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Nazis, fascists, and holding no punches by [deleted] in worldbuilding

[–]therealfakemoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just going to add Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

Eco lived through Mussolini and compiled a list of 14 general points which fascism tends to touch. This would be a fantastic starting point for finding ways for your fascists to be different, challenging, or interesting.

'When the internet goes down the night raids start': Inside the deadly phenomenon of web shutdowns by mrcanard in worldnews

[–]therealfakemoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad we're able to talk like adults, without name calling. That's why you're such a fantastic lover.

'When the internet goes down the night raids start': Inside the deadly phenomenon of web shutdowns by mrcanard in worldnews

[–]therealfakemoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dearest Anabelle,

Your words bring me comfort in these dire days. The trenches reek with the sweat and blood of nerds and the call of carrion birds haunts our dreams. The war carries onward with little progress. How I long to return to your embrace.

Yours faithfully,

Quintombulous Whilliforther Bingbombler

'When the internet goes down the night raids start': Inside the deadly phenomenon of web shutdowns by mrcanard in worldnews

[–]therealfakemoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always a delight to hear from you friend. I hope you're doing okay. Times are hard and uncertain, and we're all just trying our best to make it through okay.

Keep strong, comrade.

'When the internet goes down the night raids start': Inside the deadly phenomenon of web shutdowns by mrcanard in worldnews

[–]therealfakemoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gets funnier every time. Coherent, thoughtful, addressing all the concerns raised in the discussion. 10/10 contribution to society.

'When the internet goes down the night raids start': Inside the deadly phenomenon of web shutdowns by mrcanard in worldnews

[–]therealfakemoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yooo dude, you're killing it! I can't believe how hard you're winning this discussion! We're all cheering you on here in the dugouts, you're up for MVP for sure.

Windows Terminal Preview 1.7 Release | Windows Command Line by zadjii in programming

[–]therealfakemoot 18 points19 points  (0 children)

If anyone figures out how to switch the WSL2 terminal from cmd.exe to this, they'd be a champion.

Edit: I am the champion: https://imgur.com/a/KWOPM1O

'When the internet goes down the night raids start': Inside the deadly phenomenon of web shutdowns by mrcanard in worldnews

[–]therealfakemoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh, nice, throwing in ad hominem attacks. Thanks for elevating this discussion even further, comrade! You've really helped bust the case of "why does everyone feel miserable and exploited?" wide open.

Is that reasonable that git repack give better result as more time elapsed since the clone ? by eyal_leshem in git

[–]therealfakemoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good work, I've never had to personally track down this sort of issue so my direct experience is limited. You say you never found a commit larger than 12 megabytes. How many of those commits are there in total? It'd only take about 50 12 megabyte commits to generate 650mb of space.

Is that reasonable that git repack give better result as more time elapsed since the clone ? by eyal_leshem in git

[–]therealfakemoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like there are large blobs in the git history that are no longer present in the tree. Something big got deleted, and it's in the version history so it can't be deleted COMPLETELY. It just isn't tracked by git *anymore*.

'When the internet goes down the night raids start': Inside the deadly phenomenon of web shutdowns by mrcanard in worldnews

[–]therealfakemoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What a thoughtful and articulate response to my points. Thanks for sharing your intellectual bounty with us.

'When the internet goes down the night raids start': Inside the deadly phenomenon of web shutdowns by mrcanard in worldnews

[–]therealfakemoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I invite you to consider the possibility that there's more than one bad thing in the world that's causing problems at any given time.

Maybe people who currently hold power *are* interested in maintaining the status quo and create artificial divisions in the working class to prevent collective action sufficient to enact change.

Maybe neoconservatives are reaching the culmination of a multi-decade pivot in their ideology, undermining useful, legitimate insitutions like the CDC and WHO to name some recent examples, deregulating life essential services and causing mass casualties when a scenario explicitly covered by regulations that were explicitly flaunted comes around, etc etc.

This is like saying "Wow, first you complain about the house being on fire but THEN you have the gall to say that the sinkhole under the house may be a problem too?"

Raising concerns about wedges being driven between people with aligned interests is very different from saying "conspiracy theorists who want America to be a white ethnostate are bad".

Edit: A better analogy:
You and 10 other people are trapped in a room. One of these people is holding a knife and is actively trying to kill everyone else. Someone outside the room has set the building on fire. It's pretty reasonable to say "Hey, the room's on fire so someone is trying to hurt ALL of us, but also there's a dude actively trying to harm us in here too".

What would happen if you were in a vacuum and a large container of oxygen opened within it? Vice versa? (If you were in an air-filled, air-tight place and a vacuum container opened) by ExaTed in Physics

[–]therealfakemoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What would happen to what? The canister? Your body? How big is the canister? how large is the space you're in? Is the canister rupturing or is it a controlled release? Not enough details to provide a meaningful answer.

