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cecilkorik

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  • For 2nd time, grand jury refuses to indict New York AG Letitia James: Sources

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  • Just keep bringing in more grand juries against her until you either get an indictment or she dies, either way she's tied up for life.

    It's a DDoJ. Distributed-denial-of-justice.

  • TIME names ‘Architects of AI’ its Person of the Year

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  • Taking from Bezos to give to the poor? She's not a billionaire, she's the female Robin Hood.

  • TIME names ‘Architects of AI’ its Person of the Year

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  • I have never wanted to see an OSHA safety violation leading to mass death as much as I have when looking at that picture.

    Please drop all billionaires from the stratosphere without a parachute, thx.

  • DIY Unfinished Resurrection Project (DURP) challenge thru 1st Day of Spring. Selfhosters Encouraged!

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  • 100% completion is not required, but you’ll share whatever progress you have made.

    Granted, that still underestimates my ability to make actual progress. "Hooray, it's now twice as complicated and actually worse!"

  • New rifles on the way for Canada's soldiers as defence spending ramps up

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  • The liberals are the friendly-face nanny-state fascists, the conservatives are the scary-face anti-everything fascists, they're two sides of the same coin. They're both starting to swing fascist authoritarian, don't be deceived because they wear different costumes.

  • McDonald's faces backlash after airing 2025 Christmas commercial: 'This is just … terrible'

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  • Canada’s research strength is world-class—now we need to all pull in the same direction - [Opinion]

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  • The same direction? ... and which direction is that?

    ...please tell me it's not AI... please tell me it's not AI... please tell me it's not AI...

    <reads article>

    OF COURSE it's AI

    Well... I guess MAYBE some of it might not be AI...

  • Amazing Video Shows Tesla Optimus Teleoperator Taking Off Headset, Causing Robot to Stumble and Collapse

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  • The wizard desperately shouts, "PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!"

  • Firefox Account

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  • I recommend Librewolf, it's a lot more privacy-aggressive out of the box, and you can turn that down a little bit if you need, but otherwise it's just a more trustworthy Firefox fork as far as I'm concerned. It supports Firefox sync as well (which is telling, because Librewolf takes privacy very seriously and isn't going to provide too many easy opportunities for you to completely compromise it) Like the other person said sync is E2EE and the hosting server has zero-knowledge of any of your unencrypted data. If Librewolf trusts it, I trust it, and I think you can rest assured that with Librewolf, it's probably never going to be sabotaged either, which as you imply, is not necessarily true with Firefox.

    I don't recall whether they use Firefox's sync server directly or if they have their own, but either way, like I said, the server has no knowledge of or access to your unencrypted data.

  • [bash][git] Can I make a git hook exit before the command exits?

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  • I'm not a super-expert but I suspect it's probably still holding open the stdin and stdout file descriptors of the parent process. Try using &> /dev/null to throw them away and see if that helps. You could also try adding nohup in front of the npx, which does some weird re-parenting jazz to prevent the child process (npx) from actually being attached to the parent process so that it doesn't get auto-closed when the parent exits, which is kind of the opposite of your problem, but it might also help in this case.

    Another possible option is using systemd-run --user <command> which effectively should make it into sytemd's problem

  • Rename football in America, Trump says, because soccer owns that title

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  • First he came for the Gulf of Mexico, and I did not cry out, because I was not Mexico. Then he came for the Department of Defense, and I did not cry out, because I did not need defense. Then he came for the football, and ... HOLY SHIT that's a lot of angry football fans!

  • French navy shoots at 5 drones buzzing nuclear submarine base, AFP reports

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  • Most of the countries in the western world have spent so long not really being at risk of being at war that we really have no idea how to react to potentially actually being at war. We are so incredibly unprepared in such incredibly profound ways. Imagine being in a war and not having anti-air defenses around your most important strategic nuclear sites and having to rely on troops shooting at incoming aircraft with what I suspect were simply their service weapons, and almost certainly not even dedicated anti-drone weapons. Yes, drones are sort of new, that's not really an excuse. New things will happen during a war. You have to be able to react quickly to defend your critical assets at a moment's notice. The fact that we're still not doing that properly is a perfect demonstration of how far behind the curve we really are.

    I hope this changes soon with the sprawling investments being directed towards defense budgets, but I remain unconvinced, will it just result in more hyper-capable, hyper-expensive techno-wonderweapons? It's the cheap, good-enough, high-supply things that are currently threatening us, and both history and the present seem to tell us it's usually the cheap, good enough, high-supply things that both win wars and enable effective defense. Spending money seems like it would imply seriousness, but I don't think we're actually taking this seriously enough, yet. When you really get serious about war and defense you need to be asking the real questions about what it's going to take to win, not just throwing money at the problem.

    Maybe I'm wrong, maybe they're just sandbagging and waiting for the right moment to reveal our true defensive preparations, but I know a lot of people in various western militaries, and I honestly don't think so at all, and neither do they. If we are more prepared than we look, it's a pretty goddamn well-kept secret.

  • most universally acceptable video file formats?

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  • My old LG SmartTV seems most reliable at playing mkv files but I think mp4 is pretty standard.

  • What risk might I have accidentally exposed my computer to by viewing a pirated streaming site without AV blocking?

