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  • It is also not the norm for small business owners, so what is your point?

  • Love that film. One of my favourites

  • Not the full story, but it is true, podman is definitely more aligned with the free and open-source software philosophy.

  • Also most strikes on people are not direct strikes

    That's the very reason why it is indeed helpful to crouch when there is no safety nearby. Putting your feet close together reduces the step voltage (the voltage across your feet), making it less likely that a deadly current flows through your heart when there are strong potentials on the ground.

  • The idea of the crouch is not really to be shorter than surrounding structures (maybe that is a minor aspect), but rather to reduce the step voltage (the voltage between your two feet). If you have only one point where you touch the ground, as you do when your feet are very close together, the risk of deadly currents passing through your body is minimised. This will of course not help you when the lightning strikes you directly, but that is not the most common case anyway. People usually die from the large current passing by their heart when they stand next to a lightning strike, and there is a distribution of electric potential across the ground. This is not a myth and not debunked. It's just a matter of priorities. If there is safety nearby, you should obviously seek it out. If not, however, then to crouch is the best thing you can do.

  • I agree with you. Regardless of the state of the world, we should stay optimistic and work toward that goal, instead of surrendering to defeatism.

  • And you are stupid for not acknowledging that people from other countries are not just useless consumers without any agency. Americans and Europeans have industry too, and very productive ones. The narrative that you can trace any product back to China is entirely wrong and reeks of tankie.

  • What an infinitely stupid response. The proportion of rich people owning a Tesla with respect to all Tesla owners is vanishingly small. When you burn a Tesla of an uninvolved person, you are costing them tens of thousands of currency and are probably destroying their only car.

  • Fast boi

  • Would not be so sure about that. Running is our specialty, especially with regard to endurance. A properly trained dog vs. a properly trained marathon runner would probably be an even match.

  • Had to experience that first hand. I tried to get my best friends to register on my Matrix server last September and join a room for our group, and they did, but I rarely see any of them online and I only get responses days later, if at all. One even stopped using it entirely, lol. Ah well, but at least I got a Matrix server out of that that I can use to federate with other like-minded people.

  • It is a smart watch. Why do you want to waste bleeding-edge processors on it when older designs do perfectly well? Certainly more sustainable.

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  • Tomorrow it'll probably be something else, but today I'd say Foundation (Isaac Asimov). Such a good classic of science fiction.

  • I use a Samsung Galaxy Book3 360 for uni. Very lightweight, high-quality unibody metal chassis, great battery, great display, great touchscreen, it has a pen digitiser allowing you to (hand)write with palm rejection. And all of its features are supported OOTB by the latest Linux kernels with no further configuration required. You can put your distro of choice on there and then install the DE that you like the most. I use the latest KDE Plasma due to its amazing touch support, but it looks very desktop-ey, of course, so not the best candidate for you. Maybe putting something like GNOME (or KDE Plasma Mobile?) on there would make sense for you.

    But if you need specific Android apps for what you are doing, this is not a real option. Yes, there are things like Waydroid, but I would expect that to be too much of a hassle for regular use.

  • Pretty sure that this commenter makes use of a lot of irony. See their post history.

  • All of this is confusing af

  • At least in Germany, at a lot of Rewes (supermarket chain), this is absolutely a thing and very common. You can place the handheld barcode scanners in a specialised holder on the cart handle and then scan as you go, and neatly package all your stuff before going to the checkout and paying at a terminal. If even Germany has got this by now, then every other country on the planet surely does too lol.

  • Can you not just run the curl or wget without piping it into bash, first? This way you could inspect what the script wants to do.

  • Weirdly militant "meme". The people that write these are some of the most annoying on the planet, and contribute nothing to actually solving problems.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Richard @lemmy.world

    Is the bitwise AND of subnet masks and IP addresses redundant?

    So I understand that the subnet mask provides information about the length of the routing prefix (NID). It can be applied to a given IP address to extract the most significant bits allocated for the routing prefix and "zero out" the host identifier.

    But why do we need the bitwise AND for that, specifically? I understand the idea, but would it not be easier to only parse the IP address string sequence of bits only for the first n bits and then disregard the remainder (the host identifier)? Because the information necessary for that is already available from the subnet mask WITHOUT the bitwise AND, e.g., with 255.255.255.0 or 1111 1111.1111 1111.1111 1111.0000 0000, you count the amount of 1s, which in this case is 24 and corresponds to that appendix in the CIDR notation. At this point, you already know that you only need to consider those first 24 bits from the IP address, making the subsequent bitwise AND redundant.

    In the case of 192.168.2.150/24, for example, with subnet mask

    Linux @lemmy.world
    Richard @lemmy.world

    CVE-2024-6387 OpenSSH Server Authentication Bypass

    A signal handler race condition was found in OpenSSH's server (sshd), where a client does not authenticate within LoginGraceTime seconds (120 by default, 600 in old OpenSSH versions), then sshd's SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously. However, this signal handler calls various functions that are not async-signal-safe, for example, syslog().

    Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Richard @lemmy.world

    Have you ever been unable to pay by direct debit through PayPal?

    I recently wanted to buy a product from a manufacturer and luckily they offered PayPal as a payment method. However, after I signed into my PayPal account, it wouldn't show my bank account as a payment option and instead prompted me to add a card or bank account, despite my account being fully confirmed and direct debit activated. PayPal customer service reps told me that maybe the retailer blocked direct debit through PayPal and I should try adding a credit card, however, why would they do that if they offer non-PayPal direct debit anyway? The customer service reps further told me that my account was in good standing, so there shouldn't be any problems with trust etc. Have you ever encountered an online shop that refused direct debit when handled by PayPal?

    Linux @lemmy.world
    Richard @lemmy.world

    Linux on Microsoft Copilot+ PCs?

    Do you think it will be possible to run GNU/Linux operating systems on Microsoft's brand new "Copilot+ PCs"? The latter ones were unveiled just yesterday, and honestly, the sales pitch is quite impressive! A Verge article on them: Link

    Technology @lemmy.world
    Richard @lemmy.world

    Apple is a $3 trillion company — again

    "While developers start work on building Vision Pro apps, the potential for people upgrading to the iPhone 15 this year is a big reason for investor optimism."

    World News @lemmy.world
    Richard @lemmy.world

    You don’t have to freak out about aspartame in your diet soda

    "The IARC will reportedly classify aspartame as a possible carcinogen. But this isn’t a food safety agency, and the context matters."