[-] Cevilia 20 points 2 years ago

According to the National Safety Council there are "too few deaths to calculate odds". (source). So, I'm pretty sure we can call the probability of two extremely-rare events happening independently in succession as near to nothing as makes no odds.

Also, modern combined units (sometimes called CVDRs) are built to withstand multiple impacts, and their storage medium is solid state. It is highly likely that, in the event of this near-impossible scenario, the recorder could be recovered again.

[-] Cevilia 21 points 2 years ago

I tried to sign up for Instagram to check it out. Here's my experience of attempting to sign up:

  • I gave my email address and date of birth.
  • I chose a password.
  • I chose a usernam--
  • Upon typing the first character of my chosen username, I saw an error message: "An error has occurred. Please refresh the page."
  • I refreshed the page.
  • "Your account has been suspended as you have breached our Community Guidelines. Please complete the information below to have the matter reviewed."
  • I gave my email address (again).
  • I checked my email and click the link they sent me.
  • I gave my phone number.
  • I checked my SMS and provide the code they sent me.
  • I was asked to take a "Verification Selfie". You have to write your name, your username, and a six-digit number they give you "on a clean piece of paper" and hold it up. Your hand and face must be visible in the photo. It's not entirely clear what they want to verify this picture against. Or what username you're supposed to use, because, again, this whole thing started when I'd typed an "a".

And at that point I realised I wasn't welcome on Instagram.

[-] Cevilia 21 points 2 years ago

People from other instances can and do use our communities and are affected by our admins' decisions. So to say they have no real stake in the matter is not entirely accurate.

That said, there are certain decisions they have no stake in, for example the debate of whether we defederate with x, y, or z.

[-] Cevilia 21 points 2 years ago

Correct.

In theory, copyright law would protect you.

In practice, this isn't always enforced across countries' borders.

If you don't want what you type online to be saved for posterity, don't type it in the first place.

[-] Cevilia 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I downloaded the Amazon app a while back. The first message that popped up with a "join prime" screen. I very nearly tapped the join button because it was the only button on the screen and I wasn't paying attention - I had to scroll to find the "maybe later" button. They seem to love their hostile UI.

[-] Cevilia 19 points 2 years ago

Each instance only needs to hold the data from communities its users are subscribed to. And images live on their host instances anyway. No instance needs to hold the entirety of Lemmy. :)

[-] Cevilia 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Boring answer: You use it to test known-good and known-defective cables and check it's behaving as expected. /srs

Presumably you would also use the cable tester tester to test known-good and known-defective cable testers and check it's behaving as expected. /joke

[-] Cevilia 20 points 2 years ago

Welcome to 196. You must be new around here, low tier memes is all we've got. Enjoy your stay. :)

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[-] Cevilia 23 points 2 years ago

You didn't ask me, but you might want to know that I just tried generating one of these and posting it in r/1GBVidsOfRandomNoise. It seems reddit compressed my beautiful 1GB video to hell:

  • Input video: 909MB
  • Video stored on Reddit's servers: 28MB
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Sorry, I had to. (slrpnk.net)
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doing my rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Update: This giveaway is now closed and keys have been distributed via DM. Enjoy!

I have three keys to give away, but I want to make it fair rather than just first-come-first-served, so, 24 hours after the time of posting (Wed 28 June, 8:39am UK time):

  • The top-level comment with the most upvotes gets a key
  • My favourite comment gets a key
  • A random commenter gets a key

Upvotes are from the perspective of my instance, and downvotes don't count. Multiple comments are permitted but won't increase your chances. Enjoy!

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submitted 2 years ago by Cevilia to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

I see a lot of hype about being able to pet dogs in video games. Why?

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The rule doesn't say posts have to be images, so have this thing I wrote in a text file a couple of years ago and never got around to redrafting.

A: When it comes to downloading the entire internet, there are problems.

For the sake of argument, let's define "the internet" as "the surface web". Y'know, what our parents think of as "the internet". It turns out we'll face some extra problems if we define it as "everything stored on every computer currently connected to the internet", namely how to find it all, so let's just go with the surface web because this is pretty intuitive, and it sounds like it's do-able. Right?

