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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds that fast walking can reduce lung cancer risk by 50%: A simple health indicator for cancer prevention⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Once again procrastinating proves the top strategy.

  Nothing but up, my friends!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The key is that we need to get out of the cargo cult of credentialism and start refocusing on what schools in general are actually for: making sure individuals learn.

  If we tell people the piece of paper is all that matters, of course they'll do whatever it takes to get the piece of paper. By contrast, you can't cheat learning. You're only cheating yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wrote a book called Future Sepsis⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=GauEEQAAQBAJ

  Yes, it didn't show up in search for me either. Really bizarre. (I probably didn't buy enough advertising)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud (Docker) calendar sent email reminders for a few days, then stopped. Cron job is working, test emails also work⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Since calendar is an app, but fundamental email service isn't, one thing that I found is that apps can interact in ways that are completely unintuitive.

  For example, I activated the ncdownloader app, and it caused mail to stop showing emails, or I activated nextcloud music and it stopped nextcloud news from updating.

  You should check your logs, because usually when there's a problem it will show up in there. The logs I'm referring to are in your administrator panel. It will be completely unintuitive as to what exactly is going on. The other thing that you can do is just pay attention to which apps you've installed, and if there are any that are a little bit unusual, just try to disabling them and seeing if calendar mail works after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wrote a book called Future Sepsis⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I've been keeping an eye on it, and this morning future sepsis went live on Google Play books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US high school students lose ground in math and reading, continuing yearslong decline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that a nontrivial number of grade 12 students are functionally illiterate is a civilizational disgrace.

  Part of the problem is the cargo cult of the diploma. People who tend to be successful financially finish high School, therefore the numbers for people who finished high school look better, so people assume that it is a piece of paper that makes them better and not the sort of attributes that would let you graduate from high school. But that's not how it works, it's the other way around.

  Unfortunately, the United States isn't magic. It had good people becuse it had high standards, but once those high standards go away oh you're left with is a nation full of people who aren't good enough to compete in a global market.

  We just haven't realized it yet because the economy is still largely supported by boomers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sources to purchase mp3s?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally used 7digital to rebuild my music collection. They sell good licensed mp3s.

  I have absolutely nothing negative to say about them. The prices were decent, the files are boring DRM free MP3s, and they had a really good selection of music.

  Honestly it looks almost exactly the same as when I used it for the first time like 15 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of lightning has been driven by fear and shaped by curiosity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  "I'm Jim. I have to hold the geiger counter at the spot lightning is going to strike. I'll let you know what I find."

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My reaction when there's a new Star Trek show for pre-schoolers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, AI is a really good demo for a lot of people, but once you start using it, the gains you can get from it end up being somewhat minimal without doing some serious work.

  Reminds me of 10 other technologies that if you didn't get in the world was going to end but ended up more niche than you'd expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Randy Fine warns judges who release violent criminals: 'Your day in court is coming'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally speaking, judges are immune to consequences for the decisions they make except in very narrow circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the current state of Matrix?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn't like synapse or dendrite at all, but conduit has been great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like one of those things that the bean counters really like, but it's not good for anyone. The customers end up getting a shittier experience, and the developers who make really good games end up really not getting their fair share because if a bunch of people sign up for game pass or something they are going to be subsidizing all the other companies that made games that didn't get people to sign up.

  I feel kind of Lucky in this regard, I got to realize very early on that the game subscription service is better on paper than in reality. Around 2007 there was a game subscription service called gametap. It was a pretty good service, lots of good games - really good games, but you had things like if a game that you liked came out of rotation it was gone, and you never owned anything so if you quit your subscription you lost everything in fact I'm pretty sure you even lost your sabe files with that service.

  Games that you love are really a thing that you want to own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now officially open source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  BASIC bros, it's all up from here!

  (Note: FBXL.NET has been a BASIC website for decades)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting Started with Proxmox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I moved to Proxmox a while back and it was a big upgrade for my setup.

  I do not use VMs for most of my services. Instead, I run LXC containers. They are lighter and perfect for individual services. To set one up, you need to download a template for an operating system. You can do this right from the Proxmox web interface. Go to the storage that supports LXC templates and click the Download Templates button in the top right corner. Pick something like Debian or Ubuntu. Once the template is downloaded, you can create a new container using it.

  The difference between VMs and LXC containers is important. A VM emulates an entire computer, including its own virtual hardware and kernel. This gives you full isolation and lets you run completely different operating systems such as Windows or BSD, but it comes with a heavier resource load. An LXC container just isolates a Linux environment while running on the host system’s kernel. This makes containers much faster and more efficient, but they can only run Linux. Each container can also have its own IP address and act like a separate machine on your network.

  I tend to keep all my services in lxc containers, and I run one VM which I use for a jump box I can hop into if need be. It's a pain getting x11 working in a container, so the VM makes more sense.

