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wulrus

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  • Under some old boxes and long-outdated cables in my office, I found this factory sealed HDD

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  • Don't you think it might have IDE? In any case, I use almost only SSDs internally, HDDs externally for backups.

  • Under some old boxes and long-outdated cables in my office, I found this factory sealed HDD

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  • 750 GB. That visible side advertises as "750,000 pictures" or something, but the other side clarifies that it's 750 GB.

  • What reasons do people have for disliking SELinux?

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  • For 2 years, I had to set up production environments on RHEL, mostly Apache and Keycloak servers. I had a limited, very specific list of sudo permissions, and I had to ask very specifically what I else needed, which was then granted by people who neither knew nor cared what I was working on.

    SELinux permission problems were always the fallback reason when nothing else made sense. With my permissions, I could not just straight up check for it. E. g. Apache would not server a folder, cryptic error -> check file permissions -> check general Apache config problems -> assume SELinux permission is missing and request it, supplying the exact command they need to type.

  • sponsors, ads

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  • Evidently, it's not enough when many people try to block or ignore ads.

    What would stop them would be a sufficiently large minority that really takes note of the ads they see and actively avoids the products. Like, even when it is the best for a given situation, buy the second best instead.

    Only that would take away from the people they still do reach.

    In theory, even a minority (20%?) could make ads harmful for the advertiser.

  • Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

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  • The one point I don't completely understand is the tax debt: Wouldn't a failed business, no matter how ridiculous, be a complete write-off?

    Maybe the problem is that he has to tax each fiscal year independently, so a tax debt in 2023 from successful freelance work would not be diminished by a failed "business idea" in 2024.

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • wow, you are right! I didn't bother to check this whole time of needless suffering, but for what I earn with it in less than an hour I could probably buy 2x8 GB DDR-3, lol!

    It just seemed a fair assumption that it would be insanely expensive ...

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • I bought a desktop PC for a little over 2k in late 2011, and still use it. I'm a back-end developer, and certainly I would like to be able to upgrade my 16 GB RAM to 32 GB in an affordable way.

    Other than that, it's perfectly fine. IDE, a few docker containers, works.

    And modern gaming is a scam anyway. Realistic graphics do not increase fun, they just eat electricity and our money. Retro gaming or not at all.

    Imagine how things were if they were built to be maintained for 15+ years.

  • Prepared for this day

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  • I'm retro computing, retro everything tech, and I DO need my collection!

    Just had to order a keyboard DIN connector (pre PS-2) adapter for a old 80386. Because I obviously still don't hoard enough old stuff!

    One of the few things I'm afraid I won't be able to use anymore are UMTS (3G) sticks and routers. Although, the router still works a perfectly fine mobile Wifi router, hmmmmm ....

  • Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant

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  • This is a crazy use of AI!

    What I have been considering, but haven't found a readily available setup yet: Make a user with lots of read permissions (most of /etc, API keys & passwords in separate excluded files). That could be done with very restrictive sudo patterns. Let the AI run commands under that user directly (it can do sudo -l to get an idea of what it can do). Then, use it like in Star Trek "Computer - run a level 2 diagnostic".

    Not as the centre of attention when fixing a problem, but as additional input / modern rubber ducking.

  • Hey, guys. Is it a good idea to dunk PC parts in isopropyl alcohol?

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  • Thanks! The whole PC had a time (when its age was ~20 years) where it still booted, but with reset BIOS settings, followed by a time where it doesn't boot up anymore. So I believe the most likely thing is that it leaked and caused damage. Retro computing community thinks that the most likely cause is battery damage.

    Here is the exact model from someone else: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/msi-3121-v3

    Battery (top-left) already removed, but it shows that this one has leaked before as well. When you look closely, you see battery residue on the nearby 8-bit ISA (?), so it must have leaked a lot at some point and been cleaned up. Unfortunately, it came with a notorious Ni-Cd Battery; even for its time not the best.

  • Hey, guys. Is it a good idea to dunk PC parts in isopropyl alcohol?

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  • I have an old mainboard from 1990 with emotional value and a leaked BIOS battery. And advice for cleaning that?

  • The Trump-Epstein Files™ @lemmy.world
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    Imagine the social standing were reversed

  • Social gatherings have been... different since I switched.

