user224

joined 2 years ago
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

As with all emotion, fear has an evolutionary basis. There seem to be some 'natural fears', such as the fear of spiders and snakes, which, although learned from cues by adults, humans seem predisposed to. Our ancestors needed to be afraid of picking up snakes or hurting them, and with time, features of our visual system that helped us detect snakes were selected and favored by evolution. It has been shown that the primate visual system responds selectively to mosaic patterns which are generally rare in nature, but common in snakes. Other fears that seem to be the result of natural selection are the fear of pointed objects and that of leopard spots.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 2 days ago (10 children)

First off, I live in the USA and I haven’t seen a gas station where you could pump without paying first

And I live in Slovakia and haven't yet seen pre-paid gas station either.
You pump the gas, go in, tell the cashier the pump number, pay, go back and leave.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You might be joking, but in Slovakia there have been a few censored PDFs I've seen where they just used black highliter. Like, the text was still there.
I thought it was something rare when I found that, but someone on Reddit found same shit elsewhere too.

Here's an example: https://www.teleoff.gov.sk/images/urad/odbory-oddelenia/odbor-statneho-dohladu-elektronickych-komunikacii/rozhodnutia-statneho-dohladu-elektronickych-komunikacii/rozhodnutie-zakaze-poskytovat-siete-sluzby-z-29-4-2025.pdf

Just select the "censored" text and copy it.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I am on a dorm, so my TP consumption is high.
Lemme explain:
So, there's a bunch of people using the same toilet, meaning it's quite gross. Additionally, it is very clear people don't bother to put the seat up, and just piss over it.
So, first wipe off everything that can be wiped off dry, then spray it with 70% isopropyl alcohol (and there's also like 1% H2O2 if it didn't decompose because that's (3%) also cheap and more available than distilled water to dilute the IPA) , let it be soaked for at least 30 seconds, then wipe it, then let the room air out because the vapors are quite strong, and then I still cover the seat with toilet paper because that's not as good as I like.

Preferably I'd be using bleach (sodium hypochlorite), but that's a little too inconvenient.

But I feel like the only thing that can sanitize this building is a nuclear bomb.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You can even get 250ml bottles there pretty cheaply. I've even printed quite some few pages with white text on black (make sure to use 120gsm paper for that) for fun. But in that case the cartridge has to be refilled like every 8 pages.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well we know, after all, it is as you say, public.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, now I know what that WAP stands for.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago

VPS with reverse proxy in front of a Raspberry Pi type shit.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 days ago

Uhhhh... I... uh... the... uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... next question?

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

what if you find a new guy who wants them

Ah yes, you don't have a say in whether you want children.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Counter-counterpoint: The battery saving features on my past 2 phones (Poco X3 Pro and Ulefone Armor 24) have been absolute shit. I am talking about randomly killing the music player, and even alarm.

And it's also been unstable as fuck. I avoid updates once I learn all the bugs... and learn problems from others. I've had the X3 Pro motherboard fail 3 times, lasting 9 months on average. And after repair, instead of EEA version, I received a Chinese motherboard, with different software, and different set of bugs I had to learn to work around. And I heard MIUI 13 made everything even worse. Plus I lost the option to opt-out from tracking, because after the repair I was no longer on EU version of the software.
And what I can do is limited.
Arch isn't exactly a stable experience. Every update seems to bring some random bugs. But it's typically the same thing for everyone, you can probably search around, and somebody has experienced it, and you can change things in your OS on your computer, because for the most part, it is YOUR computer. Can't do that with a phone.

When I was unlocking my Motorola, I had to agree to a license agreement stating that I will not resell or otherwise transfer my phone to a different person, and that I will be held liable for any damages or bodily injury including death caused by the device.
Please corporation, have mercy, let me use the device I paid for.

Also if the phone fails, I just lost everything at once.

Plus I have to replace it a little too often. There's a lot of old electronics that only gets unusable because the plastics have already started decomposing, and either it's extremely brittle and falling apart, or a sticky mess (fixable with IPA in the sticky case).

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 days ago

Motorola maps volume buttons so that a long press skips instead of adjusting volume when screen is off. I really miss that one.

 

According to the prosecution, Glukhikh searched for pictures of Azov insignia on Google while he was on the bus on the morning of 24 September, though how the security forces had been made aware of the search was not disclosed.

The case materials include an image of Glukhikh’s phone lying on the table, clearly displaying the search query he is accused of making.

Bruh...

 
 

Top image source: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/9ol79n/are_we_doing_blurry_server_cats_now/

Seen on Cisco Catalyst 3560G during pirated software update (just for playing around, not production use).
The checksums were verified against Cisco download center.

 
 

Sorry for the Imgur link, catbox wasn't loading as image, just as a link again: https://files.catbox.moe/j3a7cl.PNG

 

Approximately EUR 8 including shipping. Still sealed (probably - if not re-sealed).
There's definitely some more stuff in the box like a manual and driver disc that I can hear moving around. After all, the boxes are fairly large compared to what you'd get today.

