Town where I grew up had an awesome laser tag - you started off with a basic blaster but could unlock a shotgun (more damage, but fired slower and had limited ammo) and a rocket launcher (single shot insta kill) by doing different things in game
Title. “lmao internet points” and all, but what is the point of participating in a community that sees assumptions and other commonly non-harmful commentaries/posts as “bad” this easily? Do folks in here are really that needy of self-validation, even if it means seeking such from something completely insignificant like...
Less a breakthrough, more “science is slow and incremental and big advances rarely happen all at once”; Japan have bought their JT-60SA Tokamak fusion reactor back online after spending the last few years upgrading it - it’s nowhere near able to produce electricity, but will provide important data that will be used to guide the experiments that will be performed at IETR, the much larger Tokamak that the EU is building that is much closer to being a viable power generator.
Idk, “people who argue about different energy generation methods on the internet” isn’t exactly a representative sample of the general population.
I like talking about ITER because it’s a really clear example of how, most of the time, big discoveries and innovations don’t just magically happen cos one genius sat down and came up with a thing - with a few exceptions, science hasn’t worked like that for most of the last century - innovations happen because of the accumulation of effort by hundreds of people over years.
Viable fusion energy has been “about 10 years away” since the 70s, and that’s not because noone has been working on it, it’s because it’s hard, and it’s more work than one group could achieve in a whole career. It takes serious sustained investment on the scale that only governments can stomach - imagine if Musk had poured his billions into fusion research rather than lighting it on fire to try and make people like him - and there is very little chance that that investment will ever directly turn a profit, but indirectly the gains to be made for societies are gigantic.
I get boycotting Israeli companies because of the actions of the Israeli state, but characterising a private organisation as explicitly endorsing genocide simply because they are Israeli owned is bullshit
Place I used to work had a “we own all the IP you generate” clause, except it wasn’t very clearly written so could easily be read to mean literally all IP - write a song on the weekend, they own that. Got the wording tweaked in my contract to make it explicitly only cover things done in connection to my role, on company time, but I do wonder about my former colleagues. At least one of them has a mildly successful YouTube channel that I guess the company technically owns?
I don’t know that it’s that clear cut - trying to enforce a provision like that would almost certainly be seen as unreasonable, but unless there is some specific law forbidding it in your jurisdiction you’d probably need to ask a court if it conflicts with broader employment law rules to the level that a court would nullify it. Getting an answer to that question is likely to be very expensive, even if you are right.
I’d want them to be just successful enough that they keep doing it - plowing time and energy that could otherwise be spent on fulfilling hobbies or real relationships - but not so successful that they could really commit to it. Like if they made ~$100/week, it’s not nothing but is it really worth the dozens of hours on weekends and evenings that you are spending to make that?
You could turn invisibility on and off as you like and there would be no time limit. Your clothes would turn invisible too, and you could decide whether the items you are holding would be visible or not....
Teleportation would be neat assuming you can just totally disregard basic laws of physics like conservation of momentum - otherwise you end up either as a red smear somewhere, or accidentally turn yourself into a kinetic energy weapon
A lot of depictions of teleportation seem to imply that you instantaneously move between two distinct points in space without having moved through the intervening matter - if that’s the case you have to deal with a whole lot of complexity to ensure that you are moving at an appropriate speed at your destination - it depends a lot on your reference point, but imagine teleporting from the equator to the north pole without accounting for the difference in velocity of the ground due to the earth being a sphere. If you were standing still on the equator but preserved your momentum through the jump, you’d be moving at 1600km/h when you arrived. Air friction and the sonic boom alone would mess you up, let alone if you collided with something.