  Before you start creating containers, you will probably need to create a storage pool. I named mine AIDS because I am an edgelord, but you can use a sensible name like pool0 or data.

  Make sure you check the Start at boot option for any container or VM you want to come online automatically after a reboot or power outage. If you forget this step, your services will stay offline until you manually start them.

  Expanding your storage with an external SSD works well for smaller setups. Longer term, you may want to use a NAS with fast network access. That lets you store your drive images centrally and, if you ever run multiple Proxmox servers, configure hot standby so one server can take over if another fails.

  I do not use hot standby myself. My approach is to keep files stored locally, then back them up to my NAS. The NAS in turn performs routine backups to an external drive. This gives me three copies of all my important files, which is a solid backup strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wrong Groomers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like a big thing that changes how one would percieve Naofumi as a groomer is that he doesn't see any of the children as potential sexual objects. In fact, Raphtalia is quite upset at that point, because she desperately wants him to lewd the tanuki loli and he's not having it.

  One peak oldschool example of grooming in anime is definitely GTO. That guy's a creep. The only reason it seems remotely acceptable is he's the protagonist and it's framed like he's a good guy and when he's being a creep it's funny. In addition to the power imbalance of being their teacher, he also uses huge amounts of violence and gang connections to get people to fall in line. The levels of wrong are layered. It's impressive in retrospect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wrote a book called Future Sepsis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow, thank you so much!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you create a lemmy instance using your phone as the server ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For both nostr and Lemmy, you are going to need a domain name, and that's going to be a bit of a problem. If your phone just stays at home and has the same IP address all the time that's one thing, but if you are on the road trying to host Lemmy then you could have new IP addresses constantly, articularly as you move from data to Wi-Fi and back. Your dynamic DNS would have to be no joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you create a lemmy instance using your phone as the server ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is absolutely possible, but you probably won't be doing much else with it.

  You're going to need a very specific phone. I actually tried doing this with an old blackberry phone I had, but even though I could run a Linux command prompt, I didn't have systemd or any other startup method so I wasn't able to run Apache or a copy of Lemmy as a service.

  I have a pinephone, and that would be super easy to run with I believe, because it's just Debian -- and you can run Lemmy on Debian no problem. Thing is, at that point it's more just a computer running on phone hardware rather than your phone in the way that you're thinking.

  I still believe that there is a way to be able to run let me in a Linux container on an Android phone, but there's such a thing as personal bandwidth and so I just haven't gotten around to try.

• FOSS tools I used to write my novel
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wrote a book called Future Sepsis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I kind of wish it tasted like zesty mint. Flavorless clot is really not palatable. If I were acting with this in my mouth I'd be spending half my time trying to ignore how gross it feels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wrote a book called Future Sepsis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn't know what it tasted like, so I took a bit.

  I do not recommend drinking the fake blood. I expected it to taste sweet like corn syrup or glycerine, but it just kind of tasted like clotted too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wrote a book called Future Sepsis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. The same day I put up this post, I created my Google Play books partner account. It isn't confirmed yet I think because they try to keep out spammers, but it's already uploaded and ready to go as soon as it gets through that.

  I also put it up on Kobi the same day, as well as a bunch of other stores.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wrote a book called Future Sepsis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The cover was made with a toy plane and fake costume blood on a sunny day in winter. The toy got a good home after the photo shoot. I still have a multi-lifetime supply of take blood.

• I wrote a book called Future Sepsis
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devolver boss calls GTA 6 an "AAAAA game" in latest attack on human dignity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  MY GAME IS OVER 9000 A!!!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I set up everything I use "bare metal" or at least in an lxc container I directly build and maintain, but most people don't. Makes a lot of sense, to be honest. A lot of prepackaged software uses databases and nobody has to care exactly what it's up to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major banks neglect energy transition risks from mining as demand booms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like a lot of people don't understand that you can't consume your way to using less.

  #1 is "reduce" because if you just use less, then you don't need to mine anything more, or farm anything more, or build anything more. Ideally, if you care about the environment that's the most direct way to improve things.

  That isn't to say that we don't need to build out greener infrastructure. What it does mean is that anytime that we are doing industrial scale manufacturing like this, we have to be very careful because it's going to inherently damage the environment, and if you're going to do that you need to do the math to figure out if you're doing something that's net good.

  I think a lot of people aren't there yet, they just assume that you do the thing that's good and you're doing good without regard for the cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a fan of any government getting their hands on that. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says recent Windows update didn't kill your SSD⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of many books that I'm working on behind the scenes is a programming book that is going to be for the free basic programming language, but is also intended to be a history of computing and a broader computer science course. One of the recurring jokes I intend to put into the computer history is "that would be the only time Microsoft did something sketchy"

  Their very first action ever was to announce that they had an Altair compatible basic ready to go. And it turns out that even that was a complete lie. They only bothered actually making the basic interpreter once it became obvious there was demand based on the feedback from the magazine letter.