jbloggs777
@jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de
Just a regular Joe.
- Comment on Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds 1 week ago:
gnasches teeth at $something because of $article subscribe now for more teeth gnashing goodness!
- Comment on US races to develop AI-powered, GPS-free fighter jets, outpacing China 1 month ago:
Skynet sounds friendly. It needs a friendly looking logo.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 1 month ago:
When you have cloud providers growing faster than the region’s grid capacity, something has to give … throttle growth there, or plan for mega growth? I guess it helps that nuclear is green again. 😁
- Comment on Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers. 2 months ago:
I can now train a generative voice on my own voice and have it sing along to my own generative music.
A few more tweaks to make it consistently off key and it will be near indistinguishable! I will be able to torture not just my children, but my great-grand children, far into the future.
What an age.
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 4 months ago:
It’s Freedom® these days. It took a little while for the application to be processed.
- Comment on Cat 6 hurricanes have arrived 4 months ago:
Excellent. Now I don’t have to evacuate for category 5 hurricanes anymore. That will save me some stress.
- Comment on Spotify paid users hit 236M, but losing money, amid Apple battle 4 months ago:
They will also be terminating another 5-10% of their EU userbase this month for not accepting their latest price hikes. These will mostly be the low-volume users who were too lazy to cancel.
Wait for the special offers before signing up for a plan again, folks. And explore the alternatives in the mean time… you might just discover that you don’t need them.
- Comment on How can open source hardware be a movement if the raw materials still have to be mined and factory produced? 4 months ago:
I only eat vegans. Would that count?
- Comment on Over-70s are UK’s most online adults after twentysomethings, survey shows 5 months ago:
More likely forwarding a mix of funny cat videos, gardening tips, home remedies, and paid-for conspiracy theories to all their friends and family, while convincing themselves that they are successfully doing research.
Don’t worry - it’s for a good cause of saving the youth from a dystopian future of carbon-neutral transportation and fifteen-minute cities. Sigh.
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 6 months ago:
You pay the Amazon tax indirectly often enough regardless. Huge chunks of the Internet run on AWS. And if it’s not AWS, then it’s Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. Shareholders win again.
As for not buying shitty products, returning them when you realise how shitty they are, cancelling contracts when services turn shitty, etc. Yes, do that.
- Comment on ISP put me behind NAT 7 months ago:
Welcome to the world of Carrier Grade NAT. 100.64.0.0/10 is reserved for this.
If you are lucky, you also have an IPv6 address. The catch is you need IPv6 on the client-side too.
A VPS or similar running wireguard and a proxy might bridge the gap.
It might also be possible to ask your provider for some port forwarding. Probably not, but check anyway.
Good luck!
- Comment on Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium 7 months ago:
Battery-licking good!
- Comment on A few Questions about reverse proxies and running your own Jellyfin server 8 months ago:
Dynamic DNS is probably still required, unless his ISP issues dedicated or very long term IPv6 leases.
- Comment on A few Questions about reverse proxies and running your own Jellyfin server 8 months ago:
IPv6 may also “just work” nowadays, too, especially if the aim is to connect from mobile or other consumer networks. Corporate environments are still hit & mostly miss.
- Comment on [HN] Amazon selling $15k tiny house with two floors and ships in under two weeks 8 months ago:
I bet those avocado toast eating whippersnappers feel stupid.
They could have had their own one wall by now!
- Comment on X Social Media is suing X, a social media company 8 months ago:
There is a good chance that there is A-W, Y and Z social media companies too. Some may be legit (eg. marketing on existing social media platforms), and others more for trademark squatting.
- Comment on What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels? 8 months ago:
Indeed. I wonder if LinuxNet / #linux is still around, actually. That was interesting back in the day, and later meeting many of the characters at conferences and meetups. IRC was great. Patches by email, otoh… Good that it is possible, but PRs/MRs are nicer.
- Comment on Twitter / X is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it. 8 months ago:
Hah… I like it. tweets are now x-cretions.
