JackbyDev

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[–] JackbyDev 2 points 34 minutes ago

Their algorithms are probably good enough to know you're interested in guns but not right wing stuff. Simple as that.

[–] JackbyDev 1 points 41 minutes ago

I tried the same input and got a more expected answer.

Is it cheating if you looked at your opponent's pieces in chess? In chess, it is entirely acceptable and expected to observe your opponent's pieces. In fact, keeping track of your opponent's moves and the position of their pieces is a fundamental part of the game. Chess relies on strategy, planning, and understanding the entire board, including your opponent's pieces and potential moves. This is not considered cheating—it's simply playing the game as intended. Cheating in chess typically involves actions like consulting external help (e.g., a chess engine or another person), distracting your opponent, or intentionally breaking the rules of the game.

[–] JackbyDev 1 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

I see DDoS and DoS used interchangeably. I think because DDoS became a somewhat mainstream term (at least in online gamer communities) and is pronounced verbally (dee doss). Idk, just what I've seen.

Like people calling roguelites roguelikes or third person shooters FPSes

[–] JackbyDev 1 points 48 minutes ago

All of cyber security is an arms race of moving targets. It doesn't need to be foolproof to mitigate traffic for a while.

[–] JackbyDev 9 points 50 minutes ago

Did you read the article? (There is a link to a non walled version.)

Since they made and deployed a proof-of-concept, Aaron B said their pages have been hit millions of times by internet-scraping bots. On a Hacker News thread, someone claiming to be an AI company CEO said a tarpit like this is easy to avoid; Aaron B told 404 Media “If that’s, true, I’ve several million lines of access log that says even Google Almighty didn’t graduate” to avoiding the trap.

[–] JackbyDev 5 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

Reminds me of burying folders in folders in folders to hide naughty content as a youth.

[–] JackbyDev 20 points 9 hours ago

The Wii had so many peripherals and used naming like "Wii blah" so often, that WiiU was viewed as an attachment and not a new console. The name Switch 2 is very clear. I don't think it's comparable at all.

[–] JackbyDev 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

To my American eyes and English speaking self, I assumed it was associated with communism. (I don't think it's bad or anything.)

[–] JackbyDev 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You'd have to show who specifically was yelling. You see everyone from all instances they're federated with. They might not have even been from Lemmy.world.

Edit: Case in point, I'm from programming.dev

[–] JackbyDev 6 points 9 hours ago

I think you're drastically underestimating how even small steps like that can tune a ton of people out. If they're only sort of on the fence about it it might be enough to make it not worth it. Or maybe they'll think they'll check later but never get around to it.

[–] JackbyDev 3 points 9 hours ago

but no one wants nor expects to have to do significant research and make a decision about how they want to interact with a social media site before they've even started using it.

Then just directly recommend specific, general purpose instances to people.

[–] JackbyDev 4 points 9 hours ago

How do you know your accounts weren't part of a ban wave? It doesn't necessarily mean they linked them through your phone.

 
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The initial concept developed by the company involved using heat generated by Bitcoin mining rigs, according to Heata Co-founder and CTO Chris Jordan.

"We literally put a Bitcoin miner in a barrel of mineral oil and plumbed it up to a radiator," he told The Register.

Edit, because I think folks may be confused due to the quote I put in. They are not installing crypto miners into water heaters. That was just their original inspiration. Sorry for the confusion.

"We're not looking at serving real time workloads, we're not doing websites, databases, message queue servers," Jordan explained. "Our ideal job is; here's a chunk of data, go and process that for some hours. And here's the result," he said.

This could still prove useful for 3D rendering workloads, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and others where there is a lot of CPU or GPU processing, he claimed.

 

My Keyboard has a chattering problem. On Windows I was able to run a program that would detect this and fix it. I believe I could use the built-in keyboard bounce accessibility feature to solve this, but the lowest setting it will allow me to use is 100 ms. When I type normally I will sometimes push a key that fast (e.g., hitting backspace a lot or in a video game). Is it possible to lower this settings to something like 10 ms? Maybe via the terminal?


