CanadaPlus

@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org

Formerly u/CanadaPlus101 on Reddit.

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In American, that's bachelor and bachelorette parties.

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So instead of a mouth that opens and closes...

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No, I never went down that rabbit hole, which is interesting in hindsight. I went straight from old-school forums and chatrooms (where I'm sure I was very obviously a child) to Reddit.

By the time I was hearing about it it was just "that Nazi pedo incel site".

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I actually really like the AR glasses idea. That said, They need to be open source and de-spookified, and there needs to be some kind of regulation that they can't store or transmit images without first displaying a recording indicator.

It's probably not going to happen like that, though, so I'm not mad existing ones have such bad battery lives.

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Wat.

Edit: Oh, this is the Houthis again.

The AfD’s obsession with the Third Reich is driving a realignment of Europe’s far right | Mariam Lau ( www.theguardian.com )

change is afoot within Europe’s far right. Just as voters across 27 countries prepare to go to the polls in EU elections, a split over the German far right’s allegiance to the Third Reich is driving a realignment....

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I don't think any were unaware of the general picture. There's debate about how much Axis civilians knew about things like the Holocaust, but the SS were a select, elite group. They knew enough.

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It's kind of an embarrassing brag, though, like saying you're finally toilet trained. Good for you, that will help, but the rest of us are way past that.

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mastered started working with

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Yeah, to be clear, you're not wrong, despite the downvotes. A basic chip is better than no chip. I don't think it will make much difference for them, though, because when they've needed chips there's China and failing that smugglers. I's also just a machine, per the headline.

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Pick a direction completely at random, move into it, don't stop or give away my location until it's resolved. They can ransack the surrounding area pretty good, but they're specifically foreign so they're also being hunted as they're hunting me, and even domestic agents have been known to lose somebody on the run.

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I'm not actually sure I'd trust the local police to not get outwitted. Spies are very good at forging things and impersonating people, and they have no reason to believe I'm an actual target and not just a crazy person.

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A second location is usually not the better option, if you're unsure about the return trip.

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It makes it easier, because they themselves are trying to stay below the radar. If domestic agents are coming in 5 minutes I don't love my odds, although I suppose there's a chance I could get lucky slipping away.

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Not the Swedish planes I had hoped for, but that's good too.

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Yup. So dumb. I've heard some German institutions are the same.

They will look you dead in the eye and say their IT people say it can't be hacked.

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I assume we're back now? I can see this post from .ml at least.

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Yup. Ctrl+F'd here.

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Nobody's mentioned Guix. It's a GNU project, which is like Nix, but has a number of novel features. I'll copy in from my own thread about it:

Based on what I’ve heard so far: GNU Shepard instead of systemd, a package manager that compiles things from source and allows user-defined compiler options, a totally different way of arranging system files, and Guile-Scheme is used for everything; it sounds like there’s no other kind of configuration anywhere.

It's planned to be Hurd compatible, so I'd argue it counts.

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I'm pretty sure I answered this on Reddit once. Begged for it, assuming I have to use such a toilet and cannot just go back to a pit latrine (I've heard great things about tiger worms). Answering the other way would be cruel.

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Like in the SNL sketch?

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"Why do you always take so long in the bathroom?"

"I have to argue with the toilet about conservation of mass."

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Ah, I see, you're one of them.

You lost the war; it wasn't close. No, they don't.

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Yeah, communism hasn't worked impressively either. I'd still prefer them over the Nazis, especially as a Jew.

Not OP, to be clear, I got here through your post history because I wanted to check why criticising fascists made you so defensive.

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The pattern I see here, I think, relates to how much advanced warning the Jews of a country got

If you're a German Jew in 1933, you're under a government that openly exists to destroy you, and still have years to GTFO before it's cattle car time. Similarly, in the USSR they didn't show up until shit was pretty real, so you can maybe prepare somehow or head East (depending on how Stalin feels about it). Meanwhile, Central Europe and the Netherlands went down relatively suddenly.

Maybe you'd hope Jews in 1937 Austria or Czechoslovakia would see the writing on the wall, but in practice normalcy bias is strong, then just as now.

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Honestly, I buy it. If he was uncontrollably homophobic he wouldn't have steered the church the way he has.

That's not to say he's an ally; he's obviously still a firm proponent of the traditional catholic stances on these things, but it seems to me there's a difference between continuing to believe a homophobic religion and personally hating gay people.

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I've thought about this for dogs. I've never had a cat, but some of this probably applies, with the complication that they have a somewhat sour temperament as well.

It'd be nice on one hand, because I could say "chocolate will kill you, don't eat it", and they would know I'm not just being a chocolate-hoarding bastard. On the other hand, they couldn't get away with pooping in front of everybody. They get leeway on things like that because of what they don't know. It seems like a slippery slope where, yes, they would end up being treated more like older human children or human adults, and maybe that would spoil the cuteness a bit.