You are right, you could solve it by having the teleportation move you through some sort of hyperspace and making the jump almost instantaneous so you have time to accelerate and decelerate, but even then you’d need to hand wave away where the energy goes. Imagine the same set up, you’ve accelerated through hyperspace towards the pole, then decelerated back down to end up going 1600km/h slower than you started. For an average person this is about 8 MJ of excess kinetic energy that has to go somewhere
I backed the Pebble Core Kickstarter (kickstarter.com/…/pebble-2-time-2-and-core-an-ent…) - never actually happened cos Pebble ran out of cash before they shipped any, but I’ve always thought the idea was really interesting
This is actually something that bugs me about GitHub - I’m a Professional Software Developer, and we use GitHub enterprise internally at work (don’t @ me, we don’t have the budget to run our own infrastructure, BitBucket is crap and the sales person at GitLab ghosted me on 3 consecutive calls that we set up to discuss our needs). I’m also in charge of a team, and actively encourage the team to contribute to open source - find a bug? Draw up reproduction steps, report it upstream, and Fridays after lunch are dedicated to getting those bugs fixed. One of these days one of my team is going to run across one of these assholes, and I’m going to have a proper HR incident on my hands because that is a hostile work environment. Doesn’t matter that it is a member of the public being a dick, I’ve got an obligation to ensure that my staff have a workplace free of harassment, and I’ve got absolutely no recourse against this other than to say “cool, we don’t contribute to this repo anymore”.
Where I live at least, there is a difference because they are performing a task that they are being directed to perform as part of their job, as opposed to just randomly stumbling across hate while browsing the internet - if I’ve directed one of my staff to “submit a PR to this repo and work with the maintainers to get it merged” and some asshole drops into the comments they are being forced to engage in that situation, and that is not ok.
One case that I’ve heard of is a pizza delivery place that had to pay some serious compensation to a couple of their delivery people because they refused to stop accepting orders from someone who would be super abusive if their delivery person wasn’t a white guy. Management knew what was happening, the drivers had complained and asked for a resolution, management had refused to do anything about it, so the business had to pay compensation.
Because the list is “certified” not “works with” - essentially, the “certified” list is for hardware that not only works, but that Canonical will guarantee works and will make software changes to fix if it breaks
“GPT” describes a machine learning technique - tools like ChatGPT use this technique along with massive training sets to produce their results, but there isn’t anything stopping you doing it on a small scale so you can slap “GPT” or “AI” on your product and jump on the band wagon without actually adding anything of value
For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox development to Git....
So what you are saying is that as someone who has never worked on the Firefox codebase, you still somehow know more about managing contributions to one of the largest FOSS projects in the world that has been running pretty successfully for the last 25 years?
Idk, maybe try a bit of humility - like if it looks like they are making a weird decision, maybe it’s not because they are dumb and you are very smart, maybe it’s because they know stuff that you don’t?
I have been printing with PETG on glass for a little while now, and have gone through almost an entire roll. Yesterday I had my first print stick so hard that it delaminated the glass :(. I stopped using hairspray as it made the prints not stick at all, and printing bare glass was just fine. But something about yesterdays print...
I don’t tend to print on glass, but this failure mode isn’t surprising - repeated heating and cooling, plus the mechanical stress of the PETG slightly contracting as it cools will create microscopic cracks the build over time until the sheet fails
so im a teen with not alot of money but i want to get into 3d printing, another community suggested the ender 3 original. it looks like a solid printer but who know im a noob after all. my budget is around 100$ or less. im looking into making mini figures and painting them or whatever nerdy thing i find. i know the budget is...
Whatever you go with, keep in mind that for the most part the difference between a cheap ffm 3d printer and a mid-tier 3d printer isn’t print quality, it’s reliability. If you are happy spending as much time getting the printer to actually consistently print properly as you do actually printing stuff, then go ahead.
Cheap 3d printers are a hobby, expensive 3d printers are a tool
So I was drafting a blog post about an x86 tablet and was quickly going to mention running x86 versions of Android like Bliss as an option, but I can’t seem to figure out exactly what/if active projects are out there....
x86 is deprecated in AOSP, iirc x86_64 is supported (the official SDK emulators are x86_64) but you will probably run into plenty of apps that don’t ship native components compiled for anything other than ARM.
