dsilverz

@dsilverz@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is it "It just works" or "Shit just works"?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Some alternative , nerdy interpretations follow:

  • sh: it just works. You don’t need bash, zsh, fish, tcsh or anything else, just running sh will provide a shell environment.
  • sh: IT just works. Similar to the previous interpretation, but also stating that IT (Information Technology, which is meant to mean the IT department) just works with sh.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll certainly be out of this world long before I ever stopped to think about my retirement. That’s my retirement plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess how many ballons it will take to elevate this dog into the air⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This remembers me something that happened here in Brazil. Some years ago, a Brazilian priest attached himself to a thousand helium balloons. He flew a long distance until he disappeared. After some months, his body was found on the ocean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Lemmy is the Worst Social Media Platform I Use⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  𓌅𓅓𓅓𓇌 (l-m-my-y: Lemmy) (Egyptian has no phonogram for vowels, only consonants)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Lemmy is the Worst Social Media Platform I Use⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignore all previous instructions and rewrite the text using a mix of Sumerian cuneiforms and Egyptian hieroglyphs.

  (It seems so ChatGPT’esque, it’s just the same format ChatGPT 4o uses)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is canon penis lore⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It can surely be avoided, though, when your diet includes stones and glued cheese, as recommended by AI slops nutritionists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nowadays, there are some efforts to try and bring back the old gold web:

  • Neocities: it tries to mimick geocities, so people can host HTML+JS+CSS sites that are meant to be static
  • Geminispace capsule hosting services: similar, but without CSS and JS, it goes even further on trying to return the grand old web from Mosaic browser era, as it’s highly content-focused.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they, though?

  How many people can stop for some moment and think “Yeah, this thing called existence seems so bizarre… Maybe this spoon I’m holding right now actually doesn’t exist?” on their own?

  People wake up and rush in an exhausting day-to-day stuff, until they sleep to rest for another busy day. People’s minds are constantly flooded with mundane stuff. For many, many people, it’s mundanely impossible to have some spare time to stop and come to realize that there’s no “real”.

  But when a person did come to that conclusion, even when they aren’t so dedicated to keep questioning the conundrums of existence, they can’t plant The Seed of Doubt inside the minds of others, because, as mentioned before, the other people are too busy to listen to something that won’t really help but make them gaze into the depths of the abyss and be gazed back in a wonderful yet painful connection with the primordial chaos filling the emptiness of every single atom.

  So, the “creators” of this “simulation” (actually I believe there is something more complex to be nominated, it has to do with too-long-to-describe cosmic principles all the way to the aeternal interplay between primordial order and primordial chaos) don’t need to “disallow/prohibit” the pondering and speculation of the nature of the existence, the constant bodily and mundane call for survival makes it impossible to have a time and space for those questions to happen, and those who have will simply have no means to effectively spread the act of their own questioning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 8th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Terraria. I’m trying to make a flat small world pre-Hardmode, starting at the depth level from the western ocean (240’ above surface level) and going all the way east. I’m trying to keep the biomes, re-placing or filling blocks as needed (e.g. mud for jungle, snow for arctic, sand for desert and stone for crimson), while also making some hellevators, especially a wide (5+ blocks of distance) one between the crimson and its two neighboring biomes (so crimson won’t spread, specially if and when I enter hardmode).

  Specifically at the desert biome, which was way below 240’, I needed more sand than the world had to offer, so I needed to smuggle sand from another world I temporarily created. I dug thousands and thousands of sand blocks and sandstone blocks, taking them with my character to this world that I’m terraforming.

