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Comment on Are we witnessing the takeover of a country right now? in ~society
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Comment on Screen Time on iOS shows "verizon.com" as an app being used 24/7, and I don't even know what "verizon.com" is in ~tech
heh LinkIt's some sort of persistent connection to verizon.com that ended up on your phone. You visited some site that has a tracking/marketing agreement to use verizon tracking cookies, and something got...Does anyone have any idea what this means or why this would happen?
It's some sort of persistent connection to verizon.com that ended up on your phone. You visited some site that has a tracking/marketing agreement to use verizon tracking cookies, and something got out of control in some way. Just clear all browsing history and reboot the phone.
Use an adblocker, don't install any sketchy apps, don't say anything nasty about a dictator, and it's extremely unlikely that you'll get hacked.
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Comment on Are we witnessing the takeover of a country right now? in ~society
heh LinkOverall, so far, about a month in, I would say yes it is heading in the direction of Trump completely taking over the country forever.Overall, so far, about a month in,
I would say yes
it is heading in the direction of Trump completely taking over the country forever.
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Comment on What are your favourite time-loop based books, movies and video games? in ~talk
heh Link ParentI watched Primer years ago and I was confused. I looked for an explanation online, and I found a diagram of the timelines with twenty zig-zagging lines, and I said to myself yeah.. no thanks.....I watched Primer years ago and I was confused. I looked for an explanation online, and I found a diagram of the timelines with twenty zig-zagging lines, and I said to myself yeah.. no thanks..
Similar to Tenet, at one point I wanted to figure it all out, I was ready for multiple rewatches and taking notes and reading forums, and then I just let it all go and moved on. No regrets.
I don't think a movie needs to spoon feed everything, but I also think some movies go a bit overboard on the confuse-o-meter.
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Comment on reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profits in ~tech
heh (edited )LinkThe google CAPTCHA with nine different images, and I click on the four images of a bike or a crosswalk. Ok, no problem. But the CAPTCHAs that have a big picture of a bicycle, and it says "select...The google CAPTCHA with nine different images, and I click on the four images of a bike or a crosswalk. Ok, no problem.
But the CAPTCHAs that have a big picture of a bicycle, and it says "select all squares that contain part of a bicycle" and there's one square with a tiny little piece of a wheel in it, and I'm not sure if should click on that square,
I have trouble getting past those ones, I usually just bail and go to duckduckgo.
I'm editing my post 1 day and 3 hours later.
I admit I skimmed the article yesterday, and didn't really absorb what it was trying to say. Today I watched the linked YouTube video and I have a clearer understanding.
Essentially - CAPTCHAs are no longer about preventing bots. CAPTCHAs are all about collecting data and identifying users. To do the google CAPTCHA thing, is to willingly participate in data collection.
I'm going to quit using google, and instead use duckduckgo and startpage.com.
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Comment on US indoor marijuana grow operations are consuming a staggering amount of energy in ~enviro
heh LinkOne other consequence of the corporatization of weed is the amount of plastic waste. Years ago, you would meet a guy in a parking lot and he handed you a lil baggie. Now, one gram of weed comes in...One other consequence of the corporatization of weed is the amount of plastic waste. Years ago, you would meet a guy in a parking lot and he handed you a lil baggie. Now, one gram of weed comes in a solid plastic container that won't get recycled. Mountains of plastic into the landfill each year.
It's a drop in an ocean of global plastic waste, but still, it sort of goes against the whole weed culture ethos.
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Are we witnessing the takeover of a country right now?
Foreign money and tech billionaires have bought control of the US government, they're looting the system and weakening it, and then they're going to crash it so they can install a new system that...
Foreign money and tech billionaires have bought control of the US government, they're looting the system and weakening it, and then they're going to crash it so they can install a new system that they can better control.
Prove me wrong?
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Comment on I just turned 29 last month, what are some things I should be thinking about before my 30s? in ~talk
heh LinkKeep your mouth in good shape. Get a sonicare toothbrush, buy some decent toothpaste, and floss every day or two. Buy some floss-picks if you don't like using the stringy floss. Take a few minutes...Keep your mouth in good shape.
Get a sonicare toothbrush, buy some decent toothpaste, and floss every day or two. Buy some floss-picks if you don't like using the stringy floss. Take a few minutes to watch a YouTube video on proper sonicare operation, and proper flossing technique.
