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osma

@osma@mas.to

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Systems, organizations, products, platforms, software, science, and a little bit of politics. Whatever you think I identify with, I probably don't.

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osma, to random
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Outo uhkaus. Ketä Suomi tällä uhkaa?

stroughtonsmith, to random
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When I finally pull the trigger, a new 13" iPad Pro w/ 16GB RAM, keyboard & stylus is gonna cost me €2,559. It would be by far the most powerful computer I own.

That's more than twice as much as what I paid for the Mac mini I do all my development on. It even beats out my high-end gaming PC whose GPU alone was €1800.

All of that goes to waste because it’s paired with a simplified, stripped-down OS using the same technology stack and limitations as a $300 Netflix device for your grandparents

osma,
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@stroughtonsmith
The only credible argument I see for not allowing macOS on iPad is that the legacy files and folders data management approach really, really, needs to die and be replaced with an object-based, searchable and metadata-rich system for good. Apple has all the assets to execute on that, but i(Pad)OS misses the solution for cross-app data exchange.

An operating system with all the user interface capabilities of the desktop, but without the Finder? That'd be gold.

osma, to random
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Autocratic regimes are finding that instead of further repressing their own populations, it's easier to sow disinformation, distrust and dissent to poison liberal democracies, where there are plenty of those willing to profit from spreading their propaganda, and lack of those ready to fight against it.

Another must-read from @anneapplebaum
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-russia-republican-party-relations/678271/

osma,
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"As Western penalties have been unable to hobble the Russian war machine, Putin’s muscular, nationalist ideology continues to find sympathizers elsewhere. The Kremlin’s friends include E.U. leaders, despots in the Global South, and prominent members of the American right. They all share an aversion to the West’s perceived liberal establishment, and see a positive vision in Putin’s rejection of it."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/07/putin-russia-west-illiberal-axis-georgia-hungary/

Without a paywall:
https://archive.is/yD4tS

osma, to Ukraine
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US Air Force is buying add-on seekers designed to give JDAM-ER glide bombs supplied to Ukraine the ability to zero in on GPS jammers. This would turn one of the weapons most impacted by this countermeasure into one used to directly attack it.

https://www.twz.com/air/jdam-er-winged-bombs-with-seekers-that-home-in-on-gps-jammers-headed-to-ukraine

osma,
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@nafnlaus
Yep. Kind of like AGM-88 HARM, except optimized to home on 1575 and 1227 MHz radio noise instead of a typical directional radar signal.

Little difference between JDAM and SDB beyond size of the warhead. SDB (thus also GLSDB) being 110 kg while JDAM is 230 to 910 kg. I can see no particular reason why a similar seeker head couldn't be used on the (GL)SDB as well.

osma,
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@Infoseepage
That's the idea, as the article describes.

osma,
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@angusm
A ground based GPS jammer doesn't have beyond-the-horizon reach (well, apart from the missile/glide bomb being above the horizon). Kaliningrad can disrupt positioning on the southern Baltic Sea, and effects on the eastern Ukraine battlefield must be produced by local EW systems.

Besides, Ukraine hitting a military target even on russian territory is not escalation, but defense.

osma, to random
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A vegan French croissant, and the lack of ability of French farmers to see that agriculture remains even if cattle was reduced in favor of plant based food. Now, I want to try this..

"There it sits, in all its flaky glory, with a crust the colour of autumn leaves, and two plump claws almost begging to be torn off and devoured. Light as air and as French as the guillotine.

One impeccable croissant. "
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68944117

osma, to nuclear
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I hadn't realized that a sodium cooled reactor could use the sodium as a heat store to modulate its electrical output to market demand, while still having the reactor running at full power. But apparently that's what the TerraPower design is supposed to do. Now, you could of course place any kind of heat battery between the reactor primary circuit and the turbine secondary circuit, but efficiency matters.
#nuclear #terrapower
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04052024/wyoming-terrapower-nuclear-plant/

noelreports, to random
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ERA saves a Bradley M2A2 IFV from further damage after being hit by a Lancet kamikaze drone.

video/mp4

osma,
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@noelreports
What's the source of this video? How was an immobile Bradley targeted by a camera drone and a Lancet, then gets photographed up close, yet no crew in sight? Is this a captured vehicle and russian material?

miiamustang, to random Finnish
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Kepunuoria panettaa? 😅

Mut hei! Oon ilahtunu, että diskurssi on niinpäin, että seksityö nähdään oikeana työnä!

https://yle.fi/a/74-20008814/64-3-225068?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link-share

osma,
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@tommi
Kaipuu takaisin aikaan, milloin piika oli isäntää varten.
@miiamustang

weilawei, to random
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Whatever algorithm Steam is using to validate downloaded game content is terrible.

It's going at ~0.5 MB/s. I don't know what algorithm they're using, but that performance is garbage.

This machine bottlenecks on the drive at ~6 GB/s, RAM at ~18 GB/s, and a CPU core at 126 GB/s (if you're making use of all the AVX2 ports).

The same thing applies to when Steam launches. I get a full 5 minutes of cursor stuttering and the system is unusable.

osma,
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@VikingChieftain @weilawei
It's Joel Spolsky's law of leaky abstractions
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/

osma,
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@TimWardCam
Surprisingly invulnerable, turns out, as at least low earth orbit satellites, and the Ingenuity have been able to operate with commercial chips and other electronics without issue. So, yeah, you can take that approach too far.

