cozycosmic

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[–] cozycosmic 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Honest question: could some of Netflix's enshittification be because of the media industry, and not their fault? The fragmentation of streaming was the opposite of what they wanted. So maybe his point is that it's impossible to compete because the industry is so powerful and greedy that they couldn't hold onto their monopoly. Spotify has been able to hold onto theirs because record labels hold less power and don't want to get into the streaming business.

[–] cozycosmic 15 points 11 months ago

All plants, animals, mushrooms, bacteria, etc have DNA. Any time a living thing reproduces there can be unique mutations that give the offspring a unique DNA. And, especially if it is a sexual reproduction (having two parents, like in most fruits) the parents DNA is mixed together to form a unique combination of the two parents.

[–] cozycosmic 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Kia niro ev. You can get a 2019 model for ~25k, and it just looks like a normal hatchback.

[–] cozycosmic 36 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Use freetaxusa. It's actually free. I haven't used it as an independent contractor, but it has worked well for my complicated finances.

[–] cozycosmic 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Elections and representatives are "representative democracy", not a true democracy. Voting on issues is democracy. Democracy literally means "the people have the power"

[–] cozycosmic 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you keep it turned off or battery removed when not needed for emergencies?

[–] cozycosmic 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You can, but the energy gained from the turbine will be less than the extra energy it takes to drive the vehicle now that there is a wind turbine attached.

You proposed it in the grill, but for simplicity let's put a wind turbine on the roof. To turn the blades, the wind needs to exert a force on them, and for the blades to not fly off the back of the vehicle, the vehicle needs to match that force. So now the vehicle is working harder to move forward.

It may be easier to visualize if you think of the turbine like a parachute. Once the car is up to speed, you release the turbine out of the back attached by a string. It will spin in the wind, and twist the string, but the car will slow down.

You could put this into the grill, or some part of the vehicle and fool yourself that it's not added force, but cars are designed for wind to go around them, not for wind to push on them. So no matter how you add a turbine, it's added wind resistance.

[–] cozycosmic 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You are right. Either you are using docker very wrong, or docker is not meant for this use case.

You say "getting ubuntu server to fetch it's updated behind proxy". You shouldn't be updating Ubuntu from inside of docker. Instead, the system should be somewhat immutable. You should configure the version you want to use as part of the Docker file.

Same with python and keys. You likely want to install python dependencies in the Dockerfile, so that you can install them once and it becomes bundled into the container image. Then you don't need to use pip behind the proxy.

[–] cozycosmic 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

When you say VPS, do you mean like an AWS or GCP virtual machine?

[–] cozycosmic 1 points 1 year ago

This. I was surprised to learn how bad many people's depth perception is. I used to work in VR and it seemed like a quarter to half of the people I showed it to could not see the depth.

[–] cozycosmic 10 points 1 year ago

At my previous company we edited apks to add performance trackers. We modified the dex code directly. It was not easy, but it is possible. Some apps are obfuscated, which makes finding libraries hard. But a principal we used was to look for where the app called into the system code, especially around URL requests. So you could look for all calls to the system network libraries, and identify which ones were calls to tracker systems, and no-op those bytes.

But, it's probably much easier to just use the adguard dns server.

 

It's surreal. I am sitting here with her sleeping on my lap as mom gets some much needed rest.

 

Hey all,

We are expecting our first at the end of September, and we are tired and scared and stressed. I have been looking for dad groups locally but haven't found any. Just reading through a few posts here and I feel less alone. Thank you.

 

Also just harvested our first zucchini of the season!

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