- Comment on Twitter / X is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it. 8 months ago:
Oh I don’t know… twitter was probably seen as good tool for more pump & dump and other financial scams, not to mention the opportunity to influence worldwide politics.
Then there’s the wish to turn it into an everything app with micro transactions at every step of the way. Such a beast wouldn’t get far in the EU, and probably not the US either.
- Comment on What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels? 8 months ago:
It would have to be a pretty niche project with an involved and dedicated community to get away with that these days.
- Comment on [HN] Total data loss after botched GitOps and failed backups 10 months ago:
Ouch.
The Kubernetes ecosystem is full of tools and addons to help solve particular problems (often utilizing the dynamic nature of K8s), but each of these brings additional complexity, which add up over time until it’s very hard to intuitively reason about the consequences of change.
I personally prefer my IaaC with a manual review & approval step. Once you get more automated, the testing complexity & cost (and need for additional dev/test environments), and of course risk increases.
It’s a shame that the backup/restore testing didn’t work in this case, though. These kind of TIFUs are better with a happy-ish end.
- Comment on What's the Best Non-Alcoholic Alternative to an Ice Cold Beer at the End of the Day? 10 months ago:
Tea would be healthier but alas, I want something cold in hot weather!
- Comment on What's the Best Non-Alcoholic Alternative to an Ice Cold Beer at the End of the Day? 10 months ago:
Alcohol does have an effect, as everyone will attest, but there is also an effect to arriving home, cracking open a cold drink, and relaxing for a while. It may not work for all, of course.
I have a NA beer that tastes almost identical to its alcoholic brother, and there are definitely similar results from a single beer…
The good thing with the NA version is that I sleep better and can snap myself out of the relaxed state if needed. It also makes it possible to mix & match at social events, so that I don’t over-do it.
- Comment on Why is lemmygrad not a banned instance anymore? 10 months ago:
Thanks. The US has a terrible interventionist history in South America - I don’t think anyone can argue that. I feel that they have changed their approach a bit though. Less violence, and more reliance on international and regional organizations, along with “soft” measures like sanctions to maintain the status quo that helps to protect their national interests. Iraq was the major disappointment of my time - despite worldwide protests, the coalition of the willing moved in.
Nowadays, it mostly seems like the US’ enemies are those who position themselves as such. It will increasingly be proxy wars, with the US and their friends and partners providing a mix of carrots and sticks to potential friends and partners, in line with the principles of international law, like we see in Ukraine today.
Similarly, if a country doesn’t want to go that way, it should be free to do so - it cannot expect the same privileged access to markets etc., and there should be carrots offered for “good behaviour” like respecting human rights. Here I see the possibility of China offering an alternative with a protective umbrella for other countries. If respect for human rights is important on both sides, and there are options for citizens to migrate / vote with their feet then this could be a good result, reestablishing a bipolar world along with “value competition”.
China’s rise has been pretty peaceful, and gives me hope. Similarly, the EU continues to be a rich powerful bloc that engages in economic and value competition with the US, and manages to protect its people from some of the worst aspects of the US’ influence. I’d like a little more democracy and freedom back in the EU though … we’ve been slipping into tyranny in some ways (eg. some of the covid politics and resulting witch hunts, and their handling of the financial crisis and greece, putting politics ahead of solid economic advice).
- Comment on Why is lemmygrad not a banned instance anymore? 10 months ago:
I appreciate the effort you put into this comment, thank you.
It does however appear that communism is fragile, with opponents having plenty of opportunities and encouragement to throw spanners into the works. Past examples seem to suggest that violence/force will always be required to enact change, which is going to be hard in any region where most people see themselves as doing OK, with food on the table, varying degrees of free expression, and opportunities for at least their children.
I suspect that the best hope of wider success of communist ideals would be to win the hearts and minds of people by having a functioning, peaceful example in the world - perhaps a future China - that can influence public opinion and policies elsewhere.
In the meantime, working to peacefully improve the current systems wherever possible seems much better, and using your feet where not is better for most.