Nibodhika
@Nibodhika@lemmy.world
- Comment on If circumcision is so insanely common in the USA, why do people tease about it on the internet? 9 hours ago:
While I get where you’re coming from, most people don’t understand what’s normal to others because they think their experience is normal. And most of us won’t get to experience someone else’s experiences to figure out what’s normal for others and what isn’t. You might be fully satisfied with your situation because it is a good situation, but it also might be because you don’t know any better and think what you experience daily to be the norm for everyone, similarly to people living in a dictatorship regime who don’t even know about the possibility of living free so they’re content with their situation.
I’m not saying it’s your case, I’m not saying you should feel bad or that there’s something that doesn’t work the way it should. I’m saying you don’t really know how things should work because you only have your experiences to rely on, and your satisfaction might derive from not knowing what something should actually feel/be like in comparison to what it is.
- Comment on If circumcision is so insanely common in the USA, why do people tease about it on the internet? 9 hours ago:
Also not necessarily correct, foreskin protects from chafing and other similar micro fissures that happen daily for people without foreskin (as shown by the person above you having issues running). And while removing a part of you does lower the chances of getting cancer there, if it’s protecting another part of you from something it can increase the risk of cancer on that other part.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 1 day ago:
It’s very different. One is “I will give YOU money if you vote for me” and the other is “I will give EVERYONE money if I win”. The main difference is that one is not discriminating against who people voted for. The first is buying votes, the second is a campaign similar to “I will retroactively lower taxes for this year if I win”, which I don’t think anyone would see as problematic but it’s exactly the same outcome as the one you’re finding problem with, i.e. give people money.
It’s a stupid campaign because anyone with half a brain understand that he’s not going to do it and that that money would have to come from someplace else, but it’s still a campaign promise similar to any other promise politicians make to ask you to vote for them.
- Comment on 'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam 3 weeks ago:
Which is weird because “thou shall not kill” comes before adultery in the commandments, and go forth and procreate is also somewhere in that book.
- Comment on 'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely, have the game without it and a free (or with a stupid price like 10 cents just to ensure legal age requirements) DLC that’s parked as adult only. But I think in this case it might be too engrained to the core of what the game is, that they can’t, and if that’s the case it makes sense to mark the entire game as adult IMO
- Comment on 'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam 3 weeks ago:
The issue is that they don’t want the game to be flagged:
If the game remains flagged this way, it will “have very serious implications on its accessibility and visibility,” says Pedercini.
- Comment on 'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam 3 weeks ago:
I personally always find it weird that killing hundreds of people is okay but nudity requires scrutiny.
That being said this derives from stripe threatening Valve in the near past (which is why their previous games didn’t face this scrutiny). This is a known thing that any game developer, especially one developing mature content, should know. And the content in that game is definitely mature, if the screenshots of the game were shared without context I would think it’s one of those sex simulators, which I get this is not and those are just small parts of the bigger picture of the game, but that’s just like saying “this chocolate bar shouldn’t need to be classified as containing peanuts, it only has 1 peanut”.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 3 weeks ago:
Dude, there’s a limit to how much issues you can put a blind sight and pretend are not there or that the next LLM will fix them. At some point companies will start getting hacked and they’ll have to take action, and that will not take decades.
- Comment on Trying to flash 256GB image to almost 256GB flash drive, space is barely not enough! 4 weeks ago:
You have 256 liters of water, and a 234.3 liter jar and are asking how to put the water in the jar. Either get rid of some of the water (shrink the image) or get a different jar (different drive). Writing 256L on the side of the jar will not let it fit more water.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 4 weeks ago:
Even by their own estimates it’s 2-10 million dollars per launch, imagine thinking that spending 6 million dollars to get a single rack in space where it can’t be maintained and will become garbage in a couple of years is a good investment. And that’s just the launch price, you still need to build the satellite, with its hundreds of square meters of solar panels and radiators. There’s no point arguing this any more than there was a point arguing hyperloop, until they present a feasible product it’s just big talk.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 4 weeks ago:
Cool, so we moved from a single motorcycle to a couple of cars, still a long way from a parking lot. You’re not understanding the issue, the scale is not feasible, you’ll spend millions of dollars to launch a single satellite that’s not even 1/10th of a tiny data center.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 4 weeks ago:
Unless I missed something, all of his math assumes 20kW of computers, that’s not even one rack for heavy stuff, of course you can run a data center in space if you send one satellite up for each computer, that’s just unpractical.
