Wolf314159

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replacing a small business windows server⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You want mpd to server and play the music, connected with a web front end (there are a few to choose from) accessible on the private store wifi. You should probably serve this frontend only to a certain machine on the network (like the managers computer in the back) and lock everything else out. The last time I ripped CDs on Linux I used whipper, which I believe was the successor to morituri. This is all only legal if the CDs they have already included the licensing fees to play them publicly or are themselves freely licensed. There are sources of freely licensed music out there that you can play publicly without paying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smells Great⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This gives me God Emperor of Dune vibes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨celibate discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just another way to dehumanize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've recently turned into a blocker.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like something a sea lion would say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I c it!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The diffraction effects from a pinhole camera are not what make them work.

  I didn’t say this, you did. You’re chasing your own tail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I c it!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ratio of the size of the image to the distance from the pinhole is the same as the ratio of the size of the sun to the distance to the sun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I c it!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A pinhole camera has no lens. The effect here is like a pinhole camera, but a pinhole camera is nothing at all like a lens. Pinholes diffract light. Lens refract light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists Just Made Light Speed Visible. The Images Will Break Your Brain.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think our brains are pretty good at ignoring or abstracting/simplifying things we see that we don’t understand, almost too good. That’s just magic, optical illusion, or hallucination. Getting high is like chemical circuit bending. I feel staring into the void alone won’t be enough drive one mad, it’s when the void stares back and forces awareness, or knowing, that one has to worry. The non-euclidian architecture of R’leyh is just unsettling, but the stare of a multidimensional being can’t help but bend your circuits beyond their limits.

  There was that one short story though about FTL travel, wherein the conscious passengers must be asleep for the journey through hyperspace (or whatever that story called it). Some people stated awake through the trip and came out the other side mad. The hyperspace itself wasn’t enough to break their brains though, it was just that an instantaneous trip from the sleepers’ perspective, became an infinitely long (in time) trip from the waking conscious perspective. At that point, what they saw didn’t really matter, it was a forced perception or awareness without the solice of “not knowing” that broke their brains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a reason that I have fallen asleep during the extended 3rd act fight scene in every single god damn marvel movie since Mark Ruffalo became the Hulk.

  They all turn into the same movie, with the same fight. And these super long fights all seem to be surprisingly light on showing any of the actual real world impacts of such violence. Nobody ever gets seriously hurt unless the plot needs more sacrifice. But even when they do, the injuries mostly happen off camera and the blood never flows or spurts, it just instantly appears as makeup. It’s really giving people a deep rooted and totally unfounded sense that violence both solves every problem (it doesn’t) and does so bloodlessly (it doesn’t). At least Batman knows he’s not a hero.

  But really, the DC universe isn’t much better. Think about how shocking a little bit of blood at the beginning of the new Superman movie was, before they basically destroy metropolis (which was rather expected and mundane). And then they only show the tiny fraction of people personally saved by Superman, not the countless mangled corpses buried under rubble. This may be why the public has trouble confronting the realities of war and violence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing banana for scale.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude I’m not arguing that it’s correct or not, I’m saying that this is the way many people used to (and how some still do) use the language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing banana for scale.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s why my comment was basically words and phrases have shifting connotations as time passes and contexts change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They were also inconveniently experiencing significant negative feedback to their business decision to sell warmed up day old food as a standard operating procedure just before new of the logo drama erupted. If you thought cracker barrel was extremely mid before, it’s apparently gone full Applebee’s microwave kitchen bad lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing banana for scale.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fake and real photograph used to have a very different meaning indeed.

