Alerta roja, alerta roja, skullgrid y bdonvr estan triangulando mi escondrijo! 🤣 (...soy de Paraná.)
...damn! Oh well I'm heating a bit more water anyway.
I'm glad it doesn't mention empty yerba mate gourds or thermos, I'm too lazy to go to the kitchen right now.
This video has some great info, and it's easier to approach than videos talking directly about the entropy issue.
Hypothetically speaking, if there's a language encoded there, the problem of relatively few letters can be still addressed by multiple phonemes sharing the same letter.
For example, not representing VOT distinctions - so pairs like "peat" vs. "bead" are written the same, even if phonemically distinct. It seems the Southwestern Paleohispanic worked like this, so even if it's syllabary-ish you'd see way less symbols than you'd expect for one (only ~30).
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That introduces some complexity though - it's the sort of thing you'd expect to see when a language is trying to adapt the writing system of another, and so far we didn't attest the writing system elsewhere. Plus it makes Ockham's Razor scream bloody murder.
I am fully expecting them to continue actively breaking windows 10 to push people who haven’t upgraded to get windows 11 (Derogatory)
I first read "push" as "punish". It still makes sense.
If it's a hoax, it's a bloody great job - they started it centuries ago, but it's still trolling us in 2025. It's worth to check how they did it. (@teft@lemmy.world posted a video with one way they could've done it.)
And if it's a lost language, my guess is like Bax: Indo-Aryan language, either Romani or related to. That should explain why it's so hard to decode - we're basically looking for your typical European language when it's something way less typical.
The Voynich manuscript is such a fascinating mystery.
Ditto - for me all the unknown behind it feels like some itch that is begging to be scratched.
I believe some recent experiments have demonstrated that these patterns also emerge when people try to make a fake text.
That's a good point.
The text mentions three hypotheses on the linguistic content of the manuscript. I'll split them in a different way:
- It's all meaningless babble.
- It's language, encoded in either a lost phonetic system (alphabet, abjad etc.) or a simple replacement cypher.
- It's language, but encoded in a complex way.
I think #1 and #3 are implausible - because the endings are repetitive, they look a lot like suffixes in a fusional language. Like this:
That leaves us with #2. I'd also argue that the underlying system is an alphabet instead of an abjad; I'd expect the later to be a bit less repetitive.
No need to feel sorry - sometimes we need to vent out, that's only human.
Some "fluctuation" in self esteem is normal. The problem here is the range, it's going all the way into suicide idealisation, that is not good. If you didn't yet, I'd suggest you to check this with a psychiatrist.
About kids working together to solve video game problems: that's always a joy to watch, isn't it?
The stick in question is off-site; it sees the PC once per month, then it gets back to the drawer in another room. And regardless of its fate, if I had a flood or fire affecting my PC, in the second store of a brick house, odds are that I'd have far more pressing matters than the data.
It's mostly fluff kept for sentimental value. Worst case scenario (complete data loss) would be annoying, but I can deal with it.
That's one of the two things the 3-2-1 rule of thumb doesn't address - depending on the value of the data, you need more backups, or the backup might be overkill. (The other is what you're talking with smeg about, the reliability of each storage device in question.)
I do have an internal hard disk drive (coincidentally 2TB)*; theoretically I could store a third copy of the backup there, it's just ~15GiB of data anyway. However:
- HDDs tend to be a bit less reliable than flash memory. Specially given the stick and SSD are relatively new, but the HDD is a bit older
- since the stick is powered ~once a month (as I check if the backup needs to be updated), and I do a
diffof the most important bits of the data, bit rot is not an issue - those sticks tend to fail more from usage than from old age.
- Any failure affecting my computer as a while would affect both the HDD and the SSD, so the odds of dependent failure are not negligible.
- I tend to accumulate a lot of junk in my HDD (like 490GiB of anime and shit like this), since I use it for my home LAN
That makes the benefit of a potential new backup in the HDD fairly low, in comparison with the bother (i.e. labour and opportunity cost) of keeping yet another backup.
*I don't recall how much I paid for it, but checking local hardware sites a new one would be 475 reals. Or roughly 75 euros... meh, if buying a new HDD might as well use it to increase my LAN.
Every fucking thing sucks. If you want the perfect place, tough luck - you won't get it, ever.
So instead you look for the place that sucks the least, given your priorities. And when one place is becoming shittier by the day (like Reddit), the others (like Lemmy) do become more attractive.