Conventional ACs don’t “operate at 100% all the time” either. The compressor is cycled by the thermostat. You cannot calculate consumption of either without knowing the temperature gradient between the conditioned and outside space.

I can’t stand the proselytizing powered by privilege on so many planes. Whether it’s cost, availability, or time, people have many reasons for being mUrDeReRs. Nobody likes being condescended over things that are barely in their control as it is.

I’m not so sure. Nobody is claiming the Bible ordains noncompetes, so we might be in the clear here.

The propaganda in Southern exploitative shithole states runs deep. Exploitative labor relationships with a touch of Stockholm syndrome are truly “Southern heritage.”

restic is better.

I’m not certain it was. He is indeed well known for abstaining from alcohol because of his brother, Fred Jr.

What? He shits himself because his bowel control is destroyed from all the coke he used to do.

Because the cartel members want their super high res content only available with Genuine DRM Bullshit™. The gambit won’t work, of course, but they’re gonna try like hell.

The state of being alive is just applied chemistry, too.

I run xorg on my desktops (especially my video transfer/editing workstation) and sway on my laptop. Wayland still has some seemingly intractable bugs and annoyances, if it even supports what you are trying to accomplish. I run it in hopes of helping it improve, but it’s far from mature.

I bought a Slate Plus just last month and simply flashed it with vanilla OpenWRT as soon as I opened the box. I certainly wouldn’t trust the stock firmware, but this is so easy to remedy it’s barely worth talking about.

It absolutely is. The thing that isn’t enough is doing a full disk TRIM, but I haven’t seen that recommended. A single pass of dd if=/dev/zero is plenty adequate.

Yes, unless they are OPAL, in which case it’s done the same way as SSDs: throw away the key.

Laughing at all the Hollywood shit in this thread. A single pass erase (or ATA Secure Erase, if they are SSDs that support the command) is more than enough. Nobody is going to waste time and money recovering data of unknown provenance from a landfill.

Not all cheeses are funky, and funk that is not characteristic of a certain style of cheese is considered a defect.

They are also packed per slice because they last a lot longer. Plastic cheese or not, cheese slices have a lot of surface area and get funky relatively quickly. Also, every time you reach into a regular bag of deli sliced cheese, you introduce funk-generating organisms.

If you run a server…

#!/bin/sh
INSTANCE=myinstance.com
psql -U lemmy -c "SELECT (person.name || '@' || instance.domain) AS user, 
('https://' || instance.domain || '/u/' || person.name) AS their_instance_url,
('https://${INSTANCE}/u/' || person.name || '@' || instance.domain) AS url,
comment_like.score
FROM comment_like
JOIN person ON comment_like.person_id = person.id
JOIN instance ON person.instance_id = instance.id WHERE comment_id = $1;"

Edit: lol@ the downvotes. Do people think lemmy operates on the principles of magic? Sorry my SQL offends you.

Sir, this is an Arby’s.

Again, a one time pad is safer in that instance. Security by obscurity is not security.

I fail to see your point. Of course it is not merely “encrypting your shit.” But a constructed language is more dangerous than using existing crypto. It is subject to frequency analysis and many other analyses. And aside from the point of “if you can memorize it’s flawed,” you might as well just use a one time pad at that point. Generally, if you are not a cryptographer and you design a cipher, that cipher will be flawed. The human element of being suspicious of a surveillance state is certainly valid, and you are right, it is not something I generally worry about on a daily basis, mostly because I am not presently engaged in any such high risk activities. I am saying nothing about this not changing and never becoming something to worry about, but you bet your ass I will be employing cryptography designed by experts if that day comes.

And anyway, all my webservers are https, I am an avid user of gpg, and I’ve been working in “cybersecurity” for over a decade now, so I like to think my opsec isn’t total garbage. After all the Snowden stuff came out, it just reinforced my existing practices and birthed new ones. Also, wireguard is the shit.