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evranch ,

During the Cold War, Russia launched quite a few nuclear powered satellites, and I mean real fission reactors, not just RTGs. Apparently they're still up there and possibly still generating power. So it's pretty much a proven fact.

evranch ,

EDM / techno is kind of an exception with many albums that were designed to be played from start to finish, going hard all the way.

If you like techno or funk at all check out Griz, almost all his albums can be put on and listened to straight through, especially if you're out driving or something.

In particular Good Will Prevail and Ride Waves are almost entirely bangers with only a couple duds. Funky as fuck

evranch ,

There's a reason I farm with old relics, they aren't "optimized" like the new stuff but they're cheap and reliable to keep running.

Most of my implements don't even have an electrical connection and some of the tractors have literally a starter motor, alternator, battery. Maybe lights if you're lucky!

evranch ,

Could you run fossilized and sandboxed in a VM? I run Tiny10 for a couple Windows applications that can't run on Wine, completely offline so that there's no need for updates. The system continues to work exactly how I want it to with no Microsoft Surprises.

One of the applications is for tax filing, so I finish the taxes, clone the VM, put the copy online and file. After it gets confirmation, I copy the database back to the fossilized version and wipe the copy. Been doing it for years now.

evranch ,

Might be something patched in Tiny10 but it even activated fine for me with the usual hack and hasn't caused any problems. I had to take it online momentarily on install to activate, but that was all.

evranch ,

I trust Mullvad and Proton at this point for VPNs, nobody else.

Any reason you can state not to use AirVPN? I switched to them from Mullvad because they support port forwarding. So far I've been very happy with their service.

Having ads and sponsors blocked I can't be 100% sure, but I don't think they advertise at all. I only tried them because of a recommendation on Lemmy. Their site design is very old school which really says "run by nerds and not marketers" to me.

evranch ,

Yeah I know, but have you seen their site? It's like an old 90s static HTML page. The main thing I see is that it's clearly not a glossy "marketing first" service. They're surviving off of their actual product.

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

evranch ,

My interest in this topic just went from 0 to 10 upon realizing the humour potential of passing it around to see all my bros with huge tits, but only if it worked like a Snapchat filter.

Also I have a friend who already has huge tits, and I've seen them IRL so I'm curious what it would do

evranch ,

I'm familiar with how ML works so it's not magic to me either, but the actual result is what would intrigue me. Since she has big naturals obviously they hang pretty heavy when they're set free.

But if I fed it a picture of her wearing a tight push-up bra, which could easily give off the impression that she had implants, would I get a pair of bolt-ons back? Or would it be able to pick up on the signs of real tits and add some sag?

Seeing how it'll put tits on men it's obviously not an exact science lol

evranch ,

Please assume the position

evranch ,

Bonk

evranch ,

I feel the OOP debate got a bit out of hand. I hate OOP as well, as a paradigm.

But I love objects. An object is just a struct that can perform operations on itself. It's super useful. So many problems lend themselves to the use of objects.

I've been writing a mix of C and C++ for so long I don't even know where the line is supposed to be. It's "C with objects". I probably use only 1% of the functionality of C++, but that 1% is a huge upgrade from bare C IMO.

evranch ,

Rust is heresy. Everything should be mutable, the way that God intended it to be!

Seriously though as someone who has mainly done embedded work for decades and got used to constrained environments, the everything is immutable paradigm seems clunky and inelegant. I don't want to copy everything all the time.

Now if you'll excuse me, these null pointers aren't going to dereference themselves

evranch ,

I was more referring to the fact that everything is immutable by default. As someone who's just starting to get old (40) and literally grew up with C, it's just ingrained in me that a variable is... Variable.

If I want a variable to be immutable I would declare it const, and I'm just not used to the opposite. So when playing with Rust, the tutorial said that "most people find themselves fighting with the borrow checker" and sure enough, that's what I ended up doing!

I like the concepts behind it, it really encourages writing safe code, and I feel like it's not just going to be a fad language but will likely end up underlying secure systems of the future. Linux kernel rewrite in Rust when?

