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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What was the most ridiculous or funny boundary push you saw?

  Trolling someone by attaching a camera to the ceiling right above their keyboard. I’ve been paranoid since I saw that stunt pulled… They got their point across about physical security though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve worked for a university before and it was very common for staff to remote into their systems from home – usually with SSH for CS types or Remote Desktop/Team Viewer/etc. for less computer-focused folks. (The former usually didn’t have much issue – the folks using the latter mechanisms got compromised a number of times… -.-) There was also a campus provided VPN that was required to access certain systems with instructions to students and staff on how to use it, but other systems just got public IP addresses.

  If what you’re doing is related to your work and campus IT doesn’t object, you’re probably fine to do it. I’ve run various kinds of websites and web apps for colleagues to collaborate on research projects. Being able to do things like that is kind of the point of the internet.

  Having seen a number of students, uh, push the limits and find the boundaries of acceptability the hard way though… I’d strongly advise you not to install cryptominers, run TOR exit nodes, or torrent TV shows/movies/etc. That kind of thing tends to get your systems in hot water with IT or other parts of the bureaucracy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to redirect voice traffic from WhatsApp and Signal to a landline?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In principle, sure. I’m not aware of an existing out-of-the-box solution that’d do what you want, but it also wouldn’t surprise me terribly if someone’s cobbled something together to do this before.

  If I wanted to make something like this personally, I’d start by doing some research into PBX software like Asterisk, what derivatives and extensions people have made for that, etc. – being mindful that I’d likely be digging into a deep rabbit hole…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a graphics designer personally (from work) who used an AI generated video clip as part of a proposed background video for the landing page of a marketing-style website that was getting a refresh on one of our projects. That one ultimately didn’t end up getting used – not because it looked bad, but because of other branding considerations. Frankly, I’m glad that he didn’t have to put much effort into making something that ended up getting canned.

  There’s a LOT of art out there that’s functional. Few people stop and pay attention to it as art in itself – and it rarely lasts more than a few years before getting swapped out for something else in rebranding – but someone with design sense still needs to make it or a product will be less appealing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it ever make sense/is it possible to move certain docker volumes to another physical volume, but not all?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can run docker containers with multiple volumes. e.g. pass something like -v src1:dst1 -v src2:dst2 as arguments to docker run.

  So – if I understood your question correctly – yes, you can do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for simple self-hosted image editor / resizer app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Two quick ideas on possible approaches:

  1. Static page route. You can just write some Javascript to load the image from a file input in HTML, draw it resized to a canvas (based on an input slider or other input element), then save the canvas to an image. (There might even be simpler approaches if I wasn’t stupidly tired right now…) This can be done in a single file (HTML with embedded JS – and CSS if you want to style it a little) that you toss on any web server anywhere (e.g. Apache, nginx, whatever). Should work for JPEG, PNG, and probably WebP – maybe other regular image types too. Benefit: data never needs to leave your device.

  2. Process on server route. Use Python with a simple web server library (I usually opt for tornado for stuff like this, but flask or cherrypy or similar would probably work). Set up a handler for e.g. an HTTP POST and either pass the image into a library like Pillow to resize it or shell out to ImageMagick as others have suggested. (If you want to do something clever with animated GIFs you could shell out to ffmpeg, but that’d be a fair bit trickier…) The image can be sent back as the response. Be careful about security if you take this route. Probably want some kind of login in front of it, and run it in a VM or some other secure environment – especially if you’re using AI to kludge it together…

  Best of luck and let me know if you need any help. Will probably have some time this weekend if you can’t get it on your own. Happy hacking!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for simple self-hosted image editor / resizer app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be happy with a FOSS desktop app I can install in linux too

  On the command line, you can do this with ImageMagick (e.g. use the command convert once it’s installed).

  With a (desktop) GUI, there’s a bunch of programs. GIMP is probably the most well known and has a ton of capabilities but is a bit complex. I use Kolourpaint as a quick-and-dirty “MS Paint”-like program for very simple tasks where I want a GUI.

