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16 days agoYeah, but unless you know the hash of a file, you can’t look it up. The gnutella network can find files by name.
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And that’s why I think it’s an issue. The least popular tracks, which are the most likely ones to disappear from the internet, are the ones they store in the lowest quality. While I’m glad they made this huge effort for preservation, and understand the limitations of storage space, I also wish they would have at least preserved the original 160kbps streams.
2·17 days agoThe Avatar movies are mostly a tech demo. They’re impressive when you look at the CGI, all the special effects, the audio, the 3D, the scenes…
The story isn’t bad, it’s just average. Competently made, but predictable. However, it makes sense when you realize the story is just the excuse to make everything else. There has to be one, but it really doesn’t need to be complex as long as it gets to show what Cameron wants to show.
I think most people watch the movies to see the tech demo, and that’s why, despite being some of the highest grossing movies, they don’t have that big of a cultural impact.
8·1 month agoFunnily enough I still look for the Control Panel before even attempting to find a setting in the Settings app.
The Control Panel is consistent, it works, and it hasn’t changed in years. Meanwhile the Settings app gets rearranged every 2 months, with constant design changes, and it’s also terribly slow on low end devices and VMs.
It’s sad that Microsoft is “unifying” the Windows settings and killing the Control Panel in the process.
2·1 month agoRelying on a chance machine to thoroughly test your code sounds like a recipe for disaster
16·1 month agoThe paper was very poorly written. It has no structure, no argument, it’s short, and the author just writes the same 5 sentences over and over while changing a few words. That writing level does not correspond to a university student, and I would have gotten a 0 for it in 6th grade, regardless of the citations.
3·1 month agoMy vote goes for Mr. Sooty.
So mysterious. So superb.
3·1 month agoEven though the days are named differently in spanish, we still have the same problem. We have 2 days that start with M: “martes” and “miércoles”. Luckily, someone noticed it was an issue and it’s common to use an X for “miércoles” (instead of LMMJVSD, calendars often use LMXJVSD). I find it kinda neat.
I use Unexpected Keyboard.
It’s mainly made for programming or using Termux, and it makes some special characters more accessible than the classic keyboards. It also has a mechanic for typing special characters that makes it faster to type. And you can enable a compose key, which is something I love to see on a phone keyboard.
Unexpected doesn’t have voice recognition though, but it can be enabled by installing a voice recognition app alongside the keyboard.
52·1 month agoYes. It loads faster, it has integrated quality levels that increase while loading (so a web hoster doesn’t need to have 5 different copies of the same image at different qualities), it has better compression and it also supports more features. It can also be lossless. Most importantly, jpeg can be converted to jpeg xl losslessly, and it will have the benefits of jpeg xl.
This comment was written by someone who doesn’t live in a tourist destination.
Oops 😅
Yeah I meant to reply to the other user (it was late at night and I didn’t look too much at what I was replying to). Idk how to change the person I’m replying to so I’ll leave this here. You’re good tho.
genocide /jĕn′ə-sīd″/
noun
The systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.
The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.
The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
This is the definition of genocide. What is happening in Gaza is that the IDF is systematically killing palestinians on the basis of their ethnicity, which is genocide. Nobody can dispute that at this point, and there is no middle ground.
However,
(“US doctors report IDF snipers are intentionally targeting children in Gaza”)
(Archived version) https://archive.is/ZMHTE
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/11/03/israel-bombs-toys/
(“Israel has been caught disguising bombs as toys to kill Palestinian children”)
(Archived version) https://archive.is/nCn3n
(“‘It’s a Killing Field’: IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid”)
(Archived version) https://archive.is/EhYJy
(“Occupied West Bank: Increased Israeli violence against Palestinians must stop”)
(Archived version) https://archive.is/cdlCG
(“Israel using water as weapon of war as Gaza supply plummets by 94%, creating deadly health catastrophe: Oxfam”)
(Archived version) https://archive.is/3vNtF
(“UN experts appalled by relentless Israeli attacks on Gaza’s healthcare system”)
(Archived version) https://archive.is/UtkBh
(“Israeli attacks on educational, religious and cultural sites in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, UN Commission says”)
(Archived version) https://archive.is/iq6ca
Israel has been caught ordering the IDF to target innocent and unnarmed civilians in search for aid, it has relentlessly (and purposefully) targeted children, it has destroyed all water, health and education infrastructure and deliberately poisoned the land to make it unlivable. It’s impossible to argue there is no intent, because Israel’s actions have been very deliberate.
I should also add that IDF soldiers are loving this genocide:
https://theintercept.com/2024/08/09/israel-prison-sde-teiman-palestinian-abuse-torture/
(“Video of Sexual Abuse at Israeli Prison Is Just Latest Evidence Sde Teiman Is a Torture Site”)
(Archived version) https://archive.is/1kjbp
(“The first livestreamed genocide”)
(Archived version) https://archive.is/4Zli4
IDF soldiers have been caught multiple times abusing and torturing palestinians in israeli prisons, many times for fun. They also like to upload videos of themselves killing palestinians and laughing at it to social media.
