Kerbal Space Program getting bought by Take-Two Interactive was sad. Knew they would run it into the ground eventually, but still a bit surprised at how quickly they’ve managed it.
Nuclear weapons in the current era of mutually assured destruction are strictly a deterrent, only useful in a hypothetical retaliatory strike but not as a realistic offensive weapon. The hypothetical situation where this would hypothetically be used would be after Seoul has fallen to the enemy and defeat is inevitable. By having such an ability, this makes it very unattractive for any enemy to try to conquer and fortify Seoul or put any existential pressure on South Korea by any means, since doing so enables the use of a retaliatory nuclear strike, since in such a hypothetical situation there is no chance of regaining Seoul left for South Korea to worry about. Therefore, as a consequence, Seoul is protected in a very material sense by a weapon that will never have to be used in any actual strike ever.
They may only be a deterrent but they continue to be an extremely convincing and effective one.
Just like tobacco companies were (and still are) fighting to deny the harm caused by their products, there is no surprise that we see the same from plastic, chemical and oil industries. They will scream even louder every time we try to prevent them from killing us, and they will never feel a twinkle of remorse about it. They will murder millions to get at our wallets, they truly don’t care about the consequences as long as they make money.
It’s tough, but I hope you can make it work, because we love having you here!
Big cities are where the good jobs are, but they’re also where all the people are, and not nearly enough housing or land area for all of them, so it basically quickly turns into an unaffordable nightmare unless you have generational wealth/inherited property, which of course you won’t. Unfortunately it seems this is largely where the default “Canadian immigrant experience” will put you, and it’s really not working for anyone as far as I can tell.
I’d argue that you will do better to find yourself a small town to move to that’s more remote. Not necessarily somewhere far north or completely outside civilization (although there are many such places in Canada, and in many cases Canadian government will actually give you extra money if you live in these areas as they can be both extremely remote, extreme weather, and extreme cost of basic necessities) But you can find many small less urbanized areas throughout the country, some are farming communities, some are industry towns (lumber, pulp and paper mills, mining, etc) some are better connected and serviced than others, but generally speaking the further away you get from the major cities and capitals, the cheaper housing will be. Other stuff gets more expensive though, but housing is such a dominant cost of living problem right now that it’s still the main factor you’ll benefit from trying to minimize. Anywhere outside the major cities, jobs will probably suck, but there will be some jobs. They won’t be jobs that take advantage of any education you have, they will be simple jobs in hospitality, services, sales, business administration and other less skilled labor that don’t necessarily pay very well. Cost of living is much lower in more rural areas of Canada – depending on how you are willing to live. It can be a harder life, especially if you’re used to city life. If you can get some support in the community and are willing to sacrifice some conveniences I think it is probably one of the better and more cost effective ways to live for many people right now. But it’s not for everyone, and it may be especially tough for an immigrant as small communities can be insular and isolating. If you can find towns with a Ukrainian diaspora, that would be ideal, and there are already lots of them (and more every day!). Especially in the prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) which have long had a significant Ukrainian community well established.
For jobs I’m really not sure what the outlook is for a Ukrainian immigrant. I know there’s a lot of bureaucracy and obstacles in getting education and skills recognized over here, which is really a shame. I seem to find a lot of Ukrainian people working in hotels and restaurants for example, because it requires no formal certifications or proof of anything to get such a job, however often these people have extensive education and skills. It’s a shame for everyone involved, but a job’s a job, and you need a job to pay the bills, so at least there’s something. If you can find a way into something like the trades or industry, the money is crazy good and people are desperate to hire right now, but again, the process for getting people trained and certified is long and probably very frustrating.
I don’t know what you expectation of standard of living is like. I know Ukraine used to be quite a poor country overall, but I think it was quickly improving before the war, and like Canada, I think there was quite a significant variation between the relatively wealthier cities and the remote rural towns. I think you will find it overall is similar here, although the prices and scales will probably be much different.
