I recently watched Shadow of the Vampire, which asked the question "What if Max Shreck was a real vampire during the filming of Nosferatu (1922)?"
An interesting premise, but it really bothered me that Shadow of the Vampire pretended that all of Shreck's scenes were filmed at night. When you watch Nosferatu's "nighttime" scenes with Count Orlock, you can clearly see him casting a daylight shadow. Afterwards, they tinted the scenes blue to simulate moonlight.
Not sure what your living situation is, but if you have the space for a grill, you can get an outdoor wok stand + propane burner for not a lot of money.
It’s just random people coming with alcohol and having fun. Doesn’t this exist in America?
I've seen it in a few places.
Eg: Yesterday I was boating on a river and passed a dock packed full of young people doing all that stuff.
Keep in mind that the drinking age is different between Germany and USA. Teenagers will get in trouble for public drinking, so they tend to do it in secret.
SRE:
- Receives a slack message that lighbulb is broken
- Realizes that they never got an alert when the light went out
- Fixes their monitoring thresholds
- Routes all broken lightbulb alerts to a slack channel nobody reads
Apparently in this context bear baiting means hunting a bear by leaving bait, not tying a bear up and betting on how many attack dogs it can kill before dying.
If you have some really flavorful dried mushrooms, save the water you used for rehydration. Makes a great soup stock.
Rehydrated or fresh, I think most people undercook their mushrooms. Even bland supermarlet cremini/portobello is greatly improved by pan frying until it gets slightly crispy and seared.
>If espresso is Italian for fast, why does it take me so long to pull a perfect shot? Checkmate coffee
\-Turning point Hoffman
I'm talking end-to-end from "Hmm, maybe it's time for an espresso" to when your beverage is ready to drink. All setup/pull/milk steaming time included.
I have a basic machine with no boiler, so heat up time is negligible. I'd say it's about 5 minutes for me to unpack my equipment, prep a puck, and pull a shot. Add maybe 2 minutes for each additional shot that's pulled consecutively. I don't tend to make milk drinks, so there's no extra time spent.
This assumes that I've already dialed in the grind.
I'm interested in starting a game of Paranoia for some friends. This would be the latest edition. I've never run this game before, and I see plenty of online discourse about how to stoke intrigue and backstabbing betteen PCs. What has confused me when reading about the game (Core book, but also online comments) is how the GM is encouraged to mix in-game and out-of-game actions/consequences. Eg: In the rulebook, it gives an example of the GM removing XP from a PC because their player IRL asked a question that in-game would be considered treason. Opposite examples would be when a PC has to fill out a crazy requisition form to get their equipment, so the GM prints out a sheet and makes the player fill it out under a time constraint.
I've always enjoyed games where the skills/knowledge of players IRL is not reflected in-game. I always felt that if your character is a world-class orator, then the ability of a player to RP that oration should be inconsequential (except for fun, obviously) to what happens in the game.
I would consider my players trustworthy. I can be reasonably sure they're more interested in a good story than rules lawyering or metagaming. Can I run a Paranoia game according to these principles, or should I look at another system?
I do that for data I want to persist, but which I don't care about backing up (eg caches)
I can outsource things like ddos protection to my cdn provider, but that would still be just kinda hoping I didn’t have any attackable surface I didn’t think of prelaunch.
In that case, I wonder if your money would be better spent on contracting a security review. If you're worried about unknown attack surface, I'm not sure that funding organized crime to rent a botnet would help. Botnet operators rely on you to tell them what to attack, so you're unlikely to discover anything new here. Better to hire a professional and get a fresh opinion.
Is this something you're self hosting for fun, or is it some kind of business?
If you're running web services for a business, you should look into existing load test tooling/infrastructure. Some of it can be fully managed, or other solutions might have a degree of setup involved (eg spinning up worker nodes in AWS or whatever). The hard part is designing your load test to match IRL traffic patterns, but once you have that down you can confidently answer questions about service scalability.
A load test is not a DDoS test. Load tests tell you how much legitimate traffic your services can take. DDoS consists of illegitimate traffic which may not correspond to what your web services expect.
Usually you don't test your systems for something like a DDoS. You would instead set up DDoS protection through a CDN (content delivery network) to shield yourself and let someone else handle the logistics of blocking unwanted load. It's a really hard problem to solve.
Depending on what you want to learn, running your own DDoS is unlikely to be very instructive. Most "DDoS as a service" networks are not going to tell their customers how anything works, they just take your bitcoin and send some traffic where you tell them.
This paragraph suggests that making a profit was intended to be easy.
As seen in Figure 3, Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperformed the human baseline in mean performance, but its variance was very high. We only have a single sample for the human baseline and therefore cannot compare variances. However, there are qualitative reasons to expect that human variance would be much lower. All models had runs where they went bankrupt. When questioned, the human stated that they estimated this would be very unlikely to happen to them, regardless of the number of samples.
Maybe they once read the thing and got an answer, but now they forget what the specific answer was.
