Bahnd
@Bahnd@lemmy.world
- Comment on But the Canadien stock market is over 33,000! 7 hours ago:
Lower 48 here, I make sure all the appropriate TVs at work (news channels) are set to Curling. Its the best winter olympics sport to watch. Firstly, because I can follow it. Secondly, because its players are frumpy dads showing the upmost concentration, not the herculean athletes blowing out the events condom supply. I find it relatable, and magical, those people are physics wizards, and I dont know how they do those that with shuffleboard on ice
- Comment on US Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables 7 hours ago:
For elon branded tech, this makes perfect sence.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 6 days ago:
After what happened in Nepal last year, this 100% tracks with the dystopian narrative we are currently living. The powers that be saw a small country use it as a tool to affect change. To me, and tell me if I lm jumping to conclusions here, its obvious as to why this policy change is happening at all, to prevent the site from being used in that manner again.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 1 week ago:
Its pretty similar to Lemmy or anything else in the fediverse, someones full user name includes their home server.
Your admin just needs to have configured the service to except comminication from other servers and not just its internal users.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 1 week ago:
Teamspeak still requires a license above a small user size, but has multiple clients that can accomodate different target audicences. The TS3 client still looks like it did back in the windows 7 days and the TS5 client is just copying discords homework (Not a clue what happend to 4 and I believe 6 is under development). Both use the same server backend and database structure so both work with one server and different user expirences.
Mumble is still the gold standard for handling large user bases (there is a reason big EvE Online alliances use mumble). It will take longer to set up, the configuration is handled by the server, not through authorized user accounts like TS.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 1 week ago:
Dito (Synapse server), Element for desktop app and fruitphones, Shildichat for android (its lighter and has an adorable turtle as a mascot).
And seconding the voice coms, the VOIP relay server is a huge pain to set up, same with the registration page. My nerd herd hosts a few services that federated to share services and the admin group just issues people accounts.
TLDR: no… Were not using discord anymore, we have discord at home.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 1 week ago:
Dont knock matrix for being slow, it updates just as fast as anyone else’s network speed is and it is focused on encryption and security. Given [gestures broadly to everything these days] people moving away from major platforms should really take into account their digital footprint and privacy.
- Comment on EVE Online - the Ikitursa Haeav Assault Cruiser helping clear out a wormhole 1 week ago:
IIRC there are fortresses in both, but obviosuly the yellow zones are more popular, for that exact reason (it is gear capped, so the impact of rich players is minimized)
- Comment on EVE Online - the Ikitursa Haeav Assault Cruiser helping clear out a wormhole 1 week ago:
Albions new FW is even more blobfest, but its much more objective and seige oriented after the update. Both games made a fast travel method for players to get to the front, and the timing is more like the alert system from planetside 2. Overall its a big improvment, you can expirence the big battles that the outlands are famous for, but there are no shot callers and people respawn if they get into the zone in time.
EvEs frontlines are very similar, but without a dramatic fight scheduled every 2 hours.
- Comment on EVE Online - the Ikitursa Haeav Assault Cruiser helping clear out a wormhole 1 week ago:
I feel this in my space bones. Been in space since 2013 and can functionally do everything, burnt out in 0.0 about 6 years ago, but keep my sub up and occasionally do the solo roam when I fancy shitting in the space chereeos of my old targets.
Gave albion more than a fair shake and will return every few months, I enjoy the routine of the player housing there and the new FW is a nice change of pace.
EvE still holds a special place for me, but I really disconnected when I left reddit. The shitposting and memes of the subreddit really was the pulse of that game for me, I only wish the fediverse could have such activity, it really kept me connected
- Comment on EVE Online - the Ikitursa Haeav Assault Cruiser helping clear out a wormhole 1 week ago:
Nice, Ive only flown that ship a few times, it feels much to similar to the Orthrus after it was released. Space Lambo that only really shines after you throw money at its fit.
Something too nice to drive for serious business, perfect for messing around in safe space with the nerd herd.
- Comment on EVE Online - the Ikitursa Haeav Assault Cruiser helping clear out a wormhole 1 week ago:
Pretty, that ship is a monster in the right hands.
