brygphilomena
@brygphilomena@lemmy.world
- Comment on Phonebooks 2 hours ago:
Residential listings were “white pages” and businesses were “yellow pages.”
Yes, they were big, printed on very thin paper, with small typeface.
- Comment on I designed a cardboard cutter that turns boxes into free cat scratchers 1 day ago:
I’ve made a few things. One, Mickey shaped cabinet hardware I put up for free because I didn’t want to deal with Disney. Though I might put the raw print up on Etsy or something just because.
Another is a frame to turn a Disney name tag into an ornament. I’m selling the completed product rather than releasing the design because I wanted to really offer it to people who didn’t have 3d printers and wanted to ensure that it met my standards. And I didn’t want competition. That said, it takes quite a lot of time to print, prep, sand, and paint. I spend a couple hours in finishing each and sell it at a price that… Totally doesn’t make it worth it.
- Comment on Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash? 4 days ago:
People around me put things out early with the expectation and hope someone will come and take it.
- Comment on Google calls for halting use of WHOIS for TLS domain verifications 1 week ago:
I think this really underpins that much of the internet is built on systems we assume will last forever.
The single TLD that changed it’s whois domain and let the old one expire was the cause.
- Comment on No 'Sims 5' Coming as EA Updates Franchise With Multiplayer 1 week ago:
Hell, I still have the CD installer. And I think the soundtrack CD.
I did enjoy the puzzle houses people would make though.
- Comment on Picture 3 weeks ago:
When a student goes to school, the school becomes in loco parentis and the student doesn’t have protection from school officials. Children, on campus, general do not have protection for free speech, protection from unreasonable searches or seizures, or really any of their rights.
The school, acting as parents, can restrict their speech, search their bags, and confiscate contraband.
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 4 weeks ago:
$1000 is likely small claims court. At least where I was, no lawyers are allowed for small claims so the landlord would have to come to deal with it himself or a representative of the payment company.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 4 weeks ago:
External locus of control.
Bad things in someone’s life is not their fault, but the fault of whatever scapegoat.
Can’t get a girlfriend? It’s women’s fault.
Can’t get a job? It’s illegal immigrants.
Can’t afford to do the things you like? It’s the government taking too many taxes.
Whatever problem someone has, they are looking to blame someone rather than make any changes in their own life.
- Comment on Why do radio stations all seem to go on commercial at the same time? 1 month ago:
Some baofangs even are sold with the ability to transmit locked out for ham frequencies now. They can still transmit in the frequencies that normal walkie talkies operate on though. I think they started using btech as the brand for the ham radio ones are now.
Was annoyed when I accidentally bought a few of those. But they’re only like $17.
- Comment on Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry? 1 month ago:
A records are usually fine for web dev, and some cname records. But if you move DNS to different name servers it doesn’t take the MX, srv, or txt with you.
Name servers are where all the DNS records are hosted. It tells every computer who is the authority on the information. If you change those without moving all the DNS records to the new location. All the old ones are no longer used at all. Even if they still exist on the old system.
Also spf records might also reference the websites a record to allow the website to send email without getting flagged as spam. If the site moves, but emails are still sent from the old IP address for a myriad of reasons it would break email. Like if they used some provider that hosted the site and emails on the same system, which used to be more common than it is today.
- Comment on Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry? 1 month ago:
Because so few understand it and so many things use it.
If you read a guide on setting up a website. They might have you change a DNS record and you might not realize it’s doing something else. Web developers frequently want to make changes to DNS and will change the name servers away to theirs but not migrate any of the records for anything besides the website. They’ll break EVERYTHING but hey, the website will load.
If you read a guide on connecting some service like hubspot. They will have you add spf records. But those need to be included with the existing ones and not just replacing what’s already there. Mess it up and every single email you send will get sent to spam folders.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In all my partners, it’s always been different. Some liked it when I was rough and threw them around. Others really enjoyed being eaten out. Almost all enjoyed fingering as foreplay. Some really, really enjoyed having their boobs played with. Another one wanted me to get angry and fuck her even when she said stop (she got really annoyed when I would listen to her and actually stop, but we were young and didn’t know what consensual non-consensual was, she didn’t tell me ahead of time, and we didn’t set up a safe word or establish the red-yellow-green system.)
The woman I am with now, really gets off from praise. She loves it when I encourage her to do what feels good for her, when I remind her how sexy she is, when I tell her how much of a good girl she is, and when I tell her I love her.
If you want a simple answer, the best I can say is to talk to the woman and find out what she enjoys and try that. Just remember that just because she enjoyed something with a precious partner doesn’t mean she will enjoy it with you. Sometimes you’ll meet a woman who doesn’t know what she likes. So try different things, encourage her to share any ideas or fantasies and try them. She might think something is sexy in her fantasy and find out it doesn’t live up to what she’s thinking.
Oh! And it can change from sexy-time to sexy-time. So pay attention to how she reacts and do what she enjoys that day.
- Comment on Why won't companies release old games or at least make very old ones free? 1 month ago:
Have you looked at the Nintendo store? It’s got tons of old games in there for the switch from various old consoles.
Playstation often has old games in its store, over half the psx library was for sale on the PSP and ps Vita.
- Comment on Why do so many people use NGINX? 2 months ago:
I learned nginx when I was hosting websites. I had it set up and running when it was time to add reverse proxies into my setup. It didn’t take much more from the virtual hosts I was already using.
Now, I don’t host many individual sites anymore and haproxy has a plugin on my firewall for the handful of services I run now.
- Comment on If you were to customize your license plate, what would it say? 2 months ago:
Pyro FX
- Comment on Would you date a coworker? 2 months ago:
That’s how the girlfriend and I met. We didn’t start dating until we had both quit, but I had quite a few flings with coworkers in my day.
