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golden_zealot

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I do a little bit of everything. Programming, computer systems hardware, networking, writing, traditional art, digital art (not AI), music production, whittling, 3d modeling and printing, cooking and baking, camping and hiking, knitting and sewing, and target shooting. There is probably more.

  • Why do you need, want and/or have a gun/guns?

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  • Switzerland has entered the chat

  • How do I roll a new windows 11 laptop back into 10?

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  • True what people are saying about no ability to roll back, but if you want to install windows 10 to the device, you used to be able to buy 1 time activation keys for stupid cheap (under $10). Then you just have to flash a USB with the windows 10 installer ISO and use the key when you get to that point.

    The downside of a one time activation is that if you ever brick the OS or some such, you have to buy another key and can't reuse the original you purchased.

  • Well, hello waterfox and librewolf

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  • Instruction unclear. Please send step 2 at your next convenience.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • Yea, in my case im not sure what the impression of me was. I am single and work full time and don't have the money or time to cook meals for 4 people let alone the dishes and stuff for that many.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • Not in my experience. I guess it might depend on the brand or affect individuals differently, but I've been using grocery store off-brand dish soap for this for like 10 years and never had a problem.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • Oh neat, I'll have to go watch the new one when I have a chance. I recall it working quite well and being absurdly cheap - I can't recall if he did a cost analysis. Maybe I'll watch the old one again and then the new one haha.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • Yes, that's what I mean. I don't pay for TV because I just put all of my media on a Jellyfin server as I also don't want to watch ads, let alone pay to watch ads.

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  • Ah I seem to recall a video he did about dishwashers and why the pods are bad etc. I think he may have briefly touched on making your own detergent using bar soap and borax as well as the manufacturer recommendation to put some detergent in the bottom in addition to behind the spring loaded door.

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  • Yes but I think there is a miscommunication here.

    I'm not talking about detergent/dishwashing liquid - I'm talking about liquid dish soap which I can purchase locally for about $3 to the litre and is a different thing.

    Detergent/dishwashing liquid is definitely much more expensive and probably would not be great for washing hands.

    Bar soap is definitely still cheaper though overall, you are correct.

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  • True enough. I haven't had any problems in using it myself but I supposed you could ratio it with some water or something to make it not as intense for hands.

    It's a lot cheaper than hand soap too so in doing this you could probably get a tonne of hand washes out of it for really cheap.

    The primary downside to it for me is that it lasts ages and I get kind of tired of the smell.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • Television. It's like paying to see ads.

    Hand soap. Dish soap works better and you can use it on dishes in addition to your hands.

    A dining table. I eat at my desk or standing at a counter. I was pressured into buying one by family because it was apparently bizarre to them I did not have one. Got the cheapest one I could find to appease them. I have now owned it for 4 years and it has never been used once, it just takes up space.

  • Linux Distro Recommendation

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  • If you are coming from Windows, I would say Mint for sure. I have friends that are 20 using it and my parents in their 70's use it. Both seem to like it and even find it easier to use in quite a few respects.

  • Looking for music player in Linux

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  • Speaking of Quod Libet, Ex Falso from them is still the best way to fix meta data on music that I have found - so very very handy.

  • Looking for music player in Linux

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  • Definitely agree - I usually use cmus because it follows my system theme as part of the terminal and kind of fits in anywhere, but for graphical players having options for skins is a must for me. Used to like all the options for this on AIMP when I used to use Windows.

  • Employment contract that allows for open source projects, advice needed

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  • That's true, the problem with the original statement is that it is too broadly scoped by "knowledge", implying that it is any and all knowledge. If I obtain the knowledge to write a singleton in object oriented programming while at work - even if the concept is applied to a work project, and later use the programming concept of a singleton in my own software, then they can't do shit.

    A simpler example that shows that it's too broadly scoped is that if I get trained and certified to use a forklift for a job, and later start my own company and have to use a forklift, there is no precedent for my original employer to come after me for using a forklift in my business operation just because I learned how to use a forklift while I worked for them.

