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I would imagine the antenna just strengthens the incoming signal. You could still get reception/communication if the gateway/router/modem was near enough and not a lot of electrical shit attached (I would imagine that would generate more noise that could interfere)?

As an example - if you have a motherboard on your computer that supports wifi and comes with a port/plug for an antenna, you could remove that antenna and still receive a signal (IDK about sending) but it would suffer more signal loss due to the lack of antenna.

All that is just a guess of course. People more knowledgeable than me could explain/clarify.

Dell wept.

I'm slowly getting into it. I only got into vim (neovim) a couple years ago (been computing as a kid since early 80s).

But have been enjoying learning alot of emacs (oh god so much to learn :))

I'm not ready to make the jump (not sure I will jump at all, but...) I am gonna mess with guix in a vm to see how I roll with that.

I've got a lot of digital versions of various books on lisp/scheme but only played with them. Eventually I think it'd be great to do more with slime/sly and sbcl. But for now sticking with the basics. It's a real head trip to see the power of emacs, and it feels like it's hard to explain to people why it's so fascinating (to me).

I have a feeling I picked a good time to hop in, because a lot of the quality of life features seem to have only come in the past few years.

(my experience is specifically to use vanilla and build up from there, to both learn, and to get used to the "proper" way. I was afraid doom or space would end up getting me into their mental models, and didn't want to feel "locked in")

Of course shout out to systemcrafters, joshblais, protesilaos, sacha chua, mickey peterson (and mastering emacs).

God, I haven't even mentioned org-mode or magit (though magit is still a bit rough, I'm used to lazygit - in some ways using magit is making me understand some things about how git operates better).

The other thing is - I feel like I'm walking on unstable ground when using emacs - maybe it's just because I'm learning, and it's so easy to modify, I always feel like I'm about to break something. I know "backup stable config" and reset from that if it breaks, is obvious; but there's a feeling of looseness that comes from it that's a bit intimidating.

I guess I had that feeling with vim at first to. Obviously it's not going to "break" but as a noob, sometimes it's intimidating and feels that way.

The other thing I need to work towards is mastering workspaces/projects (and maybe tab integration) right now I run server/client windowed, no chrome (no tab, title bar). May add tabs for project management, but I wanted to get used to using M-x for things first (and man does vertico, consult, orderless and marginalia help with discovery!) Embark is another big tool I have so much to learn about.

And seeing how people use emacs for publishing. Linkarzu interviewed an author who talked about he used LaTeX for publishing.

One of my favorite facts is telling people that emacs is one of the oldest actively maintained piece of software still at large. It makes me feel like I'm part of an ancient tradition LOL.

Happy Bday Emacs!

I had a dream last night that the government had a database that corps sent in "opt-out" info from people. Anytime someone opted out of a surveillance system (e.g. ad tracking, etc...) that info got sent to the government as a signal that the person is sus. They took the "if you have nothing to hide" logic to its full conclusion.

The only good thing is that at least under capitalism (not a system I'm a fan of) this is difficult to do (well as long as the owners of said companies weren't sheep), and like most conspiracies is very hard to enforce, there would be a leakage in a program so broad as this.

But it was a disturbing concept. Merely by signalling you didn't want to be watched made you more watched.

(Forgive the stupid AI answer, but does this help?):

2. Submitting an App Without a GitLab Account

To get an app listed on F-Droid, a metadata file must be added to the official fdroiddata repository. While the standard workflow involves opening a Merge Request on GitLab, you still do not strictly need a GitLab account: • Alternative Logins: The F-Droid GitLab instance allows you to sign in using your existing GitHub, Google, Bitbucket, or Salesforce accounts. • Community Submission: If you do not want to interact with GitLab at all, you can post a request on the F-Droid Forum, and community contributors can create and submit the metadata file on your behalf.

----- Apparently you don't need to actually create a gitlab account? Login with your github or whatever (I assume via oauth?)

The docs definitely don't look clear (on quick perusal), and maybe this info is outdated, but perhaps you can still push to gitlab without actually creating an account just need to make sure the metadata is correct?

"There is a market for everything, man There is a market for pet psychologists, n** There is a market for twisted shit fetish videos For nipple rings, for river dancing, for chocolate covered roaches But you can't find one for (furry porn)?"

