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j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

Just stuff on hand for experimentation with lactose fermentation. It would have gone bad otherwise. The lid of the greenish brown jar says the start date, added a bit of honey for extra insurance (“H”). I also tasted and intuitively thought I’d try running it through a food processor, added more honey and let it go. It went through a gamut of evolving smells. It ended in a mild green salsa like flavor. It had a LOT of CO^2^ production throughout, far more than anything else I’m messing with. There is a lot more alcohol in it, but I have no idea how much is really there.

The blueberries worried me around a week ago. They tasted like olives, but now they have a more pleasant flavor, or rather, the juice does now. It is about like a more berry/savory almost beet juice like wine flavor, but more savory than a wine. It is savory like a soy or fish/Worcestershire sauce, but less concentrated than those.

These are 3% salt brine fermentations to insure the right kind of bacterial growth. Fermenting stuff and experimenting with unique flavors that this creates is how you take cooking to the highest levels, but also a serious survival skill. It only takes around 3 weeks from food scarcity to population reduction.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

purple poop from the purple people eater

purple people eater movie poster

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

How exactly? /s

I never said what I thought in any direction. I simply stated some leading observations without conclusions about their meaning.

Once upon a time I worked for an asphalt company as an operator at the plants and rock quarry. When the test inspector showed up, so did the test and inspection mix running through the plant.

That is why I asked in the way this post was worded. I am looking for someone(s) like myself that are experienced and perhaps smart enough to read between the lines of corruption. It is an unlikely person(s) to find here.

Discovering the various perspectives, along with the spectrum of Lemmy that engages with this post are also interesting from a couple of angles.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

The asphalt company is basically all of Los Angeles’ roads. They came up with a way to use recycled asphalt grindings in a MUCH higher percentage of the mix in a process that involved soaking it with diesel fuel for a specific amount of time and mixing it. The loader operator feeding the plant had just enough down time to do the soak and mixing process. This recycled grindings mix was added to the hot aggregate strait out of the drum burner right at the liquid asphalt mixing point. If I recall correctly (after two decades), the allowed limit for recycle was 15% according to the state, but they were able to run between 30%-45% recycle with their methods and it was undetectable in the company engineering test lab. You be the judge of how that falls into corruption versus innovation.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

Never run a business as a worker making ends meet. You’re one recession away from failure. If you are not putting back a healthy margin to build a business, save for the unknown and opportunities, you’re in a bad place that will likely bite you in the long run.

Do whatever it takes to put off hiring people as long as possible, and then push way way past that. Never hire people unless forced to take loads of money in exchange. Your efficiency will drop drastically and they’ll be worth a tenth of yourself for half of your money.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

Reflects the left’s distrust of corporate media all together.

I’m not going to watch them, so they must chase the audience that will. It is a losing game where they eventually cease to exist.

Simple game theory applied to the rights strategy means we all lose in the long run, but they lose the most.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

I’m hanging cannibalism on the end of extreme, but intending on the broader scope of most extreme behaviors. It is easier to approach than the sexual and predatory counterparts.

Like if there is no potential “greater” social authority likely to interfere, is there a population density that determines overall accountability? Is it the randomness of personalities and spectrums? Is there any evidence of a change over time and social evolution?

They are hard questions. I wonder if any observational evidence exists around the various dwindling native groups that exist(ed) in various degrees of isolation. It is also a question of how fixation, paranoia, and anxiety may have evolved in the human species over time. It would be really interesting to be able to contrast this kind of behavior potential now versus the deep past.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

If you need secure boot on current (like intel gen 10+), Fedora Workstation. If you don’t need secure boot, Linux Mint.

Fedora has the easiest way to make secure boot just work, it will even dual boot fine on the same disk although you should still backup the m$ partition if you actually need it. Fedora can do secure boot even with Nvidia.

Ubuntu can do some of the secure boot stuff like Fedora does, and there is the advantage of the stable kernel if you have Nvidia.

Note that “stable” as a label has nothing to do with its intuitive meaning like alpha/beta/testing/crashing etc. It is a term for servers and people that want to run very specific setups that will not require human intervention on embedded devices and servers. If you want to game or use the latest sw “stable” might be a pain. However, if what you are running is not kept up to date with the latest packages and libraries, a stable release may be the only way to run your stuff.

