Yes, when there’s a causation link between things there’s also a correlation between them. But correlation does not imply causation means the link doesn’t go the other way. It’s like, every dog is an animal, but not every animal is a dog.

Correlations might be useful to figure out common causes, for example the correlation between student height and reading skills, could mean taller people are more educated, or, more likely, that your students are young enough that age is an important factor at play.

And finally, correlation might be just a fluke of chance, for example the amount of automotive recalls related to AirBags correlates almost perfectly with the popularity of the first name Killian: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/correlation/2599_popularity-of-the-first-name-killian_correlates-with_automotive-recalls-for-issues-with-the-air-bags that site has other similar examples.

So yeah, correlation might be important, but they might be nothing at all, so don’t just assume that a correlation implies causation.

While I get where you’re coming from, most people don’t understand what’s normal to others because they think their experience is normal. And most of us won’t get to experience someone else’s experiences to figure out what’s normal for others and what isn’t. You might be fully satisfied with your situation because it is a good situation, but it also might be because you don’t know any better and think what you experience daily to be the norm for everyone, similarly to people living in a dictatorship regime who don’t even know about the possibility of living free so they’re content with their situation.

I’m not saying it’s your case, I’m not saying you should feel bad or that there’s something that doesn’t work the way it should. I’m saying you don’t really know how things should work because you only have your experiences to rely on, and your satisfaction might derive from not knowing what something should actually feel/be like in comparison to what it is.

It’s very different. One is “I will give YOU money if you vote for me” and the other is “I will give EVERYONE money if I win”. The main difference is that one is not discriminating against who people voted for. The first is buying votes, the second is a campaign similar to “I will retroactively lower taxes for this year if I win”, which I don’t think anyone would see as problematic but it’s exactly the same outcome as the one you’re finding problem with, i.e. give people money.

It’s a stupid campaign because anyone with half a brain understand that he’s not going to do it and that that money would have to come from someplace else, but it’s still a campaign promise similar to any other promise politicians make to ask you to vote for them.

I don’t remember the charges he did time for other than them vaguely being about ‘corruption’.

That’s because they were bogus charges, they were only meant to remove him from the election. In short he was accused of money laundering and corruption, because they claimed that he received bribes through renovations on an apartment (that he didn’t owned nor lived in), and in short he was arrested before being judged, he served a couple of years in jail having been denied his abeas corpus while the prosecutor charging him gave speeches saying things like “we might not have proof, but we have convictions”. Eventually the judge that prosecuted Lula was given a position as the ministry of security in the government he help elect by taking Lula from the election, and a panel of supreme judges ruled he had had no actual evidence to convict Lula and overthrew the conviction.

He had close ties with Christina Kirchner, which is well known to have had people killed for investigating her,

Yeah, that’s one of the other ones I know enough to say they’re very well put on that list.

and i remember something about him and her wanting to make some kind of latin american alliance thing which I consider a terrifying idea.

It’s called Mercosur, it’s a very good idea that predates both Lula and Kirchner, it was formally declared in 85 by Sarney and Alfonsín. Lula has been a very strong advocate for a more united Mercosur, wanting it to be similar to the EU, this has nothing to do with left or right wing, Paraguay is a member and Lula has kept good relationships with Peña despite him being right wing, at the same time the Mercosur suspended Venezuela after the election fraud and Lula has criticized Maduro because of his authoritarian regime.

There were also stuff about political persecution of the bolsonaro nutjob proteters but I’ll take that with a big pinch of salt.

