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SJ_Zero

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I run the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Social, FBXL Lemmy, FBXL Lotide, and FBXL Video. Mostly for my own use because after having my heart broken by too many companies I want to be in control of my own world.

I also wrote The Graysonian Ethic: Lessons for my unborn son, now on Amazon

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Pretty funny, I just canceled my netflix account. Not even for this reason.

18+ strapping non-wall mountable gear to the wall

Trying to clean up the network closet. I’ve got an S33 modem that’s shaped like an almond, and a lutron hub that’s like a deck of cards, that don’t have keyholes to mount with. I’ve seen the 3D printed brackets but that’s not my style. I’m more of a duct-tape-and-bailing-wire kind of guy. The leading plan is some...

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Perforated galvanized plumbers strapping. While most of my equipment is wall mountable, I used exactly this sort of thing for all the power supplies.

Likely similar to whatever you’re planning to use with the plastic strap, but more metal is more betterer

Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a warning for Silicon Valley (www.theverge.com)

Around the time J. Robert Oppenheimer learned that Hiroshima had been struck (alongside everyone else in the world) he began to have profound regrets about his role in the creation of that bomb. At one point when meeting President Truman Oppenheimer wept and expressed that regret. Truman called him a crybaby and said he never...

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Warning: don’t invent weapons of mass destruction if you’re a crybaby.

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I watched the godfather for the first time a few months ago.

It might still be playing.

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Behold. Everything’s at the bottom of the sea. Gone is the magical kingdom of Zeal, and all the dreams and ambitions of its people. I once lived there…But I was another person then.

And everything else in the damn game.

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I’ll spoil it for everyone instead then!

ROSEBUD IS THE SLED.

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For real, at some point you gotta go “bored now!” And actually do something.

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Yeah, something productive!

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I’m not a fan of explicit institutional racism, even if it’s done with good intentions.

We tried the “certain people recognized by the government have exceptional powers granted along hereditary lines” thing, and everyone for a while agreed it wasn’t the best.

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You’re calling for special privileges based on race and I’m the Nazi for being against it?

Ok.

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I’m not opposed to intellectual property because there’s an argument for providing a limited time monopoly to the creators of works to provide incentive to make works public. Without any such incentive, it’s entirely possible that the monetization structures for different works change, for example locking content behind restrictive systems that don’t allow for personal use at all.

The key is “limited time”. If you can’t make your money back in 15 years, then maybe it’s time to make a new thing? The idea that someone should own a thing you made after you’re dead is stupid – how exactly will that promote you to create new works? If you’re dead, your creating days are over except for creating plant food out of your bones and organs.

I put my money where my mouth is, and the legal page of the graysonian ethic specifically lists that the book is put into the public domain or license after Creative Commons CC0 license after 15 years from the date of first publishing.

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Power captures power. Money is a form of power, but there are many forms and the powerful tend to try to grab more power no matter the situation.

You can't uninstall this software without being forced to participate in their survey (lemmy.world)

I initially only installed “Comodo Firewall” but for some reason they also installed a “Comodo Dragon Browser”, which I did not consent to. I always choose the “advanced” installation to uncheck bloatware, but in this case there was none and when you try to uninstall the browser, they force you to participate in...

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“no” followed by 28 null characters and a small code payload that’ll crash their server (ok won’t work but it’d be funny)

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Not sure how you sue for something you were successfully sued for in court and pounded into the dirt.

But the threats to science come from all sides as everyone wants the dominant source of truth on their side.:(

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The computer subsystem and the display subsystem are different, largely independent things. Regardless of what your computer is doing, the system that transports data between the video chip and the LCD will always be sending that data at 60 frames per second. It doesn’t care what your CPU is doing, it’s a bunch of separate independent pieces of hardware. Meanwhile, the rest of your computer is doing the game logic and rendering the frames and sending them to the video memory and that could be happening at any frame rate. Your screen will always be running at 60 hertz, but you could have anything from one frame per second to 3000 frames per second and that just refers to the number of times per second you are updating the frame buffer with new data.

Some video games have a setting called vsync, and what that does is it will limit updating the frame buffer to do so only once while the screen is showing one frame. The benefit of doing this is if you are updating your frame buffer in the middle of drawing a frame, you can have it where half the frame is the previous frame and half of the frame is the next frame, this is called tearing because it looks like the screen is being torn in half.