Your 50 year old mouth (and wallet) will thank you.
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Comment on What are some accidental life hacks you've stumbled into? in ~talk
heh LinkI found my most impactful lifehack of the last few years in a tildes post - a book called “stop reading the news” by Rolf dobelli. It got me to clearly see the time I was wasting and the damage...I found my most impactful lifehack of the last few years in a tildes post - a book called “stop reading the news” by Rolf dobelli.
It got me to clearly see the time I was wasting and the damage that I was doing by reading the news. I now have a lot more time, my Internet usage is much more focused and necessary, I’m happier overall and sleeping better etc. Honestly a life changing book.
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Comment on Christopher Nolan’s next film is an adaptation of Homer’s ‘The Odyssey,’ Universal reveals in ~movies
heh LinkThis sounds great and I'll go watch it in the theatre and all of that. But it's a little too on-the-nose for Nolan. A historical epic with all the familiar faces. yawn. I'd like to see Nolan make...This sounds great and I'll go watch it in the theatre and all of that. But it's a little too on-the-nose for Nolan. A historical epic with all the familiar faces. yawn.
I'd like to see Nolan make a horror movie. Like Kubrick did with The Shining. Something unexpected and out of left field for him, something unique and smart and subtle. A serial killer fungus or a malfunctioning time machine.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~society
heh LinkI saw a comment somewhere that rich assh*les like Bezos and Musk want Trump to win because Trump will burn the country down (on purpose or by accident, not sure..) and then the billionaires can...I saw a comment somewhere that rich assh*les like Bezos and Musk want Trump to win because Trump will burn the country down (on purpose or by accident, not sure..) and then the billionaires can swoop in and buy assets for pennies on the dollar.
It's gross, to wish for the destruction of millions of lives so billionaires can make more money, but at least I can understand the reasoning behind it, I think that would be the only reason to vote for Trump that I can make any sense of.
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Comment on I quit teaching because of ChatGPT in ~creative
heh LinkI agree with this statement but would go further in saying that writing can be equal to thinking. I'll often have some vague thing in the back of my mind. Pleasant or unpleasant. I can think about...writing ... is “not the transcription of thoughts already consciously present in [the writer’s] mind.” Rather, writing is a process closely tied to thinking.
I agree with this statement but would go further in saying that writing can be equal to thinking.
I'll often have some vague thing in the back of my mind. Pleasant or unpleasant. I can think about it and mull it over and try to pin it down for a long time, but it's still vague and untouchable.
I can only figure out what is really going on by typing it out. Just start typing. Then it becomes a fully-formed thought that I'm aware of and I can now judge it or react to it or whatever.
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Comment on Can you help me figure out why my VM is growing? in ~tech
heh Link ParentHi, replying to you and to @ShamedSalmon fstrim and then reclaiming space worked, not completely, it seems like there's still about a gig in there somewhere but it did shrink things down from...Hi, replying to you and to @ShamedSalmon
fstrim and then reclaiming space worked, not completely, it seems like there's still about a gig in there somewhere but it did shrink things down from about 9Gb to 7.25GB. So this seems like a solution.
recap for anybody finding this thread in the future:
- inside the VM, run from the command line
sudo fstrim -av - shut down the VM, and in UTM select the VM's settings (it's the three bars icon at the top right) and then select VirtIO Drive in the pane at the left, and click "reclaim space".
Thanks very much, you've saved me mucho frustration.
- inside the VM, run from the command line
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Comment on Can you help me figure out why my VM is growing? in ~tech
heh Link ParentI ran fstrim -av and got this: /boot/efi: 505.9 MiB (530456576 bytes) trimmed on /dev/vda1 /: 14.6 GiB (15626035200 bytes) trimmed on /dev/vda2 I restarted the VM and ran fstrim -av again, and got...I ran
fstrim -avand got this:/boot/efi: 505.9 MiB (530456576 bytes) trimmed on /dev/vda1
/: 14.6 GiB (15626035200 bytes) trimmed on /dev/vda2I restarted the VM and ran
fstrim -avagain, and got basically the same output:/boot/efi: 505.9 MiB (530456576 bytes) trimmed on /dev/vda1
/: 14.5 GiB (15610728448 bytes) trimmed on /dev/vda2The size of the VM, as seen in macOS Finder, is the same. And the results of
ncduinside the VM are the same.This isn't a huge deal, I don't want to spend hours on it, I may a) live with it, b) try VMware fusion, or c) make an account and post the issue on GitHub, where there's a UTM section.
