Fuck Samsung’s bloatware delivery mechanism, I just want a deep-dive documentary on the material science behind these types of glass

maybe MEGA.io

Ublock + SponsorBlock + the Unhook browser extension to hide everything except subscriptions + one custom Ublock filter to hide the suggested videos after the end which they snuck back in a few weeks ago

Unhook is really great

I managed to figure out how to bypass the cert verification in dbconfig-mysql (named on the tin as dbconfig-common) and got my appliance set up!

1. apt install dbconfig-mysql before installing the PhpMyAdmin package

2. In /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/dbc-mysql, in both sections where temporary my.cnf is defined, set ssl-verify-server-cert = off right below the port = line.

3. to install PhpMyAdmin, run DEBIAN_PRIORITY=low apt install phpmyadmin and follow the prompts

4. In /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php add the following line directly under $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = $dbserver;:

   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['ssl'] = true;
   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['ssl_verify'] = false;
   

This is why I say it can’t be reformed.

But shitlibs from .world wanna argue. Which is kind of a microcosm of why we are where we are in this country.

Thanks, but I really dislike adminer’s UI, although granted I’ve been using a fairly old version.

How about open source pluggable algos which can be optionally marked shareable between users and selected from a list sortable by number of “installs”

So like a user could define an algorithm to select posts, and then mark it shared, and other users could see it in a directory and try it out themselves, and optionally clone and hack on it, release a new version, etc.

As far as how the post selection algos could be defined, I’m thinking of something similar to the boolean query syntax in the Quod Libet music player, but one could also implement a more code-like syntax.

(I’m aware this is a huge ask, but I’ve had this idea for 8 years since my first Mastodon account, and have been too busy being oppressed by life to do anything about it.)

The eight senators were Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Dick Durbin of Illinois, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Angus King of Maine, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, but Levin said many more centrist lawmakers were likely “in on the play.”

On **MSNBC Monday, Shaheen acknowledged that Schumer was “kept informed” of the eight senators’ negotiations with the GOP regarding reopening the government.

[…]

“The coordinated nature of this—none [of the lawmakers who voted yes] are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate [minority] leader to stop it,”

(emphasis added)

Bold of you to assume it’s overwritten rather than being unlinked and having the random data written to entirely different flash blocks.

If you want to rely on “overwriting” data for security, you need deterministic storage; only CMR hard drives mostly qualify (leaving aside the question of bad-block remapping).

• No ruins, probes, artifacts, or lingering tech
• No Dyson spheres or interstellar beacons
• No signs of past galactic empires

Would we really be able to see any of these if they weren’t right in the immediate neighborhood?

• Some transcend biological limitations?

By inventing self-replicating machines, perhaps? :(

A few weeks ago I went on a wiki dive about some pedo shit that happened in broad daylight in the USA in the 1970s and was only solved after it got so fucking egregious the cops could no longer ignore it / write off all the dead kids as “runaways” and not investigate, and holy mother of jebus I can see why some people would believe in shit like Pizzagate after reading about shit that literally did happen in this country in living memory.

Start point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll … and this is only the start point, it branches out from there into major conspiracy involving dozens of motherfuckers who mostly got slaps on the wrist if any punishment at all

TW: extreme depravity + proof positive that life was cheap as fuck in America only 50 years ago

Radiators on Earth have conduction and convection available to them as well as radiation. Conduction and especially convection account for the vast majority of heat shed from the radiator.

Radiators in space have only radiation available.

None of this is going to happen.

Multiple articles have come out in the past week with techbros blathering about putting giant stacks of power-hungry compute in fucking orbit, and not a single one of them has explained how a) any of it is going to be cooled and b) how any of it will be even remotely (as in, within 2 orders of magnitude) cost-competive with data centers on the ground.

This is a scam seeking to part extremely rich fools from their money.

https://bird.makeup/@davidmdraiman/1802728061541990478

I’m hoping to reach this level with the tiny black formerly feral kitten who finally trusts me enough to sleep on me (but in a much more contained position) as of 3 weeks ago … that was a 15 month journey

It’s 100% a porn ban

It’s 100% a play to have positive ID on every single user of megacorp sites so they can be surveilled and controlled.

This is about the UK.

You didn’t notice how every western ❝democracy❞ introduced ❝age verification❞ bills simultaneously as they were losing control of the Gaza narrative?

Nicotine+ has such a weird UI

I’m very interested in this approach because I’m heavily constrained by money. So I am gonna be looking (in non appliance contexts) to develop workflows where genAI can be useful when limited to small models running on constrained hardware. I suspect some creativity can yield useful tools with these limits, but I am just starting out.

Protip: get dry marsala and do not use bottom shelf, use one up from bottom shelf (yes, even for cooking)