It's just that personally I don't have the flow of writing code like I would in C/++, just not used to it. The scoping, the way you pass variables and can sort of "use up a reference" so it's not available anymore just feels cumbersome compared to just passing &memory_location and getting on with it, lol

evranch ,

KDE used to be the feature complete, heavy, memory intensive DE. But now we aren't running Linux on abandoned laptops but on modern hardware. The average PC is so powerful that it's completely irrelevant. All in on KDE/Plasma as well

evranch ,

So as a farmer here in Canada, it depends where you live and what you farm. We use a lot of trailers, but they are all pulled by truck. The most common hookup methods for large trailers are gooseneck or 5th wheel, both of which require a truck as the connection point is right above the rear axle to improve towing capacity and handling.

My farm's heavy truck is a 1-ton flatbed with tilt deck and gooseneck hitch as well as a pintle hitch. This truck allows me to pull livestock trailers, hay wagons and farm equipment, and haul pallets, tanks and bagged goods, a very versatile truck.

It also drinks fuel like you wouldn't believe, so if I'm not hauling I drive an efficient diesel car when I go to the city (~200km)

evranch ,

I find it odd, here on the farm it's always been the biggest, meanest tomcats that flop around on the porch for endless belly rubs. Even my daughter has never been scratched and she'll pet these battle-scarred warriors for hours.

I guess they have nothing to prove?

evranch ,

Super unrealistic!

Fat Spiderman could never get a cab out here on the Prairies, he would show up in a battered farm truck and empty beer cans would fall out when he opened the door

evranch ,

Even if you're a fan of hair, I'm sure the concept of "you need a haircut" is valid to you too, I don't usually mind either way but once had a FWB who did zero trimming and it was... Not ideal.

Almost everyone does a bit of hedge trimming even if they keep the bush

evranch ,

So, you grow your head hair down to your knees, then? Never cut your fingernails?

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

evranch ,

I'm surprised that of all the services you would pay for YouTube, as I've never considered it. What advantages does a paid subscription have over uBlock/Sponsorblock?

evranch ,

Thanks, I can see how it works out with a 7 way split and a service that "just works".

I still run an old version of Vanced for screen off radio style music in my truck, though I mostly stream from my own collection now with Ampache/Ultrasonic. I've done a ton of ripping lately with Zotify, it pulls down whole albums and discographies from Spotify in decent quality, and combined with Beets everything gets tagged perfectly.

With the recent price increases in streaming services lately I've been concerned about the long term survival of the industry, and figured it was time to start rebuilding my own music library.

evranch ,

Wool is more of a byproduct of the lamb meat industry these days, so wool and meat are inextricably entangled. I'm a sheep farmer, last couple years we threw the wool away due to lack of demand. Nobody is raising sheep just for wool.

However this is a problem with our distorted markets and not with the sheep industry, this valuable fiber is being dumped or burned while we pump out synthetic crap. It costs us more to remove it from the sheep to keep them from overheating, than we can sell it for.

evranch ,

Yes valid point, our wool is not ideal being farm flock wool, medium fibers. But for years we still sheared/skirted/bagged and tried to deliver at least a saleable product, it was disappointing to see it go to zero value. I would love to see it at least made into insulation batts or something.

Most of that high end Merino wool comes from places like NZ where they can graze year round, here the hay and chaff always mess the wool up a little and most have said running a true fiber flock is not economical. In Canada at least fiber has always just been an adjunct to a productive meat flock.

I ran some Columbias for a couple years but let them go quick. Gorgeous wool but terribly behaved critters and the lambing percentage and flavour were very poor compared to our Dorset cross main flock.

evranch ,

Boobs might be the thing humanity can agree on the most, short of maybe "I like eating food"

  • nearly all straight men have the response from the comic
  • gay men at least agree they look pretty
  • straight women like the way they look and put a lot of effort into displaying them
  • lesbians obviously enjoy them but I really can't speak for them
  • babies like milk

So we're at least over like 80% here I think in favour of boobs, with the remaining 20% not really even opposing but just not actively loving them.

Anyways I'm gonna go ask my girl to text me a pic of her boobs

evranch ,

Well, yeah. I'm sure most silly comics aren't very funny to them.

I've been there, had a long and happy marriage break down through no fault of mine, nearly lost my farm, nothing brought me joy. Caught myself looking down the barrel of a gun at one point.

That didn't change my ability to smile at this boobs comic now. And to be entirely honest, it really did improve my outlook on life when I hooked up with an old friend, also divorced, who has a pair that you could dive into and forget to come up for air :)

Sometimes the simple pleasures in life can help remind you that it's worth living.

evranch ,

A DNS blocking system like Pihole can block ads on platforms you don't control, like smart TVs or mobile apps.

evranch ,

Yes the way YT loads ads it won't work to simply block them with a simple DNS pattern match, you need a proper adblocker or third party app. But you can block all the other nuisance clutter on the smart TV, at least.

