Doesn’t have to be in the state:
Some LLM assisted Fermi estimation suggests that those long European style plates would have room for plenty of characters and a QR code if you choose the right character set. As long as the camera resolution is good enough to pick out the QR code it should be good, but since they’re already issuing tickets for distracted driving for cell phones sitting inside the car, it should be good to go.
It’s probably a safer assumption to assume that the “bank” building template has a money vault, safe deposit vault (if it’s not the same as The Vault), secure networking closet, secure guard room, secure teller area, then whatever space is left over for parking, offices out in the open, secure offices, and whatever the bathroom situation is. You don’t have a bank without the “secure” part and “don’t talk about security” is still security, even if it’s the weakest part.
Install gnome-tweaks. It’ll be under “Accessories” or you can search for it in their activities travesty. There are some gnome-shell-extension-X things to install as well before you head into the tweaks program. They all used to be part of gnome-tweaks and now they’re not. If I recall a helpful web lookup occurs when you’re messing with that stuff and tells you what package to install.
gnome can be rough until you tailor it to your usage or if you’re in an austere environment with no internet. I think all those settings can be changed via editing dconf directly, but I don’t know how, and at this point in my life I don’t really feel like trying to hack a user experience provided to me into usefulness (no root, admin doesn’t want to use linux at all so he sets up the minimal least risky thing he can and won’t change it). gnome’s interpretation of “minimal” is pretty painful.
I use LXQT when I can. I’ll get around to trying modern KDE at some point.
At least until the flock people raise a red flag because they’re too lazy to handle an ampersand in their OCR/database code.
Developers can throw up a subdivision in a few months that holds well more than 100 people, so the mechanism to fix the water system was always there, there just wasn’t a tax base to pay for it, and apparently no will to take corrective action to fix the systemic issues.
The concern about collecting rain water in Colorado is that if enough people did it there’d be nothing to flow downhill to feed all the towns with drinking water and power from dams. This, of course, happened all on its own anyway.
There’re a whole bunch of things going on here not the least of which is that if all the dice roll the wrong way, the stars go exactly wrong, the law created a circumstance where you’re legally expected to stand outside in a rainstorm with a cup in hand and die of dehydration. That’s my weak understanding of it.
Python, and you kind of want to take the long way around.
Get it up and running in its own virtual environment. On Linux and Windows this’ll just be a directory its in, and once you’ve activated that install via a terminal command everything stays self contained. It has a package manager called “pip” that will handle package and dependency management. Use pip to install spyder, pandas, matplotlib, numpy, scipy, and openpyxl. If you install anaconda this is what it’s doing under the hood, but there are licensing hiccups with using their package repos.
Anyway, however you get up and going, numpy is fast numerical storage, scipy is a lot of scientific algorithms, pandas is a data analysis library that rides on top of numpy, and openpyxl is an interface to excel files from python. Pandas will get you one line CSV file reads and writes and more complex manipulation of Excel spreadsheets. Openpyxl gets you cell by cell manipulation of a spreadsheet. Spyder is a development environment.
It can do much, much more.
I asked an LLM for a small python example with pandas and matplotlib. Load it into spyder and run it and see what happens (tip, go into the settings/preferences, IPython Console, Plotting, and change the Graphics Backend to “Qt” to get the plots in their own window).
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
def generate_damped_signal():
# 1. Setup Parameters
fs = 50 # 50Hz Sampling frequency
t_max = 6.0 # Run for 6 seconds to clearly visualize it hitting 0 at 5s
freq = 2.0 # Oscillation frequency in Hz
# 2. Generate Independent Time Axis
# 50 samples per second from 0 to t_max
time = np.arange(0, t_max, 1/fs)
