adespoton
@adespoton@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 11 hours ago:
West… there’s a lot more sprawl here AND rush hour traffic that lasts half the day, even on weekends.
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 21 hours ago:
I live in a city of over 100,000 people and my grocery store is 25 minutes away. About an hour if I walk.
I grew up in a small town and had two grocery stores within 8 minutes. Everything was a lot more expensive and there was less selection.
Moved because of the lack of services (no hospital, volunteer FD and ambulance, no high school, no college nearby, no taxi service, no bus service, everything shut down at 6 PM).
- Comment on Are color palettes subject to copyright protection? 1 day ago:
- Comment on Is there a non leftist version of this website? 2 days ago:
To add to this, whatever “website” the OP is on has no ideology. Different instances of Lemmy do moderate in different manners, so depending on the “website”/instance he visits, the content available and moderation may skew towards a specific ideology. For example, I don’t go to the news community on lemmy.ml anymore, because I got tired of the pro-Russia stance there.
So if the OP ran their own instance where race hate and misogyny were acceptable, that would fit their definition. But good luck getting anyone to federate with them.
The problem is that their definition of “left” lines up pretty well with people who are willing to cooperate with others that are different from themselves — which is the basis for any non-autocratic community.
- Comment on Does not having a (mainstream) social media account make you look suspicious to the authorities? Is it a good idea to have an innocent looking social media account just to look "normal"? 3 days ago:
My “social media account” is my LinkedIn account, which shows my record of employment and links to coworkers.
It’s all information a government could find elsewhere, and seems to generally meet the requirements.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
About time. Can they do it retroactively, or does this just mean no more security updates?
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 1 week ago:
… just the most SouthEastern part of it :D
- Comment on Why is it sometimes difficult to start doing what one enjoys? 1 week ago:
Often, guilt. Sometimes, distraction or the inability to prioritize.
And sometimes, not being honest with yourself that you find something else more enjoyable.
- Comment on Google changes Chrome extension policies following the Honey link scandal 1 week ago:
Indeed. And that goes for various social media apps too.
- Comment on What do you do if you encounter a skunk? 1 week ago:
The only worrying experience I’ve ever had with skunks was when I was walking along a path and saw these two little faces pop out from some brush at the side of the trail— baby skunks. I backed away slowly, and took a different route. Last thing I wanted was their mother getting defensive because they were too forward with a human.
- Comment on How exactly are people lighting Teslas on fire? 1 week ago:
I have no idea where the manual release is on my car that I’ve owned for 13 years. Nobody ever engages the child safety locks, but if they did, those doors are effectively unopenable from the inside.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 1 week ago:
Just wait… they’ll die eventually.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 1 week ago:
If you want long-term, look to the liver. Alcohol will destroy it over time, but so will viral hepatitis. Have you considered slow acting diseases like hepatitis or HIV? Or something intensely carcinogenic?
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 1 week ago:
Came here to say this; cremation is the cheapest that leaves your family with an object; leaving your body to science can be zero-cost (costs paid by the institution of choice).
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
That gave me a very odd image of vend-a-leopard-eating-your-face.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
Especially when they think your views are the problem.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
I have one word:
Eggs.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 week ago:
Ahh… THAT is the difference.
In the US, most of the media is complicit in what’s being protested. And online social media coverage is being contained to small bubbles.
- Comment on How do I clean plaster dust from the floorboards? 2 weeks ago:
I use a dry steam mop. It’s the only thing I’ve found that gets the gypsum off without damaging the surface.
- Comment on can you guess my favorite animal? 2 weeks ago:
Elephant.
It’s always elephants.
- Comment on why is my psychologically abusive ex friend nice to me sometimes, especially in public? 2 weeks ago:
Abusive people are generally selfish and manipulative. As such, they know that abuse has to be 1:1, with the appearance of normalcy to everyone else. Being rude in public would cede their abusive power ofer any individual.
EXCEPT
When abusive people gain a critical mass of followers in public, the behaviour reserved for 1:1 interactions goes public, and they start behaving in public like they always do in private.
A good example of this is Donald Trump.
- Comment on If I use winrar to compress 80gb of tv and movies. Then can I compress it further by making it an iso? 2 weeks ago:
Iso is a container format; it’s a 1:1 mapping to how the bits are stored on disk with a header at the start describing the structure. Bin/cue separates the header into a separate file and can include data structured in ways that don’t comply with the ISO-9660 standard.
WinRAR is a compression/decompression program. It supports multiple archive types and compression formats.
Depending on the type of data you are compressing and whether you want lossless or lossy compression, you’ll want to select a different compression algorithm.
Depending on how you plan to use the files, you’ll want to use a different archive format.
Assuming you use the rar archive format, you still have a lit of options to consider. Should the data be encrypted or not? Should the directory structure be encrypted or not? Do you want parity files and segmented archives, so that if one of the parts gets corrupted (or goes missing), you can still extract the original data in a lossless way?
Beyond all that and selecting the compression algorithm that best compresses the type of structured data you’re storing, the general rule is that if you’ve got lots of data, using the largest dictionary and the largest compression window you can will result in the best compression.
So the dictionary is essentially a code book that says “when I see data x, represent it with data y in the file”. The compression window is how much of your original data is loaded into memory at any given time for the dictionary to look at and compress.
- Comment on [Social Engineering] My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting A Romance Fraudster. 2 weeks ago:
And again, a word of caution: leave the baiting to the professionals. It can be really easy to accidentally drop your opsec, and these people are usually being managed by organized crime syndicates that can have more reach than you’d expect.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Having accounting training is beneficial even if you hate accounting. Even if you only get through the first year and decide to switch, having that initial training means you know what’s what later in life when dealing with accountants and auditors.
Plus, it’s useful to be able to manage your own personal finances.
- Comment on Can someone recommend me a wireless headset? 2 weeks ago:
I had the same question for over a year, and even tried getting my IT department to recommend something.
Eventually I gave up and bought these: a.co/d/1o00jkt
They have a slight lag, but work reasonably well and sit well for long calls. And they’re cheap.
- Comment on Citigroup plans to slash IT contractors, hire staff to improve controls 2 weeks ago:
Trump, are you paying attention?
Regulation over data governance is what drives local investment, not tariffs.
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah, but you also learn Swiss German and Swiss French and Parisian French, and Italian is an option isn’t it?
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 2 weeks ago:
Here in Canada we learn Parisian French in school despite Quebecois French being one of our national languages.
It’s probably because, like BBC/Oxford English, those are the places that have an “official” version of the language they try to preserve. Same thing happens with Portugese, despite Brazilian Portugese being more commonly spoken than Portugal Portugese.
- Comment on Do you think the US will actually log its national parks? 2 weeks ago:
Thing is, you can’t take back clearcutting an ecological preserve.
Trump and Musk like to talk big and move as fast as possible. The trick will be to ensure that the resource extraction companies can’t take irreversible action as soon as Trump says something stupid, but still have months of paperwork to wade through so there’s time for Trump to be able to change what he originally meant by what he said/signed.