I mean, the real sin here is from the Bluetooth SIG. If you make a radio protocol that broadcasts a unique identifier, it’s going to be abused sooner or later.

Google and Apple already know where Bluetooth devices have traveled if an iOS or Android phone using Location Services has come near them at any point.

Other people, like these ALPR guys, can probably harvest a little more data from users of Bluetooth devices, but they aren’t going to be the most meaningful harvester, as they have far fewer collection points.

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https://lemmyverse.net/communities has a list.

It’s on the lemmy.porn instance, !forcedincest@lemmy.porn. Presumably that instance is, well, for porn.

If you don’t want to see it, you can block that community and you won’t see any more from it. If you don’t want to see anything from that instance, you can block that instance. If you don’t want to see NSFW content in general, you can block that.

As to “why” in the broader sense, it’s because the Threadiverse is a global system. It spans many countries and different groups of people. It’s like asking why something is “allowed” on the Web — everything is allowed as long as the local country is okay with it.

I don’t think he decided to end it all over AI

It’s hard to know what’s going on in someone’s life. That is, the proximate cause of him storming off might have been that argument, but that didn’t mean that he didn’t have other things creating pressure.

Magewell Pro Capture card

I’ve been kind of shifting towards use of USB devices over internal cards.

All of the USB devices that I have still can be connected to computers. Ditto for DE-9 serial ports, though I might need a USB adapter.

But I’ve seen ISA->PCI/AGP->PCIe obsolete a lot of old hardware that I’ve had sitting around, and that’s just on the PC. That includes my video capture hardware.

If it would be a concern for you, I’d imagine that ATMs probably scan bill serial numbers.

but definitely don’t come across as murderers

Well, I mean, the charge is manslaughter, not murder.

I doubt that this is political theater. The judge — who is a neutral party here, and introduced the question — is asking a pretty straightforward question, testing the argument that the lawyer is making. “If your argument that Trump can rebuilt the wing of the White House holds, it seems that it’d entail X (where X is something that it seems like we wouldn’t want). Is that true?”

If you read court transcripts, this isn’t an uncommon thing for a judge to do.

I haven’t watched anime for quite a while, but when I do, I’ve certainly preferred subbed.

That being said, I can imagine computer voice synth hypothetically getting to a point where I’d prefer dubbed.

“use a strong password” whats that gonna do if the database gets pwned, sandra?

Strong passwords aren’t intended to simply protect against brute-forcing a password via trying to authenticate repeatedly, but also to help protect against brute-force attempts to obtain passwords from a compromised password database using a dictionary attack, the scenario you’re describing.

Typically — if an authentication system is storing its password database competently — the password shouldn’t be stored in plain text. Instead, the password will be salted (to avoid rainbow table attacks) and then hashed via a cryptographic hash. The password database entry will look something like a tuple of (username, salt, salted hashed password). If the password is a strong one, it will be computationally-hard to obtain the plaintext password, even if someone has the salt and the salted, hashed password.

In March 2019, Bevin said in an interview that he deliberately exposed all nine of his children to chickenpox so they would “catch the disease and become immune.”[287]

What year was that?

I mean, when I was a kid, there was no chickenpox vaccine available. I didn’t even realize that we’d finally developed one until a few years ago.

I don’t think that my parents intentionally went out of their way to expose me, though I did catch it, but intentional exposure certainly wasn’t some sort of wacko practice at the time. You were likely to catch it sooner or later, and it could be much more severe if you had it late in life — you wanted immunity earlier rather than later. Chickenpox was just kinda part of life.

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Looks like it was rolling out in the US in the mid-1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pox_party

Pox parties, also known as flu parties, are social activities in which children are deliberately exposed to infectious diseases such as chickenpox. Such parties originated to “get it over with” before vaccines were available for a particular illness or because childhood infection might be less severe than infection during adulthood, according to proponents.[1][2] For example, measles[3] is more dangerous to adults than to children over five years old.[1][4][5] Deliberately exposing people to diseases has since been discouraged by public health officials in favor of vaccination, which has caused a decline in the practice of pox parties,[6] although flu parties saw a resurgence in the early 2010s.[7]

In the United States, chickenpox parties were popularized before the introduction of the varicella vaccine in 1995.[9][19][20] Children were also sometimes intentionally exposed to other common childhood illnesses, such as mumps and measles.[21] Before vaccines for these infections became available, parents regarded these diseases as almost inevitable.[21]

Ehhh…yeah, maybe, but I think that the problem is really broader than that.

