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just_another_person , (edited )

If they literally only have a handful of users, so probably don't see a need to do anything about it 🤣

Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks (apnews.com)

The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....

just_another_person ,

I'm shocked they sold that many

just_another_person , (edited )

Do you have money to replace everything plugged into those outlets, and sufficient home insurance that also ignores such things? Then, no, I guess.

Just take an hour and make a ground yourself. It doesn't take a lot of specialized knowledge to do so.

Edit to say, I'm pretty sure any surge protector worth itself has a ground output on it already. Just run a wire from it into the literal ground if possible, or over to a place in your home that is properly grounded. You're just trying to give something like a lightning strike a path of least resistance to discharge into. Any metal conduit in your home SHOULD be grounded, so that's an easy option.

just_another_person ,

There's a few things in here I would say you're absolutely deriving from a fundamental misunderstanding of what they are.

  • Gatekeeping: I'm not sure what this means in your context, but it sounds like you're imagining that some technically specific groups aren't fond of outsiders, and make it impossible for newcomers to join. What you may be misunderstanding is that some groups - just as in any other field - are specific to a catered crowd for a reason, while others or not. There are proper channels to go through to get accepted into said groups, most of which in the FOSS world would be to create something adjacent to that space that becomes popular and recognized. Johnny Newcomer wouldn't just be able to jump into the "1337 HaxX0rs Lounge" private IRC otherwise, but that isn't gatekeeping. I can't wander onto an MLB field, or an F1 racetrack just because I want to learn, and amateurs won't get access to similarly skilled people in the technical communities for the same reason. Teaching newcomers can be time consuming and takes a lot of effort, and people just want to focus on their own things in their free time.

  • "Open Internet": The Internet by its nature is open. Access to it is not, because the hardware is not, and the delivery is not. As far as places people can't go, or don't have access to, that's quite subjective I suppose, but I'd say the majority of it is decided who is making what content, and how much they decide to charge for it and to where people can access it from, surely. If we dial things back 20 years, there was a lot more free stuff, but once corporations get involved - especially if they are publicly traded - they find ways to monetize everything. This does not prevent others from being able to publish at will whatever they want online, it just seems most people don't bother anymore. A "Closed Internet" would more suggest you had to "pay to play" in that sense, but I've never seen an example of that happening in the real world.

  • Enshittification: I think you just missed the mark on this point from where the title and initial direction of your writing was heading. You're right about corporations making things shitty out there, but they can only affect their own little places on the Internet as a whole. People don't need search engines to use the Internet, they just prefer them. They don't need streaming services, they just tend to use them. They do need unrestricted access to human services (governmental or otherwise), information, and communications to really thrive in the world we live. The ones who are fucking that up are the corporations consolidating that physical access, and the authoritarian governments who are restricting how you get that access, and what you can see from it. This is what is leading to the massive partitioning and decentralizing of the Internet as a whole and it's services right now as we speak, which could be a good or bad thing depending on how you see it. Google censoring for governments is objectively awful, but there are other options.

I'm not trying to be nitpicky, so sorry if it comes off like that, but there's some big swings for ideas in your writeup that presuppose some of the smaller ideas above, that I think shape the very ideas you're writing about, but will unravel if thinking slightly differently about the root cause of them.

just_another_person ,

The very design of the Internet is just a bunch of interconnected servers, and search engines just consolidate access to that. I don't need that to reach my bank, or pay my bills online, or even to find code I'd like to use. They make it easier, sure, but name one site you go to that doesn't have its own localized search built-in? My grandmother just needs to know how to do the things she needs to do, and that all works fine for her. My friend spends hours just link hopping on Wikipedia for no reason. My neighbor wants to find the best deals on whatever new thing he wants to buy, okay, you'll probably need a search engine for that. Different use-cases.

