Hi y’all. I’ve got an Intel Nuc 10 here. I want to run a few apps on it, like BitWarden, PiHole, NextCloud, Wireguard, and maybe more, just for my own use, inside my home....
In one of the even more absurd cases: According to an AP report (cited in Slashdot), Intentia International has filed criminal charges against Reuters PLC, alleging that the news service illegally obtained an earnings report that the company had not yet released, by guessing the URL at which it had been posted on Intentia's...
I don’t know that specific site but lots of porn sites used to do those “preview of the day” things with a date or iterator in the URL.
I remember writing a simple script/page (must have been around 2002) where you could just paste a URL with wildcards and the wildcards could be iterated from x to y. It even checked if the generated linked page existed or threw http errors. It was amazing, how many links I collected and never visited again. The things you do for porn…
GUI what’s that? SSH. But seriously, still SSH. You can tunnel anything you like over SSH, including X. Just use the -Y flag and any X capable client you start will display on your local server.
Something like that, where I just write a function that spits out a numpy array or something like that and it gets plotted, would be great, but there is one thing Grafana can do and vega-altair, plotly and even matplotlib (*): a UI that allows to select a time interval to view.
So I can freely pan/zoom in/out in time, and only the required part of the data will be loaded (with something like select … where time between X and Y under the hood). So if I look at a single day, it will only load that day, and only if I dare to zoom out too much it will spend some time loading everything from the last year.
(*) yes, you can do interactive things with matplotlib, but you don’t really want to, unless you must…
Limits don’t disprove this at all. In order to prove 0.999…=1 you need to first define what 0.999… even means. You typically define this as an infinite geometric series with terms 9/10, 9/100, 9/1000 and so on (so as the infinite sum 9/10+9/100+9/1000+…). By definition this is a limit of a sequence of partial sums, each partial sum is a finite geometric sum which you would typically rewrite in a convenient formula using properties of geometric sums and take the limit (see the link).
The thing is that it follows from our definitions that 0.999… IS 1 (try and take the limit I mentioned), they are the same numbers. Not just really close, they are the same number.
What you’re saying here isn’t actually true because -0.999… and -1 are the same number. -0.9, -0.99, -0.999 and so on are not holes, but -0.999… is a hole, because it is the number -1.
You see the distinction here? Notations -0.9, -0.99, -0.999 and so on are all defined in terms of finite sums. For example -0.999 is defined in terms of the decimal expansion -(9/10+9/100+9/1000). But -0.999… is defined in terms of an infinite series.
The same sort of reasoning applies to your other decimal examples.
You take limits of functions. The first limit is the limit of a function f that, according to the diagram of the problem, approaches 1 as x goes to 1. But the second limit is the limit of a constant function that always maps elements of its domain to the value 2 (which is f(1)). You can show using the epsilon delta definition of the limit that such a limit will be equal to 2.
The notation here might be a little misleading, but the intuition for it is not so bad. Imagine the graph of your constant function 2, it’s a horizontal line at y=2.
But I think that it’s a matter of the origin of the 0.9999…
This is correct. It follows directly from the definition of the notation 0.999… that 0.999…=1.
I don’t think that 3/3 is ever actually 0.9999… but rather is just a “graphical glitch” of base 10 math. It doesn’t happen in base12 with 1/3, but 1/7 still does.
Then you are wrong. 3/3 is 1, 0.999… is 1, these are all the same numbers. Just because the notation can be confusing doesn’t make it untrue. Once you learn the actual definitions for these notations and some basic facts about sums/series and limits you can prove for yourself that what I’m saying is the case.
I do accept that we can just presume 0.999… can just be assumed 1 due to how common 3*(1/3) is.
It’s not an assumption or presumption. It is typically proved in calculus or real analysis.
But I do think it throws a wrench in other parts of math if we assume it’s universally true. Just like in programming languages… primarily float math that these types of issues crop up a lot, we don’t just assume that the 3.999999… is accurate, but rather that it intended 4 from the get-go, primarily because of the limits of the space we put the number in.
