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  • Nah. Derision, public shaming, and ostracism are fundamental to the maintenance of the social contract. How else can we moderate extremists? The denazification of Germany was effective because they didn't shy away from these methods.

  • I know it looks more like a butt than a heart...
  • I like looking at butts more than heart shapes anyway.

  • It’s not just boomers, young people are voting far right too
  • And why they dismantle the systems they're tasked with protecting the moment they can.

  • I just wanted the workflow, ok?
  • Over the years of using Vim both professionally and for my own uses, I've learned to just install LunarVim and only add a handful of packages/overrides. Otherwise I just waste too much time tinkering and not doing the things I need to.

  • You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will
  • Most debt actually can't be inherited, instead debt collectors get first dibs on inheritance assets until they're made whole or the estate runs out of assets, whichever comes first.

    That doesn't mean that debt collectors won't try to convince family members to pay. Just tell them where they can shove it.

  • America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’
  • Fair. I always thought of Pennsyl-Tucky was more a state of mind/politics rather than an area, but I'm not a local and haven't been in the area for years so I'm inclined to believe you.

  • Side quests are key
  • I have the same feeling.

    I think it's due to how knowledgeable, practical, and yet pessimistic Watney's inner monologue is through the book. It's one thing to see something go wrong on screen (they did show all of the major issues as far as I recall, and a few minor ones too), it's another to have the main character scientifically dissect exactly how fucked he is or will be if the next attempt at a solution fails.

  • It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register
  • Yes...? All are except Microsoft, which is why most companies I work with aren't looking that way.

  • It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register
  • I know several large companies looking to Microsoft, Xen, and Proxmox. Though the smart ones are more interested in the open source solutions to avoid future rug-pulls.

  • LLM queries for personal pdf libraries?
  • Look into RAG using a vector database, this is exactly what they're for. https://www.linkedin.com/events/buildaragapplicationontheaistac7191489677017649153

  • Nicolas Cage film 'The Surfer' induces knee-buckling six minute standing ovation at Cannes
  • This link better be Surf Ninjas or you and I will have words.

    Edit- We good.

  • Any recommendations a two person backpacking tent? Preferably one during this REI sale?
  • Marmot Tungsten is on sale and is generally well regarded.

    The half dome is great too.

    The Alps Zephyr is criminally underrated in my opinion, and it's normal price is very low.

  • "Cheeseburger"
  • In the baking world that is absolutely true. But it's sometimes used more broadly in my experience, idk.

  • "Cheeseburger"
  • A double boiler, sometimes called a "hot water bath".

    Basically a container with what you're cooking inside over the top of a pot of heated water.

    It heats things up evenly and gently.

  • The decline of Intel..
  • 2009 era was also when Intel leveraged their position in the compiler market to cripple all non-Intel processors. Nearly every benchmarking tool used that complier and put an enormous handicap on AMD processors by locking them to either no SSE or, later, back to SSE2.

    My friends all thought I was crazy for buying AMD, but accusations had started circulating about the complier heavily favoring Intel at least as early as 2005, and they were finally ordered to stop in 2010 by the FTC... Though of course they have been caught cheating in several other ways since.

    Everyone has this picture in their heads of AMD being the scrappy underdog and Intel being the professional choice, but Intel hasn't really worn the crown since the release of Athlon. Except during Bulldozer/Piledriver, but who can blame AMD for trying something crazy after 10 years of frustration?

  • Biden quadruples tariffs on Chinese electric cars
  • When it's a documented scientific process and it's scaled up and used in the real world to displace the other methods, I'll be ready to acknowledge hydrogen as a valid part of energy infrastructure.

  • Biden quadruples tariffs on Chinese electric cars
  • Nope! And most hydrogen is fossil fuel (methane) derived and horribly energy inefficient. At this point it's green washing at best.

