2. Lamplighter

Lamplighters were responsible for lighting and extinguishing gas street lamps in towns and cities before electric lighting became standard. They typically carried ladders and torches to perform their duties. The job was crucial for maintaining public safety during the evenings. However, with the introduction of electric streetlights, the need for manual lamp maintenance disappeared, leading to the decline of this occupation. Lamplighters are now part of history, representing a bygone era of urban infrastructure.

The lamplighters themselves were machine operators that replaced earlier professions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-boy

A link-boy (or link boy or linkboy) was a boy who carried a flaming torch to light the way for pedestrians at night. Linkboys were common in London in the days before the introduction of gas lighting in the early to mid 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washerwoman

A washerwoman or laundress was a person, usually a woman, employed to wash laundry by hand, before the widespread use of washing machines and commercial laundries. The profession existed in many cultures, spanning from antiquity to the early modern period. While the profession has historically been gendered, often associated with women, in some contexts, men also performed laundry labor. It was typically low-paid, physically arduous, and associated with lower social status.

The occupation began to decline with the rise of commercial laundries. The spread of domestic washing machines and self-service laundries further reduced the need for the independent washerwomen profession. By the late twentieth century, the profession had largely disappeared in industrialized countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostler

A hostler (/ˈhɒslər/ or /ˈɒslər/) or ostler /ˈɒslər/ was traditionally a groom or stableman who was employed in a stable to take care of horses, usually at an inn, in the era of transportation by horse or horse-drawn carriage.[1]

7. Ice Cutter

Ice cutters were essential in the days before modern refrigeration. These workers harvested large blocks of ice from frozen lakes and rivers during the winter, storing them in ice houses for use throughout the year.

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceman_(occupation)

An iceman is someone who sells or delivers ice from a wagon, cart, or motor-truck. While the advent of modern refrigeration and freezers have made the profession increasingly uncommon, in previous eras of human history, the iceman transported and sold ice harvested in frozen regions to customers in warmer climates intended for cellars and iceboxes, to help preserve food and cool down beverages and homes.

Iceman and ice-wagon in Crowley, Louisiana, 1938

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling_station_attendant

A filling station attendant or gas station attendant (also known as a gas jockey in the US and Canada[1][2]) is a worker at a full-service filling station who performs services other than accepting payment. Tasks usually include pumping fuel, cleaning windshields, and checking vehicle oil levels. Prior to the introduction of self-starting vehicle engines, attendants would also start vehicle engines by manually turning the crankshaft with a hand crank.

In the United States, gas jockeys were often tipped for their services,[3] but this is now rare as full-service stations are uncommon except in New Jersey, 16 “urban” counties in Oregon, 4 cities in Massachusetts, and the town of Huntington, New York, where there are laws or restrictions against letting customers pump their own gasoline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Worldwide#History

In 1925, the world’s first fully automatic elevator, Collective Control, was introduced. In 1931, the company installed the world’s first double-deck elevator at 70 Pine Street in New York City.[11][12]

End of an era.

I mean, the real sin here is from the Bluetooth SIG. If you make a radio protocol that broadcasts a unique identifier, it’s going to be abused sooner or later.

Google and Apple already know where Bluetooth devices have traveled if an iOS or Android phone using Location Services has come near them at any point.

Other people, like these ALPR guys, can probably harvest a little more data from users of Bluetooth devices, but they aren’t going to be the most meaningful harvester, as they have far fewer collection points.

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https://lemmyverse.net/communities has a list.

It’s on the lemmy.porn instance, !forcedincest@lemmy.porn. Presumably that instance is, well, for porn.

If you don’t want to see it, you can block that community and you won’t see any more from it. If you don’t want to see anything from that instance, you can block that instance. If you don’t want to see NSFW content in general, you can block that.

As to “why” in the broader sense, it’s because the Threadiverse is a global system. It spans many countries and different groups of people. It’s like asking why something is “allowed” on the Web — everything is allowed as long as the local country is okay with it.

Magewell Pro Capture card

I’ve been kind of shifting towards use of USB devices over internal cards.

