Radiant_sir_radiant

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[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Trade-in deals mostly suck around here. I hand my 'old' phones down to friends and family, who hand theirs down to their kids. Their kids usually get a 'new' phone when their old one has stopped working or is really, really showing its age. I assume this system is representative of a quite sizeable part of society, so I'm not sure how much to read into those trade-in statistics.

+1 for Jitsi. Works well, user-friendly, lots of features without looking complicated, not too resource-hungry, lots of ways to extend it. All the other person needs it to click a link, enter a name and allow microphone/camera usage one time. There's also an app for Android and iOS, though you can just as well use a mobile browser.

[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 10 points 3 weeks ago

Well the half-good news is, judging by Palantir's track record of managing large public projects elsewhere, that project is bound to bankrupt the US once and for all so people can build something new. The bad news is, it's probably only going to happen late within the first fifteen years of the 'two-year' contract.

The knowledge is still there, it's just that the LLM has been instructed not to divulge it, and these instructions are often imperfect and can sometimes be circumvented accidentally or on purpose.

[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There you go. 🤗

[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I know most people find it unrealistic that underpaid sweatshop-style manufacturing could ever be moved to the US, but considering the rate at which social safety nets, employee rights and unions are deconstructed, the idea might not be that far-fetched. Already many people work two or more jobs to make ends meet, jobs such as waiting are already grossly underpaid and borderline degrading in many cases, and people are still eager to do that work because the alternative would be for them and their families to go hungry or homeless. Who's to say sewing cheap dresses 12-14 hours a day is such a bad pospect in comparison?

[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, Nvidia plans to move manufacturing to the US, and Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has pledged a 50 billion investment in US facilities, so there are at least some ass-kissers.
What happens after these announcements remains to be seen.

[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Going great so far - as the work week has started a day late, today's practically already Wednesday!

It's finally warm enough to work outside most of the day, so that's what I'm doing. Loving it. Behind the PC monitor I see mountains, a small forest and the dogs wandering around in the garden, trying to secretly dig holes where they think I can't see them.

On a personal level, I find myself (finally) growing increasingly indifferent to various things that I can't influence. If the world stays its current course, there's a good chance I'll lose some of the luxuries in my life, but in the grand scheme of things we'll likely still be okay. Let the world burn if it wants to - I'll save the rest of my sanity for the problems that affect me personally if and when they arise.
This mindset brings an immense sense of freedom. I'm much happier already.

Besides that it's a pretty normal week, just busier than usual as there's a lot to do in the garden and around the house. I still need to fix the holes in the lawn, get rid of a metric ton of weeds and paint some walls. It's a lot of work but totally worth it.

[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

and people like me are why Linux has even gotten to where it’s at today.

Not true. There are tons of nice developers out there. And I for one wouldn't want to work in a team where an attitude like yours is prevalent.

[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You know, downcasting and/or insulting people just because they don't live up to your personal standards is a pretty shitty thing to do.

[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 12 points 2 months ago

To answer the question in the title: my money's on an old white man with homophobic and misogynistic tendencies.

[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

FWIW - as a person guilty of sometimes not texting back: most of the time it's not because I don't want to talk to that person, it's because I don't have the time and/or energy to write something worthwhile, make a mental note to text back something witty 'later', and you can probably guess where this is going.

 

[Video description: A record player playing "YMCA" by The Village people, camera panning to two depressed dogs lying on the floor. Cut to "Hold on, I'm Coming" by Sam & Dave playing; the dogs excitedly laughing at the camera.]

 

Spotted on Isla Mujeres last January. The beer actually was quite cold. ^^

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org to c/diy@beehaw.org
 

Not sure if I should post this here or over in Technology, but here goes.

So I need to run two Gigabit (or better) network cables from the main switch in the garage into another room.

The problem is that that room is a shelter (small bunker), which according to Swiss regulations means no holes in the walls, and the 'door' is an airtight 35cm thick slab of reinforced concrete and steel. So the only way into that room is a small conduit for electricity. There's no way two Cat7 cables fit into that conduit, and power and data cables are not allowed to share the same space anyway. That means the only viable option is fiber - and, considering the conduit's dimensions, only fiber without a connector will go through.

There are copper/POF adapters readily available (such as this one), and they would probably do the job. However, POF is effectively limited to ~1Gbit half-duplex. If I go through all the trouble of installing fiber, I don't want it to be inferior to the existing Cat7 copper cabling. If there's a multimode solution that doesn't require me to buy two four-figure Cisco switches and five-figure tools, I'd much prefer that. Has anyone here heard of such a thing?

 

Oxygen Not Included is on sale this weekend. If (like me) you happen to have wanted to play it for a long time, but were worried you lack the patience/stamina and give up after a couple of hours, the price is now at a level where buyer's regret is rather unlikely.

 

Not the bad porn script you were expecting, I swear. 🙃

So here's one for fans of grey areas.

SO has brought two daughters and a son into our relationship. They're all young adults now. We generally get along well and I'm a trusted third party and, according to the then-minor younger daughter, a good source for pregnancy tests and the such "because you're the least likely to freak out".

We're generally a very open and judgement-free family, and I'm immensely proud of the fact that the kids feel comfortable talking freely about love and sex with both of us despite their 'traditional' catholic ~~indoctrination~~ upbringing. We've established that we can talk about anything but won't go into detail about their or my personal preferences. This works very well and there's a lot of trust. Whenever their mother's not around, the kids talk to me about whatever's on their mind (anything really, not just love/sex stuff).

There's one thing that makes me slightly uncomfortable though, and I'm not sure if I'm the one who's at fault here. It’s the older daughter’s choice of clothing at home. Especially in summer and near the pool, she often walks around in a t-shirt or scant bikini top and panties whose front just about covers the crack and whose back leaves nothing to the imagination.

I'm very happy that she's both happy enough with her body and feels comfortable enough around me to walk around this way. Especially the former has been a bit of work on her mother's part.

Now my own background is that I come from a very uptight family myself (sex is an evil and shameful thing that the wife endures because she owes it to her husband) but am very open now (swinger clubs, former co-host for BDSM meetings etc.). I also have a minor degree in both communication and sex therapy.
Still you never entirely shake off an upbringing based entirely on shame and guilt, and occasionally there’s a situation that instinctively makes me uncomfortable, but upon closer inspection I conclude that it really shouldn’t.

I’m currently trying to figure out whether this is one of those false-alarm situations, and it really bothers me.
On the one hand, "you don’t wear that kind of outfit in front of men you’re not biologically related to."
On the other hand, why not? She should be able to wear whatever she’s comfortable with in the privacy of our home. And you can't make a request such as "dress more modestly" without it smelling of misogyny.
On the other other hand, it would definitely be inappropriate for her to walk around entirely in the nude, so there's got to be a line somewhere.

(Let me add that she’s never even remotely tried anything, and I really don’t think of her in 'that' way, so that’s not the issue.)

TL;DR: Adult stepdaughter sometimes wears revealing clothes, makes me uncomfortable, not sure if it’s supposed to. Nothing fishy going on.

EDIT: Wow, so much food for thought. I don't think I'm going to be able to reply to everyone individually, but I've come to realize that what makes me uncomfortable is probably the idea that she or other people around us might feel uncomfortable, and in the classic stepfather-stepdaughter constellation I could be seen as a potential 'perpetrator', which I'd need to protect myself against. So it's really just mostly me worrying about what other people might think (but probably don't).
But the point is, if she's comfortable there's really nothing tangible for me to worry about.

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