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avlcharlie

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I've seen things
I've done things
I've made things
I've conquered things

Most of all, I just want the world to be a better place for everyone.

Every single human.

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itsfoss, to random
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Your thought on Ubuntu's Flutter push?

https://news.itsfoss.com/google-ubuntu-flutter/

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
If you go all in on a Google app or service that isn't directly related to their advertising biz, you should be ready to have it pulled out from under you. History don't lie.

gutenberg_org, (edited ) to books
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British astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born in 1900.

In 1925 she proposed that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected, because it contradicted the science of the time, which held that no significant elemental differences distinguished the Sun and Earth. Independent observations eventually proved that she was correct.

Books by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin are coming soon at PG.

avlcharlie,
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@gutenberg_org
So many women in history brushed aside to later be found right.

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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Does anyone know of a way to buy an EV that doesn't relentlessly spy on the driver/passengers and send the data to whoever the carmaker feels like selling it to?

Related: Does anyone know of a service in the Bay Area that will disable all the surveillance that was, without my knowledge or permission, built into a 2008 Prius?

avlcharlie,
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@dangillmor
There was recently a lawsuit in the US that the car companies won about gathering and selling your data. By our legal system they are allowed to capture texts, location, and any other data they care and sell it to whoever they want. So in answered your question probably not.

QasimRashid, to random
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I cannot logically discuss Israel/Gaza with people who believe this atrocity began with Hamas war crimes on 10/7.

We should reject such bad faith propaganda—and instead do this for actual peace & justice for Palestine and Israel.

Read & subscribe to my latest:
https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/the-history-prior-to-107-that-media

avlcharlie,
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@QasimRashid
It seems to me, and I am very uninformed, that the first step needs to be everyone recognize Palestine set up the borders and the government. It seems they have lived in this gray area for 60 years and I'm not really sure why. Like I said I'm very uninformed so maybe this is just terribly simplistic.

liampomfret, to random
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Interested in getting a proper NAS set up. Without having used one before, am I better off just buying one off the shelf, or is it reasonable/cheaper to build one using open source software? I've still got an old Fractal Design Define R4 that would fit plenty of drives, though I expect I'd need to buy everything else — wouldn't want to run it on an old i5-4690.

avlcharlie,
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@liampomfret
Rolling your own is cheaper but requires more work to get going. Depending on your skill level it could be difficult. Off the shelf is nice for people who are a little savvy but don't necessarily want to break out a command prompt. Personally I'm a geek so I just set up a computer with some shares and I also use it to run some media stuff.

avlcharlie,
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@liampomfret
You've hit most of it directly on the head. What I wanted was some storage and a media server where I could stream videos or pictures or whatever. I've been Linux for 15 years but I'm lazy about it and I always use the GUI if I can. I'm just using an old laptop with Linux mint xfce since it's the lightest. I've got 10 terabytes in USB hard drives(a couple of them) and run Emby server for $5 a month.

avlcharlie,
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@liampomfret
Some of the difficult points are getting the USB drives mounted at boot to be shared and permissions on various things. Those will be your headaches in general.

In using Linux I highly recommend Mint. If you were dabbling I would also wander into KDE desktop versions. It's very pretty and arguably better than Windows at windows interface

avlcharlie,
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@liampomfret
My USB drives spin down and I reboot that machine about once a year. The performance is decent so I don't mess with it. And it's a laptop on purpose because power.. If you do a ton of SATA drives take a peek at raid, especially if you get matching drives

avlcharlie,
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@liampomfret
That's not the worst idea about using your PC and upgrading. I guess like almost anything you can spend a little or a lot or anything in between. My system doesn't have redundancy but I'm okay with it. Once you get raid going it's kind of like a different level. There are some really good OS systems in Linux designed just for NAS but that's all they do.

avlcharlie,
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@liampomfret
One other thing before I forget. A lot of times your network storage speed is determined by your network speed and not the hardware. You can have super fast hard drives but if you're network isn't super fast it really doesn't matter, in other words. Might be something to test out.

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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Comment 🐧

#linux

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
The knowledge that this is not windows, why, and how.
(I guess that's not an app but all newcomers should know that)

itsfoss, to android
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Here's a cool Mastodon Android client!

https://news.itsfoss.com/moshidon/

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
Excellent choice. It's been my client for a while now and it's very good.

nixCraft, to random
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this

avlcharlie,
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@nixCraft
For me as you gain experience you gain a war chest of things that work and the battle wounds from those that didn't to know better.

gamingonlinux, to random
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I love getting *fan mail because I…don’t have enough time to cover everything

*hate

avlcharlie,
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@gamingonlinux
Social media Karen speaks to the manager.. lol

itsfoss, to linux
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Ubuntu 24.04, are you kidding me?!

https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-24-04-disappointment/

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
WOW..

gutenberg_org, to books
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German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld died in 1951.

