tenebrisnox

@tenebrisnox@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rain⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It rains in the UK. When the Romans invaded they noticed how cloudy and rainy the place is. Still is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s one of the other big issues. I have the same worries about how digital-only gaming has become. My kids seem to prefer digital downloads and really don’t believe me when I warn them that they have absolutely no control over what they “buy”. But they look at me like one of those crazy old-timers who just doesn’t understand the modern world.

  I started with Logseq and then quickly moved to Obsidian (which I think is great). Over the last couple of months I’ve started using Emacs with Org (partly for the challenge and partly because it seems to be able to do pretty much everything).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I did make the jump… into unemployment. But still much happier. I love teaching and would join an authentic, child-centred school at the drop of a hat - but not willing to be complicit in the toxic horror show that’s current UK education.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Former English teacher here. My self-hosting origin is that I had 20 years or so of teaching materials I’d collected in OneNote over that time and simply wanted to have offline copies so that I could feel that if ever something went wrong with Microsoft like getting permanently locked out of my account, then I had a means of restoring everything. Microsoft makes it practically impossible to export to a working backup.

  After spending a LONG time trying everything to get back ownership of my materials, I understood the need to move my digital stuff away from big tech. I bought a Synology NAS, learned how to use Docker and then took more steps. About the same time I started using Fediverse apps and learned a great deal from the discussions and links there. My greatest “learn” has been keeping notes in plaintext files (and not getting seduced by nice shiny new apps that are actually horrors that want lure you into a future subscription).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. That was actually weirdly interesting in terms of the specificity (while also being quite broad). I can’t imagine how many hours and meetings and people were involved in that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have the courts come to an actual definition of what (animal) milk actually is? Last I read, neither EU or UK could define it. Milk’s content differs so much from brand to brand and there’s no set standard. Presumably other than it comes from an animal of some kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Benzion Freshwater.

  Surely that’s a made-up name? Do you have to have a name like that to be a billionaire?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why doesn’t your company provide parking? Why should other people not be able to park because people with business vehicles hog residential parking?

  I live in a road that’s nearly 150+ years old. Not sure that the planners foresaw vans and monster-cars. They were probably more concerned with horses and carts. I doubt trademen parked their carts and hitched their horses outside of other people’s houses in the street.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer says he won't 'choose between' the US or China⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t blame him. Choice of one stable and expanding authoritarian regime and one unstable and expanding authoritarian regime. Do the Chinese police hold nurses down in the street and shoot them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why aren’t the vans parked in commercial car parks or premises? And why do their owners insist on parking them wherever they like (but not their own drives!) without any thought for pedestrians? At the same time, after about 7pm it becomes almost impossible to find a parking space largely because of the sheer number of vans. I’m not talking about the little white vans but the big ones. Commercial vans and pickups have no place being parked in residential streets. Or, charge them higher rates of parking permit fees for commercial vehicles. No one is driving a big van as their family vehicle - unless they’re Steptoe & Son or Trotters Trading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline: Palantir hired four Ministry of Defence officials last year. Then it won its biggest ever contract with the department⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Palantir = truly evil Skynet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has network of 75 covert influence outposts across Britain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are these “talent liason” outposts what used to be called spies? And doesn’t the UK have “talent liason” people in China? Excuse me if I’m not really shocked about this. Surely, rather than moan about it, the UK security services need to use some James Bond-types to investigate (using some futuristic gadgets like chewing gum that blows up etc) and sort it out. Usually these “talent liason” outposts are inside volcanoes or deep sea bases. Should be easy to spot in UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ban phones throughout the school day, Phillipson tells teachers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to the UK… country that once had aspirations to be a center of digital tech… now just wants a Victorian factory education for its kids. Soon pen and paper will be too radical and chalkboard slates will be reintroduced. You can hear the “teach from the front”-types salivating already. “The Empire was built on rote and chalk, Mr Gradgrind!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the last 5-10 years our residential road has gone from having normal family cars parked outside houses to pretty much these types of monstrosities and - worse - transit vans. Our Yaris looks like a toy car in comparison to these behemoths! What’s worse is the ones who have drives can’t fit them so they park in the street.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In other news: rabid dog bites gurning man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Journiv - Self Hosted Journal v0.1.0-beta.11 : Day One Import, Location and Weather, Tag Management and much more are here.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I took another look at your documentation and decided to re-install everything. You’re right, I’d used the simple “test” compose script from your site. After a little trial and error, I got everything working properly with this:

  services:
    redis:
      image: redis:7-alpine
      container_name: journiv-redis
      restart: unless-stopped
      volumes:
        - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/redis-data:/data
      command: redis-server --appendonly yes
  