All of the USB devices that I have still can be connected to computers. Ditto for DE-9 serial ports, though I might need a USB adapter.

But I’ve seen ISA->PCI/AGP->PCIe obsolete a lot of old hardware that I’ve had sitting around, and that’s just on the PC. That includes my video capture hardware.

I doubt that this is political theater. The judge — who is a neutral party here, and introduced the question — is asking a pretty straightforward question, testing the argument that the lawyer is making. “If your argument that Trump can rebuilt the wing of the White House holds, it seems that it’d entail X (where X is something that it seems like we wouldn’t want). Is that true?”

If you read court transcripts, this isn’t an uncommon thing for a judge to do.

I haven’t watched anime for quite a while, but when I do, I’ve certainly preferred subbed.

That being said, I can imagine computer voice synth hypothetically getting to a point where I’d prefer dubbed.

“use a strong password” whats that gonna do if the database gets pwned, sandra?

Strong passwords aren’t intended to simply protect against brute-forcing a password via trying to authenticate repeatedly, but also to help protect against brute-force attempts to obtain passwords from a compromised password database using a dictionary attack, the scenario you’re describing.

Typically — if an authentication system is storing its password database competently — the password shouldn’t be stored in plain text. Instead, the password will be salted (to avoid rainbow table attacks) and then hashed via a cryptographic hash. The password database entry will look something like a tuple of (username, salt, salted hashed password). If the password is a strong one, it will be computationally-hard to obtain the plaintext password, even if someone has the salt and the salted, hashed password.

I just wanna draw some boxes, put some text in them and connect them with lines, ffs.

If I want to do so textually — useful for very large, automatically-laid-out-diagrams, such as those generated automatically — I’ll use graphviz.

e.g.

foo.dot:

digraph {
A->B
B->C
B->D
C->A
}

And then:

$ sfdp -Tpng foo.dot >foo.png

produces:

I think that the /r/place-style collaborative pixel art thing is neat.

https://placedata.reddit.com/data/final_2023_place.png

To be fair, that is explicitly not infinite canvas — it has finite dimensions — but there have been derived programs with infinite bounds that work the same way to do pixel art.

It sounds like the software you’re using is intended for some kind of idea organization team stuff, though. For that, it doesn’t sound like it’s a great paradigm to me, but I also don’t spent a lot of time using software of that sort.

I’ve used visual programming languages. These use flowcharts to represent data flow, are often used for signal processing stuff. Same kind of idea. My general feeling is that that doesn’t really scale up to large problems — you wind up wasting way too much time trying to navigate around the thing. It’s a quick and intuitive way to view very small things, though it still isn’t my preferred approach; I’d rather use text.

Trump’s strongest support in 2024 wasn’t actually in the South.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/95f42ca4-771c-4a27-b039-969f7ae8160a.jpeg

West Virginia and Wyoming, the two biggest coal producers, were the strongest supporters. There were states in the South that went for Trump, but there’s also the Great Plains.

Contrast with, say, the 1920 presidential election, which was clearly a South-vs-rest-of-US result:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_United_States_presidential_election

If you live in a big, brightly lit city and you feel like allergy season just never ends, you might be right: New research shows that light pollution prompts plants to shed pollen longer, increases the growth of notoriously allergenic ragweed and makes our bodies more prone to allergic reactions, from runny noses to asthma.

But on the flip side, there are also going to be fewer trees and other plants in a city. That is, one might have more pollen in a city with a lot of nighttime lighting than one would relative to a less-lit city, but I doubt that one has more pollen in a city than outside cities.

They don’t have the means to produce at scale…steamdeck OLED

They aren’t going to be manufacturing it themselves. They’ll pay someone else to make it.

And I’d bet that that party isn’t limited by their own capacity, but by how many units Valve’s ordered, which is going to be limited by how many units that Valve thinks the public will buy at current elevated-by-memory-prices rates.

EDIT: Sounds like their manufacturer is Quanta Computer, in Taiwan.

