Limonene

@Limonene@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have self hosted my email since 2006. I gave up on self hosting outgoing mail in 2021, but I still keep the server up for incoming mail, and still set up throwaway accounts on there.

  The hard part of hosting email is getting Google and Microsoft to accept outgoing mail. Tons of businesses that do not have visibly “outlook.com” or “gmail.com” addresses are still hosted by those servers.

  I had SPF, DKIM, and a static datacenter IP address with no reputation problems. I still couldn’t get through to Microsoft, not even in people’s junk mail directory, until they manually whitelisted my address. Microsoft didn’t allow them to whitelist a whole domain. Google was a little easier, but they added new demands monthly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does streaming compare to "analog"?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, true, but that’s mostly fixed costs, and has a pretty low incremental cost for each video delivered. The fixed costs we have to pay regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does streaming compare to "analog"?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Electrical engineer here. There is almost no difference.

  The cost of streaming video from a server to your computer is pretty small, basically just transferring the bytes from a hard drive to a network card. This happens in a datacenter on a big server designed to be efficient at it, and serve a ton of people at once. Your own electricity consumption on your viewing device is likely much higher than that. You can calculate your electricity consumption using a Kill-A-Watt or similar device, but here are some averages of measurements I’ve made on my devices:

  PC with 27" LCD monitor: 150W 50" TV: 300W Laptop with internal 14" screen: 40W Phone with 5" screen: 10W roughly, but it’s complicated Phone with screen off, speaker only: 2W (guessing here) Handheld FM radio: less than 1W

  If you look at your computer’s CPU usage while watching video, it’s mostly idle. So most of the power consumption is the screen’s backlight.

  Assuming worst-case coal power, releasing 0.4kg of carbon per kWh, and a large TV, and let’s say 10% overhead for the server’s energy cost, that’s 0.13kg of carbon per hour. So don’t worry about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So THAT'S where I parked my car!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t it freeze there? It’s in northern Illinois.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No brainer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could we put Einstein’s bones in a centrifuge, and run at 200km/h?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can't all be astronauts.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re holding hands tight enough that you can feel it at all, you’re already exerting more than 2 milliNewtons of force.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to selfhost with a VPN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure how much you’re paying for your VPN, but a virtual private server can be had for about $5 per month. You’ll get a real IPv4 address just for you, so you won’t have to use non-standard port numbers. (You can also use the VPS as a self-hosted VPN or proxy.)

  $5 per month doesn’t get you much processing power, but it gets you plenty of bandwidth. You could self-host your server on your home computer, and reverse-proxy through your NAT using the VPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Road Redemption (motorcycle game) 7 Days to Die (zombie scavenging survival craft with mostly 2-wheeled vehicles)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a STEM graduate, I would much rather hold hands with an econ graduate than a business graduate. Economists can do real good for the world, while MBAs seem to be mostly harmful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bmw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not know about soft turn signals until I saw this post.

  I question why this feature exists. Drivers should be aiming to signal 10 seconds ahead. When making a lane change or turn, you should be keeping your signal on until the maneuver is completed. I can’t think of a circumstance where 3 blinks is enough. 1 blink looks more like a mistaken signal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet kind of sucks right now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if Discord wasn’t doing it, public Discord guilds are known to be scraped by a number of different bots. Previously, it was for spies, cops, and private investigators who wanted to search for messages by username. If those bots could do it before, AI bots will be doing it aggressively today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloudflare has IP banned me before for no reason (no proxy, no VPN, residential ISP with no bot traffic). They’ve switched their captcha system a few times, and some years it’s easy, some years it’s impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give Microsoft some credit! Excel has been able to come up with wrong answers for decades. For example, reporting 1900 as a leap year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A USB keylogger is not detectable by the computer, not in firmware nor operating system. It passively sniffs the traffic between the USB keyboard and the computer, to be dumped out later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A person with physical access can tamper with the OS, then tamper with the signing keys. Most secure boot systems allow you to install keys.

  Secure boot can’t detect a USB keylogger. Nothing can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What alternative do you recommend that won’t be blocked by Google and Microsoft? I hate Microsoft, but I can’t even sign up for a Google account, and everywhere else I’ve tried is blocked by Google, Microsoft, or both.

  I self-hosted my email from 2006-2021, and do not have the stamina to do that any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What about all the people blocked from air travel due to low Social Credit? Are you saying that never happened?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WrestleMania was running wild on you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that the infographic says “of all the mammals on Earth”, which means individuals, not biomass. So the infographic is objectively false.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would rather have my good friend bang my spouse while drunk, than drive drunk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you work for a company owned by a A..hole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last company where I faced external suppliers, I had to take a training where they said we couldn’t accept any item worth more than like $20, except food or alcohol during a presentation. But we could accept such items on behalf of the company, and they would be raffled off to a random employee. One time a guy in purchasing got a giant brass horse head from a Chinese supplier. I guess nobody signed up for the raffle, so it became a permanent fixture in the cafeteria.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy attempting to radicalise people to enforce class wars?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any evidence of major AI generated memes and comments? Sometimes I see an obvious AI image (and down vote it), and some communities are made for the purpose of AI so I blocked them. But aside from that, have you found much generative AI slop?

  And if so, how would you fix that in code? Some sort of captcha? I think the volume is low enough that it wouldn’t help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your post is blatant disinformation. Undocumented immigrants overwhelmingly vote not at all. Voting illegally in the US is difficult, and often prosecuted.

  I live in the US. Most of the people I know are Democrat-aligned. None of them want undocumented immigrants to vote. None of them import undocumented immigrants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beaches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If gender is what’s in your pants, then twice a week my gender is your dad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t used it in the last several years, but from about 2014-2018 any time I tried to download, it required registration, and any time I tried to register, it just didn’t work. It was some problem with the javascript in their site. Probably related to captcha or something. Yes, I tried multiple computers, multiple browsers, even tried registering on a library’s computer.

  Looks like their site is less shit now, but it’s still awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technichally-wrong community. Here here, peepostin' lyka pro⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Purple: You have eaten beets recently. Green: You have had a Vitamin B supplement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How To Swap Couplings?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re certain that only the housing of the connector has changed from old motor to new motor, and each pin inside the housing is the same, then I’d recommend trying a heat gun to melt the waxy adhesive, followed by poking around with a screwdriver to unlatch the pins.

  But if it were me, I’d just splice the wires. You will need heatshrink or at least electrical tape, a soldering iron, and solder. A good splice can easily handle more current than that little connector.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just give me a few hundred turns, and I'm gonna spank everyone at this tournament.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could just counterspell it. The “no spells in the building can be countered” and “protection” clauses only affect it after it enters the battlefield.

  So, it would go to the graveyard, its owner would be banned, and nobody could take any turns. They would have to postpone the tournament until the next day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This survey doesn’t distinguish between levels of cloud service provider, so I was a little confused.

  Virtual private servers, cloud virtual servers (like AWS), cloud-based software where you provide code or a program and the cloud system runs it on a server of its choosing, and cloud-based systems where someone else provides the software (like Google Docs).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally cannot use a program that has AI crap integrated into it, because of data security rules in the contracts I have to follow. If I used Windows 11, I would have to never use Notepad, and find a way to remove Explorer. (Explorer creates the desktop icons and taskbar, so good luck with that.)