Thanks again,
(If I end up finding the answer, I'll update this thread so someone searching for this issue will find resolution. If I give up and this thread is never updated, then to ye poor souls in the future looking for answers.. sorry, you're on your own.)
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Comment on Can you help me figure out why my VM is growing? in ~tech
heh Link ParentHi, that's correct, the VM was provisioned with 20GB of space. The issue is that, (I didn't include this info in my original post to try to keep things simple) last month a VM with the same...Hi, that's correct, the VM was provisioned with 20GB of space.
The issue is that, (I didn't include this info in my original post to try to keep things simple) last month a VM with the same configuration (Debian 11, same settings and programs installed, etc.) gradually filled up to around 20GB and then some programs stopped working properly. For example, a screen capture software (kazam) wouldn't work, wouldn't save anything to disk.
I had to, or chose to, delete the whole VM and start from scratch. So this time, I created the VM and set it up the way I wanted to, and then saved a clean backup_copy_Debian.utm file, so that if the current VM disk fills up again I can delete the current VM and just copy over the backup VM, and I'll be ok for another few months until that one fills up.
so, worst case, that's what I'll do, but I'd rather figure out what's going on.
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Can you help me figure out why my VM is growing?
I have an M1 MacBook Air. I use UTM to run a Debian 11 virtual machine. After the initial setup, updating and upgrading, installing Firefox and a few small programs, (I almost called them apps,...
I have an M1 MacBook Air. I use UTM to run a Debian 11 virtual machine.
After the initial setup, updating and upgrading, installing Firefox and a few small programs, (I almost called them apps, d'oh), the Debian.utm file size was about 6GB. Now, less than a month later, it's almost 9GB.
The VM size increases after each use. I haven't downloaded or installed anything close to 3GB worth. I have downloaded files, then put them into the trash and emptied the trash, could the trash not be emptying properly?
I have run ncdu, but nothing stands out. When I drill down into /usr and into each large folder, no sub folder is larger than a few 100MB. I can't see any big files lurking.
I've googled using many search terms, but I can't get past results that are about how to increase the size of a VM that is running out of room.
Thanks very much for reading this, any ideas?
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Comment on US President Joe Biden reportedly more open to calls for him to step aside as candidate in ~society
heh LinkWhat a disaster. Democratic Party shenanigans booted Bernie Sanders and installed Hillary Clinton, thus gifting the presidency to Trump in 2016. Democratic Party shenanigans prevented the public...What a disaster.
Democratic Party shenanigans booted Bernie Sanders and installed Hillary Clinton, thus gifting the presidency to Trump in 2016.
Democratic Party shenanigans prevented the public from seeing the reality of Biden's old-fogeyness until it might be too late to do anything about it, thus gifting to Trump the presidency in 2024.
And the world will suffer for it. I hope I'm wrong.
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Comment on Making tough decisions: what’s your go-to approach? in ~talk
heh LinkI think deep down you usually know what the answer is, you know what you want to do, but your overanalyzing prevents the answer from being able to present itself. I'll sometimes just flip a coin,...I think deep down you usually know what the answer is, you know what you want to do, but your overanalyzing prevents the answer from being able to present itself.
I'll sometimes just flip a coin, and just before I look to see how it landed, how I really feel about the question is revealed. A split-second feeling bubbles up from my subconscious that says basically "I hope it's x".
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~society
heh Link ParentYeah but that was four years ago. I hope you’re right but Biden’s decline seems to have steepened recently.Yeah but that was four years ago. I hope you’re right but Biden’s decline seems to have steepened recently.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~society
heh LinkI don’t know. Biden sounds pretty bad sometimes, and as crazy and nonsensical as Trump is, I think Trump would bully Biden in a debate and make him sound weak and senile. This article came out...I don’t know. Biden sounds pretty bad sometimes, and as crazy and nonsensical as Trump is, I think Trump would bully Biden in a debate and make him sound weak and senile.
This article came out today, it is worrying,
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7109811
if Biden has a “senior moment” at the wrong time it could be a disaster, a deciding factor for a lot of people who think Biden is slipping.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democracy-report-1.7486317
At this point, I would bet that the US will not hold another free election.
Until, years from now, there’s some sort of armed insurrection and US Emperor Barron Trump is overthrown.