It definitely doesn’t throw a wrench into things in other parts of math (at least not in the sense of there being weird murky contradictions hiding in math due to something like this). Ieee floats just aren’t comparable. With ieee floats you always have some finite collection of bits representing some number. The arrangement is similar to how we do scientific notation, but with a few weird quirks (like offsets in the exponent for example) that make it kinda different. But there’s only finitely many different numbers that these kinds of standards can represent due to there only being finitely many bit patterns for your finite number of bits. The base 10 representation of a number does not have the same restriction on the number of digits you can use to represent numbers. When you write 0.999…, there aren’t just a lot (but finitely many) 9’s after the decimal point, there are infinitely many 9’s after the decimal point.
In a programming context, once you start using floating point math you should avoid using direct equality at all and instead work within some particular error bound specified by what kind of accuracy your problem needs. You might be able to get away with equating 4.000001 and 4 in some contexts, but in other contexts the extra accuracy of 0.0000001 might be significant. Ignoring these kinds of distinctioms have historically been the cause of many weird and subtle bugs.
I have no reason to believe that this isn’t the case for our base10 numbering systems either.
The issue here is that you don’t understand functions, limits, base expansions of numbers or what the definition of notation like 0.999… actually is.
Probably, yes. The idea is that people should have adequate representation. If 45% of your area if X, and 55% is Y, and it’s a direct election, then you end up with all elected officials being Y, and X has no representation at all. The ideal districts would result in 45% of all elected representatives being X.
The electoral college is based on population, but indirectly. The way you could get around it is if states awarded electoral votes proportionately to the votes a candidate received, rather than winner-takes-all. But states have to choose to do that themselves; the fed. gov’t can’t mandate it. Some states are already doing that.
Well mostly the flaw is people assigning the test abilities it was never intended. Like testing intelligence. Turing outright as first thing in the paper presenting “imitation game” noted moving away from testing intelligence, since he didn’t know to do that. Even on the realm of “testing intelligent kind of behavior” well more like human like behavior and human being here proxy for intelligent, it was mostly an academic research idea. Not a concrete test meant to be some milestone.
If the meaning of the words ‘machine’ and ‘think’ are to be found by examining how they are commonly useit is difficult to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question, ‘Can machines think?’ is to be sought in a statistical survey such as a Gallup poll. But this is absurd. Instead of attempting such a definition I shall replace the question by another, which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambiguous words.
Turing wanted a way to step away from stuff like “thinking” and “intelligence” directly and then proposed “imitation game” mostly to the rest of the academia as way to develop computer systemics more towards “intelligent behavior”. It was mostly like “hey we need some goal to have as a goal to have something to move towards with these intelligence things. This isn’t intelligence, but it might be usefull goal or tool for development work”. Since without some goal/project/aim to have project don’t advance. So it was “how about we try to develop a thing, that can beat this imitation game. Wouldn’t that be good stepping stone. Then we can move to the actual serious stuff. Just an idea”.
However since this academic “thinking out aloud spitballing ideas” was uttered by the Alan Turing, it became the Turing Test and everyone started taking it way too seriously. Specially outside academia. Who yes did play the imitation game with their programs as it was intended as research and development tool.
exemplified by for example this little exerpt of “not trying to do anything too complete and ground breaking here”:
In any case there is no intention to investigate here the theory of the game, and it will be assumed that the best strategy is to try to provide answers that would naturally be given by a man
It is pretty literally “I had a thought”. Turin makes no claims of machine beating the game having any significance other than “machine beat this game I came up with, neat”. There is no argument of if machine beats imitation game, then X or then it means Y is reached.
Rest of the paper is actually about objections to the core idea of “it could ever be possible for machine to think” and even as such said imitation game is kinda lead in or introduction to Turing’s treatise various objections of various “it would be impossible for machine to think” arguments. Starting with theological argument of “only human soul can think. Hence no animal or machine can think.” … since it was 1950’s.
It is tracking, sure, but there is a tradeoff. Some people might not care that github knows they have a lemmy account, and for those people they don’t have to manage yet another login, so they are more likely to participate.
Heck Lemmy could build in federation identity into lemmy, so it doesn’t matter your on lemmy instance X, you can still bring your identity from instance Y and not have to post from your home instance.