Are they so different that it’s justified to have so many different distributions? So far I guess that different package manager are the reason that divides the linux community. One may be on KDE and one on GNOME but they can use each other’s packages but usually you are bound to one manager
And different goals. A large part of why apt is the way it is comes down to the way the Debian project is structured - a project relying on a large number of volunteers vs something like Red Hat where most of the changes come from employees, so has different rules and standards for how packages should be constructed
Very exciting - however, I spend most of my time building apps in Flutter, which is also a Google project, so I expect that it will receive RISC-V support about as the sun is burning out
Edit: looking at the bug trackers, it seems like there is actually some movement on this, so maybe my cynicism is misplaced
Yeah, the flutter engine itself is shipped as a pre-built binary, and there are a few major libraries that rely on native extensions that the tooling needs to be set up to cross-compile for
Have no agency over the choices the company makes - a lot of the time they are subcontractors, and have no better access to senior management than you do
Are not told anything that isn’t publicly available - even if the company were working on a Linux port, they wouldn’t know about it either
Are typically working to a script - tier 1 support people are given a script and a troubleshooting workflow, and are strongly discouraged from going off script - “question: will you bring $game to other platforms. Answer: we have nothing to announce, but keep an eye on our social media account”. If you escalate questions that you have the answer to, you aren’t going to keep your job for very long (remember subcontractors?)
If you are going to contact support, be polite. Support agents put up with a ton of shit, don’t add to it. If you want to make noise, you are probably better off making noise on social media - but be realistic. Bringing a game to a new platform is phenomenally expensive - 7 or 8 figures for a large game. It’s not just the port, it’s testing, it’s updating docs, it’s updating support people. That is money someone has to invest up-front, so the people with the money need to know they are going to get a reasonable return on that money compared to building a new game
I have setup my fedora to use LUKS encryoted partitions. But entering two passwords gets quite tiring, as I shutdown my laptop quite often to get the benefit of LUKS (I am assuming nothing is encrypted when in suspend, please correctme if I am wrong)...
you don’t know it, you can not get convinced to give it up
It’s ok that you don’t know it, just log into your computer please and we’ll take care of setting a new key. Or you can have a conversation with Mr Wrench again.
What do you mean by “increase security”? Security isn’t a thing where you get +5 points for every antivirus you have installed - it’s about risks, and how you mitigate them. A perfect antivirus isn’t going to protect you if you have a crappy password on something you forgot about, or if you are running software with a serious security vulnerability.
The future of selfhosted services is going to be... Android?
Wait, what?
Think about it. At some point everyone has had an old phone lying around. They are designed to be constantly connected, constantly on... and even have a battery and potentially still a SIM card to survive power outages.
We just need to make it easy to create APK packaged servers that can avoid battery-optimization kills and automatically configure an outbound tunnel like ngrok, zerotrust, etc...
The goal: hosting services like #nextcloud, #syncthing, #mastodon!? should be as easy as installing an APK and leaving an old phone connected to a spare charger / outlet.
It would be tempting to have an optimized ROM, but if self-hosting is meant to become more commonplace, installing an APK should be all that's needed. #Android can do SSH, VPN and other tunnels without the need for root, so there should be no problem in using tunnels to publicly expose a phone/server in a secure manner.
In regards to the suitability of home-grade broadband, I believe that it should not be a huge problem at least in Europe where home connections are most often unmetered: "At the end of June 2021, 70.2% of EU homes were passed by either FTTP or cable DOCSIS
3.1 networks, i.e. those technologies currently capable of supporting gigabit speeds."
PS. syncthing actually already has an APK and is easy to use. Although I had to sort out some battery optimization stuff, it's a good example of what should become much more commonplace.