Overall these are the biggest factors on current hardware; secure boot yes/no, and up-to-date software needs yes/no.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

Mint is easy mode, but has no secure boot shim implemented. It makes gaming accessible.

Pop is made for System76 and does some stuff funny IMO, and is like Mint with no secure boot if you are not running 76’s proprietary bootloader on their hardware

Ubuntu is easy but has its quirks (most are fixed by Mint which is based on Debian/Ubuntu)

Debian is hard mode and is an advanced distro. There are a ton of tools that are unique to Debian. It is used mostly for people running their own servers and custom purpose machines from home or work. It is also the primary distro for hacking hardware and reverse engineering stuff that has no other way to create Linux kernel support.

Every distro has some things that they are specialized for. You can do almost anything with any of them, but it will depend on your skill level. Something to keep in mind here is that Linux is not a consumerism branding contest. We are not choosing our frivolous teams. This is the place where everyone can learn. While beginners and users are welcome, you will find many aspects of Linux are the study and thesis projects for many computer science students. All levels are present here. This is why so many options exist.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

All distros “support” SB because SB is not part of Linux and it requires setting your own SB keys. That is outside of easy scope. The question is if they support the m$ signed shim and what system is used to achieve this. Fed uses Anaconda (unrelated to Python container system). It is something unique to Fedora as far as I know. Linux refuses to support SB because SB is a scheme to steal hardware ownership. The standard implementation is only a suggestion and bootloaders are not required to give you access to the custom keys implementation in the specification. Microsoft controls the shim for SB. It is extremely decisive and controversial.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

The mechanism for not loading signed drivers is outside of the kernel. In Fedora, this is handled by Anaconda.

The last time I checked a few months ago, only Fedora and Ubuntu participate in the Microsoft 3rd party key signing arrangement. This shim signed aspect is done at the final stage of distro packaging. There is no upstream so it is not a Debian or downstream thing.

There can only be the one kernel they sign. This is a problem for Nvidia because Nvidia modules are unsigned upstream. They only do their binary BS and supply kernel source code that is different from that binary. We must build that source to make a module but this is unsigned. The only way to have Nvidia drivers under a shim is to build a system that can shim into the gap between boot and kernel init. This must build the Nvidia module from source in a way that is totally secure so that it may never be modified inside Linux or used as an entry point to add a root kit to the UEFI bootloader. Once the Nvidia module is built, then Linux is initialized. This is the only way to have secure boot functioning unless the user manually adds custom keys to the bootloader and signs their own kernel modules. Most distros leave this aspect of the system entirely up to the end user because it is not part of Linux. Most distros tell you to turn off secure boot. The bootloader is the largest attack surface in modern computers.

The secure boot specification is only a set of guidelines and not a required implementation. Indeed, my laptop does not have the functionality implemented to enable this, thus the reason I know all of this so well. There is still another way that I have not explored, but it is generally less known and lesser documented. There is a tool called Keytool that can boot directly into UEFI. Supposedly it can manually alter the keys outside of the bootloader implemented features set. The only documentation I have ever come across for Keytool is in the gentoo handbook, but gentoo documentation assumes a very high level of competence.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

Can you tell me the basics about the angle in the book?

I think of organic compute primarily from a sustainability and energy consumption angle, but with a lot more implications in other areas.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

Nah. More like creating assembly language programming for DNA directly and building an engineered structure. Thanks though.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

I’m interested in the same essential clock as a human, or within an order of mag. I’m simply using human level-ish parallelism. The inherent limitations are a useful plot point already.

I need a mechanism for calling it deterministic, and maybe explore plausible ways of implementation in peripheral context.

I’m thinking about a Frankenstein like lab where pieces and parts are grown and combined to create something like a Mentat of Dune by realistic means.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

Hello_there Stephen King! /s

I’ve been reading a few papers and books by Asimov on archive all afternoon. About an hour ago I came across a piece he wrote up about learned behavior transfer via RNA. The study started by using learned behavior in worms that were chopped up, fed to the next generation and showed learned skills transfer. In truth, only faster learning rates IIRC.

I think that would fit well into your dystopian Machine Animal-Farm Learning AI algorithm.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

I’m trying to focus on positive futurism, but thanks for the reference. I haven’t read Rosewater.

I’m thinking more like an engineered ovum in a controlled setting.