- Comment on Portable CD players are back and now work with wireless headphones 2 months ago:
That was basically how anti-skip worked, albeit with much less memory.
They would buffer the audio for like 10 seconds that way.
- Comment on Hackers could create traffic jams thanks to flaw in traffic light controller, researcher says 2 months ago:
Hackers was a documentary
- Comment on Why haven't car manufacturers standardized automatic brake lights when a built in accelerometer detects deceleration? 2 months ago:
The issue is with regenerative braking and single pedal operation of EVs. Many vehicles today will essentially brake if you aren’t on the accelerator.
Personally, I think it’s a gap in design/regulation. But not as simple as brake pedals.
- Comment on Where to buy server replacement hdd to match existing RAID configured drives? 2 months ago:
Servermonkey.com
Harddrivesdirect.com
Unixsurplus.com
Techmikeny.com
I’ve used all these sites before for used parts/servers
- Comment on HDD or SSD for a home server? 2 months ago:
You can get an older model Samsung Evo 1tb SSD new for under $100. Those have been good drives for me.
You can probably find something to shuck used if you don’t care too much for reliability.
Regardless, get a second disk even something attached to your main PC to handle backups.
RPi are nice, but imo are getting expensive and if you aren’t using the i/o pins just not worth it. If I were to just start out again I’d pickup a used laptop. Higher specs than a RPi and built in battery backup.
- Comment on Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times? 2 months ago:
Yup. I run those kind of clusters. But unless your in home datacenter territory, that sort of config isn’t likely to happen in self hosted.
- Comment on Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times? 2 months ago:
Even physical hardware, if your paying power you can have clusters of physical hardware power up and down based on usage. There is no point in having 10 physical hosts running when the workload for n+1 means 3 servers overnight. With bnc, ipmi, ilo, idrac it will power them up as needed.
- Comment on Why do many search engines seem to ignore operators (e.g. exact phrases, term exclusions, OR, etc.)? Is there a good reason for having a dumb 1997-level search logic that I'm not seeing? 2 months ago:
No. The issue is websites are trash, not the crawlers. SEO has created a weird amalgamation of content, filler, and keywords. It’s why recipe sites have stories with every recipe.
Google very much is responsible for the current web design though.
- Comment on Oklahoma is Now Required to Teach Students About the Bible and The Ten Commandments in All Public Schools 2 months ago:
Hokay, so here’s the Bible… Chillin.
“Damn, that is a sweet Bible” you might say.
WRONG
Alright.
Ruling out the second coming,
Heaven becoming crashed into us,
Our savior leaving, and reality exploding,
we’re definitely going to burn in hell.
Hokay.
So, basically we’ve got
Adam, Eve, Abraham, Cain, Abel, Joseph, the Hittites, and us with sins.
We’ve got about 2600 more than anybody else…whatever.
Anyway,
one day God decides those Gomorrah sons of a bitches are going down.
So, he launch retribution at Gomorrah.
While it’s on it’s way, Gomorrah is like “SHIT! SHIT! Who the fuck is burning us!?”
“Oh well, “know” the visitors!”
Then in Babel Gods like
“Shit guys, zey got ze tower, zey are communicating. Confuse their language!”
“But I am le tired!”
“Well, have a nap, THEN SCATTER THEM!”
Meanwhile, Australia is down there like
“WTF, mate?”
Noah, Shem, and God flood all the animals,
so, now we’ve got plagues flying everywhere, passing each other.
Egypt’s like
“AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH LOCUSTS!!!”
The Four Horsemen’s like
“‘Bout that time, eh chaps?”
…
“Righto.”
So, now the Church is like
“Fuck. We’re dumbasses.”
Jerusalem is like
“What’s going on, eh?”
Australia is still like
“WTF?”
Mt Olympus is laughing at us
and Roman Legions is like
“Well, fuck that.”
Shit, now we’ve got a Messiah.
Everyone’s saved
‘cept Australia
and they’re still like
“WTF?”
…
But they’ll be dead soon…fucking kangaroos.
But
assuming we don’t condemn ourselves up,
us Christians just have to worry about
Jesus breaking off from the Kingdom of Heaven…
to go hang with the Muslims…
Palestinians can come too.
THE END!
- Comment on Born from the tragedy of gun violence, this program teaches children how to stop a wound from bleeding out | CNN 2 months ago:
I am all for basic first aid to be part of school curriculum. CPR, AED, and Stop the Bleed.
There are so many reasons to have a stop the bleed kit and training that isn’t gun shot related. Industrial accidents, automobile accidents, and even accidents around the home like kitchen accidents could cause a serious bleed. It’s not a terrible thing to understand the basics of preventing someone from bleeding out.
- Comment on Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk. 2 months ago:
Then just don’t answer? Why is it so hard for people to understand that just because I call doesn’t mean you need to answer. You’re busy and will respond later, that’s what voicemail is for.
It’s like getting a very long notification for a message. You can either reply now (by answering and talking) or reply later by just ignoring the call and responding in whichever manner you prefer later.
I don’t understand why people think a call has to be answered.
- Comment on Top post in the conservative subreddit: Being unable to work at a "woke" company 2 months ago:
Sure, but they also said role. Which can just mean job position, is more commonly used for casted actors.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 2 months ago:
I’m around 200tb currently, working to move to a new server that will let me house 800tb worth of disks, before I consider getting a shelf to expand to.
At this point. I don’t know which is cheaper. The hardware, maintenance, and power or just paying all those subs.
- Comment on Networking Dilemma 2 months ago:
Most power line adaptors say to keep it on the same circuit. The one I have is running a small VoIP phone and I don’t have issues with call quality.