It really is the quiet part out loud era isn’t it

Thank you!

Piggybacking to ask if anyone knows of any external HDD that is SATA internally so I can take it apart and shove it into my system. The price difference is insane right now

I mean, if it makes good contact and is not moving it is not going to affect audio quality any more than an equivalent length of extra cable would’ve

Where are the sources to back that up though? (Talking about the article, not you. Although if you could provide some historian’s assessment I would be interested)

I imagine not the uniqueness, but simply the aggregation was its most attractive attribute at the time. Knowing another copy exists somewhere across Europe isn’t really helpful if you had to travel months to retrieve it. Everything was there, ready to be consulted.

The arson is, as far as I know, an event that has been continuously recalled and depicted throughout history and, while it has most likely been romanticised at least a little bit, I struggle to believe it’s a myth. Both the library and the fire are important symbols, especially in a time where we are seeing similar attacks on freely available knowledge

I recently was on the Wikipedia article for the library of Alexandria, and it seems the English version doesn’t really talk about the fire (anymore), only saying things like

“The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is unclear how much was actually destroyed and it seems to have either survived or been rebuilt shortly thereafter.”

And

Between 270 and 275 AD, Alexandria saw a Palmyrene invasion and an imperial counterattack that probably destroyed whatever remained of the Library, if it still existed.

With no sources, instead painting it as naturally losing influence over time.

What’s up with that?

In a world of homebrew 3D printers and CNC machines, it’s kinda weird there never was a similar option for a regular printer.

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It’s better to be on a server that is encrypted but not E2E if the admin is someone that is well intentioned and abides by the sudo oath, than on a corporate “E2E” platform where they manage your keys themselves

1592.36 Vh

Microsoft owns cubes and birches, didn’t you know?

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We hadn’t discovered The Funk yet

Any reason to pick that over netcat though?

Yeah, but this type of machine learning and diffusion models used in image genAI are almost completely disjoint

So, some of them believe they have the authority to use their siren and act like Italian police, almost causing an incident in the process.

I’m sure everything will turn out well.

I recently started playing Jak and Daxter II again (emulated), for the nostalgia. It’s pretty much as great as I remember it but the inverted x-axis on the camera is making me go nuts

Side question: does anyone know if manufacturers rely on entropy to get the required randomness or if they “enforce” patterns by selecting and directing pins?

Right tools and skills, which is an important part. Just buying the appropriate pick won’t magically make you able to open a disc detainer lock, but sure, wafer pins locks can literally be opened by randomly sticking a paperclip in it and using a tensioner.

GDPR should give you the right, but I’m not sure if they have a button you can click or if you need to email them about it