In some ways, yes, limited inventories are to prevent the player from making the wrong choice but it is also a point to ask the player do you take X or Y, and having a choice between those two options makes the player choose a playstyle. Of course, you can absolutely still do this without a limited inventory. Deus Ex does it right at the start of the game where Paul runs up to you and gives you 3 weapon options and straight up asks how are you going to play this game. That said it’s supposed to be a reminder, a constant active choice, on what the player is picking for their playstyle. That said…
Honestly, you’ve kind of swayed me more into wanting unlimited inventories. You are right, limited inventories seem to be a design crutch used by a lot of games that don’t think of their whole ramification and more important the actions needed during other gameplay to justify a limited inventory. I will say I do think certain games make a lot of sense to have limited inventories but I would really like to see designers move away from limited inventories to allow more player freedom. I could see taking Doom 2016’s style of driving players toward getting more resources while keeping inventories unlimited (and not putting you in a gameplay-breaking cutscene).
Unlimited inventories certainly work really well for the latest Hitman series which kind of shows that it could have worked for Deus Ex. In fact, in the first half of the Deus Ex, you work for UNATCO and could just let players collect a bunch of crap and then have them turn it into the evidence locker or whatnot. The design choice to simply limit your inventory can be seen as almost lazy nowadays because it means no one is thinking of what happens if you don’t have a limited inventory. It’s certainly given me a lot to think about on how I’d build or design a game without the inventory limitations.
new users should always understand what they’re signing up for.
I agree that defederation is a feature, but this in specific is a contradiction against what is the normal “it doesn’t matter what instance you sign up for” that gets said whenever discussion about onboarding new users for Lemmy, Mastodon, etc comes up.
I run my own instances for both (partly to avoid this, and also because I quite enjoy self-hosting) but if I didn’t and wanted to get my friends onto the Fediverse, this would be something I’d have to take into consideration for them as I couldn’t expect them to possibly understand it.
In reality, its more like “It doesn’t matter what instance you sign up for… unless there is someone/a community you want to follow on instance X which is defederated by instance Y and the only way around it is to either create multiple accounts (which most non-tech oriented people aren’t going to want to do) or pick a different instance as your main instance and manually move everything over since there are no migration tools for the most part”.
In my opinion this is probably the number one reason why the Fediverse will never be mainstream, for better or for worse (though I’d be incredibly happy to be wrong about this).
Again, I think defederation is a tool that needs to be present on the Fediverse for pretty obvious reasons but I do think that it is also a double edged sword.
My home lab has a mild amount of complexity and I’d like practice some good habits about documenting it. Stuff like, what each system does, the OS, any notable software installed and, most importantly, any documentation around configuration or troubleshooting....
You can full well deploy docker stacks using ansible. This is what I used to do for rocket.chat: [1][2] (ditched it for Matrix/element without Docker, but the concept stays valid)
I’m not to the point where the specifics of every system is in Ansible yet.
What I suggest is writing a playbook that list the roles attached to your servers, even if the roles actually do nothing:
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<span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># roles/application-x/tasks/main.yml
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">name</span><span style="color:#323232;">: </span><span style="color:#183691;">setup application-x
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">debug</span><span style="color:#323232;">:
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">msg</span><span style="color:#323232;">: </span><span style="color:#183691;">"TODO This will one day deploy application-x. For now the setup is entirely manual and documented in roles/application-x/README.md"
</span>
<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># roles/application-x/tasks/main.yml
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">name</span><span style="color:#323232;">: </span><span style="color:#183691;">setup service-y
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">debug</span><span style="color:#323232;">:
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">msg</span><span style="color:#323232;">: </span><span style="color:#183691;">"TODO This will one day deploy service-y. For now the setup is entirely manual and documented in roles/service-y/README.md"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">#...
</span>
This is a good start for a config management/automated deployment system. At least you will have an inventory of hosts and what’s running on them. Work your way from there, over time progressively convert your manual install/configuration steps to automated procedures. There are a few steps that even I didn’t automate (like configuring LDAP authentication for Nextcloud), but they are documented in the relevant role README [3]
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For me, I’m moderately ok with the whole task and “lying”, though I’m in a “faint praise” culture where I can more or less express myself somewhat adequately through “polite faint praise”.
