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- Comment on If we organised highly-publicised world-wide funerals for each animal that goes extinct because of our behaviour, maybe it would help sway people to take environmental issues more seriously 1 day ago:
Reminds me of the oatmeal comic
theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter_2012/twinkies
every time a species gets upgraded on the endangered species list, we take away one horrible staple from the American diet.
- Comment on Aint never seen someone turn off their cellphone at the pump 1 week ago:
I record the purchase & miles driven. The data helps me to track and anticipate when the car will hit certain miles so that I can predict events like new tires, brakes, oil changes and save up for them. For one car, I noticed that premium fuel improves the mileage significantly, making the purchase worthwhile if it’s <7¢ more per gallon.
Also, at Costco, some members have a digital membership card (ie: on their phone).
- Comment on How would I improve Wifi consistency within my house? 1 week ago:
There are lots of good suggestions here, but I found that putting my access point up high helped immensely. I did it when painting a room and noticed better coverage in places that were not so good before.
- Comment on AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach 3 weeks ago:
It’s already a thing: rentahuman.ai
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 3 weeks ago:
I would wonder if it would be illegal to promote your live of the country by hanging a giant flag directly in the viewing path of the camera. Would you get arrested for being too patriotic?
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 3 weeks ago:
This is too defeatist for me. I am upset to see these all over town, but too small minded to do anything about it. I want to start something to pressure community leaders to change, but i worry that i’ll make a lot of noise then drop it like i do with everything. I’d love to join with a group.
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 4 weeks ago:
The minnesota attorney(ies) isn’t pressing charges because they are derelict in their duty
This then becomes a voter issue to install someone who will represent the people. Alternatively, protests to hold elected officials accountable to their duties or promises.
democrats do that with every issue opposed by powerful interests they promised to do something about, they make a performative gesture, get stopped, then say well I tried
I’ve seen this far too many times. Again, holding elected officials accountable may be the only way.
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 4 weeks ago:
I remember the “have fun with that” quote. It was oddly smug and childish, which is why it stuck out.
Perhaps it’s naive of me to think so, but I read that the Minnesota District Attorney is deliberately not pressing charges (at least for the 2 murders) until the chance of a presidental pardon is nil.
- Comment on How would you describe that post sneeze smell? 4 weeks ago:
It’s the smell of daemons leaving your body.
God bless you.
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 4 weeks ago:
I read a speculation somewhere that DHS want to declare all opposition to their activities as domestic terrorists and then remove their right to vote. There have been multiple articles detailing how the people who follow agents around and report their location are served papers later declaring them to be domestic terrorists and then they are placed on a no fly list. I’m sure more is to come. Reportedly, all the agents use facial recognition cameras to sweep the crowds for logging in a database, but another report suggests that the recognition part isn’t working so well.
- Comment on Push to repeal Section 230 raises stakes for how social media moderates content 4 weeks ago:
You could be right, but I read an opinion piece a while back that suggested that removal of 230 would allow the government to indirectly censor speech online by selectively punishing the platforms that don’t moderate in the way that the administration would like. This may not be a problem under the current administration, but what if a wanabe dictator were to somehow become president?
- Comment on Helm chart installable solutions? 1 month ago:
I have something similar to host paths with node selectors: an NFS provisioner for PVs. The provisioner is tied to the node with the large disk. It’s not resilient to node outages, but allows me to spread pods across the nodes. For my deployments, I’m preferring to use S3 storage wherever possible.
- Comment on Helm chart installable solutions? 1 month ago:
Excellent write-up. I had Nextcloud running on K3s with its files on a NAS which were shared with Minio and it worked well. I’m looking into Longhorn, but only have 2 nodes and it wants at least 3. I’m reevaluating my resiliency needs in favour of simplification.
- Comment on Do you backup your docker images? 1 month ago:
I’ve been looking to do this, but haven’t found a good, easy to use pull thru proxy for docker, ghcr.io and some other registries. Most support docker only.
This one looks promising but overly complicated to set up.
A few times now, I’ve gone to restart a container and the repo’s been moved, archived or paywalled. Other times, I’m running a few versions behind and the maintainer decided to not support it, but upgrading would mean a complete overhaul of my Helm values file. Ugh!
I was considering a docker registry on separate ports for each upstream registry I’d like to proxy/cache.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I read an opinion piece that suggested that he is upset that Minnesota is the only blue state in a region of red. Given that Minnesota is primarily white, he felt that he could use the Somali fraud as a way to turn [white] people against the democrats using xenophobia.
