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wmassingham ,

Are current laws against harassment insufficient?

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Solar and battery storage to make up 81% of new U.S. electric-generating capacity in 2024

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61424

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wmassingham ,

The headline seems to mean 81% of generation and storage capacity. When the article talks about battery storage, it only says storage, not generation.

wmassingham ,

Yes. A perpetual license just means no fixed end date, not that it’s irrevocable or interminable.

You can probably get away with continuing to use ESXi free licenses even commercially, you just won’t have support. And at home, nothing is going to stop existing versions from working.

Incidentally, assuming I found the right license agreement: www.vmware.com/content/dam/…/universal_eula.pdf

It doesn’t actually say it’s perpetual. It only says “The term of this EULA begins on Delivery of the Software and continues until this EULA is terminated in accordance with this Section 9”, but that section only covers termination for cause or insolvency, there is no provision for termination at VMware’s discretion. So, while I’m not a lawyer, it definitely sounds like you can continue using ESXi free.

Actually, reading further, I think the applicable license is this one: www.vmware.com/vmware-general-terms.html

But that one has even less language about license term and termination. Although it does define “perpetual license” as “a license to the Software with a perpetual term”, again not irrevocable or interminable.

wmassingham ,

That one was posted by a spambot, which a lot of people have blocked.

wmassingham ,

Increase account creation restrictions (you are here)

wmassingham ,

Effortlessly? No hiccups? The Apollo program alone cost $178 billion 2022 dollars between 1961 and 1972. And I’m pretty sure that they had at least one hiccup. And that doesn’t even count the other programs like Mercury or Gemini.

What's your experiences with Debian and Rocky as a homeserver OS? (external-content.duckduckgo.com)

Hello there lemmings! Finally I have taken up the courage to buy a low power mini PC to be my first homeserver (Ryzen 5500U, 16GB RAM, 512 SSD, already have 6TB external HDD tho). I have basically no tangible experience with Debian or Fedora-based system, since my daily drivers are Arch-based (although I’m planning to switch...

wmassingham ,

I’ve been using Alma for a while and been happy with it. Like RHEL types, it’s slightly behind on versioning, but that’s by design.

Next Samsung Galaxy Buds to have on-device AI for language translation (www.sammobile.com)

It reportedly has the capability to translate languages in real-time during voice calls, video calls, and face-to-face. The feature is said to be better than language translation on Google’s Pixel Buds as the former doesn’t require an active internet connection.

wmassingham ,

No, but it’s a hell of a lot easier to put huge language datasets into the machine learning blender and get a model out, instead of manually programming every conceivable linguistic construction.

wmassingham ,

So yeah, you can sue for anything. But even if you know you’d never win the lawsuit, you can tie the other person up in court and waste their time and money.

wmassingham ,

No. They’re literally a meme for how bad they are on tech content: knowyourmeme.com/…/the-verges-gaming-pc-build-vid…

wmassingham ,

No, but Windows is so entrenched that they don’t need to actually be competitive in order to keep making profit. Instead, the Windows team has to invent things nobody ever wanted or needed that they can advertise to make it look like they’re still useful. Software UX polish-passes don’t make good marketing. You can’t seriously put “you know that one weird thing that only happened to a fraction of users sporadically? we fixed it” on a marketing campaign.

wmassingham ,

Nobody. And it’s not like Red Hat runs the X.Org Foundation, either, at most they have one seat on the board. Development will continue.

wmassingham ,

ISP shittiness aside, ISPs do actually pay for Internet backbone access by the byte. Usually there are peering agreements saying “you take 1tb of traffic from us, and we’ll take 1tb of traffic from you”, whether that traffic is destined for one of their customers (someone on Comcast scrolling Instagram), or they’re just providing the link to the next major node (Comcast being the link between AT&T’s segment of the US backbone and Big Mike’s Internet out in podunk Nebraska).

And normally that works pretty well, until power users start moving huge amounts of data and unbalancing the traffic.

wmassingham ,

PSoD is already used by VMware ESXi. And Windows Insider builds, I think.

Maybe green?

wmassingham ,

I’m not sure what that post is meant to show, if swap isn’t “disk RAM”. That post even concludes:

Swap […] provides another, slower source of memory […]

wmassingham ,

Yes, and that’s a good thing if you don’t want it to start killing processes. You have that extra time/space to deal with the out-of-memory condition yourself.

Or you can ignore that condition and continue using the system in a degraded state, with swap as “disk RAM”.

Move over Nvidia: AMD unveils Instinct MI300 AI accelerators and Dell is ready to take orders right now | TechFinitive (lemmy.world)

AMD today announced the Instinct MI300 range, a direct rival to Nvidia’s H100 AI accelerators. AMD’s units promise roughly 10% to 20% faster times when inferencing and equivalent speeds for training.

wmassingham ,

it’d be real cool if the mods of the biggest community on lemmy.world would actually do some moderating

wmassingham ,

If it’s only on the ESP, it won’t persist across reinstalls, and definitely not drive swaps.

But I do see mentions of attacking via firmware capsule. If that works, then yes, that will persist.

wmassingham ,

My favorite is when the sssd package maintainers don’t properly update their dependencies, so when some of the packages get updated, they don’t pull in others, and then I’m not able to log in with my external account.

wmassingham ,

How? You could certainly temporarily break the boot process, but I can’t see how you’d completely brick it.

wmassingham ,

A singularity is the single point mass at the center of an ideal (Schwarzschild) black hole. But mathematically, that can only happen if the mass that forms the black hole isn’t rotating. In reality, all the mass in the universe is moving around, because mass is not distributed uniformly, so gravity is pulling stuff around in a big mess. So when a black hole forms, it’s definitely a rotating (Kerr) black hole.