The problem I struggle with is that I really have no idea if the “small talk” is going well or not. Just can’t get a read on most people as to what they were hoping to achieve with the small talk and whether any of my actions were well received or came off as rude. So it’s an anxiety minefield to start off any conversation where I often carry plenty of doubts into the rest of the conversation.
If people were more happily like “Actually I feel X because of Y … but that’s ok happy to get started with stuff now” then I’d be much better off most of the time.
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Chances are you need much less range than you think 330 days out of 356, and on the remaining you wouldn’t mind a coffee break to stretch your legs once in a while. Yes that even applies to travelling salesmen and the like: Go stretch your legs and run some numbers while you charge (but the X days out of Y will look different).
Where things get actually problematic is when people can’t plug their EV in at home over night or at work, though for city commuters that too might be possible to alleviate by making a picnic tour to a charger once in a while. But yes generally speaking most places need better infrastructure in parking garages and stuff.
More importantly, what we need much more of is not cars but public transit, well-maintained, reliable, frequent, and cheap at the point of use (roads get cross-financed by taxes so tell me one reason why not to do it for public transit), non-rural areas not supporting that kind of service need to be reshaped into being dense enough, as well as be walkable, that includes there being places you want to walk to, like schools, supermarkets, corner stores, hair stylists, restaurants, in a nutshell the kind of commercial activity you want in a residential area (looking at you, North American suburbia, where good living is illegal)
Because you know no matter how much I like the concept of EVs, and having spent ~2000 bucks on a license 20 years ago, I’ve never owned a car. I don’t need one. When I have something large or heavy to transport I take a handcart with me on the five minute walk to supermarket or parcel pickup, respectively. Somehow I never get stuck in traffic doing that.
on the remaining you wouldn’t mind a coffee break to stretch your legs once in a while. Yes that even applies to travelling salesmen and the like: Go stretch your legs and run some numbers while you charge (but the X days out of Y will look different).
Forget “wouldn’t mind”, you (one) absolutely owe it to other road users to take those breaks. It just isn’t safe to drive continuesly for hours and hours without them. You aren’t magically the exception, you are a human being like everyone else and you are not a safe driver after hours of unbroken driving. Without exception (and that does include professional drivers who sadly are contractually required to do so.)
I agree with you about Tesla not having a culture of safety, and I don’t doubt your personal experience. I think I just have been lucky. My wife also has a Tesla (a 3, I have an X), and she paid the up front for FSD and has enjoyed it for 3+ years with no problems. I have two friends that drive Tesla, one as their primary (a Y) the other as their secondary (a more recent model 3 than my wife’s), and no one has had those kind of problems.
The video evidence speaks for itself–it clearly does happen. It just seems to happen very rarely, in my limited experience. I’ve personally watched humans drive through red lights more often than I’ve personally heard of Tesla owners have cars that do the same, but, again, I’m open to the critical position. But my wife and I enjoy FSD very much, and so do my friends, and we’ve just not had problems with it. I don’t expect to be able to sleep in the back seat while it drives me somewhere, but I drive up and down the east coast for work (I’ve had my X for 9mo and have 12k+ miles on it), and it’s incredibly nice and has changed my work experience.
I wouldn’t say it’s going shittier, my words on the fediverse community to the contrary. Tumblr staff do listen to feedback, for example finally reversing the default tab to Following (chronological feed) from For You (algorithm), they brought back reblog graph, they removed by default long post and reblog trail (the combination of which is called the reblog chain) but gave toggles to turn them back on. I know whole groups of people who were on the earliest LiveJournal who are still active on Tumblr today - they did hit the right spot there. (Those group are resigned to the porn ban, not angry, because they are the kind of people who track things and figured out banning porn and queer contents were about advertising back in early 2000’s, tumblr’s hands were tied and if people took them seriously back then we might not have advertising-related enshittification today. Those people brought AO3 into being, they are perfectly capable of coding a tumblr clone if they so wish. or move en masse like they did LJ to Dreamwidth, then Tumblr).
