Everything posted by Sensei
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The arrest of Pavel Durov and the French Constitution
This is nonsense. It doesn't work that way in IT. Facebook, Twitter/X or any other crap, i.e. social media, would have to decrypt all messages with anyone and then back them up (in case someone finds out in 5 years that you might be a rapist or whatever). Then the whole HTTPS is pointless and misleading.. Privacy doesn't exist. Is that what you are suggesting? Whatever you write in the Messanger is archived. And anything can be used against you at any possible time from that point on. If you have a communicator that does data encryption when you type it in the app, and raw data sent through a central server (which is just a proxy for raw data between the two phones on which the app is installed), there is no sense of backing up data which are not understandable and undecryptable. I have created my own Facebook-like communicator apps.. simply a copy of Messenger only without all the surrounding that spies on you all the time, and backs up data “for backup”.. I just created my own Facebook/X.. This is called end-to-end encryption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption If you talk to someone through Messenger and write that your washing machine burned out, for example, and immediately start getting ads for washing machines or services for repairing electronics, that's the best proof that they know what you wrote about with someone in a private conversation. You might as well have written about how you got drunk and puked, or other embarrassing things. The best way to commit debilitation is to turn on the cloud with a backup of your phone data. On which, of course, you keep your photos and videos with lovers and mistresses.. Things make it difficult for people who don't have a brain to understand what's going on it's called “data synchronization between devices”.... If you record your sextape on your iPhone, and then you also want it on your iMac. Or you record your sextape on your Android phone and then want it on your computer as well, the most common way is to “sync your data between devices” via various clouds. If you do this, all your sext tapes will now be on “their” servers. Forever accessible. If there is end-to-end encryption (real, not just fake for the public), all they have is a handful of meaningless data on their proxy servers. I think with your statement you have shown that you have been pretty much brainwashed by these child-porn campaign etc. so it is necessary to protect the children (and in the meantime steal the data of all the people who have done nothing, but can in the future, in 10-20 years) Either you have data encryption on the client side (end-to-end encryption), and the server does nothing but proxy this unknown data, or you have total surveillance (because you are not sure that your data is not analyzed in real time and backed up).
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Any Linux users? Is my bad experience of ubuntu just bad luck?
This is not an Ubuntu issue. I have the same thing on other Linux distros (although also Debian-based) (Debian-Ubuntu-Mint-Kali) This is a feature of the NTFS file system. Depending on how the Windows is shut down or put to sleep, it switches NTFS drives into different modes. In one you have only read-only mode, and in the other you have read-write mode. NTFS file system "driver" on Linux was created by reverse engineering, without having Microsoft's proprietary source code. The authors did not want to damage the disk structure. https://www.google.com/search?q=ntfs+modes+sleep+linux You still haven't said what file system they have. If you bought them and just plugged them in, without manual format, it's doubtful they are NTFS. As long as they are bigger than 4 GB I would make a blind guess exFAT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT "exFAT has been adopted by the SD Association as the default file system for SDXC and SDUC cards larger than 32 GB." Use the mount command from the terminal.. with the appropriate arguments.. Some tips from the web: sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils BTW, have you used: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade right after installing the operating system?
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Pro’s and Con’s of Elon Musk
What does it take to be considered a scientist? BoA and BoS is not enough? "Musk graduated from the College and Wharton in 1997 with a dual degree in economics and physics. That same year, he started a Ph.D. program in materials sciences at Stanford University, dropping out just after two days later to begin his first start-up company" https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/11/elon-musk-penn-grad-wharton-twitter-auction The company the article is about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip2 The Musk brothers got $37 million for it (a 12% stake, so they didn't have the final word on whether to sell it).
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Any Linux users? Is my bad experience of ubuntu just bad luck?