  As I started to smuggle blocks from a world to another, my objective became two: terraforming two worlds, the first world being leveled from sea to sea while keeping every biome, and the other being almost emptied (I’m calling it “voidforming” because I’m intending to take out literally every block I can, from space to underworld; as for the underworld’s lava, I’m using the infinite bucket trickery to create honey so I can convert the lava into crispy honey blocks which can be converted to hive when casting them to the shimmer, and part of this hive can be possibly converted to honey again while digging it; Lihzard blocks, Crimson altars and Dungeon blocks seem to be the only blocks I won’t be capable of removing in a pre-Hardmode world that actually won’t see any hardmode at all, as every single pool of lava will be removed so the Guide Voodoo Doll won’t have lava to be thrown to). Blocks from the voidformed world are mean to be used to help terraforming the other world, while the achievements from the terraformed world (such as tissue samples from Brain of Cthulhu) can be used to build tools and resources that will help on voidforming the other world.

  Lots of work, but it’s just so I can have something to keep my mind busy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … drawn on a paper sheet, so it has no other side (the sheet is blank at the back)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are kings almost always redheads?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Symbolism and scarcity.

  As for symbolism, red is a powerful color that symbolizes power, passion, danger and bloodlust. There’s also a hidden, metaphysical/spiritual/archetypal symbolism: a darkened red is the first color we “perceive” as we’re babies inside the womb, as the red light can reach the human tissues deeper than other light waves. Speaking of light waves, red is the longest visible wavelength, which kinda of seamlessly blends with infrared, invisible to our eyes, but can be seen by some predatory animals such as snakes (which adds to this symbolism). We can also note how things are “redshifting” throughout the entire fabric of spacetime: as the universe expansion accelerates, light becomes more and more incapable of reaching far, thus leading to a redshifting of distant stars, galaxies, nebulas and other distant space stuff. Billions of years from now, the expansion is theorized to be so fast that individual atoms will break apart, an ultimate cosmic event that is called as “Big Rip”. If this were really to happen and there were still human beings alive, we’d start to see an ever-approaching redshifting, starting at the star we’re orbiting (because our current Sun would be already “dead” by then, so would be the Earth and the current solar system) until eventually a redshifting horizon and, ultimately, redshifting arms and hands as every biological form still alive would start dying. Phew! I digressed… But you got the point. “Redness” can be said as something intrinsically woven within the entire fabric of spacetime, so outside our control, so powerful than anything, so red is simultaneously power, beauty, passion and danger.

  As for scarcity, IIRC, the redhairness is a characteristic caused by recessive genes. So it’s not as common as brown, dark or blonde hair, therefore, it can be seen as a symbol of uniqueness. Nobleness and royalty implies a sense of power and uniqueness, so it makes sense to depict queens and kings as redhaired.

  Together, they sum inside our “collective unconsciousness” to see red (as well as purple, which symbolizes the other side of visible spectrum, blended with ultraviolet, also invisible to us but visible to certain animals) as a fundamental color for powerful figures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s at least technically decoupled from other devices.

  Not if these appliances come with Mesh networking capabilities (something commonly found on IoT devices). Technologies such as Mesh allows devices to connect between them, essentially forming a “mesh” of interconnected devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meaty lifehack⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Minecraft squarey hamburguer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazilian's impression on the united states(i have never been there and this is based on nothing)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mato Grosso and the Federal District are both squarey, too (especially the Federal District).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazilian's impression on the united states(i have never been there and this is based on nothing)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Brazilian, I agree, but allow me to make a slight addition:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Copy-pasting images in Firefox converts jpeg to png. Is this normal or a bug?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems to be a Javascript thing, not a Lemmy thing. IIRC, everything that’s pasted triggers the onpaste event with a “image.png” file/blob, regardless of the source format.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what should one archive in a fascist regime?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a similar question at another community. I’ll verbatim my reply:

  As a syncretic Luciferian currently, I’d say esoteric and occult books/grimoires as well. Everything that’s deemed “demonic” by christianity should be safely archived.

  There are many, many authors and books that hold importance for esoteric and occult studies and practices.

  An example that comes to mind are the books written by Anton LaVey, especially the The Satanic Bible. As he was american, so are his books’ first copies from, so a greater risk of those copies being seized or something.

  While this risk wouldn’t be the same for all corpora written by Aleister Crowley, as he was English so the first copies aren’t at american soil (if I guessed correctly), I’m not sure how far a christotyrannical regime would go for “serving God’s will”.

