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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
We found more common ground and more things that separate us, too.

I agree with your idea of regulating social media and I’d add that platforms should be mandated to open their walled gardens by implementing open protocols and force them to play nice with other platforms (said the guy on Lemmy.)

On the other hand, I strongly disagree with the notion that an addiction only hurts the addict. I’d argue that’s never the case. On the contrary, alcoholism or gambling can drag whole families or more into poverty. On top of the microcosm impact, albeit more of a European problem, I suppose (although I wouldn’t want it any other way), substance-related addictions are a huge cost factor on our social health system, costing the public hand (us, me) huge sums and taking up ever scarcer hospital beds and treatment slots. Here comes my main point: History (especially yours with the prohibition period) proves that outlawing substances doesn’t work, and neither am I for it. But our minds are vulnerable to suggestion and manipulation, and advertisement is utilising that fact by e.g., creating associations between drinking or smoking and sexual desirability. This is well known and it works too, or it wouldn’t be the enormous industry it is. Now then, why should we allow the manipulation of our desires for something that is ultimately bad for EVERY part of society except the leeches directly profiteering from it? (I’m not even talking about the fact that children’s minds are even more susceptible to this, but are for the most part just as exposed to the same stimuli our adult ones are. One of the restrictions for wine/beer ads here in my country, by the way: Not on daytime TV. Somewhat sensible at least.)

I wonder why you draw the line at medicine, by the way. What’s the difference there for you?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
We land on somewhat different sides of the neoliberal fence, I think.

The substances sugar, alcohol, tobacco, sure. Potentially harmful but not malicious. As long as we’re talking about adults I mostly agree (although there are many regulations around them in all parts of the world. Smoking in public places, drinking when operating machinery and so on.) A company trying to manipulate people with ads to consume more of these substances: different story altogether since now there’s at the very least neglect of societal responsibility involved- can and should be regulated. I can’t think of a single reason why ads for alcohol should be allowed, for example. Here in a middle European country advertising spirits or nicotine products is illegal, while ads for beer/wine are legal under certain conditions. Slot machines and similar gambling are illegal while casino games like Roulette and Black Jack are very strictly regulated but legal. What’s the situation in your corner of the world and what’s your take on it?

What to regulate and to which extent is not trivial of course, but especially when it comes to social media we’re so far removed from “too much regulation” that I don’t think it’s worth going into it here. Banning Smartphones is obviously not the answer either way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Of course, everybody is trying to develop tricks like yours to resist, but I don’t think we should just accept as fact that we need to have those tricks to escape the attention grabbing behemoths with the endless money they throw at this optimisation problem.

It’s not like algorithms designed to maximise engagement regardless of societal cost are a law of nature we can never escape. It’s just unregulated power, which society has worked very hard to limit and align with “the common good” in the past. Free reign for technocrats that display beauty ads to teenage girls after they deleted their selfies, as a singular heinous example, is proof that our control mechanism (democracy in the broader sense, I suppose) isn’t working anymore, but that also doesn’t mean we should roll over and accept it.

I’m with you that personal responsibility is of course important. The message of Johann Hari’s book I tried to convey was (paraphrasing again) “Don’t be too hard on yourself when you eventually slip up. It’s a steep uphill battle.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not a problem that can meaningfully be dealt with on an individual level.

I recommend Johann Hari’s book Stolen Focus. It goes deep into influencing factors of why we are having such a hard time of putting our devices down. The first he lists: giant tech companies are employing the smartest people on earth (i.e., smarter than you or me) to maximize engagement. The cards are heavily stacked against any single one of us trying to break free from these skinner boxes. The threat of social isolation you mock the blog’s author for is of course another ace up Meta’s sleeve. The book among other things tries to relieve the feeling of individual failure at this insurmountable task of constantly fending off the targeted attacks on our attention- I paraphrase: “You didn’t fail, it was a losing battle to begin with.”

If you yourself don’t have this problem, I’m glad for you and I hope it lasts. Many, many people do, and there are ever more tragic news headlines to show for it. We as a society (or is that societies?) need to regulate the tech-oligarchs, and fast. I have some hope left at least for the EU coming around on it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Edgy!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Take a look at this: the open book
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
A Bambulab A1 Mini costs 200 bucks and churns out incredible prints with zero hassle. There’s literally next to no barrier to entry anymore.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Well that certainly makes a lot more sense now. I wasn’t familiar with Philips shavers with replacement blades. 🙄
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Making their product live longer is not usually the top priority for manufacturers. I like the initiative, of course, but I’m sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop. Sounds too good not to be a greenwashing gimmick.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hugging Face releases a robotic arm you can 3D print for $100⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I mean there are robot arms for a lot more than that, but that’s not the point. It’s like saying a Parol 6 costs 5 bucks, but it’s actually the price of the mounting screws.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hugging Face releases a robotic arm you can 3D print for $100⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Their build instructions state 242 for a single arm. Lots of contradicting information. Maybe they are betting on insane economies of scale… 🙄
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hugging Face releases a robotic arm you can 3D print for $100⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The BOM for the components alone without the print is USD240. Why is the article talking about USD100?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Unsolved] Looking for assistance figuring out how to fix this connector.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Good job
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Unsolved] Looking for assistance figuring out how to fix this connector.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The second connector pin from the bottom is connected to what’s almost certainly a ground pour, and this is in line with the through hole labels together with your diagram. This is your black wire. I would bet money on the rest of the labels (and your diagram) being correct too, so red wire goes to middle connector pin. If you’re fairly certain that blue is in its correct location then we’re done: green goes to bottom pin. If you are not, we can take a closer look.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car sun visor with built-in navigation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m a big fan of Radiohole, especially their song Grape (“I’m a grape, I’m a raisin.”)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
…of DNA

