Serinus

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Serinus ,

I'd love to see what their test environments are like. You can't test everything, but they can certainly test some things. A raspberry pi has more software capability.

Is it more energy efficient to charge a phone/tablet using a desktop/laptop while your computer is being used vs using the charger? ( kbin.run )

I was just thinking if you are on your computer anyway would it just use some of the excess electricity that your computer would have wasted or would it be worse than charging your phone from a charger while using your laptop separately.

Serinus ,

I think that's more about the scale than it is about the fediverse.

Effectively you're asking about a quarter cup of water where the answer isn't even clear. Wireless charging is a bit wasteful though.

I still appreciate your asking, because there's been interesting discussion in the answers.

Serinus ,

Also the IDF was fired upon when they raided. That makes this just war. Hamas chose the war zone.

Serinus ,

An extremist would say that this can't end until one side kills the other, so might as well get it over with.

I don't believe that. I think as humans we have an obligation to try for peace without murdering half a million people. Unlike most people here, I want to believe that someday both sides can find a way to peace.

But if you insist that one side is good and one side is bad, then this can't end well.

Serinus , (edited )

I would argue that one side is fighting to achieve peace

Hilarious. Which side is that?

(The second part I won't argue. The inevitable annexation is deplorable.)

Serinus ,

If Hamas hasn't given up their hostages, they must not be that interested in peace.

Why is End of Life of an OS bad for an average user?

I get that there won't be any security updates. So any problem found can be exploited. But how high is the chance for problems for an average user if you say, only browse some safe websites? If you have a pc you don't really care much about, without any personal information? It feels like the danger is more theoretical than...

Serinus ,

Seven years for a phone right now is pretty reasonable. For a laptop, it's absolutely not.

Serinus ,

I'd only do that if you want independent news.

Serinus ,

Jesus Christ, no. It's almost like you're trying to sow distrust in the news and facts.

The NYT isn't perfect, but it's some of the most reliable news the world has.

As of March 2023, The New York Times Company employs 5,800 individuals,[101] including 1,700 journalists according to deputy managing editor Sam Dolnick.[122] Journalists for The New York Times may not run for public office, provide financial support to political candidates or causes, endorse candidates, or demonstrate public support for causes or movements.[123] Journalists are subject to the guidelines established in "Ethical Journalism" and "Guidelines on Integrity".[124] According to the former, Times journalists must abstain from using sources with a personal relationship to them and must not accept reimbursements or inducements from individuals who may be written about in The New York Times, with exceptions for gifts of nominal value.[125] The latter requires attribution and exact quotations, though exceptions are made for linguistic anomalies. Staff writers are expected to ensure the veracity of all written claims, but may delegate researching obscure facts to the research desk.[126] In March 2021, the Times established a committee to avoid journalistic conflicts of interest with work written for The New York Times, following columnist David Brooks's resignation from the Aspen Institute for his undisclosed work on the initiative Weave.[127]

Serinus ,

Well, if you didn't get it from me, you certainly would have gotten it from some of these responses.

Serinus ,

A bottle of normal priced wine, some chocolates perhaps, a gift card for a lunch at xyz.

These are all pretty sus and might be things I'd report.

These policy limits are intended to allow things like swag at a convention or if you're in a meeting and they have lunch catered.

Serinus ,

Even then, it'd need to be a token wedding gift or something similarly eventful. A birthday isn't enough. For those things, even within the limits, I'd want pretty justifiable context. At least if you're working for/in US government.

A $15 box of chocolates from my new contractor who just won the bid just isn't worth dealing with as an issue.

Serinus ,

Why's it gotta be the brown properties?

Serinus ,

Maybe it's just really lazy spin? I could see it as a creative tactic poorly executed by AI.

Serinus ,

Okay, go buy some of Rudy Giuliani's gold then. Enjoy.

Serinus ,

Rather than particular communities, I tend to just do all - last 12 hours.

Serinus ,

Which I'm sure was true. It would certainly be a lot faster to debug FSD after a number of deaths for each bug.

Serinus ,

The painting is thinner.

Serinus ,

So worst case you might turn off this feature.

Serinus ,

How do you do that? Every chai recipe I've looked up has been overly complicated.

Serinus ,

The pour over is pretty easy, and not much different than cleaning out the cup.

I'll often grind 2-3 uses of beans at a time and just store the grounds in a baggie.

Serinus ,

Me, this morning, making plain old coffee, "Man, my milk could be frothed right now."