This happens to me often with technical documentation or history books.
This makes me realize that I want desk toy which is metallic, heavy and has a satisfying mechanical action, but which does not resemble a firearm in appearance or function. Basically all the tactile experience of playing with a revolver, but none of the legal or emotional baggage.
Without any context of when these substitutions are acceptable, this graphic doesn't seem very useful. Fucking agar vs applesauce is not 1:1
I love how legendary producer/musician Brian Eno is reduced to "the Win 95 chime guy"
Small blessings. Seeing a WSL user means that some dev out there didn't have to implement Windows support.
What's this device (circled in blue) that's attached to my furnace? It recently got replaced and I forgot what the HVAC technician called it, or what its function is.
I do rember that they said to put some vinegar in the U-bend (circled in red) once or twice a year. I forgot to ask why this is necessary, but I'd guess that it tends to collect moisture, and the vinegar will prevent mold?
Crypto influencers like Rektober and Sifu are actively losing users’ money via hedge fund-like HyperLiquid vaults.
I want a private place where I can talk to specific people.
I'd imagine I want something like:
- By default, nobody can register a new account on my server
- By default, nobody can view or join the rooms on my server
- If a friend has an account on a different matrix server, I can invite them to mine
I probably want some kind of federation with other instances (eg, where my friends might register their accounts), but not some free-for-all. Can someone recommend the right settings? The server is running synapse.
In media, there are sometimes stories where a person is cloned/duplicated (usually with identical memories) and the clone is murderous towards the original. Usually it's something like "I knew there could be only one of us, and you would do the same". Sometimes, they're able to work things out and can share a single public identity, or duplication gives one copy a chance to do go off and live a new life that they always wanted.
How would you and your duplicate get along? Assume you are living like you do today, in a society where duplication is unheard of and has no legal precedent.
Preface: This thread is less about asking for reasons to stay/go, and more of an attempt to not feel alone.
We have the means and opportunity to leave the United States in the near future. As much as we don't want to upturn our lives, we also want to live free.
Reasons to go:
- We are not confident that the current political order will do anything but make life worse for trans people
- We are not confident that any political order in the next few elections would try and help trans people
- Living in the USA with documents that don't match gender identity is a red line for us
- It's clear that the USA has been like this for some time. It just happens to be our turn
Reasons to stay:
- We live in a safe area of a "safe for now" state (Counter-counter: for now)
- We recently settled down here, thinking it would be for the rest of our lives (Counter-counter: It's "just" material stuff)
- We have queer friends whom we'd be leaving behind
- Why should we disappear from our homeland without a fight? (Counter-counter: What kind of fight do we have the physical/mental energy to put up?)
- The places to which we can escape could just as easily turn against us
Has anyone else been wrestling with this? Most of our queer friends do not have the means to consider flight like we do. Additionally, our non-queer friends who would have the means don't see the same danger signs that we do. It just doesn't seem like we have anyone to talk to about this.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/31696866
> I am a cisgender man with dual citizenship between the USA and the UK. My husband is a transgender man who does not have UK citizenship. > > As part of our threat modeling, we are developing a shortlist of nations where we would migrate if things get rough. The UK, while being on a worrisome trend line with regards ro trans rights, made the list because it would be relatively simple for us to move and work there with my citizenship already sorted. > > Could any UK trans people help us to understand the GRC? My husband has fully transitioned with respect to his US documentation. When we married, he was also a man. Since all his documents match, could he get by without a GRC, or would he be forced through the humiliation of immigrating as his birth-sex and then acquiring a GRC once we moved? Would a GRC be necessary to receive basic healthcare and/or hormones?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/31696866
> I am a cisgender man with dual citizenship between the USA and the UK. My husband is a transgender man who does not have UK citizenship. > > As part of our threat modeling, we are developing a shortlist of nations where we would migrate if things get rough. The UK, while being on a worrisome trend line with regards ro trans rights, made the list because it would be relatively simple for us to move and work there with my citizenship already sorted. > > Could any UK trans people help us to understand the GRC? My husband has fully transitioned with respect to his US documentation. When we married, he was also a man. Since all his documents match, could he get by without a GRC, or would he be forced through the humiliation of immigrating as his birth-sex and then acquiring a GRC once we moved? Would a GRC be necessary to receive basic healthcare and/or hormones?
I am a cisgender man with dual citizenship between the USA and the UK. My husband is a transgender man who does not have UK citizenship.
As part of our threat modeling, we are developing a shortlist of nations where we would migrate if things get rough. The UK, while being on a worrisome trend line with regards ro trans rights, made the list because it would be relatively simple for us to move and work there with my citizenship already sorted.
Could any UK trans people help us to understand the GRC? My husband has fully transitioned with respect to his US documentation. When we married, he was also a man. Since all his documents match, could he get by without a GRC, or would he be forced through the humiliation of immigrating as his birth-sex and then acquiring a GRC once we moved? Would a GRC be necessary to receive basic healthcare and/or hormones?