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by rickydroll 2mo ago
If Proxmox works for you, great. It looks like a very capable system. The only reason I suggest switching to XCP-ng is if you are fleeing VMware or the warts of your current system exceed your tolerance level. Personally, starting from a gr
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Free speech is not a binary effect (have/dont have). You can have free speech, but the parties you communicate to are only listening to others with more compelling voices. (politicians and funding sources or news outlets and mango tem
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
xcp-ng. You can use a built-in mini-management tool (xo-lite) to build the full-featured management tool (Xen Orchestra) from git. There are a couple of maintained scripts that automate the process. I like it because it is not a bag of par
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Am I the only one who sees the similarity between Larry Ellison and Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg? I mean, other than they're both evil and crazy. https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Emanuel_Zorg
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Thanks for the links. I hope they don't make it difficult to add batteries to these systems. You can pick up five plus kilowatt rack mount batteries relatively cheaply. It would be unpleasant if they only permitted the expensive no-use
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Is it time to change registrars already? I fled Gandi a while ago because of private equity fuckery. And now I need to go somewhere else. Who won't adopt enshitification-as-a-business-plan for a few years? No wonder people are leaving
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Those are good examples of serendipitous discovery. But what if you have a targeted need? For example, how to drive a woodchuck away from your yard before it causes more damage, how do you know when DIY solutions are not working, and it&#x2
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
If I understand the devices correctly, the current generation of microinverters should meet all power-limit requirements and disconnect if the grid goes away.
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Good points. On item B. In the natural experiment of AI getting between the information consumer and the information provider, it appears that even providing free data to Google, they're still not discoverable. What is the alternative
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Yes, you don't rely on an LLM solely for medical advice. You use it to get orientation to look at other sources. In my friend's case, I was relaying to him what I learned when taking a similar drug, my doctor's cautions on st
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Yes, publishers should opt out of Google. Everyone has a right to be forgotten. Okay, apart from that snarky retort, what discovery mechanism are they going to use to drive people to their human-generated slop?
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
I guess I should thank you for adding yet another load of deeper reading into American history. :)
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Like the term "slop", misuse of a pop psychology term like "AI psychosis" is another block to critical thinking and a casual dismissal of a conversation. You're right, LLM-generated answers are not the same as those
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Even before the onset of AI, publishers steal copyrighted work from writers and reporters and then turn it into human-generated slop and charge you money for the privilege of being misinformed. Closed communities are not a viable alternativ
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
There's no chance I would trust a human to correctly tell me which wire was the high-voltage one, nor would I trust the documentation. I would use it as a starting point, then apply test instruments to make sure I had the right informa
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
You're right, I didn't include stuff at the beginning, for example, the theft of IP in textile manufacturing in the late 1700s. The US government didn't recognize copyrights on foreign literature which let US publishers repri
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Cut and paste is a UI failure; it only works kinda if you have fully functional hands. If your hands don't work right, or you have tremors or other mobility impairments, your chances of succeeding with cut and paste drop off significan
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Stealing IP is how American industry got started. Goose: gander, pot: kettle. It is what built and sustains the movie and music industries. See: work for hire and 100+year copyright length The tech industry: see: copyright and patent assign
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Very much this. I also chose a different pseudonym from place to place. However, a bigger chill to my online speech is fatigue and ack of joy in participating online. I think the last place I felt community online was on Usenet.
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
This could be modified to be very useful for folks with less-than-ideal hand ability. I don't have much fine motor control in my hands. Hitting one of the modern tiny targets usually involves clicking a few times around the target unti
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by rickydroll 3mo ago
On my desktop, On Firefox, I just got a uniform blue screen. On Chrome, I could turn left or right, but that was all. The W, S, and C keys didn't work.
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by rickydroll 3mo ago
While I do use mapping programs for directions, I more often use them for a more accurate estimate of time and traffic density. I haven't looked very hard, but I haven't seen any OpenStreetMap data or equivalent that shows "R
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by rickydroll 3mo ago
Having created and debugged human-written code with silent bugs, vulnerabilities, or unnecessary performance issues since my first day on the job, and pointing you to myriad companies with bugs and vulnerabilities that existed pre-AI, all I
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by rickydroll 3mo ago
s/politicians/coporate exec/ is just as true.
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by rickydroll 3mo ago
The difference is that we can get to the moon
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by rickydroll 3mo ago
Not only cloudflare's cut of the action, but your ISP, your mobile carrier, Internet exchanges, the service provider on the far end. Seriously, everybody will have their hand out.
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by rickydroll 3mo ago
At first glance, it looks like a parallel-universe Linux version of JumpCloud.
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by rickydroll 3mo ago
> Ontario itself A need for more baseload to work with the large amount of solar and wind that Ontario has added in the last 10 years. Chasing baseload is a fool's game. You will always have a mismatch between power needed and powe
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by rickydroll 3mo ago
When you have billions, you have so much margin for loss that it would not materially affect your life; if you lose 80% of your wealth, you can still survive and continue rebuilding it. Whereas if you've got 1 mil in your 401k and you
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by rickydroll 3mo ago
Thank you. I hadn't even thought about the prices of property. To get an idea of what property costs would be in an area I'm familiar with, I looked on Zillow at properties around a couple of train stations in Weston. Looking at o

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