The level of technology would be similar to how you’ve described Rosewater. While you’ve only told me a small sample of the plot and by no means a full description, I’m thinking of technologies well beyond mastery of a technical weapon and into the realm of anything is possible. I’m trying to navigate what is plausible, grounded in reality, but also ethically within scope of a post scarcity socialist nonviolent society.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

Do I need to get my breadboards out too?

74HC257?

image of a large collection of DIP chips for prototyping

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

There is no real comparison with present computers like this. Humans are massively parallel in operations. Present CPU architectures need the speed because they handle a tiny amount of data per cycle.

The primary bottleneck is the L2 to L1 cache bus width. This is one of the main bottlenecks that makes the CPU perform poorly with large language models.

If you remove such bottlenecks and let everything happen at once and start using analogue computational elements for neural networks, the needs shift entirely. The speed requirement is specific to the technology/efficiency/scale. The human brain is orders of magnitude more energy efficient than silicon. It has its issues, but it has too many advantages for sustainability long term. It is the ultimate self replicating recyclable machine.

In a properly designed vivarium, a system could only require cyclical sunlight for powering a self sustained computational unit on geological time scales, assuming all respective lifeforms were fully understood scientifically.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

It’s mostly inventory and distribution issues. The stuff is hard to carry and maintain stock because of the number of SKU’s one has to keep on hand just to cover like 70% of vehicles.

When I was the Buyer for a bike shop chain, I tied as much revenue to Thule as I did with most bike brands, but it hurt in terms of inventory turn times and cash flow. I had most stuff in stock all the time, but that money was not turning margin as well as it would have in accessories or even bikes with their poor margin.

It always made me nervous too. Bikes I can clear out at cost. Clothing and accessories I can swap meet. There is no demand market to liquidate Thule stuff. Like I knew eBay intimately. I can sell ultra high end stuff on there as real auctions with a $0.99 starting price, 10 days, and no reserve. I will always get higher than cost with my techniques (at the time). That would not be the case if I tried the same thing with Thule. A great deal in an enormous market is irrelevant when the product only works for 5% of said market.

It is just a tough product to carry at the retail/distribution level in a way that is profitable… Just to explain in WAY too much detail. The only way to fix it would be the standardization of vehicles.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

IIRC it is done so that you can choose to match the locks upon purchase, buy replacements, stores are motivated to carry lock cylinders, and you can expand based on what you already own. (Don’t shoot the messenger :)

It probably also has to do with how contract manufacturing works.

j4k3 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I rode the exact bicycle route where I was disabled while riding to work 10 years ago. It was raining, but I needed the psychology of completing that short ride. I never ride in traffic as I am unable to see over my left shoulder and hold my line. I must get out of position, sit up and twist my lower back. Anyways, there was a truck illegally double parked in the exact same place as the SUV that very nearly killed me when they suddenly made a U-turn. It was an awkward moment, some irony, and a bit of PTSD thinking about the same thing happening on the ten year anniversary.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

I have to keep my head down. It doesn’t matter most of the time because I ride a dedicated bike trail route. I also ride at the end of my day or even at night. I don’t want to know more than I need to about cars. My PTSD is too bad for traffic. I mostly only ride for physical therapy now. It is not really a problem for me to ride like this. I’m at over 170k miles, riding most days since 2009. I can tell what is going on around me just by sound at this point. The people behind are not the real problem. It is the u-turns that will get you. I’ve had 2 bad crashes out of 6 total and both bad ones were u-turns.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