    If the knowledge is proprietary or copyrighted or a trade secret and what I do uses any of that, or what I produce is a 1 to 1 product of that, then they can come after me.

  • Why are people using the "þ" character?

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  • Oh ok, no worries.

  • Why are people using the "þ" character?

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  • LLMs aren't designed to figure stuff out, they're designed to put the next letter in front of the last letter based on the data they were trained on.

    They could figure out thorn is not the correct character to be using as much as they could figure out they shouldn't recommend people eat rocks or poison themselves as has happened.

    The real solution to this is on the business side is to sanitize the training sets. Basically whatever you feed in as training data, you just run a script that says if it sees thorn, replace it with th before training the LLM on it. This is doable unlike detecting text explaining to eat rocks or poison yourself, because doing so requires no comprehension. For thorn it's just a find and replace operation.

  • Anamorphic encryption against dictators - hiding message inside normal looking ciphertext

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  • This is kind of how VeraCrypts hidden partition feature works.

    You start the process of the volume's encryption and set a "false" password for it. It creates a partition that is encrypted with that password. When it finishes, you mount it and store "fake" files, the files you would reveal under duress. Veracrypt then takes in a second password and creates a "hidden partition" in the remaining free space of the disk - to be clear, that memory space still reports as unused/free if investigated, but the partition is there.

    You can then mount that with your second password and store your actual files. You can work with files and folders in the hidden partition as needed, however if anything is added or changed etc in that first fake partition, the data in the hidden partition will be corrupted by those actions.

    This means that so long as you plan ahead, someone can literally put a gun to your head and demand the password to the encrypted disk, and you can give them one that works without revealing the data to them.

    In theory, since the data in the hidden partition is encrypted and unreadable, it is impossible to detect that it exists in the "unused" space of the disk, even by a forensic analyst. To them it would just look like old, randomly flipped bits that came from previous usage followed by a quick format.

    Now, what's really cool about this is that if you use the veracrypt bootloader, you can store and boot from an undetectable OS you store in that hidden partition, while having a decoy operating system on the visible partition:

    https://veracrypt.io/en/VeraCrypt%20Hidden%20Operating%20System.html

  • Could you learn dreaming?

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  • I got so good with lucid dreaming when I was younger that I could pretty cleanly drop straight through full consciousness into the half sleep stage of paralysis and then into unconsciousness in which I would immediately find myself lucid in a dream, but having been aware of everything in between.

    This is quite difficult to do from what I recall because you have to completely clear your conscious mind of all thought while maintaining awareness of what you are intending to accomplish in some lower part of your brain. It's quite hard because you have to be aware but not thinking. Practicing meditation is about this exact kind of thing, and while I have never really done meditation, I expect practicing it would help a lot for this.

    I could actually feel the point at which I went into the paralysis and had no input to my body anymore, and the oddities of perception beginning to shift due to my half awake brain.

    When I actually dropped through that floor into sleep (which for me did not take that long after the paralysis from what I could sense), the feeling of moving through into actual sleep was pretty wild to experience as it is something usually not remembered or noticed, and I have no great way of describing how it was for me other than it kind of felt like I folded or collapsed inward on myself.

    Sort of like if everything around you and every sense you had rushed away suddenly. My sense of sight, touch, smell, taste, hearing, balance - but not like it all just disappeared instantly, more like it was all "pushed" off of me over the course of a moment or two, which is why it's just such a difficult and strange thing to try to describe. In a way it did feel kind of like falling - in the least a sense of motion is the closest thing that could be used to describe it, but that also is not really it either.

    Then I was immediately aware of the dream and knew that I had accomplished the goal, after which I was free to release the strong awareness I had been maintaining and turn my focus to what I was actually looking to do in the dream otherwise.

    So yes, you can learn it and get quite good at it, but I think it depends on the person, a lot of practice, and a lot of trial and error. There are other methods that can be used to discover the dream mid-way through as well described in this thread, but you can enter the dream at the beginning in my experience too.