Lichtblitz

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[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 hours ago

This is not a celebration. It's a desperate search for any light in a room filled with darkness.

On topic YouTube video by a rather popular German Comedian:

Germany's Far-Right Comeback | NYT Opinion

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's what containers are for. Fucking up the container won't fuck up the host. That was the best decision in self hosting I've done. Even that one virtual machine feels weird and uncomfortably legacy now but it needs to interact with hardware in a certain way that just won't fully work with docker.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Look out for an option to receive all data they have stored on you. It might take a few days until they have your collection ready but you will receive a nice machine readable data set of what you've watched. It may require some post-processing depending on how crappy their internal data model is. Did this for Netflix and the result was very workable.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Fascinating. That's much more than I expected. Thanks for taking the time.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The image doesn't look like a photo. The meme is about porn. Digital images can contain large areas of repeating patterns (uniform color areas for example) that can be compressed losslessly pretty well. Even slight noise from an image sensor can block that kind of compression.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

You're right. png can be lossy but that's uncommon in the wild.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

bmp should not compress more than other media files. jpeg, png, etc. can compress so much because they are lossy

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

Python doesn't have to. Windows supports both out of the box. Has been for many, many years

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No. Because the python version of the host and the target server must loosely match up. Otherwise you get some cryptic error messages in some unexpected modules. Red Hat's solution: just manage RHEL 9 targets from RHEL9 hosts and RHEL8 from RHEL8 hosts. There is no official way to align python versions across that major.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IBM owns Red Hat.

 

With Wayland becoming more and more popular, it's interesting to look at the around 40 year history of X.

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