Wish you all the luck, and hope you have a great experience here.
It’s adorable that they think this is “the west’s best efforts”. This is more like the west throwing some speculative bids at a penny auction to see if they can score some easy wins and if not then at least they piss off the other guy who’s bidding. If they think this is all the west’s got to offer they’re in for a real big fucking surprise.
Hello everyone, Was just looking up a farm and the thought occurred to me that while I understand how to follow semi-technical tutorials and have a basic understanding of how most/all redstone blocks work I don’t know very much about building the machinery or circuits myself from scratch....
Experience is the best teacher. Practice makes perfect. Get in a creative world and build redstone machines. Copying other people’s machines is absolutely fine and is a great way to learn all sorts of tricks. You learn not just by building it, but also by observing the one you’ve coipied, seeing it work, looking at what its parts are doing. You can tinker with the parts, change something and see if it does something different. If there’s a machine you don’t understand how it works, don’t be intimidated by it, break it down until you understand how it does work. And that’s where the next question comes in.
Things like “quasiconnectivity” honestly reflect things I would call more of a bug that has been turned into a feature. There’s no way to make it intuitive because it’s non-intuitive by design, it makes no sense that certain blocks don’t work in certain cases or if the power comes in from one location and not another, or they need a block update to happen before they work, or that a block update makes them work when it doesn’t seem like it should, and while you will certainly run into them by accident sometimes (and it’s annoying!) you can also use these unexpected things to your advantage create really elaborate and bizarre effects (or more often just really compact ones). But unless you have a specific need for that compact/unexpected process or layout you probably don’t need to worry about it. It’s something you learn with experience when you’re trying to figure out why the thing you’re making isn’t working the way you expect it to be working.
The other thing you’re asking about, T Flip Flops are a kind of digital logic circuits that are actually from the real world. In many ways (at least when it’s not dealing with buggy quasiconnectivity effects), redstone signals actually behave like a perfect digital circuit would. Electrical engineers and computer designers typically design their logic using all kinds of digital “building blocks”, some of the most basic and well known are gates (AND/OR/NOR/XOR/etc) and flip flops. Flip flops are special because they can form permanent digital storage. That is true in minecraft also, and once you learn both what these do and how they can be used, you can also learn how to implement each one in Minecraft. The best way to learn more about these is to study digital logic. With enough patience Minecraft is effectively turing-complete, and can build redstone computers of unlimited size and capacity.
I was thinking about how fire guns are very loud and how its worst in close environments (I had never shot a gun cuz im not american) and I remembered the Mirror room scene in John Wick Chapter 2....
It’s possible but not likely or common. Glass is stronger than most people give it credit for. Most “hollywood” glass is actually panes of sugar. You could certainly arrange things so that the gun’s pressure wave has a good chance of stressing and breaking glass, but it would take special preparations and effort and the gun would probably have to be very close to the glass. It’s almost unheard of for it to happen normally unless you specifically shoot at the glass.
Someone like mythbusters could probably test this pretty effectively, but based on my experience around guns and glass, I suspect they’d come to the same conclusion.
A not directly related but still interesting video was done by the slowmo guys on youtube
CANDU is one of the best reactor designs currently running, in my opinion. The problem is that it’s expensive to build, and requires expensive maintenance, and in a world that loves to cut corners and find efficiencies that is not popular. But it is solid, it is safe, and I support many more of them being refurbished, maintained and built in this country despite the cost.
Advanced CANDU on the other hand, had little in common with CANDU despite the name, and bowed to all of the previously mentioned pressure to cut corners and find efficiencies resulting in a dangerous and ultimately non-viable design that basically killed Canada’s nuclear industry. It was a classic boondoggle, and while I was and am infuriated with the way Harper killed it and put it out of its misery, the real mistake had been pursuing it down that path in the first place which was a decision that came well before his time and was based on global circumstances that made it simply impossible to justify.
