SexualPolytope

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We're so back!

[–] SexualPolytope 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Honestly, the only American politician who I really like is Zohran. Even Bernie has weird stances when it comes to Palestine, even though he's probably the second best one. I tried to like and trust AOC, but she's all bark and no bite.

[–] SexualPolytope 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In my case, I think I matter quite a bit to 6-7 people (family and a few close friends); and matter somewhat to maybe 6-7 more. I don't think anyone else would really care. And I've learnt to make my peace with it. I used to be the people-pleaser type, but I've been happier living on my own terms.

[–] SexualPolytope 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I guess it's saying that Arch people use the AUR and PKGBUILD files. Idk exactly. It might even be a reference to the (somewhat) recent malware incident with the *-patch-bin browser packages. I must admit that I don't really find it funny. But maybe I too am missing the point here. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Anyway, in case you don't know, and wish to use Arch at some point, the content on AUR is user submitted, and hence security cannot be guaranteed. People do report malicious packages, and it's safe in general. But always read the PKGBUILD before installing anything, just in case something silly is going on.

[–] SexualPolytope 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I don't think it'll be ideal. Converting the mirror to z1 would be a big hassle. I don't see any migration path where I can safely lose a disk without losing data. Also, if both of the old drives fail, I lose everything.

In any case, I'm perfectly happy with 8TB for now. It's a doubling of my current capacity, of which I'm only using around 70%. I'll be fine for quite a few years.
(Also, won't it be around 12 TB, and not 14.5 TB?)

[–] SexualPolytope 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I usually was lucky enough to get hyper fixated just before exams due to my anxiety. So I was a straight-A student. But it was always a struggle against myself. And it kept getting harder as I got into college, and then university. I also constantly got the "not reaching my potential" line even though I was very good academically, since I sucked in the regular classes and only shined in exams. Basically, they thought that I could do even better if I could perform that well without even trying. (I was trying my best, or least as much as my monkey brain would allow me.)

I remember when I joined high school, people thought I was cheating in exams because I barely did homework (it wasn't graded, so didn't feel any pressure to do it well) and was frequently distracted. But soon enough they realized that it's just the way I was.

Even now, I need to give myself forced deadlines by promising my colleagues/superiors so that the anxiety of embarrassment forces me to actually do my work. I want to get a diagnosis, but you guys know how hard it is for us to get motivated for that.

[–] SexualPolytope 20 points 9 months ago

They're always pro bootlicking.

 
[–] SexualPolytope 7 points 9 months ago

All the reasons that others mentioned, plus it sound cool.

[–] SexualPolytope 46 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

I'm just waiting for Forgejo federation to be a thing, and some sort of definitive website for discovering projects. Right now, even though I do have my slefhosted forgejo instance, I still need to keep my code on GitHub, or no-one else will ever know about it.

[–] SexualPolytope -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Because he's pretty much that. Idk about the middle eastern part. (Why did you even include that phrase, are you racist? There are dictators in Europe, South America, North America, all parts of Asia, idk how Australia is nowadays.)
But he's definitely a dictator.

[–] SexualPolytope 3 points 9 months ago

Milk too. I only need milk for my cortados, so often end up with way too much milk. Usually end up making some milk cakes.

[–] SexualPolytope 11 points 9 months ago

It's like the people complaining about SJWs and cancel culture. Sure, some people are annoying and use these things to harass others, but the vast majority are just normal people who care about certain things. But people on the other side, when they can't provide a good argument against them, start to vilify the people themselves. It's similar to how right wingers cry about decorum when they're more likely to vote for rapists.

I must admit that I had given into this anti-SJW hate at some point in my late teens, but I luckily realized how I was acting like a little bitch, hating on people I don't even know just because they're passionate about equality. The funny thing was, I still believed in their causes, but was pretty much brainwashed into believing that they're hurting the cause by being vocal. It's weird how dumb we often are.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by SexualPolytope to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
 

I'm sorry but I'm frustrated by the blatant misuse of AI by my students and colleagues alike. It's so obvious when they don't understand what they've written.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SexualPolytope to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 
 

Sure, playing chess needs intelligence, dedication, and good chess players are smarter than an average person. But it's waaaay exaggerated in movies. I'm a math researcher, and in any movie, my department will be full of chess geniuses. But in reality, only about 10% of them even play chess.

 

I'm trying to pull manual shots from my Breville Bambino, and it simply isn't working. I'm following the steps in the manual. (Press and hold the double-shot button for pre-infusion, then release it for the extraction to start, and then press again to stop.) The issue is, the machine stops midway, before I press the button. Seems like it's doing the pre-programmed double shot volume, and stopping after that. Does anyone has experience pulling manual shots from this machine? Should I contact Breville for a repair?

Edit: It fixed itself after performing a factory reset.

 

I currently have a zfs pool with mirrored vdevs, and it's working well. It only has HDDs. I was planning to add an SSD I have lying around as a Metadata Special Device, since I've read that it can improve performance by quite a bit. I've also read that if I do that, and if the special device dies, I lose my pool.

Now, I don't want to buy new SSD pairs for mirroring this one, so is there a way to ensure that the metadata is also stored on the HDD as usual, along with the SSD? I guess I want it to work like a cache for the metadata, and not the only place for it.

 
 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by SexualPolytope to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

I accidentally had my forgejo instance open for registration. When I noticed it, there were tons of fake accounts open, with empty repos opened for each account. All of them had emails associated with them. They might've just been trying to annoy me, or maybe there was some plan to be executed later, since they'd have access to basically free storage, without any tracking.

In any case, I have cleaned all of it, and now have a list of 19311 usernames and emails. Maybe I can submit these somewhere for a spam filter? Idk, just curious if there's any point in keeping this list.

Here's the list.

 
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