-Immortal Technique (paraphrased)

I really despise these AI generated websites, they often look so samey. IDK about the numbering, but the overuse of cards everywhere, and abusing my favorite color schemes (tokyo-night, dracula style), really irritates me (esp, the color schemes, way to ruin even colors, guys).

It makes me dislike whatever they're trying to "sell" (literally or metaphorically). I wish people who wanted to be "creative" would you know... be creative, not just "push button, machine go brrr" which is what half this stuff spits out. Template, generic, no individuality. Hyper "professional" looking (but just "cool" enough to not be completely corporate).

On the other hand some of these look better and are more responsive than older sites that were definitely fuglier, klunky and less responsive. It feels like there's a middle ground, which I think is where good designer comes into play.

RIP. Damn and Dvorak died earlier this year? What a sad year for legendary computer columnists.

My biggest fear (doubt it'd happen, but...) would be seeing this headline "Oracle purchases Red Hat from IBM."

(I have no idea why they'd do that, but it's a terrifying prospect; worse than letting it go to pasture, imo)

You wouldn't download a gene, would you?

Yeah, there's a great talk about the physics of the holographic information encoded on the surface by Raphael Bousso (if you have an hour):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHgi6E1ECgo

HIGHLY recommend it for lay folks interested in this stuff. Which reminds me, I should yt-dl this so it's not lost, and I have a copy...

It's been ages since I read it and I am 99% sure I'm remember horribly wrong, but I was thinking it's something like this? Also - your "the only information" is precisely what we can measure of quantum states, so information is still preserved. That's more a limit of what we know?

I think that with Hawking radiation you have quantum entanglement of two pairs. You have a matter-antimatter pair production near the horizon. When the antimatter falls into the blackhole without being destroyed via mutual annihilation, the matter particle at the boundary now "radiates" away. HOWEVER.

The matter inside boundary which the anti-matter DOES interact with is destroyed, and the information of that interaction is is "passed" to the outside via the the anti-matter's entanglement with its co-created pair.

Something like that, isn't it? Please any physicists clarify :)

Are you in Germany or not the US? In the US all I see is literally 3 products. 2 is pest control, the other a toothpaste? (I have translate turned on for the English) . "Substral Celaflor Vole & Mole Ex 150 g Against Vole + Mole | Instant effect | Repels voles and moles | Quick and reliable ... --- nenedent Junior Toothpaste - Protection and Care for the Second --- Ballistol 26800 100 ml | Insect repellent spray for adults and children, tick protection, against brakes, flies and mosqui...

I wonder how this mentality carried forward into modern asset forfeiture concepts (hey, we don't destroy those cars, we get to sell them and make cha-ching!)

I think the superstitions are still there, but hidden in a more "utilitarian" guise.

Ha, and of course wiki makes a brief note about this: In the United States

"In American law, the deodand has been cited as a source for the modern civil forfeiture doctrine.[6][9]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deodand#In_the_United_States

That's funny because I find VCV much "easier" but perhaps it's because I'm not composing so much as noodling and texture-spelunking.

I do like bespoke and think its great, but it feels a bit janky to me (though it's been like a year since I tried).

It's fun to think about all the various ways people can implement such tools. I'd recommend bespoke for those who want a bit of a different modular system than just a skeuomorphic approach that copies Eurorack design.

"Beanly was created with The Gimp"

I can tell.

Interesting I never heard of this. That site feels straight out of 1999.

I am sure this is referring to the userspace contribs, not the kernel itself, since the userspace stuff is really what makes the distro a distro (unless it's running custom kernels, which it would have to use a backport from pre-AI code, or something)...

That said if they extended to kernel-space, it seems like NetBSD would be the other *nix like alternative (Google's AI summary says they're the only BSD to take a strict no-ai stance).

Or Gnu HURD.

I hate that it seems the only authors I can really dig into fiction-wise is PKD and Douglas Adams. Something about their fast paced style, loose/weird tech, psychedelic, not too serious (well PKD still has some definite seriousness; but not expressed in a serious way).

I think this might be an indicator of adhd-ness. That these things grab me instantly because either I know something (usually) interesting is coming. The only PKD I've read that I've actively disliked was Timothy Archer which is comparatively tame, and nothing really comes of it compared to VALIS or Three Stigmata or Divine Invasion for example.