EDIT2: And they probably aren’t constrained by their own capacity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lam

Quanta designs and manufactures for clients such as Apple Inc., Compaq, Dell, Gateway, BlackBerry Ltd., Hewlett-Packard,[13] Alienware, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu, Gericom, Lenovo, LG, Maxdata, MPC, Sharp Corporation, Siemens, Sony, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba.[citation needed] It is the largest manufacturer of PC notebooks worldwide[14] and has diversified into servers, storage, and liquid-crystal display terminals.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

In philosophy of mind, a philosophical zombie (or “p-zombie”) is a being in a thought experiment that is physically identical to a normal human being but does not have conscious experience.[1] For example, if a philosophical zombie were poked with a sharp object, it would not feel any pain, but it would react exactly the way any conscious human would. In other words, the being has full access consciousness but no phenomenal consciousness.

shrugs

It’s got those faux slit windows and things made up to look like crenelations, but I’d say that it was never a fortification, as it has large, indefensible downstairs windows.

That’ll probably place some constraints on construction timeframe, since the “manor houses styled to look like fortifications” thing only happened after wealthy people owning fortifications were a thing.

There are three major DRAM chip manufacturers: Micron, in the US, and Samsung and SK Hynix, both in South Korea.

Micron has two new fabs coming online in Boise, Idaho. The earliest one is scheduled to start operation in the first half of 2027 (they recently announced that they’d moved that timeline up from the second half of 2027) though it’ll take time to ramp up; it will not be doing output at full capacity immediately when it first starts up.

https://www.micron.com/us-expansion/id

They announced late last year that they were going to do a second Boise one as well for more capacity.

They also have New York fabs that they’re doing:

https://www.micron.com/us-expansion/ny

For the South Korean manufacturers:

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-03-12/business/industry/Samsung-and-SK-are-expanding-fast-but-why-is-memory-still-in-short-supply/2540153

Samsung

This year, Samsung is prioritizing the conversion of its lines to memory chips at its Pyeongtaek campus in Gyeonggi and the acceleration of new facility construction at the site.

At the P4 plant, the company is upgrading dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) production to its latest 1c process, which will be used for high bandwidth memory (HBM) and advanced DRAM chips. Samsung aims to secure 1c capacity of more than 200,000 wafers per month by the end of the year through line conversion and additional equipment installation.

Construction of P5, which had previously been delayed during the semiconductor downturn, resumed this year with a timeline accelerated by roughly six months compared to earlier plans. The chipmaker is bringing in tens of thousands of new workers to construct the megafab, capable of producing HBM, DRAM, NAND flash and potentially foundry chips. Construction is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027, with equipment installation beginning shortly afterward and mass production targeted for the latter part of 2028.

Construction of the last Pyeongtaek facility, P6, is currently expected to start in the third quarter of 2028.

SK Hynix

SK hynix is currently concentrating short-term investment on expanding capacity at its M15X fab in Cheongju, North Chungcheong, while also upgrading older lines.

The company is adding 1b DRAM capacity at M15X, while accelerating 1c node conversions at its M14 and M16 fabs for production of HBM and server DRAM. After hitting a capacity of 10,000 wafers per month last year, it is expected to expand capacity by up to 70,000 wafers per month this year.

For a new greenfield project, SK hynix is advancing construction at the Yongin semiconductor cluster in Gyeonggi, one of the largest semiconductor manufacturing projects globally. The cluster will ultimately host six Samsung fabs from Samsung and four SK hynix facilities, and the latter is moving ahead first.

Construction of the first fab, Y1, is expected to be completed in February of next year, earlier than previously planned. Equipment installation is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2027.

Y1 will be built in six cleanroom “phases,” a unit used in fab construction for the capacity expansion stage. Each phase adds more floor space and related equipment for wafer capacity expansion. The first three phases are expected to begin operation within the same year, providing a capacity of 150,000 wafers per month, with the remaining phases adding another 150,000 wafers per month once fully operational.

The second fab in the cluster, Y2, is expected to begin construction around the third quarter of 2028.