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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 19 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Enrico Weigelt. He's also an anti-vaxxer moron. To quote his own words on the LKML: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2106.1/04542.html

And I know a lot of people who will never take part in this generic human experiment that basically creates a new humanoid race (people who generate and exhaust the toxic spike proteine, whose gene sequence doesn't look quote natural). I'm one of them, as my whole family.

So yes, sure, nobody can stop people that think the pandemic is over ("we are vaccinated") from meeting in person.

Pandemic ? Did anybody look at the actual scientific data instead of just watching corporate tv ? #faucigate

The only benefit I see in Xlibre is that it will attract idiots like him and and draw them away from projects with real merit.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Only KDE calls it "meta". Everywhere else it's either "super" or "mod4". The left Alt is sometimes called "meta" or "mod1".

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They should sponsor HGL. No need to reinvent the wheel, and the project could always use the money and fame.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fun fact: C:\: is a perfectly valid NTFS path. Windows won't let you create it, though, because Windows doesn't even fully support the NTFS specification. That's why you have to specify the windows_names option when mounting an NTFS filesystem on Linux.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Rotating shifts are lovely. I used to work in a factory for 3 years that did weekly day/night/afternoon shifts. Living in perpetual jet lag did fucking wonders to my circadian rhythm and blood pressure. The pay was amazing, but not BP over 200 and falling asleep at the wheel amazing.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fuck that. The morons who scream WOOOOKE at everything they don't like that doesn't fully cater to their worldviews are part of the reason why those shows and movies suck. Blaming bad writing on any kind of agenda is giving the writers and showrunners an undeserved scapegoat.

Yes, the latter seasons of Doctor Who were an atrocity, but it's not because of the Doctor's female incarnations (although the retcon itself is still horrid), it's because Chris Chibnall is a fucking terrible showrunner and dogshit writer that makes even Moffatt's writing look positively adequate. Fuck you, Chris.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The most straight-forward method would be to buy a standalone switch. I have a TP-LINK TL-SG108 8-port gigabit switch and it seems to retain the ARP table indefinitely.

My previous solution was an ESP32 board with an SSH server and a relay, wired parallel with the power switch, that would be closed by an output pin on command.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You can't ignore the Bongo Man!

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

I have strictly limited overtime with high bonuses and mandatory rest days, afternoon/night shift bonuses, 20 days minimum fully paid vacation, fully paid maternity leave, fully paid sick leave, healthcare paid through taxes, all written into law. Feels nice to live in a place where workers have rights. Sometimes I don't even know what to do with all this legally mandated freedom. Anyway, how's that deregulation going, America?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

It's called "hair space". Unicode U+200A. The best/worst kind of whitespace.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

How much experience do you have with networking, exactly?

The DNS record points to a private IPv4 address (10.0.0.41), which cannot be accessed from the internet for multiple reasons; first of which is that it's almost certainly behind a NAT gateway.

Your internet provider has given you a single publicly routable IPv4 address and assigned it to the WAN interface on your modem or router. If you want to access a host on the LAN, you'll first have to configure port mapping or port forwarding on the router. Then you'll have to open holes in your firewall and accept the fact that every bad actor will try to break into that host unless you know how to set up network security.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

That is a magnificently executed thought-terminating cliché, but if I may offer a rebuttal: nuh-uh!

 

I've been reading a lot about massive stellar objects, degenerate matter, and how the Pauli exclusion principle works at that scale. One thing I don't understand is what it means for two particles to occupy the same quantum state, or what a quantum state really is.

My background in computers probably isn't helping either. When I think of what "state" means, I imagine a class or a structure. It has a spin field, an energy_level field, and whatever else is required by the model. Two such instances would be indistinguishable if all of their properties were equal. Is this in any way relevant to what a quantum state is, or should I completely abandon this idea?

How many properties does it take to describe, for example, an electron? What kind of precision does it take to tell whether the two states are identical?

Is it even possible to explain it in an intuitive manner?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world
 

I'm getting this error that says Error. I can't tell if I fat-fingered the community name in the URL, or it got removed, or it doesn't exist in the first place, or maybe there's a legitimate issue with the software, but I hope it's useful!

I need to clarify because some people apparently never encountered the error page: it used to show the actual error. It was later changed to not do that.

(apologies for the atrocious aspect ratio)

 

Minecraft and Factorio ain't shit next to Conway's Game Of Life.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

Low effort meme while flatpak update finishes.

I understand why having eight very specific versions of the same library is important. Doesn't mean it isn't annoying.

TranscriptFLATPAK EMPLOYEE: what would u like?
ME: one flatpak update please
FPE: so u want "a whole bag of updates?"
ME: no, just a "flatp-"
FPE: I definitely heard "more updates than u could ever handle"
ME: please, no--
FPE: JERRY, FOIST UPON THIS MAN "A FUCKASS LOAD AMOUNT OF UPDATES"

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

This image is no longer available on nasa.gov.

 

It's a Creative Zen Stone that I got as a Christmas gift in 2008. I just found it in a drawer, and it's still holding charge. The last thing I put on it was The Life And Times Of Scrooge by Tuomas Holopainen, in 2015 -- I don't know why, at that time I definitely had a smartphone.

It has a headphone jack, which immediately makes it better than every smartphone produced in the last several years, and it can easily drive my 80-ohm Beyerdynamic. The audio quality is as good as one can expect. The only drawback is that it only holds 1GB... my old CD rips had to be compressed to hell and back.

Let me reiterate that this has been sitting untouched for a decade and was immediately ready for action. No login, no annoying software updates, expired subscription, or remote bricking by the manufacturer. Eat my shorts, Spotify Car Thing.

P.s. A Lifetime Of Adventure is a banger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwSVOo5K_k

 

LED lights are great, but I miss having a mini hot plate on my desk to mindlessly touch and burn my hand.

(Do kids even watch cartoons these days, or do they go into scrolling withdrawal before the first commercial break?)

 

I just tossed a fistful of pistachio shells into my mouth.

 

INTERFACING [Trivial: failed] - The umbrella bounces off the side of the bin with a clang and a clatter. It comes to rest on the cold concrete, in the middle of a puddle of trash juice. It is no more pitiful a sight than before.

 

Clipped from Josh Strife Hayes' "Dark Swoles" stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfwKE9XpvBs

Textless version: https://files.catbox.moe/6kd0wi.mp4

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

Philip Rebohle, DXVK's founding developer, stated in an interview that he started the project "to get one specific game to work". Later, he explained in a forum post that he was a bit of a Nier fanboy, and that it was a relatively simple game to use as a test subject for DXVK.

Rebohle was later contacted and hired by Valve. Wine already had a D3D11 compatibility layer, but it wasn't nearly as far ahead as DXVK at the time. It's fair to say that Linux gaming wouldn't exist in its current form if not for one guy's appreciation for Nier Automata. Rebohle still works at Valve, currently conributing to VKD3D-Proton.

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