I would love to see even more advanced reactors being researched, designed and built here, modular, pebble bed, sodium, thorium, all of it. But sadly I think that is mostly unrealistic given the current state of our nuclear industry. CANDU is however at least one proven technology that we can and should continue to take advantage of. Even if we will probably never be nuclear leaders again thanks to the mismanagement and sabotage of our nuclear industry, at least we can cling to its legacy.
Firewire did not have much staying power and quickly became obsolete except in a few isolated niches. It was the “Beta” compared to USB’s “VHS” – clearly better, but not enough better for it to achieve widespread adoption, which starved it out of the market and ultimately killed it. There’s really nothing useful that can be done with it that can’t be done better with USB or even wireless nowadays.
Why is it that Americans refer to 24 hour time as military time? I understand that the military uses the 24hr format but I don’t understand why the general public would refer to it like that?...
It’s veeeeery not standard in Canada. I use it on my phone and most people who see it on the lockscreen treat me like I’m an alien, and it’s about a 50/50 mix of people who simply think 24 hour time is weird (but at least recognize it) vs. people who seem genuinely baffled by the digits they see appearing on my phone and don’t even seem to recognize it as a time at all.
A Dockerfile is basically just a script that starts a container image (ranging from standard Linux OS installs like ubuntu or debian or alpine to the very specialized pre-made containers with every piece of software you want already installed and configured and everything unnecessary stripped away) and then does various stuff to it (copies files/dirs from local, runs commands, configures networking). It’s all very straightforward, and if you know how to write a bash script or even just a basic batch file that’s pretty much all its doing, and the end result is a container, which is basically a miniature Linux virtual machine (that is supposed to be “single purpose” but there’s no technical limitation forcing it to be)
The simplest way to create a container is to use a standard OS container as I mentioned and install the software you want exactly as you normally would in that OS, using the OS package manager if you want, following tutorials for that OS or installing manually using the instructions from the software itself. Either way should work fine. Again, it’s basically not much different from having a virtual machine running that OS. You can even start up a root bash prompt and install it that way if you prefer, or even connect over ssh by running an sshd server on it (although that’s totally uneccessary and requires extra work).
Counter rant: This is why we built encryption and VPNs many years ago. This is a solved problem, but rather than solving it you’d rather just complain ineffectually about it. The solution, the product of years of work of technical people and privacy people, is sitting right there staring you in the face available for you to use as a free service, a paid service, or your own self-hosted service. Use a VPN, that’s what it’s for.
It will still be a manged exchange rate and they will target inflation as they move forward. I am not a financial expert, even less of one in wartime economies, but their plan to end the fixed rate seems measured, reasonable and straightforward.
Not piracy, but I figured this is the best community to find people knowledgeable about this. I want to set up an open VPN server at my home and then go on a trip to another country for a week. If I connect my phone to my home VPN and connect my work laptop to my phone’s internet through a hotspot, will my work laptop only be...
“GL iNet” has a dizzying array of products and some are designed for this (you can find them for sale on the usual scumbags). Surprisingly, for a niche brand you’ve likely never heard of the firmware is surprisingly robust and has a small but loyal community. Expensive, and you might not want to carry an extra piece of hardware to provide a bulletproof VPN connection, but worth it for the security IMO.
Canada is helping to finance two new nuclear reactors in Romania, which that country's energy minister says will help diminish Russia's ability to use its energy exports as a weapon.
We used to actually design and build nuclear power for other countries. Now we merely “finance” it and use our old designs. The Harper government put the final nail in the coffin for Canada’s nuclear power expertise when they sold off AECL.
Yes if we just increase interest rates enough eventually people will stop all their foolish discretionary spending on groceries and starve to death, solving the inflation problem forever.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Azarov makes it pretty clear that this “former PM” was part of the Yanukovych regime and a Russian infiltrator who fled back to Daddy Putin when Ukraine threw off the Russian yoke. Nobody should take anything he says seriously.
