nietsche's time. It's liberating because if what truly matters to you is shitposting on Lemmy, then that's great! Go live your most meaningful existence! Enjoy yourself and be proud of your accomplishments in that field! You choose your own worldview and what matters to you, and that's obviously a very a positive thing, it's not depressing or morose or narrow-minded and I'm tired of people just boiling it down to "Nihilism is for depressed people".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I read about an early study into AI where they were using it to predict whether the pictured animal was a dog or a wolf. It got really good at detecting wolves and when they analyzed how it was determining whether it was a wolf or not, they found that it wasn't looking at the animal at all but instead checking if there was a lot of snow on the ground. If there was, it would say it was a wolf, if there wasn't it would say dog.

  The problem was with the data set used to train the AI. It was doing exactly what it was told. That's the big problem with AI is that it does exactly what we tell it to do, but people are hilariously bad at describing exactly the result they want down to the absolute finest level of detail.