# 3. Generate Dependent Damped Signal Axis
# Using an exponential decay constant of 1.0 ensures that at t=5 seconds,
# e^(-5) drops down to ~0.006, effectively decaying the signal to zero.
amplitude = np.exp(-time) * np.cos(2 * np.pi * freq * time)
# 4. Create Pandas DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame({
'Time_Seconds': time,
'Signal_Amplitude': amplitude
})
# 5. Export DataFrame to CSV File
csv_filename = "damped_signal.csv"
df.to_csv(csv_filename, index=False)
print(f"Successfully generated DataFrame and saved to '{csv_filename}'")
# 6. Plot the Data Using Matplotlib
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 5))
plt.plot(df['Time_Seconds'], df['Signal_Amplitude'], label='Damped Signal', color='cyan', linewidth=2)
# Visual Anchors for the 5-second decay mark
plt.axvline(x=5.0, color='red', linestyle='--', alpha=0.7, label='5-Second Decay Target')
plt.axhline(y=0.0, color='gray', linestyle='-', alpha=0.5)
# Labeling and Grid Configuration
plt.title('Damped Signal Decay Over Time (50Hz Sampling Rate)')
plt.xlabel('Time (Independent Axis - Seconds)')
plt.ylabel('Signal (Dependent Axis - Amplitude)')
plt.grid(True, linestyle=':', alpha=0.6)
plt.legend()
# Display the Plot Window
plt.show()
if __name__ == "__main__":
generate_damped_signal()
You can customize gnome pretty far. The code to have normal human minimize/maximize/close buttons is all still there, and the window bar is there as well. You just have to know which programs to pull from dnf that know what registry dconf settings to adjust. I have yet to find a use case for nautilus between Dolphin (KDE) and using a terminal.
So to sweep all of the water systems in the country in advance isn’t doable in any time frame?
IR isn’t an acronym I’m familiar with.
In the comments you said you get tests run every 4-6 weeks. In my experience old age problems don’t start at 32.
Try some different things in between one of those 4-6 week cycles:
Is it like a brain fog? One that no amount of water seems to touch? Like you’re moving and thinking through a soup that gets thinner and thinner through the day until it finally gets thin enough to seem normal?
So are we just kind of admitting that there exists no way to expose any networked device to the internet securely?
It’s done all the time. It’s not a product you can buy, though, it’s a process. There’s probably a good “go by” for how to start the process for citywide infrastructure, but it’s just one more document for people to ignore.
If budget weren’t an issue, how many clones of your teams would it take to do that for all the water systems in the US in five years?
What are the odds that the average muncipality understands the security implications of just existing on the internet these days?
“No, their platform doesn’t support any real secure protocols and won’t route over a VPN, it needs to be on the same subnet as the devices. […]”
They won’t know that much. They don’t understand that their job isn’t running a water department, it’s running the computers that maintain the water department and that includes security. For someone familiar with computer security it’s easy to recognize negligence, but until the law sees it as criminal negligence nothing’s going to change.
Small town municipal water departments aren’t going to be able to afford the guy holding the shield against international state actors.
OK, I’m curious first about the data requirements.
If people are posting just to stir up shit then that would be something that would have to be handled at the community level or at the individual level. If we don’t agree with someone’s opinion then just ignore that person. If people are coming around trying to stir up violence that’s a different story. The bar is lower than ever for firing up a lemmy instance if people are into that kind of thing.
Link to the nazi bar story. If anyone has a better place to link to please let me know:
Who knows. I’m just curious about the data storage requirements.
Edit: Uhh, maybe there should be a group doing annual backups of lemmy.
I’m sure there are a bunch of people who are a lot more knowledgeable about it, but it might be as simple firing up your own instances and just federating. By not allowing people to post you’d just be in readonly mode and would get passed all the posts, maybe. With every other kind of archive process like this the images/videos/audio are the long pole. A full 100% backup of “what did everyone see back then” is out of reach; even youtube (or especially youtube) goes back and edits old videos for newer compression or a change in copyright rules.
My only real thought on it right now is an annual back up is waaaaaay too slow. I’d want to see more about what the ActivityPub stream looks like. I’d want to hear from an owner of an instance about how quickly their storage requirements go, and I’m now curious about whether there’s any evidence of anyone else such as Three Letter Agencies already backing it all up.
They do A/B testing where they put one feature in front of some folks and a different feature in front of others so they can gather data about what people will and won’t tolerate. Between that and the massive tracking they do with IP addresses for people going around account bans, and there’s no real way to know if they were targeting you through cookies/IP, or if you just fell into different groups.
I don’t think they put a lot of thought into what’ll that do for some of the subreddits that are for desperate people looking for advice since two people back to back won’t get the same advice. There’s no way to swap notes, no reddit-of-record, and now all that good advice (and some of it was good) is locked away. It warms my cold dead heart to see their stock tank because they don’t deserve the best of their users.
Upon further inspection I agree with you. I was focused on that coastal body of water Nigeria has.
Never served; don’t know for sure.
It makes more sense when you consider that the point is to get rid of the psychological blocks that would keep you from being able to do your business as quickly as possible whereever possible under whatever circumstances. That three to a urinal thing is under a short time limit.
Read up on what snipers do.
Nah. Lockheed makes both the ATACMS and the PrSM.