  If you want a simple web UI I’m sure there is one already, but I don’t know one specifically. It wouldn’t be too complicated to hack something up if all you need is a quick-and-dirty file input and percentage rescale or something like that. If you don’t get a better suggestion and don’t know how to make something like that yourself, let me know and I can write an example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favourite way to transfer files in your homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People have already covered most of the tools I typically use, but one I haven’t seen listed yet that is sometimes convenient is python3 -m http.server which runs a small web server that shares whatever is in the directory you launched it from. I’ve used that to download files onto my phone before when I didn’t have the right USB cables/adapters handy as well as for getting data out of VMs when I didn’t want to bother setting up something more complex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anime that are built diffrent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure on the exact flavor of “weird af” that Nokotan or Gintama get into since I haven’t seen them, but here’s some of the weirder shows I’ve watched:

  • Nichijou
  • Azumanga Daioh
  • Penguindrum
  • Utena
  • FLCL
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is weird to see the voice actors from long-running shows having aged because their characters look and sound the same as they did a decade ago.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A while back I noticed that I was recognizing the same voice actor as Fie (from the Trails series of JRPGs) in a lot of other English adaptations of Japanese media – Morgana from P5, Aoi from Danganronpa, Operator 60 from Nier:Automata, Kyubey from Madoka, Ritsu from K-On, Taiga from Toradora, etc. – and looked up the voice actor. Cassandra Lee Morris is now 42 and has a kid. Life goes on, and that makes perfect sense, but it did kind of weird me out a bit to realize that someone knows her voice as “Mom”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mbin instance looking at lemmy community showing "magazine [community] is not receiving updates"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Communities/magazines are similar to subreddits, but unlike subreddits they can be hosted on servers run by unrelated organizations and still interact. Different instances can and do have different ideas about how things should be run but you can still send messages back and forth unless the admins have blocked it.

  The first message is warning you that you’re looking at a community that is not local to your instance. You might not be able to see all the posts from that community on your instance. For example, there may be older posts that never got copied over from long before your instance first found out that that community exists.

  If I understand mbin’s code correctly, the second message means that no one is subscribed to the community locally, so your instance isn’t getting updated by the remote source any more. You need to have at least one local subscriber to get updates. If you’re interested in the community, subscribe to it.

  I think this is the code that produces those messages if anyone wants to dig into it further: github.com/MbinOrg/…/_federated_info.html.twig

  The definitions for the message strings (in English) are here: github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/blob/…/messages.en.yaml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.sdf.org is down for the count⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, but there’s a related thread here: slrpnk.net/post/18399280

  No answers there (as of time of writing this comment), but someone did say they asked about it on IRC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there some type of "unfinished business" community?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not involved with running it – and given that this is likely to be a politics heavy community, I’m probably going to stay out of it for the most part. 🙃️ I just happened to see the announcement post that @3dmvr@lemm.ee made to !newcommunities@lemmy.world about a week ago and remembered it.

  If you or @3dmvr@lemm.ee want to start a thread in !communitypromo@lemmy.ca feel free though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there some type of "unfinished business" community?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  !unlockthread@lemm.ee is probably what you’re thinking of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is making user interaction between instances easier even possible in current state of fediverse and the protocol?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The current solution is for bots on participating instances to automatically perform the search + subscribe song-and-dance routine. This is pretty surprising to some people[1], and it requires someone to set it up in addition to the instance itself, but it does work.

  [1]: I tried to translate it into Japanese for some folks experimenting with Mastodon/Lemmy interaction yesterday – they thought Lemmy had a ton of spam accounts following groups instantly…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get lemmy to not crop images?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Check your language settings. Usually that means you have the language that the comments are tagged with disabled. (Usually either English or Uncategorized is disabled)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who watches gaming footage on PeerTube, I’ve mostly interacted with single creator instances – i.e. either the creator themselves is self-hosting it or it’s run by a fan as a non-YT backup of their Twitch/Owncast/whatever VODs. Those instances generally do not allow anyone else to upload.

  Discoverability sucks but the way I’ve found them is by using SepiaSearch and looking for specific words from game titles. I imagine the way most other people find them is that they already know the content creator from Twitch and want to find an old VOD that isn’t archived on YT (e.g. because of YT’s bullshit copyright system) – but that’s just a guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you consider the saddest anime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My kneejerk reaction to the question is “Grave of the Fireflies”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you watched/read/played anything in the Fate franchise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen most of the older shows from the Studio Deen stuff up through the 13 episode Rail Zeppelin spin-off or thereabouts. Never got to most of the movies other than the old UBW adaptation. I’m aware of FGO, but my opinion of gacha can be summarized as “fuck that” so I’ve ignored it beyond what’s occasionally popped up via fan art posts.