some things that worked for me and adviceIf you are not very active at work, and you have the flexibility to shift your breaks, try taking a bunch of shorter breaks and start working on preparing side dishes like you are cooking for a holiday or a family gathering. Food can last ~2 weeks in the fridge. For me, if my food variety feels repetitive, it is because my cooking needs some work. I can eat the same thing every day easily, if the food is really good. Here’s the thing, “healthy” and how you feel is complicated and likely has to do with IBS to some degree. You likely have many very poor quality options available, but are not looking at the ingredients in detail. Like the oil used is a major factor in how you feel just under the surface of most people’s awareness. Unhydrogenated oils may make an enormous difference, as will either sticking to grass fed dairy or eliminating dairy all together. I was 350lbs and lost all of it down to below 190lbs while riding and eventually racing bicycles. At around 3500-4000 calories per day, a lot of subtle problems become much larger and require attention. Processed industrially produced foods are universally terrible. Almost everything in the center isles of an American grocery store are garbage to avoid. Only eat things that look like how they grew. All you need to do is shop for nice containers to use for all stages of cooking and transport. This is the “convenience” conditioning we were all trained to forget as dumb little American consumers. The healthiest person I ever worked with in a bike shop back office was an Olympic athlete. He never ate “meals.” He came to work looking like a tupperware salesman. He ate small amounts of a bunch of different side dish like foods he made in their own small containers. His diet shifted to exactly what he was doing physically each day and he was amazing on a bike. “Meals” are the primary problem. How much you eat at one time determines a whole lot. Your body does not keep cycling that glucose through your bloodstream. It does a few laps and turns to fat. Then you have low blood sugar until your next pie hole infusion. All your muscles can deal with that except for your brain. That one requires glucose only, and so you feel bad when it is resource poor. The solution is to eat more often, but far less, and things that take time to break down as they will provide more glucose over longer periods of time. Processed means predigested; means the nutrition info is garbage. It will go through you quickly and that will inevitably lead to low glucose for the grey goo. I cook several large casserole dishes full of meat and veggies every 8-12 days. How much you eat at once and how often is the most important factor. Second is the micro nutrient density. Third is isolating IBS factors.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

Only worry about the things you can change right now. Everything else is a waste of energy.

You can’t fix stupid in anyone else no matter how hard you try or how much you want it.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

Sup peeps! Take a break, I’m not going anywhere. They don’t pay you enough to stay in that van all day.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

It is the distance and lack of opposition that create the geopolitical isolation. Canada and Mexico are both irrelevant on their own as rivals. The USA is the primary trade partner of both and hold major sway over both. No other power in all of history has had this level of isolation.

The lack of significant boarders and tensions means people have a very different outlook about traveling and foreigners. I’ve moved over 2k miles twice in my life, and I have been to most of the USA; all but 3 States. I have never been to Europe, and things like foreign languages have no real appeal because they lack application and practical use.

The boarder bullshit in the USA is a distraction tactics to suck in the imbeciles for populist nonsense. There is no actual boarder issue other than the complete lack of reasonable laws protections and reforms that would be enacted if Congress actually did their jobs. The USA has a tenth the laws and protections of Western European countries and Japan. This is why the billionaire oligarchy exists; loophole exploitation. These then fund the populists to squawk their bullshit distractions. None of their message has any relevance. It is the rallying call of convenient idiots and the ultra wealthy.

This place is unique in the way we face inward. It is really because the average person just can’t afford to escape, and it is a long way to get there. We have an enormous range of diverse regions within the USA.

I don’t know any small towns or cities in Europe, but my personality type is no one to remember names like this. I’m more curious about other’s perspectives. I can never leave where I am now, as I am disabled. I’m exploring my own way instead.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

Yeah yeah, y’all are like Texas talking about independence but from the other side of the boarder. You’re practically States already; one major oil strike away from a WMD Bushwanking invasion.

…if only we could afford your Megaflea market - Vancouver.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

I don’t think any of us really have a choice in the matter of our governments any more than a sand grain has a choice of beach or sea bed, right?

I’m not flinging mud friend. I think all philosophical government speak must come with a ribald pall. I am flinging a beer at a new friend in a digital bar for a few empty words. Sorry if my ebullience tints florid or dare I say turgid.

I’ve fallen through the social safety net of my respective government with an insuperable future. My sardonic outlook colors my words.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

The Oregon Trail, Pong, Myst, Doom, Worms, Transport Tycoon, Tetris…

j4k3 , 3 months ago

Not sure of the hardware specifics, but “ARM” is not saying anything significant. You have to see if the specific processor used has mainline support in the present or in a past kernel that you can use.

For instance, Android is a scheme where google takes a Linux kernel, strips absolutely everything they can out if it and documents thoroughly. All the thing can do is run the app environment, but the kernel is incomplete with no hardware support. All the manufacturer must do is add the hardware support modules at the last possible moment. This makes it possible for manufacturers to only add binary support modules. The entire arrangement is designed to exploit the end user with these orphaned kernels and hardware you can never own. The hardware is undocumented anywhere, and each device is different enough that reverse engineering one will do nothing for supporting the next.

I’m not saying your device has an orphaned kernel, but this is what to look for in any device. Mainline kernel support means full ownership. Proprietary is always theft of ownership.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

Gilded Age: An age of exponential growth an opportunity for the average person. I just quadrupled your pay for working a quarter of the hours and there are no limits. You can spend your time embellishing, or doing the ideal job, researching whatever you want, doing that thing you know will be a big hit if you only had the time.

