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Comment Re:Americans can do anything... (Score 1) 48

...but you can't make us understand the metric system.

BTW, what is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen monarch butterfly? In furlongs per fortnight, please.

Canada officially adopted the metric system 55 years ago. We still use both imperial and metric in daily lives. Ask a person of their height or weight, many will respond with feet, inches, and pounds. Long distances may be described in miles or kilometers. Certain items such as drill bits are almost exclusively in fractions of an inch. Temperature is in Celsius but we intuitively understand Fahrenheit. Volumes are in litres but we're somewhat comfortable with pints and cups. Gallons get a bit murky because US gallons are smaller than imperial gallons.

Comment Re:Six-second videos what? (Score 1) 20

I have never heard of Vine, but it sounds like Tiktok in much much worse. And since it comes from Dorsey, it's safe to assume it's gonna be shit.

You might be surprised what can be done with only 6 seconds of video. It's a challenge, like writing haiku. Some of them were pretty damned funny, and often because they were cut short in the middle of some action or reaction, leaving the rest to your imagination.

Comment Deepfakes are Adding to the Risks (Score 1) 16

At my business, we have had issues in the past with employees not being smart enough to just hang up when scammers call

AI impersonation is making it harder and harder to tell legitimate people apart from fakes.

Here's an example of deepfake audio being used to impersonate a CEO and steal US$243,000.

Here's an example of an AI-generated person that is so realistic her own family couldn't tell the difference.

And here's a video conference call where everyone in the meeting other than the victim was a fake, including a deepfake of the Chief Financial Officer.

If your own family can be fooled, so much for employees being "smart enough".

Comment Re:More explanation (Score 5, Informative) 35

Imagine a black unit cube cake with white frosting. Take a knife and cut out pieces of the cube to make a black hole outline within the white frosting. When you do this at an angle to the sides, it turns out that a cube 6% larger than the original cube can pass through the outlined hole.

All the platonic solids have this property, along with a lot of other polyhedral solids.

You can watch a physical demonstration of this here.

It's quite a "hole", however. There's not a lot left of the original cube.

Comment Re:I use Win11 (Score 5, Informative) 24

I'm pretty sure it's superior to whatever this is. It sounds like a hobbyist OS that runs primarily on older equipment? Or a way to breathe new life into old hardware for people that are willing to dive under the hood, so to speak.

Comparing OpenBSD to Windows 11 is not an apples-to-apples comparison. While some people may run OpenBSD as their desktop operating system, that's not a stated goal of the project,.

OpenBSD is best suited for server applications where an emphasis on security is desired. Their code is meticulously and proactively audited for bugs. Even bugs that have not been shown to be exploitable are fixed, and this has often led to cases where the mechanism behind newly discovered exploits had already been patched in OpenBSD.

The project also show a passion for accurate and complete documentation, and for robust testing. IIRC, preparing for a release includes running a command to build every single package in their ports collection without error.

Comment Re:I use Win11 (Score 3, Insightful) 24

This type of comment should not be posted anonymously. If you're going to attack someone's character, have the balls to do it in person.

And FWIW, no, Theo is neither insufferable or an asshole. I have met him personally and found him to be extremely knowledgeable and interesting person to talk to. Yes, he has very strong opinions. Yes, he has ruffled many feathers over the years. He's also frequently correct in his criticisms.

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