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  • Air India Tragedy | The Pilots Tried to Save the Airplane

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  • did it really have to removed like an hour after I posted it here? (curses gods).

    A pilot turned off the fuel.

    there is no evidence of that happening. we know that engines did not get fuel. the other pilot asked first pilot if they cut of the fuel, and they replied that i did not (from the black box recordings afaik).

    Everything else is speculation

    while i agree, i feel the wording "speculation" is not appropriate. the guy seemingly has done all things correctly (i am not exactly from the same domain, but I have done similar simulations based on real snapshots(in my case, for material in various kinds of loadings) and methodology seems sound).

    Update: apparently there was another upload (seemingly the same video, but like uploaded twice, maybe because the first one was removed). I have updated the link in my post.

  • Recieved an ultra slim keyboard in a box big enough for a microwave oven (packing material in comment)

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  • i mean you paid for the cat house, did you not?

  • A possible way to host "stuff" which is meant for a small community?

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  • thank you. but i would prefer not to host stuff on google drive. but some other provider could work (as i said, i am willing to pay a reasonable amount).

    So keep a backup. Torrents can be messy because they can be broken if there are no seeders.

    If the content is static, then I’d recommend some older P2P filesharing like eD2K to keep one big zip/rar file backup shared among peers.

    yes. content would be partially static. most files will not update, only new stuff will be added. and some files be updated.

  • A possible way to host "stuff" which is meant for a small community?

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  • i did not know syncting could have multiple masters. afaik, syncthing had a master-slave architecture, where a folder on a device is master, and another folder is slave (both can true simultaneously, a folder can be used both as source and sync). if there is another folder, it can be slave of prior 2, but not master, because then you can have conflicting results (which master to pick). do you possibly mean something like a pyramid/tree architecture, where a father nodes has 2 daughter node, and each daughter has 2 and so on. if so, that is even harder to setup (getting people to ask others if they will be their father/daughter cell. this also has problem if some node is out of sync (because of being offline or something), daughters and grand daughter will also not sync. A cyclic link list is also possible, but again chain can be broken. and this can not be a doubly linked list either (2 masters). or is there some other way?

  • A possible way to host "stuff" which is meant for a small community?

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  • cheating aside

    that was just one case. I was stupid. Now I am not.

    I did appreciate such archives and made use of them.

    to share notes, PDFs, try old exams to prepare…

    exactly why i never said no to anyone. it is the age old saying - we stand on shoulder of giants. I remember falling ill, not being able to attend classes, and missing stuff. but then some friend would lend their notes. drive imo is just for that.

  • A possible way to host "stuff" which is meant for a small community?

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  • some day you’ll graduate as well and life will move on for you.

    I am graduating. That is why when i leave, i want to leave stuff in a functional state so they do not have to start a fresh. I did mention this in post, but i wrote a whole lot more than i should have, and i do not expect anyone to read all this.

    ou’ll move far away, get a full-time job, maybe have new hobbies or a family and time will come and you’ll stop supporting it as well. I’ve seen that all the time and most privately run things vanish sooner than later.

    absolutely. as i said, individuals work for selfish reasons, and once i leave, i would not have a selfish reason anymore.

    And I’d say if you’re the main/sole contributor of content, it’s questionable if this even survives long term. Unless people upload recent exams and material, the content will become obsolete after a few years.

    yes. it does get obsolete. but our department is still relatively new (5th or 6th year since establishment) and hence, most course have not been taught by 2 or more profs. hence, much of it will stay relevant as long as professors stay.

    My juniors have started bugging me again to get drive working again (new sem has started).

    So you kind of need some community anyways.

    I would have to pull some shit to form a sub division of department society. then i can get budget to either buy some drive subscription, or set something local, but set it behind some proxy, so it would appear not to be hosted in college (reverse vpn if you will)

  • A possible way to host "stuff" which is meant for a small community?

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  • i do not think syncting would scale well with ~200 people during exam seasons. Also, that would require everyone to download syncthing (practically impossible task)(i think syncthing android app is depreceated or something, and only forks are alive, no idea about ioss clients). Also, that would actually download stuff, all from one server, that would be expensive (fetching 1 file or 1 course worth of file is relatively cheaper as compared to fetching all course files. At that point, i might as well implement a private torrent.

  • A possible way to host "stuff" which is meant for a small community?

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  • there is another resource run by dev club, but not many of our department folks are in dev club. Also, their solution imo is worse. they techinically do have a index with search, but not a good one. also - very slooooooooooooow. Ans this is when their solution is smaller than mine (and their solution gets contribution from other departments as well).

    I understand it would be better be done by a entity instead of a person, but problem is, entities would have to abide by institute rules. and then whole lot of problems from "why not possible" point 2 applies.

