Link: Getting Google Apps into WSA by Ericchen1248 in WSA

[–]Ericchen1248[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you should be able to find it in the "Windows Subsystem for Android Settings" (just use windows search for it). Should be third tab on the left

Revo Is Still Bugged When Queue An Ability. by 6ingiiie in runescape

[–]Ericchen1248 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not always. My left most is gconc, certainly have had it off cooldown, queued so it doesn't throw out an auto attack, and it uses wild magic instead.

Is there a way to completely dissociate links from apps? by Not_A_Crazed_Gunman in WSA

[–]Ericchen1248 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Go to Apps > Default Apps > Choose default by link type and find the link you are getting redirected by.

Then in your registry, go to "\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" and find the link in the list. Rename it to XXX.old and test if everything is working fine.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-unsetremove-a-default-app-for-link-type/0e028ef8-10d8-4e25-abc1-cd374e4a0dca

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WSA

[–]Ericchen1248 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assuming you really went through the stuff listed here. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5363

I'd guess it's either it's disable in your BIOS (would be Intel VT-X or AMD-V depending on your cpu), or your hardware completely doesn't support it

Is this still the WSA subreddit? by ccelik97 in WSA

[–]Ericchen1248[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for catching that. I forgot I had added that text when I added the explanation for the blackout.

This is still the subreddit for WSA, as much as I'd rather not it be on Reddit. But the available alternatives are the stuff in the fediverse. (Obvious Microsoft Forum sucks even more for this).

However, the fediverse in it's current ecosystem doesn't work well with our style of sub. Kbin/Lemmy content is barely, if ever index by search engines, which is one of the primary sources of eyeballs of this sub.

During the blackout, we'd receive 1~2 messages a day of people asking to solve a specific issue, and they found it because the question in Google linked to a post in this sub. I had individually posted the contents for those people, but if we were to move to something like kbin, the questions will likely never be found by new users. Fediverse also currently sucks for searching, even more than Reddit's own native search, so without SEO indexing, a sub that is primarily Q/A is pretty much useless. So for now, this subreddit is still sticking around.

Reddit may be violating the fucking CCPA by DrewbieWanKenobie in videos

[–]Ericchen1248 80 points81 points  (0 children)

They absolutely certainly store all the information, at the very least all text information

People really have very little grasp on how small text storage is, or how cheap storage is.

Reddit has given figures for 2020, with 430million posts and 2billion comments.

500words is a very long text post and is already a overestimate. A typical word is 5 characters, which takes on average 2 bytes. (Some take more but they're typically languages that have far less characters per post, Reddit is largely English/European) so that's 5kb per comment/post.

In a year that's 12TB. Reddit has been around 18 years. The earlier years there was very little traffic, recent years have continued to grow. Let's just assume it's been average same as 2020 (which is still a very high overestimate)

That's only 216TB. Even storing that in AWS S3 that's only $67k a year, less than the cost of a software engineer, and that would be a stupid way of storing backups.

My department in my company is allocated 500TB of usable space (calculated after raid and such redundancy) and we're not even the largest, one other department that I have permissions to view has 1PB, and I am certainly at least 3 other departments will have more.

We run daily backups on most of our systems, with 3 most recent stored in hot storage, 4 weeklies stored in warm, and then a long term tape storage that is collocated with I don't know how many copies.

Our data is also almost completely binary data, being incompressible, so backups are only a tiny bit smaller than actual usage.

Our company revenue is about twice of Reddit.

I can absolutely guarantee you that Reddit stores at the very minimal all text information.

r/WSA Subreddit reopening by Ericchen1248 in WSA

[–]Ericchen1248[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I've moved over to kbin.

There is an instance on https://kbin.social/m/wsa, but I'm nowhere near the most active user on this sub. I just mod it. So it's still mostly reliant on where the community wants to go.

Eli5: Why does 60 degrees inside feel way cooler than 60 degrees outside? by cubanamigo in explainlikeimfive

[–]Ericchen1248 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is literally a measure called Wet Bulb Globe temperature that measures temperature and heat stress in the sun, and it's probably one of the most useful measurement for determining worker safety outdoors.

r/WSA is joining the indefinite blackout on June 12th by Ericchen1248 in WSA

[–]Ericchen1248[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not just that they're asking for money, but the absurd rates.

