AnotherDirtyAnglo

joined 11 months ago
[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 months ago

And when making hundreds of billions of dollars off of the 'woke' crowd that subscribes to the 'building a better tomorrow' ideal, turning into an ignorant and unrepentant fascist piece of shit is a good way to erode market share for free, if you exclude the $46 Billion USD social media site purchase, which is now worth essentially nothing.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I just checked some older eMails, and it's not their mail provider / API token that got breached (previous messages used cyberimpact, not zoho).

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I also assign unique eMail addresses for my online accounts, and also got this eMail today.

It's likely that Bixi got hacked, not that they sold the eMail address.

Just do what I do -- change the eMail address slightly on the mail server and on your online account.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

First, if you have more than one disk, you should be either getting redundancy through mirroring, or building arrays of several disks with redundant methods like RAID5 / RAID6 / ZFS zraid2.

Second, no single copy of data is safe, you must always have recent, tested backups.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

I've watched a company load up 2PB of data into a tape library, have them stack it full of bubblewrap, then roll it onto the back of a truck with the tires deflated for a softer ride, then driven across town to a new datacentre at 3am on a Sunday.

Effective data rate: 1PB per hour.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My old PMG3 (beige, the first one) came with a Zip drive. I still have that machine, and the Zip drive in it still works.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

I'm not a gamer, but I remember their drivers for even their high-end cards were a fucking nightmare on Linux.

It's not that hard to give the open source community what they need in order to build their own drivers, or enough source for them to get things working properly. This was one of their dumbest moves among many dumb moves.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

need a computer with a CPU

So, like... a computer.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

Not a physicist, merely a science enthusiast with a high school science education.

My understanding is that we're having a hard enough time smashing hydrogen together into helium (and actually getting back more energy than we put into the process) that making specific isotopes of heavier elements with the current state of technology is between 'extraordinarily unlikely' and 'impossible'. We would have to manage to get past Helium and then on to Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron to get to Carbon -- I imagine the amount of energy required to produce even just a few C12 atoms would be off the charts.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's no way to make a concrete behemoth like the Olympic Stadium sound good.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd actually love to see that -- Level 6: Finding fresh bok choi. Buy bok choi for stirfry. Monster attacks, defeat him, you win only if the bokchoi is left unbruised. Level 7: Make stirfry. Monster attacks, Goal - defeat him before stir fry gets cold. :)

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is how we found out my mother had it:

Mom: "The colours on this new TV are terrible. Everyone is green."

Me: "Okay, hold on, let me adjust the tint."

Mom: "Now they're too blue."

Me: adjusts the colour temp

Mom: "Ew, now everyone is too yellow, it's like the Simpsons."

  • one hour later of adjusting each setting by one step *

Mom: "Well, it's still not right, but it's less awful."

A few years later I found out about Tetrachromacy tests online, and she scored something like 98%.

 

I used to make this offer each year in November/December on the old alien site before they lost their minds and I deleted everything and left. Over the past decade, I've digitized 100+ hours of video, and close to 1000 photos.

I can digitize the following formats:

  • 35mm negative / slides / négatif / diapositif
  • 8mm film (8mm & Super 8) (without audio)
  • VHS-C "compact" video tape (not full size VHS)
  • MiniDV video (not HD... yet)
  • 8mm Videocassette ("Sony" 8mm / Hi8 / Digital 8)
  • Audio cassettes

Reasonable limits apply - one of:

  • Up to 80 frames of 35mm negatives / slides (2-3 "rolls")
  • Up to 5 reels 8mm film
  • Up to 5 VHS-C videotapes
  • Up to 5 MiniDV cassettes
  • Up to 5 8mm videocassettes

... or some reasonable mix of each.

Output is in JPEG or MPEG4 format. For MiniDV/Digital8, I can provide the original .dv files, but they're gigantic - 20+GB/hr. 35mm slides/negatives are usually returned in plastic sheets suitable for storage in a binder.

Turnaround time is usually 72 hours.

Process: Pack up your media in a box, include your ID on Lemmy on a piece of paper, a USB stick for storage (about 1GB per hour of video). Drop off at my office in St. Henri, and pick it up in the same place a few days later.

People often ask why I do this. Freeing cherished memories from old media is a hobby of mine, I don't do this for a living, but I've accumulated a lot of equipment over the last 10 years of doing this.

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