    journiv:
      image: swalabtech/journiv-app:latest
      container_name: journiv
      ports:
        - "8111:8000"
      environment:
        - SECRET_KEY=XXX
        - DOMAIN_NAME=XXX
        - CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
        - CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/0
        - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
      volumes:
        - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/data:/data
      restart: unless-stopped
      depends_on:
        - redis
  
    celery-worker:
      image: swalabtech/journiv-app:latest
      container_name: journiv-celery-worker
      entrypoint: []
      command: ["celery", "-A", "app.core.celery_app", "worker", "--loglevel=info"]
      environment:
        - SECRET_KEY=XXX
        - DOMAIN_NAME=XXX
        - CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
        - CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/0
        - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
      volumes:
        - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/data:/data
      restart: unless-stopped
      depends_on:
        - redis
        - journiv
  

  Exports are working!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Journiv - Self Hosted Journal v0.1.0-beta.11 : Day One Import, Location and Weather, Tag Management and much more are here.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Journiv still having issues with export? I couldn’t get it to work (tried following all the stuff I could find about the export issues and folder permissions) - so I gave up. A shame because I like the app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m starting to see this. Over on Mastodon I’m starting to get devisive pro-Reform stuff in my feed. Often it’s someone boosting (though not sure why) a video from a pro-Farage account and making a silly comment about it. The local instance I’m in is nice and friendly - and I don’t want the arrival of people who just want to stir up things. We do politics there and seems left-leaning but it’s courteous. Occasionally a tone deaf elephant will thunder through and then move instances when they realise we don’t like the being nasty stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯: Come and learn the Shavian alphabet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Disappointed as I thought this was something to do with Richard Shaver. Never enough stuff about the Shaver Mysteries these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK economy showing signs of 'zombie apocalypse,' says think tank⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, a “Left-leaning” and “independent” think tank that used to be led by the Tory MP David Willets and now run by Ruth Curtice who was Director of fiscal policy to the Treasury for the Tories for 15 years. Of course I’ll believe what they opine. Just like I would have listened to the charities in the 18th and 19th century who warned about how ending child labour as chimney sweeps would destroy the British economy and everyday life while arguing that the children should have the opportunity to learn the Scripture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get followers on mastodon (or any other non-thread social media)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually enjoy Mastodon because the “followers” you get or the ones you follow are few and it’s all manageable. I don’t understand the appeal of following so many that you can’t possibly keep up with what they write about or who they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll be ok as the way things are going, the readers will be AIs who will summarise and review books for Youtube channels watched by AIs who go on to write books for… dead culture. It’s ok because the masses will be watching Strictly Come Hunger Games Dancing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve won the propaganda war convincing the majority that low tax = freedom and prosperity. However, the period of post-World War 2 social improvement was characterised by VERY high taxes for the rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m interested to know if anyone is using a Cloudflare tunnel to stream audio? It breaks their terms but I’ve read that they tend to ignore it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the spirit of the King's Birthday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do we need anything “far worse”? Why not just remove them constitutionally and let them do their own thing? Smaller state and all that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet Journiv! A Self-Hosted, Privacy-First Journaling App (Day One/Apple Journal Alternative)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds fantastic. Journiv has kick-started me into journalling before bed again. Thank you for uour work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet Journiv! A Self-Hosted, Privacy-First Journaling App (Day One/Apple Journal Alternative)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been running Journiv since Monday and really liking it. I’d really like to see a straightfoward means of exporting/restoring journals, though. The export says coming soon.

  One of the reasons I stopped using Memos - which I thought was good - was because the devs were telling users on Discord that there was no need for backups because you should have the skill to manually locate and open up the database and export entries yourself. I think that sort of stuff makes or breaks apps like this in which people put aspects of their lives into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sex offender who sparked UK asylum hotel protests released by mistake⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet how often do we see people who make blunders like this promoted? I work with people who’ve made catestrophic errors and been rewarded by more pay and seniority. It’s the British Way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why supermarket prices really became sky high in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah! the old spectre of the 70s with the wailing piles of uncollected bins and rattling power cuts! Those of us who grew up then seem to have fonder memories of a happier Britain. Price controls have been used successfully in the past (particularly in the post-WW2 period up until 1954). Other countries - significantly Singapore - use price controls to manage their economies efficiently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why supermarket prices really became sky high in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok ok I’ll accept all this “explanation” but what I’d also like to know is when fruit like apples - grown in the UK - have shrunk in size, increased by something like 100%+ and begin to rot as soon as you get them home. You could (just about) put up with massive hikes in prices because of “explanation” but prices plus increasingly worse quality of food is beyond unacceptable. We’re being ripped off here in the UK.