[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 63 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

At this point, I just stopped citing any article paywalled by elsevier, and only their arxiv counterpart.

If anyone ask, I will argue that I cannot obtain the version published by elsevier and have only read the arxiv version; hence citing the elsevier version would be disingenuous.

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 63 points 4 months ago

It is ironic that google touts RCS as a "open platform", when you have to use google's implementation of it.

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 93 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

While in the U.S., your mental health data are just on the market, waiting to be brought.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/03/ftc-says-online-counseling-service-betterhelp-pushed-people-handing-over-health-information-broke

In the good case, there will be a class action law suit, and every victim will get approximately 2 dollars back for all their health data sold; but only after giving more sensitive information to the company that distributes these two dollars.

https://www.morrisbart.com/faqs/how-is-money-divided-in-a-class-action-lawsuit/

What a fun time to be alive.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by baseless_discourse@mander.xyz to c/nix@programming.dev

Hi all Nix experts,

I recently started using nix to manage my dev environment on my immutable distro, and I need some help.

I was wondering if I am using a large package like TexLiveFull, how to make sure nix don't delete large packages after I close the shell? I also don't want this package to be available in my global environment, as I don't need to use it outside vscode.

Another question is how to keep my packages up-to-date. I don't do serious development work, thus I typically perfer my package and dev-tools to be on the latest version. I prefer to have a little management of this as possible. Ideally, every time I start up a nix shell, the package manager will grab the latest version of the package if possible without requiring additional interaction from me. Is this possible?

Finally, is there any way to bubblewrap programs installed by nix to only access the file within the starting path of the shell? I don't imagine this is possible, but it would definitely be nice if nix has some security feature like this.

Thanks in advance for your help! I understand parts of this post might be ridiculous. I am still new to nix. Please correct me if I am not using nix in the "correct" way.

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 123 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not "job", these are "volunteering contributions", that are not only time consuming, mentally consuming, and unpaid as well.

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 87 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Just letting everyone know that GE appliance is also owned by Haire.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Appliances

Besides that, they also own the following brands: Hotpoint (U.S.), Hoover (Europe), Candy, Fisher & Paykel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haier

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[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 104 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is another case of a foreign word don't have a good translation in English (and vise versa). Both 摆烂 and 让它腐烂 don't have the same tone as "let it rot".

To me, "let it rot" means watching something collapse with a sense of enjoyment. I cannot recall a Chinese word with this exact sentiment of the top of my head. But I can try to explain both Chinese words.

"让它腐烂" is the literal translation of "let it rot", word for word. It don't have the cultural and sentimental meaning behind it, merely stating the fact. More like "let the leave rot in the compost pile".

"摆烂" is probably what the article is referring to. Its meaning is similar to civil disobedience, and 躺平 ("lay flat", another word that was popular couple years ago).

"摆" means put, "烂" means something poorly made, broken, etc. "摆烂", together as a word, means "displaying a broken (bad) attitude, no matter the outside influence". However, "烂" also means rot, which is probably where the translation "let it rot" came from.

The original usage is much more playful, like your cat would lay on the floor no matter what toy or treat you give it, then it is 摆烂. But with the recent increase in pressure for many young people in China. 摆烂 and 躺平 (lay flat) become more of a act of civil disobedience and refusal to participate in the broken system/economy.

So 摆烂 is not a exact translation for "let it rot", but they do share the meaning of "no action" and the sentiment of joy. And "let it rot" sounds much cooler and concise than my explanation.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by baseless_discourse@mander.xyz to c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml

Inspired by the video by Gem and Impulse from Hermitcraft. In the video, Impulse told Gem (a Canadian) that he had hawaiian pizza with canadian bacon on it; and Gem got really confused in what constitute a "Canadian bacon".

Apparently Canadian bacon is called "Canadian" because it is originally imported from Canada to New York. Not because it is popular or invented in Canada.

On the other hand, Hawaiian pizza is a true cultural amalgamation. It is invented by a Greek in Canada inspired by his experience cooking Chinese food. One of the culture it doesn't connect to is Hawaii, its name comes from the brand of pineapple the inventor was using.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_bacon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_pizza

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 126 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

On the other hand if most of your school's money is in some investment firm, instead of invested in the wellbeing and learning of your employees and students. And you have a investor as the person with the highest salary.

