NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 1 day ago:
Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road…
- Comment on Oh Boy!, Golly! 2 days ago:
Ah yes, finding the rotting corpse of a long-dead rat, maggoty and moldy, bones and fur and decay… much less disturbing.
- Comment on Oh Boy!, Golly! 2 days ago:
Ah yes, finding a bloody rat screaming and twitching, trapped under the wire, its spine broken… much less disturbing.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 3 days ago:
Deflation increases the value of money vs. goods and services. As a consequence, deflation concentrates economic power in the hands of people who already have money.
- Comment on Tips for TPU? 3 days ago:
I’ve had success printing TPU onto the uncoated steel side of a print bed. Flip it over and clean it, gently sand it if it’s too smooth for the first layer to grip.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 3 days ago:
Deflation is worse.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 4 days ago:
It’s not just the convenience of running water, it’s all of the infrastructure around making sure that water is clean and safe, which involves government regulation and audits, massive engineering projects, a lot of maintenance effort and a considerable amount of tax dollars.
Just as an example, leptospirosis is a common bacterial contaminant in untreated water:
Signs and symptoms can range from none to mild (headaches, muscle pains, and fevers) to severe (bleeding in the lungs or meningitis). Weil’s disease (/ˈvaɪlz/ VILES), the acute, severe form of leptospirosis, causes the infected individual to become jaundiced (skin and eyes become yellow), develop kidney failure, and bleed. Bleeding from the lungs associated with leptospirosis is known as severe pulmonary haemorrhage syndrome.
If you go to places like Hawaii you’ll see warning signs about lepto around pools and streams because people have this delusional fantasy about tropical paradises with clean flowing streams. Untreated, uncontrolled water is a hazard.
Everyone can’t be an expert on water sanitation. Employing some experts to provide that service for thousands or millions of people is a fantastic solution. It’s probably impossible to overstate how much benefit water infrastructure provides for society.
So I disagree with you. “Running water” (centrally managed water sanitation and delivery) is one of the best things human society has ever done. The benefit to public health is incalculable.
The only reason you might discount how much benefit you gain from this system is that you’ve grown up with it as normal. You’ve never had to worry about groundwater contamination, about boiling every cup of water before you drink it, about filtration or desalinization or testing for lead.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 4 days ago:
it’s hard for people so used to the comforts of capitalism to realise this is actually luxury
being inside, seated comfortably, doing non-manual work, educated, can read, listening to music, this is a job better than 99% of people who have ever lived have had
Hell, if you’re in this situation you have immediate and convenient access to potable water in your living space. This is a level of privilege beyond almost every other human that has lived in all of history.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 5 days ago:
I totally agree on the pacing. The Red Strings Club is a masterclass of storytelling in a video game format.
I think it’s hard to describe as a game to gamers… the actual gameplay is pretty vague, the various minigame activities are almost inconsequential, but taken as a whole it’s a perfect experience.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 5 days ago:
I really enjoyed both Far games. I never felt like any of the puzzles were large enough to get tedious. When I finished Lone Sails I just wished there had been a longer section of driving the ship… it kind of felt like you never got to really go before there was some interruption that you had to stop and get out for.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 5 days ago:
Jazzpunk was one of those games that left me wishing there was more of it.
Manifold Garden is just such a perfectly executed atmosphere, it’s hard to do it justice with description - like walking around inside an Escher drawing.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 6 days ago:
- Comment on There's a decent chance that one of the many uncontacted tribes has started to worship airplanes 6 days ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Would this mini pc be a good homeserver
For what purpose?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
One of the biggest problems they would have is just pointing their communications equipment in the right direction. The Voyager probes have a complicated guidance system (AACS) which takes input from a three-axis gyroscope and several other reference instruments to keep the 3.7m antenna pointed at Earth. If the antenna goes out of alignment then the radio beam will not hit Earth and will not be received.
The only reason this works is that the Deep Space Network on Earth is actively listening for the signal from the probes, and the people operating it know exactly what direction to point the receiving antennae to get the signal from the probes. If you don’t have very precise targeting you probably won’t get the signal.
Next year Voyager 1 will reach a distance of one light-day from Earth and it’s already a very difficult problem that is only solvable because it was planned for extensively prior to launch, so never mind trying to accomplish this at a distance of hundreds of light-years with no planning.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This ^. You can think about a radio source just like a visible light source. It fades out over distance because the energy emission is spreading out. If there are other light sources that are of similar or greater strength between you and that light, it will be basically impossible to distinguish the one light that you care about from everything else.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More 1 week ago:
every game is dark souls
- Comment on Please remember to spread the word about this :( 1 week ago:
More information about this dangerous chemical: dhmo.org/facts.html
- Comment on improbability and impossibility 1 week ago:
What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn’t been good to you so far - which, given your present circumstances, seems more likely - consider yourself lucky that it won’t be troubling you much longer.
- Comment on Old laptop died 🥲 2 weeks ago:
It won’t start on battery or when plugged in (it can run without a battery when plugged in).
So the battery is trash. Does it fully boot when you start it without the battery?
The battery does seem to be dead, and so is the 3V CMOS battery.
Did you replace the CMOS battery?
- Comment on MIT researchers crack 3D printing with glass — new technique enables inorganic composite glass printed at low temperatures 2 weeks ago:
This inorganic composite glass is made of inorganic materials
- Comment on It was only a fish! 3 weeks ago:
So long and thanks…
- Comment on How to get the attention of a low life not paying their bill 3 weeks ago:
Time to lay some pipe.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Recall feature is still threat to privacy despite recent tweaks 3 weeks ago:
Um, the core feature is privacy invasion. It does what it says on the tin.
It’s fine if some people want that functionality, as long as it’s not enabled by default.
- Comment on I got a feeling.. 4 weeks ago:
Lump
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 4 weeks ago:
Food is a reasonable target for biodegradable packaging because you don’t really expect the food to sit around for more than a year (for long-term food packaging you just wouldn’t use a biodegradable material).
Packaging products that might have a long shelf life is more problematic. If the material breaks down in saltwater then it will start breaking down if someone picks it up with sweaty or recently washed hands.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 4 weeks ago:
Well right, and coating them with plastic means that they leave plastic residue behind if they break down in an uncontrolled environment, and increases the cost and complexity of recycling:
If the paper has a plastic or aluminum coating, it can be recycled, but it is much more expensive and complicated.
Some plastic coatings can be separated from paper during the recycling process. Still, it is often cheaper and easier to use virgin materials to create new products than recycling paper coated with plastic.
Paper coated with plastic isn’t suitable for composting, and most times, such products are incinerated for heat or landfilled rather than recycled.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 4 weeks ago:
Aida said the new material is as strong as petroleum-based plastics but breaks down into its original components when exposed to salt.
If this means that it does not break down when exposed to just water, that’s a pretty big deal. Water solubility has been the major issue making biodegradable plastics useless for food packaging (typically you want to either keep the food wet and water in, or dry and water out - either way water permeability is a problem).
Of course most foods also contain salt, so… I guess that’s why the article talks about coatings. If the material has to be coated to keep it from breaking down too fast, what is the point? either the coating will prevent it from breaking down, or it just moves the problem to the coating not breaking down.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