A rotating mass has different gravity than a non-rotating mass. Not by much, but when you’ve got the enormous mass of a black hole, it becomes significant. This causes objects “falling into” a black hole to “miss” the point at the center, and form more of a cloud during spaghettification.

The article is fairly accessible if you sit down and read it.

Honestly, inside the event horizon, everything stops making sense compared to our day-to-day experiences. The immense gravitational forces distort space and time. It doesn’t really make sense to think about objects remaining intact as recognizable objects once they cross the event horizon.

wmassingham ,

It depends. I’ve used a chargeback where I sent a product back for a warranty repair, and the seller stopped responding. The bank just wanted documentation, and they put it through. I imagine you could argue for a chargeback in this case, if you used a credit card.

Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles (www.newscientist.com)

Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the University of Oxford and his colleagues mixed vaccine molecules with tiny, cup-shaped proteins. They then applied liquid...

wmassingham ,

Also tell the person administering it to do it slowly. In my experience, most of the pain was from them doing it too fast. Something about the fluid stretching the muscle in painful ways before it can spread out, or something.

wmassingham ,

If electric bikes were the only thing allowed on back roads, you’d never be able to make enough grocery/dump/Tractor Supply runs to have time for anything else in your life.

please help me, why is this happening?? (lemmy.world)

I’m currently installing Puppy Linux on an old computer, and everything is working fine, the resolution of the boot selections were looking ok, but the moment Puppy Linux boots the GUI, this happens!!! And I tried resizing from the GRUB terminal but it doesn’t work, please help me, thank you!!

wmassingham ,

The monitor seems to be recommending you use mode 1280x1024. Have you tried that?

wmassingham ,

Same. Well, not forced, but using Linux would just make everything more difficult. I like being able to drop to a shell and use a Linux environment with its useful utilities to manipulate stuff on my Windows PC.

Yeah, I could use mingw, but that is a pain, and I can’t just apt install stuff.

wmassingham ,

Either self-encrypting drives (if you trust the OEM encryption) or auto-unlock with keys in the TPM: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trusted_Platform_Module#…

wmassingham ,

I can’t just run an extention cord out an open window.

This is exactly what my neighbor does in his apartment.

But he has a driveway, so it’s not like he’s running it over the sidewalk or anything.

wmassingham ,

I can’t count the number of times I had to do that under ESXi, or do manual vSAN recoveries, so I found myself quite comfortable doing that in proxmox too (especially since proxmox is regular debian).

wmassingham ,

Google Drive does not count as cloud backup, especially for something business-critical.

wmassingham ,

What do you mean “doesn’t work”? Is there some error message in the log (dmesg, /var/log/messages, on the console, whatever raspbian uses)?

wmassingham ,

Just now? Not after any of these? Or the fact that it’s controlled by China?

wmassingham ,

Still can. Only a few years ago, I would cat random things to classmates’ tty devices.

wmassingham ,

They don’t have to be stolen. Imagine some clever thief drugging your drink, then when you’re incapacitated they take your phone and press your finger to it or hold it up to your face to unlock it, then transfer all your money out of Venmo or whatever money transfer app you have on your phone.

wmassingham ,

Okay, so can we shunt all the “tech billionaire celebrity entertainment” posts somewhere else?

wmassingham ,

Is anyone actually running modern Linux on Itanium? I have never in my life even heard of anyone using those chips. I find it hard to imagine anyone still using them that isn’t running something legacy.

wmassingham ,

Yeah. I know of ancient AS/400 and slightly less ancient RS/6000 systems still humming along, keeping insurance companies running.

But they probably haven’t seen software updates in decades. Linux 1.0 didn’t even exist when they were new, let alone 6.7.

wmassingham ,

Captchas or other challenges, and better spambot detection.

wmassingham ,

Is that an artificial limitation that could be resolved by third-party clients?

Custom shell prompt tips and tricks?

Recently I stumbled over an article, about how to customize your shell prompt. What really surprised me, is that it lacked one of the most basic tips I learned nearly 20 years back: Always display a timestamp in the prompt, to be able to check how long a process is running or when it ended. (Don’t need it daily, but every so...

wmassingham ,

I make it green for an ssh session, and red when I’m root. That’s it, nothing fancy.

wmassingham ,

Sure, if you boot a Windows recovery image, you can do that: …microsoft.com/…/use-bootrec-exe-in-the-windows-r…

Similarly, in Linux, I’ve seen issues like a chown/chmod gone wild that fucked the system file permissions enough that reinstalling is the best course of action.

wmassingham ,

There used to be a native tool called Windows Easy Transfer, but it was dropped in Windows 10 in favor of third-party tools like PCmover and transwiz. There is still Microsoft’s USMT, but that’s designed as an enterprise tool and I think it depends on MECM.

wmassingham ,

Don’t forget to check your permissions and selinux file contexts.

wmassingham ,

Same thing they’re doing right now: ignoring the license.

wmassingham ,

They compensate you in the form of providing products like Bing for free. Same way that Facebook pays their bills by running ads.

X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)

Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to...

wmassingham ,

It never was.

wmassingham ,

www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#chron…

wmassingham ,

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