    Edit: adding data:
    Steam-Methane Reforming (SMR) accounts for about 95% of all hydrogen production on earth. It uses a huge amount of heat, water, and methane to produce hydrogen.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SMR%2BWGS-1.png

    For inputs:

    • 6.2MWh of Heat
    • 2.2 tons of Methane
    • 4.9 tons of pure water

    The outputs are:

    • 6 tons of CO2
    • 1.1 tons of H2

    The overall energy in vs energy out is at most 85% efficient. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016236122001867

    Hydrolysis, the main competing method, and the one most touted by hydrogen backers, accounts for about 4% of hydrogen production.
    This method takes in only pure water and electricity, but it's efficiency is abysmal at some 52%. In every case, a modern kinetic, thermal, or chemical battery will exceed this efficiency.

    Other methods are being looked into, but it's thermodynamically impossible for the resulting H2 to produce more energy than it takes to create the H2. So at best today we could use H2 as a crappy battery, one that takes a lot of methane to create.

  • Homeworld 3 Reviews [opencritic - 80% average, 79% recommended]
  • It’s a tough pivot to make, but what else are fans of the genre gonna play hahahah

    Sins of a Solar Empire 1

    And hey, we get to hope Sins 2 remains great.

  • Nothing to see here, keep scrolling
  • Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your cow!

  • Selfhosting @kbin.social Kata1yst @kbin.social

    What would you all like to see from this magazine?

    As I'm sure some of you noticed, very shortly after Ernest posted the update to KBin that allowed for abandoned magazine adoption, I took over this magazine.

    After a quick flurry of activity kicking the former moderator and owner who hadn't logged in in over 3 months and using a spammer as some target practice for my shiny new ban hammer, I haven't done much aside from contribute a pair of crossposts.

    It's been quiet, which is totally okay of course. There are other great Threadiverse selfhosted communities I hope all who are interested have already found.

    But I'd ideally like to find a niche for this community to fill. My small contribution back to the community at large I've been benefitting from for over a decade now.

    Do any of you have cool ideas? We could do themed days, giveaways, weekly posts, a wiki, a matrix server, whatever really.

    Or we could simply update the sidebar to redirect to other selfhosting communities.

    Any and all ideas welcome!

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    Selfhosting @kbin.social Kata1yst @kbin.social
    lemmy.dbzer0.com What to use as offsite backup? - Divisions by zero

    What do you use for offsite backup? Since best practice recommends 3 copies on 2 different devices where one device is offsite. I thought about renting a storage box from Hetzner to use an offsite backup but I was curious what you are using. And also if there might be some cheaper alternatives to my...

    Good conversation here. I migrated from Duplicati/B2 to Kopia/B2, happy with it so far!

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    Selfhosting @kbin.social Kata1yst @kbin.social
    lemmy.world Ditching MyQ for OpenGarage - Open Source Garage Door Control - Lemmy.World

    Hopefully this fits here? Its self hosted, but not quite what the usual self hosted post would be. I’ve not seen any real reviews of these, so I figured I’d post

    Ditching MyQ for OpenGarage - Open Source Garage Door Control - Lemmy.World

    Not your typical selfhosting, but a very cool use case.

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    www.theonion.com ‘The Onion’ Stands With Israel Because It Seems Like You Get In Less Trouble For That

    The past week has shown humanity at its worst: A horrific terrorist attack left at least 1,300 Israelis dead, among them peace activists and even innocent children. The fates of many more kidnapped civilians still lie in the balance. Meanwhile, statements from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu su...

    ‘The Onion’ Stands With Israel Because It Seems Like You Get In Less Trouble For That

    The past week has shown humanity at its worst: A horrific terrorist attack left at least 1,300 Israelis dead, among them peace activists and even innocent children. The fates of many more kidnapped civilians still lie in the balance. Meanwhile, statements from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggest retaliation…

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    www.theonion.com Naïve Toddler Getting Awfully Attached To 90-Year-Old Grandmother

    DAVENPORT, IA—Perplexed by the toddler’s affection for the nonagenarian, sources confirmed Tuesday that local 2-year-old Ava Kerper was getting awfully attached to her 90-year-old grandmother. “She knows the average life expectancy is like, 77, right?” said the sources, who scoffed while watching t...

