adespoton

@adespoton@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we at a point in human history where we can get robotic limbs and other things to better our day to day lives? Like a robotic arm where I can pick up 100lbs with one arm and so forth?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Follow you around? Your account posts everywhere, all the time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we assume paper towels are sterile, or at least clean?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny thing about the medical field and sanitizing… I had a relative in biochemistry. Their sanitizing regime was very specific. And when asked about hospital sanitizing practices, they could run off a long list of biological hazards common to a hospital setting that not only would not be destroyed by their practices, but were likely to mutate in novel ways.

  And yet, other than C.Dif, most people survive visits to the hospital just fine.

  So yeah, just the paper towel’s built-in antimicrobial properties are likely enough in most settings where a person would use them… assuming people aren’t using them to pat down a raw chicken and then wipe the counter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  3-2-1 is the way.

  I have over 300GB of photos, digital, scanned, etc. I have a working master copy of them on my computer, plus two alternating local copies on local network backups, plus quarterly rotating offsite backups to a safe deposit box. This protects against bit rot, data corruption, accidental deletion and short term incremental data loss.

  In all the years I’ve used this setup (around 25 now), I’ve only ever lost one chunk of photos, which I didn’t realize had got erased until after I’d already rotated the quarterly backups twice. Thankfully I’d also shared edited versions of that set with a friend, so while I was never able to recover the raw files, I at least got the edited copies back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we assume paper towels are sterile, or at least clean?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think your use cases are the standard use (dry surface and scoop up gunk before sanitizing).

  However, the first use case presents a problem: if you sanitize your hands/surface and then dry with a non-sterile paper towel, what’s to say you haven’t just smeared contaminants all over the surface again?

  I do remember a study in bathrooms a few years back that found that the materials and composition of a paper towel tend to trap contaminants instead of spreading them (just like wood/paper cutting boards)… so paper towel likely has some built-in antimicrobial properties, but that window between manufacture and use is pretty wide open. We entrust a LOT to a bit of shrinkwrap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wrote a script for a movie and sent it off to a studio or whatever. What prevents the person who recieved it from claiming it as their own?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, if you do an official copyright filing, they’ll likely reject the script and then generate one using AI that extracts the most interesting bits but in a totally non-infringing way.

  Welcome to scriptwriting in 2026.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would moving/shifting in the 4th (spacial) dimension be fatal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I move through the fourth dimension constantly? It tends to be a continuous thing though, just like the other three.

  Now adjusting the fifth and higher via the Higgs field could get a bit trickier, as you’d have to be VERY precise about what went where to avoid annihilation. Each dimension you add increases by a power of magnitude what the coherence calculations would be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do a lot of frozen salmon thawing instructions say to remove the salmon from the individual wrappers before thawing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just make sure to shove the salmon into your lips instead of between them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know what the trick is called. But how can I learn how to flip one card out of the deck I am holding up into the air?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And after that it’s just about relentless practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any good CD/DVD external drives out there to connect to a laptop? So I can put all my old cd's and dvd's to my laptop then my external hd? And hopefully a decent priced one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Picked one up last year for $35? Some generic Chinese brand; CD/DVD reader/writer. Haven’t had any issues with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be a biological equivalent to an EMP?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agent Orange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Airbus A320 recently lost all 3 hydraulic systems at the same time. They are supposed to be redundant. How come Airbus hasn't grounded the A320?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they know exactly why it happened and the probability of it happening again is within tolerance, there’s no reason to ground the entire fleet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I identify someone who has deleted their post?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some instances are slow handling deletions or don’t honour them at all….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you safely and privately child-proof a PC?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow I lucked out. Following my lead, my kids refused to get social media accounts.

  I taught them from a young age to value their privacy and showed them what I could find out about virtually anyone who had an online presence. Then I showed them what showed up about me, and challenged them to find out more. Then I pointed out that I could do the same thing with their identity whenever I wanted.

