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virtuous_sloth

@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca

Married to a wonderful wife with with two adult sons, living in Calgary. I like getting out on my bike. I care about social justice.

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polotek, to random
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We got solar on the house last year. It wasn't necessarily about saving money for me. It became important to me to take a concrete step towards combatting climate change.

But something else started to dawn on me too. The fact that I'm now generating my own power, from an essentially unlimited source, is a truly radical act. I've been thinking a lot about creating a society centered around abundance instead of scarcity. It's not just theoretical.
https://assemblag.es/@theluddite/112496059286904697

virtuous_sloth,
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@tastyraspberry @polotek @pluralistic
You need to read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

virtuous_sloth,
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@tastyraspberry @polotek @pluralistic Indeed. Me too. Coincidentally, I'm re-reading Walkaway right now because I got interrupted 7 years ago.

cheeaun, to threads
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Screenshots comparing columns UI between Threads.net and Phanpy.social

A screenshot of a Phanpy social media feed. The interface shows three main columns: Following, FediDevs (list), and Notifications (showing recent interactions and messages).

virtuous_sloth,
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@cheeaun
Did phanpy always have multiple columns (proper columns, not the slidy boosts bits)?

I started using phanpy for mobile (partly for that slidy boosts bit) and when I tried it on my desktop I was disappointed that it didn't do multi-column.

Either I was really bad at searching the settings (a distinct possibility) or they added it sometime between while I've been using the native Mastodon multi-column interface.

In either case, thanks for making be aware!

evan, (edited ) to random
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When is it OK to change the subject in your reply to a post?

virtuous_sloth,
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@evan With Usenet/NNTP every post and reply had a Subject: line like email.

If you wanted to go on a tangent you could edit the Subject:.

For example if it was
Subject: X
you would change it to
Subject: Y (was X)

When threaded newsreaders were created, they would detect these changed subject and although they presented them w/ the original thread, they would mark them as different.

There would be an ASCII art thread diagram with the original Subject: marked as [1], and tangents as [2] etc

evan, (edited ) to random
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"International law should apply equally for all people and for all countries."

#EvanPoll #poll

virtuous_sloth,
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@evan

"The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone."

Green_Footballs, to random
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I wonder if Google realizes what a complete fucking shitstorm they’re about to unleash on the internet if Chrome suddenly stops supporting all 3rd party cookies. As they’ve promised to do in the 2nd half of 2024.

virtuous_sloth,
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@timbray @Green_Footballs I just found an article describing how 3rd party cookies work (I didn't exactly know) and it finished talking about 3rd party cookies going away in the future of the article, in 2022.

So are we sure it's going to happen?

waldoj, to random
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Heat pumps and induction ranges are two strong examples of products that are better environmentally and better products than their gas/oil competitors, for almost everybody. (EVs will get there, but they’re not there yet.)

Because carbon emissions are free, it’s important that low-emission new products be clearly better than the polluting status quo. It’s a high bar, it’s not fair, but I’m glad we have heat pumps and induction ranges as a model.

virtuous_sloth,
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@glennf @timbray @waldoj @nlpbot Private cars are the least efficient, most expensive (for the owners and the public) way to move people or goods in almost any city of appreciable size and EVs do not change that. Accepting EVs as a replacement for ICE cars seems... counterproductive.

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@hyc @glennf @timbray @waldoj @nlpbot

Indeed, I agree. However, car companies would really love everyone to think that is all we have to do, and that is what I'm worried about.

Binder, to random
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They're called HR Departments because they provide Harm Reduction for corporations.

PS: you're the harm they're mitigating. Good luck.

virtuous_sloth,
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@Binder They are like the immune system for the body corporate and as long as you understand that they view an employee with a problem to be a potential cancer cell, you'll understand your relationship with them.

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you see a crowd of 100 people:

  • In Atlanta? You can expect ~47 of them are Black. 👍🏿

  • In San Francisco? About 5 are Black. 😑

  • In Palo Alto? About 2 are Black. 😮

There are more students at Gunn High school in Palo Alto, than there are Black people living in Palo Alto.

virtuous_sloth,
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@timbray @mekkaokereke Interesting that East Palo Alto is north of Palo Alto.

Not to distract too much from ubiquitous separation and segregation of a racialized patriarchy.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Has the Trump campaign coordinated with the Netanyahu government to keep the war in Gaza going because it hurts President Biden's re-election prospects?

#EvanPoll #poll

virtuous_sloth,
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@evan Qualified no because this would be news to me.

evan, to random
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Wordle 1,047 4/6*

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virtuous_sloth,
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@evan I got into hard-mode hell...all the missed letters are unique

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glennf, to random
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Reject authority except mine

virtuous_sloth,
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@glennf You must be practising to be a conservative.

popey, to random
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Just realised, it's been a couple of weeks and I haven't run "Hugo's Random Benchmark" on this M3 MacBook Pro yet!

2.6s - not bad. Can you do better?