I'd want to unpack them... but I also don't because they survived so long. I don't know. Maybe if I'll get yet another one...

Here's a look at the entire box:

Specs:
Bluetooth 1.2 Class 1
USB 1.1

Minimum requirements:
300MHz CPU
128MB RAM
Windows 98SE

So what about the Class 1?
Typically the devices you use are Class 2 with Tx power of up to 2.5mW and range of around 10m.
Class 1 can go up to 100mW with range of around 100m. Assuming both ends are same class. Otherwise you're just causing more interference on 2.4GHz.
https://www.sharetechnote.com/html/Bluetooth_Specification.html#Bluetooth_Classes_and_Ranges

It also has an external antenna giving it some cool factor.

 

Bought online for EUR 22.

At first I got worried because it was just clicking. I thought I got one with the click of death, But after some 15 minutes of several retries, it got quieter and eventually started loading disks.

Curiosity killed the cat. I was curious to see what's on them:

The ones on left had no files, the 2 on right did. Mostly the F disk. The top one had some program called powerdvd 4.

On the F one, photorec found some TTF files (fonts), exe files, 4 second videos of motorcycle speeding up and fireworks, CompCore Multimedia inc. SoftPeg bitmap banner, and some random TXT files with variables and program descriptions.

Stored undeleted were game saves of following games: Etherlords, Gorasul, Hooligans, Operation Flashpoint (incl. exe), Renegade, Sacrifice, Serious Sam - The second encounter

There were also some spreadsheets with lists of games, and of course RAR archive with colection of generic porn.

The only interesting file is spreadsheet with list of compenents for a "new computer". Most files were dates around 2002.
Case - Miditower ATX
MOBO - Microstar MS KT266 Pro2 RU VIA PRO266A
CPU - AMD Athlon XP 1900+ Socket A
Cooler - Evercool MT2 Platinum Socket A DMI
RAM - DDR PC333 CL2.5 Kingmax 256MB
FDD - Alps 3.5" 1.44MB
HDD - Seagate ST340016A, Barracuda IV, 2MB (buffer), 7200rpm
GPU - Microstar MS8853 G3 Titan 500 Pro, 64MB TVout
Network - Ovislink

 

Source: https://meow.social/@yellowdog/115132494291526535

I lied, there's no Netflix.
Instead I have a local Jellyfin server with twenty terabytes of pirated media.

115
G GG (files.catbox.moe)
 

Found being sold online.

 
 

Right, so Racknerd doesn't offer Arch image:

As for custom ISO installers, that requires opening a ticket with tech support, giving them a link to the ISO, and asking them to mount it.
Well, I am not doing all that.

So, there's also this outdated (will become important later) "rescue environment":

Linux Kernel 4.x is Debian 9 and 3.x is Debian 8. I don't know why they couldn't just say that.

So, the recovery environment has some RAM (but seems to be less than the VPS), and some storage (around 1GiB). The free storage is around 350MiB.
The recovery environment can be accessed over SSH. OpenSSH 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u4, on that older thing, if someone is curious. Modern OpenSSH client just complains about old key exchange (quantum-resistance), but connects.

Welp, Arch Linux bootstrap is 138MiB compressed, so let's go.
But not so quickly.
There's no wget, nor curl. So let's install them.
Well, apt no longer works. Old minimal environment without package installer. Cool.
I found some trick for HTTP on stackexchange using telnet. No telnet.
No lynx either.
So I downloaded it onto my PC. I first got the idea of unpacking it directly from different server, but yeah, right, no sshfs. That would have been useful for directly dd-ing images.
So I try to use rsync. Of course there's no rsync. scp saves the day.
Let's unpack the bootstrap now, shall we? We shall not, there's no zstd to decompress the archive.
The bootstrap won't fit uncompressed, and anyway, I am uploading over mobile data.
LET'S FUCKING GO! Gzip is installed.
I created a temporary 1.5GiB partition for the bootstrap, this later becomes swap space. And then I can more or less follow installation with Arch Wiki. There's also this wiki page, but it's mostly just regular Arch Install.


That's a very healthy memory usage. RAM nearly full when something else is running, swap typically above half. But their RAID-10 SSD setup seems to be doing well for that.
Speedtest, or really anything is mostly limited by that single virtual core.
I don't know what their shutdown, reboot, change root password, and reconfigure networking would do or screw up in this case. I haven't tried them yet.
The VNC cuts out with Cloudflare captcha every so often, by the way.

 

Cyber criminals purchase advertisements that appear within internet search results using a domain that is similar to an actual business or service. When a user searches for that business or service, these advertisements appear at the very top of search results with minimum distinction between an advertisement and an actual search result. These advertisements link to a webpage that looks identical to the impersonated business’s official webpage.

In tips section:

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