Ephera

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Ephera OP ,

Yeah, I'm from Germany and we experienced this second-hand in 2022, when lots of French reactors were either in reparation or had not enough cooling water during the drought, so France imported tons of power from us and drove up prices.
This all happened on top of inflation and the Russian conflict, so hard to say how much it actually influenced prices, but those were quite high in the end, so presumably not nothing.

https://www.grs.de/en/news/situation-nuclear-power-plants-france-how-has-situation-evolved-our-neighbouring-country

Without this happening, I probably wouldn't have been acutely aware of nuclear producing much heat. Obviously, they do have those massive cooling towers and I have read before that it's just another form of steam power, but you know, never properly thought about it.

Ephera ,

Man, I'm tired of humanity min-maxing.

Sometimes it feels like everything we do, we compulsively scale it until resources are depleted and ecosystems collapse.
And because everything is globalized, that resource/ecosystem ends up being our whole planet. Anyone who does not participate, gets fucked anyways.

Ephera ,

What the fuck. If you let healthcare experts do their job, they will pick the evidence-proven measures themselves. If you prohibit them from doing their job freely, then they can't do that.

Ephera ,

I was hoping the emoji was actually the flag of Monaco, so I could be even more smug about it, but nope, OP actually used the Unicode symbol for the Indonesian flag.

Ephera ,

FUTO's The Open Source Definition

Open source just means access to the source code. [...]

What is wrong with this company? How do you have the thought and then follow all the way through with it, that you need an own definition of a commonly used word? That's just being obtuse and annoying.

Ephera ,

We'd need some special syntax for fedi post links then, like there is for mentioning Lemmy communities. Otherwise there's no way to know, if e.g. https://programming.dev is a Lemmy instance or some other random website.

Ephera ,

Well, yeah, you could rewrite every link that's displayed. So, if someone links to https://the-link-you-want-to-go-to.com/, then your instance would basically make that link instead point to https://your-instance.com/outgoing?url=https://the-link-you-want-to-go-to.com/.

And then your instance's server would do the check and redirect you accordingly.

But the downsides are then:

  • It's slow. Instead of links opening directly, all of them need to redirect first.
  • It increases the server load.
  • It allows instances to track which links you click on. (And this is what such link rewriting is often used for. People here would absolutely riot.)

And well, in theory there's nothing stopping Lemmy from displaying posts from Mastodon or other Fediverse services. You can just request their data from the federated server via ActivityPub.

In practice, though, it's not always easy to display these posts in the UI of a different service. For example, Mastodon posts only show up on Lemmy, if the person who created the post tagged a specific Lemmy community, because you kind of want them to show up as part of a specific community.
On the other hand, Kbin is a piece of software that federates well with Lemmy, because they offer a similar user experience, and of course a lot of development time got invested into ensuring compatibility.
Federation with other Fediverse services are not supported yet, to my knowledge.

Ephera ,

Well, there's also the point that the holocene just started 11,700 years ago. That's basically yesterday, in geology terms. We can be the dominant occurence of the holocene. We don't need to give it a new name, just because we've now entered industrialization and whatnot.

Ephera ,

Many of the geological epochs ended with a mass extinction event like we're currently seeing. It's perfectly reasonable to declare the Holocene as the time period from the rise of the humans to their extinction. After we're gone/unimportant, something else will take over and then that's a new epoch.

Ephera ,

Well, the way I see it, the current mass extinction cuts off the food chain that we sit on. I doubt, we're going completely extinct, but I don't think many humans will still be around in 500 years. In that case, calling the epoch that follows the mass extinction as anything with "human" in the name, isn't very fitting.

And I'm not saying that the Holocene is currently defined as being about humans. I'm rather saying if people feel like there should be an epoch declared, in which humans altered geology, then I would declare the Holocene as such.
It only started 11,700 years ago. Since then, we've been dropping tools and treasures onto the ground, cultivated farmlands, built pyramids and castles, dug mines and quarries, dammed off rivers and oceans, and so on.

But ultimately, I rather think the post-industrialization time frame is a geological event, not an epoch.

Ephera ,

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Ephera ,

It's next to the House of Finally.

Probably...

Ephera ,

Gemini is basically an alternative web, so it has its own protocol, own server and browser software, and an own content language (heavily inspired by Markdown).
Everything is built to be much more lightweight, so certainly in the spirit of solarpunk.

But big downside is that "the thing you want" is honestly probably not on Gemini at all, because it does not share content with the HTTP web.

That does mean that all the ads and bullshit are gone, too (and cannot be implemented beyond static images, sponsored articles and I guess, ASCII art).
But yeah, at this point, it's most useful for reading (and writing) blog posts, and having fun with the technology itself. It does have a lovely community for that.

Ephera ,

Yeah, that shit is illegal where I live and search engines do it anyways. Unfortunately not enough lawsuits...