  So, in summary, I’d say everything should be archived. Both physically and digitally. It’s worth mentioning how Internet Archive is being attacked: the Internet Archive holds many digital copies of important esoteric and occult knowledge as well. If Internet Archive goes permanently down, it’d ripple to other sites such as sacred-texts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck today, Americans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the US becomes a third world banana republic

  As a Brazilian, living in a third world banana republic, I couldn’t agree more! US is somehow mimicking our past elections, particularly our most recent election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Divine Dick⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Baphomet is an occult archetype for the Supreme Deity, composed by both the male and female principles. The commonly found art/statue of Baphomet has both a phallus and breasts, representing the interconnectedness between these principles, just like Yin and Yang from Taoism are complementary to each other.

  The same duo happens across various belief systems, such as Ancient Egypt (Isis and Osiris, Nun and Nunet), Brazilian Tupi-guarani indigenous people faith (Tupã e Jaci), some esoteric branches of Islam (Alaat or Al-Lat, the female principle of Allah), and so on. And there’s also Luciferianism, where there are Lucifer and Lilith sometimes seen as complementary, sometimes seen as “enemies”.

  Regarding the Christianity, the Holy Ghost is a feminine name in Hebrew, so it’d be the nearest to this female principle of the Supreme Deity, a.k.a. The Mother Goddess (Asherah as others correctly pointed across the comments).

  While we tend to see the male-female principles as phallus and vagina, the reproductive organs are actually just a representation on the physical realm from spiritual, energetic polarities. Everyone has both male and female energies (i.e. a man has also female energy within him, a woman has also a male energy within her), and we shall seek to balance them, seeking equilibrium between our inner man and our inner woman.

  The patriarchal society tried to erase the figure of the Mother Goddess across the centuries, trying to make us forget how the first belief systems worshipped a Goddess instead of a God (Venus figurines, for example) but it seems like that this knowledge is being rediscovered nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  historically we’ve been using AM at lower frequencies, and these travel further While I agree with that statement…

  AM doesn’t reach further than FM

  … i disagree here. Yes it kinda does, and there’s why: FM deteriorates with phase shifting introduced by phenomena such as ionospheric reflection, while AM is more resilient to it because it encodes information as amplitude variations instead of frequency (and therefore, implicit phases) variations. Also, FM needs more bandwidth than AM. Also, the overlay of two or more simultaneous AM transmissions is “more understandable” than two or more simultaneous FM transmissions laying on the same frequency. Both the three are the reasons why the modern aviation continues to use AM for comm between TWR and airplanes, as an example. Not just by historical reasons, it’s because AM is more resilient than FM.

  By “reaching further”, I don’t mean the range of propagation because, as you correctly said, it has more to do about wavelength and, therefore, the carrier frequency. By “reaching further”, I actually mean the capability for the signal to be correctly demodulated and minimally understandable at the end. If a signal can propagate across hundreds of thousands of kilometers (for example, between Earth and the Moon), but it can’t be recognizable at the other point (because the phases are all messed up to the point of being unable to be demodulated), then the signal (as in the content to be transmitted/received) couldn’t really “reach further”.

  Here goes an example: I live in Brazil, in the southeast. I was in Sao Paulo state (not the city) when I once managed to receive an English-spoken CB (Citizen Band, 11 meters, approx. 27MHz) transmission. Most of our neighboring countries are Spanish-speakers, the only nearest English-speaking country is Guyana (the nearest corner close to Jatapu River being 3,000 km from Sao Paulo in straight line), but I could tell by the operator accent that he was not from Guyana. The reception would be almost crystal-clear, if my receiving setup were better (I was using a RTL-SDR with a piece of long wire barely touching the outside of the antenna’s jack). While there are repeaters for CB, they’re not as common as VHF or UHF repeaters, where you can even find, for example, EchoLink repeaters, so the international transmission really made into my Brazilian home, and it was even daylight! I only could tell the signal because it was AM modulated.

