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Wildmimic

@ Wildmimic @anarchist.nexus

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Avid PC gamer, Linux convert, SCP fan.

Love Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic settings; Fan of the games of the defunct Arkane Studios. Listening to (Power-, Speed-, Thrash-)Metal, Gothic, Deathrock, EBM, Vaporwave, Lo-Fi; Classic and Musicals are fine too. Can't stand Hip-Hop.

Owned by two cats, recently divorced, blessed with a personality disorder (AVPD) - pensioned (even the state has the opinion I'm a total wreck lol). This causes me to be unable to keep up personal connections and makes me ghost literally everyone, so if it happens to you, sorry in advance.

Chronically online.

Pro GenAI, but Anti-GenAI-Corpos; this technology should be available to everyone, which would only be fair since we all contributed to it. Datasets and Models should be under the jurisdiction of UNESCO, since they are literally the distilled cultural output of humanity.

  • What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server.

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  • my cat currently loves hitting the "Sleep"-button on my keyboard every time he jumps on my table -.- at least i can wake it again, but it IS annoying. Haven't had the time yet to reconfigure that button to instead run a soundfile of me scolding my cat lol.

  • What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server.

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  • And this is the way bioinvasor species spread - most of the time they don't come delivered inside of PSUs but simple crates, which improves their survivability lol

  • Never seen it this bad

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  • Good to see that he is actively removing his virtual genes from the developer gene pool by castrating his growth.

  • Never seen it this bad

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  • Torvalds was right when he said that coding AI cannot replace competent devs, or you waste more time fixing shit that AI broke than actually doing something productive. The more complex a platform gets, the more relevant is the understanding of the structure to be able to guide the AI.

    All this "we replace junior devs with LLMs" it the equivalent to castrating yourself because you can get testosterone injections, with the same result - lack of competent devs in the future.

  • Never seen it this bad

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  • LOL 93.73% uptime the last 90days, and that is an IMPROVEMENT - low point was in May this year with 84.31% 90d-uptime.

    This is embarrassing. Do they just push everying directly to production without any QA?

  • Jucika sun-bathes

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  • Isn't that guy in the water her below neighbor who can't keep his radios volume down at night?

  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

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  • With how warfare is currently evolving, i do not see much future for MBTs in general, at least not in the amounts that were produced before. Drones simply kick the shit outta them while costing a fraction.

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    TIL that 4 out of 5 toddler foods are ultraprocessed. Nearly half fail to meet nutrition standards

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  • Regarding the "half that fail to meet one or more UN nutrition standards": I'd say that's the least of the problems here unless a child never gets anything else and is limited to one brand of food. Most food people eat have something missing - that's why people don't eat the same thing every day unless they have no other choice or have an eating disorder.

    The high levels of sugar and sodium are by far more dangerous, because that is what will influence your taste for the rest of your life.

  • Do you participate in this hobby without a formal IT education or a career in a similar field?

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  • I have no formal training except 1 single year of a trade school where i learnt a bit of pascal and c++. But i have been in front of computers since my earliest childhood starting with ataris in the early 80, C64, Amiga 500, and then starting from 286 across every major consumer x86/x64 CPU architecture. All I know except logic and programming basics are self taught, i never worked in the field outside of giving tech support for ISP clients a.k.a help grandma configure her mailaccount or help someone reinstall their modem driver.

  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

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  • To be fair, you probably don't need to achieve the same energy density as hydrocarbons for the vast majority of flights. Yeah, non stop flights from canberra to stockholm or similar distances will probably (at least in our lifetime) always depend on high density fuel. But I can definitely see a near future where 100% of flights on the same continent can be run 100% electric. The energy conversion to electricity is most efficient in power plants and solar, so making sure that as many flights as possible are powered by those sources is for sure something that is preferable to anything we are doing today.

    Also, those batteries - after having outlived their usefulness for aviation because of capacity loss - have still a long live in front of them as energy storage for the energy net itself, where a loss of 20% capacity isn't a dealbreaker. Since the largest issue nowadays isn't generation of power, but storage of the same for covering nights, building high capacity batteries is a good thing regardless of initial usage.

    Edit: WHY the fuck aren't airports already plastered full of solar cells?

  • Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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  • Now that MV2 is dead in chrome, i wouldn't bet on YouTube ads being able to be blocked by UBlock Lite for much longer.

