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A pretty good video on the manipulative nature of social media.
https://youtu.be/4maJty0vQjI?si=uF3jzTXI7hEzRcX7
The manipulative tactics that social media uses to keep you addicted 🧐For my video all about the mess that is subscription services: https://youtu.be/wVYG1m...YouTube
Ok, so no special talent in playing the saxophone, but a lot of other talents coming together here!
You can now stream this song on all platforms! :) Thanks for believing in meYouTube
Good friend's father just been admitted to a dementia care home.
A clever man, a witty academic.
However you are living your life, be aware that one way or another, it will have a final chapter.
Don't have any regrets. Live your life at 100mph.
It’s my birthday! So it’s time to party all the time, party all the time, party all the timeeeeeee~
#fursuitfriday #fursuit #furry
Nyckel, Ysengrin, and Kzin posing for the camera, Saturday at #WPAFW2024 ... what a great weekend!
#FursuitFriday #Werewolf #Buffalo #Kzinti
Oof, trying to figure out how to set up power for the new colo rack I need to have up and running quite soon now. (My colo provider has told me they need me to be out of one of my existing racks by the end of this year because they want to put an air handler there, so I'm trying to get a new one set up.)
At the moment I'm looking at:
1. 16A (unless it's 32A, some racks seem to have 32A sockets even if they are only on a 16A breaker) commando plug to plug in under the floor, cabled to a PDU with C19 sockets, enough for one socket per customer I want to meter separately (probably about 3 or 4 to start with).
2. A rack-mounted DIN rail (e.g. https://www.startech.com/en-us/server-management/adjdinkit) with meters mounted on it (e.g.https://www.eastroneurope.com/products/view/sdm230modbus).
3. A bunch of C19-C20 cables, one per meter, which I can cut in half and wire into the in/out of the meters, so their inputs can plug into the upstream PDU (item 1 above) and each have a downstream C20-to-multiple-C13s PDU connected to them, so each customer gets a dedicated PDU and I can meter each one separately.
4. Some twisted pair wire linking all the RS485 modbus connectors of the meters together and connecting to a terminal block with something like https://tripplite.eaton.com/support/U20930NIND at one end of the bus (not sure if I'll need to terminate the other end, or both ends, or if it'll be such a short bus it won't need that).
5. Some software on a server to connect using the USB-RS485 adaptor and talk modbus to the meters to take scheduled meter readings, so I don't have to visit the datacentre (a 4-5 hour round trip now that I've moved!) every month to bill customers.
6. Some method of adding new meters as and when I need them - I think as long as I can wire the new meter to its C19 and C20 tails and physically get at the DIN rail to mount it, and as long as I can add it to the modbus without electrocuting myself, it should be fine. Best way is probably to have 2 twisted pair tails connecting to each meter's modbus port before putting them in, then using terminal blocks to connect them up in a chain, so I don't have to touch the connections on the meter after they are live.
Phew. And one of my customers needs to move into the new rack on 17 November at the latest, because of scheduling. I'm not sure I'm going to have this done in time.
Hmm, I know there are people here who do electrics for a living - does the above look reasonable? I don't see any problems as long as each PDU has a suitable overcurrent protection device built in (most seem to).
The reason for all this is because the datacentre, which had for many years charged me based on average number of amps used over each quarter, has recently (in the last year or two) switched to charging based on exact number of kWh used each month, and given the power saving features in modern servers their power draw can vary a lot more than they used to. I used to charge based on amps drawn by a server on the bench at idle before installing it in the rack, but that is probably now resulting in me seriously undercharging, especially as some clients upgrade their RAM and disks after the initial install (and I wouldn't have a chance to re-measure power draw after an upgrade, especially when it's just adding hot-plug disks). So, this is why I'm now looking at "proper" metering.
I sometimes find it's really a problem not having anyone else to discuss business stuff with, given that I'm self-employed and have no employees - It's All Just Me™. Absolute freedom, but also absolute responsibility, and I have to solve every problem and learn every new thing myself.
Cowboys and Aliens is still good. I just checked.
It feels unique in the way it integrates pretty decent science fiction into a very believable Western setting.
"Boris Johnson ended the concept of shame in politics"
Pretty dangerous considering MPs shouting "shame" at other MPs is what the UK has in place of real written constitutional safeguards and limits on ministerial power.
“Johnson actually finally killed the contept of shame in politics.”There were lines we didn’t cross writing The Thick of It but Boris Johnson made politician...YouTube
One thing that seems to always be lacking in articles about the security of devices running Android and iOS, is how well they do at protecting our data from Google and Apple.
I'd really love to see one of the folks that does this and really knows their shit, talk about how much data collection and abuse Google and Apple do themselves, along side all the 3rd party data collection and hardening from things like malware and other forms of data theft.
#LLMs are the best. We should use them for everything
Seriously though, this is a great demonstration that LLMs can string together words without actually grasping the concept they're relaying.
Science has been spending decades trying to answer one simple question:
where the fuck did my evening go?
Upon powerup, the CPU begins to execute code.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Have you ever wondered why Defence Intelligence uses terms like “unlikely” or “realistic possibility” when we assess Russia’s war in Ukraine?Ministry of Defence (GOV.UK)
@PupGhost I think the choice of terms when the chances fall between two buckets also depends on whether the event is desirable or undesirable.