/cc @darkling
https://popey.com/blog/2020/12/counting-to-100-million/

virtuous_sloth,
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@popey @darkling

Very marginally:

evanprodromou, to random

Very happy to announce that @tomcoates and I have been given a Summer of Protocols grant to develop an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol for ActivityPub, including a reference implementation and a report to submit to the W3C SocialCG.

https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/sop-2024-pig-and-pog-grantees/1270

virtuous_sloth, (edited )
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@evan @evanprodromou

Even I failed to notice that I saw your Threads post and responded to it and not the cosocial.ca one. It wasn't until later that I saw your cosocial one and went to read other responses to your post and didn't see mine that I twigged onto it. Sigh.

timbray, to random
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🧵 To anyone interested in large low-latency distributed systems: From @marcbrooker, see https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/04/25/memorydb.html - overview of a paper on AWS’s MemoryDB, which is essentially Redis, only with highly durable storage at a remarkably small performance penalty.

virtuous_sloth,
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@timbray I'd be curious as to whether/how it would survive a jepson testing https://jepsen.io/consistency

robpike, to random
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A nice talk by my ex-colleagues Eve Martin-Jones and Josie Anugerah about the misperceptions many have about dependency resolution. It's not nearly as simple a problem as the tool builders would have you believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-niBbN-ufYo&list=PLbzoR-pLrL6p2qBhq7OHXDzCTfIZuzCma&index=9

virtuous_sloth,
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@timbray @robpike
Within a single language Unison (https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/) takes an interesting approach of normalizing all source code into it's ASN and using a hash as the function reference. It's like the ultimate durable name mangling.

If you change the code of a function it is a new function and all previously-written callers still use the old definition unless they choose to use the changed function.

GottaLaff, to comics
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: “Ask yourself: If Trump were your grandfather, would you seek care for him, or would you seek to make him the leader of the free world?”

Just… go.

Entire strip here: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/04/28

virtuous_sloth,
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@GottaLaff I hope BOOM and BING are not code names for nuclear attacks.

timbray, to random
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Dear LazyWeb, Bit of a long shot here. I'm replacing a bog-standard 5T disk in my bog-standard Synology DS416j and seem to have lost the package of screws that came with the thing. Having trouble figuring out exactly what the right kind of replacement screws is required to fasten the disk in the tray. Thought I had, but it's not really locked down, and vibrates. Anyone know the right answer?

virtuous_sloth,
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@timbray #6-32 screws.

I shut down and opened my DS-1520+ to validate and discovered I never screwed mine to the trays. I checked and the #6-32 x 4mm in my PC screw kit fit the HDD screw holes but are too short to span the rubber grommet in the tray, but just barely I think.

So I'm pretty sure #6-32 x 6mm would work.

conansysadmin, to linux
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Read this book of powerful conjuring spells, if you dare. #Linux #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/virtualization.html?s=mc

virtuous_sloth,
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@conansysadmin

Fantastic survey of containers/virt. I wish I had this 3 years ago.

Would you consider adding Incus to this page?

I had worked at Canonical for a brief time and met Stéphane Graber there and when Canonical decided to take LXD away from linuxcontainers.org (home of lxc-utils) Stéphane took the principled stand to leave Canonical. Another fellow forked LXD into Incus and the linuxcontainers.org team, including Stéphane, has been developing it ever since.

RickiTarr, to random
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https://youtube.com/shorts/2jajLTrjIsg?si=IbJgabbMLqMCjFZN

OMG, my husband does this, but he just sits in silence!

virtuous_sloth,
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@RickiTarr This is me and my wife said "This explains a lot" when I showed it to her. Mind you, I also explained it in much the same way 20 years ago...when I bacame conscious of the understanding popping into my head a second or two after the sound.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Who is your favourite out of these four Beatles?

virtuous_sloth,
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@evan After watching The Beatles: Get Back I had to respect Paul's creativity and drive.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Of these time zones, which is the best?

virtuous_sloth,
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@aeva @evan

Either I do not understand time zones or I do not understand what you mean, since the other zones are later. Even trying in terms of a European or Oceana time zone I cannot make sense of Eastern allowing you to sleep in later.

patrickworld, to random
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You know one of the many things I’ve never understood about this whole maga thingy is that she’s been pretty consistently great for some time 🤷🏾‍♂️

virtuous_sloth,
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@patrickworld I'm ashamed to admit that it took me a good 15 seconds.

GottaLaff, to random
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About to leave Sacramento for home, the longest and most utterly boring part of our trips. (I5– Grapevine) Harris Ranch does have great bathrooms though. 🤭

Our realtor timed it out so we’d be driving home during an Open House today instead of kicking us/Hammy out for 3 hours tomorrow. Pays off to have our neighbor/friend in that role.

As always, posting & replying may be spotty.

virtuous_sloth,
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@GottaLaff @davidbraze

P.S. I know you are coming all the way back from your trip to Canada, Laffy, so you probably just want to get home.

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