My TV is hooked to my PC now as a monitor, so I just watch YT on it right in Firefox.

evranch ,

Used to for one package - stupid tax filing software that won't run under Wine, likely because it's shitty garbage that was written in VB. The forms don't reflow properly.

I had enough of the two systems trying to clobber each other's bootloaders and this year am running Tiny10 in a VM instead. The forms STILL don't reflow properly in anything except for VMWare. Don't ask me why, it's financial software and it always comes out broken and is patched just in time to file before the deadline.

Steam's Proton and modern AMD drivers have been super effective in allowing me to do all my gaming on Linux now, and all my dev work always was. Don't see much reason for Windows these days.

evranch ,

No you have to use Manjaro, it's Arch for the rest of us

evranch ,

This is why I run Manjaro, which I never hear any love for here for some reason. It's the rolling releases and cutting edge updates of Arch, but with the ease of use and reliability of Debian. Insert a bootable USB and have a fully functional system in a couple minutes.

Manjaro just works, from gaming to development, and I've never been forced to play games to install a hardware driver or newer library that isn't part of the release like with Debian or Ubuntu.

Been using Linux for over 20 years and never seen a distro so trouble free.

evranch ,

Interesting, I've installed it on quite a few machines now, all with widely varying hardware. Aside from my development/gaming rig I've got a shop laptop which is used by various goons to view shop drawings and look up parts, one the ex-wife still hasn't managed to break, one is my 9 year old daughter's and another is a potato that runs my 3d printer (to be fair this one is fossilized and doesn't get updates).

All are working great with no setup effort and no maintenance so I guess it's a classic case of YMMV. I wouldn't have used Arch for any of those use cases except maybe the 3d printer.

evranch ,

There's a divide though in "alien believers".

I absolutely believe that other life exists in our vast universe. This is a pretty common opinion among scientific thinkers, space enthusiasts etc. that the universe is simply too huge for us to be all alone.

I also believe that due to that vastness, we'll never meet any aliens, unless we punch into Europa someday and there happen to be some fish down there.

UFO enthusiasts, on the other hand, have a position that is much less supported by science.

evranch ,

Even with external volumes, I don't think there should be any mechanism where a container can escape a bind mount to affect the rest of the host fs? I use bind mounts all the time, far more than docker volumes.

evranch ,

/dev/sdx wasn't originally for SATA, it was for SCSI drives. Back when men were men indeed!

evranch ,

These microplastics are digestible by your immune system, though, which makes them ultimately harmless. PLA is used for drug delivery for this reason.

Being concerned about incomplete PLA degradation is like being concerned about a piece of wood breaking down into micro-woods. Yet even if you get a dangerous shard of micro-wood embedded in your skin, your body can deal with this cellose polymer just fine.

Ultimately it will break down completely someday and in the meantime, nothing will be harmed.

evranch ,

Kids shouldn't see live castrations of animals IMHO

Not without reason, but my daughter has been helping me with lambing since she was like 5 years old. Part of that is putting castrator bands on and docking tails, it hasn't messed her up but just been a good lesson in responsibility and handling animals respectfully.

However lambs just bleat a couple times and lay down in the corner. Showing non-farm kids a bunch of squealing piglets out of nowhere is definitely going to traumatize them.

By the way a non-neutered boar sounds like a terrifying pet to me! I would hope any pet pigs are castrated for safety reasons alone.

evranch ,

If you look into flood myths, there are also hypotheses involving comet or asteroid impact flooding, which could have happened at many other times.

By the time the Greeks determined the circumference of the earth, this flood would already have been a legend and a fading cultural memory. It almost definitely would be oral history and not recorded in any physical form. What proof could anyone have that it didn't cover the whole world?

Not knowing about glaciation or interplanetary objects it would be extremely hard for the people of the era not to have decided that some spiteful god had tried to wipe out the entire earth.

evranch ,

Between GPS (jammable but likely gets you into the target area), dead reckoning, optical flow sensors and increasingly impressive onboard camera processing, RF jamming will soon be irrelevant.