Yeah, they’re calling political persecution to the fact that violent radical protestors enticed by social media who invaded the house of government and destroyed property in an attempt to overthrow the results of an election were given the option to go through an education course and abstain from social media or serve prison sentences, and they chose prison sentences, so now they’re in jail (surprised Pikachu face). Some documents also showed that it was part of a plan from Bolsonaro to create confusion while Lula was assassinated, and his answer to that was “it doesn’t matter that we planned it and had it all scheduled, the assassin didn’t actually do it so we can’t be judged for planning something that didn’t happened”

Hey Jon, I don’t think Lasagna qualifies as wet food

I lived in several places, I’ll try to give some, they’re not the most authentic, or the best by any objective measure, but are things that exemplify very well my experience. I’ve added savory and sweet entries for each, and also a movie if you want to (to compensate for the fact that I don’t know many books from most of them, so most countries are just the only book I could think of)

Argentina:

• Food (savory): If you can find them, Sandwich de miga are great, but they’re very hard to find outside of Argentina, many places say they sell them but they sell just a crustless sandwich. You might have better luck with Empanadas
• Food (sweet): I you’re okay with making them, Bombon de Avena are one of my favorite treats, and they’re very easy to make. I doubt you’ll find anywhere that sells them, though, so I’ll leave another option Alfajor
• Album: This one is difficult, I’m going to have to go with Poncho Al Viento from Soledad, but also anything from Los Chalchaleros would be great. I tried to go with Folklore because everyone knows about Tango and someone had already mentioned Sui Generis before.
• Book: La autopista del sur, it’s not particularly good but it’s the only one I could think of
• Movie: 9 Reinas, one of my favorite movies, it’s a heist movie about stealing some post stamps.

Brazil:

• Food (savory): There are many options here, I thought on going very specific with Nord eastern food, but you might have difficulty finding it. Instead I’ll go with Coixinha, I think it’s the ultimate Brazilian snack, for a full meal Brazilians prefer rice and black beans, but that’s also found in multiple other cultures, whereas the Coixinha, specially the one of Frango Catupiry, is very unique.
• Food (sweet): I’m tempted to say Brigadeiro, even though I find it extremely sweet it’s the default Brazilian sweet snack. However I’ll go with the close second Beijinho which is similar except coconut flavored instead of chocolate, and IMO much much less cloying.
• Album: uff, this is hard, I wanna say Construção by Chico Buarque, but I feel you’re likely to have been recommended it in the past. I’m going to go with a very weird choice here and recommend Transpiração Continua Prolongada from Charlie Brown Jr, it’s very different from what people think as Brazilian music and everyone who was in Brazil in the 2000s knows them.
• Book: Os Sete from Andre Vianco, most of the Brazilian books I had to read were for school and they’re old so not a good read, plus they’re social critics that if you don’t know the culture can be missed. Os sete is a Vampire story, it’s the Interview with the Vampire from Brazil. It’s not great, but it’s enjoyable.
• Movie: Tropa de elite, many people might recommend Cidade de Deus which is also very good, but I feel Tropa de Elite is better to make outsiders understand the state of things.

Ireland:

• Food (savory): Guiness Stew, although mostly a touristy dish I love it, sided with some garlic mashed potatoes it’s a great food for a good winter.
• Food (sweet): I honestly can’t think of any Irish sweets besides adding Bailey to some other sweet.
• Album: Very cliche, but when I think of Ireland the first thing that pops to mind is The Dubliners.
• Book: I’m gonna go with Dracula, if you haven’t read it give it a go, try to forget he’s a vampire, as that makes the book a lot more enjoyable.
• Movie: Drawing a blank here too, but since you didn’t asked for movies and this is an extra category I thought the rest was worth including.

I skipped Italy as I wouldn’t have book recommendation and whichever food I was going to recommend it’s likely you have had it or are not able to. Similarly for Spain plus the added juggling of whether to recommend Spanish or Catalan things.

Nokia N9, it was my first smartphone, it ran Linux, as in you could run sudo apt install in it and yes, sudo worked and you could get root access from factory. It was very sturdy, keyboard did some vibrations when you pressed so you got some tactile feedback which was invaluable in convincing me to use a phone with no buttons, it had gesture navigation which took years to arrive in other phones, plus some games I never got to finish and now I can’t play anymore.

