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[Solved] Anyone know what this is? They are embedded in the sidewalks around the city
  • Cool! Interesting, I thought True North meant that they somehow pointed north given another reference. Thanks for the info.

  • ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • By far one of the most interesting articles I've seen on Lemmy so far, thanks for the link

  • Boeing: “The best in the industry used to crawl over shattered glass just to get an interview to work here. And now the company is begging high school students to apply.”
  • Wow great article and Elon said its because of DEI policies and HBCUs. "Don't look at all the money I have from being a greedy asshole, it's because of (insert marginalized class or people here)".

  • The Pope is not a true catholic
  • This post pretty much sums up social media.

  • Newsom threatens to take money from counties that don't reduce homelessness
  • I lived in peace and humanity first Berkeley, Ca for 10 years a bastion of liberalism taken to the extreme. For 10 years I voted repeatedly in local elections for more affordable housing and zoning changes to make it easier to develop taller buildings and rezone areas for housing development. In the time I was there I think I can count on 1 hand the number of apartment and housing developments I saw being erected. Every damn election people voted against zoning changes and shot them down. We eventually had kids and guess what, there was no place for us to raise a family. So we moved out of state. Californians have nobody but themselves to blame for the homelessness problem the NIMBYism there is to the stratosphere. They shit talk about places like Texas, but guess what? At least there people have a place to live, which is more than I can say for the majority of cities in California.

  • PSA: Libraries
  • They provide services to ALL people. So tired of reading that only the poor use the library. My kids are always begging to be taken there to get books and do activities. We just used the color printer/copier at ours the other day and the first 3 copies were free. Libraries are an amazing community resource for EVERYONE.

  • The FTC is coming after high grocery prices
  • Consolidation's a b****.

  • CrowdStrike shareholders sue over global outage, say company concealed info - National | Globalnews.ca
  • Between airliners crashing and financial and public infrastructure being taken down by security flaws I wonder how many trillions of lost dollars and lives being lost it will take before critical software like this is held to a higher standard. Even though it's just as important as the development team that writes the code, QA and a software dev process are still treated as unimportant and something you do only if you have the time to do it.

  • A necessary reminder that our work/life structure is flawed
  • This should be it's own post. Thanks!

  • What is a product you would never recommend?
  • Any "Gaming" headphones they are all such trash. Buy a nice pair of headphones with a quality metal headband and get an audio cable with a built in mic.

  • Is there an example program that illustrates how a buffer overflow attack actually executes arbitrary code?
  • I really like this video, in it he demonstrates how a char pointer can be exploited to alter the return value in the stack and walks through an example of how it's done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S0aBV-Waeo

  • Good game soundtracks?
  • Second on the Octopath Traveler II music. Even my son who is 9 and plays it as well as a ton of other games has only ever commented about how the music is really good on Octopath Traveler and no others (and I had never mentioned this to him). It's definitely the best music I have every heard for a game. There was a glitch one time where the music wasn't playing for some reason and I realized how much the music made the game come to life, NGL, I think it brings like 99% of the emotional engagement to it.

  • 3 years and 35+kg later, my Gene Café finally (kinda) paid for itself!
  • Interesting, thanks for sharing. I didn't know these even existed. My old roommate's routine was to roast a single cup of coffee beans in a small steel pan on our stove every time he made a cup each day. It seemed like a lot of work, but he always said it was totally worth it.

  • When AI is asked to generate the Tour de France
  • Wow, reminds me of the mutants made out of multiple people in the video game the last of us.

  • Anyone else have this happen after grabbing a coffee?

    I grab a cup coffee from a shop and it's ruined because the barista is wearing cologne or perfume that inevitably has gotten on the cup and it's all I can smell when I take a sip. I guess 2 things, this means 1 they haven't thoroughly washed their hands, and 2 I can't drink the coffee because it smells so bad and I have to throw it out. Not sure why, but I haven't had this happen with any other type of food/drink, just coffee.

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    OpenAI loses its voice
    www.platformer.news OpenAI loses its voice

    The company hasn’t been the same since Sam Altman’s return — and its treatment of Scarlett Johansson should worry everyone

    OpenAI loses its voice

    The company hasn’t been the same since Sam Altman’s return — and its treatment of Scarlett Johansson should worry everyone

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    Businesses Are Getting People Killed
    darrellowens.substack.com Businesses Are Getting People Killed

    The number one local obstruction to curbing traffic violence is local commerce and merchant groups.

    Businesses Are Getting People Killed
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    Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software

    Wow it finally happened. So glad I switched to steam running on linux mint last week. I refused to install helldivers because it wanted to install some no holds barred god level permissions anti-cheat software. Windows 11 was the last straw for me. Good times..

    >The volunteers at the Anti-Cheat Police Department have since issued a PSA announcing, "There is currently an RCE exploit being abused in [Apex Legends]" and that it could be delivered via from the game itself, or its anti-cheat protection. "I would advise against playing any games protected by EAC or any EA titles", they went on to say.

    >As for players of the tournament, they strongly recommended taking protective measures. "It is advisable that you change your Discord passwords and ensure that your emails are secure. also enable MFA for all your accounts if you have not done it yet", they said, "perform a clean OS reinstall as soon as possible. Do not take any chances with your personal information, your PC may have been exposed to a rootkit or other malicious software that could cause further damage."