I said nothing about Mark Twain or past context of the term.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

Boeing - the full service casket company

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

But it is a changing 1.23% on the same plane. Both respective planets have no significant satellites. Venus spins wonky. I’m not saying any of it is related, but it is curious.

Venus is loosely around solar lap 20M, Earth 12M, Mars 6.5M in the last 4.5 billion years. How many 1% differences stack in patterns before there is a problem?

j4k3 , 3 months ago

Nationalize Boeing

j4k3 , 3 months ago

Bug, not a feature.

Bullshit privateer corporate hackers.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

10% of you has never been fused since the beginning of the universe… but it was hot way back then, and likely in the outer shell of a star or few. image from wikipedia of human elemental composition showing 10% hydrogen…m.wikipedia.org/…/Composition_of_the_human_body

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

To me, anything that is not vital to survival can be called trivial. I often use hyperbolic language to invoke a reaction. It is not intended to offend outside of the specific context I give. I am not trying to belittle your identity. I hope you never experience life altering circumstances like I have with disability. This forced me to shift interests that defined me. Music was one of these. I can not play a guitar often, and with enough constant pain, most music wears thin on me. I like a great many types of music. On a bike, doing physical therapy, I like thrash metal with a tempo close to my pedal cadence. When programing, I like euphoric deep house with absolutely no vocals of any kind. Driving or in general, I bounce between 80’s metal, 90’s grunge, very specific southern rock/country like some of Eric Church’s stuff, or some modern Louisiana bayou blues/rock. I occasionally also like classical composition or something like Ramstein thrown into the mix.

My favorites, are different for different circumstances, so just asking my favorite is a silly question with no answer. Most of the time I will say something like Metallica because it is what I play on a guitar most of the time.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

Rub it in, metric π, you imperialist rebel.

j4k3 , 3 months ago

I can’t say “professionally” but I learned CAD design with FreeCAD, and know the topological naming issue thoroughly.

Almost all “mystery” problems in CAD are due to a combination of the hacks that get around the Topological Naming Issue and π.

In CAD, you cookie, you brownie, you might even salad, but you stay the hell away from importing π as a reference on anything complex. For 3D printing, I never need better than 0.05mm so 3.1416.

j4k3 OP , 3 months ago

I only eat one cooked meal a day. I make a couple slices of toast in the morning and have been making quick guacamole and chips in the evening or just eating rice.

I cook 4lbs of meat in a dish, plus 1.5lbs each of green beans/broccoli/cauliflower in another dish, and 8 ears of corn in a dish. I also have a rice bowl for the oven that makes two Cups of rice. I cook all of that at one time for 1h 15m. I eat the rice for 2-3 days before frying the remainder and adding a few packs of instant microwaved brown rice.

The trick is to mostly eat the rice and break down the extra ingredients by hand into small pieces before reheating in the microwave. Sauces make a big difference too. That is how I can keep it feeling fresh enough that I do not mind the repetition. Like my fried rice is better than anything I have ever had from an American style Chinese restaurant. I make it complex and strong in flavor with sweet onion, green onion, lots of garlic and ginger, carrot, frozen green peas, soy/oyster/fish sauces, and brown sugar. A mix of white and brown rice help with texture and getting the eggs just right helps. I also add some of my cooked chicken, and the stalks of my cooked broccoli and cauliflower. I can do all of this in around 35 minutes just throwing most of it into a food processor. This will last and remain edible for a week or more. My rice takes me around the same amount of time as the whole bake does.

With sauces, I like to mix spicy mayo and teriyaki sauces 1:1 plus a little extra Worcestershire or fish sauce. I have also been working on an onion sauce of my own. I have used sriracha or teriyaki by themselves too.

I’m not super picky about what I eat though. Before I was disabled I was once very overweight but lost all of it while riding and eventually racing bicycles. I treated food differently back then; like a means to an objective. I appreciate good food, but my purposeful mindset and objective goals oriented approach may be more challenging for someone of a different background. I have no desire to eat anything processed or flavored by a chemistry lab, so my expectations may be very different than some people that expect such flavor drugs. Everyone that has tried my cooking seems to love it and ask for recipes, but your results may vary.