cizra

@cizra@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inaccuracies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, 4 is tricky socially and 8 is tricky anatomically. I touch it to something, as an alternative to holding it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inaccuracies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using binary with bent/straight fingers gets you up to 31.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silverblue or other immutable on remote VPS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using NixOS in Azure - Azure allows creating a VM out of a disk image, and NixOS has tools to create preconfigured disk images. You inject your SSH keys and stuff straight into the image, then upload and create a VM. A bit fiddly, but I got it to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhost your own gitea instance - selfhosted, lightweight github alternative⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I started running my own Gitea instance because I wanted a private place to host my Obsidian notes.

  I don’t have the time to read the article now, but permit a question: what do you use Gitea for?

  I’m holding my dotfiles on a SSH server, clone/push over SSH, and it’s enough to do Git. I don’t need a ticket system, or wiki or anything (I use plaintext notes).

  $ cat ~/.ssh/config
  Host srv
    Hostname srv.mywhatever.com
  
  $ git clone srv:/path/to/repo
  $ cd repo
  $ git push
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dynamic IP - Self hosting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How often does your IP actually change? Mine changes so rarely (during extended power outages, say) that I am able to just update my IP manually when it does.

  I even used to run my own authoritative DNS server at home (the one offered by my registrar isn’t configurable enough, think SRV and TXT records) - for that, I have a web UI at my registrar to set the IP addresses of the DNS server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where does plaque come from?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Corpses of dead bacteria and dead tuna :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where does plaque come from?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are bacteria everywhere, indeed. Inside canned food, there are dead corpses of bacteria only, thankfully.

  Hypothetically, if you sterilized your mouth somehow to ideal cleanliness, it’d get contaminated next time you inhale unsterilized air.

  Let’s give a moment of appreciation to our immune systems. Otherwise, we’d be like …wikipedia.org/…/Severe_combined_immunodeficiency

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does your current setup look like?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m running my email server on a POCO F1 ex-Android phone (running PostmarketOS now).

  I wish I could get NixOS running on it, then I’d move other things also there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’ll take you 10 minutes, instead of 5, to download a DVD rip of a movie… This limitation would have next to no practical impact on being able to communicate with the free world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The other day I heard a friend talking about how "the moon's gravity affects our internal organs." This sounds like bull, but is it? And if so, how would I correct their misinformation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The ocean is not only very heavy, it’s also very long (tall, viewed sideways from POV of the Moon). This means the bits near the moon are more affected by gravity, pulled harder.

  There’s so much fun to be had with this effect. When the moon is overhead, you’re stretched out an unmeasurably tiny bit, for example. It also causes tall objects to orient themselves perpendicular to moon (one end is lighter, the other end is heavier. Just like a weighted stick floats upright in water).

  Oh, and then there’s the fact that your head (which could be seen as kinda momentarily orbiting the moon, with orbital period of once a month) has a higher orbital velocity than your feet, thus your head is constantly dragged sideways, and lying down helps alleviate this effect (only your nose is now pulled off your face, not your whole head). This is the reason why it’s easier to fall asleep when lying down.