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    TikTok Ban, good or bad?
    www.latimes.com Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is assembling an investor group to buy TikTok

    Mnuchin, a Republican who was Treasury secretary under former President Trump, said he is assembling an investor group to try to purchase the China-based company.

    Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is assembling an investor group to buy TikTok

    As someone in the US who has had their private data leaked multiple times (ive lost count) and is extremely careful when browsing you tube as to not be drawn into a conspiracy ridden rabbit hole, I'm not sure what the point of this tik tok ban is. To me tik tok is social media business as usual. If congress is going to go this hard on a social media company and privacy concerns they should be doing this with all the other companies that pry into our private lives and try their best to manipulate us as well (car makers, appliance manufactures, phone makers, wearbales, ect...) otherwise to me this comes across as the US congress extorting a single company to make billionaires richer. It has been shown time and time again that even US based social media companies are vulnerable to influencing conspiracy theorists and swaying the votes of thousands of people.I feel like we are at the pinnacle of technological ignorance here. Thoughts?

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    I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system?

    I'd like to know other non-US citizen's opinions on your health care system are when you read a story like this. I know there are worse places in the world to receive health care, and better. What runs through your heads when you have a medical emergency?

    A little background on my question:

    My son was having trouble breathing after having a cold for a couple of days and we needed to stop and take the time to see if our insurance would be accepted at the closest emergency room so we didn't end up with a huge bill (like 2000$-5000$). This was a pretty involved ~10 minute process of logging into our insurance carrier, and unsuccessfully finding the answer there. Then calling the hospital and having them tell us to look it up by scrolling through some links using the local search tool on their website. This gave me some serious pause, what if it was a real emergency, like the kind where you have no time to call and see if the closest hospital takes your insurance.

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    Codeberg.org Opinions?
    codeberg.org Codeberg.org

    Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

    Codeberg.org

    Hello, I was thinking of moving all my open source projects here. Anyone have any opinions? Excuse the post if this has been discussed previously, I was unable to find anything directly relating to peoples opinions on using it.

    Edit: Lots of great discussion going on here! Thanks to everyone who contributed! I wasn't sure before but now I am set on moving all my projects over. The fact that it will be federated makes it even more appealing given that github is now requiring phone numbers and other personal information in order to create an account on their site.

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    NVidia Shield For Streaming Steam Games Opinions?

    I really get fatigued sitting in my chair playing steam games, I almost pulled the trigger on one of these the other day with the intent of installing moonlight, and sunshine to stream to my TV. Anyone have any opinions? I saw there's 2 versions, does it make sense to get the pro version? Can I use my PS5 controller on it?

    Edit: Thanks for all the input everyone!You all have given me a lot to mull over, much appreciated.

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    Spam calls and texts are driving me fing crazy anyone have suggestions?

    After repeated data breaches that no company really seems to give a s--- about my phone is blowing up with literally hundreds of spam calls and texts month. I get and make MAAAAYBE 2 or 3 important calls per month, 180-200 of the rest are literally all spam. Anyone have any suggestions, apps ect that they have found refuge with? I really don't use SMS that much either, mostly it's via signal, discord whats app, ect...

    Just to put it out there I run CalyxOS on a Pixel 5a.

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    Aptera Motors Solar Powered EV

    This car seems pretty amazing if it comes to fruition.

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    Rocket Milano Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing

    I love my new Rocket Milano, but it buzzes like craaaAAzy when making a shot. I understand the pump buzzes, but it also sounds like there is bare metal hitting metal inside, like a metal tube is rattling against the metal case. Is this normal?

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    How do people find good information on the internet these days?

    It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust amazon and yelp reviews. Now searches have been completely taken over by Forbes top 10 lists, random affiliate link click through aggregators that copy and paste each others work, review factories that will kill your competitors and boost your product stars, ect.... It seems like the internet has gotten soooo much harder to use, just because you have to wade through all the bullshit. It's no wonder people switch to reddit and lemmy style sites, in a way it mirrors a little what kind of information you used to be able to garner from the internet in it's early days. What do people do these days to find genuine information about products or services?

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    Favorite Linux Prompts?

    I was curious as to what prompts people find are the best for development? I'm looking for a change from the generic debian:

    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

    Which yields:

    dell-xps-13@pop-os:~$

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    Training using AMD GPUs?

    Everything seems to be very Cuda centric, has anyone tried training or other ml projects using AMD GPUs? How was it?

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    Open EVSE vs Grizzly Charger

    Which one should I get? I'm mostly concerned about support. I like them both because I don't have to worry about using them with an app.

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    Pam cooking spray substitutes?

    I bought a refillable spray bottle designed for cooking oils. Unfortunately the oils I have tried don't compare to the ones in the cans (PAM cooking spray with lecithin) Can anyone suggest a good refillable substitute for PAM? Anyone tried mixing up their own lecithin laced cooking oils?

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    Web Site for Reporting Cars in Bike Lanes
    seattle.carinbikelane.com Seattle Cars In Bike Lanes

    Pictures of cars in bike lanes. Accepting submissions through website, Twitter/Mastodon mention, or DM.

    My friend made a website to track cars in bike lanes. Enjoy!

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