NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on ONE OF US 1 day ago:
Yeah, for being brilliant physicists, they weren’t particularly smart. From the second incident:
On May 21, 1946, one of Daghlian’s colleagues, physicist Louis Slotin, was demonstrating a similar criticality experiment, lowering a beryllium dome over the core.
Like the tungsten carbide bricks before it, the beryllium dome reflected neutrons back at the core, pushing it toward criticality. Slotin was careful to ensure the dome – called a tamper – never completely covered the core, using a screwdriver to maintain a small gap, acting as a crucial valve to enable enough of the neutrons to escape.
The method worked, until it didn’t.
The screwdriver slipped and the dome dropped, for an instant fully covering the demon core in a beryllium bubble bouncing too many neutrons back at it.
After an initial bout of nausea and vomiting, he at first seemed to recover in hospital, but within days was losing weight, experiencing abdominal pain, and began showing signs of mental confusion.
A press release issued by Los Alamos at the time described his condition as “three-dimensional sunburn”.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 4 days ago:
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 4 days ago:
Yeah people here are overlooking the Sharpie pen, it’s quite nice.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 5 days ago:
some BOFH energy
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
OP posted a rain graph here, it maxes out at ~20% in April-May.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Is there water access on the property? Potential for drilling a well?
Without a steady source of water, farming is problematic.
- Comment on Dead reddit theory 💀 2 weeks ago:
Tragedy is comedy + time
- Comment on Later virgins 😎 2 weeks ago:
I can’t even see that, Lemmy automatically converts passwords to asterisks for security, so I can’t even see that your password is *******
- Comment on Anon is deeply disturbed 2 weeks ago:
No, stores pay the fee to the provider (MasterCard/Visa/American Express/etc) for processing the transaction. This is why you see those little signs that say “minimum credit card purchase $5” or w/e in smaller shops, because if the transaction is too small they lose money on it.
You might actually inflict $2.50 in losses on the location for processing a single transaction for a $0.50 sauce cup.
- Comment on Anon is deeply disturbed 2 weeks ago:
Hmm… isn’t the credit card transaction fee usually about $3?
- Comment on Alcohol solves problems, water creates them. 3 weeks ago:
well… it is a solvent…
- Comment on This fucking bot is still out there messaging 3 weeks ago:
Almost all of these turn into attempts to get the target to buy into some crypto scam or other.
It’s not meant to catch people who are moderately aware, it’s meant to catch the stupid, ignorant, and easy to manipulate. Being an obvious scam is part of the utility - it saves time by naturally filtering out anyone who is too aware to actually give them any money.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
Really depends on where and how the data collection is integrated.
Browser forks mostly make changes to the application UI which wraps the engine, not to the engine itself. Browser engines are these fantastically complex things, extremely difficult to keep operational and secure, which is why there aren’t many of them and why they’re all developed by large organizations. Forking the engine is basically doomed to failure because you won’t be able to keep up, you’ll be out of date in a month and drastically insecure in a year.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
which is the edgiest thing you could do
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
well, aren’t we the edgy one
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
…which is Gecko, which is Mozilla.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
…which is Gecko, which is Mozilla.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
Fuck’s sake, might as well be a warrant canary.
Are any of those independent browser projects functional yet?
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 weeks ago:
“the exact center of the Big Bang” is not a phrase that makes sense.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 weeks ago:
If you can’t tell which person in your group is having a stroke right now, it’s probably you.
- Comment on Anon is confused 4 weeks ago:
Anon caught a bullet.
- Comment on Algorithms are breaking how we think | Technology Connections 4 weeks ago:
The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis
The business and political worlds use psychological techniques to read, create and fulfill the desires of the public, and to make their products and speeches as pleasing as possible to consumers and voters. Curtis questions the intentions and origins of this relatively new approach to engaging the public.
- Comment on how could i talk to someone about them being aggressive without invalidating them but also without enabling/downplaying it? 5 weeks ago:
Do you want to help this person be better, or do you want to protect yourself from them?
The first will require that they are receptive in some way to being helped, so it may be impossible.
The second… well, you’ve described a deeply insecure person. The need to constantly remind other people how much better they are demonstrates a real fear of being found to be inadequate. If you can determine the source and/or subject of the insecurity you can potentially weaponize it against them. That’s risky though, it may make you more of a target for retribution.
Remember, you can’t fix someone else, they can only fix themselves. You can offer guidance, but that only works if they’re open to being guided.
Perhaps the best course of action is more zen… let them learn their own lessons. Isolate yourself from damage as much as possible, and just wait for them to crash and burn. Make popcorn.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
What we need is a new system
- Comment on Anon goes to the casino 5 weeks ago:
Most of them? 0.
Heck, most of them will sit there in the library list forgotten, to be absentmindedly scrolled past in five years’ time with the thought “I really should install that game and give it a try… someday…”
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The transition from ALSA to Pulse never really fully happened and a lot of backend stuff is still dependent on ALSA. If you ever find that you have an audio channel that is just not working for no apparent reason (like audio input), run
alsamixerand check if the channel is muted there.I’ve found this multiple times on new Ubuntu-derivative installs, and the channel muting in ALSA is not reflected anywhere in the desktop GUI audio settings and can’t be adjusted through them, but nothing is technically broken - you just have to raise the volume on that channel via alsamixer. It’s a very annoying gotcha.
