NaibofTabr

Pain is a great teacher.

If you had the hardware to build a robot that could “feel” the world around it, and you wanted it to self-teach how to move around on its own (so that you don’t have to pre-define movement paths), you would probably program in a system that could interpret potentially damaging sensations as danger/bad and avoid them automatically (too hot/too cold/too sharp/too hard/etc). That system would essentially be a pain response.

it doesn’t show up in file explorer, disk mgt., device mgt., bios

I’m sorry to say this, but the fact that it doesn’t appear in BIOS/UEFI is a very bad sign.

Have you already checked this in multiple different SATA ports? It’s the most important part. If the drive doesn’t identify itself to the motherboard you won’t be able to do anything to it with software.

Do you have an external enclosure/SATA adapter for USB? The next thing I would check is to connect it that way after the computer has fully booted and see if it shows up at all. Also try plugging it into a different computer if possible.

I also want to recommend smartmontools for monitoring your drive health going forward. This allows you to interact with the SMART functionality built into the drive.

Er, aren’t they already Romantic?

The difference is, we have the pictures now.

Garbage in, garbage out.

Who could have possibly predicted that?

There’s nothing functionally communist about the government of China.

Taco will be the next word banned from federal information systems.

no shit son

Trump exploded the value of the US dollar by destroying the trustworthiness of the US as a trading partner, and the market is responding.

Only if you take her with it.

Graphene is the most amazing material, it can do anything you can imagine - except leave the lab.

Encrypting the connection is good, it means that no one should be able capture the data and read it - but my concern is more about the holes in the network boundary you have to create to establish the connection.

My point of view is, that’s not something you want happening automatically, unless you manually configured it to do that yourself and you know exactly how it works, what it connects to and how it authenticates (and preferably have some kind of inbound/outbound traffic monitoring for that connection).

Ah, just one question - is your current Syncthing use internal to your home network, or does it sync remotely?

Because if you’re just having your mobile devices sync files when they get on your home wifi, it’s reasonably safe for that to be fire-and-forget, but if you’re syncing from public networks into private that really should require some more specific configuration and active control.

The Internet Used to be a Place

There are still active webrings:

sadgrl.online webring directory
digilord.neocities.org/webring
webringworld.org
brisray webring list

picture this…

Company Scrip

It’s the same old grift.

Eroding critical thinking skills linked to increased AI use.

The ars technica article: AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

AI tarpit 1: Nepenthes

AI tarpit 2: Iocaine

evolution intensifies

B. F. Skinner would like a word

For twenty-five hundred years people have been preoccupied with feelings and mental life, but only recently has any interest been shown in a more precise analysis of the role of the environment. Ignorance of that role led in the first place to mental fictions, and it has been perpetuated by the explanatory practices to which they gave rise.

every game is dark souls