  If there’s something about the shows you want to talk about, I’d rather you just post threads here than start a new community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What anime is in your PTW but haven't gotten a chance to watch it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just checked back through copies of stuff I physically have and somehow I never got around to watching Your Name or Perfect Blue in the last ~7 years I’ve had them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What anime is in your PTW but haven't gotten a chance to watch it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched Aria the Animation back when I was having panic attacks. It’s too slow for me to find interesting when I’m feeling OK, but was just about right when my body was freaking out and I needed something calming to distract myself with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That kind of thing just doesn’t work when you try to do things in a browser without making you constantly think that things are broken.

  There’s some things you can’t really avoid dealing with that stuff for, but if it doesn’t really need to be a dynamic interaction with the service, you may be able to just write a script that runs on your server (either once or periodically) to download what you need as a batch, and then serve static results based on that to your users. It’s not only easier to implement when you can use that technique, but the UX is often better that way too…

  the async nature of web stuff is really breaking my brain

  I am being forced to learn async stuff and I kind of hate it…

  I remember beating my head against the wall working through the details of Promises in JS a couple years ago when I needed to figure out how to trigger certain pieces of logic only after all of a large batch of slow, dynamic results were fetched – which the user would often want to interrupt and adjust as partial results came in… so, I know what you mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiny ramen shop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only the first one (looking top-to-bottom in the image) appears to be a sink for doing dishes. The second faucet seems to be above boiling water for cooking the noodles, and the third’s above a big pot filled with the soup stock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What fanart concepts to you have in mind?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking back at my notes from the last several years, here’s some of the ideas I wrote down:

  • Kray-On (K-On/Crayon)
  • “The power of memes compels you!” (someone’s probably already done this one – seems obvious enough – but haven’t seen it if so)
  • “Ani, are you OK? Are you OK, Ani?” – FMA meets Michael Jackson, maybe?
  • Konata face on flatbed scanner (animation + output of scanner)
  • “Space and Wolf"
  • Azunyan-ga Daioh
  • (For FangMoe) “OnlyFangs” (note the ‘g’), Fangsgiving, … other silly puns
  • "Guns & Nurses: Your one stop shop for shots!” (DRIVE THRU) / Kino and Hermes: “What a strange country we’ve come to…”
  • “Hatsune Mikau” – Miku/Zelda Majora’s Mask cross-over
  • Ghost in the Shellfish
  • "Flan"-dre Scarlet
  • Weebdeluxe interviewing Shredder (Foot Clan) on his preferences about anime

  I’ve also got several others – including one with a terrible pun related to Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san, and another with a Lain + Futaba (P5) crossover – that I’m still thinking of trying someday, but definitely don’t have the skill for yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule Clarification⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m probably not going to watch anything hosted on YouTube (I blocked it completely a while back), but I don’t think it’s a big deal if someone links the first episode of something that’s legit freely available (i.e. not pirated) as long as they’re not being spammy about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah yes producer knows characters better than creator...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re from Nier: Automata.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can harmless viruses be engineered to deliver vaccine payloads for different actually harmful viruses?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. There are virus vector vaccines already in existence: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_vector_vaccine

  For example, adenovirus vector vaccines were created for COVID-19: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Adenovirus…

  Those are non-replicating though.

  Live attenuated vaccines also exist – which can replicate – but those work by using a weakened/modified version of the original harmful live virus the vaccine is intended to protect against: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuated_vaccine

  Oral polio vaccine is a well-known example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back before kbin fell off the internet it had a really neat experimental “collections” feature that would let you make named groups of communities. Collections could be used either privately or made public so other people could subscribe to your curated feed on a topic. The owner could update the collection as needed (e.g. adding or removing communities/magazines as they changed over time).

  It’s one of the kbin features I miss most on lemmy.

  Does anyone know if mbin ever got a copy of that? I know they forked off before it was added to kbin, but I don’t know if it ever got integrated later. (I don’t see it from a quick glance at moist and fedia, but I haven’t dug into the dev history.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cake (by hectyne)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was marked sensitive on danbooru (which I’m not quite sure how to interpret) and there’s a panty peak. I thought it was probably fine, but I didn’t really want to get into arguments on my day off or get the instance in trouble if people were offended, so tagged it pre-emptively. (The sidebar recommends tagging if unsure.)

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