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@selea

Also, if you use a public CA for your internal stuff, then your internal stuff is polluting a bunch of public databases, which seems impolite.

I use a private CA and/or self-signed certificates for stuff like that.

@tomcapuder

As far as the person who had the NDE is concerned, the existence of their god is already affirmatively proven.

You want such people to believe that what they saw was something other than their god, yes? How would you prove that to them?

TIL a crazy couple built their own #laptop with a 43-inch screen. It weighs 100 pounds. IT'S HUGE. But it can be used on your lap…provided your lap can withstand 100 pounds of weight on it.

https://youtu.be/uUVfHaW6nWs?si=yNld41NKmVZtnpxI

@tomcapuder

I haven't had one to interpret. 🤷♂️ But people who do have one tend to interpret it as a meeting with their god, and I'm reluctant to dismiss that interpretation because I have no proof to the contrary.

Although async #Rust can be confusing, I must say it has some nice features that I miss when using other languages.

For example, if I want to do a compound async operation (like fetching a web page over HTTP) but cancel it if it's taking too long, in Rust this is trivial—just race it against a timer, and drop it if the timer wins. When a future is dropped, any async operations it owns are cancelled.

In the other languages I've seen, this is difficult if not impossible.

#programming

Btrfs is copy-on-write, so keeping an image of the original NTFS does *not* involve duplicating every file on it. The blocks of the NTFS image are shared with the files on the new btrfs.

Which, again, is wild. One file's contents can be *part of* another, much larger file's contents, without duplication (until one of them is written to).

So, somebody wrote a program that converts, in-place, an #NTFS volume into #btrfs.

It even keeps an image of the original NTFS volume as a file in the resulting btrfs volume. This can be used to undo the conversion or deleted to free up space and make the conversion permanent.

That is absolutely wild.

https://github.com/maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs

#Linux

@br00t4c

#Billionaires: “If you need more money, stop drinking lattes!”

Also billionaires: “Why isn't anyone buying my lattes?!”

@Tharpa @otownKim

If Trump dies now, then that thinly-disguised reptile Vance smooth-talks its way into the White House and starts a eugenics program that makes Trump's proposals seem mild. Vance's associates have proposed rounding up all the non-rich people, killing them, and using their corpses as vehicle fuel, for goodness' sake. They're inhuman. And there's not enough time for Harris to inform the public of their intentions.

So you'd better hope Trump doesn't expire before election day.

@ryanc

Ugh. The syslog protocol is so, so bad. Somebody at UC Berkeley must've been on some heavy narcotics.

If #Trump loses the election, and the USA survives this attempt to destroy it, then it will have been by the sheer luck and/or grace of God that those trying to overthrow the United States and institute a #fascist #dictatorship chose a senile, incoherent old man as their figurehead.

Even if our #democracy survives this assault, we will have come far too close to losing it forever. I don't like surviving by the skin of my teeth. Our defenses must be shored up somehow.

#USpol

@susankayequinn

It's coming!

I see offerings on Amazon for small solar+battery systems for only like $300. Little things, just enough wattage to run a small appliance or something, but still, that is shockingly cheap.

Unless there's some kind of economic or political catastrophe (like Trump winning the upcoming election), it seems to me that household solar is now inevitable and the oil-and-gas industry is basically screwed. Just gotta keep up the inertia.

@susankayequinn

Planes have the problem of low surface area. To capture lots of sunlight, it has to be big…but being big makes it need more sunlight! Decarbonizing them is probably going to need either better energy storage or fusion power.

Ships are another story, though. Humanity invented a zero-carbon way to propel them millennia ago: sails! The OG wind power. I've heard that research is now happening to develop newer, better sails to at least supplement the motor. Seemed pretty cool.

The saddest thing about #StarTrek isn't that physics might forbid such things.

The saddest thing is that human nature almost certainly forbids them.

@br00t4c

It's probably not. The best quantum computers right now can only factor very small numbers.

@JoeTheDumber

Then let us elect Harris, thereby forcing SCOTUS to directly break the rules and giving Biden good cause to ignore SCOTUS.

@br00t4c

@Blinxeto @br00t4c

His plan is to destroy the US economy. Simple as that.

Why? Because a ruined US can't protect Europe from Putin.

@sophieschmieg

Maybe, but that sounds like a *giant* footgun for timing-attack vulnerabilities. Merely changing the compiler version could create one, nevermind compiling for a new ISA.

I didn't say it's easy to implement such a thing, but it is absolutely necessary.

@inthehands

@lanodan

The highway outside my apartment is louder than the computers inside.

I kinda miss all the '90s computer noises: whirring-and-clicking disk drives, screeching modems, crackling CRTs, and that cheerful beep when the computer turns on.

@SuperDicq

@br00t4c

3am? Holy moly. I'm starting to wonder if he actually believes his own bullshit.