Try sudo dmesg -w Then connect the USB device to see if a new log appears. or use sudo dmesg Then connect the USB device and repeat it at the other terminal. Compare. Do you have a /var/log/syslog file? If yes, then: cat /var/log/syslog or tail /var/log/syslog or sudo tail /var/log/syslog in the terminal. https://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+system+logs There is also journalctl journalctl -h to show help or man journalctl
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Any Linux users? Is my bad experience of ubuntu just bad luck?
There are different file systems. Windows obsolete FAT16, FAT32, more modern NTFS. Linux has its own EXT, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4. Copy the data from one test flash drive to a physical drive (or use some new empty one) and try formatting it with Linux to EXT4. A brand new flash drive with a capacity of >4 GB is usually formatted to exFAT file format. Discover the file format on Windows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT Frankly speaking - I would be very concerned to see that usb flash drive worked and suddenly stopped on the same system.. you checked if on it there is still the data you uploaded and it was not corrupted (on Windows of course).. ? Every file needs to be checked.. not just list the contents of the directory, but review the data..
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Any Linux users? Is my bad experience of ubuntu just bad luck?
If anyone wants to use Linux on an Android phone/tablet, they should try Termux: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/ (skip the F-Droid installation) Direct link https://f-droid.org/repo/com.termux_1020.apk (it will take ~ 3 mins) Then: apt update apt upgrade pkg install x11-repo apt install xfce (it will be a long download 1 GB+) apt install tigervnc (or other vnc server) Configure VNC: vncserver Enter password. Enable WiFi in the phone or make a Hotspot. Check what is an IP address: ifconfig Connect to VNC via PuTTY on Windows or vncviewer from Linux. You have a graphical user interface on your smartphone Linux distro. if you want an apache server then apt install apache2 php Your phone is now the web server. If you want to connect to your Termux VNC install VNC client app from: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=vnc&lang=en This is a good one: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.gaurav.avnc Then you'll have a mouse pointer to click the Linux GUI on your Android phone You can buy USB OTG and connect USB hub and an external keyboard and mouse. The smartphone will only do as a screen. Here is how it works (but he used a crappy VNC client - it only worked in 8 bit mode):
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Any Linux users? Is my bad experience of ubuntu just bad luck?
This is a problem regardless of the operating system. When Win10 first came out, in which MS changed the driver API, rendering older drivers (and therefore hardware) useless. People ended up with useless equipment, whose manufacturers abandoned and/or went bankrupt. Therefore, people were very reluctant to update their systems. I still know companies/people who use Win7 only because their hardware is not supported by Win10+. I mostly use it that way. But I do use Kali Linux. In Windows, people are not familiar with the command line. Have you ever used the net or netsh commands? reged from the command line? Doubtful. I was told that you have to install Windows first and then Linux, not otherwise, because the Windows installer treats the Linux installation as an empty uninitialized disk and replaces everything. At least the Kali Linux distro. It depends on what you do.. Any system can cause problems. Personally, we think Ubuntu is crap.. In Linux, there is such a thing as GRUB (grand unified bootloader). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB Obviously. Don't listen to the fools.. Even in Windows, the installation flash drive should be disconnected to prevent rebooting from the flash drive.. My experience with Ubuntu is mainly through Virtual Box. I installed it in a virtual machine (VM) on Kali Linux. The only cool thing was that there were graphic editors and office suite (which I personally find completely unnecessary for me). Download VirtualBox for Windows, download Ubuntu ISO, download Kali Live ISO, install them and play with them for a while as a virtual machine to find out if they meet your needs before you throw yourself in at the deep water..
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are bees concious?
..you are alive because of the bees..
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Pro’s and Con’s of Elon Musk
He gave the children names: X Æ A-Xii (originally X Æ A-12) Exa Dark Sideræl Musk (a.k.a. Y) Techno Mechanicus (a.k.a. Tau)
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The Official JOKES SECTION :)
donald-trump.mp4 Full version: https://www.facebook.com/ianbremmer/videos/trump-chicken/2742678942412375/ or https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+house+of+wings
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If Canada becomes a US state...