Let me put this into perspective, what you’re saying is like someone has an idea for a revolutionary parking plaza, and they’re showing you it’s feasible to spend millions of dollars to park one motorcycle in it.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, they’ve thought of all those things. Those aren’t useful answers
That’s where you’re wrong, this is like the hyperloop or solar roadways, where all of the experts agree it’s a dumb idea but you have a rich person trying to sell that to the public with the promise that they’ll solve the issues by the time they get to production.
You can’t cool things in space effectively, the only way things lose heat in space is through radiation. According to Wikipedia the radiators expel from 100 to 350 W per square meter. My PC generates more heat than that, imagine a data center. A quick Google tells me it’s 5-15kW per rack or 40-60kW per AI rack. Let’s imagine an AI data center, a single rack produces 50kW, so you need 140 square meters per rack. To put this in perspective the space station could host one rack if we removed everything else that produces heat from inside. So you need a megastructure just to host one rack, that will become obsolete in a couple years.
It’s not feasible, it’s just as stupid an idea as a vacuum tube for trains, and brought to you by the same person too.
- Comment on Why do so many people regardless of whether their reasonings are justified or not pinpoint South Park for ruining a generation of millenials? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but he also complained about writing which is very funny as we only know that he existed because other people wrote about him.
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 5 weeks ago:
Futuristic relates to technology level, not time period. Otherwise 2001 or Battlestar Galactica would not be futuristic either.
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 5 weeks ago:
Your point being?
- Comment on What are your thoughts on anti-populism and those that say populism is fascism? 5 weeks ago:
Well, first of all populism isn’t really a defined concept that everyone can agree with. Because of the question you’re asking I’m assuming you’re talking about populism as represented by such politicians as Trump/Milei/Bolsonaro/etc.
In that case the answer is that Populism is not fascism in the same way that elections are not democracy. As in, you can have one and not the other, but they tend to go hand in hand often enough to be very strongly associated.
Sure, you can have a democratic populist, but in history most examples of populism were preludes to fascist. And a fascist government usually uses populism to keep some sort of approval.
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 5 weeks ago:
Agree with everything except one thing.
It’s just mediocre sci-fi at best
Star wars is not sci-fi, it’s fantasy. People usually make that mistake because most fantasy is medieval and most sci-fi is futuristic, but Star Wars is an example of a futuristic fantasy story. Medieval sci-fi is harder to find, but some Stargate episodes from the point of view of the native of the planet would qualify and I’m sure there’s some 40k or Star Trek examples as well.
- Comment on How no-techy/"common" people know if a Open Source code is secure? 5 weeks ago:
In short the answer is this: you have two companies selling you boxes, one that it’s literally impossible to look inside, and another one that’s very easy and encouraged to do so. Even if you know nothing about bombs, if both those boxes claim to not explode, which one do you trust more?
It’s sorta the same thing, it doesn’t necessarily means that the closed box is inherently less safe, but even if you personally haven’t verified that the open box doesn’t contain anything dangerous you can be somewhat safer in the knowledge that people COULD have verified it.
- Comment on What am I doing wrong with Linux/NAS permissions? 1 month ago:
The solution you’re looking for is to have a group that all those users belong to, and make the files have RW for that group.
The solution you should do instead is to run things inside docker, so each one gets an extra isolation layer, but all can write to the same files easily.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I can, I have been touch typing in Colemak for almost a decade. I could type without looking at the keyboard on qwerty before, but it wasn’t touch typing.
- Comment on With everything becoming convience orientated , how hard would it be to be a hacker nowadays versus back in the day? Like what to read, how to help people, and other semi free things? 1 month ago:
Even though programming is also known as hacking, I’m going to assume you’re using hacker to mean red teaming in general, i.e. offensive cyber security, as that’s what most people have in mind when they think of “hackers”.
We’re about to enter a golden age for that profession, the reason is LLMs, AI, vibe-coding, etc. See, a long time ago things were very insecure, no one was worried about security as it was all just so new, that was the era when you could sniff on network traffic very easily, crack your neighbor password in a few minutes or login to most things using admin/admin. Over time people started to realize that security mattered, that there were enough malicious people out there that you had to at least make some effort to secure things. This brought us to today, where things are fairly secure, your router has a preconfigured long random password and uses at least WPA for security, most companies no longer store passwords in their databases so it diminishes the risk of leaks, etc, etc. A lot of thought is put into security by serious companies, but there were some cracks starting to show because small devs wouldn’t take security as seriously, be it for lack of resources or care, so while large stuff would be safe, smaller apps and sites are still very vulnerable, and people being people they use the same password for both and don’t enable 2fa, so once you grab credentials somewhere you can try the in other places.