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Sounds like you need to increase your minimum wage then as it seems you’re implying it’s not a livable wage.

Moving the responsibility to pay employees from the company owner to random people tips is a bad idea. It only works because you peer pressure people into tipping, but people who don’t feel pressured to do so will stop tipping and others might look and ask themselves why should I?. You don’t tip doctors, programmers, artists, drivers, or any other professional, why are servers different? If the tipping system is so great why is it not used on any other profession? Would you be willing to work your profession for tips?

AFAIK here in Europe it’s minimum wage or slightly above, possibly much higher for high end restaurants. But it is a job like any other, they work fix hours and receive a fix wage, if they need to stay late they get overtime. In Brazil it’s a job that gets paid minimum wage but there is an expected 10% tip that is almost always put on the bill by the time you get it.

Here in Europe it’s not customary to tip, the expectation is that people earn enough to live well regardless of the job, and if a waiter is not earning enough we should change the minimum wage and not rely on people willingly paying extra. Imagine if you applied the same logic to any other job, no one would be willing to depend on tips from random people to pay their wages, but company owners would be very happy if they can convince people that it’s better for them to not get paid.

The term usually means that the skill is something an average person could pick up easily and has a steep and quickly flattening learning curve, so while a person that has worked as a server for 2 years would be much better than someone just started, they will not be that much better than someone who’s at it for 1 year. And the difference between 2 and 20 years on that job is neglectible. Compare that with something like programming or medicine where the difference between 2 and 20 years of experience is absurd and you start to get a feeling of what the term means.

That being said, skilled or unskilled labor everyone deserves to have a basic income that covers all of their needs and at least some of their wants.

The solution you’re looking for is to have a group that all those users belong to, and make the files have RW for that group.

The solution you should do instead is to run things inside docker, so each one gets an extra isolation layer, but all can write to the same files easily.

There’s one piece of advice I got from a Mickey mouse comic of all places. When I was a kid I read this Mickey mouse comic where he gets kidnapped and has to escape, but it’s cold outside and he doesn’t have any clothes, so he wears a mattress for warmth. Everyone laughs at him, but he keeps thinking something like “as long as I’m warm, they may laugh at me”, and for some reason that piece of advice stuck with me forever.

It’s because of several factors. In no particular order, crime statistics are skewed, they only account for crimes that have been discovered and considered solved, if a certain demographics were better at hiding or getting away with crimes it would be underrepresented. Even if we could trust the statistics, some crimes are less severe than others, and it’s hard to judge all crimes in the same bag, even all murders are not equal so statistics can get skewed by a demographic committing more of the crimes you’re analyzing even if they commit less if you were to look at specifics. Even if we could trust that, and have crimes organized neatly into completely independent and equally severe categories there’s the social factors. Most societies around the world tend to educate men more violently than women. Finally, even if you were to have a society with humans educated equally, and have a 100% crime rate solved with 100% accuracy and analyze crimes in a completely unbiased way, there’s still the biological differences, and men have more testosterone than women, and testosterone is responsible for aggressive behavior, so even in such a society there would still be some tendency for men to commit more crimes, although I imagine it would be a lot less skewed than today.

Even though programming is also known as hacking, I’m going to assume you’re using hacker to mean red teaming in general, i.e. offensive cyber security, as that’s what most people have in mind when they think of “hackers”.

We’re about to enter a golden age for that profession, the reason is LLMs, AI, vibe-coding, etc. See, a long time ago things were very insecure, no one was worried about security as it was all just so new, that was the era when you could sniff on network traffic very easily, crack your neighbor password in a few minutes or login to most things using admin/admin. Over time people started to realize that security mattered, that there were enough malicious people out there that you had to at least make some effort to secure things. This brought us to today, where things are fairly secure, your router has a preconfigured long random password and uses at least WPA for security, most companies no longer store passwords in their databases so it diminishes the risk of leaks, etc, etc. A lot of thought is put into security by serious companies, but there were some cracks starting to show because small devs wouldn’t take security as seriously, be it for lack of resources or care, so while large stuff would be safe, smaller apps and sites are still very vulnerable, and people being people they use the same password for both and don’t enable 2fa, so once you grab credentials somewhere you can try the in other places.