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  • lol, getting all displays working is indeed my biggest worry for my last Windows PC, migrating next month. It has both an NVIDIA and a Radeon GPU, and that works great on Windows. But a quick test boot from USB did not go so well on Ubuntu, so the truth will only come out after a real install with drivers.

  • Alex Pretti's coworkers take a moment of silence this morning for their murdered colleague

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  • Medical professionals are typically very ethical people who believe that the right for medical care applies to the worst criminals the same as to a president, and they would uphold that belief even if said criminals executed their own FOR helping their fellow humans. (*)

    But that is a belief which is hard to understand for a fascist. Who would they trust with their wounded once things escalate into a civil war? Seems unlikely that someone would risk pushing a pillow over a patient's face, but what if wounds have a higher rate of infection, surgeries fail etc.? Not intentionally, of course, but who could manage to keep operating at perfect precision while staring at the ICE uniform all while having traumatic flashbacks from videos of their coworker being executed?

    (*) Also my belief, to be clear; punishment must be lawful following due process. Even Hitler should have been patched up had he survived his suicide attempt, morphine and everything.

  • Europe should prepare for Greenland’s annexation and end of NATO: Experts

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  • Challenging, but not impossible. I think the military budget of all other NATO members combined would just be about the same as the US. However, it's not like every country has its own independent "mix of everything"; they are supposed to work supplemental. What makes things worse is proprietary hardware and software in modern equipment such as planes. I'm not sure to which degree it would even be technically possible to use it to defend against the USA.

    Then there is the nuclear weapon problem. France and UK would have to really stand their ground and follow through with nuclear retaliation. That means that even when the USA or Russia just use a small tactical nuke in Poland, Greenland or wherever, they'd have to use one of their few strategic nukes to destroy something big, possibly dooming Paris. The downside of the idea of mutually assured destruction always was that it only works with somewhat reasonable people who REALLY are not willing to take their entire civilisation with them. But since Stalin, there have never been nutjobs like Trump or Putin in charge, neither in the USSR, nor US, nor Russia.

    A victorious Ukraine would certainly be an incredible asset to have in NATO, with all those battle-hardened, highly educated people.

    But all things considered, might as well give it a try.

  • AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

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  • I'm reading AI content there, and when I post, I'm getting accused of being a bot / using an LLM. Fantastic.

  • Passenger deaths per 1 billion passenger miles (2000-2009)

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  • Unexpected - I thought flying would be by magnitudes safer than anything, but it's in the same magnitude as bus, and not even train is x10. I always thought that all those safety regulations were unnecessary, just compensating for some psychological factor of how it FEELS dangerous due to overreporting, history and other factors. But apparently, they are needed so it just remains barely safer than other forms of public transportation.

  • Trump’s greatest crime is practically invisible — Estimates show that the dismantling of USAID has killed at least 600,000 to date. It could get much worse

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  • Seeing what happens when the US just stops helping makes me realise: The good they did as a superpower over the decades isn't talked about as much as the bad. Obviously now, there is plenty of that, too.

  • What is the highest level of mathematics that should be expected to graduate high school?

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  • In order to change the degree so that it allows studying in many universities abroad (such as Germany), this would be needed:

    • functions and graphs, mostly R->R
      • general analysis, continuity, function as a specific type of relation
      • series, sums, limits
      • derivatives
      • integration
        • numerical
        • basic approaches and when to use which
        • a few common "tricks"
    • proofs: very basic direct, induction, contradiction will do
    • set theory
    • Vectors, limited to R³, line, plane, rotation. Very basic matrices
    • introduction to imaginary numbers
    • stochastics & probability

    It's based on my subjective impression of weaknesses in the few Americans studying in Germany that I know.

  • Epstein 'Gave' Trump His Ex-Girlfriend In Bombshell Email

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  • The absurd "pizza-gate" suddenly makes sense.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    wulrus @lemmy.world

    my smart hot air fryer, every single time

  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    Amazon was practical, but alternatives are often neither expensive nor time-consuming

  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    not easy to quit Amazon completely

  • Atheist Memes @lemmy.world
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    A simple explanation for the miracle?