I'm learning I can do it by heating the milk in a saucepan on the stove, then use a whisk to froth the milk until foamy. Maybe I'll try this next time.

I don't need my coffee particularly strong. Maybe I'll try a cafe au lait next time.

Serinus ,

I believe that setting blocks the poster's domain, and not the content of the post. You'd put "lemm.ee" or "lemmynsfw.com" in there, which doesn't seem to be what you're trying to do.

Serinus ,

Judges are smarter than that. So are juries.

r/The_Donald helped radicalize users into far-right identities and discourse – Active users on r/The_Donald increasingly used white nationalist vocabularies in their comments within three months. ( journals.sagepub.com )

I know most people that were on reddit at the time are fully aware of this and won't be surprised but don't dismiss the findings out of hand. It's important that studies are being conducted and the fact that the finding match our lived experience is still noteworthy.

Serinus ,

disguising as irony.

About this. It was legitimately funny at first, when the Orange One had no chance.

The thing that turned it so fast from absolute satire into not at all satire was the immediate, within seconds, banning of anyone who called it out as a joke. The speed of those bans convinced me that someone was being paid to steer the narrative in their desired direction 24/7.

It was a masterclass in modern propaganda, and I'm glad it's being studied.

I learned personal lessons from it. I'm absolutely more PC now, because you never know who's going to take your absurd joke seriously. As Waddle said, if you say something ironically enough, it stops being ironic.

Serinus ,

Stack overflow was the pioneer of hallucinations.

Serinus ,

the ability to just take a few months off and burn your savings is increasingly not viable.

Universal healthcare would help here.

Serinus ,

The idea is that the biggest barrier to entry for small business and entrepreneurship is healthcare.

How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals

I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying "woke", "critical race theory", ""grooming"", and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open....

Serinus ,

"their breath" is the traditional end of that phrase.

Serinus ,

hindustantimes.com

Is not a source I'm familiar with. But everyone wants to believe it, so upvotes it is.

Serinus ,

Maybe it's AI trying to hit keywords.

Serinus ,

The bear isn't likely to want to screw with you.

Serinus ,

batteries catching fire don’t mesh with garage storage

Your gas powered car is more likely to burst into flames than your electric car.

Serinus ,

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/20/do-electric-cars-pose-a-greater-fire-risk-than-petrol-or-diesel-vehicles

Serinus ,

So is getting shot in the back.

Serinus ,

It is. Currently I don't have a machine where I can both install and test code.

NCIS found the best solution to security years ago.

https://youtu.be/bwUdjeu4C6A?si=7CzrM537rbadLMns

Serinus ,

They tend to make breaking changes every other release, which is always the release that people hate. (Granted, I don't know wtf they've done with usability in Windows 11, but at least I can't move the taskbar anymore.)

Serinus ,

For what? To keep track of who's drinking coffee? Are you charging for coffee?

Serinus ,

They did, but Elon asked one of them for a latte and they brought him one with 2% instead of oatmilk so he gutted the whole department.

/s, because it might be to be specified.

Serinus ,

I haven't been entirely happy with Bitwarden for other reasons. You can't self host and share with one other person without paying them $40/year. Their advertising is deceptive, because they say you can do both for free. But that one or the other, not both.

You also can't easily share individual passkeys outside of the app. If you want to grab a passkey, you have to export your entire vault.*

It's basically annoyance-ware.

* note that sharing passkeys is not best practice, but there are use cases.

Serinus ,

Yeah, VaultWarden sounds like the answer.

Serinus ,

17 million seems like a lot, doesn't it.

Elon wants a 56,000 million pay package.

Serinus ,

Which isn't a bad idea, but I'd still want some kind of parental controls like Android has to limit screen time. I don't need Netflix.com to be all or nothing, but I certainly don't want it to be four hours a day either.

Serinus ,

Grabbed AntennaPod from the Play Store. It's been a perfect replacement.

Serinus ,

They did allow users to upgrade once first.

Serinus ,

Face = straight up fascism.

Face with beard = Party that doesn't fight as hard as they should for every good thing.

Basically the same thing. The real big brain is the guy with the equals sign.

Serinus ,

You think we're gonna fight corporations as individuals if we strangle government?

No. Government is our protection from those who would want to consolidate power, especially corporations. I understand that the government often fails at that protection, but it's still a hell of a lot better than being completely defenseless.

The whole point of the founding fathers was to spread power and attempt to keep it spread. They wanted to avoid both the abuses of monarchy and the eventual decapitation of leadership (seeing as how that'd be their heads).

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