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- Comment on Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up 1 day ago:
“Common carrier” is the jargon you’re looking for.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 day ago:
Well, I need a reverse proxy or VPN or something so that the phones can connect to my Home Assistant server from outside the LAN. That’s the main thing I haven’t gotten done yet.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 days ago:
The main reason my wife and I don’t have location sharing set up isn’t because of trust or lack thereof between each other, but because I don’t trust proprietary/commercial location-sharing services.
I’ve been meaning to set up a self-hosted system (mainly because it seems like Home Assistant could do some neat automations with that info), but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
- Comment on StarLink reportedly down world wide 2 days ago:
I have a dream of living full-time aboard a sailboat and sailing around the world, so I was excited about Starlink for the prospect of being able to get Internet access in the middle of the ocean. That was before Musk went completely off the fascist deep end, though; now I’m really hoping for a competitor to spring up before I get to my boat phase.
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 3 days ago:
Blame minimum parking requirements. An 800 ft^2^ 2-bedroom apartment is really 1200 ft^2^, when the zoning code requires one parking space per bedroom.
- Comment on Anyone have one of these? 6 days ago:
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 6 days ago:
Then I guess I’m not looking at those pages. No skin of my nose.
That works until every website starts doing it.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 6 days ago:
Fuckers want to colonize my property (my computer). that illegal!
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 6 days ago:
Okay, fine. Then if there was never going to be a prosecution, then there was no impediment to the Biden admin releasing the files.
Which is it: did the Biden administration fuck up by slow-walking the prosecution, or did the Biden administration fuck up by failing to release the files even when it had no intention of prosecuting? Those are the only options!
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 week ago:
Did they cover the part about how Biden’s DOJ had absolutely no fucking excuse to take that long to prosecute?
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 1 week ago:
That’s because it is the UK [government] as a whole!
- Comment on poaceae 1 week ago:
Gummy worms have more bones than real worms.
- Comment on British Slander. :) 1 week ago:
Africa.
- Comment on salty 1 week ago:
You just know getting that to happen was the absolute peak crowning achievement of some bureaucrat’s career.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 1 week ago:
He couldn’t have been arrested for copyright infringement; that offense was perpetrated by the entity that sold the thing to him, not himself.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
high resolution, high bitrate video files are pretty large.
Can it actually transfer data fast enough to save or play them back in real-time, though?
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
That’s a use-case for a fuckton of total capacity, but not necessarily a fuckton of per-drive capacity. I think what the grandparent comment is really trying to say is that the capacity has so vastly outstripped mechanical-disk data transfer speed that it’s hard to actually make use of it all.
For example, let’s say you have these running in a RAID 5 array, and one of the drives fails and you have to swap it out. At 190MB/s max sustained transfer rate (figure for a 28TB Seagate Exos; I assume this new one is similar), you’re talking about over two days just to copy over the parity information and get the array out of degraded mode! At some point these big drives stop being suitable for that use-case just because the vulnerability window is so large that the risk of a second drive failure causing data loss is too great.
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 1 week ago:
Fake: you said yourself that you made it with photoshop
Gay: “Femanons?” Female 4chan users? I don’t think they exist.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 1 week ago:
It skips the step where you have to sift through a bunch of results and determine “is this what I was looking for?” and “how does this apply to my specific context?”
Right: it skips the part where human intelligence and critical thinking is applied. Do you not understand how that’s a fucking problem‽
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 1 week ago:
Looking up a list of resources that you then evaluate yourself is very categorically different from getting an “answer” from a bot.
- Comment on Restaurant Uses AI for Menu, Accidentally Describes Appetizer in Way So Disgusting That We May Never Recover 1 week ago:
If boycotts actually worked, we wouldn’t need regulation. But they clearly fucking don’t.
- Comment on Ninja Gaiden for DOS: rated M for "mistake" 1 week ago:
That screenshot looks familiar. I think I may have owned that game (on my Tandy 1000, BTW) but barely ever played it.
- Comment on Which guides to trust for novice / normie getting started? 2 weeks ago:
With computer stuff, you can do even better: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
TL;DR: your documentation and your shell script (sequence of console commands you run to accomplish the task) can be the same file.
(Dunno what kind of chemistry you do, but you may have already come across this concept in the form of Jupyter notebooks or something like that.)
While I’m at it, I’d also like to mention Ansible and Git, for when you really want to keep good records and have a reproducible setup. Don’t worry about them immediately as it’s probably too overwhelming to learn all at once, but keep 'em in the back of your mind for later.
- Comment on fingies 2 weeks ago:
How far back do you have to go to find whales with fingernails/claws?
- Comment on Which guides to trust for novice / normie getting started? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I don’t think it’s possible to get by just trusting any particular guide without developing at least some actual understanding of the concepts underlying what you’re doing. The field is just too wide and rapidly changing for any source of info to be authoritative (and stay authoritative indefinitely after the guide is written), so it’s super important to develop the skill of looking up multiple different and possibly conflicting approaches to the task and then synthesizing one that works for your specific situation.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 2 weeks ago:
Considering how few references there were in the post
Why use many words when few words do trick?
- Comment on PAPERS, PLEASE - The Short Film 2 weeks ago:
The Ukraine war started in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea.
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 2 weeks ago:
Huh. I just kinda assumed Norway would use the Euro, but TIL it’s not even a member of the EU. Weird.
- Comment on came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! 2 weeks ago:
I now blame AOL for more than I had previously considered.
Look up the phrase “eternal September.”
- Comment on came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! 2 weeks ago:
2000 was better, though.