Edit:

Potential workaround found. In ~/.config/kaccessrc manually change it to something like 10. Save and reboot. It didn't seem to take hold if I didn't reboot. Even typing this now I am seeing some problems, but I also hear the ding indicating it is working. Change BounceKeysRejectBeep to false to get rid of the ding. A comment on the bug mentioned 40 ms, so maybe that's a good sweetspot.

[Keyboard]
BounceKeys=true
BounceKeysDelay=10
BounceKeysRejectBeep=true
 

For me it isn't working. Single player works fine. If Crossplay is ON I can see other games on the world map, but time out when joining the lobby. When I disable Crossplay I see none at all. (Yes, this is the opposite of what you might guess based on other issues people have mentioned where disabling Crossplay fixed it.)

Update: I switched to Proton 9 from the Cachy version and it works!

 

On Windows I use the linked program. I tried using KDE's accessibility settings but the lowest time it can do it 100 ms, which I naturally do on occasion (mashing backspace quickly, for example). Is there any other solution?

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Powering my GPU and rails (programming.dev)
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This will likely have some technical inaccuracies because I've never dealt with something this specific with PSUs. I have two slots for PCIe. I have a 3070 ti which has two 8 pin connectors. Each of this PSU's cords for the PCIe slots (minus that mysterious 600W one which I think is not for anything I'm doing due to the size) goes from the 12 pin on the PSU to two separate 8 pin connectors (well, 6 with the optional 2).

My gut feeling is to just plug a single cord from the PCIe slots I to the two slots on my GPU. But I'm wondering about what would happen if I plugged two cords into the PCIe slots separately and then put a single connector into the GPU from each. Would that be better/worse/the same/catastrophic?

I'm wondering if it has something to do with dividing the current among the different rails in the PSU or something? It has a little jumper to enable "overclocking" which does something like combining the rails, but I'd rather not fool with that. And it also might be totally unrelated to the other question. The jumper is, of course, just out of view of the pic, but it's also not really relevant.

Edit: I went with one and it's working fine.

 

I've seen some tools that do things like take snapshots periodically and ones that add snapshots to grub, but not this specifically. Does something exist?

This will probably be on EndeavourOS, not Arch directly, if it matters.

 

Sorry for the horrible picture. It's hard enough to see with my eyes, let alone get a pic.

 

Using one of those FTDI kenwood adapter programming cables. My gut feeling is no. It would be nice for things like sending/receiving SSTV images.

I am able to transmit if I use a double ended male 3.5 mm cable in the microphone hole of the radio and the headphones hole in my computer, but I have to hold down the PTT button. Also I have to turn the volume on my computer down a lot or else it is distorted. I suspect this has something to do with "line out" versus "headphones" voltage levels (I recall seeing some YouTube video discuss this).

 

My guessThe left sort of looks like the outside of the cable so I think that's ground.

 

Is there just a gallery of various antenna types/lengths and their radiation patterns anywhere? It seems like there are some programs to make them, but I can't seem to easily get them for Mac and I also don't need something super advanced. Just something showing various "standard" antenna types and their patterns for various wave lengths.

 

I'm still pretty new to radio stuff and still learning. I have my technician license and have made a handful of contacts. For Christmas I got the RTL-SDR. It has a warning saying "DO NOT use near strong transmitters. Max input: +10 dBm." I am having difficulty understanding exactly what that means and whether I can use my handheld radios near it. These are cheap ~5W radios.

I'm curious about the practical and theoretical both, here. So a simple yes-or-no would be helpful, but I'd also like to know the math.

  • Right now, I have a vertical half wave dipole (each leg is 48.8 cm, which I believe makes this a half wave dipole antenna for 146 MHz?) attached to my RTL-SDR. I've been trying to understand gain, but it seems tricky to find and understand the charts. This antenna came with the RTL-SDR, but it's telescoping and that's the length I have it at.
  • My radio is 5W and uses a knockoff NA-771 type antenna.

I don't have any other sort of tool to measure the output of my handheld radio. I am curious how close I can be to the RTL-SDR antenna when transmitting. I am also curious if I can transmit near the RTL-SDR when there is no antenna attached (I assume I can be a lot closer, but I still don't know how close).

Mostly, I don't want to break a new toy lol.

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