szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org
Slowly moving to https://circumstances.run/@Szescstopni. This account will stay up for a while.
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (#Polesie in Polish) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs (most of them rescue dogs) – #IdąPsięta.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small #LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding, mostly in #Python. Luddite.
#Atheist. I don't believe in #science – science is our defence against belief.
Fuck nazis.
I haven't deleted my account on Twitter, for good reasons, but I'm not using it anymore. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.
Joined Nov 2022
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The more you understand computers, the more you value systems without them.
I drink so much carbonated beverages that pretty soon my carbon footprint will exceed that of Taylor Swift.
Yesterday ended well. Today was so hectic I didn't get a chance to look at the Moon, but I assume it might have changed a bit.
Can't simply boost from my instance, but this post on AI source data quality is important https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/112814393953471895
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oh boy
AI is useless shit. it's essentially the same as crypto: hype but the substance is less genuine tech advance and more a certain class of tech bro buying in on ethusiasm, the only difference being the mark for the con job is FAANG rather than sad randos playing a casino
AI is going the way of 3D TV
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if we ever discover (fossils of) life on mars, we're definitely gonna give it a binomial nomenclature name with "bowie" in it, right?
This is how today started. The cumulus (those fluffy clouds) are fine, but the cirrus behind them mean the weather will change. Probably for worse.
Not sure what to do now. A post appeared in my feed. My instance has issues with showing complete threads so I went to the original site to get context. The post I saw here was edited and is much better now, but it didn't update here. If I now boost it from here, will my followers see edited post or the old one cached here?
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Concerning CrowdStrike:
We are now at t+26h. Please compare how much we knew about the xz-attack after less than a day with what we know about the chain of events of giant outage yesterday.
If something similar had been caused by an OSS component, we would see congress discussing a ban on open software in critical infrastructure already.
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Turtle might still be alive https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24001330
@CStamp This picture is not from my area. It's been like this there for many days, apparently no one reacted. Or someone did, but the utility ignored reports. But now you made me realize I should act – I'll send the picture to that county's office and will see what happens. Also, this will force the officials to have their first contact with Mastodon :)
@CStamp The bad code? Yes. This power pole? Not yet.
I have no idea what happened here, but it eerily resembles some code I've seen recently. Switching the power off and on a few times might help.
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Hacking Scientific Citations
Some scholars are inflating their reference counts by sneaking them into metadata:
Citations of scientific work ab... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/07/hacking-scientific-citations.html
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Windows hardware problem, USB hub locked out
Well this USB issue is kicking me. To recap, I unexpectedly disconnected a device by snapping the cable the device was connected to (from the device end, no damage to the port). It's a front port connected to the motherboard header.
I tried swapping out the whole bay panel but it didn't help (possibly a power issue but I don't think so as it sort-of worked powering my phone). I've removed all the USB hubs in windows several times, removed all unconnected devices, and been through USBTreeView and USBDeview. I don't think it's a physical issue as a sudden disconnection wouldn't have caused a surge.
So it seems the motherboard controller itself has been locked out. There's nothing in the BIOS I can do with it as there are no individual controller settings, though I can see a stack of ports which are all enabled (the motherboard has a shitload of ports on the back) I can't tell which are spefically on his hub, from the BIOS.
So I cna't tell if Windows has locked the controller, or the motherboard itself. I'm really reluctant to reset the CMOS but if I have to I will.
Has anyone come across this problem before in #Windows where a #USB device disconnection has locked out use of the entire hub? All of the usual solutions have failed, including booting Ubuntu and having the device re-recognise there (it didn't recognise). It's not the end of the world but I'd like to understand the issue.
Slowly moving to https://circumstances.run/@Szescstopni. This account will stay up for a while.
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (#Polesie in Polish) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs (most of them rescue dogs) – #IdąPsięta.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small #LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding, mostly in #Python. Luddite.
#Atheist. I don't believe in #science – science is our defence against belief.
Fuck nazis.
I haven't deleted my account on Twitter, for good reasons, but I'm not using it anymore. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.
Joined Nov 2022
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