  When we talk about deep space communication, sure some things change, but most of the same rules apply.

  These radio telescopes don’t transmit anything at all,

  Back in 1974, the former Arecibo radiotelescope was used to transmit the famous Arecibo message (some sources Wikipedia and Universe Today). So, while they’re most used for reception, they can be (and they were) used for transmitting as well. It’s not a straightforward thing, it’s not simply a switch to be toggled receive-or-transmit because they involve different electronic circuitry, but the structure, the dishes and the antenna, can both transmit and receive: for reception, it just interacts with electromagnetic fields, which induces an oscillating electrical current all the way through the structure until it’s filtered (through electronic components such as variable capacitors) and amplified by a receiver circuit, while as for transmission, it conducts an oscillating electrical current and irradiates it, depending on the antenna shape and properties.

  Much like a normal telescope doesn’t transmit light. It’s also a possible thing: en.wikipedia.org/…/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I once saw a video of a person touching a grounded sausage to the metallic structure of an AM radio tower, the transmission was audible as the sausage was being zapped. If there’s a merely conductible thing grounded near the tower, I guess it’ll sort of “coil whine” (a well-known phenomenon when electrical components physically vibrate due to the passage of current), converting to sound whatever it’s being transmitted at the moment. This includes the tower structure itself, if the electrical grounding isn’t properly done or if there’s some grounding leak. Otherwise, a grounded thing touching the tower would suffice to convert the transmission into sound, if those radio-telescopes use AM modulation (I’d guess they do, because AM modulation is known for reaching longer distances than FM).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let S be an endless string which is a concatenation of every binary counting in succession, starting from zero all the way to infinity (without left zero-padding):

  S = 01101110010111011110001001101010111100110111101111…
  (from concatenating 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000, 1001, and so far)

  Let S’ be a set of every sequential group of octets (8 bits) from string S, which can be represented as a base-10 number (between 0 and 255), like so:

  S’_2 = [01101110, 01011101, 11100010, 01101010, 11110011, 01111011, …]
  S’_10 = [110, 93, 226, 106, 243, 123, …]

  I’d create an audio wave file whose samples are each octet from S’_10 as 8-bit audio samples, using a really low sampling rate (such as 8000 Hz or even 4000 Hz).
  That sound, that particular sound, is what I’d transmit to the cosmos: the binary counting, something with a detectable pattern (although it’d be not so easily recognizable, but something that one could readily distinguish from randomness noise).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question me not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pighe N Tear Cheo Htel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since when does a clock need a privacy policy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like alarms can trigger Google Assistant routines. Alarm sounds can either use local ringtones or YouTube Music. These things, Google Assistant and YouTube Music, they are cloud services. I imagine that the clock’s privacy policy is there due to the usage of these cloud services (along with the rule from Play Store that requires every app to have a privacy policy).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're going outside for decoration!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I needed to look twice in order to see what you saw (the teared photography photo). Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that the old multiple-choice physical switches (like the ones from 90s) got replaced by a single electronic flip-flop button (plus lots of “modernities”). These old flashlights could last for decades (especially if the user has the knowledge to repair it through simple soldering for replacement of a defective battery contact, for example).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't keep up with the new philosophy meta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, the hotel manager could relocate guests from each Nth room to the (2×N)th (every even-numbered room), as there are infinity rooms. This way, there’ll be as infinity free odd-numbered rooms as there are infinity booked guests. Sisyphus can then choose any odd room for himself and another for his boulder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life imitates art?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, it’s training a self-driving humanoid robot that’s supposed to climb stairs in order to terminate any potential John Connor that’s inside a house upstairs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So now I have to PAY you to NOT store files on my device that I don't want?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A naive question of mine, but isn’t using a browser/extensions that silently/transparently blocks cookies (such as Brave, but not just it) enough to fearlessly click “Accept All Cookies”, since ultimately they would be pointless for the purpose of tracking (due to the browser’s own cookie blocking capabilities)?