The dashboard redesign took everyone by surprise, but xkit the third fixed it in about a week, and if they were really serious about making everyone use the layout they want xkit wouldn’t have worked for about as long as tumblr has existed. xkit developers have come and gone from working on the extension. Tumblr’s paid features are fun, extremely regiftable and targeted advertisement doesn’t use tumblr data.
I wouldn’t say they are doing things perfectly, but they are the only long-form chronological tagged blogging platform left aside from making your own site.
Fediverse isn’t complicated to use - fediverse offerings are whole different things together. Tumblr users live and die by the tags and chained reblogs. Mastodon has tagging (hashtags) but it is a microblogging system and posts cannot be chained organically (1/12…12/12 style isn’t) while Lemmy does not even have a tagging system and based on the people who are actively developing it, will never have. You cannot interact the way tumblr users interact on either.
And Blaze…has no influence on popularity. Pay x dollar to put this post on y number of random dashboard. One single transaction. No one is going to follow you if you blaze crap.
Reminder: I tagged the book I'm reading for easy access if others are reading ssmr book. I did NOT tag the author because that's just rude. It's not like she's going to have a conversation with me on why I disliked part X or wished there was more part Y. Obviously, if you loved the book, tell them. Gives them the warm fuzzies.
I've seen authors across SM who are distressed by this constant tagging. Just don't do it. There is no value or point.
Yes, yes there is something wrong, I’m not saying you need to be every waking hour studying, but forcing young people to work is something would only happen under the current capitalist system and it is done to get cheap labour, not because of X or Y.
That’s it. It doesn’t ask you what language you want to speak or which keyboard layout you want to use. You get a zsh shell, and that’s it. Go figure out what you want to install, how you want to install it, where you want to install it to. That’s how basically all of Arch works: if you install something, it comes barebones with sometimes the default starting configuration shipped by whoever made the software and nothing else.
To me, that’s what makes Arch so good compared to something like Linux Mint: I’m an advanced user, I don’t want training wheels, and I want to build my system entirely from scratch, with only what I want on it installed and running. And it comes with excellent documentation, is a rolling release (meaning, you get the latest version of everything fairly quickly). Since Arch pretty much only ships packages for you to install, it’s not nearly as important to make sure that they work and there isn’t any incompatibility with other packages. Oh the newer version of X doesn’t work with Y anymore? Too bad, go figure out how to downgrade it or figure out a workaround.
Is this useful to you, a beginner? It depends. If you want to go into the deep ends and learn everything about how a Linux system is built and works, sure, it’s going to be great for that. Lots of people do that and love it! If you’re coming from Windows, all you’re used to is clicking next next finish, and you like things to just work out of the box, eehh, probably not great for you.
Distributions like Linux Mint does a lot of the work for you: first of all, it has a graphical installer. It boots up and asks you about your language, your keyboard, where you want to install it. And it installs a system that’s ready to be used out of the box. When you install Linux Mint, you get a desktop, a web browser, you get drivers configured for you. It detects what’s the best graphics drivers and prompts you to install them automatically.
Most distributions, especially Debian/Ubuntu derived ones, are all about providing a curated experience. It comes with a whole bunch of stuff installed and configured to reasonable defaults. Need to print something? Yeah it comes with printer support by default, just plug in your printer and it’ll configure it for you. Some distributions even comes with Steam and Discord and everything needed to game ready to go right out of the box. Log in and play.
To provide such a reliable and out of the box experience, these distributions typically work with a release cycle, or delay updates to have time to properly test them out and make sure they work correctly before they ship it out to users. This means you may be a few versions behind on your desktop environment, but you also get the assurance you won’t update and your desktop doesn’t work anymore.
I personally picked Arch a long time ago because I’m fundamentally a tinkerer, I want the newest version of everything even if it means breaking things temporarily, and I do kind of whacky things overall. One day my laptop is there for working and browsing the web, another day it’s an iPXE server to install 20 other computers, another day it’s a temporary router/WiFi access point, another day it’s a media center/TV box, another day it’s an Android tablet. Arch gives me the freedom to make my computer do whatever I need my computer to do at the moment, and because it doesn’t make any assumptions about what I want to do with my computer, I can easily make it do all of those things on a whim. On Linux Mint, I’d be fighting an uphill battle to tear down everything the developers spent so much time building for me and my convenience.