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There’s a button in settings to not show bot accounts. I clicked it when I realized how many posts were just reddit mirror bots

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Yes, even among the different options there’s a lot of diversity. Lemmy, lotide, friendica, kbin, they can all do things similar to reddit.

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On a lark I went to check out if animesuki was still up. I used to use that all the time back in the day.

Nope, dead since 2019.

RIP

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Literally speaking anytime that you print something in PLA and don’t burn it it’s sequestering carbon, but that’s not exactly impressive.

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Before I settled on Lemmy and lotide, I tried out aether:

getaether.net

Like a Bittorrent client you need to expose porch to the outside world because you end up helping to host the network.

Ultimately I preferred a website I could host and visit from anywhere I could get internet to software I needed to run (and set up networking for) anywhere I wanted to use it, but it was a nice system otherwise.

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That was brilliant and chilling.

And even if the story is fiction, it kinda isn’t because there’s entire rooms full of the smartest people on earth trying to figure it out.

Why? Because there’s a lot of money and power in division. The presidential elections in 2000, 2008, 2016, and 2020 had the most votes ever. The losers in those elections would often have beaten the winners of the previous key elections if they had the same number of votes. You don’t get more people to register to vote with boring. You get people to come out because they think the other guys are so psychotic that if you don’t vote for the “good guys” you’re not going to have a country anymore.

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Peertube is a federated video platform. That means that like lemmy or mastodon, there’s a huge number of different instances. My instance for example, is following 103 other instances, and is followed by 73 other instances. Each instance is hosted by different people, and each have different rules.

Because of the wide variety of instances, it’s truly distributed and so all kinds of things are hosted there, from cat videos to porn and other stuff you typically can’t host on other platforms such as covid conspiracy theory videos.

One peertube channel that is similar to what you’re talking about is minetest videos: [email protected] It’s consistently trending on my feed (but different sites will have different feeds based on what they are or are not federated to).

I think your best bet is to see what’s out there, because there’s a lot of content but it’s sort of like old youtube.

If I were to become a youtuber today, I’d diversify. You can create a youtube channel and mirror it on peertube, for example. I think that some other alt-tech sites like rumble and bitchute have similar features as well, so you could set up a workflow where you post a video and have it show up on a number of different platforms.

The reason peertube is better than youtube is the same reason lemmy is better than reddit and mastodon is better than twitter; It’s libre, distributed, and generally not algorithmically driven.

Oh, one other neat thing: If you ever have a peertube video just blow up and become super popular, peertube uses torrent style technology so video watchers automatically share pieces of the video with one another. Just a little neat thing that helps scale a video site whereas it’s generally tough once you start getting popular.

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I was going to use one, but then I just massively increased the character count of my soapbox instance. At 60k I was able to post the first drafts of entire chapters of my book.

The nice thing about a blogging platform is you can organize the long things you’ve written and they don’t just disappear into the void…

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I have a feeling you’d end up with a bunch of big drives with small volumes on them if it did work.

Warning you, I’ve had issues with RAID combining SSD and HDD. Basically I was on an older dell server and I wanted to do mirroring and the bios straight up refused to do it because it didn’t want to mix ssds and hdds.

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Imaging software is a godsend for that sort of thing. I ended up using BartPE for something like that, and it worked great – it has a free imaging program on it. You only need a removable drive large enough for all your files since it’ll compress everything.

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He spread his homicidal insanity to all the people who think that dress is black and blue.

Repent, brothers!

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So earlier today when I wrote the post it seemed clear as day that the dress was white and gold, but now it looks black and blue.

I was in a brightly lit room and it was early afternoon back then, and now I’m in a dimly lit room and it’s evening.

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Thank God PC gaming has been shockingly good in this respect.

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Sorta feels like you’d be walking around looking like you’re shirtless and got some terrible surgery where they cut you from pelvis to neck.

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Announced. They can announce a lot of things they don’t ultimately do because the executive isn’t supposed to make laws and spend money they haven’t been given by Congress.

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They should just allow bankruptcy to eliminate student debt like other debt. We have debt amnesty for the needy under virtually any other circumstance except this one.

