vIsIoNaRy!

I’ve heard people proposing a “computational electric heater” in the past where it’s just a really powerful computer that can do citizen science processing (or presumably whatever you want on it). I suppose the only issue is cost of sufficiently powerful processors that generate enough heat to actually work as a heater, as well as the thermal regulation system since semiconductors are way more temperature sensitive than a coil of resistive wire, shorter lifespan too I imagine. Though if we can overcome these issues that would be a massive technological milestone.

It would be a really good use of old computers instead of throwing them out though, could use them as space heaters in a place where you don’t mind the noise and/or find a way to dampen the noise while allowing the heat to come through.

If that’s the case then I stand corrected, again, not a lawyer and not giving any legal advice. I’m in Canada and I need to check my local laws as well, seems like a really important thing to know in general for anyone that uses the internet. I also think governments pretty much across the board need to do a way better job of actually educating people on exactly what to do if they are accidentally exposed to CSAM, because it seems like those resources are basically nonexistent.

Which is exactly the point. The prison system is too profitable to risk the supply of prisoners drying up.

Does NewPipe count as an adblocker? Not yet but I fear its days are numbered.

This whole situation is shitty all around, I was really hoping it would be an isolated incident and that they wouldn’t come back. I think I speak for everyone when I say that the bastards posting CSAM need to be jailed or worse. Disagree with an instance or community all you want, the instant you pull something like this, you’ve lost every single argument and are irredeemably a horrible person not worthy of touching a computer ever again.

Once again pedophiles ruin everything nice. I know me saying this isn’t that helpful since I can’t do anything about it, but I’m sorry this is happening on your instance (and is getting federated to other instances). Don’t worry about inconvencing regular users, taking action against CSAM is far more important and any half amicable user will understand.

Some resources for reporting CSAM if you come across it anywhere (not just Lemmy):

US: https://www.missingkids.org/cybertipline

Canada: https://cybertip.ca/app/en/

International: https://www.inhope.org/

Last but not least, a reminder that if you accidentally load CSAM on your device, in most cases it will get cached to your storage because the majority of apps and browsers employ disk caching by default. You should at the very least clear your caches and then trim and fully wipe the free space on your device (maybe also directly shred the actual files if you can do that/know how to). Also know if you have any mandatory reporting laws where you live and comply with them. (EDIT: another commenter mentioned that in some jurisdictions you might actually not be allowed to delete them immediately and, presumably, have to contact police immediately reporting the active file on your device.) CYA to prevent yourself from getting screwed because of someone else’s horrible acts. Also, something I’ve been thinking about since this whole thing started: it might also be helpful to use a no-disk-cache browser/app (or disable disk caching on your current browser/app if you are able to) if you do wish to keep using Lemmy, at least until this whole thing blows over, that way you can just close the page/program and reboot your device, and the local version should be gone, especially since flash storage devices cannot be reliably wiped with the “fill the drive with blank data” method (not sure how big the risk of it ending up in the swapfile or otherwise sticking around though or at what point it stops counting as possession). Being exposed to CSAM is a nightmare for this reason and unfortunately there seem to be no good resources on what to do if you’re exposed.

I am not a lawyer and no part of this comment is legal advice.

Homelab (running home servers). Especially since I’m in Canada so I pay out the ass for shipping. Got into it purely out of interest for server administration, programming (computer science in general really) and the desire to experiment on my own hardware, but I’ll have you know I have a total of 48 processing cores and 30 TB of storage running my personal fileserver and “private cloud!” Though not relying on the likes of Google for data storage and “cloud” services is a massive genuine benefit!

I also run BOINC and Folding@Home on the excess computing power in the winter, essentially “donating” it to science, which is perfect because my house only has electric baseboard heating anyway so I’m consuming the same amount of electricity for heating either way, and the electricity sources are mostly renewables where I live! The home office is toasty all winter, if kind of loud.

This speaks to me so much. Sometimes I think instead of (suspected) autism, I might just be a cat…

With how Elon has been acting this is a distinct possibility.

It would probably scream “Xterminate!” before running you over.

Related: how good privacy wise is the default AOSP keyboard found in no-Google-services ROMs like Lineage and /e/? Does it still phone home?

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Acetaminophen/Paracetamol. The safe therapeutic dose is very close to the toxic dose. While most people don’t intentionally overdose, at least not for treating illness symptoms, the problem arises when they take multiple medications that all contain acetaminophen, following the label for all of them can easily net you a toxic dose.

Chubbyemu video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSqrCgFMsCI

Only if you install the illegal pirated drivers that use leaked Nvidia code

https://wayland.social (full disclosure I don’t use this instance and don’t know what it’s like or if it’s any good, but the name is funny)

I wish. Unfortunately it will probably live on for all eternity like Facebook is somehow living on.

Now we need to figure out when the first ever usage of “no” in the English language was.

Also isn’t the period supposed to be inside the quotation?

For those wondering (and as far as I’ve been taught), a quote in a literary paper is not the same as a reference in a scientific paper (what most laypeople probably think of when they refer to citing one’s sources). They have different purposes in different types of papers. The former is a direct quote from the work being analyzed, as part of the analysis itself, while the latter is more of a “where did you get this claim/idea/concept from so others can also read about it as well as judge for themselves if it’s credible and up to date?”

It would also require an inline citation for most science paper formats that universities accept, like (Shakespeare, 1601) and an associated long form reference at the end of the paper, none of my classes have ever accepted a superscript and footer (then again I never asked, I just used APA for everything and no prof ever batted an eye). I know journals sometimes do use superscripts, but they have proprietary formats that most professors don’t expect students to use.

Though to be fair librarians are probably used to MLA format for literature, which is pretty much not used in science. I’m just splitting hairs and message that you need proper citations for both still stands.

Thank you!

Speaking of, can anyone recommend an AutoHotKey alternative for Linux on Wayland?

They were also a huge player in the residential “schools” of North America, which was one of the major ways the Indigenous genocide was conducted.