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@ Shadow @lemmy.ca

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Infrastructure nerd, gamer, and Lemmy.ca maintainer

  • Trump's Joint Address to Congress Megapost:

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  • I'm tempted to watch but it'll probably be 90 minutes of him rambling.

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  • Shoot it down, or just get it's attention. A lot of the time there's a radio fuckup. If some guy cruising in his Cessna sees a fighter pull up along side, he's definitely switching to 121.5.

    There was a commercial jet that was non responsive and the fighter could see the pilots passed out.

    Otherwise be there to shoot it down quicker if it looks like it might be taking an aggressive action.

  • Trudeau to bring up Trump's threat to annex Canada in meeting with King Charles

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  • Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal, said many Canadians would want a public statement from the king and they might be mad if that doesn’t happen.

    None of us care about the king. What's he supposed to do? England has more than enough problems of their own already.

  • Which antivirus do you use in your homelab?

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  • Windows defender on Windows PC's. Nothing on Linux.

  • From Alaska to Maine, communities that border Canada worry US tariffs come at a personal cost

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  • They have a grocery store there. Other basic needs though, no. Not much medical care, dentists, etc.

  • [Help] Bulk chmod when migrating from NTFS

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  • Chmod works recursively.

    What modes exactly are you trying to set? Why do you need different perms based on the file type?

  • What happened to cylindrical plugs?

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  • Usb c has 24 pins. A typical barrel / stereo style jack has 2 - 4. The connector would have to be absolutely huge to carry the number of wires.

    Power plugs are similar problems. You need 3 wires and you can't risk the pins crossing over each other and shorting out. You don't care about that on your headphones due to the low voltages. Wall plugs need to be fully isolated and safe.

  • Poland wants all civilian airports to be adapted for military use

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  • Active radar, rather than just passive that looks for transponders.

  • 'The Daily Show' accepts Musk's terms for interview with Stewart: 'We'd be delighted'

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  • Too bad there's no SEC to force him into the interview like when he offered to buy twitter.

  • Due to some questions emerging on my last posts showing my cat walls & trees, I decided to compile this album with widely used materials, tools and techniques.

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  • Really nice work. You've given me some ideas to level up my cats shelves.

  • Tired buddies

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  • Mine used to be best friends too, until the cat started being an asshole and now the dog doesn't trust him.

  • MapQuest Lets You Name The Gulf of Mexico Whatever You Want

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  • TIL MapQuest is still around.

  • Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups?

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  • I think there's a lot of grunt work artists than you might be aware of. My last job was at a video game studio and it was kinda eyeopening the amount of generic story boarding / art work they would send over to Eastern Europe / Asia to be done for cheap.

    The visible side of the industry (what you're talking about) yeah I agree, but AI is slowly going to pick away at the lower skill levels until only experts are really useful. How does a junior become an expert in that world?

  • Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups?

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  • how will it change the average person’s life in 1 - 3 years?

    To be blunt, it'll probably make them worry about losing their job. AI can't do everything and it does a lot of stuff pretty shitty, but so do a lot of people.

    Tech workers, artists and other industries have long had to compete with work being sent overseas. Now it's even cheaper and faster.

  • Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups?

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  • A lot will fail yes, but I think there's actually a lot of value in AI and many will succeed. Blockchain has always been a solution in search of a problem, but AI actually can help in a lot of ways.

  • Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co.

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  • I was intrigued by those things a while ago but the subscription + cloud BS was a no-go for me. That aquarium chiller is a cool idea, but not many of those covers on ebay.

  • USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them

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  • Stupid question - What happens to all the people he's firing? Isn't he just creating an unemployment crisis?

  • 2 killed in crash of small plane near municipal airport east of Atlanta, authorities say

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  • By contrast, the vast majority of light aircraft pilots I know are 60+, many 70+ with extensive health issues, heart problems and likely comparatively poor reflexes.

    Totally. I have my student license and everyone at the field is much older than I am. There's a reason that some plane models are called things like "doctor killers".

    Also there's a lot of random pilots up in places like Alaska or crop dusting in middle America that just don't give a fuck about anything. That tends to skew the stats a bit more I think.

  • 2 killed in crash of small plane near municipal airport east of Atlanta, authorities say

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  • Yeah you could totally make that argument. A cessna cruises at around 125 knots (143 mph) and google tells me the speed limit on a US highway is 85 mph.

    It's still less safe than driving a car, and not as safe as people assume all flying is (thanks to commercial flying being amazingly safe).