    I could get some of my juniors to form a small group within department, but i do not think many of them do anything unless they are given a motive for it. and there is no real motive to maintain a good database other than helping others. entities can do "good things" but individuals often do it for selfish reasons. that was partially the case with me. I used to make notes, and then tons of messages from classmates to share notes, and got fed of sending stuff individually. then i started sending stuff in group chat, but not having a good way to search chat history meant people would not find it, and ask me again. so i made a drive. a course happens where people have to install software, but actual instructions are very hard - i get messages - i make scripts to install, or compile the end product and just ship it. You might think these are good deeds, but they are still selfish acts. I used to maintain a good directory structure anyway, might as well upload it.

  • A possible way to host "stuff" which is meant for a small community?

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  • it is meant to be editted by others. I do not think many others will be able to use cryptomator (afaik you would have to download the whole cryptomator folder, and then update). Still, thanks!

  • A possible way to host "stuff" which is meant for a small community?

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  • I would seriously consider this, and try to implement this weekend.

    Like this your stuff is compliant and you allow folks to access a google drive for example that you or someone else can manage.

    people would not differentiate (in future, i would not be the one to upload stuff, but newer gens would), so i would set everything to be uploaded to google. I would still try to maintain 2 offline backups in case google gets angry.

    I use it to share with family that is not tech literate.

    that is definitely reinforcing.

    I would still try to find if i can host directly in campus, and not google or any 3rd party at all.

  • A possible way to host "stuff" which is meant for a small community?

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  • thanks for the suggesion, but syncing is not the problem currently. I can use stuff like rsync, or rclone for drive providers. problem is where to sync to.

  • A possible way to host "stuff" which is meant for a small community?

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  • I could try these, but the problem is, I am graduating. I could set it up once, and maybe even give someone else (or myself) remote access to the hosting infra, but I would likely be less available to manage stuff.

    Good dsolutions though. I could possibly try to make the latter solution work (managing nexcloud is relatively harder imo, and i have no idea how would i mount a encrypted google drive to it). It still feels like something only i would have to maintain, but if I can get it in a setup and forget stage (or like a annual maintainence), then I could consider it.

    the only problem now is money. I would have to use vps for this kinda stuff. the sbc + ssd idea was something i had proposed to a junior. but hosting anything in college premises with college internet would have to "techinically comply with copyright rules". if it was a git like solution or torrent like, even administrators would not be able to access the stuff (comparable in tech literacy)(i am not talking about people who manage or internet infra, but copyright stuff, like our library department). With a drive like setup, they would be able to use it too.

    Can i setup a password to access the stuff, like a simple password, common for all? then only student who have password be able to use it. maybe i can setup http authentication. but then again i would fall back to - it is getting too tough for them to use it.

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    A possible way to host "stuff" which is meant for a small community?

  • Does anyone know an alternative to STC Library and Anna's Archive?

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  • i have access through university. no fancy stuff. my uni subscribes to must research publications (most unis do)

  • Does anyone know an alternative to STC Library and Anna's Archive?

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  • I am sending it to you in a dm (or to anyone else too if you ask)

  • FitGirl games installation stuck at around 0.0% (Linux)

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  • you have encountered the same bug as me (https://lemmings.world/post/28452192) the problem is that arch (or cachyos) now defaults to using wine-wow64 builds (no 32 bit libraries required) and that has something to do with it. I have not beeen able to fix it, and do not know where to report (wine team will not consider bugs concerning pirated installers)

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    Anyone have the experience registering a domain name with false personal information?

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  • I recently did that and my account was banned. It was not expensive (~$1), but still felt bad

  • YSK that fracking is not safe. Residents living near fracking sites are significantly more likely to get cancer

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  • yes and no. You would like to do it in relatively cheap and less populated area, and where cracks are a bit closer to surface (you do not want to drill a lot, as that would not be economically beneficial)

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • yes, there are "characters" from linux universe (like bsd puffer fish, or krita female something, goat (fsf) and more))

  • Can you please help me clear some doubts regarding LGBTQIA stuff?

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  • I’d be curious to know what your native tongue is

    I would not give you a specific language, but country is India

    Orientation refers to the same thing as attraction

    this is new to me. In my post I used orientation for what I assumed to be gender, but I had no idea it was also related to attraction.

    I do understand both points of finding similar folks or possibly finding partners

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    Can you please help me clear some doubts regarding LGBTQIA stuff?

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK about your search engines, and whether they have a independent search index or not

    seirdy.one /posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
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    Please help debug fitgirl repacks not decompressing with wine sys WoW64

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK you can use custom keyboard symbols(keys), so you can easily enter symbols like αβγδ, or swap : -> ; and ; -> :

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Need Advice

    How to find a good school for masters? Or How to find phd offers?

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    In situ additive ceramic manufacturing

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Dreams are basically simulations

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    (edited) - Should your morals be flexible? How rigid should your moral framework be, and should it depend on background of people in consideration