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  • Be aware that halfway decent backup solutions dedupe. Which is not to say you shouldn't clean your shit up. I vote https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka.

  • You got the cheese, the ham, the... wait
  • Awful, would laugh at you on a date. Better than most.

  • The Christian right is coming for divorce next
  • Seriously, U.S., get your shit together. This crap spills out all over the world thanks to cultural imperialism (Hollywood etc.), no beuno.

  • current best HDD-model choice
  • To a large degree, the point of RAID is to not care about drive reliability, trust the process. Also, you seem to conflate RAID with backup ("RAID is not a backup"), you want both. In a NAS, you're probably better off with RAID5 + backup.

    In a system that can take a drive failure, the current datahoarder zeitgeist is Manufacturer Recertified (Enterprise) Drives, see ServerPartDeals.com if you're a yank, other countries have their own options.

  • EFF Dice-Generated Passphrases | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Nope, As long as you're not as uncreative as to use Correct Horse Battery Staple.

  • The baseball legend and rumored time traveler Willie Mays has passed
  • 93, good trot. As a non US person, strangely Experiment IV by Kate Bush (Wilhelm Reich song) started playing, if it is synchronicity,I'm happy. Pass well baseball icon.

  • Make a raid 5 with two almost full disk and another one empty
  • I'd suggest you move toward a backup approach ("RAID is not a backup") first. Assuming you have 2x10Tb, get a 3rd and copy half of your files to it, disconnect it, and now half your files are protected. Save, get another, copy the other half, now all your files are protected. If you're trying to do RAID on USB, don't, you are already done, otherwise (using SATA or better) you can proceed to build your array in an orderly fashion.

  • Don't make a mistake in choosing a distro
  • For even less pain try a ublue variant (Aurora or Bazzite probably for KDE depending if you game). No faffing around with codecs and RPMFusion etc...

  • Don't make a mistake in choosing a distro
  • Literally is the grub menu...

  • piracy starter kit - old head getting back into it
  • The *arr suite, e.g. rando hard drive TV show, add show to sonarr, import (yes it's usually that easy), movies - radarr, seeking out stuff you're watching now - prowlarr. Quite mature and way easier than hunting through streaming services.

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  • Either works, but system RAM is at least an order of magnitude slower, more play by mail than chat...

  • Why Python Is So Slow (And What Is Being Done About It)
  • Sounds like an excellent idea, I'd be surprised if it isn't happening.

  • Why don’t you like Apple?
  • My bad, I didn't read 'built a macOS 13 installer', but now they must return for 'built a macOS 14 installer'.

  • Why Python Is So Slow (And What Is Being Done About It)
  • Sure, I was being mildly facetious, but pointing to a better pattern, the nature of python means it is, barring some extreme development, always going to be an order of magnitude slower than compiled. If you're not going to write even a little C, then you need to look for already written C / FORTRAN / (SQL for data) / whatever that you can adapt to reap those benefits. Perhaps a general understanding of C and a good knowledge of what your Python is doing is enough to get a usable result from a LLM.

  • Why don’t you like Apple?
  • OS hasn't been updated for how many years?

  • Why don’t you like Apple?
  • Ahh, not so sure how great a gift an insecure computer is, but I imagine you have your reasons...

  • Why don’t you like Apple?
  • It's Intel, you too can have fedora atomic, and it'll likely last another 5 years.

  • Why Python Is So Slow (And What Is Being Done About It)
  • When you need speed in Python, after profiling, checking for errors, and making damn sure you actually need it, you code the slow bit in C and call it.

    When you need speed in C, after profiling, checking for errors, and making damn sure you actually need it, you code the slow bit in Assembly and call it.

    When you need speed in Assembly, after profiling, checking for errors, and making damn sure you actually need it, you're screwed.

    Which is not to say faster Python is unwelcome, just that IMO its focus is frameworking, prototyping or bashing out quick and perhaps dirty things that work, and that's a damn good thing.

  • Why don’t you like Apple?
  • Seeing as no-one's answering the question in terms of privacy (although I agree with their sentiment)

    Trust. You have to trust that they will respect your privacy. They actually talk a good game, are probably superior in privacy to the average android (but not GrapheneOS or Linux) in so much as they fend off other entities trying to hoover your data, mostly so they have exclusive access (at least to metadata, actual data may currently even be secure but that can change and possession is nine tenths and all that). At the end of the day, they're a greedy mega-corporation and cannot be trusted if they need to keep that line going up this quarter. I much prefer transparent systems that keep me in control and possession of my data.

    I like their hardware, excellent build quality (shame about long term support and e-waste though). Will probably pick up a cheap M1 Air once Asahi linux stabilises.

  • The voice in your head may help you recall and process words. But what if you don’t have one?
    theconversation.com The voice in your head may help you recall and process words. But what if you don’t have one?

    The lack of an inner monologue seems linked to a lower ability to recall words and predict their sound.

    The voice in your head may help you recall and process words. But what if you don’t have one?

    How does this play for you ? I identify as spectrum, what used to be Asperger's, and have to work really hard to get to visual phantasia, but I can. Also worked hard to remove aural phantasia? via meditation because of negative self talk. Do you see 'aphant' as a useful designation? Thoughts, Ideas?

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    Richard Marles concealed war crimes report, denying justice for David McBride
    michaelwest.com.au Richard Marles concealed war crimes report, denying justice for David McBride - Michael West

    Report on leadership failures in Afghan war was given to the Richard Males in November 2023, but not published until McBride was sentenced.

    Richard Marles concealed war crimes report, denying justice for David McBride - Michael West

    A report critical of Australian generals’ leadership in Afghanistan was given to the Defence Minister Richard Marles in November 2023, but was not published until after the McBride sentencing. Stuart McCarthy on a travesty of justice.

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    Rewild the Internet!
    www.noemamag.com We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA

    The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

    We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA

    This needs (IMO) more attention, seems to fit here...

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    MalReynolds MalReynolds @slrpnk.net
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