thevoidzero

@thevoidzero@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do linux users have wives?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We need more information to reach people. So far I’ve only seen people be into Linux when they have less social life growing up so they spend time online (not in tiktoks or such like now).

  Since most people hearing about Linux from class or other people only hear about the bad aspects or how hard it is if they even hear about it. When I came to US university, I was so surprised noone knew about linux or cared enough except handful of people. And most people did it for work (super computer people, grad students) that didn’t like it and express their opinions openly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an author, I’m a scientist. So I don’t know what the through process of authors are. But I it probably would take long time to actually find alternative ways to do the things same as us but underwater. The civilization won’t be like us, they would not have same technology, they wouldn’t have same values. Authors are probably trying to capture general population’s interests by making things they understand.

  And do you think “hey I haven’t heard anyone say something to me about earth rotating sun” would have been a good counter argument in the past.

  Water is incredible, we don’t know all the ways we can use it. Sometimes it takes hours to simulate what water does in seconds. Unlike other materials like metals, which are lot easier to predict. And if we’re talking about aliens, don’t even have to think water, it could be something else as flexible as water, while having properties that makes it easier to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does your glasses need electricity to function? Before electronics came and we started making everything need electricity do you think we were not advanced civilization because we only used mechanical power? If you had come that far and suppose had limitations like “can’t use electricity coz I said so”, the development would have stopped? They would have found other ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, that’s because you are human, and you think your way is the only way.

  To make hydraulics you need metal

  How does your arm work? How does octopus move? You think you can’t make an structure like human arm, or octopus tentacles without metal, and then have a tube going through it in a way the water in it can move them. Look up soft robots. There isn’t just one way to tap into mechanical energy and move things. We did what we found first, improved on it. But thinking that’s the only way just shows narrow mindedness.

  You need to heat metal

  You don’t. You know aluminum used to be so expensive because you couldn’t really extract it from the ores like iron. Wasn’t found in pure form like gold. Then someone found you can use electrolysis to get aluminum from its ore. Then it became so cheap.

  You don’t just heat metal and put it in mold for every type of metal work. In micro scale there are 3d printing methods similar to electroplating, it’s very precise.

  And even if there is a need of heat, how can you say ocean doesn’t have it. A species could find out a way to tap into volcanic vents. Similarly how we use groundwater and rivers. They could use volcanos and geothermal energy. We do many many manufacturing processes under water in a tank containing water. They could make air tank and do things there too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech needs electricity and fire is not universal. That is what we use.

  Our brain is lot more complicated and efficient than the computers we make and it uses ions, in liquid media. So something that lives in water could definitely be able to make something that would be able to use similar things to do processing. Water is also really good with doing things, it’s flexible but doesn’t compress/expand like air does. Think about hydraulic systems. You can make them smaller and smaller as your tech progresses. Mechanical things using metals and such would work in water as well. Think about gold and such that can be used for electricity as well, we don’t use it because it’s valuable, but an alien world could have abundance of gold for them to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Click here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, for printing configure footnote for links.

  For example in latex, if I’m printing something I redefine \href as \fn so the text is the same but the link is on footnote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And is harmful for people like me, who like to copy paste the pdf into a markdown file write answers there and send a rendered pdf to professors. While I keep the markdowns as my notes for everything. I’d read the text I copied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asian Beauty⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The subtitle could have been not literal translation. The dialogue could have been “this is kanji for japan” or characters for japan. But the subtitle wrote Chinese for japan, because the movie/speaker was Chinese… Maybe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers Always Innovating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just semantics. PDFs doesn’t even have segmentations like spaces/lines/paragraph. It’s just text drawn at locations the text processor/any other softwares inserted into. Many pdf editor softwares just detect the closeness of the characters to group them together.

  And one step further is you can convert text to path, which basically won’t even have glyph (characters) info and font info, all characters will just be geometric shapes. In that case you can’t even copy the text. OCR is your only choice.

  PDF is for finalizing something and printing/sharing without the ability to edit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheeky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cap is a genZ term. That’s cap = that’s a joke/lie/ something along that. I’m not fluent in the language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheeky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Waiting both sneezing or trying to hold back is dangerous? What are we supposed to do half-ass it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gallileo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, and no one will believe me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off-Topic Friday⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those topics seems a little advanced for a Linux user without cyber security knowledge though. I personally don’t understand any of them lol. I know what hardening is, what CVEs are; but except for few anecdotes like the logj4, xz, etc, I don’t think I’d know enough to talk about the cyber security side of linux.

  I was thinking more along the side of daily life things. Like how programmer like linux because it’s easier to develop things and manage environments and cross program compatibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off-Topic Friday⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What would be interesting topics in Linux for you guys. I am in a Linux student club, have no experience with cyber security except the generic things, and we are looking to attract cyber security students since Linux doesn’t have many students to maintain club status.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't wait⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey this solution seems to work but it’s not perfect; I don’t know how we can improve it, and nothing to replace it with, but let’s take it down asap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Becoming et al.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what bibliography is. It’s already like that, or am I missing something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishing Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re not saying pay the authors a bunch, we’re saying make the papers free to read. Or at least don’t charge authors and readers both, while keeping all the money for yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SubSpace⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember there being something like this already. The final mission happens as they say “this is the final training for you”. The enemy (aliens) behave differently than expected in this final simulation because they are not immediately aggressive and are waiting while defending their location, but the child successfully eliminates them. And later learns that was the actual aliens and not the simulation. And the aliens were just trying to find a place and protect their new generation, or sth.