RegalPotoo

RegalPotoo , 3 days ago

They are in it for the vibes more than the anything

RegalPotoo , 8 days ago

Way back when I used to go to the football with dad - kids under 5 could take the train for free, but weren’t allowed in the stadium, so I was 4 on the train, and 5 when we got to the stadium

RegalPotoo , 8 days ago

Oh shit it hadn’t occurred to me that the logical end state for Elon is running for president

RegalPotoo , 8 days ago

Since when has a trivial thing like “the law” stopped him from trying to do something he wants?

RegalPotoo , 7 days ago

What is the constitution if not a law?

RegalPotoo , 10 days ago

Meanwhile, a Linux user wipes blood off a sledgehammer with “SIGKILL” written on the handle

RegalPotoo , 9 days ago

In the immortal words of Monzy:

I pull out my keyboard / and I pull out my gloc / and I dismount your girl / and I mount slash proc / cos I’ve got your pid / and the bottom line / is you best not front / or its kill dash nine

RegalPotoo , 10 days ago

Even assuming 25% of Twitter users are bots (probably a significant over estimate), and even if half of Twitter’s users quit in the next year, it would still be 150x bigger than mastodon

(Mastodon has ~1m MAUs, compared to ~421m for Twitter)

RegalPotoo , 11 days ago

Militants

RegalPotoo , 12 days ago

One of our cats kept getting out of our old house - took us a couple of weeks to work out that she’d found an access hatch into the subfloor that we didn’t know about in the back of a cupboard and worked out how to lift it up

RegalPotoo , 15 days ago

~2kg/month, currently spending ~$60NZD/kg - anywhere between 1 and 4 espressos a day for me depending on if I’m going into the office or not, and my wife drinks a jug of cold brew every ~week

RegalPotoo , 15 days ago

I’m going to use that next time I need to bail out of a story I shouldn’t have started telling

RegalPotoo , 15 days ago

In Germany (and other parts.od Europe as well to be fair) carts need you to put a coin in them to unchain them from their bay, which you get back when you chain them back up - so yeah, kinda, if you don’t put it back you loose your euro

RegalPotoo , 17 days ago

As an additional point; “weird” isn’t a slur. A slur is an expression where the very words themselves are considered obscene - a slur is offensive, even when it is used to describe someone or something according to its strict definition.

There is no context where describing someone as a “removed” or a “retard” isn’t offensive. “Weird” isn’t like that, as you’ve pointed out - it’s being used as a simple insult, and it’s persistent because it seems to really annoy the people it is directed at

Edit: to further my point, one of my examples is so objectionable that it was automatically filtered from my post

RegalPotoo , 19 days ago

Good on you for taking her in, but I’d suggest keeping her separated from your other cat until you can get a vet to look at her - there are a few nasties that feral cats tend to carry that you probably don’t want your other cat to catch

RegalPotoo , 19 days ago

Personally I can’t wait for a few good bankruptcies so I can pick up a couple of high end data centre GPUs for cents on the dollar

RegalPotoo , 18 days ago

Thanks for the tips! I’m looking for something multi-purpose for LLM/stable diffusion messing about + transcoder for jellyfin - I’m guessing that there isn’t really a sweet spot for those 3. I don’t really have room or power budget for 2 cards, so I guess a P40 is probably the best bet?

RegalPotoo , 18 days ago

8700g

Hah, I’ve pretty recently picked up an Epyc 7452, so not really looking for a new platform right now.

The Arc cards are interesting, will keep those in mind

RegalPotoo , 18 days ago

Digging into it a bit more, it seems like I might be better off getting a 12gb 3060 - similar price point, but much newer silicon

RegalPotoo , 20 days ago

sigh guess I need to go write another letter to my MP

RegalPotoo , 20 days ago

Tbh, given how out of their way IBM went to enable the holocaust, I don’t think they really should be weighing in on this one

RegalPotoo , 22 days ago

If only we lived in a world so simple as to allow the whims of managers, customers and third parties to be completely definable in UML

RegalPotoo , 23 days ago

But I put the magic words in my profile that makes it ILLEGAL to use my personal data in any way! I know my rights and the law! I saw it in a YouTube video, and have an IQ of 150 (and have the certificate to PROVE IT!)

RegalPotoo , 23 days ago

500w TDP Vs 360w on previous generation - cooling this thing is going to be fun

RegalPotoo , 23 days ago

sigh I thought we’d learnt this by now.

Repeat after me:

Upvoting a post is a signal that the post is good content, not that you endorse the content

Downvoting a post is a signal that the post is abusive, spammy, trolling, or otherwise bad, not that you personally disapprove

RegalPotoo , 23 days ago

Good thing there hasn’t been any remotely exploitable security bugs in any of the mail system components in the 6 years since Debian 7 went EoL

RegalPotoo , 24 days ago

If you are interested in different culture more than different language background, www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/black-sheep might be interesting

RegalPotoo , 24 days ago

Yeah, I understand - fwiw, RNZ is the national (government backed) broadcaster, and has an explicit mandate to elevate the perspectives of iwi. Black Sheep specifically has done a few episodes about the musket wars and land confiscation that really don’t pull punches.