What changed now? Well, recently people started to vibe-code, i.e. give prompts to an LLM to generate some code. The problem with that is that in the database of things an LLM is trained in it might have lots of bad examples, be it because the code was insecure, or because it was exactly an example of insecure code. Asking the LLM to make it secure is not going to work, as it lacks the comprehension to understand what security is. It’s possible to make things better in an iterative process where you feed the output code to itself and ask it to check for security vulnerabilities, but it might introduce new ones while fixing the existing ones, because the majority of examples online are incomplete as they’re meant to be small examples of small parts of a system to showcase how to do that in a secure manner (but they leave other parts insecure as that’s not the purpose of the example). For example, a login example code might use a simple text comparison for the password field, because it’s trying to show you the structure of the API, not the content, and assumes you will know now to do that, but an LLM doesn’t know that.
And with many people vibe-coding apps and sites it’ll become more and more easy to find those serious security holes in the wild.
And how to learn it? Well, the short version is doing. You don’t need to buy expensive books, or anything of the sort, just start reading online, and poke around stuff. I used to play around with www.hackthebox.com and found that very interesting way to learn, however you might need to read on some stuff first before you’re capable of logging in there (although I just gave it a quick look and I think they removed the most interesting part about it which was you had to hack the website to create an account).
- Comment on Are modern electronic devices (i.e. cell phones) still susceptible to damage from magnets? 1 month ago:
You’re probably fine.
The reason you didn’t wanted magnets near technology before is because we relied on magnetic fields for stuff, so magnets distorted those uses. Nowadays we usually don’t have any magnetic parts on a phone, so unless you have a super strong magnet extremely close to the electronics you should be fine.
Specifically CRT monitors were tiny particle accelerators that shot electrons to a coat of phosphorescent material, they used magnets to redirect the electrons to hit the correct pixels at the right time. So putting a magnet nearby would pull the beam in a different direction distorting the image and shifting it’s colors (because the electrons were now hitting different color pixels). It was not irreversible, usually removing the magnet is all you had to do, but sometimes you might have magnetized something and the beam would remain crooked for a while.
The other thing that would be affected by magnets were hard disks, your PC might still have one so you might not want to put magnets near it, but our phone doesn’t. HDs stored information using magnetic fields into a disk, similar to a DVD except using a tiny needle that would magnetize the disk in one direction to write a 1 and on the opposite to write a 0. Taking a magnet near that would essentially erase all of the data in that disk. Modern storage use very different methods for storing data that don’t depend on magnetism, so you’re fine.
- Comment on Why do we see Oil as always being here for humans? Isn't drilling like taking water out of a swimming pool? Sooner or later your going to run out of water. 1 month ago:
Almost, there’s just 2 corrections:
eventually the price will be higher than it is for other energy sources despite there being plenty of hard-to-extract oil still left in the ground.
When that happens the oil companies will lobby to get special treatment and be subsidized because they’re “too big to fail”, and everyone depends on oil.
The second correction is that that has already happened: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_subsidies
- Comment on Where has the "www." gone? 1 month ago:
This is wrong, it’s not there anymore, it used to be, but now lots of pages don’t even redirect it, they just simply don’t work.
- Comment on Why are so many new programming languages being developed? 1 month ago:
Interesting, had never considered that, it does make sense. Although that created the absolute clusterfuck that is JS where
[ ] + [ ]is“”and{ } + { }isNaN. Thanks for remind me of www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat hadn’t watched that in a while. - Comment on Why are so many new programming languages being developed? 1 month ago:
I don’t think there are more languages being created now than before. There are tons of languages that have been created over the years, but you get the survivors bias effect where the ones that are actually useful in some context start being used in that context, and the ones that are less useful stop being used.
When you were learning python was already established, but I remember having long discussions trying to convince people to use it instead of Java because it was a much higher level with much better in many aspects at some cost performance, and if you’re not willing to pay that cost you should revert to C++ which is much better than Java anyways.
