I made it to about episode 5 with Discovery (the one with the security officer getting mauled because she walked into that cage with the wild animal unarmed) by actively giving it more chances than it deserved, not sure how you managed to watch a whole two seasons of it.
I've been using RealVNC for family computer help and have been wanting to setup a self hosted replaced for a while now, but haven't had the time. RealVNC has recently axed their free levels, so I'll use it as a reason to setup a self hosted solution....
The article could be written better if the whole point is about the currencies that were used. Too many figures in US$ without mentioning the actual currency.
I know this is a privacy community but you don't have to keep the details of your use case and your reasons for not wanting WiFi quite this private if you want useful responses.
Let me put it another way. You are much more likely to get responses that fit your use case if you put in more than half a sentence worth of effort into describing what you need.
Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3....
Also to advocate for a specific tab size while also advocating for hard tabs is nonsense. The one flimsy claim to usefulness tabs have is that different people can use different tab sizes and all at the low, low cost of everyone having five times more work to use tabs for indentations and spaces for alignment and thus having to use visual whitespace of some kind.
I would go so far as to say that languages that allow you to leave off the braces and have macros that look like functions that can generate multiple statements at the same time are just plain badly designed.
In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Mikayla, who's been leading the effort to Zed working on Linux, about the Zed's Linux version and how it's taking shape
So it doesn't run at a wastefully high FPS for a text editor? Is that supposed to be a selling point for Zed that it renders many, many more frames than a text editor needs?
That "vulnerability" seems more like a case of "people who use hostile networks have not considered which features that work as designed should be disabled in their use case".
The ability to set static routes via DHCP server or for that matter the ability to remote boot systems via DHCP server which has similar problems if you can't trust the DHCP server.
A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.
I don't really see the point in forking a project like Mastodon unless you are already deeply involved with its development. It doesn't do enough that you couldn't rewrite it better (as in in a way you understand better and with lessons from the original taken into account) in the time it would take you to fully understand all the details of the existing code base.
Not sure about the down arrow in particular but I have seen objects (e.g. a corner of a book) accidentally lie on a key at the edge of a keyboard before.
I just got ghosted by the girl I was talking to, I want to find another girl to talk to. This girl and I met at the gym, but I don't want to be the guy that goes to the gym just to meet girls. I mean sure there's the bar and Tinder, but I want a real relationship. I mean, I guess it'll come to me.
Also, expanding on that, if you go into every interaction with a narrow expectation (e.g. to find the love of your life) you will be disappointed almost all the time but if you keep an open mind you might come out of that with some other positive interactions (a new friend, an interesting conversation, ...) than you expected or were hoping for.
I was reading GitLab's documentation (see link) on how to write to a repository from within the CI pipeline and noticed something: The described Docker executor is able to authenticate e.g. against the Git repository with only a private SSH key, being told absolutely nothing about the user's name it is associated with....
It really isn't that hard if anything like a silhouette of mountains are in the background and you have a couple of rough hints that give you an idea where to start or how to narrow down possible locations, no AI needed.
It might be easier to train the AI to the specific things Geoguessr players have collected as signs that give away a location instead of letting the AI figure all those out again.
And you misunderstand my point, it always has been a way to compromise your privacy. Privacy matters most in the individual case, with people who know you. If you e.g. share a picture taken at your home (outside or looking out of the window in the background) with a friend online you always had to assume that they could figure out where you lived from that if there were any of those kinds of features in there.
Sure, companies might be able to do it on a larger scale but honestly, AI is just too inefficient for that right now, as in the energy-cost required to apply it to every picture you share just in case your location might be useful isn't worth it yet.
Governments won't scan all your pictures to figure out who you are, they are just going to ask (read: legally force) the website/hoster where you posted that picture for your IP address and/or payment info and then do the same with your ISP/payment provider to convert that into your RL info to figure out who you are.
And you might not be worried about your RL friends or coworkers but what about people you meet online? Everyone able to see your post on some social media site?
Nobody is going to scan all the pictures you post for some information that is going to be valid for a long time after it is discovered once. Governments and corporations have had the means to discover who you are once for a long time.
Not that it is not worrying that peaceful protesters are arrested but but 2 months are just roughly 4 times two weeks while Hong Kong's population (7.35 million) is just 1/45th of the US population (333 million).
The reason for this is not backwards compatibility, the reason is that it would be stupid. Space appears a lot more often in situations where you need a separator than in filenames so why would you make the common case harder to use to save some typing in the edge case?