It's worth noting, I think, that historically dogs were expected to work for the most part. When food is often scarce having an extra mouth to feed for fun is conspicuous consumption. Often dogs were the food, too - we're the weird ones eating pigs but never contemplating eating dogs.

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Yup. They were domesticated around the time we invented agriculture and had large stores of grain that attracted rodents.

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What's the problem with CloudFlare? They're trying to make a profit, and so in the long run are the same as anybody, but every interaction I've had with them recently has left me impressed.

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Oh, okay, so I'm not wrong that they're good right now.

I'm a little unclear on how it works. Do they strip off HTTPS somehow? Otherwise, there's not too much unencrypted traffic around anymore.

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Oh hey, thanks for Lemmy!

Yeah, I'm a bit horrified to learn that Cloudflare is the crytographic endpoint for clients. I'm wondering how much stuff I've let them see unaware now. Because obviously nobody would voluntarily sign up for this kind of security bad practice. /s

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Jesus Christ, I didn't realise.

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Apparently they also strip encryption off and see everything, too.

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Man, I thought we were done with this shit when HTTPS became standard.

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Well, depends. If it's hosted on AWS and HTTPS terminates there like it's supposed to, Amazon could look inside, but a human being would have to personally hack your container and extract the data, so that's a bit better. If it's something more like Wix, though, sure. (Is Wix still a thing?)

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No terrible visible things, at least. God knows how much data they've hoovered up.

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Yep, that definitely will make them seem credible and serious. /s

Are there any EV cars without any "technology"?

Like the title says, are there any EVs that just have a Bluetooth radio and that's it? Like a normal car, not a smartphone on wheels? If not, do you all think that this will actually happen at some point? This is the main reason why I can't (and will never) buy an EV. I like to have actual buttons everywhere on my car. I think...

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The problem is that it takes a lot of computer power needed to run an EV. Battery management, power management, motor control, etc. Requiring that much computer power makes it a cheap and easy decision for car makers to just make everything part of that system.

How much does that take, exactly? It sounds like something a cheap microcontroller that you might find in a dumb appliance could easily do.

The thing about screens being easier than n custom physical buttons is true, though. I'm waiting for someone to put a haptic display in a car so the safety problems are somewhat ameliorated.

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I am not an engineer, but I imagine keeping multiple DC motors running efficiently/in sync together while outside influences change by the second isn’t easy.

It's easy. I'm not a professional engineer, but I'm close enough to know this one.

A typical phone CPU can make adjustments to an output many tens of millions of times a second. It might be "only" thousands for the 10 cent toaster CPU. If it had to model and predict the road ahead somehow, that'd be harder, but just responding to changes as the wheels hit them requires some trig operations at most.

As for the other bit, electric motors are way, way simpler than IC engines, just intrinsically. It's a clever arrangement of magnets, vs a block of metal that has to produce and withstand constant fuel explosions using barely-standardised fuels, and then convert the resulting energy into rotation at the gear ratio of your choice, and do it for years without breaking. With electrics, the magic is all in the battery chemistry.

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People would follow the silk road sometimes. Rome actually had limited diplomatic contact with China, even. That's not on the map, maybe because they didn't really understand where it was, besides somewhere far to the east. I'm surprised SE Asia is on it, I'll have to do some reading about that, but India was known even to the Greeks.

Quality of information would drop off really rapidly with distance, though, since it was easy to make up a fish tale about what you saw in far-off lands. So, you find a lot of crazy BS mixed in with helpful nuggets in things like Herodotus's Histories.

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There was one legion that got lost in Persia and ended up working for the Chinese.

Edit: Maybe, maybe not.

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Yup. Not because they couldn't, but because they figured they had enough boggy northern European territory, and would rather spend resources on Africa, Persia or the Middle East, which had nice things they wanted.

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IIRC some of the scribes say he actually did, but didn't stay out of respect for their bravery. But, yeah, that's basically "she goes to another school", that never happened.

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Is it? Oh, I didn't realise. I'll cross that out.

Yeah, it looks like the main evidence is that there's a mention of a similar formation to testudo being seen in western China a couple decades later, and maybe some Roman-style fortifications. According to Wikipedia a large number of prisoners were sent to Merv somewhat nearby, so it's all very suggestive, but definitely no smoking gun.

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How many times is this thing going to be posted? And it's still useless for any possible space mission, for a number of reasons.

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They should move to a model not several years old, if so. I'm leaning more towards a human not so good at writing, though.

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I mean, it seems to be a real story in this case. And not that surprising, either, tiny wires could shift. This is why we do testing.

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That's like asking who the craziest person is. Like, there's so many to choose from, and they get less and less well known as you go nuttier and nuttier.

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The point, for believers, is just to know stuff the sheeple don't and feel superior. It's a smug club, they could have picked anything to be contrarian about. It's unfortunate that they've picked a very measurable thing, so they occasionally self-own with experiments. It doesn't change their mind, though, because being right isn't the point.

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