Ephera ,

This question actually came from another dude, but similar energy: I have a deep voice, so they asked, if it's relaxing to feel those bass vibrations in my body whenever I talk.

Ephera ,

It for sure is. Like a goddamn built-in subwoofer.

I just had never thought about it before the guy asked, because obviously, I kind of grew up with that voice.

Ephera ,

I think, it has to do chest voice vs. head voice.

Basically, when you vibrate your vocal cords, then depending on the frequency, it can either resonate with your chest cavity or with your head cavity. The chest cavity is larger, so it resonates at a deeper frequency and the resonance is louder, which is why most of us use chest voice while talking normally.

But yeah, as you go up, there's a bit of a range where you have to put more force into making your vocal cord vibrations heard, because at those frequencies, it does not resonate well with either chest or head cavity.

And then beyond that, you get into the range where it resonates well with the head cavity, so it's again not as taxing anymore to speak in that range (although still usually more taxing than chest voice, because it just resonates less loudly).

So, even with my deep chest choice, I do also have relatively good range into the upper registers, because well, my head cavity isn't particularly larger than others'.
But I have heard that some people cannot tap into their head voice, not without vocal training anyways.

Ephera ,

My mum does like to tell the story that when I was in like first or second grade, she attended some stage show that we were doing. And when I said something on stage, another mum whispered to her "Wow! What a deep voice that boy has!".

I do also remember not actually having that big of a voice change during puberty, so yeah, that is perhaps closer to the truth than one might expect. 🙃

Ephera ,

A million years ago, back when Reddit still existed, I used to hang out in the Firefox Subreddit and basically helped out with tech support there. At first, I just answered all the low-hanging fruit, but also read the answers from the more experienced folks and learned a lot from those.

And so, every so often someone at work (usually colleagues) will remark that their Firefox isn't working as expected. At which point, I have my ten minutes of being a Firefox support professional, where I walk them through the usual troubleshooting steps and we get the issue resolved in no time.

It's always kind of funny, because no one expects it. Like, it is a tech job, so it's not unusual for a colleague to have deep knowledge about a technology, but with browsers, people just seem to think there isn't much to know about them.

Ephera ,

To be honest, the issues are quite varied, because there's so many webpages and extensions out there. But thankfully the solutions are pretty uniform.

Very often, all that people need is a hard refresh of the webpage they're looking at (Ctrl+F5).

If that's not it, then frankly these steps will resolve 95% of problems: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-and-diagnose-firefox-problems

If the problem looks more fundamental, I also like to narrow it down by trying a fresh Firefox profile right away.
This gives you practically a factory-reset Firefox (except you can switch back to your old profile to get your configurations back). So, if it still occurs in the fresh profile, then something's wrong with the OS or the Firefox installation, not with Firefox's configuration.

Ephera ,

If you get the frozen ones, you can use them as a tire. 🙃

Ephera ,

A lot of the processing and multitude of ingredients is also done, specifically because people want the flavor, texture and look of meat, cheese etc.. There's tons of vegan options for protein that have 1 ingredient and 0-2 processing steps.

Ephera ,

I enjoy how Microsoft seems to just sit it out. I get that if they respond to it, it gives more attention to the problem. But genuine security researchers poking holes into your feature, that is not something you can sit out. It will be exploited, if they release it like that.

Ephera , (edited )

Man, during my apprenticeship, I spent a month in the offensive security department, meaning white-hat hackers. My most memorable experience there was us scrolling through a WireShark log of a server (which a user had conveniently placed into a web-hosted folder, so that our automated scanners could pick up on it).

Then we found an unencrypted FTP connection in there, which meant the password got logged in plain text and then we tried the same password for SSH. In roundabout 10 minutes, we had root access. On a real-world system.

And yeah, watching the guy in the video scroll through those Recall logs, that felt eerily similar. Like you just need the right Ctrl+F, the right screenshot or any clue that they're using some insecure technology to exploit. If you can extract those logs, it's likely just a matter of time until you find something.

Ephera ,

Nothing matters, but neither does that fact.

Growing up in a population with lots of spirituality, it felt like a requirement to have some higher meaning to your life. And me deciding one-by-one that I didn't believe in the spiritual stuff, it felt like I was missing that higher meaning.

What I didn't realize for too long, is that if I don't believe in the spiritual stuff, then I necessarily also don't believe that the spiritual people have a higher meaning to their life. And that it's not a requirement. A regular meaning or even no meaning is just as fine.

Ephera ,

If it's a short note, it's usually not that dramatic. If it's a long note and you're still playing it, then have no shame in adjusting as soon you hear that it's off.

Generally, though, don't beat yourself up about it while learning. Just make a mental note that you eyeballed too low/high and try to do better next time.

