Also it came out right at the time when 3D movies were at their (very short lived) peak.

And it did a GREAT job using that tech. I’ve never seen better.

The movie is a visual masterpiece and a king of theater-watching cinema.

Sure the story is bland but ain’t nobody watching that movie for the story.

Yeah, that’s why PPE is always the last line of defense after other mitigating measures. In my industry though it’s often the best you can get due to the way the work goes so we have a bunch of old people with hearing loss.

Shooting guns is LOUD. For a recreational hobby it’s good to remove as many barriers to hearing loss as possible, so the US’s stigma against cans should change.

It’s mostly movies representing suppressors as assassin toolkit “silencers” coupled with a lack of education and the ridiculous cost and acquisition hassle for a piece of PPE.

USA has guns, like it or not. We should be encouraging education and the safest use possible every chance we can.

Ya got me, I’m super into recycling over here

That’s why all three (plugs, over the ears, and a suppressor) should be used in conjunction for best results.

General industry standards that I’m used to are as follows:

-sustained noise over 84dB should use plugs/muffs

-sustained noise over 104dB should use both plugs and muffs

-peak noise over 140dB should use both plugs and muffs, regardless of average sustained noise dB. If sustained noise is over 84 then start using additional mitigation measures such as sound dampeners, barriers, distance from noise generating object, etc.

That being said, if a suppressor brings peak noise down to ~135dB you should STILL be using double ear protection. But it’s way better than bringing it down from 170dB.

What’s wrong with Alaska?

I mean, the model was first developed in the 70s so maybe not that specific guy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_cosmology

I loved the Logitech G700 (discontinued)

I loved the Logitech G602 (discontinued)

Both had the left click button start to die after a few years. Logitech is known for this being a common failure point which SUCKS because they have the best (IMO) mice that are wired/wireless, rechargeable/replaceable batteries, and accessible thumb buttons without having 20 on the side for a “gaming” mouse.

I tried the G502 but returned it because of crappy button placement. Also hate having a mouse that looks like it should be in one of the Tron movies

I just want ~4-6 buttons on the side for my thumb that I use for media controls, forward/back, etc. It’s REALLY hard to find that - usually it’s 2 buttons or like 30.

Right now I’m using the Redragon M811 PRO and like it. Feels a bit cheaper build quality but not fragile. It’s much bigger than previous mice I’ve had which is actually a good thing for me, because I have big hands and didn’t realize it would be more comfortable. I don’t like the number of buttons on the side (a lot) but overall it’s good for my needs and I won’t feel like a chump if it breaks in a couple years, unlike how I feel like with the Logitech ones that are way too expensive to have such a well documented problem with switches wearing out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA

Edit: and the original source for those that are scratching their heads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI

No idea about the creator.

I think it’s pretty well established through empirical observation that the universe is expanding, based on all our current understanding of the universe. We don’t know WHY, and we don’t understand how, but it’s not really under debate at this point as a fact.

What happens inside a black hole is entirely and utterly unknown, and it’s such a crazy mind bending concept that anything we theorize is as close to informed speculation as you might get.

I’d heavily take with a grain of salt anything that replaces something we know as well as you can observe with a theory that goes something like “well maybe we’re inside a black hole.”

I am not a mathematician so I am not able to well explain this concept, but there are different sizes infinities. “Infinity” is not one thing.

But there are infinite sets that contain infinite sets, so therefore there are infinities that are larger than other infinities.

It is possible that the infinite universe is expanding into another, larger, infinite space.

Or really anything is possible, we don’t know.

Numberphile has a pretty good video on different sized infinities. Newpipe is bugging out lately so I can’t dig up the video but if you’re interested you should be able to find it easily enough

I want to love FUTO keyboard but the swiping is SO bad. I gave up on it after a few weeks. Thought my thumb would learn but it was just too much.

Want to give it some time to ripen on the vine and hopefully improve in that area. Sad to hear it hasn’t changed since I put it down (probably around last August)

A radically different keyboard is thumb-key, available on F-Droid.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.dessalines.thumbkey

I couldn’t stick with it long enough to develop the muscle memory but I see how it can be super good if you get quick with it. It’s VERY different. Designed specifically for thumb only typing, throws out QWERTY layout entirely, which was designed for two hands with 10 fingers to use effectively and has been ported over to a different device only due to familiarity amongst users, not because QWERTY is actually GOOD for devices that you text with one or two thumbs.

I encourage people to check it out. Privacy focused, designed for a single thumb and doesn’t rely on complex evaluation of swipe pattern recognition in order to be efficient. But you have to really force yourself to use it and I just didn’t have the discipline to beat the learning curve.

Bad password security is a human problem (can be back end bad practices also, but mostly human) whereas only using one auth factor is a security design problem. Again, MFA bad, single auth not good (but sometimes sufficient)

Also many people aren’t comfortable with auth apps yet and way less are comfortable with hardware tokens.

Passwords, while often implemented poorly by humans, aren’t something you can easily LOSE like your phone or a set of keys.

Many logins don’t really need very good security, like who cares if my lemmy login gets compromised I don’t want MFA here. Some might, I don’t. I still use a password manager but still, just a password is fine.

I dropped a credit union because they don’t allow MFA for online banking at ALL however, which is outrageous in 2025.

Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) : using multiple authentication factors to validate a user is who they say they are and grant access

Auth factors:

Something you know: is in your head. Password, PIN, etc

Something you have: credit card, hardware token (yubikey, mag stripe, etc), software token (auth, MS authenticator, etc)

Something you are: biometrics.

Somewhere you are: location based (IP, geo location, geo fence, etc)

Any one method is vulnerable to compromise. By using two separate FACTORS (aka MFA) you vastly reduce risk that you will be compromised.

Using a password and PIN is NOT MFA because they’re both the same auth factor.

Using just a token is NOT MFA because it’s only one auth factor.

MS Vizio can do what you’re talking about. It’s a flow chart designer on crack. I’d bet there’s quite a few modules designed for family tree building you can get for it.

Instead of a family tree planner, maybe start looking at flow chart builders? Or workflow planners or project management schedulers. They all can do something like what you’re talking about, even if they’re not directly designed for purpose of family tree diagrams.

I said it in another reply but I’ll say it again here, CB radio is awesome. Especially on the highway there’s tons of trucker chatter and just general nonsense.

CB radio is pretty popular depending on where you live. You’ll start recognizing antennae everywhere once you get a kit and start messing around with it.

Won’t hit everyone but it’s pretty fun community usually. Trucks and just general weirdos, the occasional douche canoe but mostly good

Ever tried the old over engineered Excel doc trick?

Sucks because you have to do manual data entry but you’ll get whatever level of granular control your heart desires.

I’m sure there’s ways to design something similar to the auto leveling budget effect you liked, but it’s beyond my skills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Group

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_remote_worker_infiltration_scheme

Willful ignorance or willful misinformation, not sure which one I find more distasteful.

Bye

NK is one of the most exceptionally successful aggressors in cyber crime. They perform heists in the 10s or 100s of millions of USD at a time, about 2 billion in the past two years. Their targets are global and indiscriminate, and their scope and skill set is growing at an alarming pace.

If it helps you sleep better at night that they’re only physically terrible to their local neighborhood, then whatever - I would argue that their reach is only limited by their lack of wealth, but that still has a radius that can reach nations as far away as Japan and they constantly threaten them, and would do so to others if they had the means, but again, if that doesn’t bother you then ok I guess.

But to say that they don’t affect anyone outside their borders is at best ignorance and at worst willful misinformation.