Then your "school" is more of a financial institution than a school. And probably should be taxed as such.

Looking at you, Harvard: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harvard-posts-investment-gain-fiscal-2023-endowment-stands-507-billion-2023-10-20/

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 67 points 7 months ago

That is a good way to get citations, NGL.

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[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 60 points 7 months ago

quite ironic this meme is graphical...

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 82 points 7 months ago

I think BSD is the BSD equivalent to arch.

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 72 points 7 months ago

I remember someone mentioned online that the reconstruction of animals are more complicated than just tracing the bone line.

I am very interested if some experts are willing to tell us more.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by baseless_discourse@mander.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have setup my fedora to use LUKS encryoted partitions. But entering two passwords gets quite tiring, as I shutdown my laptop quite often to get the benefit of LUKS (I am assuming nothing is encrypted when in suspend, please correctme if I am wrong)

I am thinking about setting up TPM autodecrypt. However, I was wondering does the decryption happen on boot or after I login?

If it happens on boot, then it seems like the benefit is pretty limited compare to a unencrypted drive. Since the attacker can simply boot my laptop and get the unecrypted drive.

Am I missing something here? I was wondering is there a way for me to enter my password once and unlock everything, from disk to gnome keyring?

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by baseless_discourse@mander.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Just a curiosity. Theoretically FRP (factory reset protection) can use the current login password as a way of authentication after reset. But everything on the web states that you will need a Google account to take advantage of he feature.

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Fairphone 5 Released (shop.fairphone.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by baseless_discourse@mander.xyz to c/technology@beehaw.org

With 5 years of OS support and 8 years of security update.

Related threads:

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 61 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Electric cars are here to save the car industry, not the environment.

The most environmentally friendly car is the car you already have, and the most environmentally friendly (also safest, healthiest, quietest, just in general the most considerate) way to get from point A to point B is by walking, biking, bus, or train.

The only time EV saves the environment is when all of the following are met:

  • your old car is completely gone,
  • there is zero way to get to where you need to be without a car,
  • and you have been fighting for good transport and safe bike lane all along.
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Video by The Verge.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by baseless_discourse@mander.xyz to c/framework@lemmy.ml

There is no blog article yet, but a email has been sent to some people who pre-ordered the AMD version.

Unfortunately, due to electrical issues we recently found during validation along with late firmware delivery from our silicon vendors, we’ve had to delay the start of mass production for Framework Laptop 13 (Ryzen 7040 Series) until September. We’ll be shipping as many pre-orders as we can before the end of September, but we anticipate that many orders originally in Q3 batches will need to move into Q4. We have prepared substantial production capacity, so we don’t expect the late start to cascade into delays in later batches.

The reason is basically (as far as I understand) because this is the latest iteration of a product, and many drivers are not ready for the product, hence making it hard to conduct effective testing.

And also there are serveral small complications with new hardwares (again, paraphrasing the email):

  • The back USB-A expansion card will draw high amount of power when it is empty or pluged in with a USB 2.0 device
  • The back HDMI/DP will draw high amount of power, but they are working on fixing the issue through firmware
  • The windows installer do not come with the up-to-date wifi driver, yet requires user to log into a microsoft account
  • Some linux distro with older kernel might not have ~~wifi~~ good general support out of the box, until updating the kernel, which probably will be covered by either official guide or community guide.

Fortunately, other expansion card like storage, USB-C, and USB-3.0 works fine, and they state that Fedora 38 "will work smoothly out of the box". And they are working on fixing all of these issue or provide detailed guide to tweak these issue yourself.

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Molly v.s. Signal (mander.xyz)
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I am not comfortable that signal depends proprietary google library. However, I find that Molly lags significantly behind signal (around 1 to 2 weeks, so maybe not as significant as I thought), but I am just concerned that if there is a security fix in signal, molly will not be able to react as fast.

I am also quite frustrated with the general lack of communication from the signal team (for example the lack of communication regarding username). I doubt they will have the good will to help molly when there is a critical security fix.

It is frustrating that signal no longer seems like the gold standard for privacy any more; unfortunately, all my friends are on there (ironic, isn't it...).

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