Every single command, option and argument in the shell is split by spaces, regardless of what it contains. That is clearly the more common case. I am not talking about splitting when the space comes out of a variable but in general, as part of the syntax.
I am well aware of how quoting works to avoid accidental splitting and it is an absolute non-issue in practice once you get used to quoting things, about as annoying as the fact that you have to quote strings in every other programming language, i.e. not at all.
The annoying thing is that notifications really don't seem to be designed around that concept that you choose which people or bits of information are important to you.
My parents raised me to always say "yes sir" and "no ma'am", and I automatically say it to service workers and just about anyone with whom I'm not close that I interact with. I noticed recently that I had misgendered a cashier when saying something like "no thank you, ma'am" based on their appearing AFAB, but on a future visit...
"Good morning/day/evening" or something similar always seemed to be appreciated and "Have a nice/great day/week/weekend/..." works quite well in most situations where you or other people are leaving too.
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I honestly don't think AI is anywhere near advanced enough to produce entertaining content in the long term. I see the current boom in generative AI as a fad based on novelty that will die down to a low level until there is some significant improvement to AI actually understanding what it is doing instead of just being a slightly more advanced markov chain like reproduction of existing content with no understanding at all. Sort of similar to what happened in VR in recent years.
I saw a (what now I understand to be a single stage) steam engine at a museum a few months ago. I must understand how this works. Anyone have any good links to information from "concept" to "operation" for steam engines?...
Just a few numbers to put that number into perspective. I am not trying to make any particular point with this post, just trying to get a feeling for how many children/people are affected by this.
Sudan has a population of about 46.87 million people.
One death every two hours would be 4380 deaths a year or about 1 death in 10700 people in the total population.
In 2022, the annual number of under-five deaths dropped to 4.9 million.
Of the 4.9 million under-five deaths in 2022, 2.3 million occurred during the first month of life and 2.6 million children died between the ages of 1 and 59 months. The lives of an additional 2.1 million children, adolescents and youth ages 5–24 were also cut tragically short that year. Between 2000 and 2022, the world lost 221 million children, adolescents and youth. That’s nearly the entire population of Nigeria, the sixth-largest country by population. Children younger than 5 comprised 162 million of these lives lost, almost equal to the population of Bangladesh, the world’s eighth-most-populous country. Neonatal deaths accounted for 72 million of those under-five deaths, while 91 million deaths occurred among children aged 1–59 months. And nearly 53 million stillbirths took place between 2000 and 2021 – deaths that are often missed by policymakers and in programme actions and data collection.
The world population in 2022 was 7.951 billion people.
The 4.9 million death figure would be 1 death in 1622 people in the total population, the 2.3 million would be 1 death in 3456 people in the total population, 2.6 million would be 1 in 3058 and 2.1 million would be 1 in 3786.
Presumably the child every two hours is an excess death figure above the deaths that occur under normal circumstances and certainly the numbers will be much higher when those mass starvation occurs.
From the article
Seven million people face the prospect of mass starvation by June.
This would be 1 in 6.7 people in the entire population of the country.
I think there are two ways of being polite, one is that fake-politeness you mention, the other is more of an avoidance of proactively hurting people's feelings.
As an example let's say you think gender reveal parties are stupid. Your friend invites you to their gender reveal party for their baby. Declining the invitation with a fake excuse is the first kind of polite. Just declining by saying you don't want to go is the second. Proactively offering your opinion that gender reveal parties are stupid in general and your friend shouldn't have one even though they didn't ask and probably already scheduled it would be unnecessarily hurtful. On the other hand if they asked you what you think of gender reveal parties instead of inviting you I would not see it as rude to respond honestly. Also, if you decline politely and they keep probing deeper for reasons you are under no obligation to make up some fake reason.
I hope you all are having a good day. I would like to start by saying that I'm the "can't take compliments" guy who posted a while back about how he "can't take compliments". I've been thinking about something for a while. That being the situation in the title....
The idea that it is somehow possible to determine that for each and every bug is a crazy fantasy by the people who don't like to update to the latest version.
There are two schools of thought here. The "never risk anything that could potentially break something" school and the "make stuff robust enough that it will deal with broken states". Usually the former doesn't work so well once something actually breaks.
We know that we behave and think differently. We generally have more difficulty with social situation and are hypersensitive to sensory input. But to me, these seem like impacts of a fundamental difference. For example, we have social difficulties in NT environments because something with our neurotype is different. What is...
