Thank you! It’s my home island in the background. ^,^

I’m in no way a photographer, and I prefer staying at home over traveling, but I do love our local nature.

Both above photos and this video (which I cannot seem to embed) are from the storm surge that ravaged the Baltic in the fall of 2023. I cancelled all appointments to go home when the state asked us to consider evacuation or be stuck for the foreseeable future.

Wow, that’s gorgeous! I’m personally more of a sea-person, but I can appreciate a good mountain view. :)

Before you had optical media, you had cable matrices where you could ‘write’ the matrix once by overloading individual cables, thereby blowing/burning them like a fuse.

Every media is writable at least once, but some media is erasable/re-writable a finite number of times (eg. RW-CDs can be rewritten some 10-100 times and flash can be rewritten some 10000 times).

Since the process of writing to read-only storage is destructible, and since you tended to burn the individual cables in the cable matrix, it became known as ‘burning’.

Originally, it had nothing to do with lasers or optical media.

‘Burning’ is the act of destructively writing (or burning, since you permanently burn the 1s into 0s on the medium) data to a read-only medium, such as a PROM or later also optical media.

The term seems to have changed since, since you often also ‘burn’ RW-DVDs even though you really only write, so I wouldn’t call it too far fetched to also ‘burn’ RW-PROMs (aka. EPROMs, or FLASH).

Yes, I did indeed read the study - even before I posted my rhetorical question - which appears to be the raw numbers.

And are you trying to tell me, that you do not have the raw numbers of motorbike-related accidents in relation to car-related accidents according to the European Commission for 2022? I find that hard to believe.

EDIT: My bad, you meant the numbers of vehicles needed to equalize the raw numbers. Plus, the graph appears to already take relative popularity into account with the reversed relations.

I’m here to ask the grand question yet again:

Is that the raw deaths per vehicle, or does it equalize relative vehicle popularity?

I assume that there are a fair bit more cars on the roads than there are motorbikes, which means that we would not be able to compare them otherwise. Unless, of course, if one simply is trying to sow discord.

Mærsk is testing wind and electrical power on their fleet. Won’t make the ships 100% self-sufficient, but will hopefully lower the impact of the vessels.

Well, get to it then! Ain’t got all year.

The speech is about software (and laws) not being able to properly limit software, and that as long as we have “General-Purpose Computing” (aka. PCs or hardware/computers that you have access to) we will not be able to properly limit software. Cory just didn’t think as far as the solution 15 years later being to move the hardware on which your software runs away from you.

It is quite tragicomic how we went from mainframes and terminals in the 60’s to GPC/PCs in the 90’s and now are moving back to cloud (aka. mainframes and terminals but on a global scale).

So you want to be able to stream Gimp and have a shared drive with your PC’s sheets, it needs to be open source and with no limitations?

I’d just do gimp+Discord+google docs, but if you want it to be open source and all-in-one then go checkout Nextcloud. I think that’s as free as you get, if even foundry is too limiting.

>:(

Might be. I’ve never seen it used that way, though, I know that some people prefer parentheses around the fraction to the right of integers.

That said, even Wolframalpha appears to disagree, which I find mildly funny if what you say is true.

EDIT: Just realized something even more damning. If you input it into Wolframalpha using math input, it just assumes addition. Yeah, I might have to read up on this.

Yup, bought a bunch of TP-Link mesh towers. Turns out that they take down the whole WiFi when the main node looses internet connection. That’s just not acceptable, I might have an unstable internet connection but still want access to my local devices, such as my streaming server or router.

On that node, does anyone know of a brand of mesh towers that can survive unstable/no internet connections and don’t use custom firmware? DD-WRT works just fine, but I’m not gonna flash custom firmware onto friends’ devices.

And so it was confirmed. @wewbull@feddit.uk was no real person, and neither was I. Trapped eternally as fragments of @glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz’ imagination.

I’m not entirely sure how “… don’t need anything near as memory efficient as Alpine” became “Debian is obviously superior to Alpine”.

… I was referencing systemd and familiarity of use in regard to OP. Debian just happened to be mentioned, it comes per default with systemd, and it’s my personal first choice for servers. Though, taking context into account, OP did say they originally came from Ubuntu and made it sound like they were trying to optimize their system since it “only” had 4(8)GB memory in total.

I do believe Debian with systemd is more similar to Ubuntu than Alpine is to Ubuntu. My point was not so much about Debian vs Alpine in general as it was specific to efficiency in regard to memory usage, with the sole reason to change to Alpine over Debian (or any OS which uses systemd, really) purely for memory savings being rather weak when systemd only uses some <50MB in memory, the computer has 4GB+ of it, and the user already is familiar with Debian-based flavors which use systemd.

So no, Debian is obviously not “obviously superior to Alpine”, just as systemd isn’t too heavy to run on computers with 4GB of RAM - unless you’re trying to push the computer to its limits.

Huh? I don’t think you need anything near as memory efficient as Alpine for something which has 4GB of RAM, unless you’re doing it for the sole purpose of pushing the machine and yourself to the limit.

I only ever consider dropping Debian and/or Systemd when going below 512MB RAM. I’ve run most of my public-facing homelab stuff on a 1GB VPS till recently, including multiple webservers such as FoundryVTT, and Docker containers such as a Wireguard server, Jenkins, Searxng, etc… It rarely used more than ~60% of the RAM, but I obviously couldn’t run Immich or any heavy services on it.

Then you make a “no politics” rule, after which the very respectable debaters show up to tell everyone that everything ultimately is political, and therefore their ragebaiting, trolling, cancel culture, and general toxicity is totally acceptable! Unless you want an entry in the powerhungrybastards community, ofc.

Anyway, I’ve generally had a positive experience on the fediverse (compared to Reddit, etc.). That said, I’ve blocked and avoid most, if not all, right wing extremists, though I’m having a harder time with the left extremists since we seem to have a lot of interests in common. ^,’

Imma use this as world map for my next Pen&Paper campaign.

Plastic gotta be this age’s lead/quicksilver.