Ephera ,

Personally, I'm not a fan of these shorthands, because I've seen many people (including me when growing up) make some pretty glaring logical errors based on them. And particularly with creationists also existing, I'm really wary of people thinking it's an intelligent process.

Ephera ,

That's a "crash cymbal", by the way. Pronunciation is very similar, but it's a different word.

Ephera ,

Fucking hell, if I spent $230 on a goddamn toothbrush, I'd expect that thing to last me for a lifetime.

Ephera ,

That has definitely been my strategy, yeah. It's just such a wild discrepancy to the handful of dollars you spend on a perfectly serviceable hand-operated brush.

Ephera ,

That NSA agent is going to have a grand old time, listening to poop concertos.

Ephera ,

I had to think of a ghetto accent "I'm ga'a fuck you up, mate".

So, it's not like there's no movement in that single syllable. A mild attempt is made at pronouncing two syllables, by having the back of the tongue shortly touch the roof of the mouth. But for properly pronouncing an "n", the front of your tongue needs to touch the roof of your mouth, and that's certainly not happening.

Ephera ,

I really wasn't sure, if the guy is attacking or supporting Trump, from just the quote.

Though, I guess, I should have known from trying to frame it as a war. Fascists have no basis for their political stance, without it being a made-up us vs. them situation.

Ephera ,

"Bingo bongo, my heart beats like a bongo. Bongo bingo, if you'd be mine, that would be a bingo."

Ephera ,

For me, it's like, I have a lot of knowledge about computers, because I do a lot with computers.

And I do a lot with computers, because they don't overstimulate me like going to parties/events/whatever.

I do imagine, there's other factors involved, too. Like, I'm able to memorize things really well and probably able to think more rationally, which makes me good at computers to begin with, but I'd still have a lot of knowledge about computers and not a lot of knowledge about all the social stuff.

Independently, I also happen to have chronic fatigue+pain. It meant that I spent even more time doing things with computers.
And yeah, that one I've thought harder about. What if I do go to the doctor and they make it disappear. Would I become a different person?

Probably the same answer. I might lose my hyperfocus and pick up more interests over time, but I'd probably still do a lot with computers. I've got hardly any other hobbies now and still far too little time for all my computer side-projects.

Ephera ,

Problem is, you can't turn it off. Which is why we're quick at problem solving, but slow at everything else.

Or something. 🙃

Ephera ,

Eh, they could have written it differently, each time hypothesizing that someone might wonder XYZ, but I appreciate the brevity of this format. And I do not think that the questions or answers are unreasonable.

Ephera ,

Nope, seems to purely be the mass extinction thing. In fact:

modern cars hit more bugs, perhaps because older models push a bigger layer of air – and insects – over the vehicle.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-splatometer-tests-reveal-huge-decline-number-insects

Ephera ,

Apparently, it's the other way around, presumably because unaerodynamic cars pushed around a big air cone, which deflected the insects.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-splatometer-tests-reveal-huge-decline-number-insects

Ephera ,

I think, they mean across generations. Theoretically, infinite generations could follow, with therefore infinite new humans.

Either way, it doesn't actually need to be infinite, but rather just approaching infinity, to give high enough of a chance for a monkey to produce hamlet. Even just the 8 billion humans alive are already a pretty massive number of monkeys.

Ephera ,

Yes, please refer to my second paragraph.

Southern Germany hit by catastrophic flooding ( www.dw.com )

Germany is feeling one of the first consequences of climate change - regular catastrophic floodings. One of the last floodings was the one in Ahrtal - here's a report about that one: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/13/floods-then-and-now-photographs-germany-ahr-valley-flooding-disaster-july-2021...

Ephera ,

Unfortunately, I doubt many people will make the connection. Due to the continuing rainfall, it has been relatively cool over the past two weeks. Particularly in Bavaria, the ruling party also has an interest in not understanding that it's connected to climate change.

Ephera ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor

Ephera ,

A former colleague had the title "Project Professional".

As you can tell, he was good at doing projects, just not at doing anything in those projects.

Ephera ,

"Web3" is the crypto stuff.
"Web 3.0" is federation.

Obviously, no one has a trademark on these names, anyone could make up a meaning, but yeah, these two definitions/names exist already.

Ephera ,

Nope, those are being reduced, too. Wind and solar are growing to fill the gap. I guess, people are saying that if only we would have ramped up nuclear, we could've turned off more fossil fuel-powered generation.

But yeah, shit's complex. The last nuclear reactor was fast-tracked to be shut off, because there was fear that Russia might bomb it. We also don't have uranium of our own and dependence on other countries for our energy generation wasn't exactly popular when Russia was our main supplier of natural gas, too.
We've also been looking for 60 years and still have not found a place where we could store the nuclear waste. Pretending that we'll find a place for it any time now, that's just a meme at this point.

Ephera ,

Most 2D games. We're only slowly figuring out how to make 3D games not look janky...

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