How do you fit it for WH life?
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 2 weeks ago:
Look… Im sure this is not the first time the pope has been called the antichrist. It likely happened in 884, 964, 997, 1012, 1378, 1409, or 1418 to just name a few.
(This is not be taken seriously, I grabbed a bunch of years from the Wikipedia list of antipoes to make a point when the role was contested. In the case of the ones between 1378-1418, where a bloody mess is an understatement (I would rather read history on the war of the roses), there have been significantly fewer violent disagreements regarding the title/position since then)
- Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial 2 weeks ago:
I just block the side-bar using Ublock Origin. Makes more room on the page and im not sold shit. If I want random videos ill hit the home page the post-screen after a video.
Keeps my time down on the site by a lot.
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 2 weeks ago:
Oh dont worry, the earth will still spin. Life will go on.
Humans are fucking this up for themselves and wont be missed. [Beep boop, im not a robot]
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 2 weeks ago:
Companies that can not be trusted to not add features their customers do not want can not be trusted to keep them disabled by default.
If the door to AI exists, we, the users, do not trust the organization to keep it locked.
- Comment on They don't pay me enough for this 3 weeks ago:
Dont you put that evil on us Ricky Bobby!
- Comment on Deadlock Major Update — Old Gods, New Blood 3 weeks ago:
Im so excited, Valve COOKED, I love the little blockhead minion on blue team and everything looks amazing. The only thing left on my wish list is a draft pick.
- Comment on Chomp! 3 weeks ago:
The problem is not that someone did that, its that there are two of them…
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 3 weeks ago:
Degoogling your self is a process and needs to be handled carefully. Realisticly, this quite difficult if your not a fruit phone user, but there is hope for people who arn’t neck deep in Apples walled garden. GraphenOS announced last year they would be expanding their range of supported devices. [Link]
Once that happens, closing the ol’ google account will be much easier or atleast use a modern smart phone without having it tied to the tornent nexus.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Oh, yall got that im invoking the psudo-history to make a point.
To add to it, it would have to be a very small recorder.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I was going to guess Nero, but he was taught to play music. If 47 tried to do the same he would be playing a plastic recorder on the roof while the east wing keeps getting demolished.
- Comment on Starlink Alternative that can't be blocked 4 weeks ago:
Thank you, I was not in a place where I could have looked that up when I threw that comment onto the interwebs.
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 4 weeks ago:
Hey, where are my fellow ISO-8601 fans?
- Comment on Starlink Alternative that can't be blocked 4 weeks ago:
IIRC the EU is working on one, but its still a ways out.
- Comment on You shall not cut! 4 weeks ago:
This makes Alton Brown sad… But I guess its ok if it can handle Chicago deep dish or cake.
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 5 weeks ago:
Incorrect, a raspberry pi will run off of a phone charger (it will whine at you if it provides less than 2 amps).
And for some of the projects listed that are meant to be out in the field like Meshtastic, there are plenty of guides to get them hooked up to solar cells.
In addition, to avoid costs of the RAMpocalypse/data centers butt-fucking the local power grid, reduce, reuse and recycle. Older desktops can run hypervisors like Proxmox or other VM/container solutions to split the work load into a bunch of VMs. (Dell Refurbished has decent deals, if you dont mind scratched up cases, but its beena bit since ive checked them)
In my case, the same device hosts multiple services split into several VMs, and I just got the backup server taking nightly snapshots. Wont save my data from a fire, but if hardware issues happen, backups are being taken (still need to test them, but thats a problem for future me).
- Comment on Delicious rocks 1 month ago:
For reference:
- Comment on When someone asks what I like 1 month ago:
Its the secret to cooking for guests. Everyone is like “wow, your an amazing home-chef”, and im just hoping noone notices the entire diced onion and minced garlic I carelessly threw into the meal.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 1 month ago:
Yep, thats corporate monitoring software for you. Everyones got it, if you dont see it, assume its there. If the PC is not yours and or built with your own hands, assume its bugged or key logged. This goes for school PCs as well for the youngins, this is not to make people paranoid, just manage expectations on privacy. If you didnt make it, assume its recorded.