The first problem is disk space. To do a right-click "Save as" on the whole internet, you're gonna need somewhere to store it. You can use zfs to squash it all down, remove redundant data, that sort of thing, but ultimately, you're going to need a lot of disk space. My first computer had no hard drive. My second computer had a 720MB hard drive. My current computer has about 20TB, which is a lot. But on the grand scale of things, that's not even enough to download all of Google, and Google is just one website. [citation needed]

Let's say, just so we can get past this problem, that you don't care about storing it. You just want to download it for the sake of downloading it, and you'll be satisfied if all the ones and zeros come down the wire at some point. Suddenly the first problem goes away and this ultimately-pointless task becomes even more pointless because, at the end of it, you won't possess the entire internet.

The second problem is Cloudflare. Cloudflare is a big problem. It also will hinder your downloading ambitions. It turns out they "protect" [citation needed] about 20% of all websites, and try to prevent users from doing things like automated browsing, or DDOS attacks, or using screen readers, or downloading the entire internet. You would need to solve Cloudflare. And that's very difficult: after all, if it were easy, Cloudflare would be circumvented on a regular basis, which would mean Cloudflare is little more than a protection racket with bad PR. And I would never, ever, ever, accuse Cloudflare of being a protection racket, because I don't want to wake up with a server's head in my bed. There are also smaller competitors to Cloudflare, some of which will pose you a real challenge.

But let's assume you've circumvented Cloudflare, along with its smaller competitors. Now, it's finally possible to start the download. There isn't a button you can click that says "download the internet" so you'll need to install a specialised tool. HTTrack is one such tool, it's what's called a "web crawler", it'll visit a web site, intelligently follow links, and store everything it sees in a form you can browse on your computer. You'll need to get it to not do the last bit, because you don't care about storing, you just want it to be downloaded. You also need to tell it what, specifically, you want it to download - "the whole internet" isn't a default option for some bizarre reason - but as you've got this far, a complete list of currently registered domain names should be trivial for you to obtain by comparison. Feed that list into HTTrack, sit back, and watch the bits flow.

The first thing you'll notice is that you're going to be watching it for quite a while. Even if you have a 10 gigabit connection, your peak transfer rate will be 1.25GB per second. In optimal circumstances, a terabyte would take you a little over two hours, so you'd be looking at a theoretical maximum on the order of 10TB per day. But even leaving aside things like delays in getting responses, you can bet a lot of websites won't let you download at anywhere near that speed.

In fact, it turns out we've finally reached a problem that we can't solve, or even handwave away - the march of time. The internet is constantly changing, with information being added and deleted at breakneck speed. The English Wikipedia alone receives roughly 2 edits per second. So, every time you're close to finished, you'll find you still have more to do, and because HTTrack is dutifully following every link it encounters, the task of downloading the internet is one that it will never be able to complete.

Therefore, it is not possible to download the entire internet. Sorry.

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Tommy Rule-sau (self.196)
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I'm on the way to Aldi (self.ukcasual)
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Anyone want anything?

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Hello (& Second!) (self.howdy)
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Hi, I'm Cevilia, or Cev, or Lia, or "Oi You!". You may use she, they, or any pronoun to refer to me.

I’m from the UK. I'm 38 and becoming less certain of my gender with each passing day.

I enjoy gaming, chatting, hanging out, and finding out I'm wrong - after all, it's the best way to learn new things! :)

[-] Cevilia 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fitgirl's repacks already contain the necessary files. These steps are unnecessary. There are also alternative ways of sourcing the files. :)

[-] Cevilia 23 points 2 years ago

Question: Would sexy pirate pictures of his fursona, John Ottiver, count?

[-] Cevilia 19 points 2 years ago

I'm not from Germany and not a lawyer so take this with a pinch of salt, but they wouldn't be offering a settlement at such an early stage if they were confident they could successfully sue you. If it were me, I'd ignore them, and if it gets to the point I can no longer ignore them, I'd deny deny deny.

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