He named Teslas models (in order of release) S, 3, X
(Then Y and Roadster, but that was not originally part of the plan. Let’s see if some day those Suchers who paid 250k to preorder a car are actually gonna get theirs lol)
I mean, I’m no conspiracy nut or UFO true believer or anything, but the simple fact is that aerial photography is nowhere near that simple or easy.
I live directly under the flight path for the local airbase, and about twice a week I have F-35s fly overhead. I basically know the schedule, and I usually try to take a picture of them, but despite it being a routine occurrence that I know to prepare for, I’ve only managed to get a handful of pictures, and of those pictures, they’re almost all small and blurry squintovision. They’re better than bigfoot photos but not by much. With my naked eye, I’m close enough to pick out individual features on the airframe and see if the the gear is up or down, and if they have anything on wing pylons, etc. But my actual pictures? Usually come out something like this. Now imagine you’re trying to do that for a target 5 miles distant rather than just a few hundred feet overhead, and it only gets worse.
And the thing is that yes, the military does have a lot of eyes on the sky, but as they pointed out in the hearings, there exists no mechanism for making reports of UAP, collating and collecting the relevant radar and sensor data, and then trying to figure out what it was. If you talk about UAPs, you’re going to get laughed out of the room if not sidelined into a career dead end.
Like even ignoring the possibility of aliens, and assuming that this is just some unknown atmospheric effect (that shows up on multiple different radar systems, FLIR, and optics), it’s still worth gathering that data so we can find out what’s going on. Investigating odd phenomena is great for our scientific understanding of the world around us. Right now we don’t have a mechanism for Pilot A to say “Hey, that blip on radar did strange behaviors X, Y, and Z” and then the relevant sensor data is collected into a format for use by meteorologists or whomever.
99.9 repeating % of the time, it’s just going to be something innocuous like what all the civilian UFO reports are of “in these specific atmospheric conditions, we get an optical illusion of a cubical cloud” Locals in LA think that the borg are invading, but from other angles, the cloud just looks slightly funny rather than a cube. Or they mistake a drone formation for some impossible alien craft. But when we have trained military observers who are all saying the same thing and we’re seeing data from our most advanced military sensors, it’s a different matter entirely.
That’s why I’m so mono-focussed on the tictac report, because in that example we have radar tracks from 4 seperate system types (AN/SPY on the USS Princeton, AN/SPS and AN/SPQ on the USS Nimitz, either APS-125 or APS-139 for an E-2 Hawkeye, and the AN/APG-73 on the F-18s) These were all cited as having been there and tracking the tictac, and reported that it descended from 80,000 feet to sea level in a matter of moments, and when the F-18s are sent out, that’s when we get the encounter that David Fravor describes. Alex Dietrich, the pilot in the wingplane of Fravor’s flight also described the same encounter, complete with “I don’t consider myself a whistle blower … I don’t identify as a UFO person,” but despite that disclaimer, she still ends up collaborating his story for how the tictac behaved.
So there we have no fewer than 6 separate radar sets, of which at least 4 sources are different models so we can pretty safely rule out operator error or code glitch, the eyes of 2 seperate F18s pilots, one at high elevation, one that moved to intercept and they all describe the behavior of the tictac as moving impossibly to how we understand physics. Later on in a followup flight, they stick the FLIR pod on one of the F18s and we get the video that doesn’t show very much, and we know for a fact that what’s shown on that video isn’t the full duration of it.
Now let’s throw UFOs out of the equation entirely. Assume that it’s only some kind of atmospheric anomaly like ball lightning or something. Isn’t that still something that’s incredibly cool and worth investigation? If something can act like that, let’s figure out what it is and how it does it. And if it is aliens, then congratulations, we have the most important discovery in the history of mankind on our hands. And if it isn’t aliens, then we’ve merely done a lot of cool science and made both commercial and military aviation safer by explaining what these are and if/how they are a danger. And that’s what this congressional meeting was about. Setting up official channels so that when pilots run into things like this they can report it and we can start to aggregate the data and figure out what’s going on. And on the other side of the equation is investigating DoD black projects that may or may not be pretending to be aliens (we know they did this with the original stealth programs, complete with MIB suits visiting the local skywatchers and telling them very specifically that it WASN’T UFOs, and thus distracting attention away from the stealth planes.) and letting the American government know what the fuck is actually going on in our military that ostensibly works for us.
