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@ snowe @programming.dev

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I'm a staff software engineer at Sunrun, the USA's largest residential solar installer.

I mostly work with kotlin, but also java, python, ruby, javascript, typescript. My hobby is picking up new hobbies. Currently bird photography and camping.

  • Can someone fact check this

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  • There are flying rates for owls, like the barn owl is 80 km/h. Flying from NA to Europe wouldn’t even take more than 100 hours (60 from Boston to Lisbon), so with that it would mean the bird would be spending 3kW of energy, which is just nonsensical.

    All birds have a kJ/d amount, and even with a huge multiplier you wouldn’t come anywhere near the amount in the meme.

  • TIL that if you search "Password generator, [x] characters, [y] strength" at DuckDuckGo, it will generate a password for you.

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  • all they need to do is get you to install a sketchy browser extension and then anytime you generate a password on ddg they've captured it. No man in the middle necessary. Unlike generating a pw with your pw manager, then inserting it with your pw manager or just typing it into the field (which shouldn't be accessible to extensions on any appropriately coded site).

  • Can someone fact check this

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  • Can someone fact check this

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  • It is falsifiable, just from a basic bird standpoint. Energy usage and flight speed is listed on allaboutbirds.org and you can calculate the rest just from knowing how birds work (for one, owls don't really migrate at all, though there are of course exceptions with everything in bird world).

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  • The barn owl (the most common owl on the planet) weighs max 700g (listed on Table 1 here https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/brnowl/cur/appearance#meas but you need a subscription). So like 1.5 lbs.

    Birds don’t really migrate east/west, and owls hardly migrate at all, and only a few species, not really barn owls. I’m not sure if there is an owl that migrates like that but even if it was true, tiny ruby throated hummingbirds migrate nonstop across the gulf. Weight doesn’t really matter.

    Kilowatt is a rate of energy, not an amount. So let’s calculate that. And energy use in owls is documented on birds of the world as well. Flight speed is 80 km/h https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/brnowl/cur/behavior#locom

    Energy use is 360.4 kJ/d, let’s triple that for continual flight across the ocean (idk I’m just making that up since this is all fake anyway), so 1081.2, we’ll round up to 1100.

    Estimates of daily food consumption rates are limited. One captive female consumed a mean of 60.5 g/d over one year, amounting to 10.1% of her mass daily; consumption varied from 46.4 g/d in the warmest periods to 74.0 g/d in the coldest times (147). Two American Barn Owl consumed a mean of 74.1 g/d over a 10 d trial in August; it was estimated that energy use was 360.4 kJ/d (148). Other measures of daily food intake for wild American Barn Owl estimated from pellet contents range from 110 g/d in summer in Colorado (113) to a mean of 150 g/d over 1 yr in California (149). The mean gross energy intake for 4 (1 female, 3 males) sedentary American Barn Owl was 68.9 kcal/d; mean existence energy was 54.6 kcal/d, resulting in 79.3% efficiency in food utilization (150).

    I just measured across from Massachusetts to Portugal, around 3000 mi or 4800 km. About 60 hours, so 1100 kJ/24h / 24/h x 60 h = 2750kJ = 657265.774 Calorie.

    So yeah, very fake.

  • How I block all 26M of your curl requests

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  • The HN comments are full of people discussing how to get around the software. This is why it costs so much to run programming.dev. People that think the cost of information should be free and that anyone they want info from should bear the cost of giving them that info.

  • Linux Users

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  • with fzf you get better grep with fuzzy search

  • Linux Users

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  • works in fish shell as well.

  • How is Photoshop performance on WinApps?

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  • I struggled with WinApps as well. wasn't ever able to get gpu passthrough working either, and trying to do so really destabilized my computer. I pretty much gave up. That's not to say that WinApps doesn't work. It does, it's just not near native for me. There's definitely slowness, at least with Lightroom, I haven't tested with PS yet, though I have installed it.

  • Status Page is empty, claims operational

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  • Hm. Pulsetic seems to have removed our status monitors. I have gone ahead and added the monitor back, but pulsetic seems to not want to show our status anymore. I'll have to investigate other options for a service monitor.

  • Linux is now 34 years old. Happy Birthday!

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  • Yeah defining an announcement of something as its birthday is weird. I’m also biased on this, cause it came out on my birthday.

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  • I restarted the server so hopefully some stuff speeds up and your post eventually shows up.

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  • We’ve been having problems with the whole instance being incredibly slow so I’m guessing it’s more related to that. We keep getting behind on activities anytime lemmy tries to create the aggregates.

  • Illegal Image detection

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  • It blocks access to the link on your site. For example, on programming.dev people have uploaded CSAM. The links are immediately blocked (e.g. no one can get to them except an instance owner actually looking in the pictrs database) and then in the CF dashboard you get a notification with the link to the webpage it occurred on.

    CSAM blocking works based on a known agreed upon, shared hash list which is created by a consortium of large tech giants. If novel CSAM is uploaded to your instance, then yes, it will fail to catch that. db0’s plugin might catch it though. LLM blocking doesn’t have the benefit of a bunch of multi billion dollar companies trying to stop it, in fact they’re doing the exact opposite, so yes LLM blocking sucks.

    For your edit, I would expect you to have an email set up that you would get the notice from. You are not responsible for this kind of stuff until you have been notified, pretty much globally, so pay attention to your email.

  • Illegal Image detection

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  • You can set up Cloudflare as your CDN and turn on CSAM detection. It will automatically block links to known CSAM from the managed global CSAM hash lists.

    If you want something in addition to that, you can use db0’s plugin that adds in a similar capability.

  • Wages are stagnant and cost of living is ridiculous. Are we headed for a crash?

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  • Really weird reading an article that interviews someone you’ve worked for (who is a billionaire themselves).

  • Your feedback on changes to private voting, please

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  • When I was working on adding voting to lemmy (I never finished it) one of my features I wanted was exactly this. Essentially locking down votes to your instance, meaning you have to have an account in the instance to vote and the votes won’t federate. This would make it so that users of the instance could make decisions without brigading from other instances.

    One thing I do beg you to add: 3-2-1 voting and STAR voting. We really need to stop using plurality voting for things.

  • Lemmy.World April update

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  • I see, you're talking about manual reporting (as in you filed a report directly on CF's website) rather than CF's CSAM scanning. This is the same as reporting CSAM to any US service provider.

  • Lemmy.World April update

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  • They do not. Here’s the email I got (I maintain programming.dev).

  • Lemmy.World April update

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  • Cloudflare does not automatically report to the NCMEC anymore.