Petflix, a Roku app documented by The Verge, is a representative case. Its opt-in screen reads: “To enjoy Petflix for free with fewer ads, you are allowing Bright Data to occasionally use your device’s free resources and IP address to download public web data from the internet…

Say you have kids. And your kids have friends over. Are you curating what “free” apps your kids’ friends have on their phones that they connect to your WiFi network?

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https://www.humaneworld.org/en/campaign/ending-chinas-dog-and-cat-meat-trades

Globally, an estimated 20 million dogs and 6 million cats are slaughtered annually for human consumption. Of these, approximately 10 million dogs and 4 million cats are killed each year in China alone.

Sounds like it.

The article title and body don’t match in the amount of the sale:

sold for US$25

He was later told that Chutou had been sold to a dog meat restaurant for 180 yuan (US$27) and the pet had been eaten.

I mean, not that it’s that far off, but seems odd to have an article where the two don’t match.

I would guess that when there’s a problem, there are a lot of people working concurrently, all of who have access to the data.

I would guess that someone who is responsible for monitoring systems on the ground and isn’t at risk of losing oxygen and blacking out and isn’t having to get into a spacesuit is probably the principal person involved with assessing the condition of the station in an emergency.

I’d also expect that the person who makes the big calls is on the ground.

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It sounds like there is a person aboard the ISS who has ISS command, but normally, it’s a person on the ground who makes most of the calls:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commanders_of_the_International_Space_Station

This is a chronological list of commanders of the International Space Station. A pre-decided inhabitant of the ISS assumes command upon departure of the previous commander, at the end of an expedition, in a small hand-over ceremony. Their responsibility is defined by the ISS Code of Conduct, which states that the ISS commander has some authority over the operations of the ISS, but should ultimately defer most decisions to the Flight Director.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_controller#Flight_director

Flight director

Leads the flight control team. Flight has overall operational responsibility for missions and payload operations and for all decisions regarding safe, expedient flight. This person monitors the other flight controllers, remaining in constant verbal communication with them via intercom channels called “loops”.

Apparently the (older) Russian modules had been leaking air. The leakage rate was manageable, but the cause of concern was that the total rate of leakage abruptly doubled. Might be that they were worried that there might be some kind of progressive failure occurring.

I just wanna draw some boxes, put some text in them and connect them with lines, ffs.

If I want to do so textually — useful for very large, automatically-laid-out-diagrams, such as those generated automatically — I’ll use graphviz.

e.g.

foo.dot:

digraph {
A->B
B->C
B->D
C->A
}

And then:

$ sfdp -Tpng foo.dot >foo.png

produces:

I think that the /r/place-style collaborative pixel art thing is neat.

https://placedata.reddit.com/data/final_2023_place.png

To be fair, that is explicitly not infinite canvas — it has finite dimensions — but there have been derived programs with infinite bounds that work the same way to do pixel art.

It sounds like the software you’re using is intended for some kind of idea organization team stuff, though. For that, it doesn’t sound like it’s a great paradigm to me, but I also don’t spent a lot of time using software of that sort.

I’ve used visual programming languages. These use flowcharts to represent data flow, are often used for signal processing stuff. Same kind of idea. My general feeling is that that doesn’t really scale up to large problems — you wind up wasting way too much time trying to navigate around the thing. It’s a quick and intuitive way to view very small things, though it still isn’t my preferred approach; I’d rather use text.

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

I hope I ran the vkgears test correctly?

Yeah, that’s fine.

Both of those should be using hardware rendering, at least based on my understanding of the text. You have the name of your video card where “llvmpipe” would show up, right above “64bit”, which is what happens on my system when using hardware rendering.