Lastly, the UN report I linked on a previous comment (and every other genocide report) have already analysed the facts, and if you had read them, you’d know they already come to the conclusion that there is intent, and a lot of it.
After years of a continued genocide, that has been televised and broadcast to the whole world, and after seeing all the war crimes Israel keeps committing against the palestinian people, it is inexcusable to still defend the position that it is not a genocide.
So fuck off, and stop defending a bunch of nazi, genocidal war criminals.
14·2 months ago“If we prove that the sky is blue, but I say it’s red, Wikipedia should say the sky is purple”
What is currently happening in Gaza is a genocide, by exact definition of the word. Nobody contests that, and even the UN has called it genocide.
The Covid lab leak is also a conspiracy theory, and no reputable scientist doubts it. The latest reports about it have come from the Trump administration taking control of government websites to post misinformation. They also said climate change doesn’t exist and vaccines and tylenol cause autism, which is another conspiracy that has been proven to be false. One should not give credibility to such articles.
Torrenting on TOR is actively discouraged for a reason. It will also be slow and exit nodes are probably in many blacklists, so you won’t get good seeds.
If you want to torrent over a shadownet, use I2P. It allows torrenting (the Java I2P client even includes torrent software). It also has its own internal trackers. And due to the way it works, you can tunnel traffic for others without risk of getting flagged for something illegal or other people’s torrents (which happens with many other TOR alternatives that allow torrenting).
SMRs are snake oil. No SMR has really been built, and they share the exact same problems as “normal” nuclear. They’re expensive, still super slow to deploy, expensive to maintain and still produce waste. And all without the econony of scale which is what helps big nuclear reactors be “affordable”. You can read multiple articles on them, but here’s an example.
https://www.theenergymix.com/the-nuclear-mirage-why-small-modular-reactors-wont-save-nuclear-power/
Archived version:
Nuclear is not feasible and will never be.
For starters, it’s expensive. Really expensive. Insanely expensive. It also takes years to go online, and decades to decomission (which should be paid by the owner, but sometimes ends up being paid by the government because the owner went bankrupt or exploited a loophole). It’s also not quickly variable, so it needs a very constant demand.
Instead of investing in nuclear, one could invest in solar and wind. The latter can produce energy all day long, and if you have enough locations with wind farms, it starts averaging out and becoming constant. Both wind and solar are also quickly variable, so they can easily adapt to demand. They’re incredibly inexpensive and pay for themselves in a few years.
Batteries in the distribution network aren’t a good idea, and they’re also probably not gonna work. Even though they’re still cheaper than a nuclear plant, they’re pretty expensive and they have a lot of wear. Technologies have been advancing really fast, and we already have prototypes that look promising. However, they don’t make that much sense when you look at alternatives like pumped hydro. Pumped hydro is cheap, has a lot of capacity, can also quickly adapt to demand, and requires less maintenance than nuclear or batteries.
Another solution for energy storage is personal battery storage, which people install in their homes. Almost everyone who has solar already has a battery in their house, and even people without solar buy batteries to charge during the night and use up during the day. These batteries can be made with recycled electric car batteries, so they’re also carbon neutral and cheap.
And this is all without touching on the real issue of nuclear waste, which nuclear promoters always sweep under the rug. Yes, the amount of nuclear waste produced is minuscule. Yes, it’s not dangerous at all as long as it’s properly dealt with. Yes, it’s still better than the massive amounts of pollution that fossil fuels create. But it’s still a form of pollution, it’s dangerous when mishandled, and most importantly, it has to be kept in storage facilities for thousands of years. Those storage facilities are paid for by governments, which in turn are financed by our taxes. And we can only keep building them, because no waste goes out and new waste keeps going in. So even if the number in our electricity bill is small, we still pay more costs related to nuclear with our taxes.
TL:DR: Nuclear is expensive and slow to build and doesn’t adapt well to the variability of demand. Renewables, especially solar and wind, are cheap and effective, and there are many ways (not just batteries) to efficiently store excess energy to use during periods of low production. Nuclear also generates waste, which even though it may not be dangerous, is still expensive to store for thousands of years.
Disclaimer: I’m not endorsing fossil or non-renewable energy in any way, I’m all for net zero energy production. But nuclear is not net zero and not a good solution. We can completely ditch fossil fuels without relying on nuclear, and it can work. I live in a country where we’re decomissioning nuclear plants and we generate more than 50% of our electricity from renewables. On average, we generate close to the same amount of energy from wind than from nuclear (~20%).
All tools that bruteforce passwords attempt each password only once, and if it doesn’t work, discard it. Nobody really runs 2 identical attacks back to back (they’re incredibly slow when done over the internet), so the password would seem uncrackable at first glance.
This approach wouldn’t work with hash cracking, vault breaking or file encryption, because once they get their hands on the hash/vault/file, the attacker can use their own code for hashing/checking a password candidate.
18·3 months agoElon musk has between $470B-$500B to his name, according to bloomberg and forbes. That would make him richer than the world’s wealthiest 8 men in 2017.
He’ll do it regardless. Half of what he’s done was already illegal. More of what he’ll do will be illegal. He doesn’t care as long as nobody stops him.