skjoldr

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by skjoldr 3mo ago
This discussion is completely and irrevocably poisoned by the lack of general understanding of the distinctions between citizens, non-citizen permanent residents, legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, asylum seekers, economic immigrants, an
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by skjoldr 3mo ago
Come to Ukraine and witness real "active violence". This is ridiculous.
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by skjoldr 3mo ago
Asylum seekers in the EU indeed get a monthly allowance and are prohibited from working. Is this not a known fact?
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by skjoldr 7mo ago
> Convincing all of human history and psychology to reorganize itself in order to better service ai cannot possibly be a real solution. I'm on the spectrum and I definitely prefer structured interaction with various computer systems
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by skjoldr 2y ago
BGP full view and traceroutes? It's pretty hard to fake the path that a packet takes to that IP address.
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by skjoldr 2y ago
There already exist ways to proxy those requests in ways that avoid exposing anything about the visitors to Google. It's in the grey area wrt Google's own ToS, but then, it's that or GDPR.
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by skjoldr 2y ago
I see this and I feel I must ask: why would you EVER engineer ANY application under the idiotic assumption that none of your users will ever want to remove the data that they had stored in it?! Absolutely baffling. Of course, if a business
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by skjoldr 2y ago
Ironic considering the Russian oligarchs have the most blinged out yacht fleet
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by skjoldr 2y ago
Russia and most other post-Soviet countries maintained mandatory military draft, with education being one of the only non-health-related exemptions available. Because of the sad state of those armies in the 90's, 00's, and even 10
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by skjoldr 2y ago
Vim has a steep learning curve though, GUI apps don't.
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by skjoldr 2y ago
Correct, pidgeons are much more complicated and unpredictable than supersonic aircraft, and the way they fly is much more complex.
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by skjoldr 2y ago
Humans understand how to improve themselves, but our bandwidth to ourselves and the outside world is pathetic. AIs are untethered by sensory organs and language.
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by skjoldr 2y ago
Mobile operators have added microphones to 4G cell towers throughout Ukraine to triangulate suspicious sounds. Starlinks provide decentralized access to the Internet both on the frontline and back in the rear. Together with batteries, solar
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by skjoldr 2y ago
The chief reason is decentralization. Journalists who are updating these channels have their own sources in the Ukrainian air defense network as well as OSINTers who, for example, monitor Russian radio traffic using SDR, or even sometimes h
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by skjoldr 2y ago
Being unable to learn is a matter of either unwillingness or disability. Nowadays it's easier to learn than ever, and the real rates of intellectual disabilities/neurodiversity hadn't gone up that much. Such conditions are ju
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by skjoldr 2y ago
Verbatim from Kagi FAQ: "Why does Kagi Search require an email address? We require an email address to be able to verify the account really belongs to you in the following cases: To handle the account recovery (in case you lose your pa
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by skjoldr 2y ago
> Human workers are not getting smarter. Everyone is walking around with devices that connect them to nearly the total sum of human knowledge. Not acting on that to get out of an easily replaceable job is a skill issue. Also, the educati
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by skjoldr 2y ago
I've almost never needed to read those news to keep the system working as I want it to. That's the thing.
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by skjoldr 2y ago
If I have both enabled in my install, which I specifically chose to, then upgrading the package locks me out of my database, because those features are not compiled.
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by skjoldr 2y ago
ABS is a level up because it curls like mad off the print bed because of internal stresses, and this will cause prints to fail if you do not have a heated chamber, which is a bit of a challenge to set up over Ender 3 like printers. PETG mea
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by skjoldr 2y ago
It's because plastic injection molding has different constraints and trade-offs in parts design compared to metal machining. E.g. injection molding, after the mold is done, doesn't really care about machine time, complexity, or th
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by skjoldr 2y ago
Transporting refrigerated goods over moderate distances and last-mile delivery from the train yards are where trucks using overhead cables can shine. I also read that there existed trolleybus lines that went several miles/kilometers be
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by skjoldr 2y ago
Here in Ukraine, the grid is no longer 100% reliable for obvious (and highly intentional) reasons. Solar is somewhat inconvenient to use in large cities, and cloudy days are common. A variety of generator types and sizes can be seen instead
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by skjoldr 2y ago
The focus of the effort to make overhead charging viable is on large trucks that already drive mostly, but not completely, predefined routes on highways and in cities, which are often too lengthy to only rely on battery packs.
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by skjoldr 3y ago
Reading these comments makes me thankful for the existence of Nova Poshta in Ukraine. Two years of open war, and they still consistently deliver packages overnight across roughly a third of the country, and are doing their best transporting
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by skjoldr 3y ago
How do the developers of Kali Linux mitigate against black hats? They don't. It's impossible.
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by skjoldr 3y ago
Buddy, I'm from Ukraine and drone jammer and drone early warning schematics are basically public knowledge at this point. Drones mostly use the same sub-1GHz bands, 2.4 GHz bands and 5 Ghz bands that other consumer electronics also use
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by skjoldr 3y ago
As mentioned elsewhere, the padlock was only applied and removed in orbit and there were tools available to cut it open in case it seized up
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by skjoldr 3y ago
I saw trust being mentioned, but I don't really get it. Space is one of the most unnatural environments people can go to. Of course brains that had evolved for life on Earth can malfunction in such completely artificial spaces. Same fo
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by skjoldr 3y ago
Psychopaths are still people even if their brains are broken. It is indeed hard to integrate them into society, especially if their family did a bad job of it in their childhood.

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