You don’t have to be defensive about it, I think it just acknowledges a bit of a public relations tightrope the MIC has to walk. They can’t gloat about how we’re winning too much (even though they are not just winning, but even doing it with mostly hand-me-downs) or people will start to question whether how much we spend is really necessary. I know why it’s necessary, you know why it’s necessary, but the average voter doesn’t necessarily care.
No good reason, just historical inertia and resistance to change. People stick to what they’re familiar with, either the imperial system or to common metric units. Making a “metric ton” similar in size to an “imperial ton” arguably helped make it easier for some people to transition to metric.
Megagram is a perfectly cromulent unit, just like “cromulent” is a perfectly cromulent word, but people still don’t use it very often. That’s just how language works. People use the words they prefer, and those words become common. Maybe if you start describing things in megagrams other people will also start doing it and it will become a common part of the language. Language is organic like that, there isn’t anyone making decisions on its behalf, although some people and organizations try.
I don’t think they know about metric prefixes, Pip.
Imagine if the marketing people discovered that they could advertise that it has 19 million uWh (in Doctor Evil voice). Don’t say it too loudly though, someone at Apple might hear.
(Wikipedia) Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regulation over public and private life. It is regarded as the most extreme...
If you can prove beyond any reasonable doubt that someone is ignorant of facts, and then sure you can call it obvious and good. But when nobody can agree what is reasonable, why is your perspective of good the one everyone must follow? It’s not always obvious. Don’t pretend it is. And things that are reasonable and obvious to you aren’t necessarily reasonable and obvious to others. You aren’t willing to embrace the diversity of human experience and opinion, so you won’t get the benefits of that diversity. Just because someone else has a different idea doesn’t make it wrong. If you think literally every idea that isn’t exactly the same as yours is wrong, then we’re wasting our time here anyway.
So again, why is your path the one we’re picking? Even if I do agree with it, I am not willing to agree to it blindly, I want to know why we’re supposed to follow your advice/instructions/demands. At gunpoint or otherwise. And that’s why I’ll never follow a totalitarian, because totalitarians never have to explain themselves, and generally won’t. I hope you brought enough bullets if that’s your plan.
So today Unity announced changes in how they are going to monetize their game engine, and it is, rightfully might I add, poorly recievedHere is how much youtuber Dani would have to pay unity if they consider his games to gain over $200k in revenue Dani’s hypothetical unity payments...
You must be mistaken. Everybody knows Garak is a plain and simple tailor, as he will cheerfully tell you in the face of whatever evidence you might provide to the contrary.
I’m looking into self hosted and open source nvr options and frigate looks like the right fit for me. I’m curious what hardware others are running it on and how many cameras they have. How many people are running it in home assistsnt?
As a disclaimer, I am a passive hater of Twitter/X ie I don’t like it as a toxic social media platform and haven’t used it but I am not asking the users to move to Threads or some other fediverse alternative as a paid promoter. Also I don’t really intend to keep a strict tab on its status since I get any related major...
Musk is the richest man on Earth, give or take a few billion here or there. He can keep it running as long as he wants. It’s nothing but a toy to him. The problem will start when he finally gets bored of it, because he has already broken it to the point that nobody else will want it. He has killed it, it’s just not dead yet as long as he keeps swinging it around and paying its bills. But one day he’ll stop doing that, maybe once he finds a new, shinier toy. We just don’t know when.
Yeah even the article admits they’re not even trying to produce as much durum wheat as they have been in the past, yeah, there’s some drought and stuff but it’s not really to blame for this because our agriculture system knows the risks of drought and should be able to compensate. What’s happening is artificial scarcity. Our whole agricultural system is broken. Its priorities are fucked by quotas and subsidies and its in large companies interests to keep things fucked so they can profit. The days of the family farmer are gone, the whole food supply chain has just turned into yet another oligopoly that wants to bleed everyone of as much money as they possibly can.
