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  • TempleOS signed by Terry Davis.

    I burned it to a DVD and mailed it to him for an autograph, back when he still had stable housing. I think maybe 2015.

  • He sewed offensive Gorn messages into the clothing of three Romulan diplomats who stopped off at DS9. Because the Gorn can see different spectrum from Romulans, nobody noticed the hidden insults until they landed on Gornar.

  • The difference is small and pedantic:

    "Once" means "A single time"

    "Nonce" means "Used a single time"

    Nonce carries extra information that something is being used.

    Wikipedia claims this term dates to middle English:

    Nonce is a word dating back to Middle English for something only used once or temporarily (often with the construction "for the nonce"). It descends from the construction "then anes" ("the one [purpose]").

  • Nonce is used extensively in the context of cryptography to mean "used exactly one time". Usually this refers to a random number that a server shares with a client to establish secure communications.

  • Red Sonja (1985)

    I like that it's a definitely-not-Conan movie with a bit more humor. Maybe people don't like the kid actor, but I thought that Prince Tarn and Falcon added a lot without being overbearing. It could rate even higher for me if they'd gotten Basil Poledouris to do the soundtrack.

    Cool World (1992)

    Things really start to fall apart in the third act once Holli transports to the real world and from a technical side, Who Framed Roger Rabbit beats it by miles. However, the idea of Cool World, a mix of childish and sleazy animated characters all living in the same universe, is compelling. Bakshi's animation style really brings it alive.

  • Explain how the cartoonist could avoid drawing the crossbow?

    /s

  • I like that the response from Amazon was very obviously AI-written

  • Not sure if it's a mistake by the comic artist, or a mistake by the instructor from the comic, but the shooter was destined for failure.

    The butt should be pressing into the shooter's shoulder, such that their body absorbs recoil. In this picture, they have it squashed beneath their armpit where recoil could flip the gun out of their hands and maybe smack their face.

  • I agree with the person who suggested linking to Wikipedia articles.

    For example, it's not much help to learn that PCIe stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, because nobody calls it that. As an outsider, now I'm wondering what a component interconnect is. It's much more useful to link to a page that gives context about how PCIe is actually used.

  • Very true. I believe FPGAs are also popular for aerospace applications, since it's cheaper to design and patch programmable hardware than to design and physically install ASICs.

  • Vivado is software for designing hardware on an FPGA. AMD bought out Xilinx, one of the big FPGA manufacturers, a few years back. FPGAs are basically programmable digital circuits: you configure a series of internal logic gates to represent the function of a circuit with memory, data busses, registers, gates, etc. In this fashion, an FPGA could be programmed to function like a CPU, a radio, a video encoder, or nearly any other piece of digital hardware. Very useful for hobbyists and prototyping.

    The thing with FPGA software is that there are no open source alternatives. FPGAs have so many complicated blobs and signing keys and proprietary IP blocks that your only choice is to use the manufacturer's offering.

  • At some level of abstraction, the end of an infinite loop is just a point where the program counter will never move past. In hardware, this is a kind of branch instruction causing the program counter register to point back to the top of the loop.

    Metaphysically, best not to think about it too hard.

  • Looks like you've already had some help fixing your system. I'd recommend reading the arch wiki pages on encryption. Even if you're not running arch, the wiki is a good source of up-to-date information, and contains many practical tips.

    This section about setting up your /etc/crypttab to unlock a non-root filesystem at boot might be useful. Even if you don't want to unlock at boot, it explains how crypttab works: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/System_configuration#crypttab.

    There's another useful section if you want to decrypt on demand after boot: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/System_configuration#Mounting_on_demand

    Lastly, if you're experimenting with fstab entries for a non-root device, consider setting nofail so that if you screw anything up the system still boots. This section is somewhat relevant: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab#External_devices

    Basically, you need both a crypttab entry and an fstab entry to open and then mount the device.

  • Just my luck: Their messenger ended up in the spam dungeon

  • You can host docker volumes over NFS, but the actual container images need to exist on a filesystem that supports overlay (which NFS does not) unless you want things to be slow as shit. And I really do mean miserably slow. A container image shared over NFS will take forever to spin up because it has to duplicate the entire container filesystem instead of using overlays, and then it'll blow up your disk usage by copying all these files around instead of overlaying them. It's truly unusable.

  • From that same discussion thread:

    We plan on supporting any token/nft/coin for tipping, awards, curating, less captchas, etc. Each subplebbit owner should be able to create their own tokens or nfts to monetize their effort and incentivize their users to participate. Avatars will also be curated NFTs.

    The protocol does not use blockchain for data, but the web service itself looks like it would use crypto and NFT to manage aspects of user identity, spam prevention, and monetary incentive.

  • No. 404 media is written by people. I've personally been impressed by their reporting over the last year.

  • I always assumed that it was to quickly delineate what people say in their capacity as a citizen vs what they say in their capacity as a representative of their government.

    "Sarah Carter, from the Canadian embassy, says to avoid the all-you-can-eat buffet" could be interpreted as a personal opinion. "Canada says to avoid the all-you-can-eat buffet" is clearly an official statement.

    Plus, sometimes the news may be reporting on a memo or announcement from a government entity which was crafted by several people and has no author listed.

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz

    Get into that shrigma mindset

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Some docker containers need manual start after host reboot