  • I need an adult

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  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

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  • Combustion engines have maximum fuel efficiency at a specific RPM. A Hybrid has the advantage that you can run that engine at maximum efficiency 100% of the time and using the generated electrical energy to generate motion. The gains by being able to keep the ICE at peak efficiency are more than the loss you take from the conversion. That's the same principle as in hybrid cars - look up Technology Connections video where he analyzes the behavior of his hybrid car. It is for sure preferable to than just the ICE directly, losing a lot of efficiency and therefor fuel because of differences in needed power output. Combining this into a plugin-hybrid makes - as you said - the takeoff use no or just the default amount of jet fuel at all.

    This will not eliminate the need for jet fuel, but even a reduction is preferable to the status quo. Until we get batteries that are light enough while keeping energy density at least as high as now (preferably higher), purely electric long-range flight is not an option that's available.

  • The trouble with tribbles

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  • @treczoks@lemmy.world @toynbee@piefed.social Found it! But it wasn't Mark Twain, it seems to have been the artist Waldo Peirce!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_joke#Famous_examples

    One practical joke, recalled as his favorite by the playwright Charles MacArthur, involved American painter and bohemian character Waldo Peirce. While living in Paris in the 1920s, Peirce "made a gift of a large turtle to the woman who was the concierge of his building". The woman doted on the turtle and lavished care on it. A few days later Peirce substituted a larger turtle for the original one. This continued for some time, with the surreptitious substitution of bigger turtles into the woman's apartment. The concierge, beside herself with happiness, displayed her miraculous turtle to the entire neighborhood. Peirce then replaced the turtle with smaller and smaller ones, to her bewildered distress.[23] This became the storyline of the 1990 Roald Dahl children's book Esio Trot.

    He seems to have been quite the joker:

    In 1910, Peirce enjoyed a bit of local notoriety when his prank on friend John Reed, the American communist who is buried in the Kremlin walls, became known and circulated. The duo had booked passage on a cattle freighter from Boston to England, but as the ship was leaving Boston Harbor, Peirce apparently decided that the accommodations were not to his taste. [citation needed] Without a word to anyone, he jumped off the back of the ship and swam several miles back to shore. Reed was then arrested by the ship's captain for his alleged involvement in the disappearance of his traveling companion and thrown into the brig. When the freighter eventually arrived in England, Peirce was at the dock waiting to greet his friend Reed. After his swim back to shore, or, by another account, being picked up by a lobster boat, he had then taken a faster ship to England. In later accounts, Peirce's John Reed story seemed to evolve and shift, to the extent its veracity may never be truly known. One further embellishment to the story is that Peirce had swum in a multi-mile swimming contest at Harvard a few days prior.[4]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_Peirce#John_Reed_prank

  • One ear folded, but the other one is listening

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  • Actually, i heard that cats actually can still react to noises when asleep for real. Only time my cats don't react to the opening of the snack box is if they are obviously dreaming.

    While awake, a cat’s brain activity is displayed as clusters of sharp, irregular peaks on an EEG graph. As a cat slips into a light, slow-wave, nonREM sleep, the waves become long and irregular. This sleep phase lasts an average of 25 minutes. You may see your cat sitting upright while snoozing. His muscles are active and so are his senses; he’s ready to bolt out of the Buddha-like meditative state to chase prey or escape danger.

    Moving into a deeper sleep phase, his muscles below the neck relax and he tends to roll over onto his side. During REM sleep the EEG shows rapid, erratic brain wave activity similar to the waking pattern. REM activity includes fast, irregular breathing and fluctuating heart rates. Eyes make bursts of jerky movements under the lids both horizontally and vertically. There are between eight and 30 movements per burst. This is when you may notice twitching whiskers, tail flicks, paw movement, and perhaps snoring. REM sleep is when humans dream and the same is theorized for cats, although we can only guess about their dream content. This phase lasts only about five to seven minutes and cats are slow to wake from this deep sleep. Cats flow back to a light sleep and cycle through the two phases until they’re ready to get up. For the first month of life, kittens fall straight into the deep REM sleep state.

    https://www.fearfreehappyhomes.com/catnap-connoisseurs-how-cats-sleep/

  • The trouble with tribbles

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  • I wouldn't be surprised if he had done that, but i can't find any sources - wanted to send it someone. Do you know where you picked that up?

  • Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women

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  • Yup, just as i said. Punish such modifications by law, hard. See my last sentence.

  • PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

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  • Refurbished Exos X22 drives with 24GB Capacity cost around 650€ these days, those 2k are the high end even nowadays.

  • PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

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  • You can put this on 2 HDDs nowadays. This is pathetic.