“Welcome to moon city! Please ensure your oxygen regulator is fully loaded with credits at all times, we are not responsible for any respiratory failure caused by lack of payment. Consult your residency permit terms and conditions if you have any questions about this policy, Breathe Easy™ and enjoy your stay!”
I recently picked up an Ender 3 V2 Neo at auction. All the pictures looks great, I was told it functioned, and I saw some pictures of it put together....
I’d argue against that. For one thing it is impossible to imagine a situation where there is no change in the gravitational gradient across your body over time. Your orbiting a black hole situation is a perfect example of a situation where the gradient alone would tear you apart. The conditions you’ve specified are tautological. There’s no way to maintain a zero gravitational gradient while also simultaneously having extremely high gravitational field. The two are mutually exclusive in any conceivable scenario.
It’s like saying a human being in a hypersonic wind stream won’t necessarily hurt you, burn you alive and rip you to pieces (not necessarily in that order) as long as there is no turbulence and you have a sufficient boundary layer – but you’re a non-aerodynamic human body in a hypersonic wind stream, so of course there will be turbulence and the boundary layer will not protect you at all, you’re going to die, basically instantly.
Does the change in gravity gradient across your body kill you right now? No? You are currently orbiting the supermassive black hole in the center of the milky way.
It was implied by “accretion disc” and by the fact that we’re talking about gravitational gradients at all that we’re talking about a close orbit. Gravitational strength gets smaller with distance according to the inverse square law, so by the time you’re a few light years out from the galactic core the gravitational gradient is already extremely insignificant.
Skyrim’s main quest had dragons in it, so that was kind of like a secret spice but it was still really hard to avoid getting distracted by sidequests, and I suspect Starfield will be even worse. (Unless… space-dragons?)
What are your feelings on the Gerald R. Ford? Or does it just fall under the classification of “Nimitz” on your chart as it is continuing in that noble legacy?
Democracy without dissent. China has achieved peak democracy. Once you mercilessly crush all opposition, your population becomes completely unified and elections are easy, straightforward affairs! The one secret of success that western democracies don’t want you to know!
Russian freight company Volga Dnepr has launched an unusual legal fight to reclaim one of its An-124 cargo planes from Canada and legal experts say it might just work. The aircraft was flown to Toronto from Anchorage loaded with COVID pandemic supplies the night Russia invaded Ukraine. Canada closed its airspace to Russian...
To keep the story short a friend was told during a pest inspection that their apartment was a fire hazard due to the amount of furniture they have in their apartment....
Call the local fire department non-emergency number and ask if they can schedule a visit to inspect your fire alarms and provide recommendations on the situation. The fire department is genuinely interested in your safety, because it’s also important for their safety so they don’t have to come rescue you. If anything is a fire hazard, the professionals can explain why and explain how to fix it. But they’ll probably say “WTF” because the landlord is most likely just being a fuckface, as landlords do. Assuming the latter, ask them if you get the “WTF” in writing so you can wave it in the landlord’s face when you tell them to fuck off and die.
It does not need to go to earth. Take a 1.5v alkaline battery, connect one end of the battery to the other end – a large amount of current flows, no earth involved. The electric charge that a neuron can produce is basically like tiny cells of a biochemical battery. The problem is unlike a useful battery, the voltage difference between all the individual cells is not (and realistically cannot be) carefully organized in a series or parallel path from positive to negative, instead all the positive and negative connections are jumbled together into a complex network, meaning there’s no way of getting billions of volts out of it. It’s just not wired that way.
Theoretically if you carefully constructed a series of hundreds of billions of neurons connected end-to-end-to-end in the right pattern you might end up with billions of volts (although end-to-end it would probably be the size of the solar system, so the billions of volts potential wouldn’t seem so impressive anymore on an astronomical scale) and you probably can’t pack it your neural-battery into a small space without the neuron’s insulator (myelin sheath) from breaking down and shorting out that voltage. Also it wouldn’t really be a brain anymore at that point. The complex maze of connections are what makes the thinking happen. If you make them all single-connected you’ve basically just got a really big, low capacity and relatively inefficient battery compared to better chemistries.