And that’s sort of what’s happening here. C++ is good for things that need to be fast, but it requires careful consideration to avoid several issues, if you don’t need the speed, python gives you a much better experience in several aspects. For other specific things there are specific languages that fit better, if you’re developing for web JS is already in most browsers so that’s an easy choice, and if you want to make a game maybe you learn C# to use in Unity. But for general stuff C++ and Python have been the de facto standards as they cover most use cases very comfortably, so there hasn’t been any real competition for them.
Enter Rust, Go, Zig, etc. Even if something is a standard it doesn’t mean it’s the best thing, Assembly, Cobol, Fortran, C have all been standards, but C++ can do 99% of what those other languages did and makes things easier, so slowly it became the default language. Of those “new” languages the only one I know enough is Rust, so let’s talk about what Rust brings to the table that’s not available on C++ or python, and why people are so excited for it.
Rust is fast, we’re talking C level fast, this means that Rust beats almost every other language (including C++). Rust is safe, it’s purposefully designed not to allow you to miss use it accidentally, this includes memory safety which is the most talked about, but it’s a whole thing in Rust, with enums you need to match all cases, result types that includes error responses, and optional objects that force you to acknowledge the None. Rust has a great package support, better than python because it’s standardized. Besides all that Rust is able to be used almost everywhere, whereas C/C++ does work in many places, but libraries for it don’t.
So, why new languages? Because there are things to improve.
- Comment on What is the hate against Pit Bulls? Everyone I've met are super friendly like my BC. Or are they the new Doberman for this cycle? 1 month ago:
I have at no point compared black people to dogs, or even mentioned anything related to race beyond a comparison of statistical facts to showcase how ridiculous the argument is. You’re creating a Straw man to attack and deflecting my question, so we’ll keep going in circles forever, because answering a straight yes or no would compromise you.
Read everything that I posted so far and you will realize the entire time what I’m saying is “a small subgroup causing the most fatalities, therefore subgroup aggressive” is a bad argument. That is the whole of what I’m saying, and you haven’t replied whether you think that is a good or a bad argument. The reason why you haven’t done so is simple:
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If you say it’s a bad argument you’re agreeing with me, therefore no reply is needed.
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If you say it’s a good argument then you’re agreeing with any racist asshole who uses the same argument applied to people, and you should take a long hard look at yourself to see whether that’s the kind of peraon you want to be. And honestly, I don’t want to keep talking to anyone who thinks like this as they have been so brainwashed they won’t get convinced by a random person online.
In reality I’m fairly confident you want the argument to apply to dogs but not to people, and that’s just not how logic works. Facts are facts, you can’t disagree with them, the conclusion from those facts is logic, and that can be flawed (as is for the case of the proof of aggressive behavior). So when confronted with the fact that you’re defending a logic argument that can be made about people, instead of thinking “huh, I guess it’s a bad argument” you go “I’m not racist, you’re racist”, that is called deflection. So you attack a Straw man argument that I’m comparing people to dogs so that you don’t have to admit that your prejudice against pitbulls made you agree with an undefendable racist argument. Still the conclusion is the same, there’s no reason to reply to someone who’s being fallacious at best and making bad faith arguments at worst. If you honestly expect any answer from me your reply should clearly state whether you consider the “X is a small subgroup yet causes the majority of fatalities, therefore X is dangerous” a good argument.
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- Comment on What is the hate against Pit Bulls? Everyone I've met are super friendly like my BC. Or are they the new Doberman for this cycle? 1 month ago:
At no point in my reply did I mention race, I said the argument of “X is a minority, yet causes the majority of fatalities, therefore X is dangerous” is a bad argument. That is the whole of my point.
Two possibilities exist: Either you think it’s a good argument argument, or you don’t.
Which is it? Do you think the argument “X is a minority yet causes the majority of fatalities, therefore X is dangerous” is a good argument?
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 1 month ago:
Water analogy still applies for that. If the pipes are already full of water if you inject water on one end it almost immediately comes out of the other, even if the water is only being injected at a slow speed. It’s not immediate because the moment you inject water the water in the pipes first compress and that compression travel like a wave much faster than the water.
The moment the water analogy falls apart is when you depend on magnetism, because electrons moving cause a magnetic field around, but water moving doesn’t generate any field around it, so it can’t imitate an electromagnet or a transformer.