Almost a decade ago I was flying agricultural mapping missions that were 99% autonomous, and the parts that weren't were problems a military drone doesn't have (soft launch and landing)

The clear counter is autocannons, likely fully automated themselves to manage large swarms. The other would be cheap anti-drone missiles that either are basically a drone themselves or a glorified model rocket. Possibly tiny, cheap and fast interceptors launched from fixed-wing drones. The weak point of drones is literally their physical weakness.

evranch ,

We're still running a CNC mill powered by DOS. It's in great mechanical shape, the legacy software makes a specific product that we have a good market for, it's obviously a completely standalone unit with no security concerns.

It's kind of ridiculous actually, we've upgraded the mainboards and processors from 486 to Celeron, SSDs with SATA-> IDE adaptors etc but the software and the hardware drivers run on DOS and there's no practical upgrade path. We will run her until she can't make tooling anymore

evranch ,

I've been collecting any and all documentation pertaining to this machine and in many cases the guys I've ended up talking to are the only ones who haven't retired. Fortunately everyone so far has been happy to give me a huge data dump of everything on their drives, knowing that nobody on their end will be available to support it in a few years.

What really scares me is not the software but the aging protocols that talk to obsolete hardware. Lose one of the old AC servomotor drives and good luck finding a way to integrate a modern unit. Easy enough to mate something up to the motor and feedback, not so easy to get it to speak whatever specific flavour of SERCOS was used on the machine. At least it isn't a proprietary protocol... I'm still hoping I never have to do it.

evranch ,

I believe there was a case made to chuck something out perpendicular-ish to the ecliptic to see what shape the heliopause and solar wind take out there, what gases are kicking around etc. Maybe check out one of the high inclination objects kicking around out there as they tend to be odd ones. Almost all exploration has been done in-plane for obvious reasons.

Commercial launch providers have made launching everything way cheaper, so I can see an agency doing this one someday even if it has to take a pile of gravity assists from the sun. As a bonus you also get a new Voyager traveling in a new direction.

I also can see a lot of people being confused as to why it couldn't take pictures of the solar system from up there that look like the textbooks... Possibly creating a whole new generation of flat-earth-esque conspiracies lol

evranch ,

Same, I gave my daughter my Switch and used Yuzu to play the games I owned for it on my TV (at greatly improved resolution and framerate, of course).

Now that my PC is hooked up to my TV, my next console is just Steam and my next portable will be the Steam Deck as well.

evranch ,

But then someone else will end up with these bunk cables. They really should have demanded mandatory identification on the cable ends.

evranch ,

You finally described a reason for these otherwise frustrating cables to exist! Though I like the other suggested method better, a charge-only adapter that you apply to the end of a full featured cable.

evranch ,

I've never run Arch itself but have been super happy with Manjaro. They do the testing and batch up the updates for you. 6 months in on several different machines with no issues at all, honestly better than any Debian based desktop I've run.

Almost anything I've ever wanted has been in either the main repo or AUR, no more hassle with stale versions of this or that when I want to run some hot new software of the week. Everything just works.

However as mentioned elsewhere it's all Debian all the time for my servers, where stability is the name of the game.

ajsadauskas , to Fuck Cars
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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

@fuck_cars

evranch ,

Charging at home is what makes this specific situation chicken and egg. Since the gas station is the only thing close to our homes, a charger there is useless to us. It only services people who would come from the city, people who wouldn't be able to make it home without charging, much like how it currently works for us making trips to the city. Without a charger though, they can't even think of making that trip or they will be stuck.

I'm not really making a point about my little car, except that I love it and I wish used lithium batteries were more available in Canada so that I could install a set that would get it to town and back for the mail. It's one of the first street-legal electrics ever produced and I'd love to keep it going. 1978!

I guess if there is a point it's kind of a microscale version of the Canadian issue - in rural Canada, every trip is a long trip. I can't think of many places that I go that wouldn't require fast charging to complete the round trip, especially in winter.

evranch ,

Check it out, it's the bone from Jesus's boner! Totally legit! My guy found it back there beside the boulder.

Man, I don't think there are real bones inside boners. You're full of shit. Besides, didn't the dude get reincarnated? What, did he forget that bone?

Yeah well, go fuck yourself. I'm gonna go show this to someone who knows about this sort of thing.

2000 years later, the plaque on a gilded chest reads "The Sacred Bone of the Boner"

Boner bone? Pfft, everyone knows that boners don't have actual bones inside them.

Dude it says it right there on the plaque, who are you gonna believe, some dumb old science teacher or the Pope

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