- Comment on Is it normal for mothers to constantly talk to their children about their experience (particulary the part about their pain and suffering) of their pregnancy and giving birth? 1 month ago:
No, it’s not normal. We will reminisce about events during the pregnancy and birth as a way to suggest that our child’s personality was present well before birth.
Maybe go to the thrift store and get an old donated metal from track and field or something and etch something witty on it and maybe that’ll make your point for you.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 1 month ago:
Lots of great advice here and in the comments. To add some clarity to driving carefully, imagine that you are driving with an open fish tank on the floor of the passenger side and you don’t want to lose any fish.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 1 month ago:
Do you have any references to podcasts or books that articulate this well? I’m not interested in one person’s story, but the overall processes of a cult are fascinating.
I’ve been listening to the Conspirituality and You Are Not So Smart (specifically “how mids change”) podcasts, which are good and would enjoy any others.
- Comment on Little repost bot 1 month ago:
Generally speaking, I’ve found that the techie forums are pretty healthy but the normie ones tend to be lacking in content.
- Comment on YSK that taking advice from youtubers and podcasters is a terrible idea. Only take advice from research universities 2 months ago:
I thought that this is how we promote Darwinism.
- Comment on Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause 2 months ago:
I have 3 cordless drills and 1 corded. Every time I need to use one, the cordless ones are out of batteries despite charging them before putting them away. The battery pack is stored for a couple of months between projects. These are the second set of batteries and they weren’t cheap.
Oh, and I’m cursed for batteries. I’ve had two instances of a brand new car battery failing after a few months due to fused plates. The mechanic says that it never happens.
I’d love to get an electric car, but feel that that would be tempting fate.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
You forgot about all intra-continental internet cables going through US routers and oil being traded in USD.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 4 months ago:
I’m self hosting to learn. I’ve been hacked before and I lost stuff and then I refined my technique and started over again. Nothing I do is “mission critical”, so I now have the mindset that it will fail, I will lose data and time and I will get hacked. Honestly, it’s helped me to be better at home and at my workplace to have this mindset. Always plan for failure (and keep backups).
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 4 months ago:
Being Christian or going to church doesn’t make you a good person any more than a speed limit sign prevents people from speeding.
- Comment on The People’s Answer to ICE: Crowdsourcing Community Defense 4 months ago:
Not 75%, just 3.5% is needed (probably).
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 months ago:
You have a lot of good points and I may have missed the intent of the article, but a knee jerk reaction of “lower traffic = AI is bad” is not helpful either. My point is that I frequently find myself hitting a page just to check a reference, quote or remember something. AI search results can be useful here. It’s no different than how DuckDugkGo has a sidebar if the results are from StackOverflow. It’s nice to get quick answers. I would like to see a fair solution to the content creators being able to stay in business.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 months ago:
This will be unpopular, but hear me out. Maybe the decline in visitors is only a decline in the folks who are simply looking for a specific word or name and the forgot. Like, that one guy who believed in the survival of the fittest. Um. Let me try to remember. I think he had an epic beard. Ah! Darwin! I just needed a reminder, I didn’t want to read the entire article on him because I did that years ago.
Look at your own behaviors on lemmy. How often do you click/tap through to the complete article? What if it’s just a headline? What if it’s the whole article pasted into the body of the post? Click bait headlines are almost universally hated, but it’s a desperate attempt to drive traffic to the site. Sometimes all you need is the article synopsis. Soccer team A beats team B in overtime. Great, that’s all I need to know…unless I have a fantasy team.
- Comment on crop candles 5 months ago:
Electric heaters are wasteful. How about spending that energy wisely while also generating heat?
fedia.io/m/nottheonion@lemmy.world/t/2828343
(Sorry for the full link, I can’t figure out how to reference an article on another instance on the mobile app.)
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 5 months ago:
You just described most tech stocks.
As Cory Doctrow explains:
the fundamental duty of every CEO of every high-growth tech company: explaining how his company will continue to grow. These growth stories are key, because growth stocks trade at a huge premium relative to the stocks of “mature” companies.
- Comment on Street racers are not criminals 5 months ago:
I came here to say just this. I used to belong to a hobbyist group that would reserve track time for races. They were timed trials for safety and had tow trucks and medics on standby. The best was when they watered the track in the winter and let it freeze overnight. Those were the slowest races I’ve ever seen. In addition to being safe fun, they taught how to handle your car in extreme situations.
Here’s an example race: www.onelapofamerica.com/#!HOME