What changed now? Well, recently people started to vibe-code, i.e. give prompts to an LLM to generate some code. The problem with that is that in the database of things an LLM is trained in it might have lots of bad examples, be it because the code was insecure, or because it was exactly an example of insecure code. Asking the LLM to make it secure is not going to work, as it lacks the comprehension to understand what security is. It’s possible to make things better in an iterative process where you feed the output code to itself and ask it to check for security vulnerabilities, but it might introduce new ones while fixing the existing ones, because the majority of examples online are incomplete as they’re meant to be small examples of small parts of a system to showcase how to do that in a secure manner (but they leave other parts insecure as that’s not the purpose of the example). For example, a login example code might use a simple text comparison for the password field, because it’s trying to show you the structure of the API, not the content, and assumes you will know now to do that, but an LLM doesn’t know that.

And with many people vibe-coding apps and sites it’ll become more and more easy to find those serious security holes in the wild.

And how to learn it? Well, the short version is doing. You don’t need to buy expensive books, or anything of the sort, just start reading online, and poke around stuff. I used to play around with https://www.hackthebox.com/ and found that very interesting way to learn, however you might need to read on some stuff first before you’re capable of logging in there (although I just gave it a quick look and I think they removed the most interesting part about it which was you had to hack the website to create an account).

You’re probably fine.

The reason you didn’t wanted magnets near technology before is because we relied on magnetic fields for stuff, so magnets distorted those uses. Nowadays we usually don’t have any magnetic parts on a phone, so unless you have a super strong magnet extremely close to the electronics you should be fine.

Specifically CRT monitors were tiny particle accelerators that shot electrons to a coat of phosphorescent material, they used magnets to redirect the electrons to hit the correct pixels at the right time. So putting a magnet nearby would pull the beam in a different direction distorting the image and shifting it’s colors (because the electrons were now hitting different color pixels). It was not irreversible, usually removing the magnet is all you had to do, but sometimes you might have magnetized something and the beam would remain crooked for a while.

The other thing that would be affected by magnets were hard disks, your PC might still have one so you might not want to put magnets near it, but our phone doesn’t. HDs stored information using magnetic fields into a disk, similar to a DVD except using a tiny needle that would magnetize the disk in one direction to write a 1 and on the opposite to write a 0. Taking a magnet near that would essentially erase all of the data in that disk. Modern storage use very different methods for storing data that don’t depend on magnetism, so you’re fine.

Almost, there’s just 2 corrections:

eventually the price will be higher than it is for other energy sources despite there being plenty of hard-to-extract oil still left in the ground.

When that happens the oil companies will lobby to get special treatment and be subsidized because they’re “too big to fail”, and everyone depends on oil.

The second correction is that that has already happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_subsidies

What is the bullshit about that? AFAIK that is true and not everyone learns the same way.

My first recommendation is maybe consider a different layout. If you have been typing for long you will have muscle memory that will be hard to erase, I could mostly blind type (though not touch type) on qwerty, I decided to learn Colemak for touch typing and have never looked back. I still retain the muscle memory and can type somewhat fast on qwerty but after years of correct typing I notice just how bad what I was doing was.

IIRC I used https://thetypingcat.com/typing-courses/basic and trained on that and similar websites for a long time. You have to know that you will be very slow during a while and have to be prepared for that, but it does pay out in the end. While I didn’t increased my typing speed significantly (70 to 85) it is a lot less strenuous on my hands.

What’s the Lemmy equivalent for /r/angryupvote ? Hahahaha