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NightFantom

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  • Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany

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  • I'm a bit sceptical, especially of governments lagging behind these things. I'm hopeful that this will solve itself or be solved soon though.

  • Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany

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  • Sadly these days people can just tell some LLM to make changes and waste everyone's time, on top of being fraud in this case

  • Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany

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  • I assume only German citizens can sign this? I upvoted here if that helps, because it sounds like a great initiative, maybe if this gains traction this can go europe wide?

    The difficult part is measuring work done I'm afraid though. For volunteer work as e.g. reading books to kids or cleaning streets it's relatively easy to see that things are happening, even if some are better/faster than others. Unless you're going to force people to work in live calls or whatever, or just trust self-reporting, that's going to be hard, no?

    Or do you mean more like subsidies for nonprofits working in open source?

    Either way, good initiative, I hope for its success!

  • How to skirt websites that block known domains of email forwarding services? [SOLVED]

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  • Years ago I was in a consulting company that had a tld ending in .consultingSo many websites didn't allow that because of shitty email verification rules that assume outdated tlds..

  • With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.

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  • Oh yeah I just found it amusing that the old "unreliable" thing is now being used as a gauge for "reliable enough"

    I luckily have no experience with either breaking for me over 15ish years of active computer usage, so I have no fears or trust issues there yet. I also use cloud saves on steam for everything and I'm lucky enough to live in an area with good internet, so worst case I play a different game while my big game is downloading again after I broke something.

  • With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.

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  • I remember people saying that about SSDs vs HDDs, SSDs were the unreliable newfangled junk. Am I old?

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    what's the most mundane hill you're willing to die on?

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  • Not so much cursed as just cool evolution. We can trace nipples producing milk to specialized sweat glands, isn't that cool?

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    Tired of reinstalling every time you tweak your system? Build a resilient Linux desktop with Btrfs, LUKS and borg in one afternoon

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  • For me the biggest leap was letting go of my local settings. My kubuntu has about everything I want out of the box, then I install zsh with omz and I'm pretty much done.

    So whenever I break something it's an easy fresh install.

    My data (steam games, code) is in a separate drive, and especially with cloud saves / git everything is available even if I were to break that drive (would just suck to remember which things I need to redownload from where).

    So that helped me release my tinkering spirit as much as I wanted, and while I'm far from a Linux guru, I've definitely learned a lot from that.

    Edit: not to say that I don't try to fix things, just knowing that I can easily restart is the main thing.

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    what's the most mundane hill you're willing to die on?

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  • I believe platypuses (platypi?) and/or echidnas don't have nipples but instead sweat out milk. Doesn't that count as milk then?

    With no teats, the milk is released through pores in the skin from which the young lap it up in her fur

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus -> ecology -> reproduction

  • Why do helium-filled balloons float?

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  • Close, but now you come into contact with the atmosphere not actually being the same density (in weight/volume as well as in particles/volume) throughout, but instead gets thinner as you get away from the earth.

    For simplicity, assume space is actually empty, and the atmosphere gets thinner linearly up until x kilometers above sea level it's completely empty. Then the density will also decrease with height, and the helium balloon will eventually find a spot that matches its density, and stop there.

    Again there's so much more to it but as a simplified model this works 😅

    Rockets mostly need to fight speed (of the earth revolving around the sun), and indeed in our atmosphere speed means friction, but in space rockets still need a lot of propellant to change their trajectory. As always there's a relevant xkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

  • Why do helium-filled balloons float?

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  • The very short answer is that gas pressure is mostly proportional to the amount of particles per volume.

    So a balloon filled with helium has X particles per cubic cm, while the air around it has the same amount (instead of getting crushed). But because helium is a lot lighter per particle than standard air, this makes the balloon lighter than air, and like trying to push an air-filled balloon underwater, this helium-filled balloon floats to the higher layers of air, until other smaller forces also start to matter and the balance is restored.

    So a "vacuum-filled" balloon has nothing to give counter-pressure, but a balloon filled with helium definitely does.

  • Software taking the principle of Track-Me-Not and AdNauseam further?

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  • I agree, it could be a last resort when things like ghostery or such fail, but otherwise there's enough crap saturating the wires, no need to artificially inflate that

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  • I like the theory where (one of) the "great filter(s)" is just the likelihood of a technologically advanced civilization emerging from a greedy society is just way more likely than from a complacent society. So at some point some creature somewhere gets some critical mass of tech fueled by greed, this leads to global domination (humans over animals, as well as europeans over their colonies).

    Without the greed, there would not have been the technological advantage, but due to this same greed we now have weapons of mass destruction strong enough to wipe any semblance of intelligent life from the planet.

    Of course this theory is very black and white (not to mention capitalistic). Perhaps a curious society is also an option to reach technological advantage but not global domination, but would such a society manage to become a Kardashev type I civilization by sharing rather than conquest?

    So to directly answer your question: I think it's likely that someone would have enslaved most of the earth somehow, (which absolutely does not excuse it). It's surprisingly good that humans on average dislike the idea of slavery and colonisation now, so maybe we can build on top of that a society of curiosity and progress instead of one of war and a (literal) dead end.

  • I got to avoid memory management for quite some time

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  • Sounds interesting, want to share a minimal example?

  • Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

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  • It's not false if the event changes the environment around it, which was my point.

    That's literally a visual cue

  • What getting hooked on US imperialism does to a country

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  • Lmao I hope you get paid in a stronger currency than russian dollars

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    Did you think Ukraine could win?

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  • By that definition? Yes.

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    Did you think Ukraine could win?

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  • The idea that Ukraine lost, and by whomever gave you that idea

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    Did you think Ukraine could win?

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  • Re your latest edit "The fact none of you are able to give a 'yes or no' answer" is due to your shitty phrasing mostly. Especially the title "did you" is pretending that Ukraine lost already, and in general you're projecting a false dichotomy between Russia taking Ukraine or Ukraine taking everything back, while not losing against Russia is already winning (which is what Ukraine is doing)