This is a very sad local incident, but some explanation of what makes it worldwide news would be appreciated. We already know that viral infections have follow-on effects. Main takeaway that I see is get vaccinated, wear a mask, and avoid infectious places.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html :
Q20: Are Social Security numbers reused after a person dies?
A: No. We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder’s death. Even though we have issued over 453 million SSNs so far, and we assign about 5 and one-half million new numbers a year, the current numbering system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future with no changes in the numbering system.
If this is US social security numbers, they only have 9 digits so there can’t be billions of them.
Thanks, yeah, my friends use Fusion 360. I don’t have a working Windows machine right now but maybe I can set something up or run under Wine.
Yeah right now what I want to do is duplicate a shower door guide which is a 3 inch plastic part with some specific grooves and a screw hole. It’s incredibly hard to find the right one online or tell that it’s right. Home Depot doesn’t even have that kind of thing in their store any more. I do at least have a reasonably intact one that I can measure with a caliper.
Yikes, a 28 minute video, but I guess I’ll watch it during some downtime at some point. Thanks again.
Wikipedia was using archive.today to link to off-wiki articles such as news articles, where the links had stopped working. Similar to how it also uses the archive.org Wayback machine for the same purpose.
Hmm, ok, so much for that idea. I had hoped it wouldn’t depend much on ambient temperature and humidity. Thanks.
Do you recommend any FOSS CAD software for designing parts? I’ve played with OpenSCAD a bit and maybe that suffices, but I wonder what else there is.
TLDR: they do a bunch of gaming benchmarks and find that the CXMT ram is a tiny bit slower than the name brand ram sticks but seem to work fine. They do absolutely no testing of error rates, Rowhammer, temperature tolerance, etc. The stuff that users trying to compute stuff actually care about.
Thanks, that sounds good. I saw a Prusa review a while back that was positive, so that also weighs in favor. I will shop around.
Thanks, yeah, I like the idea of an enclosed printer so that I can print outdoors (with an extension cord or portable power station) and not get my living room full of fumes. Is that a reasonable thing to want to do?
Oh boy, what’s a good not too expensive 3d printer to buy right now, preferably all FOSS? It hasn’t been on my short term shopping list but I figure if I’m ever likely to want one, better get it now. I remember the original RepRap. I think modern stuff is a lot better, but might have more closed source software.
Nokia N900 from 2009. Question is when we’ll get a new one.
Linux has software raid built in. You use mdadm to configure the array. It’s a bit confusing but not a big deal. You might want to ask for help when you get to that point. Alternatively if you want hardware raid, you buy a raid controller and plug the drives into it. IDK about really attempting either of these with a raspberry pi instead of an x86 box. I’d use a box.
You need to have the hardware set up ahead of time.
I’ve never heard of any of those. No description of what they are for but they mostly look video related. Ffmpeg and mplayer have sufficed for me so far, but who knows.
I’d stop short of saying “solution” but they can be of some help. There are still surveillance methods that work against them, maybe not to decrypt the actual messages, but to monitor who is talking to who and maybe jam the communications. When you say “protest” etc., do you mean you’re part of some big mob in the streets and you want portable gizmos to communicate with other people who are also protesting? Or do you mean you’re all sitting at home coordinating something and the wired internet works?
Almost anything you do that’s scalable across lots of users and likely to be replicated, will also be targeted by surveillance. So the trick is to do something one-off that nobody else is doing and that isn’t figured into systematic monitoring. So that means concocting something unique or obscure, that only you and a few of your friends know about.
Generally maintaining security in something like this is difficult and paranoia-inducing and you end up feeling like you’re in Spy vs Spy cartoon if you remember those. The only real solution is to get rid of the surveillance regime.
Newpipe working for me right now. I hope it lasts.
So if I talk about hemorrhoids enough, it will think I’m old and let me into the pr0n sites! Cool!!!
If butcher paper and Scotch tape worked for Kerouac, it can work for us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road#%3A~%3Atext=taped+together
https://www.kerouac.com/shop/books/kerouac-books/on-the-road-the-original-scroll/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-spot-rule-breaking-black-hole-growing-13-times-faster-than-should-be-possible/ar-AA1WQtHL