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any nice playbook or tutorial to host a static website from home?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

You can set up your project in a private repo and in your deploy action push it to the main branch of your public Pages repo. I agree it’s not a huge deal to show the source, but I prefer it like that.

name: Deploy Hugo site to Github Pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
    workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set up Hugo
        uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v3
        with:
          hugo-version: "0.119.0"
          extended: true

      - name: Build
        run: hugo --minify

      - name: Configure Git
        run: |
          git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
          git config --global user.name "Your Name"
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          cd public
          git init
          git remote add origin https://user/:${{ secrets.DEPLOY_TOKEN }}@github.com/USER/USER.github.io.git
          git checkout -b main
          git add .
          git commit -m "Deploy site"
          git push -f origin main

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you Dehydrate Food in a Filament Dryer?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Is it? 😂
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A minimalist bedside lamp I've design to print in vase-mode⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Short blogs with few but high quality articles are actually the salt of the earth.

I encourage you to do it, there are many options like Hugo, and your intellectual property will never be locked in a company’s app store (Prusa seems trustworthy for now, but as we’ve seen, lockout is always just a TOS change away.)

You already have the writeup and hosting a static site on github pages or similar doesn’t incur costs, so the only thing you need is some time and a domain. 🙂
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you Dehydrate Food in a Filament Dryer?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Anyone remember that video of a guy proving he can cook chicken by slapping it many times?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need some help setting up gethomepage in my server⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I need to use the IP for specific reasons concerning my setup; and I don’t want the two containers to share a Docker network.

This used to work exactly as is when I set it up, but doesn’t anymore.

I tinkered with it some more now and I found that while I can ping the docker host, I can’t actually wget anything from any docker services from within the Homepage container. Currently at a loss why that might be.

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need some help setting up gethomepage in my server⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Would love to see it.

Here’s mine from the Paperless compose.yml (non functional):

  webserver:
    image: ghcr.io/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
    [...]
    labels:
      - homepage.group=Productivity
      - homepage.name=Paperless
      - homepage.icon=paperless.png
      - homepage.href=https://[LOCAL URL]
      - homepage.description=Document Management
      - homepage.widget.type=paperlessngx
      - homepage.widget.url=http://[PAPERLESS IP:PORT]
      - homepage.widget.key=[PAPERLESS API TOKEN]

And here’s the error from Homepage frontend:

    API Error: Unknown error
    URL: http://[PAPERLESS IP:PORT]/api/statistics/?format=json
    Raw Error:
    {
        "errno": -110,
        "code": "ETIMEDOUT",
        "syscall": "connect",
        "address": "[PAPERLESS IP]",
        "port": [PAPERLESS PORT]
    }

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need some help setting up gethomepage in my server⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think it’s you. The paperless widget stopped working for me recently after it had been fine before. Similar setup to yours.

It bothered me a little but since the widget isn’t actually very useful to me I didn’t care to invest more time to get to the bottom of it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setting Up a Self-Hosted GitHub runner for CI/CD⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I have a docker forgejo runner for CI with Codeberg. Where did you get stuck?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any phone alternatives for the Bambu Handy app?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Bambu-Farm self-hosted server application works well for me together with a VPN into my home network. Made to control print farms, but single printers work all the same.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨self actuating toggle switch?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Neat idea with the key switches. Could be multiplexed like a keyboard matrix. With smart LEDs and some way to multiplex the output stage as well (or some shift registers), this could be nicely implemented one an esp32 or something.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On todo lists⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There’s an ongoing feature request about recurrence on the Nextcloud github. There was mention that using a client that supports it is no problem, but to be careful not to mark a task as complete on the web UI, as that would remove the entire task instead of marking one repetition as complete.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Love the out of the box thinking though. Really inspirational!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I would totally do that. Only problem is that the third yacht really is my favourite, so I’m gonna pass if that’s okay. Thanks!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - sv1sjp/lemmy-rss-pybot: Lemmy RSS PyBot is a powerful Python bot that reads RSS feeds and posts new articles to your favorite Lemmy communities.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
… and enhanced by a sentence or two why it is worthwhile. Getting really tired of the no-effort link drops around here. Better yet, the same no-effort link drop to multiple similar communities on various instances.

Is there a block function for link-only posts?

Are there filters to prevent seeing duplicate content?