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sobchak

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    Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update plan

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  • You can boot Pis off an USB HDD or SSD. I think there are specific hats for that as well. But yeah, backups, at least of configs, are nice.

  • Compression!

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  • Yeah, I found zst recently as well. Quite a bit faster than xz/7z which is what I previously used (or gz when I just needed something fast).

  • What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?

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  • Yeah, I think they have ways to block payments. Could use crypto though. Would make them much less profitable, since less people would want to go through those hoops. I guess countries like China does pretty intense DPI, and starts throttling and blocking connections that just exhibit suspicious-looking patterns, not to mention blocking every known VPN, Tor bridge, etc.

  • What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?

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  • They could pass laws that made VPNs nearly useless (mandatory logging and law enforcement access), or could pass laws that made it nearly impossible to make money from running a VPN service (make VPNs liable for any "damages" they "facilitated").

  • This is literally me

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  • It is much easier to maintain software with static type checking.

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  • Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?

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  • The Alt-Right Playboook: Always A Bigger Fish explains that conservatives have a strong preference of hierarchy and order. They have this preference even if they are low on the hierarchy. They reason that maybe they themselves didn't work hard enough, weren't smart enough, or whatever, so don't deserve to be higher up. They gain a sort of comfort from "knowing their place." Those lower than them on the hierarchy deserve even less.

    I think this explanation is spot-on, and is more or less true for every "conservative" I've known. I suppose fascism also has this love of hierarchy, which is what the Republican party really is now (or, at least, very similar to it).

  • Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy

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  • Lol

  • Ford CEO says he has 5,000 open mechanic jobs with 6-figure salaries from the shortage of manually skilled workers: ‘We are in trouble in our country’ | Fortune

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  • Still, part of the problem for the shortage of manufacturing jobs is the lack of education and training, according to Farley. He noted, for example, learning to take a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck takes at least five years. The current system is not meeting the standard, he added.

    BS. It's not rocket science, and can be learned on the job with a proper apprenticeship culture, and without prior technical education. Also, if they had their engineers prioritize repairability at all, it wouldn't be such a difficult job.

  • SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83B

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  • Softbank is part of the "Stargate" project to build a $1 trillion AI manufacturing hub in Arizona. At least that's what I read on another article. I think OpenAI is supposed to be part of it too.

  • My girlfriend is an actual model, just fyi

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  • I always just considered AI as a CS field that included things like planning, pathfinding, logic and symbolic reasoning, and ML, of course. Most of it is built on optimization and constraint satisfaction algorithms.

  • Fuckin' Americans

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  • IDK if I've heard aluminum by itself called an alloy. I do know that steel wheels are typically not called "alloy wheels" for some reason; that's reserved for wheels made from an aluminum alloy.

  • Trey Parker Says South Park Didn't Get Political, But "Politics Became Pop Culture"

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  • Everything is political, and South Park has been one of the most political popular shows. I guess he means it didn't explicitly feature politicians as much.

  • God ****** dammit, here we go again

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  • I was thinking about this earlier. The password manager browser plugin I use (Proton Pass) defaults to staying unlocked for the entire browser session. If someone physically gained access to my PC while my password manager was unlocked, they'd be able to access absolutely every password I have. I changed the behavior to auto-lock and ask for a 6-digit PIN, but I'm guessing it wouldn't take an impractical amount of time to brute-force a 6-digit PIN.

    Before I started use a password manager, I'd use maybe 3-4 passwords for different "risks," (bank, email, shopping, stupid shit that made me sign up, etc). Not really sure if a password manager is better (guess it depends on the "threat" you're worried about).

    Edit: Also on my phone, it just unlocks with a fingerprint, and I think law enforcement are allowed to force you to biometrically unlock stuff (or can unlock with fingerprints they have on file).

  • U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October

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  • IDK. Tech companies are bringing in more revenue than ever. The trend seems to be companies reporting great revenue growth, then laying off shortly after, to which the investors seem to reward. In the past, layoffs would usually bring stock prices down, since they have less human capital to generate profit from.

  • Pit bulls are insanely dangerous, and most people who defend them are delusional and also secretly like seeing people get hurt by them.

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  • Any large dog is dangerous. I don't think most pit bulls are bred for fighting anymore.

  • If Musk manages to fulfill the terms of his contract, he deserves the $1 trillion payout.

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  • It'd be mostly the workers that fulfill the contract; Musk doesn't really do anything.

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  • I think Gen Z is more right-wing than millennials; at least the younger men.

  • Elon Musk Reportedly Obsessed With AI Girlfriend

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  • The design was probably AI generated itself. Looks very similar to that Death Note character.

  • How do I torrent safely in the US if I can't afford a VPN?

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  • Dunno, I haven't used private trackers in 10 years. You can add any magnet link to Tribler and it will go through exit nodes to hide your IP, kind of like Tor does for browsing clearnet. I haven't used i2p in a while either; back then, I used the Postman tracker, and don't know if that's still what most people do or not. I personally just use a paid VPN, because there really isn't a good way to set Tribbler up with an *arr stack.