I've had other authors recommended based on this, but none of them really grip me the way they do. :( Maybe I just need to stick with it, like the author says - it eventually gets good. It's really hard these days as my attention span is worse than I was when I was even in my 20s (all those years ago).

There should be a conflict resolution to gracefully degrade the third level to 2nd level when there is no competing name on the second level.

But I didn't think about the 1st level competitors. There'd still need a mechanism to resolve that...

1. First come first serve? (e.g. whoever registered a y.name first, whether x is bob or sue is determined by the earliest registrant on record) 2. Lottery/random selection? 3. Bidding war?

I think the problem is 2nd level domains who have the same name will be a problem when they find out all these other 3rd level are now expiring and can run a route to spoof? Likely wouldn't happen, but with the fuckery in the DNS that can happen... This is such a rash and weird decision to push through so quickly just because engineers find it "easier" while ignoring the implications of the move, seemingly when it comes to larger scale security.

I assume there would have to be some method to prevent routing of third level domains to subdomains of two-levels... (or is that just me being a fool yet again, assuming we have competent administration of our systems).

Probably not, but my closest bet would fall to Hanlon's razor:

I was curious if this was continued evidence of poor appropriations and upkeep or what... I do see "U.S. military commissary refrigeration maintenance, equipment replacement, and physical infrastructure are funded through the 5% commissary surcharge paid by customers at checkout rather than direct congressional appropriations."

So, perhaps the first place would be to follow the money - are these being repaired at the proper rate? Is this repair outsourced to third party vendors? (my guess). Is this gonna end up being the McDonald's Ice Cream machine all over again?

Really though, Hanlon's would be much easier to believe this is yet further ineptitude by those who run things (I am not going to claim malfeasance/malevolence, except a general sense of such across the board by this admin).

Since I'm not on the inside, anything I have to say would be speculative, just like the above, or the author themselves (I have no idea who it is, and perhaps they have a better beat on the ground with regards to this), but it just falls in line with "we're running out of missiles" and "sailors attempting to kill themselves".

We're so insistent on being #1, we can't admit we're in a society that is falling apart (and again, it may be the case that this IS a hack, but if I were to place my bets...)

Ineptitude, lowest cost players, etc "efficiency" indeed. You get what you pay for, and I guess 5% don't pay for a whole hell of a lot these days.

I don't know how much I can trust you on Zuse if you can't get basic facts about de Beauvoir right:

Simone de Beauvoir did not have a "future is female" plan, as the modern slogan "The Future is Female" originated decades after her major works and stems from lesbian-separatist contexts in the 1970s.

"She is globally famous for writing in The Second Sex (1949) that "[o]ne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman," which established that gender is a social construct rather than a fixed biological destiny." (I hazard this is really what you're butthurt about).

"Rather than advocating for female supremacy or a matriarchal "female future," Beauvoir's existentialist framework sought human liberation and radical reciprocity between sexes, arguing that both men and women need to transcend oppressive societal myths of the "Other".

The phrase "The Future is Female" was coined by Liza Cowan in 1975 at a feminist bookstore (A Woman's Place) in Washington, D.C., and later popularized as a modern pop-culture T-shirt slogan in the 2010s, completely separate from Beauvoir's 20th-century existentialism."

------ Trying to find info on a "90% male reduction plan" it looks like what you are referring to is:

The idea of reducing the male population by 90% (leaving a ratio of 10% men to 90% women) comes from the radical American feminist author and activist Sally Miller Gearhart. In her 1982 essay titled "The Future – If There Is One – Is Female,"

Gearhart argued that to achieve global peace and end patriarchal violence, the human sex ratio should be shifted over time. She explicitly clarified that this should not be achieved via violence or culling, but rather through future reproductive technologies and selective breeding ------- Please don't conflate Simone's pluralistic, humanistic, liberating form of feminism with 1970s style "Lesgbian" RadFem ideology.

Please at least get your actors straight when you make claims like this, it almost sounds like I'd be making claims like: (bot) throw234259 wants to genocide every human and especially men.

It's not even remotely true. And it stains your name, because it's easier to just take what you heard without reflecting or retaining (even if google is a search away).