Flowing all that current at once will certainly create a lot of heat though, you’re right about that. That heat is normally heatsinked by the intracranial fluids and conducted away by the relatively rapid bloodflow through around the brain to be dissipated in the skin and lungs. The brain is basically liquid-cooled and it’s a very efficient and tightly regulated system that rarely has issues. Such a high neutral output would probably overwhelm even the relatively robust cooling that bloodflow provides, though, leading to a condition called brain hyperthermia, which is part of the reason drugs like methamphetamine can be dangerous or fatal, as it can result in cell death, and in this case, probably brain death and overall death.
Dumb answers are just the first step in iterating your way to the right answer, if you could see all the dumb answers that go through my head you wouldn’t feel so bad. :)
Just had NextCloud denying my credentials (not for the first time). I know they weren’t wrong because I’m using a password manager. Logs didn’t say much. Was about to reinstall (again, not the first time nextcloud went bonkers on me) before I tried a docker compose down && docker compose up. Lo and behold after a restart...
Owncloud is not fully open source. Nextcloud is. They have developed in different directions since then, but that remains the fundamental difference that split them apart in the first place. If that matters to you, Nextcloud is the right choice. If that doesn’t matter to you, then use whichever you prefer and has the features you need.
Just wondering if this is possible. Don’t get me wrong, I have no issue with porn being on the site, but the fact that posts like “watch my fuck hole being filled” with graphic videos of a femboy fucking themself with a dildo is showing up on the home feed of this site makes it hard for me to recommend it to anyone, let...
Agreed but I’d also add “sexual content” as something distinct from “porn”, potentially content that is less graphic, could be questions about sex or genitals, or discussions about sex, but still not appropriate for many environments. I get that you can split hairs about this kind of stuff forever, but when it comes to non-pornographic sexual content I think it’s prolific enough that it deserves its own category separate from “other” that people would want to allow or block specifically.
The problem is you have no safe way to connect them without building a totally separate electrical system, since they have to be separated from your grid connection. Let me suggest an alternative “alternative energy”: LiFePo battery packs/banks are available in a wide variety of sizes, they require no outdoor connections and don’t have to be interconnected with each other as they can operate independently and standalone. What you can do is charge them from the grid at low-power-usage times (typically overnight, when the wind farms are spinning, dams are flowing, and nuclear is nuclearing with nobody to use it). Then unplug them during the day and run stuff in your house off battery power, potentially all day long if they’re big enough. Technically this is only energy storage, not energy production, but it’s an important part of the alternative energy landscape, as energy is very hard to store and renewables like wind and solar depend on the grid’s ability to do so, which you will be helping it to do.
They are sometimes sold as battery “generators” for RV/camping as the modestly sized ones can fill a portable role similar to small gasoline generators. Many of them include charging ports for solar too, so you can add solar modules on as well if you want to go that direction, to further increase runtime during the day and provide backup power if you ever need it. They get big and expensive really quickly though, so you can either get lots of small independent ones or a few big ones, but either way you’re going to be spending many thousands of dollars.
If we ever end up replacing the supermajority of our power generation with solar, we would need the extra storage at night instead of during the day, but that’s likely a long way off and requires a LOT of other load shifting like EVs charging overnight, electric heating at night, etc.
Hey y’all! First time trying to self-host something, I started with a local Nextcloud instance for me and my family to use. I just wanted to make sure that no outsiders can enter the instance (access it or its files) through a browser on another connection....
There’s going to be a bunch of caveats here, but basically…
Assuming you’re using a NAT router to connect to the internet (basically everyone is nowadays): If you’re using a local LAN IP address (10..., 192.168.., or 172.[16-32]..*) then nobody on the internet can access any services on that IP, unless you specifically port forward it through your router. Assuming there’s nobody dangerous on your local network (and nobody gets a remote-access virus) and your router itself is not hackable then yes it’s entirely safe.