The major point is not so much whether your browser could block ads - your point regarding the browser ultimately having to render each element is true. The problem is that if the web server gets a request from an unattested browser (such as an old version, or one that has an ad blocker installed), it will refuse to serve any content, not just ads.
Regular people will inevitably get frustrated and we end up in scenarios like “<x browser>is bad, it doesn’t work with <y site>” because of this proposal, and more and more people end up switching until you have to use a compliant (Chromium-based) browser to do anything at all on the internet, and Google’s strangehold on web standards solidifies even further.
How will I know how many services I can run on my self hosted server?
Hi y’all. I’ve got an Intel Nuc 10 here. I want to run a few apps on it, like BitWarden, PiHole, NextCloud, Wireguard, and maybe more, just for my own use, inside my home....
TIL during the early days of the internet, companies tried to prohibit linking to some of their sites. The linked site linked to all of them during half of 2002 (web.archive.org)
In one of the even more absurd cases: According to an AP report (cited in Slashdot), Intentia International has filed criminal charges against Reuters PLC, alleging that the news service illegally obtained an earnings report that the company had not yet released, by guessing the URL at which it had been posted on Intentia's...
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Hi Friendos,...
Data visualization, like Grafana, but configurable without gui.
I currently use Grafana to view how all sorts of stuff changes over time. It gets the job done, but is far from ideal:...
Does .999… = 1?
1/3 = .333…...
A Black prosecutor was elected in Georgia – so white Republicans made their own district (www.theguardian.com)
After Jared Williams was elected Augusta DA, a lawyer and state lawmaker made an unusual proposal: that the whitest county split from the circuit
ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI (www.nature.com)
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Why do people choose the WORST possible organization of their inventory? (media.kbin.social)
Professor says he was discriminately fired for teaching sex was determined by chromosomes X and Y (www.foxnews.com)
mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/6853479...
What do you use to document your home lab?
My home lab has a mild amount of complexity and I’d like practice some good habits about documenting it. Stuff like, what each system does, the OS, any notable software installed and, most importantly, any documentation around configuration or troubleshooting....
Thoughts on why small talk is so uniquely painful (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Image text: @agnieszkasshoes: “Part of what makes small talk so utterly debilitating for many of us who are neurodivergent is that having to smile and lie in answer to questions like, “how are you?” is exhausting to do even once, and society makes us do it countless times a day.”...
Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken (www.reuters.com)
Tesla has consistently exaggerated the driving range of its electric vehicles, reportedly leading car owners to think something was broken when actual driving range was much lower than advertised. When these owners scheduled service appointments to fix the problem, Tesla canceled the appointments because there was no way to...
Isles of Scilly Iron Age warrior was probably a woman (www.bbc.com)
A decades-long mystery over whether an Iron Age warrior who lived on the Isles of Scilly was a man or woman has been solved....
Fired Tesla Employee Posts New Video of Full Self-Driving Running Red Light (jalopnik.com)
cross-posted from: derp.foo/post/81940...
/c/café daily chat thread for 28 July 2023
If Google succeeds with the new DRM policy, will that affect functionality of browsers like firefox which uses a different engine?
Young Chinese are getting paid to be 'full-time children' as jobs become harder to find | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
A thread yesterday had a variety of people asking if the unemployment is lower because the youth are well cared for....
whats so good about arch compared to linux mint?
new to this linux stuff sorry
‘X’ Rebrand Gets Twitter Blocked Under Indonesia Porn Laws (www.thedailybeast.com)
UFOs Are a Common Sight, Former Military Official Tells Congress (Non Paywall in comments) (www.wsj.com)
Non Paywalledand… A replay of the hearing
Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)