r0ertel

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[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I scrolled way too far to find this.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I don't know why there's more down votes than up votes, but I found the article interesting, even if it was a little light and fluffy.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This may not help at all, but I worked at a toxic workplace. I got good at recognizing when I was being manipulated. Eventually, I learned that if I hid the hurt and acted as if the jabs didn't hurt, it would send the toxic folks into a toxic rage, but the ironic part is that they could not complain to management about me not being affected.

One day, I was called from one of the people from a recorded line (certain customer facing phones were always recorded, you could even hear the beeps). After the call, I told my manager, we went to HR, who pulled the recording and that person was moved to another area. I left shortly after for other reasons.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This contradicts what I'm reading in that AI model costs grow with each generation, not shrink.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

I came here to see if it was the early signs of the demise of YouTube. I secretly want all these content producers to move to a privacy-respecting platform, especially those who produce tech or privacy related content.

Now, for why I don't watch videos anymore, the medium isn't as easily consumed by me. I prefer text. At home, it's noisy and I get interrupted every 90 seconds. I lose interest quickly and fast forwarding isn't as easy as scanning text for a topic shift. My mind wanders on some topics, internally exploring that topic deeper. With text, i can just stop reading. With video, i need to realize that I'm processing a thought and hit pause, then rewind a bit. I get interrupted a lot. On the bus, I need to remember headphones and I hate when people shoulder surf. That's harder to do with text. Give me a plain text RSS feed that I can read anytime.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I expected the whole comment thread to be like this.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I came here to say the same thing except that I have a pi locally and one at a relative's house. I back up to the local pi and a nightly cron starts rsync to pull my local copy.

I chose this so that i could control the rstnc start time, bandwidth and stop time but also so I could leave the remote network vanilla with no open ports, etc. With bandwidth limiting, it may take a few days to catch up from full backups, but a differential is same day.

Be sure to use a RO filesystem or overlay FS on the Pi card. I've had them go corrupt.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I thought Nazism, Hitler and WWII was the cautionary tale? I wasn't present at the time, but i heard that Bad Things happened.

I also thought that after WWII, systems were put in place to ensure that it would not happen again. Where are these systems and why aren't they working?

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Smoky Sun (lemmy.world)
 

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Moving picture of the early morning sun affected by the smoke from the Canadian wildfires over a farm field. The levels have been edited slightly to match what my eyes saw.

The sun was an intense, piercing red and everything else had a smoky haze that was sharp on the nose, like deeply inhaled black pepper.

This is my first post to this forum.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm interested in the second part, how # users are determined. Lemmy is federated,instance so if i setup a community instance physically I the UK and cap users at 9999,flying just under the threshold,but i federate with everywhere, my instance don't have enough users to require compliance, right? What if i set up 5 separate instances,each capped at 9999? There's got to be a loophole...for the children.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I was about to argue and then read "legality doesn't matter". You're right.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's important to remember that Powell himself does not set the rates, it's decided by a committee which he is currently the chair of. I feel like this fact is absent from much of the news I read/hear surrounding Powell & Fed interest rates.

From MSN:

Powell chairs the central bank’s eight annual meetings. But the other 11 voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, get an equal say on each Fed rate decision via a majority vote.

Also important:

the Fed’s four no-cut calls so far this year have been unanimous.

I realize that the chair is an important role, but am I missing something that replacing 1 person would change the interest rate voting outcome?

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Apps and web sites can also apply custom pricing based on the individual's ability to pay. Payday? The parking spot costs more.

 

I have an old PC running a couple of VMs and it has an old 19" display and keyboard for emergencies. It's text only (80x25, maybe), no Wayland. What cool thing can I put on the display? Are there any text based graphs or charts?

 

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) published a paper in 1995 suggesting how outside mirrors could be adjusted to eliminate blind spots. This article expands on that paper.

I switched a few months ago. It took a while to get used to it, but I feel like I have a better picture of what's happening around me.

Have you tried this? Did you switch back?

 

Does anybody here self-host a mail-by-proxy solution? If so, I'm interested to hear about your setup, experiences and any drawbacks. I have a custom domain and a hosted email service with a very small amount of storage. I'd like to host something locally so that I can keep all my email without stressing about the space. I also want to be able to use email on my phone and computer and a web interface for tablets or while traveling. Finally, I'd like emails that I send to be stored locally so I can search it. Does anybody else already do something like this? I can forge my own path, but oftentimes, somebody else is already doing it better.

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