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  • just under 50% of people voted in Ohio in the 2020 election.

    Trump won by 8%.

    If just 9% of the people who felt like you (what's the point of voting) had showed up to vote for Biden, that would have flipped the state.

    No single raindrop believes it can make any difference. But together, all those insignificant raindrops can change the course of a river in a single day.

  • To expand, pecans are about 6kcal/g sugar is 4kcal/g - since the serving size is 28g, not by volume, they have reduced the pecans per serving and added sugar per serving which is less calorie dense per gram.

  • I understand the concerns of privacy, but working in academia means that you give up some of the privacy.

    Yes people will have your real name and they will know what college you work at and if some crazy person decides that they want to stalk you on campus because you're woke or part of the deep state turning the frogs gay with chemicals they'll be able to easily do that.

    You're gonna have 100s of strangers in your classes during the year. You're going to tell them exactly when you're going to be in your office for office hours.

    If you are unable to handle that I doubt academia is for you.

    Academia is about furthering human knowledge especially a PhD. There are sacrifices involved; your privacy is probably one of them.

  • Part of being an academic is being available to discuss your publications. Your full name will not only be flying around the internet but recorded permanently in libraries and journals.

    Science is about collaboration, and standing behind the work you do, publicly. You will find it extremely difficult or impossible to get your PhD without being known to the academic community.

    I think you won't find many anonymous scientific papers held in high regard.

  • If the AI can run everything, then we become a post scarcity society. I'm hoping for Iain M Banks Culture series myself, but who knows. Or maybe the AI becomes so intelligent it just checks out like in the movie Her and we have to go back to doing it with non-AI tech.

  • In the US, discussing salary with coworkers is protected speech. It helps people find out if they are being underpaid or unfairly discriminated against. I always share my salary information when asked and I think it's important to do so.

    My salary is not indicative of my net worth. I could have a 7 figure salary and be drowning in debt, or make 75K and be doing fairly well because of responsible choices.

    I dislike the stigma of discussing salaries, and believe that it's propagated by companies to dissuade workers from getting fair salaries.

  • You need to get your ISP to help troubleshoot the issue with your router. If the Steam Deck works fine on other networks that's a very strong sign that it's not the Deck that's the issue.

    Most public libraries have WiFi or computers that you can use in a pinch, leverage those as much as possible. You are paying for those services via taxes, they are yours.

  • The issueI have with the "always unique" plan is that if they can determine your browser was associated with some set of unique IDs, then they can track you. Imagine a TOTP where the keys were leaked so the adversary can determine the entire set of possible codes.

    If everyone's fingerprints always match each other's, then you have plausible deniability.

  • The idea with anti-fingerprinting is the idea that no matter who you are or what your setup is, the fingerprint is created, it matches many, many other browsers

    Imagine a sea of people in Guy Fawkes masks.

  • If your fingerprint is unique, that means you can't be confused for someone else.

    That is literally the opposite of anti-fingerprinting.

    You want to look like 1000's of other people, so they can't prove it was you that visited a particular site and use that information against you.

  • Ah, didn't realize pfSense is the OS, not something that runs on linux. My command examples won't work for you.

  • Some antibiotics, like sulfonamides, can be used in dogs but might cause adverse reactions in humans, such as allergies or severe skin reactions.

  • So my first question is how can it be that my little mini J1900 Celeron (2 GHz) with 4 GB RAM cannot handle this bandwith?

    • check ethtool for link speed: sudo ethtool enp2s0 | egrep 'Speed|Duplex' Your device name may be different from enp2s0. use ip link to see all devices. if it's not
     
        
    Speed: 1000Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    
      

    then that's probably a bad sign.

    • that is a 10 year old celeron processor. celeron were the budget (a.k.a. cheapest, slowest) class processor at the time. it's quite likely that it cannot keep up.
    • If you still think it's not CPU directly, use iotop to see if you have I/O bottleneck.
    1. They can literally keep a dead guy on the ballot. Then the vice president would take over immediately upon inauguration.
    2. The Democratic Party could quickly pick a different candidate and have that person run and beyond the ballot.
  • Who is it? Just rando or some reference?