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lurch ,

there’s a base n joke somewhere in there

lurch ,

make sure to make the first backup before you use deduplication. just in case it goes sideways

Shower thoughts are wasting water.

My city is in the middle of the worst drought in recorded history. My showers are typically under 2 minutes and I have to shower with a bucket to catch otherwise wasted water to use to flush the toilet. I also shut the water down when I am wet enough so I can scrub myself without having unneeded water flowing then start it back...

lurch ,

depends on region. my region has enough water. still, most people try to not waste it. water has to be treated before it goes back into nature and people understand it helps to minimize this process.

but it’s more about the routine anyway. you get used to the movements you make in the shower, so the brain starts to trail off. doesn’t mean you just stop moving and think. that usually only happens when you’re traumatized or so.

lurch ,

nobody in EU and Ukraine cares what russua demands or cares about. that ship has sailed.

lurch ,

this is just systemds way of telling you to listen to me when i say you gotta make backups

lurch ,

i just read the title and it sounds like it will freeze people to death

lurch ,

you just think that because you don’t already have the result of your criteria sitting in a magic field

lurch ,

lol Comapenis

lurch ,

okay, but why did you use a password when the ssh/sftp key is right next to the files

lurch ,

same for me. it doesn’t even save time or effort. it just really irritates, maybe even harms the skin on top of taking as much time as shaving anyway. it’s so useless. can’t recommend.

lurch ,

if there are billions of people, new ones born every second, and everyone tries it once -> they gonna make a few dollars

lurch ,

They should never have done it in the first place, but seeing how it takes them so long to kill mostly unarmed civilians doesn’t exactly qualify them to attack another region, but whatever gets bibi to play the victim and the strong man at the same time and his right wing friends happy, i guess.

Having to score strangers on their 'empathy' and 'courtesy' and 'knowledge' (anything less than a 5 star is a 'bad grade', I am sure) (lemmy.world)

by that i mean, those are intangible, effervescent parts of a human being that should not be quantized down to a fucking amazon star system. the ‘anything less than 5 stars is actually bad’ thing is disgusting as well - all modern companies do this.

lurch ,

more online stores should adopt their “subscribe and save” model though. it’s very useful and no other stores i use have something like that.

lurch ,

wdym? you don’t want computers to do the work of ordering the same thing for you, that you need every month?

lurch ,

don’t share /boot

it contains stuff from the distro for booting and configuring/installing a boot loader. if both garble their stuff in there it will likely break.

lurch ,

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1189710-german-politicians-video-of-licking-public-toilets-goes-viral

lurch ,

the rich people trying to milk it.

people often think shareholders are doing this, but as you can see here: it’s top executives, as mozilla stock is not available.

lurch ,

You can go to https://distrowatch.com/ , but some are so abandoned, their status is unknown. Schrödingers distro: You have to try and install it to find out whether it’s still a thing.

lurch ,

b-but that requires signing up. too much effort 😅

lurch ,

VMs and RDP usually have a client side toggle to capture the keyboard, so all keys go into it, except one control key. it usyally has a client side toolbar button, menu entry and key combo.

lurch ,

they will never be as thin as Wiko Highway Pure

lurch ,

only fans? 😆

lurch ,

lol this person can’t merge layers in gimp. there’s at least 3 obvious ways to do it, e.g. right clicking on a layer.

lurch ,

it’s called mockery. try to keep up

File picker issues

Hi, I’m having issues with the file picker on my arch system. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all. If I press “Upload file” in a browser, nothing happens, no window pops up. It doesn’t work in other apps either when that happens. It sometimes starts working after a restart. Does anyone have any ideas? Let me know if you...

lurch ,

on a totally different system and different app i had similar issues after an update. my solution was to run the app with a java version closer to what it was compiled for, which is not helpful for you. however, i think it was related to gtk/gnome libs having been updated (the app was using the file picker with gtk “look and feel”)

lurch ,

could be anything, even allergies or an infection.

