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  • What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread

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  • On a related note, it would be nice if there was a shared storage option for self hosting. It wouldn't be the same as self hosting, but more like distributed hosting where everyone pools storage they have available and we could have an encrypted sharing option.

  • How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL?

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  • My guess is that he thinks SQL is an app or implementation like MS-SQL. It would be pretty surprising if the government didn't use SQL as in relational databases, but if it doesn't it's even more unlikely that he understands even the first part over whether having duplicate SS numbers is in any way unexpected or unreasonable. Most likely one of the junior devs somewhere along the lines misunderstood a query and said something uninformed and mocking, and he took that as a good dig to toss into a tweet.

  • Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

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  • I think it's worth noting that the bigger issue here might not be the drm, but the access Amazon has into your device. Regardless if you can download 'another' version of the book or not (that is something you can find out for yourself relatively quickly) there is no reason it should be considered ok for the company to insist that it can connect to a device you own and modify the contents of it. Even with ownership of the books being a topic, certainly there should be little questions of whether you own the device, and along with that being able to control access to it.

    Surely there is something in the user agreement that states accessing the download functionality also grants Amazon permission to go in and claw back things they've uploaded to the device, but i think that should be at least half the argument. Restrict whatever they want up front, I've downloaded it to my device and they consider that a fair exchange for my money, but to then say they screwed up on their end so they're taking it back (assumedly without giving up the money they made as part of the agreement) is where things should be breaking.

  • What even is fire?

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  • No, is just a reaction from two molecules into two other molecules. Oversimplification, but you know how vinegar and baking soda react when the come together all fuzzy and bubble? It's the same when oxygen and hydrocarbons meet, except that it take heat to get it going, and conveniently releases more heat, which is usually enough to cause more reaction, often until it runs out of either oxygen or the hydrocarbon.

    It would be an even better parallel if vinegar and baking soda didn't react if they were both below a certain temperature, and if the bubbling created heat, which warmed up the stuff next to it. If that were the case you could see a cool thing where you could keep them could, and just touch one spot to start them reacting, and it would spread like 'fire'

  • If I ate nothing Total brand cereal as directed for all my nutrition with whole milk. How long could I survive?

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  • Maybe you don't only need vitamins?

  • Trump administration will offer all 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign

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  • Might have to look at that though, it's possible once the funds have been allocated to a department Congress extra less control over how there are used. As long as there's some loophole where the money can be spent on severance, and it doesn't cost more money than was allocated for the year(how can it? It's just paying people for not working)

  • Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban in unanimous ruling

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  • That's kind of my point though, nothing is every really designed for the food of humanity, we evolved in an environment and adapt or die. It may seem hopeless while we're living through it, and it may be 'different' than the past, but it's always different, from the wheel to agriculture to the printing press to mass production, things are always taken advantage of by those with the means to do so, and we always come out different in the other side, were just living through this one and everyone feels special in the time they're living through. Just imagine the days of the printing press and how powerful those who owned the press would appear.

  • Ships

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  • Sure, but when did that happen? After the first board was replaced? As soon as the first board was damaged?

  • Ships

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  • It seems obvious that the whole thought experiment is just semantics. One of those things that interesting to think about the first time, but after awhile it's just illustrative to point out how we just define things imprecisely and that I'm almost all cases it is far more convenient and practical, but if you look at anything from the right perspective, the lack of precision stands out. Even 'walking out of a room' doesn't have a perfect description if you slow things down far enough, but practically it's pretty useful to describe it as a distinct event.

  • moms rule

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  • They were discussing converting the AU to 1 'your mom' as a better frame of reference, but France wouldn't sign on

  • Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban in unanimous ruling

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  • Right, but things rarely happen 'for the good of humanity', they just happen, and like mass production or the newspaper or even writing and language itself, it appears, we make use of it, we stumble and eventually we figure out where it really fits into the world. It will always be taken advantage of by those with the means to do so, but my point is that there is a period where we truly don't know how to approach it as a society and there is a learning curve and we are in that adolescent or teenage year type curve for the Internet, and probably toddler stage for ai, and we will learn, but we're not there yet.

    Further, whether we learn enough quickly enough, or whether those with enough power and foresight will truly steal that opportunity from society remains to be seen. It may seem like it will be obvious right now, while we're in the thick of things, but only history will tell if it's an obvious eventuality or whether it is comical that they think they are smart enough to actually control it. Maybe it contains the seeds of their own undoing.

  • Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban in unanimous ruling

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  • I still consider us in something like the teenage years as a society, just discovery something big like the Internet and social media and we're going to handle it poorly until we learn to handle it responsibly.

    Heads or tails whether we make it to adulthood before the powers that be manage to wrangle things in their favor first. Signs point in a bad direction, but there's no saying that the tools that worked on society before won't break when the next thing comes along. Maybe ai will take a form that liberates, or hits the powerful far more negatively than it hits the masses.

  • Cheap filament splicing method

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  • I think the issue still becomes the fact that you hear the metal through it's entire mass and not focused on the ends, so you might end up with problems with the filament where they go into the contraption

  • FBI working to piece together drone that damaged super scooper while battling Palisades Fire

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  • No, but it's better than lying by implying a 100% percent conviction rate.

  • FBI working to piece together drone that damaged super scooper while battling Palisades Fire

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  • I feel like any law enforcement official that says anything to the effect of 'if you do X, you WILL be prosecuted' is doing a disservice to the entire process.

    Exaggerating or oversimplifying just makes your statements fall flat. When what they mean is 'If you do X, and we catch you, and we have enough evidence, and the prosecutor decides it's worth pursuing, and you can't afford a good lawyer, we WILL (probably) try getting you thrown in jail'.

    Say something simply like 'We have a x% prosecution rate for this type of crime' and it makes the risk more real instead of 'if you do this you WILL be prosecuted' while everyone who was actually considering doing the thing has either done it a dozen times already, or sees others doing it with apparent impunity.

  • How to deal with Mom who CANNOT learn how to use a password manager, but demands I "fix it"

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  • Only option really is to show her how to reset her password. Sounds like she's already doing it, just tell her that's how you log in, you let it autofill, and if it doesn't work you click forgot password and check your email and that's how passwords work now

  • Would you rather be smart, or beautiful?

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  • I'm sure the genie will be happy to explain all the intricacies... Maybe when you are approached you can just ask him for a picture or a list of options.

  • What's a word you wish you could unlearn?

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  • Not sure what you're attempting there, trying to make it so his choices aren't useful?

  • Nom nom

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  • Yes, but that's because that's the way your mind interpreted it, it could have just as easily thought that the arrow (little side) should point in the forward direction from left to right, so 'point to the bigger number'.

    Basically two completely unrelated things both make sense to you in the same direction, and that happened to be the direction that the the people picking the symbols also picked. If they had simply picked the opposite direction, all the people who currently struggle might find out perfectly natural and be confused as to why 'you' have such a problem understanding it.