You don’t technically need a public domain name to set up an SSL certificate, but to smoothly streamline the process in a way that modern software trusts it, you do. A self-signed certificate can be created for any IP address and it will provide full encryption and avoid interception of traffic between established clients, but you will get a scary warning that the certificate is self-signed every time you connect a new client or browser, because it cannot be verified. It still works though, it’s just (intentionally) scary, because it doesn’t know what you’re doing with it and it doesn’t know how to establish trust. You probably don’t need this, but it is an option. Setting up a self-signed certificate will have various degrees of complexity in documentation depending on what web server you’re using, I would recommend using the simplest guide you can find for the relevant web server if you choose to go that route, you don’t need anything complex for this. The keywords you’re looking for are “self-signed certificate”
Welcome to self-hosting. Nextcloud is a great thing to self-host, too. Hope you enjoy.
It’s possible he’s always been this much of an idiot and has only managed to succeed to where he is by sheer dumb luck and the principle of failing consistently upward.
It’s a piece of software that creates an old-reddit-like interface for Lemmy. If you’re asking what it stands for, I have no idea, “Make Lemmy More something something?” if I had to guess?
Kerbal Space Program 2 update For Science arrives on December 19, adding progression and a tech tree to the space simulation sequel. (www.pcgamesn.com)
South Koreans want their own nukes. That could roil one of the world’s most dangerous regions (apnews.com)
Judge says Ottawa listing plastic items as toxic was 'unreasonable and unconstitutional' (www.cbc.ca)
“Not every item within [the plastic manufactured items category] has the potential to create a reasonable apprehension of harm”...
Tips for someone who's about to move to Canada
Any tips for a Ukrainian who is planning to move to Canada? Maybe cultural differences, food, weather, etc.
It’s Time to End Magical Thinking About Russia’s Defeat (www.wsj.com)
Full article: imgur.com/a/AN3rWAJ
A major online torrent service has suffered a major data breach - check if you're affected | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
Recommended Resources for Learning Redstone?
Hello everyone, Was just looking up a farm and the thought occurred to me that while I understand how to follow semi-technical tutorials and have a basic understanding of how most/all redstone blocks work I don’t know very much about building the machinery or circuits myself from scratch....
Can a gun break glass with just sounds alone?
I was thinking about how fire guns are very loud and how its worst in close environments (I had never shot a gun cuz im not american) and I remembered the Mirror room scene in John Wick Chapter 2....
Just over half (55%) of Canadians support using nuclear energy to generate electricity (www.ipsos.com)
Ex-Skyrim Developer Explains the Key Difference Between Bethesda Games and Baldur’s Gate 3 - IGN (www.ign.com)
Firewire, anyone?
Any Thinkpad user here using their Firewire port? What would you use it for? I read that we can make ad-hoc connection between two computers.
Military Time vs 24hr?
Why is it that Americans refer to 24 hour time as military time? I understand that the military uses the 24hr format but I don’t understand why the general public would refer to it like that?...
To dockerize an application: where to start learning.
I’ve recently started a crusade for the perfect selfhosted note taking app....
RANT: I hate the fact that my ISP can restrict access to certain sites
How can it possibly be, that an ISP, which I’m paying for gets to decid, which sites I’m allowed to have access to, and which not?...
Ukraine's central bank abandons fixed exchange rate from 3 October (www.pravda.com.ua)
VPN over hotspot
Not piracy, but I figured this is the best community to find people knowledgeable about this. I want to set up an open VPN server at my home and then go on a trip to another country for a week. If I connect my phone to my home VPN and connect my work laptop to my phone’s internet through a hotspot, will my work laptop only be...
