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TheChaplain

2,451 karma · joined February 2, 2017

Just a humble man with interest in the digital world - exscientia at outlook dot com
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TheChaplain··on Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux
This is really good!

I use htop often but pretty much only use it to find pid or cpu-culprits, and never really understood the rest.

TheChaplain··on The Vespa at 80
Euro5 also means >90% less exhaust fumes compared to Euro1 which was introduced 1999 iirc. The difference between a 1950 and 2026 Vespa must be huge.
TheChaplain··on Germany’s Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy
Funny that the article didn't mention it.

Infineon got €1bn of tax payer money to open the plant (~$1.1bn).

TheChaplain··on FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder
48kHz has been the recommended setting with Premiere Pro as long as I can remember.

44.1kHz, isn't that what lameMP3 uses as default?

TheChaplain··on Fable Converted Pylint to Rust
IMHO there is little point of these conversion projects. It screams of "look at me, see what I made" and when the attention goes down a little nothing was ever pushed to the repo ever again.

Perhaps I am out of touch, but a project with author/s that have passion for every line, function and purpose, feels more real and worth my trust to spend time using it.

TheChaplain··on Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It
Not often you encounter a site that makes scrolling choppy.
TheChaplain··on Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition for Its Smart Glasses to Phones
I don't have Facebook nor Instagram, but my partner does and so does my siblings, parents and cousins.

Photos of me undoubtedly exist on their platform, with my name as well.

Not sure I am ok with random people instantly knowing who I am and who my relatives are.

TheChaplain··on Angular v22
I like Angular, it feels a bit like Django. Easy to use with everything included.
TheChaplain··on Voxel Space (2017)
I really love this kind of articles, so much to learn.
TheChaplain··on The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader
I am 100% certain, that if you go to a Ferrari dealer and buy one of their cars, they will clearly inform you of their rules.

Of course you can have a friend to buy it for you, but again, it's Ferraris choice who they want to conduct business with as long as they follow the laws to the letter. Their car is their brand and they want to protect it.

TheChaplain··on The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader
You are free to do whatever, but companies are also free to choose who they conduct business with.

In the case of Ferrari, their products are essentially also rolling advertisements, so modifying them goes against what they are trying to sell.

TheChaplain··on Go: Support for Generic Methods
It's not a bad thing to realize that one can be wrong and then strive for change.
TheChaplain··on Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive
The Ferrari Testarossa (F110) is probably the most beautiful of their line IMHO, hair-rising roar it has too.
TheChaplain··on OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid
Stupid question, but what if you just open an account at a credit union, then have that one connected to plaid?

If it needs to see transactions, just have your salary deposited there, then an automatic transfer the same day to your real account?

TheChaplain··on Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
If you live in the EU and bought the car there, the GDPR still applies, even if data is sent to Toyota in Japan.

You have the full right to view and ask for deletion.

TheChaplain··on Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices
lol first I thought Meta had a rodent problem :)

Anyways, there is a ton of mouse wigglers out there, notably on aliexpress.com, many external and not connected to your workstation.

TheChaplain··on How to Leave Instagram
There have been an alternative out for a while called Pixelfed (https://pixelfed.org/)

Tried it for a while but wasn't enough cats.

TheChaplain··on RISC-V Server Platform Spec Ratified
Well, implementations of UEFI are all over the board because vendors have their own ideas, that leads to compatibility issues.

It is also a security risk, as it is essentially a huge system (compared to BIOS) under the actual OS, compromise the former and own the latter. The larger code base, the larger attack vector.

Coming back to UEFI implementations, how many of them are actually open source and do not have un-vetted code running (again under your OS)?

Yes, UEFI do have some positives but the security risk far outweighs them.

TheChaplain··on Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8
I've noticed it is a quite common attitude in society, not paid enough to care so they don't.
TheChaplain··on Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym
Instead of a gym another options are joining volunteer groups, a fraternity order (Oddfellow / Rebekahs), a local D&D meetup or local motorcycle club. Sharing a common interest is the easiest way to make new friends.
TheChaplain··on Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?
TIL about limiting logs. Very useful, I had no idea.
TheChaplain··on Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
Considering the name of the crew, the title would be better off with "Pro-Iran regime". It is a small but important difference.
TheChaplain··on The UAE doubles down on Israel and America
Paywalled.
TheChaplain··on UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes
It depends?

AFAIK healthcare in UK is tax funded, and smoking with its long list of damages to the body, takes a portion of that taxpayer money which could be used on something underfunded, like mental healthcare.

TheChaplain··on UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes
I mean drugs are also banned, and how does that work out?
TheChaplain··on Towards trust in Emacs
> ... the problem with security measures that cause too much friction is that users tend to disable them in order to get on with their work. To fulfill its security purposes, a good trust system needs to stay out of your way.

I wish this was understood clearly by more security engineers, but, alas...

TheChaplain··on FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account
It seems weird that Google wouldn't have some kind of observability alert on outgoing email. 10k emails per week is a lot.
TheChaplain··on YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription
Might be an idea to switch to a bank or credit union that have better customer service?
TheChaplain··on The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countrie...
TheChaplain··on Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11
Many commenters blows up here but you have to see this from the non-informed consumer perspective I think.

What I mean is, yes, WE know Win11 barely works with 4GB and WE know that 6gb is quite generous for a Linux machine, but they don't.

The general public isn't as informed as we think they are (which is proven by 75 million people last election).

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