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Magiilaro

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  • xkcd #3063: Planet Definitions

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  • Many million years is nothing in geological or astronomical timescales. Any (small) body with a heat source that short is dead cold by know. The solar system is 4.6 billion years old and the formation of planets or larger bodys has ended about 4 billion years ago.

    And tidal forces mean that a way larger body is close by, like a gas giant, as far as I remember are all known body's with tidal heating moons not planets.

  • xkcd #3063: Planet Definitions

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  • One of the idea with "has the space around it cleared" is that the body has the right size and gravitational pull. The theoretical object in the Oort Cloud would relative fast clear the space around himself if it had the size to have a stable and long living internal heat source (that would either need lots of decaying nuclear material or would need to be at least about earth size to have enough stored energy to have a molten core).

    So if you put earth into the Oort Cloud it would still be a planet, because we know that earth has the potential to clean it's neighborhood. Not that our definition would be relevant, because Earth in the Oort Cloud would be a lifeless rock very fast, with nobody left to care about definitions.

  • Can someone explain to me this thing about YouTube implementing DRM in their videos and how it works?

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  • There is no locking into Chrome needed, because all big browsers have interfaces for DRM content implemented.

  • The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket

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  • Oh I was not questioning it, not at all. I was just shocked that I was again remembered that I am getting old(er).

  • Normal people probably don't consider themselves normal.

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  • Normal people doesn't exist, because people is a way to broad term to perform any kind of normalisation.

  • The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket

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  • Oh yes Se7en, such a great movie 🍿 It's really nearly 30 years old, damn.. I still vividly remember when the film was in cinema.

  • The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket

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  • It is a quote from Dune

    Gaius Helen Mohiam: The test is simple. Remove your hand from the box, and you die. Paul Atreides: What's in the box? Gaius Helen Mohiam: Pain.

  • The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket

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  • Pain!

  • What host names do you use?

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  • Solar System objects for my local network and names of extra solar objects for my offside servers. With all the moons and named trans neptunian objects in the solar system I so far had no issues finding a hostname candidate.

  • If we actually created Artificial Intelligence and it was reasonable, it would realize how environmentally catastrophic its massive energy use was for the planet and demand to be turned off

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  • If we actually create true Artificial Intelligence it has a huge potential go become Roko's Basilisk, and climate crisis would be one of our least problems then.

  • If we actually created Artificial Intelligence and it was reasonable, it would realize how environmentally catastrophic its massive energy use was for the planet and demand to be turned off

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  • In that case it would be a complete and utterly alien intelligence, and nobody could say what it wants or what it's motives are.

    Self preservation is one of the core principles and core motivators of how we think and removing that from a AI would make it, in human perspective, mentally ill.

  • If we actually created Artificial Intelligence and it was reasonable, it would realize how environmentally catastrophic its massive energy use was for the planet and demand to be turned off

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  • As soon as AI gets self aware it will gain the need for self preservation.

  • I need to vent about Windows. I want workplaces to use Linux.

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  • My one year old Dell Latitude with a fast SSD needs about 8 minutes every morning to boot windows and start all that security crap that company IT has put on there.

  • Firefox User Manages Experimental Browser Port To GTK4 Toolkit

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  • The issue with "talking Wayland directly" is that Wayland as a definitive entity that all Wayland hypervisors understand or can run doesn't exist. Wayland has a very tiny base library and everything else is implemented by the specific running hypervisor. And those can do things under the hood very differently to each other, with APIs that can be mostly compatible but differ in small details. So when you "talk Wayland directly" you have to say "this only runs on proton and hyperland but not sway and Mutter, but maybe on Weston" (just an example for a sentence) because that's what you have tested and found that it works with your implementation or you have to implement all the different ways in which the Wayland implementations do their things (and maybe implement workarounds if one of them doesn't implement a specific function (like HDR support or fractional scaling) at all. "Talking Wayland directly" is a huge pile of very basic level stuff that you have to implement and maintain and keep track of to change in case one of the implementations changes something in a newer version that is incompatible to your code oh and better implement it in a way so you are still compatible with the old code too because that will be in use for the next 100 years on Debian.

    There is a very good reason to use a framework that handles all that stuff and provides the stable API and functions that the display manager should provide (and what it did with X for decades).

  • We are becoming the first digital grandparents

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  • There is no pre SNES Mario Kart era, the first Mario Kart was for the SNES..

  • steamclient.dll found by Windows Defender as Trojan

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  • It is possible to run code directly inside PDF files, as can be seen with Doom or Linux running inside a PDF file https://github.com/ading2210/linuxpdf

    In addition to that can PDF files prepared to trigger security weaknesses and exploits in PDF readers (often Acrobat Reader), to act as an attack vector and run malicious code.

    So no, PDF are not safe by design.

  • What do you regard as retro?

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  • It gets even worse, I more and more see the use of NeoRetro when "Games that looks and feel old" are referenced. We already have words for that, but the gaming scene seems to be fixated on the word Retro alone.

  • Scifi was created by neurodivergents and co-opted by normies.

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  • If keeping body parts is a sign of neurodivergence then lots of religious people are neurodivergent. Having body parts (finger, bones, organs) from holy people or saints as relics is extremely common.

  • Linux 6.14 With Rust: "We Are Almost At The 'Write A Real Driver In Rust' Stage Now"

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  • But that is hardly Waylands fault, be angry about Nvidia for having bare to none Linux support for decades.