Natanael
@Natanael@infosec.pub
- Comment on Motivation™ 1 day ago:
And it’s cooler than cow tipping!
- Comment on Cybersecurity as a Creative Writing major 1 day ago:
The esc button
- Comment on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours 1 day ago:
Most houses have hot water tanks
- Comment on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours 1 day ago:
It’s possible to heat things like return water or cold water directly and then use heat exchangers.
Temperature differentials also doesn’t matter much because temperature doesn’t directly behave like voltage, if your hot source is too hot you simply use less hot water. You’d likely end up with multiple heat pumps, but each one can be smaller as they cooperate.
Here in Sweden we already always distribute to homes at 70-100°C and then at 50-55°C internally (again, with heat exchangers to minimize energy loss). And that works just fine. We just don’t (yet) have many systems which feed back thermal energy.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours 1 day ago:
We already have hot and cold water distribution. Most Swedish homes have central heating using hot water radiators, and central cooling is now starting to become a thing here. Any sink in a house has hot and cold water.
It’s absolutely possible to tie into this by making use of recirculation systems where you have constant flow of hot/cold water and every household source of heat or AC unit for cooling can tap into it (pun intended) to feed back generated heat or contribute to cooling. Then you use storage systems (thermal mass or thermoelectric generation) for the excess.
- Comment on That's just science 1 day ago:
So they’re like black plants
- Comment on Shhhh! it's sleeping. 4 days ago:
Prime filming location for Inception 2
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 1 week ago:
Presidents.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
Look at the paper I added. It does lose up to a huge distance because of the uplinks and satellite movement. It takes something ridiculous to get use of space lasers.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
And then promptly loses out to the longer distance between nodes, slower network gear on the satellites themselves, the massive latency loss to requiring more complex higher redundancy signal coding due to the energy loss in the laser across the distance (since it spreads out, vs a fiber maintaining most energy). Even if you used dense LEO satellites like Starlink it remains unreliable and the motion of satellites means you can’t have a stable path length.
Tldr it’s useless for almost everything. You need to be able to not just use efficient live path selection when sending traffic, you have to be able afford to pay for QoS priority on wildly expensive satellites due to all the specifical equipment and hardware capacity limits
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 2 weeks ago:
They were already behaving as if they were having random bitflips, how much worse could they get?
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 2 weeks ago:
Lasers are no longer low latency when distances are huge
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Why do AI sloppers spread AI slop even when the real thing exists? Because they’re lazy as fuck and are allergic to the effort it takes to find sources
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the coyote can call 911 for you
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 2 weeks ago:
This is not universal. Many don’t proactively check, the signature is typically used afterwards when the account owner makes a claim that some action was fraudulent. Some businesses will check to avoid precisely dealing with those claims, but most don’t have to.
And also, legally the mark can be anything and it’s just a convention that it is your name.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 2 weeks ago:
Old school contract law was always about expressed mutual understanding, and predates widespread ability to read and write so didn’t require papers (but did like having witnesses of the agreement).
You still see surviving requirements of some contract signings needing witnesses.
It’s still the same in the digital age, if you can demonstrate all participants agreed then the form doesn’t matter much (aside from in regulated fields, some have their own requirements on form).
- Comment on Could I theoretically grind up one of those pink salt lamps and use it to season my food? 2 weeks ago:
But then instead of heavy metal it will start to play techno
- Comment on Could I theoretically grind up one of those pink salt lamps and use it to season my food? 2 weeks ago:
Spoke youtuber casted molten salt into a custom pan. Very effective at salting they said.
- Comment on Which path would the electrical current take? 2 weeks ago:
If you want to be very very hyperpedantic, when the circuit gets closed there is initially a current everywhere reachable and an electric field absolutely everywhere. It then settles down in passive DC circuits when equilibrium has been reached, and with an equal but opposing voltage (“electric field pressure”) on both sides of this wire the current is zero
It’s like a water pipe with stale water between two water pumps
- Comment on Bandwidth 2 weeks ago:
Maybe he’s a bit… dense…
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 3 weeks ago:
Do you have rejection sensitivity?
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 3 weeks ago:
Have your parents always been strict with you? Wanting kids to be “seen not heard”?
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 3 weeks ago:
That does sound strongly like some kind of emotional suppression. Some people have problems forming memories when they experience intense anger or sadness.
Have you ever tried taking notes / writing a diary?
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 3 weeks ago:
IDK how you’re experiencing things. If it’s “ahedonia” it could be that the signals aren’t reaching your conscious part or that it didn’t learn to process them meaningfully
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
They actually transform like axolotl, it’s displayed in the Transformers documentaries
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 3 weeks ago:
Things like drinking water is about attention, not so much about memory
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like disassociation, perhaps even “anhedonia” (stupid naming, essentially your brain is suppressing emotion). Did you experience any trauma while young? Especially something that lasted a while?
- Comment on ngl it gets you pretty buzzed 2 months ago:
Raw milk dude definitely don’t care
- Comment on Just one more square bro 5 months ago:
Some items take up multiple slots so sometimes you’re literally playing tetris style packing, and if you didn’t plan ahead around especially weapons you will have to drop stuff before you can take something better
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 5 months ago:
What do you mean, he played the genie, and, oh right…