Eugenics is alive in the US Government right now. "Don't get injections, only the strong survive! Drink raw milk, don't you dare have government test it... Swim in Sludge (literal things RFK Jr advises/does)" The Kennedy's were literally eugenicist and threw his aunt in an institution and lobotomized/sterilized her.

If you want a "widely supported today" why didn't you take one of the chief proponents of such ideology as your example? One who hasn't been dead in ages? One who holds power, and is joined in a union with SecDef Pete Hegseth who pushes some "ubermensch" (I'm stwong!) Might-Makes-Right/Fittest-Survives ideology that closely ties in with this ideology.

I would leave it there, too, but you didn't.

I've just started getting into emacs and am almost done with what I think is my final config (just adding vertico, consult and marginalia, haven't added them all, but got vertico and consult working in a mostly default state, still need to tweak a bit).

Then I am going to try to learn more of the navigation keys (I got some of the basics (mostly)) but still need more experience beyond the basics. I am able to get my odin/raylib code to compile with C-c C-c. I even hand compiled 30.1 from github to update from Debians older defaults. The only problem I ran into was forgetting how I got it so when I launched the client it didn't duplicate the icon on my kde taskbar/panel. Uninstalling the old setup must have removed my copy of the start up rules/desktop window name. But got that settled after a bit of searching.

I am trying my hardest not to use EVIL, but it's so tempting, because I've gotten used to modal. But I want to use the full power as mostly established with the key combos.

I'm not sure how much of these features will matter to me as I'm not sure I've used much of the full system. Anything that makes it faster is nice. So far it's been smooth, but I do wonder if running the server (via sysvinit in mx) does cause some lag, as I've felt the system have little hiccups (not when using emacs actively, the client not even open. I did try to adjust the GC settings I found as a tip to reduce lag and do more GC when not heavily used).

Finally does anyone know where to get a 'Meta' 1.25u mechanical keycap???

Even "spacecadet" themed caps I've seen still use "Alt" as the title. Anybody have thoughts on like colemak-dh vs qwerty or other layouts. I think it was protesilaus saying he liked chocofi with colemak-dh (and very insistent that it was "THE" way) so I'm curious if anyone had experience with that (or maybe it was another emacs user).

oh look a greenbrown

I'll stick with plain old TTY Consoles, thank you.

TBF, deadheads are pretty friendly (just stay away from the Nitrous Mafia) LOL.

Thanks for the clarification! It makes much more sense seeing the term "macro".

For desktop I think it would be fine, though if you have the advanced needs of all the ZFS features I would stick with ZFS, but I had no problem.

The real problem I had was a low limit to save history. I install a lot of software, Cachy would run the snapshot every time (good), but it only kept like 5-10. And the one I needed to restore to was further back (I can't remember the exact issue), but that was more the defaults of how cachy set it up, and my use case than btrfs/snapper itself.

Whatever tool you use to snapshot btrfs, you may wish to have a custom number of saves if you install tons of software a lot...so you can avoid having too few backups available from the boot menu. I'm sure there was a way around it but I said f it and just reinstalled instead of trying to look up on my crap tablet how to get at the old files (assuming they were still there and just not accessible from the boot menu vs being completely erased).

I do not think it was btrfs that broke, to be clear.

This was like a week before the big hack on AUR, so I wonder if I got hit by a supply attack, but it was pretty shoddy, and broke my system, thus my reinstall saved me from (possibly) a lot more pain down the road.

C-f "pod"

There it is :)

I'm not very good at math, and I read quantum physics in lay-books, but I would like to say that whoever wrote the article did a good job leading to where it was going (even if maybe not clear to me), I ended up thinking "Square root of -1" and then a few paragraphs later, there it was...

This could have just been a lucky guess, but I feel like the way they presented it my intuition understood what was happening though I can't mentally see/grok it. I think making music and messing with waveforms in synths also helps to understand this intuitively more than the actual math.

I would like to credit "The Theory of Almost Everything" by Robert Oerter for explaining it in a way I could understand 15 years ago https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183207.The_Theory_of_Alm...

Great book with the history and explanation of a lot of quantum stuff, without being huge like Brian Greene's books (which I also love).

I stopped trying to block it ages ago, since it was reacted* horribly anytime I tried to block ads... :(

(pun fully intended)