How long have you been in there?! A popular tourist destination in China has installed toilet timers. Reactions are mixed. (edition.cnn.com)

A video recently shared on various Chinese news and social media sites shows a set of timers installed above a row of toilet cubicles in a female washroom, with each stall getting its own digital counter....

lurch ,

if it shows hours someone likely died in there again. i think it’s okay to knock and check on them.

lurch ,

I always got receipts and cancellation infos via the mail connected to the Google account. One time there was no balance and I had no payment methods set up and I got “Your Google Play balance is too low to pay for your {app name} subscription. To keep your subscription active, please add credit or a new payment method.”

So, if you get email notifications you probably don’t need that.

Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft is pivoting its company culture to make security a top priority, President Brad Smith testified to Congress on Thursday, promising that security will be “more important even than the company’s work on artificial intelligence.”...

lurch ,

I doubt MS even knows what security means

lurch ,

you can even mount the image as a loop device (i suggest read only (ro)) to extract files

lurch ,

it’s like the opposite of a mom group 😉

lurch ,

Well because Hanas is not a nation, not even officials of sorts. It’s just some rando guerilla group that likes to abduct people and shoot missiles at people they can’t beat.

lurch ,

Here you go Apple: 🍏I

lurch ,

It’s not “free” it’s Free™

lurch ,

anecdote: during the pandemic every day seemed the same. i sometimes forgot ro shower for a few days. so i put a water sensor in my shower. when i shower, it starts a macrodroid automation that records the date. another macro plans and reminds me when it’s shower time.

lurch ,

nah, i just couldn’t remember because all days were so similar. i was like “did i shower yet or was that yesterday” almost went mad ngl

lurch ,

if this is the case, it should be in your contract, you should get paid for on-call duty and get a free SIM and/or phone for those notifications, so you can mute or shutdown notifications from your private SIM/phone

How dense would the atmosphere need to be to result in a cataclysmic chain reaction during a nuclear explosion?

Famously, Oppenheimer and co worked out how close a nuclear bomb test would be to causing a chain reaction of nitrogen fusion in the atmosphere. They made a lot of worst-case-scenario assumptions and still came to the conclusion that no, a nuclear bomb test wouldn’t scour the surface of the world....

lurch ,

i think the idea is that the part that already fused creates a blast wave that could create the conditions, including preassure required for more fusion. i have no idea if it’s possible though.

lurch ,

if you think microbes got in that can survive in salt and are harmful to humans (which is unlikely), you can bake it in your oven a bit (without the container)

lurch ,

I guess a few spores don’t mind salt, but i don’t know for sure. That’s why I wrote microbe.

lurch ,

you can fill up the disk a few times after deleting files, so the system has to use up all free space and no matter where your data was it gets overwritten.

lurch ,

after rm fill up the file system with random data a few times, then copy /etc/skel/ over to get the default configs back. maybe, if you’re paranoid, use a few apps like browsers, so if they actually look, there will be misleading results.

lurch ,

yeah, the icon problem is stupid. there will always be apps that don’t set the icon properly in both. especially new ones where the devs didn’t get to that for every environment, yet.

a bigger problem is java though. it’s still not wayland ready and is distorted in the compatibily layer xwayland. some old, closed source java apps that use “native” stuff (like games) will probably never run well on wayland.

lurch ,

lmao, i was low key looking for this trivia for several years. the irony that this was helpful 🤣

lurch ,

make a backup

lurch ,

if the T-1000 hasn’t been 3D printed yet, the axe may still work

lurch ,

the format of the encrypted file can give the attackers an advantage. if your code reads the decrypted file, the attacker can guess the first line is a comment or the name of a setting. a savvy person can combine that with the algorithm to perform a “known plaintext attack”, for example by generating a number of possible passwords that would lead to files starting like that.

lurch ,

well yeah, but that’s just so the teacher doesn’t lose any kids. the kids ask, informing the teacher, and the teacher makes sure they don’t go all at once. if the teacher won’t let them without good cause, that’s likely also illegal in your country (because it’s torture)

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