korfuri

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[–] korfuri 1 points 9 months ago

The main issue is that the length of a day is not actually constant. Leap second occur (in either direction) which mean that a day is sometimes one second shorter or longer. Timezones and DST also can make a day a whole hour longer or shorter.

Seconds are a unit for physical measurement. They're always the same length. Minutes, days, weeks, months, years, etc are imprecise shortcuts that are convenient for our society but this convenience sometimes comes at the price of being bonkers units from the physics standpoint.

[–] korfuri 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Les auteurs ont donné une conférence au CCC il y a une dizaine de jours : https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains

La conférence est également traduite en français.

[–] korfuri 1 points 10 months ago

It's worth noting that in Italy, police communications are encrypted (they use TETRA radios, like most police forces in Europe). I'm not saying it can't help prevent this, but when weighing the cost and benefits of encryption for police radios, we should take into account that this benefit is not absolute.

[–] korfuri 11 points 11 months ago

I don't think it's accurate to call the barrier between a streamer and their audience "the fourth wall". The fourth wall is a concept that exists in theater, and then more largely in fiction, where characters exist in a world where they do not know that they're characters in a story. And the fourth wall breaks when they realize that they are.

If "chat" breaks the fourth wall, then self-help books that use "you" are too, or news anchors addressing their viewers, or politicians saying "my fellow countrymen" in a broadcast address.

[–] korfuri 5 points 11 months ago

As much as I'm careful about Google keeping my data, I have to recognize that this has helped a friend tremendously. He was separated from his ex, she had left with their daughter, and he was trying to get split custody. She testified he was a deadbeat dad, and she put it in writing that he had never been to pick up their daughter at school, never taken her to her regular weekend club activities, etc.

He reached out to me asking if his location history could help prove she was full of shit. It took me an hour or so to figure out the right way to process the data, but then I was able to give him a detailed list of dates and times he had been to his daughter's school, poney club, etc. His lawyer attached that to their rebuttal. I like to think it made a significant difference. He did get joint custody in the end.

[–] korfuri 1 points 1 year ago

I self host something similar - a minitel server.

[–] korfuri 5 points 1 year ago

You don't need a B license but you need a motorcycling/small engine vehicle license (BSR) like for a scooter, at least. I do wish the bar was a little higher though.

[–] korfuri 9 points 1 year ago

To be fair, the level of support for packages in nixpkgs is inconsistent. My config has a number of backported packages overlaid on top of nixpkgs where upstream is not up to date enough for me.

[–] korfuri 2 points 1 year ago

One possible source of inspiration would be the Zanclean flood, where the Mediterranean suddenly got connected to the Atlantic ocean and filled up quickly. Plate tectonics are cool in that way that they happen very slowly but some of their effects are extremely sudden.

xkcd.com/time is an interesting story about this event

[–] korfuri 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How should people refer to you in the third person? It's okay to use one's name as the preferred pronoun.

[–] korfuri 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That's common misinformation you've heard. Sure, the global footprint of cargo ships is very high. But if you look at the CO2 per ton-kilometer, even the dirty ships are 20-30x more efficient than brand new airplanes.

Ships emit a lot globally because they carry an insane amount of cargo around. There's just no way whatsoever to carry as much on planes.

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