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friend_of_satan,

Say no to shorts on every platform.

friend_of_satan,

FYI you can get motion sick in aerial vehicles, including blimps.

friend_of_satan,

LOL, if you block ads they’ll hide a message from one of your friends that you never would have seen anyway because it would’ve been buried in ads.

I think this is good though. I think this is just what a lot of people need to get them off FB. I mean… have you tried surfing the www without an ad blocker? I’d rather not use the www.

friend_of_satan,

My favorite was the “Songs that other hikers on the trail want to hear from your Bluetooth speaker” and it was empty.

25 years since The Halloween Documents, the Microsoft vs. Linux and Open Source memos (www.catb.org)

“In the last week of October 1998, a confidential Microsoft memorandum on Redmond’s strategy against Linux and Open Source software was leaked to me by a source who shall remain nameless. I annotated this memorandum with explanation and commentary over Halloween Weekend and released it to the national press. Microsoft was...

friend_of_satan,
  • Linux can win as long as services / protocols are commodities.
  • OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market.

Those two are things we as a community need to focus on. This Fediverse we’re in is one fine solution though :)

friend_of_satan,

“Praaaaaise the loooord and pass the ammunition!” youtu.be/TUOPvtVZwo8

(Those aren’t just the lyrics, that’s the name of the song.)

friend_of_satan,

Meta’s practices also collected protected data like race, religion, and sexual orientation. Meta disputed that it needed explicit consent, arguing that agreeing to terms of service was enough, but courts rejected this.

Oh please let this be the beginning of a global backlash against corporate EULA’s and the start of a path towards a few well understood EULA’s, similar to how we have a few well understood FOSS licenses.

friend_of_satan,

Many countries all around the world possess weapons that could obliterate an entire other country, or their own country if detonated by mistake, and possibly destroy the whole planet.

friend_of_satan,

that falls under the duty of the page I’m visiting to keep their stuff secure - and while I’m very unhappy about some recent practices¹ I’d more for documenting and battling it out in court, if necessary.

You seem to be ok letting others take responsibility for the security of your online accounts, and want to turn security shortcomings into legal justice. If that works for you then that’s fine, but it’s not good security.

friend_of_satan,

When I got a new job I found that they had hard boiled eggs and bananas in their kitchen, so I began eating one banana and two boiled eggs for breakfast. That’s the only lifestyle change I made. About a year later I noticed I had lost a bunch of weight, but I was puzzled as to why, and eventually remembered that one change. I looked it up and found some site online claiming that it is one of the healthiest breakfasts you can eat. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/300ed243-7894-4632-ab0e-3d10663dbcca.jpeg

friend_of_satan,

Honestly, this is why I don’t listen to music with the n-word in it. If I’m not allowed to speak that word, I don’t want it in my subconscious.

friend_of_satan,

I know. When I made that choice I got rid of some songs I really liked. That’s the price I’m paying for keeping my mind more free of words I am forbidden from using.

friend_of_satan,

Fuck snap. I quit Ubuntu after using it more than any other distro since 6.04. Debian 12 has been awesome.

friend_of_satan,

It’s a fucking metaphor. JFC…

friend_of_satan,

Anybody who says “I might just help if you ask me nicely” deserves to be cut out of your life completely.

friend_of_satan,

I hope they did it better than Canon did. theregister.com/…/canon_verification_cracked/

friend_of_satan,

You could be focusing on “it’s amazing how easy it is for me to make food!” But you’re not. Your emotions are leading you somewhere, instead of your rational mind. Next time you recognize that you feel like that, pause, and pay attention to what exactly it is that you are feeling, without judgement. Use your rational mind to observe your emotional state. Just observe it, don’t control it or try to change it. Hopefully you’ll discover something, maybe even the answer you’re looking for.

friend_of_satan,

Or better yet, voting these cronies out.

friend_of_satan, (edited )

One of your biggest problems here is what we call high availability (HA). Your critical services should be HA, which means no single points of failure (SPOF). Your DNS services have a SPOF: your one pi-hole server. For any service to be resilient, it needs to be HA. This means full redundancy for all things in the whole stack that provide the service.