Your writeup is presupposing that everyone NEEDS the latter kind of usage on the Internet, and that just isn't the case. The use of a search engine is totally optional when you're describing the Digital Divide, which is more about access to information and services being a human right. I don't think the founders of that concept had Netflix and Amazon shopping in mind.

just_another_person ,

Yeah, thanks for the writeup. It was a good read. You're creating the kind of content you want to see more of, and we should all be doing more of that.

just_another_person ,

Is this a question?

We haven't even come close to exhausting 64-bit addresses yet. If you think the bit number makes things faster, it's technically the opposite.

just_another_person ,

I'm sure they would not entrust such a thing to a Windows OS in reality lol

just_another_person ,

It was a premade video...

just_another_person ,

This was a prerecorded video, if you did not catch that.

just_another_person ,

I think you might just be using cheap shit off of Amazon lol.

just_another_person ,

Well, the BSOD without a reboot should have been the giveaway. The keyboard clicking noises should have been another.

just_another_person ,

Light sensor threshold, and a rule to trigger the blinds. Pretty simple.

just_another_person ,

Seems this is a loophole that needs to be closed, but who do we yell at to do so?

Removing ads from Smart TV YouTube app

I don't know if this is the correct community to post this. I have a Smart TV from a Greek manufacturer named TurboX. Not Android TV, Smart TV. This means that it has Internet access, has some pre-installed apps, but I can't install any other apps on it. The menus thankfully don't have any ads. However, the Youtube app has. I...

just_another_person ,

Maybe not with your default lists enabled, you may need to expand. You could also try AdGuard and see if you get any better results with their defaults if you already have the Pihole in place.

just_another_person ,

Of course he does. I can't find a link, but he once thought of all of his kids as a genetic dissemination of his gifts. He literally thinks he's some kind of special, and not some rich kid cosplaying as Da Vinci or similar. The bar for narcissistic behavior has been raised.

just_another_person ,

Eh. LPCAMM seems more useful overall as a product. Faster DDR at this point in time has diminishing returns.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out though, because there are a few different paths to solve this type of problem with DDR5. Personally, I'd love for much lower power, but a wider bus, which is where I thought things were heading.

just_another_person ,

These are unrelated products. Not sure what you mean.

Is Conduit (Matrix server) sustainable, do some of you host it?

I plan to host Conduit for my friends and family. Even if I invite absolutely everyone there would be no more than 50 users, max. But would it actually sustain and work, as it is not yet on 1.0 is a question. I do not want to host Synapse as I had bad time with it's (lack of) garbage collecting. We do not plan to join very big...

just_another_person ,

Conduit should run fine up to many hundreds of users on a single node as far as message passing goes. For the storage part, you'll only operate as well as your storage solution. I'd honestly expect to invest some money on that part if you want the system as a whole to operate well, because some of the Matrix message handling is synchronous to media if attached to a message.

just_another_person ,

Is a pen and paper notebook just not cool anymore? You'd strain your eyes much less than trying to stare at this screen.

just_another_person ,

Not for 50% of the company though. They're going to have a rough couple years ahead of them.

just_another_person , (edited )

Joplin is pretty good for organizing notes.

just_another_person ,

It's a Markdown editor. You write markdown in one, and preview in the other. Or, you can just turn the preview off.

just_another_person ,

It's like 31 Flavors, but less efficient.

just_another_person ,

No way this benefits the consumer.

just_another_person ,

No shit

just_another_person ,

Would be very interested in the benchmarks for this.

just_another_person ,

Yup.

just_another_person ,

Dumb as hell

just_another_person , (edited )

At least the VirtualBoy sold enough to not make it a waste of time?

just_another_person ,

Qualcomm paid Canonical a hefty sum to make sure chipsets were supported. It went upstream to kernel, but I don't think it's even in the 6.10 release last I checked. DKMS job for now I'm assuming?

https://canonical.com/blog/qualcomm-and-canonical-announce-strategic-collaboration

just_another_person ,

One grifter calling the other grifter out. Interesting times we live in.

just_another_person ,

Wut...