But…for some reason, you’re consuming a ton of CPU time when rendering using OpenGL, despite doing hardware rendering. That’s not what happens on my system. I don’t know what would cause that.

One would want it fixed either way. For Steam, one can force Proton to use OpenGL rather than Vulkan as a Direct3D backend by setting the environment variable PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1, which will cause many Windows apps to use OpenGL…but your problem is the opposite. Vulkan looks fine.

thinks

The only thing that comes to mind would be that there’s an Nvidia mechanism on systems where you have multiple GPUs — this can happen when you have an integrated on-CPU GPU and a discrete GPU on a laptop, say – to render on one and then copy to the other. I don’t know what text would show up as the renderer in that case, and I don’t have Nvidia hardware, much less Nvidia hardware plus an integrated GPU to test. I don’t think that that’s probably what’s going on here, but I don’t know what mangohud reports in that case. I would think that mangohud would be smart enough to actually display the renderer being used, but…maybe it’s not. But if you want to try it, you could give this a shot. I’m taking a stab in the dark rather than really analyzing it:

$ __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia MANGOHUD_CONFIG=full mangohud glxgears.x86_64-linux-gnu

If the CPU usage when you run the above command goes from ~20% (as is currently the case for glxgears in your above screenshot) to ~4% (as is currently the case for vkgears), that might be what’s going on. If it is, then I’d try running your game with the __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia environment variables set. I wouldn’t bet much money on it working, but I guess it’s not hard to try.

EDIT: If anyone else with an NVidia card wants to run the MANGOHUD_CONFIG=full mangohud glxgears.x86_64-linux-gnu command and report whether their system uses a ton of CPU time on all cores, that’d be a useful data point; I can’t, as I don’t have the hardware. I guess it’s possible that that the CPU usage could be normal — this is going through xwayland, and maybe something there causes that. I don’t want to flag it as something abnormal on OP’s system if it’s not. But it’s not the way my AMD system acts.

Trump’s strongest support in 2024 wasn’t actually in the South.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/95f42ca4-771c-4a27-b039-969f7ae8160a.jpeg

West Virginia and Wyoming, the two biggest coal producers, were the strongest supporters. There were states in the South that went for Trump, but there’s also the Great Plains.

Contrast with, say, the 1920 presidential election, which was clearly a South-vs-rest-of-US result:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_United_States_presidential_election

goes to Google Maps

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/0ef32a5c-c9ef-4efb-b171-a35f4ba75c7b.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone_River

The Blackstone River in the United States is a river that flows through Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It is 48 mi (77 km) long with a drainage area of 475 mi² (1229 km²).[1] It drains into the Seekonk River at Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Its long history of industrial use in the watershed has caused significant pollution, with a 1990 report from the United States Environmental Protection Agency describing it as “the most polluted river in the country because of high concentrations of toxic sediments.”[2]

The Blackstone River has been significantly impacted by industrial activities and resulting pollution since the 18th century. Early industries discharged a variety of pollutants into the river, including dyes from textile mills,heavy metals and solvents from metal and woodworking industries.[10] Metals are still being measured in sediments near and adjacent to the river.[11][12]

https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4178/7/WP-94-031.pdf

Despite these improvements in wastewater treatment, the condition of the Blackstone River remained deplorable. In 1937, the Massachusetts State Planning Board described the Blackstone as an “industrial river,” whose industrial uses were more important than cleaning up its pollution. In 1940, Worcester reached its peak population, 195,000, the only U.S. city of its size not on the ocean or a major waterway. Total wastewater flow from the city was about 125,000 cubic meters per day (33 million gallons per day [mgd]) and comprised virtually all of the upper Blackstone River’s low flow. The wastewater included a large volume of industrial wastes, virtually entirely untreated, in addition to the city’s sanitary wastes. These industrial operations provided the most enduring legacy of pollution in the river-heavy metals including chromium and mercury from textile dyes and other metals from the wire manufacturing, metal plating, and machining operations.

Oh, great.

No, his sole audience, the sole group of people who consider his counsel valuable, is the…media classes.

Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist

This kind of reminds me of when I see CNN or Fox News with a piece talking acerbically about “the mainstream media”.