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Anarch157a

@ Anarch157a @lemmy.world

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SysOp, Gamer, Nerd. In no particular order.

  • Is martial arts really that useful?

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  • OP need to train for languaging.

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

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  • And my bow.

  • Fraudsters of Lemmy, how would you commit fraud if governments embrace cryptography

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  • if you ignore the human element

    And that's you problem right there. The same people that can get tricked into revealing their SN#, mother's maiden name, etc. are the ones who would reveal their private keys to a scammer.

    Fraud is a social problem, technology can assist in managing them, but not solve the issue. In the end, it's all about the human factor.

  • Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?

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  • Even on ideal conditions (close to the Equator, no clouds) like in Northeast Brazil, you only get 5.5 to 6.0 kWh/m2 of Solar energy, which means the roof of a small car, with 1 m2 of solar panels, would only generate that amount of electricity if they were 100% efficient. That's just 10% of the battery capacity of a small EV, like a BYD Dolphin.

    My point is, even if solar panels doubled their efficiency, they would still only capture about half the energy of the Sun (currently, the best panels are at 24% efficiency), which means only about 2.5 to 3.0 kWh per day.

  • Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?

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  • It's very easy to screw up distilation. If the temperture is not carefully controlled and you miss the points to discard the head and tails, you end up with lighter (like methanol) and heavier (like propanol or butanol) alcohols, all of them much more toxic than good old ethanol.

  • Yeah yeah, we know you're special

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  • No one mentioned the Solaris convention yet ?

    /dev/cXtXdXsX

    The letters mean controller, SCSI target, disk and slice (Solaris equivalent to a partition).

    I always thought this was the most elegant naming scheme in the Unix world.

  • Help a noob find what I'm looking for please. I have a bunch of IP addresses and I wanna give em names.

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  • I use Heimdall too, with a bunch of other things. One of them is Pihole.

    Pihole will not only help blocking ads at DNS level, it will also work as DHCP server and resolve localy configured addresses, like homepage.ourhome.

    Put it on your network and disable the DHCP feature in your WiFi router/firewall (you may need to explicitly set it to forward DHCP to Pihole).

    One warning, do not set up names like host.local. the TLD .local is reserved it will cause issues.

  • AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPUs Are Out of Stock Thanks to Crypto Mining

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  • Analog computers don't have CPUs as we understand them...

  • AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPUs Are Out of Stock Thanks to Crypto Mining

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  • Not anymore. Bitcoin now requires dedicated hardware (ASICs). Other coins were designed to make use of ASICs impossible or impractical, requiring GPUs, but those still require a CPU to drive them.

    New developments, such as Ethereum moving away from proof of work to proof of stake made GPUs unnecessary, but you still need a computer with a CPU to validate the blocks on the block-chain.

    Edit: Even with ASICs mining bitcoin, you still need servers to distribute the work to them.

  • TikTok Ban, good or bad?

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  • Banning TikTok would be as good as banning Facebook, Instagram or XTwitter, by that I mean it would be a net gain for society as a whole. But you have to ban them all, without discriminating based on which nation they originated.

    But this is not the case here, this is the US congress enacting barriers towards foreign competitors, just like they did with steel, sugar and cars (ever wondered why you can't buy one of those little European cars in America?).

    This TikTok bullshit is Huawei all over again. It's not to protect "national security" or "the children", the Huawei ban was all about protecting the business of American companies during the transition from 4G to 5G.

  • Does ANYONE like autoplaying videos on news sites / articles?

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  • You can set Firefox to block auto-play, even if you open the tab in the foreground, put uBlock origin on top of it and you get rid of most of those annoying videos.

  • gnome-terminal changing paste shortcut ctrl+shift+v to shift+ins

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  • Shift+Ins was the default paste on Windows 3.0, before removed sued Microsoft for copying their OS (back in then it was still called just "System"), so MS added Ctrl+C for Windows 3.1, but the old one still work.

    Same thing for Xorg. Ctrl+Ins for copy, Ctrl+Del for paste and Ctrl+Ins for paste.

  • Broadcom yanks ESXi Free version, effective immediately

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  • Being even more pedantic, KVM is the hypervisor, QEMU is a wrapper around it and Proxmox provides a management interface to it.

  • Broadcom yanks ESXi Free version, effective immediately

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  • Any Linux distro running KVM/QEMU - Add Cockpit if you need a web interface, or use Virt-Manager, either directly or over X-forwarding

    No need for X forwarding, you can connect Virt-Manager to a remote system that has libvirt,

  • Stop using gitlab.com for projects - Credit card info required for new registrations

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  • For my private repos, hosted on my home server, I moved from Gitlab to Forgejo (Git, artifacts and containers images) and Woodpecker for CI builds. Woodpecker is not as powerful and feature complete as Gitlab, but for simpler needs it gets the job done.

  • in your opinion, what would meet the definition of "broke the Internet?"

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  • One sad irony about the meltdown caused by the 9/11 attacks. The technology that could have prevented it is called CDN (content Delivery Network), one of the pioneers of this technology being Akamai. The irony is that one of the company's founders, Daniel M. Lewin, was a victim of the attacks, he was on AA Flight 11, the first to hit the twin towers.

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  • I'm waiting for the Contacts manager. Untill then I'll keep using the last "good" (pre-sale) version of Simple Contacts.

    But don't worry, take your time.

  • Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere?

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  • Thanks for the explanation, I learned something new today.

  • Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere?

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  • That's because it detonated in orbit, so it interacted with Earth magnetic field. Far from the planet, I think there wouldn't be an EMP, unless the targeted ship has it's own magnetosphere. But I'm not a nuclear physicist, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Revamped install for Piped

    github.com /Anarch157a/Piped-Docker/tree/main
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Just installed Viewtube. What's your favorite alternative youtube frontend ?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    The year of Linux on the desktop is closer. Linux reaches 3% of desktops

    web.archive.org /web/20230711060553/https://linuxiac.com/linux-hits-3-percent-market-share/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    SearxNG installation is pretty simple

    docs.searxng.org /admin/installation.html
  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    US judge temporarily blocks Microsoft acquisition of Activision

    www.reuters.com /legal/us-judge-temporarily-blocks-microsoft-acquisition-activision-2023-06-14/
  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Who is the John Mastodon of Lemmy ?

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Star Trucker: Elite Dangerous meets American Truck Simulator