Canada signs $3-billion deal to finance nuclear power in Romania (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Canada is helping to finance two new nuclear reactors in Romania, which that country's energy minister says will help diminish Russia's ability to use its energy exports as a weapon.
Canada's inflation rate increases to 4% (www.cbc.ca)
Grocery prices increased at 6.9% annual pace
Ukraine’s economy in 'catastrophic state': Former PM (english.almayadeen.net)
"Ch-China is kinda scary too..." (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Why a ton, and not a megagram?
Why are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks?
Totalitarianism. What are the good things about it?
(Wikipedia) Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regulation over public and private life. It is regarded as the most extreme...
So, Unity is charging game developers per video game install now... (blog.unity.com)
So today Unity announced changes in how they are going to monetize their game engine, and it is, rightfully might I add, poorly recievedHere is how much youtuber Dani would have to pay unity if they consider his games to gain over $200k in revenue Dani’s hypothetical unity payments...
Being the on set medic for Trek shows must be one hell of an experience (startrek.website)
NVR hardware for frigate
I’m looking into self hosted and open source nvr options and frigate looks like the right fit for me. I’m curious what hardware others are running it on and how many cameras they have. How many people are running it in home assistsnt?
Is Twitter/X really going to shut down anytime soon?
As a disclaimer, I am a passive hater of Twitter/X ie I don’t like it as a toxic social media platform and haven’t used it but I am not asking the users to move to Threads or some other fediverse alternative as a paid promoter. Also I don’t really intend to keep a strict tab on its status since I get any related major...
High pasta prices set to boil over as Canada's wheat withers (www.reuters.com)
Ender 3 V2 Neo Bolt Sizes
I recently picked up an Ender 3 V2 Neo at auction. All the pictures looks great, I was told it functioned, and I saw some pictures of it put together....
What's good in small concentrations, but lethal in higher? What's a glaring red flag you're encroaching on a lethal concentration?
Like Fluoride or Oxygen.
So, what are you excited for, and what worries you about Starfield?
I can’t wait to build my own starship. Actually, that’s one thing that I’m both excited about and worries me....
Pax Americana Pax Americana (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
BRICS Leaders Call for Democratic Global Order (consortiumnews.com)
Russian Company Sues Canada To Get Cargo Plane Back (www.avweb.com)
Russian freight company Volga Dnepr has launched an unusual legal fight to reclaim one of its An-124 cargo planes from Canada and legal experts say it might just work. The aircraft was flown to Toronto from Anchorage loaded with COVID pandemic supplies the night Russia invaded Ukraine. Canada closed its airspace to Russian...
At what point does the amount of furniture/objects in an apartment become a fire hazard?
To keep the story short a friend was told during a pest inspection that their apartment was a fire hazard due to the amount of furniture they have in their apartment....
The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Data (www.confiant.com)
cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/1680837...
I'm done with NextCloud
Just had NextCloud denying my credentials (not for the first time). I know they weren’t wrong because I’m using a password manager. Logs didn’t say much. Was about to reinstall (again, not the first time nextcloud went bonkers on me) before I tried a docker compose down && docker compose up. Lo and behold after a restart...
Is there a way to hide porn from my All feed without hiding all NSFW content?
Just wondering if this is possible. Don’t get me wrong, I have no issue with porn being on the site, but the fact that posts like “watch my fuck hole being filled” with graphic videos of a femboy fucking themself with a dildo is showing up on the home feed of this site makes it hard for me to recommend it to anyone, let...
What are ways Renters (of a house) can get into alternative energy?
Are there portable wind turbines and/or solar panels I can put up in my very bright dusty back yard?
What's a good torque wrench to get?
cross-posted from: jorts.horse/users/…/110789232582943740...
How do I make sure my Nextcloud instance is accessible only to people in my local wifi?
Hey y’all! First time trying to self-host something, I started with a local Nextcloud instance for me and my family to use. I just wanted to make sure that no outsiders can enter the instance (access it or its files) through a browser on another connection....
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