  I’ve always ensured they have totally unfiltered access to the Internet and an open door to my office. Being their only reliable Internet safety net has it’s advantages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case it’s Patnou, so it’s a shared home account and a theoretical question framed to spur discussion.

  But because it’s Lemmy, there’s no deleting posts anyway. While some instances might honour the delete request, it’s guaranteed that not all will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What ever happened to Red Flag Linux?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My 1TB hard drive took a crap reformatted it, lost all my info, and it works now. How do I use a cloud or drive online to backup my stuff so I am not relying just on physical and can dl anywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone else has answered your question, so I’ll answer the one you didn’t ask.

  For physical backup, you want two local network backup drives that alternate in backing up your data hourly when you’re on the local network. That way, you have three copies of the data and if one fails, you can swap it out.

  Then you ALSO want rotating backups that get stored off site (eg in a safe deposit box). Every 3 months or so, you take the one of these at home that’s 6 months old, back everything up to it, take it to the offsite and retrieve the other one.

  This means that if something corrupts your data and you don’t notice until your local backups are also corrupted, you have two older snapshots — one of which is somewhere else, so if your home gets destroyed you still have a backup.

  The cloud backups can be layered on top of this as desired; they all serve different backup purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are there people who don't know Alaska and Hawaii are states?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of people in the world who have never looked at a map of the United States.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people easily find out that I'm an easy to pick up on?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my company, employees are required to report harassment like you describe to HR if they see it. Repeat offenders get dealt with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Normal? Human? Socially aware?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I’d add… present the compliment in the form of a question, inviting them to have the las word. “I like your hair. Did you do something new with it?” Or “where did you find that awesome top?”

  This way, it’s not just you passing judgement on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't people wear underwear under the padded bike shorts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me ask a parallel question:

  Why don’t people wear underwear under their swimsuits?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Air Compressor Regulator⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interestingly, both my paint gun and my brad nailer have a regulator on them. Although it seems to be more a simple pressure bleed valve than a regulator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Air Compressor Regulator⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I too have had mine set to 120PSI since I got it 10 years ago.

  The only issue I’ve had was from the one time I forgot to depressurize when I was done and the water rusted the inside of the tank; took a few cycles to blast out the rusty gunge before things went back to normal.

  I can’t even figure out why you’d want to mess with the output regulator. I guess not all compressors are built the same? Cheap diaphragm on the regulator that can’t take a bit of kick maybe? I know that can be an issue with gas regulators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A deerstalker with the flaps down?

  Or one of those Russian hats?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you rather be reincarnated into a world of magic or reborn as yourself (with your current knowledge fully intact)?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything sufficiently advanced that it isn’t explainable in the current culture is magic.

  Considering I’m already a modern day wizard, I’d go for being able to use my existing skills from birth over being born into a society where the laws of physics may not be the ones I’ve spent decades studying. That sounds like a recipe for abject misery and early death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How no-techy/"common" people know if a Open Source code is secure?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For a good case study: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

  If this had been closed source, the attacker would not have been able to use the technique to commit the changes in the first place.

  However, if they HAD snuck the changes in, nobody would have caught them, and only the developer would have been able to identify something was wrong before full deployment.

  But we should all assume that while the xz trojan never made it out, others likely have, both in open and closed source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would a super hero A.I. be like ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing like LLMs that are currently popularized as “AI”.

  I’m imagining something like Agent Smith in The Matrix.

  You DID mean a super hero FOR AIs, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you make friends online?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In forums and chats, go places where you can ask questions as much as you can tell people why they’re wrong.

  The way to make friends with people is to listen to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone explain, calories, carbs, glucose, and gluten?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They are complex carbohydrates; the starches have to be broken down into sugars before they can be processed by our bodies. That process takes energy, but not as much as processing plant matter or even meat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your excuse for the current state of affairs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d have to ask the ones you know. But how well do you really know them?