NeverNudeNo13

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Predators come in all shapes and colors. I generally don't trust anyone who claims to be a moral or ethical absolutist, especially with my children.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh fantastic, sorry if I missed that detail in the original post. Thought you might have had an old eBay blade server or something. Hope you got it working!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Alot of servers have at least one built in video output head but if it's an older device you might need to look for an HD15 VGA port... Some servers might have had some sort of micro port or proprietary port/dongle setup as well. Might refer to the documentation for the chassis/motherboard first... It's possible you have what you need already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This is the way.... Setup and then open a terminal and then boot the machine... Helps to have console output logged on the host machine so you can review everything after... Some boot sequences can be tens of thousands of lines long on complex machines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean technically... At least half of the elemental construction of both of those ingredients is chlorine... So... Technically it is.

[–] [email protected] 287 points 2 months ago (30 children)

Yeah but it says right on the front that it's half potassium chloride and half sodium chloride.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

https://www.daytranslations.com/blog/origin-english-alphabet/

Here is a decent explanation of some of the evolution behind the alphabet. It's funny that a lot of what we consider special characters in modern typography are in fact actually original letters of the defunct alphabet systems. It's been under our noses the whole time, we just don't really teach that alot of these characters were once part of the working alphabet system. &, for instance... Was the last letter of the alphabet for some time. The story behind @ is even more interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The Latin alphabet is not the original alphabet system used for English. There are modern alternatives that have been suggested to help eliminate some of the confusion created by using a non native alphabet, the Shavian alphabet for instance would theoretically solve much of the issue.

It's kind of what happens in other languages as well... English speakers like to quip that there are x number of dozens of ways to spell Mohammed. And for sure, in English, it probably feels that way. But there is actually only one proper way to spell it you just have to use the Arabic alphabet to do so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It's funny because a ton of these common errors are due in a huge part to the fact that we don't use the native alphabet for English. Lots of stuff has to be transposed in creative ways to deal with the romanization of English.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Nice thanks for that. I've been pretty happy with it right out of the box and haven't really needed to do much to it, but nice to know there are options.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I as well use a Anker powerconf camera and it's fantastic... But you will need a windows machine if you want to modify firmware settings on it as their control app runs in windows. It does seem that once you modify those settings they are persistent within the hardware itself though and once you move it back to the Linux machine it should all be preserved.

Of course it's possible someone has already closed that gap out already or maybe the app runs in wine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Beautiful! Yeap that's a very clean parallel and also extremely important in that field as well.

Since this has turned into a lovely exchange I want to offer one more point for your consideration.

Where the outcome of marketing data typically intends to position a product or service in to it's most profitable position, and the quality of the data produced can be somewhat validated by future sales/market share/market depth/etc.

Polls like the one we are discussing aren't constrained in the same manner and may be maliciously and purposefully designed to generate biased data. Humans are inherently vulnerable to hostile psychological manipulations. If this poll specifically isn't just an outright scam intended to get its recipient to click on some link that load a payload of malware, it is certainly designed to purposefully create skewed empirical data.

Not everyone, but certainly a small minority of people who may have not necessarily felt certain about where they stood either direction could look at the results of a poll like this and might find a tinge of doubt in the back of their heads. This sort of tactic hopes that a person will feel a paranoia that everyone else seems to know something significant that they don't and drive social anxieties up. Again, not always, but also not uncommonly, we can find ourself doubting even deeply felt personal resolve on a topic or position if it feels like the vast majority of people disagree with us. This sort of cognitive bias warfare isn't intended to immediately flip a persons perspective, but rather it's designed to soften a persons resolve and introduce enough doubt that they may become susceptible to being flipped later. It's why we need to embrace healthy skepticism and be willing to be more stoic with how we consume numbers others prepped for us.

Much love friend, have a great day/evening!

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