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  • It's very unlikely you are infected by anything unless you were using some crazy settings or addons, or unless you were hit by some extreme 0-day exploit that hasn't become widespread yet. Firefox does not and normally cannot execute files it downloads automatically nor are videos a likely risk for remote code execution now that we have technologies like data execution prevention built into processors, if you're attacked by malware it will rely on some other vector or trickery to get you to execute the file. I would expect that your performance issues are unrelated, but you should also check Firefox's addons and extensions as well as your task manager startup tab to make sure nothing has obviously been installed without your knowledge.

    One thing that sticks out at me is the fact that you only mention the file's "title" and if you haven't already you should make sure Windows Explorer is set up to ALWAYS show full file extensions, that's like a basic safety measure that really should be on by default but isn't, and it's really mandatory if you're messing around on the darker parts of the web. You have to know what kind of file extension it is because that affects what Windows is going to do with it, and when it's supposed to be one thing and Windows is going to do something different with it that's a huge red flag that it's malware trying to trick you into running it.

    You can upload the file to virustotal if you want to scan it but it doesn't sound likely that it even ran unless you did something bad by accident.

  • ‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants

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  • we're so cooked. it is really interesting to be living through the end of all civilization. I didn't think it would be like it is, but it do.

  • Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S.

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  • I mean, I guess it was my mistake for assuming literally everything that Trump says is a lie, but we obviously should've listened when he said he really likes Carney. Every day it's becoming even clearer why.

    The advantage of reducing us to a two-party system like the US is that once that's done, the corruption can simply take over both options and now the corruption is in full control. People still feel like they have a choice, that maybe one is more or less corrupt than the other, but it's Kang and Kodos. Their differences are cosmetic. Their actions are the same. Neither option is the right choice. Meanwhile, the NDP stomp their hat like Ross Perot, and people fear throwing their vote away, while actually throwing their vote away to either of the two most corrupt parties in "strategic voting". Yeah, it's a "strategy" alright. Just not yours.

  • Why did the proposed Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance project involve pumping water instead of siphoning it?

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  • The first problem would be the height of the intervening terrain and even if you could overcome that, you still have to contend with friction inside the pipe which is a factor most people don't think about for short distances but when you start trying to carry water long distances through a pipe, friction becomes massive. An ideal siphon inside an ideal pipe is simply a question of height between source and destination. However in the real world, a siphon isn't unlimited or ideal. There is a height it can't overcome and it's actually not very high at all, geographically speaking. The maximum height of a siphon is only around 10 meters. The terrain between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea is pretty flat, but it's probably not that flat. I'm not going to pretend I've done a precise survey of potential routes, but I'd expect there's probably some bumps in elevation along the way that's realistically going to need say, 100 meters of lift to overcome. But even 11 meters would simply end the conversation. There's simply no way around that for a siphon.

    The reason for this height limitation has to do with the atmospheric pressure required to keep the water liquid, because once it no longer has enough pressure on it to keep it liquid, it simply vaporizes before it reaches the height it needs to and the siphon is broken before it even starts. In a vacuum, at standard temperature, water instantly vaporizes. The external atmospheric pressure (which is acting on the entire water column up to its highest point, to get it over the hill) is all that is keeping the water in its liquid form inside the siphon. The higher you go, the more work that external pressure is doing, and eventually the weight of the water column exceeds the pressure at the bottom of the water column and again, the siphon breaks.

    The friction is the other problem. Even if you could limit your route to no more than 10 meters above the Red Sea, you're also asking the siphon to not only lift it to that height, but also carry that water through 200 kilometers of pipe or more. We don't think of pipes as having friction, but they do, and it's very significant at those distances, especially when your power source (gravity, in this case) is already operating near its absolute limits due to the height problem we already discussed. What you hoped would be a gusher of a siphon will end up being a trickle, if anything at all, with most of the water just sitting idle in the pipe to maintain the siphon while a little dribbles its way slowly through to the destination.

    Finally you've got all kinds of other more obscure effects at play at those scales, like water's surface tension, variability of flow rates, possible pinhole leaks in the pipe that will introduce air, offgassing of dissolved gases in the water or even from the pipe itself, and temperature gradients inside the pipe. All of these are going to play havoc with the ability to form and sustain a reliable siphon.

    In short, siphons are actually pretty limited, we don't see much of those limitations on the small scale, but on the larger scale of this project those limitations become very serious, very quickly and basically remove the possibility of using a siphon for any realistic practical water relocation project. Almost all of those go away very quickly when you pressurize the system with a pump instead of relying on atmospheric pressure alone. It's a fun thought experiment, but in practice a simple electric pump turns out to be a pretty cheap way to solve a lot of otherwise really complex hydrodynamic problems, and when that's the case, it's not really worth teasing out a solution to those problems with all kinds of complicated engineering. Just throw a pump at the problem and call it a day, job done.

  • Detainees at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facing ‘harrowing human right violations’, new report alleges

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  • I thought it was supposed to be closed at one point, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that never happened but I'm still not fully clear on its status. The article talks about it in present tense, but even the comments here are talking about it in past tense? Are other people also thinking it's closed? Is it actually still open? What's the deal?

  • India clinches $2.6 billion Russia submarine deal as Putin visits

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  • Ah yes, the famously reliable, safe, and effective Russian submarines, workhorse of the Russian navy. What should they buy next? Some guided missile cruisers? How about an aircraft carrier?