    Naïve Toddler Getting Awfully Attached To 90-Year-Old Grandmother

    DAVENPORT, IA—Perplexed by the toddler’s affection for the nonagenarian, sources confirmed Tuesday that local 2-year-old Ava Kerper was getting awfully attached to her 90-year-old grandmother. “She knows the average life expectancy is like, 77, right?” said the sources, who scoffed while watching the child demonstrate her complete and embarrassing obliviousness, wrapping her arms around her grandmother and announcing, “You’re my favorite!” “Personally, if I were going to choose a favorite person in the whole wide world, I’d choose someone with more than six months to live, tops, but hey, you do you, I guess. Christ, this is not going to end well. If this kid’s not careful, Grandma will die with Ava on her lap, and then she’ll live with that regret.” At press time, sources confirmed it was Kerper’s own fault for not learning her lesson with her 98-year-old grandfather.

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    www.theonion.com Study: More Americans Buying AR-15s To Defend Selves From Toddlers Who Found Their Guns

    WASHINGTON—Shedding light on the enduring appeal behind assault rifle ownership, a Pew study released Monday revealed that more Americans were buying AR-15s to defend themselves from toddlers who found their guns. “Many Americans stressed that they felt safer knowing they had an AR-15 at the rea...

    Study: More Americans Buying AR-15s To Defend Selves From Toddlers Who Found Their Guns

    WASHINGTON—Shedding light on the enduring appeal behind assault rifle ownership, a Pew study released Monday revealed that more Americans were buying AR-15s to defend themselves from toddlers who found their guns. “Many Americans stressed that they felt safer knowing they had an AR-15 at the ready in case their toddler stumbled across a shoebox holding a loaded gun on the floor of a closet and started firing away,” said researcher Jonathan Lieu, noting that the majority of AR-15 owners told his team they purchased the lightweight rifle due to their recurring fears about waking in the night to their 2-year-old giggling as they shot bullet holes through the bedroom door. “One response we often heard was that it was a Second Amendment right for gun owners to defend themselves against their own young children. They also stressed that a baseball bat or pepper spray simply wasn’t enough firepower to take down their gun-toting kids.” Lieu added that many Americans also rushed out to purchase tear gas grenades after their children inevitably got their hands on the AR-15s.

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    apnews.com The Biden administration proposes new rules to push insurers to boost mental health coverage

    President Joe Biden’s administration has announced new rules meant to push insurance companies to increase their coverage of mental health treatments.

    The Biden administration proposes new rules to push insurers to boost mental health coverage
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    gazettengr.com France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people

    A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

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    www.politico.eu Macron floats social media cuts during riots

    French president’s remarks drew comparisons to authoritarian regimes — and the government is already trying to backpedal.

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    www.theregister.com US firm 'breached GDPR' by reputation-scoring EU citizens

    TeleSign and Belgian parent did almost everything wrong, alleges Max Schrems

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    apnews.com Supreme Court ruling complicates Navajo Nation's fight for more water

    A Supreme Court ruling this week will make it harder for the Navajo Nation to get water from the Colorado River. No one disputes that century-old treaties give them a right to water flowing through their reservation. The court found that the federal government isn't responsible for securing that wat...

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    www.reuters.com Facebook to end news access in Canada over incoming law on paying publishers

    Meta Platforms Inc plans to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada once a parliament-approved legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers comes into effect, the company said on Thursday.

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    www.cnbc.com Amazon faces Senate probe over warehouse safety

    Sen. Bernie Sanders, who chairs the HELP committee, wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Tuesday regarding the company's warehouse safety record.

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    apnews.com Climate change leads to growing risk of mosquito-borne viral diseases, EU agency says

    European Union officials say there is a growing risk of mosquito-borne viral diseases such as dengue and chikungunya in Europe due to climate change. The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said Thursday that because heat waves and flooding are becoming more frequent and severe, condi...

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