Also, Windows NT is no longer supported while the support for brains running autism has only grown over the last few years and no general end-of-life date has been announced for that support.
Star Trek: Discovery Beats Picard & Rises Higher In Nielsen Streaming Top 10 ( screenrant.com )
tl;dr ST Discovery is doing well in the ratings, despite cancellation being announced already....
remote assistance software suggestions
I've been using RealVNC for family computer help and have been wanting to setup a self hosted replaced for a while now, but haven't had the time. RealVNC has recently axed their free levels, so I'll use it as a reason to setup a self hosted solution....
Russian firms buy $4 billion worth of India-made arms, pay in Indian rupee ( www.firstpost.com )
Best front and rear view dashcam without built-in WiFi?
Debian maintainer unilaterally strips KeepassXC package of a lot of features ( fosstodon.org )
Can't figure out how to get Plank working on Wayland
Hey y'all...
Linux kernel Rust coding guidelines are heretic.
Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3....
Zed editor: Linux when? ( zed.dev )
In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Mikayla, who's been leading the effort to Zed working on Linux, about the Zed's Linux version and how it's taking shape
sharing my simple wireguard kill-switch for Linux
In light of the recent TunnelVision vulnerability I wanted to share a simple firewall that I wrote for wireguard VPNs....
The Trouble with Forking Mastodon ( wedistribute.org )
A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.
Uuh grub? ( programming.dev )
nvm a restart fixed it...
Vermont just passed a 100% renewable electricity mandate ( electrek.co )
"...across all the state’s utilities by 2035."...
Advice on finding a partner?
I just got ghosted by the girl I was talking to, I want to find another girl to talk to. This girl and I met at the gym, but I don't want to be the guy that goes to the gym just to meet girls. I mean sure there's the bar and Tinder, but I want a real relationship. I mean, I guess it'll come to me.
SSH login without user name? ( docs.gitlab.com )
I was reading GitLab's documentation (see link) on how to write to a repository from within the CI pipeline and noticed something: The described Docker executor is able to authenticate e.g. against the Git repository with only a private SSH key, being told absolutely nothing about the user's name it is associated with....
"just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo of some random trees. the implications for privacy are terrifying. i had no idea we would get here so soon. holy shit" ( twitter.com )
U.S. police have arrested more protesters in just two weeks, than the Hong Kong police arrested in four violent months in 2019. ( media.mas.to )
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/378/032/678/390/649/original/87e40ae93d3ba51b.mp4
why does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?
I know that there are ten different alternatives. Why don't we simply improve the basic stuff?
I feel called out ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14945997...
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How should I change my polite behavior to be more accommodating?
My parents raised me to always say "yes sir" and "no ma'am", and I automatically say it to service workers and just about anyone with whom I'm not close that I interact with. I noticed recently that I had misgendered a cashier when saying something like "no thank you, ma'am" based on their appearing AFAB, but on a future visit...
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Infodump request: steam engines
I saw a (what now I understand to be a single stage) steam engine at a museum a few months ago. I must understand how this works. Anyone have any good links to information from "concept" to "operation" for steam engines?...
Is it possible to use zero knowledge proofs to verify journalism sources?
After reading this thread I had the question on whether it is possible to verify you have certain information without revealing who you are to others.
Every two hours, a child dies in Sudan. Our global silence is deafening. ( www.usatoday.com )
The suffering of the Sudanese may be off camera now, but it won't be in a few months when babies are starving en masse.
Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement ( outpost.fosspost.org )
Research paper tests how many Arch Linux packages are reproducible ( outpost.fosspost.org )
"I'd rather do anything else than go to your gathering" ( lemmy.world )
Why is it that we get nervous around our crushes?
I hope you all are having a good day. I would like to start by saying that I'm the "can't take compliments" guy who posted a while back about how he "can't take compliments". I've been thinking about something for a while. That being the situation in the title....
If all kernel bugs are security bugs, how do you keep your Linux safe? ( www.zdnet.com )
Other than AI, what technology are you excited about?
For me it’s quantum computing - especially considering its impact on most current encryption methods
Anyone figure out what the fundamental difference between autistic and NT brains is?
We know that we behave and think differently. We generally have more difficulty with social situation and are hypersensitive to sensory input. But to me, these seem like impacts of a fundamental difference. For example, we have social difficulties in NT environments because something with our neurotype is different. What is...