For pihole, this means running a pihole instance on two separate devices, with two separate IP addresses. Your dhcp server will send out two DNS servers with every lease. Most DNS clients will use at least two DNS servers.

If one of the servers goes down, your other, redundant pihole server will continue serving DNS.

This is why, contrary to other recommendations in this thread, I run pihole in docker on regular machines. If one of those machines dies, the other machine will continue serving requests, and it’s easy to launch the docker pihole on another machine and reconfigure my DNS server to hand out the new DNS server address.

friend_of_satan, (edited )

What about archive.li/…/anti-toxic-masculinity-movement

Getting in a pickle over hardware

I’m moderately tech savvy, a little experience with most OS and comfortable with hardware. I’ve got some basic things working in Docker. I want to start self hosting my photo backup, Bitwarden, Jellyfish, Sonarr and Radarr, Pi hole, Home Assistant and replace Dropbox. But the more I dive into the hardware and setup the more...

friend_of_satan,

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. If that device goes down, nothing will work. It’s better to have more smaller devices that serve fewer purposes, or have two big devices that serve redundant services.

I would take small steps. Get a nuc or pi and put some services on it. Test drive it. Get another device when needed.

Don’t jump straight into to deep end. Take it step by step.

friend_of_satan,

Limiting horizontal element width. If I wanted to read at 600px wide, I’d make my fucking browser 700px or so wide.

Ok, so mobile “needs” it? Not my fucking problem.

friend_of_satan, (edited )

Do websites display more than text?

Do some sites contain really wide text that may need to be viewed on one line, like code?

Of course I’ve tried it. I’ve been on the internet longer than that design choice.

When my browser window is in an inconvenient shape or location, do you know what I do? I resize and move my browser window just like any other window.

There was a time in the past when some web designers would move your window to the middle of the page. That location makes it easy to read content. Does that mean users want the designers making that choice for them? No. And webpages don’t do that anymore.

friend_of_satan, (edited )

It’s aspirational. The biblical god created man in His image. The Bible documents god murdering over 2 million people.

I feel like we're all stuck in a movie where all the rich people live on some kind of floating island or satellite with everything they need to live well, and all of us have zero chance of going there

I have seen a few of these with similar story lines and realized we are living it right now. They have the best healthcare, the best food, the best everything and most of us are a few dollars from disaster. That scares some of us to death literally from all the stress it causes.

friend_of_satan, (edited )

I know everybody here is all “Elysium” and “Alita Battle Angel”, both of which I 100% agree with, but I’d also like to add “Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson. Nell will save us all.

friend_of_satan,

That was such a great video. I highly recommend everybody listen to it (there is no visual presentation so listening is enough). Great content, great delivery.

friend_of_satan,

Two layoffs in 3 months, totaling more than half the company.

friend_of_satan,

Told us that we’d have to work long hours for the next two months, and then when questioned, said that things were only going to get tougher.

'I Lost Everything': California Photographer Blames AI Bias for Instagram Ban | KQED (www.kqed.org)

When a machine moderates content, it evaluates text and images as data using an algorithm that has been trained on existing data sets. The process for selecting training data has come under fire as it’s been shown to have racial, gender and other biases.

friend_of_satan, (edited )

This just reminded me that I need to delete my instagram account.

EDIT: all done.

friend_of_satan,

STOP blocking traffic in the crosswalk, car!

STOP your social chit-chat that is inconveniencing everybody else!

STOP being an irresponsible cross guard!

friend_of_satan,

“God bless you”… riiight, that is totally what she is trying to communicate. Loving kindness and grace. No way her god would see through that. 🙄

friend_of_satan,

Earlier in the evening:

Jesus: table for 26 please!

Host: but there are only 13 of you.

Jesus: yeah, but we’re all going to sit on the same side of the table.

friend_of_satan,

Wow. Nobody has ever thought of using an X in their branding before. What a brilliant idea. This man’s vision knows no bounds. 🙄

friend_of_satan,

Of course. Parts of the internet are basically unusable without it, and others are much less safe. Any creator who moans about this is just taking out their frustration about their chosen line of work on you, or guilt tripping you to make a penny. Plus, lots of creators have found ways to run ethical and safe do that don't put the user at risk.

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