I think you're missing the point of RAID here, possibly. Where's the reliability in this?

just_another_person ,

I reread this a few times after seeing your comment, but still missing where USB was mentioned. Am I blind?

just_another_person , (edited )

If all of your data won't fit on one single drive, you can't increase your reliability with RAID at this point. You need at least one drive of a size capable of holding all your data to replicate to at least one other drive for RAID 1 at a minimum. Increasing RAID levels from there with replication (not just striping) will only reduce the total amount of space available from the smallest drive capacity in the disk group until you hit a certain number of drives.

Honestly, if you're wanting to increase reliability for fear of data loss, take a run through your data and see if there's anything you can ditch (or easily replace later), see how small that data set can be. Revisit RAID combinations after that.

just_another_person ,

Ah, he said PC, so I just assumed he wanted the distribution on x86. I see where you're coming from though.

just_another_person ,

Ahhh, makes sense. That kind of wrecked my brain for a moment.

just_another_person , (edited )

He said the two drives are mostly full. It's not a paritioning issue at that point.

just_another_person ,

Not at all possible whatsoever though. If he has two drives nearly full, he would never be able to fit all replicable data on a RAID 5 of any kind.

What you're describing as a solution is the "3 jugs of water" problem. The difference is you need only one coherent set of data in order to even start a RAID array. Juggling between disks in this case would never make the solution OP is asking if all data can't fit on one single drive, due to the limitations of smallest drive capacity. You can't just swap things around and eventually come up with a viable array if ALL data can't be in one place at one time.

just_another_person ,

RAID 5 is a minimum of 3 drives...I'm not sure what you mean.

just_another_person ,

The number of drives doesn't matter when you can't copy to another. There is no replication path here.

just_another_person , (edited )

Sounds like a power issue. The BIOS should at least recognize the drive is there, regardless of what is on the drive. You may want to make sure whatever you're plugging into is actually set to manage SATA drives in the proper mode.

Maybe think about getting a USB to SATA adapter for cheap to make sure.

Other things:

  • are you hearing the drives spin when you plug them in? (SAS probably needs 5v or 12v, it'll say on the drive)
  • did you check if there are jumpers set for a specific mode of operation?
  • are you positive your drive controller can read other SATA devices?

To your last point, of it's an 8x card, it should work fine in a 4x slot, just at 4x speeds.

Edit: does your motherboard not have SATA? Try it there instead of this card to rule it out as a problem.

Adobe made a small change to its terms and conditions and that made its users very, very unhappy — scrutinizing data to find illegal content is a risky move (www.techradar.com)

Adobe recently updated its terms of use, and although companies do this all the time, these new changes have sparked a significant amount of discord and discussion among users....

just_another_person ,

I'm positive they got notified they were hosting a massive amount of CSAM, or similarly awful AI generated shit since it's the Wild West out there now. This was their only way out.

just_another_person ,

No, they don't. If you're storing something that is found by a law enforcement agency, you are legally liable. That's the difference.

You can't just say out loud "Hey users, please stop storing CSAM on our servers." Not how that works.

just_another_person ,

There are no laws about it anywhere right now, but I'm sure it's about something more real. As this has played out many times in the past (Amazon, Apple, Google FB..etc) across many different policing agencies: if they identify a HUGE host that is a problem, they notify them first and allow them to address the issue before making themselves known and cracking down on the offenders. This just feels like that same thing again.

AI or not, if a court can prosecute a case, they'll do so.

just_another_person ,

Adobe CLOUD requires storage of images and video on their servers to edit them. That's what this is about.

just_another_person ,

What does their 5.1 system look like?

just_another_person ,

Not a government hit, but anyone looking for revenge. The government just outed them in a polite way without saying explicitly "Hey, anyone who wants revenge, here's the guy..."

It's a way of using the "proper channels" or whatever to expose someone to a hit.

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