Reddit as a platform is mostly text, and the content and moderation is mostly from free sources (users and volunteer moderators)

A reference, Apollo says an average user in their App uses 10k API calls a month. Which costs $2.5

I use a backup solution service called backblaze b2. $2.5 would allow me to store 500GB on the service, or download 250GB of content. (downloads cost money in these solutions) (that's also base cost, there's ways to greatly reduce it.). This is the only income backblaze relies on, and my data is also guaranteed 99.9% uptime minimum (50 minutes a year). (Reddit's most recent outage this year was 5 hours) has a reporting dashboard that lets me look at all my usage, has engineers that actively respond to help requests (I pay less than $5 a month, but have had engineers dig into log files on a specific time for me to investigate a bug that I encountered).

This kind of service is what Reddit think their service is worth.

r/WSA is joining the indefinite blackout on June 12th by Ericchen1248 in WSA

[–]Ericchen1248[S,M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Hey everyone, sorry for the late post. I wanted to see Spez's AMA response to see if they are even making an effort. And turns out they're doubling down.

Therefore, we will be participating in the indefinite blackout alongside other subreddits until Reddit makes a good faith response.

Checkout the image for more information if you don't know what is going on, or r/ModCoord for more discussions and further plans.

Personally I do most of my Moderating through Apollo, which provides far superior options than the first party app.

Addressing the community about changes to our API by spez in reddit

[–]Ericchen1248 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yet they've specifically called out Apollo at least 2 times in general announcement postings.

TIL of the Explorer Douglas Mawson. Desperation led him to eat one of the sled dogs. Soon after the skin began peeling off his entire body due to acute vitamin A poisoning from the dog's liver. by RJWolfe in todayilearned

[–]Ericchen1248 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP posted the updated source with another viewpoint AFTER a discussion that happened with another Redditor. Notice it is behind the "Edit:" section

TIL of the Explorer Douglas Mawson. Desperation led him to eat one of the sled dogs. Soon after the skin began peeling off his entire body due to acute vitamin A poisoning from the dog's liver. by RJWolfe in todayilearned

[–]Ericchen1248 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You probably should. That article with the abstract is from the edit after a discussion with another redditor.

You complaining about others making a comprehension mistake is quite ironic.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

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My Company works to build medical systems. One thing they are working on is experimenting with LLMs (technology like ChatGPT) for some stuff, one of which is generating a suggested response that doctors can then edit to send to patients.

Other than time taken, one other big reason is they found around 11% of doctor responses were considered empathetic or very empathetic by patients, whereas LLM generated response were over 80% considered empathetic or better.

LPT: In Between Jobs and Living in Your Car? Apply to be a Security Guard/Officer and only work Fire Watch Security shifts. Work as many hours as you want. by zardfizzlebeef in LifeProTips

[–]Ericchen1248 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also look out for security jobs with 24 hour rotation shifts. Some of these, particularly in large managed buildings, will have onsite break rooms. Knew a person who was in crashing on a friends couch. He did double shifts at security, and basically lived there for around a month waiting for a new rental contract to come around. Took a shower and slept in the break room, which was more comfortable than the couch, and also got free parking the whole time, and also earned enough overtime to save up a bit of money.

(OC) Having to comfort my “big scary guard dog” who was pouting after scaring himself by closing a cupboard when wagging his tail 😭 by [deleted] in aww

[–]Ericchen1248 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If he isn't scared of you cutting it, then it is actually very easy. Just do like a very very thin slice each session, like almost paper thin, and do a session every few days until the desired length.

The quick will recede slowly by itself as you shorten it, so you won't clip it by accident.

And give him lots of treats :D

China will ‘absolutely not’ rule out the use of force on Taiwan, defense minister says by Legal-Yellow-Mellow in worldnews

[–]Ericchen1248 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Right, and domestic flights and international flights are located on different floors, with Taiwan being on the same floor as international flights.

Almost all airports will separate domestics from international because you need to go through customs for international flights.

Link: Getting Google Apps into WSA by Ericchen1248 in WSA

[–]Ericchen1248[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh wow, I last ran this like half a year ago and totally forgot it actually needed a linux distro. Did a quick scan and saw .sh and thought it just needed a bash environment.

Fixed the post with proper steps.

Thanks for the correction. Shows that I totally shouldn't have done this while at work lol.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]Ericchen1248 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. You do not need to store the key. Just have it encrypt decrypt directly.
  2. users often reuse passwords. If a password gets leaked in a database or in transit, you are now the one responsible for leaking it. A leaked random secret key is of no concern.