In 1916, he introduced the idea of elliptical orbits for electrons, and he also introduced additional quantum numbers which included the azimuthal quantum number and magnetic quantum number. He also introduced a dimensionless physical constant known as the fine-structure constant. This constant characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16264

Title page of the book "Atomic Structure and Spectral Lines" by Arnold Sommerfeld, translated by Henry L. Brose, with 125 figures, published by Methuen & Co. Ltd., London.

avlcharlie,
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@gutenberg_org
Ok.. I'm a big physics buff and I thought I knew a lot but you have shown me more than two different physicists of great importance that I had no idea about. Thank you and keep up the good work! :-)

dangillmor, to random
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If what's being charged in this case is true -- an employee using "AI" to make a fake audio of his boss saying terrible things -- I hope he goes to jail for a serious stretch.

We are, to put it mildly, not prepared for the avalanche of malicious, synthetic lies coming soon.

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12-schools/eric-eiswert-ai-audio-baltimore-county-YBJNJAS6OZEE5OQVF5LFOFYN6M/

avlcharlie,
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@dangillmor
Imho, the real problem will be when people start blaming AI on things they actually did.

arstechnica, to random
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Business groups sue FTC to block ban on noncompetes, claim they help workers

Noncompete clauses "benefit employers and workers alike," Chamber tells court.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/business-groups-sue-ftc-to-block-ban-on-noncompetes-claim-they-help-workers/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

avlcharlie,
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@arstechnica
Noncompete clauses "benefit employers and workers alike,"

I laughed so hard I shot milk out of my nose.

gutenberg_org, to books
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German physicist Max Planck was born in 1858.

Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical physics, specially as the originator of quantum theory, which revolutionized understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. He is known for Planck's constant, which is of foundational importance for quantum physics, and which he used to derive a set of units (Planck units) expressed only in terms of fundamental physical constants.

Vorlesungen über die Theorie der Wärmestrahlung, 1906 Cover page of a book titled "Vorlesungen über die Theorie der Wärmestrahlung" by Dr. Max Planck, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Berlin, published in Leipzig, 1906 by Johann Ambrosius Barth with 6 illustrations and featuring the seal of R. Universita Instituto di Fisica Pavia.

avlcharlie,
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@gutenberg_org
I sometimes wonder where the modern day Plancks and Bohrs are.. are they working in the background and we don't know it or have they disappeared..

Daojoan, to random
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The uncomfortable truth is that there have been far too many instances where experts and authorities have failed or misled the public.

From the faulty intelligence leading up to the Iraq War to the opioid epidemic fueled by pharmaceutical companies and complicit medical and government professionals, there are real-world examples of expertise being misused or corrupted by ulterior motives.

https://medium.com/westenberg/how-to-fix-the-backlash-against-knowledge-f5dfa9e4f43c

avlcharlie,
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@Daojoan
Imho, the problem is that early on when television and radio were new, news was a public service and delivered by people with conscience. In the late seventies I believe news pivoted to a profit model and since then it's not news it's what makes the most money.

flexghost, to random
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Here is a list of the 112 Republicans who voted against Ukraine aid

Or as we say in my country: “traitors”

How many did you guess right?

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024151

avlcharlie,
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@flexghost
Ya know.. I'm at the point where I'm seriously wondering how many meetings in the diner where the brown envelope was slid across the table and opened to their atrocities and leverage.

flexghost, to random
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Right now, we have half the country gloating. Reveling in the fact someone is in pain or mortal danger

Saying things like “should kept your legs closed” Mentioning how Jesus something, something

Then they mutter something about the sanctity of life

🇺🇸

avlcharlie,
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@flexghost
And the absolute abomination of this is there are states where this person can now be charged criminally.

nixCraft, to random
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People at coffee shops think I am a hacker when they see me open a terminal application 🙄

avlcharlie,
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@nixCraft
I know it's a funky url and I haven't been there in years but hacker typer.com used to be a web page that look like a terminal and all you had to do was beat on the keyboard and it wrote what looked like code in a black and green screen. Legit look like hacking lol.

arstechnica, to random
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So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post

The fee, likely $1, is aimed at stopping “relentless” bots, Musk said.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/so-much-for-free-speech-on-x-musk-confirms-new-users-must-soon-pay-to-post/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

avlcharlie,
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@arstechnica
Wait.. new users only?.. so he farms the hate people, kicks out people he doesn't like and then anyone else has to pay to say something.. seems like a handy filter..

badastro, to random
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I accidentally spilled some coffee in the hummingbird feeder and now I'm seeing flashes of blue Cherenkov radiation outside my window.

avlcharlie,
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@badastro
Thiis.. this is why I'm here..

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