..Republicans will never win again..
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are bees concious?
Self-consciousness is the ability to say that one exists by oneself. The basic test to see if someone knows they exist is to see how they react to their mirror image. Human child becomes conscious (begins to recognize himself/herself in the mirror) around age two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
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Pro’s and Con’s of Elon Musk
BTW, the chief of the Pentagon is a TV presenter.. What the f* don't you understand? ps. Keep backing up Wikipedia et al, you morons, till they re-edit them and you lose all data..
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Pro’s and Con’s of Elon Musk
Russian experiments with brain washing: https://www.google.com/search?q=russian+experiments+with+brain+washing Russian experiments with hypnosis: https://www.google.com/search?q=russian+experiments+with+hypnosis One conversation with “them” and your POTUS and MUSKUS are docile worms that crawl underfoot.. This is the past. Now there is another, alternative version from a parallel reality.. You think like a mortal human. Imagine Musk AI.. ...you think like a mortal human....
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Fog harvesting could provide water for arid cities
..except that it was in Dune.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel) Windtrap/wind catcher https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Windtrap
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Mass and curvature (split from Question about matter and space-time)
When an electron annihilates with a positron, the same amount of energy is before and after the annihilation: [math]2 m_e c^2=2 h f_c[/math] During pair-production a particle with a kinetic energy exceeding [math]2 h f_c[/math] (1.022 MeV) is needed to create an electron-positron pair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_production fc - Compton frequency me - rest mass of the electron (and positron) Your body emits antimatter all the time. When unstable isotopes of carbon C-14 and potassium P-40 decay, antineutrinos and positrons are produced.
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Can centrally planned economy work
If I do something/anything you will say that hackers hacked into your computers and your cell phones etc. etc. etc. this is a public forum so we can't just write (because everyone can see) The biggest problem that scientists don't go into politics but some incompetents with humanitarian profiles. If you are a scientist you want to discover, not to rule people and order them around! If they are all your brothers and sisters, there is no point in wasting resources on armaments and on creating weapons to kill people.. ..at the moment people who are from another street are treated like strangers.. POTUS politics etc. etc. are obliviously accelerating antagonisms.. Reducing antagonism between warring nations would be the right thing to do.
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Can centrally planned economy work
It can work. The problem is that I would have to be "The Prime Minister Of The Planet Earth", "President of the United States of Earth", aka "God Jesus", etc. etc. I have some ministers from this forum who can help me @studiot @swansont @Phi for All
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Messages to the president...
Brain in a vat, president, nice to meet you... Do you like squid shrimp and oysters?
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Messages to the president...
..except he was banned from this website in his 1st term..
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Opinions please?
Since you created this object in 3D software, there should be no problem in showing how it works, i.e., generating an animated gif and posting it on this page so we can see how it moves. The problem with such objects is that they look good in 3D, but jam when printed and attempted to be used. Do you have a 3D printer or access to one to print this in real life? Making a simple screw and a long nut for it took a full day of modeling (>8h) and 3D printing >5 versions before it worked as expected and did not stuck.. I didn't want to read books on the subject (that would have taken even longer than the experiments!).. Try making a rubik's cube in 3D. Don't use downloaded ready-made ones or dismantle the real. All the “magic” happens inside..
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Trump administration is crippling science.
POTUS complains that EU does not want to buy US food. Now reluctance will skyrocket dramatically..
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How to solve the equation?
Enter the equation in WolframAlpha, and the program will draw a graph and show alternative forms of the equation. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=+a+%3D+(Pi+-+2)%2F4+%2B+sin(a)+ It has one obvious solution (t=0) and two non-obvious solutions. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=+t%3D2sin(t)+
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Trump said "they get it [data] very easily"
There are no countries fitting this criterion. I provided a link. There’s only one country over 20% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-to-GDP_ratio