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TIL the film "Close encounters of the Third Kind" is shown every single night at the Devil Tower KOA, making it one of the most screened movies ever. in c/[email protected]
[–] catch22 2 points 3 months ago

Great post, thanks for sharing

PSA: Libraries in c/[email protected]
[–] catch22 68 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

They provide services to ALL people. So tired of reading that only the poor use the library. My kids are always begging to be taken there to get books and do activities. We just used the color printer/copier at ours the other day and the first 3 copies were free. Libraries are an amazing community resource for EVERYONE.

The FTC is coming after high grocery prices in c/[email protected]
CrowdStrike shareholders sue over global outage, say company concealed info - National | Globalnews.ca in c/[email protected]
[–] catch22 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Between airliners crashing and financial and public infrastructure being taken down by security flaws I wonder how many trillions of lost dollars and lives being lost it will take before critical software like this is held to a higher standard. Even though it's just as important as the development team that writes the code, QA and a software dev process are still treated as unimportant and something you do only if you have the time to do it.

A necessary reminder that our work/life structure is flawed in c/[email protected]
[–] catch22 4 points 3 months ago

This should be it's own post. Thanks!

What is a product you would never recommend? in c/[email protected]
[–] catch22 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Any "Gaming" headphones they are all such trash. Buy a nice pair of headphones with a quality metal headband and get an audio cable with a built in mic.

Is there an example program that illustrates how a buffer overflow attack actually executes arbitrary code? in c/programming
[–] catch22 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I really like this video, in it he demonstrates how a char pointer can be exploited to alter the return value in the stack and walks through an example of how it's done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S0aBV-Waeo

Good game soundtracks? in c/[email protected]
[–] catch22 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Second on the Octopath Traveler II music. Even my son who is 9 and plays it as well as a ton of other games has only ever commented about how the music is really good on Octopath Traveler and no others (and I had never mentioned this to him). It's definitely the best music I have every heard for a game. There was a glitch one time where the music wasn't playing for some reason and I realized how much the music made the game come to life, NGL, I think it brings like 99% of the emotional engagement to it.

Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world in c/[email protected]
3 years and 35+kg later, my Gene Café finally (kinda) paid for itself! in c/[email protected]
[–] catch22 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I didn't know these even existed. My old roommate's routine was to roast a single cup of coffee beans in a small steel pan on our stove every time he made a cup each day. It seemed like a lot of work, but he always said it was totally worth it.

When AI is asked to generate the Tour de France in c/[email protected]
[–] catch22 3 points 4 months ago

Wow, reminds me of the mutants made out of multiple people in the video game the last of us.

Monster 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in c/[email protected]
[–] catch22 15 points 4 months ago

Uh..trains anyone?

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Spam calls and texts are driving me fing crazy anyone have suggestions? (self.asklemmy)
submitted 11 months ago by catch22 to c/[email protected]
97 comments fedilink
 

After repeated data breaches that no company really seems to give a s--- about my phone is blowing up with literally hundreds of spam calls and texts month. I get and make MAAAAYBE 2 or 3 important calls per month, 180-200 of the rest are literally all spam. Anyone have any suggestions, apps ect that they have found refuge with? I really don't use SMS that much either, mostly it's via signal, discord whats app, ect...

Just to put it out there I run CalyxOS on a Pixel 5a.

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Aptera Motors Solar Powered EV (www.youtube.com)
 

This car seems pretty amazing if it comes to fruition.

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Rocket Milano Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing (self.coffee)
 

I love my new Rocket Milano, but it buzzes like craaaAAzy when making a shot. I understand the pump buzzes, but it also sounds like there is bare metal hitting metal inside, like a metal tube is rattling against the metal case. Is this normal?

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How do people find good information on the internet these days? (self.technology)
 

It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust amazon and yelp reviews. Now searches have been completely taken over by Forbes top 10 lists, random affiliate link click through aggregators that copy and paste each others work, review factories that will kill your competitors and boost your product stars, ect.... It seems like the internet has gotten soooo much harder to use, just because you have to wade through all the bullshit. It's no wonder people switch to reddit and lemmy style sites, in a way it mirrors a little what kind of information you used to be able to garner from the internet in it's early days. What do people do these days to find genuine information about products or services?

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Favorite Linux Prompts? (self.linux)
submitted 1 year ago by catch22 to c/linux
16 comments fedilink
 

I was curious as to what prompts people find are the best for development? I'm looking for a change from the generic debian:

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

Which yields:

dell-xps-13@pop-os:~$

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Training using AMD GPUs? (self.machine_learning)
submitted 1 year ago by catch22 to c/machine_learning
3 comments fedilink
 

Everything seems to be very Cuda centric, has anyone tried training or other ml projects using AMD GPUs? How was it?

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Open EVSE vs Grizzly Charger (self.evs)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by catch22 to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink
 

Which one should I get? I'm mostly concerned about support. I like them both because I don't have to worry about using them with an app.

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Pam cooking spray substitutes? (self.food)
 

I bought a refillable spray bottle designed for cooking oils. Unfortunately the oils I have tried don't compare to the ones in the cans (PAM cooking spray with lecithin) Can anyone suggest a good refillable substitute for PAM? Anyone tried mixing up their own lecithin laced cooking oils?

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Eureka Mignon Libra Espresso Grinder (clivecoffee.com)
 

Anyone tried this new grind by weight grinder from Eureka? Thoughts?

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Web Site for Reporting Cars in Bike Lanes (seattle.carinbikelane.com)
 

My friend made a website to track cars in bike lanes. Enjoy!

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