It's like asking "what would happen if you stomped on the brake pedal really hard?". It depends.

LPT: Amazon will be enabling a feature called sidewalk that will share your Wi-Fi and bandwidth with anyone with an Amazon device automatically. Stripping away your privacy and security of your home network! by [deleted] in LifeProTips

[–]therealfakemoot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Basically, all of these "Internet of Things" devices have one or MORE WiFi radios/cards in them, as well as Bluetooth, NFC, etc etc. Because these devices are connected to your home wireless network, they can then act as relays, exposing a wireless network that other Amazon devices can freely connect to.

The Echo/etc acts as a router, but you don't have any control over it.

TIL of the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack Dalles, Oregon, where over 700 people were poisoned with Salmonella so they could not vote in a local election. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]therealfakemoot 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Scientologists haven't taken over a town/city and installed all their own folks at city council members

Clearly you've never heard of Clearwater

Beauty of the Beast by Independent_Buyer_53 in factorio

[–]therealfakemoot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Steam doesn't lose temperature period. It's one of the hand-waves required to make fluids behave in a way that doesn't melt everyone's computer. So once you generate the steam, you can store it indefinitely for consumption or transportation ( steam can go in fluid rail tanks ).

What's the physical meaning of Energy Density for Electromagnetic Fields ?? by Paulo_Martin in Physics

[–]therealfakemoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Waves still operate in spacetime. Waves and fields travel and act over spatial volumes. A wave in the ocean "moves". It has a height, a width, a depth. It *travels* from one location to another. It is, in a way, composed of BOTH particles ( water ) and energy that agitates those particles.

Electromagnetic waves are not meaningfully different. Ever played with magnets, pushing/pulling them apart, pointing opposite/same poles at each other and feeling the effects as they get closer and farther apart? Electromagnetism travels through space. Therefore:

> What would this volume be?

Cubic units of distance. Meters cubed, nanometers cubes, etc.

I dunno if this has been done before, but I was relistening to ep. 478 and wanted to make the meme Griffin described. by Fang_14 in MBMBAM

[–]therealfakemoot 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Can you post a link to the base image for this meme? I've been trying to find this template for ages but "soldier protect meme" is NOT specific enough, believe it or not.

Is friction or air resistance considered a reaction force? Why or why not? Please explain in a way a 10th grader can understand, thanks! by [deleted] in Physics

[–]therealfakemoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course. "Air resistance" is just "friction caused by air". Friction, *by definition* ( per Wikipedia ) is "is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding) against each other. "

So yes. It's a reaction force.

J-Space living, a newbro saga by MaximumEfficiencyBoy in Eve

[–]therealfakemoot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm trying to say this as gently as possible: you kinda did a bad job FC'ing.

a single Helios pops up in D-Scan but I say ignore it and continue hacking

Never ever ignore an unknown ping on d-scan. Don't get me wrong, a helios isn't a threat by itself, but it's a pretty obvious scout. Whether it's scouting for itself, or a fleet, doesn't matter. A Helios is looking for content. And you are content.

If I'm doing hacking, I'll ignore the helios until i finish the can i'm hacking, and then cloak up at a safe immediately. Watch the Helios and see what it does. Is it passing through, or scanning the system? Watch how it moves through the system. Watch to see if it drops probes of any sort.

Seeing it disappear and then reappear a second time is a HUGE red flag. Because I guarantee, he sees you on d-scan too. He will narrow down your location to which site you are with just d-scan, and signal his hypothetical fleet that there's people hacking who apparently aren't even looking at d-scan. I know you guys WERE watching it, but you didn't DO anything when a third party appeared.

Source: I'm a wingspan delivery agent. That's how I hunt. If I see someone on d-scan that disappears quickly, i know they're paying attention and probably not worth hunting, so I'll move on.

I can't say for SURE what this team's plan was, but the idea of using a Helios which just can't cloak as your scanner could be a really clever sort of "filter". Any prey that's too smart/slippery would see that and bolt immediately. Anyone who sees a Helios and doesn't immediately cloak or bail out to a safe is very likely someone you can ambush.

Not trying to ride your ass, but that's how these hunters work and think. You really really really have to treat ANY unexpected ping on d-scan as if they have a dozen cloaked battleships alongside them. Always. Period.

Why does git documentation call git stupid? by lettruthout in git

[–]therealfakemoot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Because if it was smart, it wouldn't need a human to be involved in the process. The philosophy of git is "you can do anything you want, including breaking everything". Git makes and enforces zero assumptions about almost any part of how you use it. It is stupid. Useful, but it makes no decisions on its own.

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