It’s a really cool idea, and the internet would probably be a better place if more people took ownership of their infrastructure rather than relying on ad-supported “free” services, and it’s easy to criticise an approach that I’ve spent maybe 10 minutes actually thinking about - I’ve got my reservations, but if you can make it work it would be awesome
Good that you’ve put the work in to compile your list, but for anyone new; this is a list of C-tier hosts, and seems to have a pretty strong focus on “privacy” hosts - some of the privacy features can be nice, but it can be a double edged sword. By using a privacy focussed host, you end up co-habitating with other privacy focussed users, which tends to have a higher-than-average concentration of sketchy or outright criminal users. This can have an impact on IP reputation and other operational issues, even if you aren’t doing anything sketchy yourself
Non-refundable registration fees are standard in the industry; I was referring to their notoriously predatory “extra add-ons” that they hard-sell on people. Also, in my experience, they are easily 25-50% more expensive
Ok, so what I would really like to do is sync the podcasts I have on my PC to my Android phone, BUT I’d also like to sync what episode and how far I am into the episode I am. Is this even possible?
I wouldn’t think it would be worth the effort in syncing the downloaded files - a podcast is literally just a list of download URLs with some metadata, probably simpler to just re-download the file. I guess I could see that being a problem if you are on a very restrictive internet plan, but podcast files episodes are typically quite small
Most budget web hosts are going to score you a pretty spam score - the private antispam feed we use at work has “originates at a digital ocean ASN” as an automatic grey list unless it’s for a domain with an existing reputation
I’d be fascinated to know how the senior management at Reddit actually conceptualise the site.
To me, Reddit is essentially “PHPbb as a service” - Reddit itself provides the hosting infrastructure, the software, and sets some standards for the types of communities they are willing to host, community admins do the whole community things. Does Reddit’s management think they are running Facebook or something?
Mine is people who separate words when they write. I’m Norwegian, and we can string together words indefinetly to make a new word. The never ending word may not make any sense, but it is gramatically correct...
The thing I hate about English is that it pretends to have formal rules for sentence structure and grammar, and they are all basically optional to some degree, but plenty of English speakers get really grumpy when people break them. English isn’t like French where there is a literal governing body who is in charge of setting the formal rules for the language - English is a cluster fuck of borrowed words and structures mashed together in a barely coherent mess, stop acting like “should’a” is a violation of section 16.4 subsection 4
Have you checked the permissions on the actual directory? Not familiar with your setup, but presumably there is a directory somewhere that is mounted in both the transmission and sonar containers - is the user ID of the sonar process actually allowed to write to that directory?
I just browsed eBay a bit and saw that older, used SAS drives can be had pretty cheap - 30€ for 4TB, but of course rather old drives, sometimes 10 years old....
It can be a super mixed bag - you can get lucky and end up with a drive that has spent it’s entire life sitting on a shelf as a cold spare and was literally only powered up to be wiped so the recycler can say they wiped all the drives, or you can get a drive that has been running well over its MTBF and will fail start throwing SMART pre-fail warnings 30 seconds after your warranty expires
SMART (the internal drive self-check/monitoring system, exposes a number of statistics that can be read by software on the host machine) exposes a “power on hours” counter and a “power cycles” counter - a high count of either of those would indicate a drive that had been heavily used. Also worth looking at the “pending sector count” and “reallocated sector count”, as increasing values of those is a pretty good early indication of failure
chill dude (slrpnk.net)
Alright, I'm gonna "take one for the team" -- what is with the "downvote-happy" users lately?
Title. “lmao internet points” and all, but what is the point of participating in a community that sees assumptions and other commonly non-harmful commentaries/posts as “bad” this easily? Do folks in here are really that needy of self-validation, even if it means seeking such from something completely insignificant like...
What is your favorite time travel movie or show?
;-)
What are some recent breakthroughs or findings that haven't received much attention?
OpenSSH is about to change. (For the better.) (youtu.be)
OpenSSH’s ssh-keygen command just got a great upgrade....
I'm looking at buying a sodastream - where can I find good syrups?
I live in the US, and can only seem to find a variety of soda syrups that ship to Canada here....
What is the weirdest thing you were under an NDA for?