People go “but people will just go to college then declare bankruptcy!” – I mean, they could do the same for medical debt but most people want to have a credit card, a car, or a mortgage in 7 years if they’re on the path to the middle or upper class so most people try to pay their debt.

Using that process also solves the problem of taking money from the poor who work and never went to college and potentially handing it to the rich who just havent paid off their student loans yet.

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It’s all relative.

For lemmy it’s been a mass exodus. I was on this part of the fediverse before all this, and it’s a fundamentally different thing now than it was. There were maybe a dozen servers, most of them didn’t have a whole lot going on. Now there’s millions of active users on thousands of servers.

That might not be a mass exodus for reddit, but it sure is one for lemmy.

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https://lemmy.fbxl.net/pictrs/image/1a71a4eb-1515-49d1-9900-e906ad711e73.png

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I mean, if you don’t want to be accused of glowing in the dark, stop acting like you glow in the dark.

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Unfortunately, we see a lot of people end up having the AI reflect back at them the things they say and think that’s justification for something.

It’s an example of an anthropomorphic fallacy – it can form sentences like a human so they think it’s like a human even though it’s clearly just a very sophisticated math equation intended to form things that look like responses to you.

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I’ve bought a few dozen of these things, shame to see them go.

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The "Kids can't use Computers" thread posted yesterday hit home today as my stepson brought me his iPhone because it wouldn't charge, only to find out that his Chrome Book's CPU was running 73% loaded with only one application running (steam...no games). So far at approximately 10-15% scanned Microsoft Safety Scanner has already found 2 infected files on his HD.

Ugh...

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Something I talk a lot about is the fact that people mistake “facebook” or “youtube” or “tiktok” for “technology”.

Apps designed for the mass market are designed to be easy to use by anyone. To be good with technology is to actually have something of a deeper understanding.

For example (in no particular order):

  • Picking parts to build a PC
  • Building a PC from parts
  • Installling and configuring an operating system including finding and loading all the drivers required
  • Describing problems that occur accurately
  • Find or Create solutions to problems that occur
  • Explaining what you did to solve the problem
  • Understanding the underlying systems and why/how they actually work
  • Determining what tools you’ll need to do a thing using technology
  • Using tools you’ve selected to do a thing using technology
  • Programming (General)
  • Programming (Games)
  • Programming (Hardware level stuff)
  • Programming (Web applications/websites)
  • Programming (Lower level networking stuff)
  • Making technology do stuff it wasn’t originally intended to do
  • Using a command-line
  • Running a server
  • Adapting to new systems
  • Learning about new technologies and seeing the potential without being told

Someone who can do several of the above, at any level of competence, that person is probably good with technology. Most people can’t.

It’s going to be really bad in the future because society will need technicians and programmers and competent tech writers and visionaries, but it isn’t going to need people who are really good at watching youtube videos.

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We need neurologists and psychologists and and philosophers, even if we can talk to each other.

The idea that AI will make computer skills unnecessary is naive and dangerous. At some point someone somewhere needs to do something.

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You sure?

Ok, you asked for it.

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😂 that’s the spirit!

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For small instances, strong captcha and applications and email verification are sort of important. I know my fbxl video was constantly growing until I realized they were all fake users. Just adding email verification meant that most user creation stopped immediately in its tracks

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A quarter million users and that’s not even with all the different instances.

Very cool. Just remember folks, don’t forget to diversify and decentralize! These other instances have some interesting posts and conversations, and by spreading out we make sure no single instance or community can break the fediverse.

New enclosure the culprit? (discuss.tchncs.de)

Last week, I printed this lamp cover successfully. Print direction was “bottom to top” without any support material. Now, the last print of the same cover failed miserably. The main difference is that my Prusa MINI+ now lives within an enclosure so I assume the temperature within the enclosure might be the culprit here....

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youtu.be/2D-WRCGcJbs

This video does a good job of showing and talking about some potential issues with using an enclosure.

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I run all the different services because I generally agree with you, but there’s value in being able to choose how to interact with everything. some people really want to have new videos show up in their lemmy feed or their mastodon feed. If that’s how they want to do it, they’re right. Same with interacting with lemmy from mastodon – If that’s what you want to do, then you’re right and it’s a win for you if you can do it that way.

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