But understanding how memory and file layouts work is not too low level. Definitely wasn't back a decade ago when computers still routinely used spinning rust for storage.
@VikingChieftain @weilawei

osma,
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While file seeking might not be the issue it was then, and databases mostly use memory mapped IO now, all that was relevant for local access is now 10x more relevant for the ubiquitous remote API stuff. 400 REST calls for single-action functions and repetitive data transfer in place of a well structured API, GraphQL or otherwise? Yeah, haven't we all seen that too many times.
@TimWardCam @VikingChieftain @weilawei

taxet, to random Finnish
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Pyörän ketjussa on yks nivel joka on perkeleen tiukassa. WD-40 sai sen vähä löystymään mutta edelleen on sen verran tiukka että kun pyöräilee, se aiheuttaa vaihtajassa pientä lonksumista.

Onks kellään mitään ideoita mitä tälle pitäs/vois tehdä?

Ping @feuer koska oot tyylii ainoa joka tulee mieleen ketä tietäis fillareista jotain. 😅

Kuvassa esimerkki miten sen saa esim jäämään jos sitä vähän taittelee. Suorana se menee vaihtajaan mutta ei taitu sen rattaan myötäisesti vaan ”hyppää” tavallaan vähän joka kerta.

osma,
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@taxet
Olipa kauniin puhdas ketju! Tollasen efektin saa aikaan, jos ulkopuoliset levyt ovat puristuneet liian tiukalle ja "nipistävät" sisäpuolisen linkin levyjä ja rullaa. Ketjutyökalulla voi siirtää kiinnityspinniä ja sillä lailla saada jumin auki... Kannattaako, riippuu ketjun muusta kunnosta. Ne ovat kulutustavaraa.

osma,
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@taxet
Jos yltää isoimmilla rattailla ja vaihtaja ei ole ääriasennossa, niin ketju on riittävän pitkä ja vanha taas saattoi olla ylipitkä. Siitä voi ottaa jumittavan linkin pois (menee aina kaksi kerrallaan) ja laittaa pikalinkin tilalle. Mutta ei maksa vaivaa jos se on kulunut, koska ei kuitenkaan vaihda nätisti ja kuluttaa rattaistojakin.
@feuer

osma, to random
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Sunday reading from the always-worth-reading @molly0xfff

"There are no limits to the web — if it has borders, they are ever expanding. We may feel as though we are trapped in a tiny, crowded, noisy space, but it is only because we don't see over the walls."
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

osma,
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Continuing on the gardens and ecosystems metaphor,
https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

Unlike a natural ecosystem or even the technology infrastructure level, the software layer of Internet is infinite. The challenge isn't ability to come up with new ideas, but to get them to a stage where they're able to compete with incumbents. Which is why pro-competition policies are so crucial.

osma, to random
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This is intense: 14 hours on the frontline with Ukrainian paratroopers and United24 press crew, pinned down by a russian armored attack.
https://youtu.be/cgJFPJ64aR0
#SlavaUkraini

randahl, to random
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The European geography underlines how screwed Putin is. I believe, Ukraine will win the war, and then they will enter the EU.

This means:

  1. Belarus will be surrounded by free, democratic EU countries on three sides.

  2. Moldova will be completely surrounded by the EU.

At that point autocracy will be a REALLY hard sell for the dictator.

osma,
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@randahl
Moldova has applied for EU membership in 2022 and their accession negotiations started last December.

osma,
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@randahl
That occupation has been going on a while. As it stands, with Moldova able to import everything they need, including gas and electricity, from the European market, they could strangle the Transnistrian occupation any time they decided. The trouble is the people there are oppressed Moldovian and neither the Chișinău government nor EU wish to cause a humaniarian disaster.

osma, (edited ) to random
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Jaaha, sellainen iltapäivälenkki. Suosituksia hiilikuiturunkojen asiantuntijoista pk-seudulla, pitäisi saada selville, onko tämä vain maalausasia vai menikö siinä koko pyörä. #pyoraily #pyöräilydontti

osma,
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Tänään oli sitten sellainen päivä, että hiilikuidun naarmuttamisen lisäksi pääsin tekemään rikosilmoituksen Audi-kuskin pahoinpitely-yrityksestä (tilanteet eivät liittyneet toisiinsa). Olisin voinut elää ilman kumpaakin tapahtumaa. Mutta olipahan kuitenkin nätti päivä!
#pyöräily

Free_Press, to news
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Confession of a Russian soldier!

A Russian serviceman recorded a video warning those who want to make money by signing a contract with the Ministry of Defense.

“Welcome to hell,” he addresses those on the Russian rear who know nothing about the real war, imagining in their heads pictures from World War II.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UbU43s9MwKc&si=jkU5VnWd0MQBcLYi

osma,
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@Free_Press
If only he knew that the best, not worst, thing that could happen to him would be to be captured, fed, treated, exchanged for another POW. He may end up back on the frontline after, but at least for a few weeks or months he'd be safe.

BrentToderian, to Oslo
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“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars…Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo and #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/how-helsinki-and-oslo-cut-pedestrian-deaths-to-zero

osma,
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@BrentToderian
Since that article, there have been an average of 271 traffic accidents per year in Helsinki, with 19 total fatalities until end of 2022. Last year's statistics have not yet been published. Very sadly, most recent fatalities have all been pedestrians or bicyclists and include two children.
https://julkaisut.hel.fi/fi/julkaisut/liikenneonnettomuudet-helsingissa-2020-2022
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