Would you want your troublesome ex spouse to be super successful or super unsuccessful on onlyfans ? And why ?
Asking for a friend who is writing a novel
Would you choose invisibility or teleportation?
You could turn invisibility on and off as you like and there would be no time limit. Your clothes would turn invisible too, and you could decide whether the items you are holding would be visible or not....
What kind of wearable device do you want? Assuming it will work and feel like you imagine it would
It’s getting cold and so I’m fumbling with my phone and other devices....
18+ [Content Warning: Transphobia] From the very same people who tell us to "boycott Wayland"
Transphobic comments...
Why aren't linux hardware shops on Ubuntu's certified hardware list? (ubuntu.com)
Where are Purism, System76, Tuxedo Computers, Starlabs, SlimbookES, and others? Instead there’s Dell, HP, ASUS, and Fujitsu…
Wait, the ZimaCube has a private GPT implementation?
Hi everyone, was just going over the ZimaCube page on ZimaBoard’s website: www.zimaboard.com/zimacube/...
Firefox Development Is Moving From Mercurial To Git (groups.google.com)
For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox development to Git....
First glass bed failure with PETG
I have been printing with PETG on glass for a little while now, and have gone through almost an entire roll. Yesterday I had my first print stick so hard that it delaminated the glass :(. I stopped using hairspray as it made the prints not stick at all, and printing bare glass was just fine. But something about yesterdays print...
what budget 3d printer would you suggest for a beginner?
so im a teen with not alot of money but i want to get into 3d printing, another community suggested the ender 3 original. it looks like a solid printer but who know im a noob after all. my budget is around 100$ or less. im looking into making mini figures and painting them or whatever nerdy thing i find. i know the budget is...
iPad Kid (telegra.ph)
What's the state of x86/AMD64 compatible Android?
So I was drafting a blog post about an x86 tablet and was quickly going to mention running x86 versions of Android like Bliss as an option, but I can’t seem to figure out exactly what/if active projects are out there....
What's the difference between package manager and why are there so many?
Are they so different that it’s justified to have so many different distributions? So far I guess that different package manager are the reason that divides the linux community. One may be on KDE and one on GNOME but they can use each other’s packages but usually you are bound to one manager
Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready (opensource.googleblog.com)
Who was worse, George W. Bush or Donald Trump?
Just watched the Boy Boy video on George Bush’s Masterclass, and they made me think about which U.S. President was actually worse.
Linux Gaming: Anti-Cheats question
There are games that we cannot play on Linux because of anticheat, which detects wine/proton translation....
What's a fact that sounds totally made up, yet is completely true? (kbin.social)
I'll start: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are 3 years older than Guns N' Roses.
Question About TPM Autodecrypt
I have setup my fedora to use LUKS encryoted partitions. But entering two passwords gets quite tiring, as I shutdown my laptop quite often to get the benefit of LUKS (I am assuming nothing is encrypted when in suspend, please correctme if I am wrong)...
Asuswrt-merlin + ClamAV
Any way to use ClamAV on an Asus router running merlin?
How to setup my own home server and make it available to anyone?
I’d like to have my own server at home sorta like a home AWS....
VPS Hosting Provider Comparison (lemmy.basedcount.com)
Rhythmbox Podcast syncing?
Ok, so what I would really like to do is sync the podcasts I have on my PC to my Android phone, BUT I’d also like to sync what episode and how far I am into the episode I am. Is this even possible?
Don't forget to change your z offset after swapping nozzles
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Best free/cheap web host for DIY email
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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.ch/post/1794418
18+ What irritates you the most with your own language?
Mine is people who separate words when they write. I’m Norwegian, and we can string together words indefinetly to make a new word. The never ending word may not make any sense, but it is gramatically correct...
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[hardware] Used SAS drives?
I just browsed eBay a bit and saw that older, used SAS drives can be had pretty cheap - 30€ for 4TB, but of course rather old drives, sometimes 10 years old....