Another that might fit your brief: www.abc.net.au/listen/…/stuff-the-british-stole - from the ABC, and for the most part does a really good job of setting up the story with some historical context, then letting the people actually effected tell the rest

RegalPotoo , 23 days ago

It’s all about the ergonomics - you need a good bra if you want to be at the top of your stabbing game, a bad bra really hinders you

RegalPotoo , 25 days ago

If a project is hosted on sourceforge then its a pretty good sign that the developer hasn’t progressed their craft since about 2005, which is a pretty big red flag for anything

RegalPotoo , 25 days ago

Kinda sorta. The Moriori settled in the Chatham Island (a few hundred km south of New Zealand) and were later victims of genocide at the hands of a Maori tribe during the musket wars. Previously it was assumed that the Moriori came to the Chathams in a separate wave of migration to the ones that brought the Maori, but more recent evidence seems to point to them arriving in New Zealand at about the same time, then moving south.

There were a few species that went extinct between the Maori arriving in NZ and the Europeans showing up, but expecting an ecosystem to not change when a new apex predator shows up is just “noble savage” BS.

RegalPotoo , 25 days ago

Looks like it’s an x86_64 kernel though? So this is a VM - it’s not running as a paravirtualised system, it’s having to emulate everything from the CPU up?

RegalPotoo , 28 days ago

Basically none. The satellite link isn’t getting traffic directly between you and the server you are reaching - the satellite just relays the data to the nearest ground station that then uses the normal fibre network to get the rest of the way.

Even if you managed to reconfigure starlink to be a peering network rather than an access network, you’d still have the issue that the starlink network as a whole has orders of magnitude less bandwidth than even one under sea cable

RegalPotoo , 27 days ago

Ah yes, WordPress, renowned for it’s robust social engagement tools.

It’s the kind of decision you announce over Zoom so people don’t riot

RegalPotoo , 28 days ago

I learnt a ton about Linux by fucking up my boot config and being too stubborn to just nuke and pave

RegalPotoo , 29 days ago

A well built power supply will have a current limit on the connector to prevent the cable melting problem, but that means if you have a card that needs 200w, but only power it via 1 connector you are going to run into problems

RegalPotoo , 29 days ago

Yup - gaseous oxygen isn’t very dense so you’d need pretty large tanks, and liquid oxygen needs high pressure and very low temperatures to stay liquid - neither of which is terribly practical for an aircraft, and especially for safety systems that need to be super reliable without lots of maintenance

RegalPotoo , 29 days ago

Only if a dog does it.

Is that the plot of Air Bud? Idk, I only know the meme

RegalPotoo , 1 month ago

It’s not that it won’t work - polarity doesn’t quite work like that in AC systems - it’s that as soon as you plug in one end, the other end has a pair of exposed metal contacts with mains voltage between them. One mistake, touching the contacts or having them come into something metal (like the ladder you are using to hang the Christmas lights) and someone dies

RegalPotoo , 1 month ago

Yeah, there is a reason why proper installations require actual transfer switches or at least a manual interlock to prevent both feeds being connected at the same time. I’m also not sure what would happen if your generator was out of phase with the grid when it reenergised, but I’m sure it wouldn’t be good

RegalPotoo , 1 month ago

You can, but if forgetting to flip a switch can result in death, then you need a stronger safety control

RegalPotoo , 1 month ago

That’s not the point. Normal, sensible people make mistakes because they are tired or stressed or got distracted or just plain unlucky, so things have to be designed so that people can make a mistake and it not instantly create a potentially lethal situation

RegalPotoo , 1 month ago

Iosevka is my personal favourite, but will need to spend some time scrolling through

RegalPotoo , 1 month ago

Would it be better or worse if you got a friend to come and kneel down with their hands behind their back so you could “check the balance”?

RegalPotoo , 1 month ago

The thing he seems to have forgotten is that unlike the automotive industry where the regulation is designed to allow companies to fuck up then fix things as long as they have the systems in place to fix the fuck up and to know when they fucked up, the medical device industry is very much designed so that the default stance is “this is dangerous and will kill people” unless you can prove otherwise

RegalPotoo , 1 month ago

So politics aside, would you really put any money into a financial system run by someone with a proven track record of driving businesses into bankruptcy?

RegalPotoo , 1 month ago

If you have a concrete example I’d love to hear it

RegalPotoo , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Keycloak to provide OIDC, although in hindsight I should have gone with Authelia Authentik