It's easy to imagine yourself withstanding torture in order to save a loved one... until you hit your thumb with a hammer or stub your toe IRL
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    3d ago 100%

    Torture and money will give you a ton of information but not reliable information.

    Because in the first case the person will say anything to make you stop and in the second case the person will say anything to make you continue.

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  • What is your linux backup strategy?
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    BastingChemina
    4d ago 100%

    I have a synology NAS with all my documents and family photos. I'm using the synology drive app on Linux and synology photo on android.

    All of that is backed up on Backblaze

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  • Why are people impressed with SpaceX?
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    BastingChemina
    6d ago 100%

    No, NASA has the budget. They already spent $50 billion on the development of SLS and Orion, Starship development cost is estimated to be around $10 billion.

    So in theory with the money they spent on SLS they could have built 5 starship program.

    The problem is that NASA has to follow political interests, sometimes the political interests align with technical interest and we get great things like the Apollo program.

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  • Why are people impressed with SpaceX?
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    BastingChemina
    6d ago 100%

    Imagine you want to build a cabin in a very remote place in Alaska.

    Getting there is quite difficult, you did it a few times in the 60's but the path is so bad that you had to throw the truck away each time (around $45,000 per trip, for the truck + gas)

    You are still planning to build your cabin but having to buy a new truck for each trip is not great, plus the fact that only one company can make this SLS truck so you can't get more than once a year.

    Building a cabin in these circumstances is close to impossible.

    Now SpaceX makes a new Starship truck that can go all the way AND be reused. The trip from the hardware store to the build site now only costs you around $100 for the gas plus truck expenses AND you can now do the trip to the hardware store multiple times a day !

    Now building the cabin becomes way more accessible.

    Replace the Alaskan cabin with a scientific base on the moon or Mars and multiply the amounts by 100,000 and you have an approximation of the situation

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  • UK to consider USB-C as charging standard
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    BastingChemina
    6d ago 100%
    and if this needs to be the same as the USB-C connector the EU adopted.
    

    The consideration should be quick, "Should we use a different charging standard that the EU ? No"

    If not they are seriously delusional

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  • SpaceX launches Starship rocket and catches booster in giant metal arms
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    BastingChemina
    1w ago 100%

    I find the video from afar really incredible too. You can see this giant, skyscraper sized rocket just falling down the sky at incredible speed.

    https://x.com/i/status/1845444890764644694

    PS: how can I link a twitter video without redirecting to the website ?

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  • Tesla car fire kills four in France
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    BastingChemina
    1w ago 86%

    It was Saturday evening around 10pm, three restaurant employees went into one of the client car to "try it out", the client (65 years old) was clearly speeding, lost control of the vehicle, left the road and hit a traffic sign.

    My bet is that all of that has nothing to do with the fact that this was a Tesla, the only difference is the fire but this is the same for every electric vehicle.

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  • What's a trend people outside of your field / hobby are probably unaware of?
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    BastingChemina
    1w ago 100%

    Like this father who got his account closed because he took a picture of his toddler penis to send to their pediatrician.

    The picture was automatically backed up in Google photo and flagged as child pornography.

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  • Boeing to cut 10% of workforce, stop most 767 production amid strike
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    BastingChemina
    1w ago 100%

    And this does not include all the subcontractors, for example the engine is manufactured by other companies like Safran which has around 90,000 employees.

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  • Can someone recommend an easy way to convert a PDF file into a quarter page booklet?
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    BastingChemina
    1w ago 100%

    When you said "regular" piece of paper, are you talking about A4 or letter size ?

    If you are using A4 the answer is quite easy, get a pack of A5 paper and print on it using the book mode of it printer. It will automatically organize the sheets in the right order. Then with a stapler you can attach them all together.

    If you are using the American standard ... Good luck.

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  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.13442

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    ![A picture of a 3D printed router guide](https://files.catbox.moe/oa8yqt.jpg) ![A 3D Model of a router guide](https://files.catbox.moe/4gwv2w.png) My router (makita) was supplied with a copying guide but the opening was too small. I've look online but I could not managed to find the right size so I did what any sane person would do: print one Edit: more pictures of the result ![a dinosaur shaped observation tower](https://files.catbox.moe/p4i5ac.jpg) ![another picture of the observation tower with a kid standing on it](https://files.catbox.moe/dlurcu.jpg)

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    So, I had to reinstall windows as a dualboot, because I need some CAD tools for work. It was painful but it's not thebaubject I'm running nixos with systemd-boot and I installed windows on another drive. I started to research how to add the entry on the boot list so I don't need to go in bios to switch the boot order each time I want to change OS. Most of the information I find is about grub on nixos but I finally find information on how to add a manual entry. On the Arch wiki I find some information but now I have to blend all that to make it work on my laptop. It's late and I'm scared to mess up my boot partition so I go to sleep to work instructions on it the next day. The next day I'm ready to do all that only to realized that there is already the entry for windows is already in the boot menu, it has been added automatically. So I spent all this time to think about how I while have to adjust my system manually only to realize that nixos already did it automatically for me.

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    www.conseil-etat.fr

    Ca m'a donné la banane pour la semaine ! Edit : aaaah ! J'ai été trop lent d'une minute.

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    www.laquadrature.net

    To be fair they were also using encrypted messaging to talk to each other like WhatsApp and Signal, they even show their mom how to use it which is extremely suspicious. > “All members of this group were particularly suspicious, only communicating with each other using encrypted applications, in particular Signal, and encrypting their computers and devices […]. > **The Investigating Judge** [https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/](https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/) [https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/10/06/the-beginning-of-the-8-december-trial-is-also-the-judgement-of-the-right-to-privacy-and-encryption/](https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/10/06/the-beginning-of-the-8-december-trial-is-also-the-judgement-of-the-right-to-privacy-and-encryption/) > when the DGSI [a French security agency charged with counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, countering cybercrime and surveillance of potentially threatening groups] has questioned Bastien about what he thinks of Macron. A photograph on his computer is mentioned, which according to them details the President's security arrangements for the July 14th parade. (...) > The device in question (an aerial photo taken from the press) is highlighted in such a way as to draw a dick. A dick. > The link is made with Bastien's passion for drones. The implication is that he could have used a drone to attack this dick-shaped device using explosives. [https://www.auposte.fr/j7-quis-terroristiat-ipsos-terroristes/](https://www.auposte.fr/j7-quis-terroristiat-ipsos-terroristes/)

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    sionablaise.com

    I'm wanted to share with you the blog that my wife is writing, she's writing about parenting and relationships and she's making some amazing articles !

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    www.pv-magazine.com

    I believe this is a very good initiative. France is allowing collective self consumption. It means that in an appartement building or in a neighborhood (up to 2km radius) people can organize in a collective to redistribute electricity to each other. If someone has extra production one day then he can redistribute to other people in the collective. For free or at the price they agreed upon in the collective. It does not need any extra hardware, it's using the existing installation from the national utility grid. This is exactly how I imagine a solarpunk community would work.

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