You might not want to get people's hope up and say a 36% occurance of a victory is "a realistic possibility", for example.
#UFO50 is one of the best games i've purchased and is absolutely a steal at only $30 $25 for 50 actually good games that emulate an NES fantasy console perfectly
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50/
#Gaming #RetroGaming #NES
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs.store.steampowered.com
A 'My Little Pony' convention held in Nottingham, England. 5th and 6th October, 2024.Flickr
Advertising ought to be on demand, really. So you might say "I want to do x, what are my options?" and then you'd receive a bunch of relevant ads.
Having it pushed at you all the time regardless of what you intend to do just puts you off doing anything at all except tell everyone to piss off and leave you alone.
I should just be able to say "I want to eat a Dundee biscuit" and receive a range of offers of delicious Dundee biscuits.
But no, constant chaos and NO DUNDEE BISCUITS AT ALL.
🐂💨
Sometime I think I am SERIOUSLY LUCKY that some things I want/would like "don't exist" or "I can't really get them" .. because who knows what/where I could be/who I could be now IF I had the chance to get to them ?
Would I die eating myself to death if I end up in a cakes factory ? Better don't ask such types of questions 😅
A conservative says,
“If it hasn't happened to me, I don't care."
A liberal says,
"This should never happen to anyone, and that's why I care."
In the future, digital archaeologists will comb ancient storage media for remnants of information that has survived the ages.
They'll take scraps of HTML, with frames, some ASP code and fragments of an Access database, and give them to descendants of the Kennis brothers who will ponder what they know of similar data architectures of the time, and then flesh out what they think a likely web page from that code might have looked like.
Articles will be written, documentaries produced, and schoolchildren will gawk at the rendering on museum field trips.
wiki finds
The print version of the Encyclopaedia Britanica is another common data volume metric. It contains approximately 300 million characters, so two copies would fit onto a CD-ROM and still have 50 megabytes (or about 11 bibles) left over.
Another shot from Wild North for #FursuitFriday, with me standing ready to protect the gentle cows of Featherstone Castle. YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
(I mean, that gate looks kind of awkward to negotiate and I'm not sure how it opens. For my part you can just ask politely)
📷,⚔️ Evelyn
@lanodan https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32002R0733
https://www.icann.org/resources/unthemed-pages/liikanen-letter-2000-07-06-en
https://www.icann.org/resources/unthemed-pages/roberts-letter-to-liikanen-2000-08-10-en
Regulation (EC) No 733/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 April 2002 on the implementation of the .eu Top Level Domain (Text with EEA relevance)eur-lex.europa.eu
Computing is full of acronyms, and often the same one has two meanings – sometimes close enough in subject area to confuse.
My usual example is in compilers: DFA and CFG mean "Deterministic Finite Automaton" and "Context-Free Grammar" at the lexing/parsing end, but "Data Flow Analysis" and "Control Flow Graph" in optimisation and code generation.
One I just learned today: DMA doesn't always mean "Direct Memory Access" by peripherals. Sometimes it means "Dynamic Memory Allocation", i.e. malloc!
It's even nicer when you are doing computing embedded into some industry. In a previous work-place doing things for wind-turbines, we had:
IPC - Industrial PC
IPC - Inter-Process Communication
IPC - Individual Pitch Control (where the blades of a wind turbine are not all pitched the same)
IPC - Instructions per Cycle
Dis my BESTEST friend!!!
Jencen with his fecking GIANT Toothless plushie for #FursuitFriday
Photo by @bearskunk
omg so big, I love it!
meanwhile I have smol derpy toothless. (Makeship stitched his nose crooked but they shipped a fixed one)
Saberman&IndieRetroNews.com present: Q.B.FoxAuthor: Martin SimecekQ.B.Fox is a platformer game where you control an animated fox. Yourmission is to get to th...YouTube
Last weekend I was at Wild North and it was such a wonderful time. A small con with a huge heart and a strong cosy community vibe. I made a lot of friends, and it felt restorative in a way that larger hotel-based cons don't usually tend to. Massive thanks to everyone who made it possible. ❤
📷 Me, @azakir x3
Thank you! It was a great time, and I was soooooooooooo heckin excited to finally get some good sword and cloak fursuit photos! ^^
The setting was amazing, and thank you so much! ❤ It felt so good finally getting to dress like that in suit! I'll be bringing the cloak to ScotiaCon in February as well, which is having a magic theme...
@anthracite
It was! The convention was about 60 people, and the location is a castle/manor house made to look like a castle. And rather than just being like a hotel con, they just gave us free run of the kitchen and event rooms so everybody attending kind of pitches in to make the thing work. Really helps build a neat sense of community around the whole thing.
They announced at the closing ceremony that next year they're moving to a new venue, also a restored castle but this one is a four star hotel, so while the conditions will be less rustic it may change the feel of the whole thing a bit. I'm still hopeful for it being a really fun time, but does feel like it will mark a change and I'm really glad I got to the con this year before it did change.
I should probably post my bread. Maybe if I use hashtags something interesting will happen.
#breadPost #baking #bread #breadmaking #bakersOfMastodon #breadiverse #breadstodon