  This is a “real” photo of Denise Richards and Paul Walker:Denise Richards and Paul Walker

  This is a “fake” photo of Denise Richards and Paul Walker (in the body of a cybernetic T-Rex): Fake Photo of Denise Richards and the soul Paul Walker in the body of a cybernetic T-Rex

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to remember passwords, it briefly got a gig memorizing drink orders, now it mostly focuses remembering project numbers and does a little 2FA code work on the side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, far right parents in a conservative religion in a Republican town in a Republican state produced a child so tortured by a culture of hate and violence that as soon as they even start to lean either way their instinct is murder. Breaking the cycle of hate is relatively easy compared to breaking the cycle of violence. The statements they made to their roommate (even if that heresay is true) just confirm that they were a troubled child from a troubled culture trying to change. It should surprise no one that those childish attempts would be a VERY twisted reflection of the ideal. So no, he was not part of the left. Just a child in pain reacting the only way their conservative upbringing taught them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My smartphone isn’t a phone with “extra” features to me. My smartphone is a portable personal computer with extra sensors, a GPS receiver, and wireless internet, which also happens to have a phone app. I don’t want to carry an extra “dumb” phone. I would prefer my smart watch to be the communication and identity hub for me and my devices: holding the SIM card, acting as a wifi hotspot, routing calls and internet to my handheld brick or laptop, etc. Instead of acting like a third party add-on, it would be a mostly distraction free core. Let me use a smartphone, laptop, steam deck, cobbled together cyber deck, or whatever else have you as my local screen, storage cache, and/or proper desktop. Then I can put the screens down or leave them behind without feeling cut off or potentially stranded in a world that practically requires it to navigate with any ease. I want a smart watch that enables me to leave the house without car keys, driver’s license, and credit cards; essentially with nothing but my watchphone. I want to be a cyberpunk Dick Tracy. What I want, with the freedoms and open standards I want, with the privacy I want, without being locked into a single monopoly walled garden, is probably a pipe dream. I want what is probably the next evolution of the “year of the Linux desktop”. But a kid can dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Notice of Security Incident⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not very helpful for connecting family, friends, and especially grandma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Notice of Security Incident⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfish cannot to setup to securely and safely be exposed to the Internet. It is only safe to access through a VPN. That rules it out as an option for sharing with friends, family, or even my own spouse. You call it phoning home to the mother ship; I call it paying Plex to manage user authentication for me. Until Jellyfin’s security holes are patched and it becomes clear that the Jellyfin developers actually care about security, it stays locked down to my LAN. Setting up a VPN is difficult for the average user on a good day, impossible in some circumstances on even the best of days, and is not access I want to hand out (and support) to all the people I share my Plex with anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So edgy. Steppin Razor over here folks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone wrote this article in the early 90s, it would be called “Why I ditched the radio, and how I created my own CD collection.” I think rephrasing it that way really shines a light on why it’s mostly still comparing apples and oranges.

  I have a pretty substantial collection of music hovering around 5,000 albums or 1.6TB (mostly lossless FLAC these days, but still some moldy old mp3s and ogg vorbis files from my youth). I’m not even counting the physical media I still hold on to. I still use Spotify for discovery and playlists. I don’t think the depth and breadth of my library will ever match the depth and breadth of the music that I want to listen to in the very next moment. Lots of times I want to listen to the stuff I’m familiar with, and I do that using my own library. But, when I want to: remember a song I heard in the wild, share a holiday playlist with friends, make an obscurely themed playlist of songs features peaches, preview a musician’s or band’s stuff, discover other things that musician has collaborated on, or simply discover new music; I still use Spotify.

  There are (or were) bits and pieces out there (many that pre-date Spotify) that can do some of these things. Last.fm (fka Audioscrobbler) was good for tracking listening habits to compare and share with others, it helped a little with discovery. I used allmusic.com a lot long ago to discover the artists that inspired the artists I was listening. If I wanted to share a playlist, I made a mixtape (really it was burning a mix CD). But, all of these collected information only, not the music itself. If I wanted to actually hear a new song, I had to go somewhere and find it first. That often meant literally traveling somewhere else or ordering from a catalog and waiting for delivery. Every new music discovery was a bet made with real dollars that I would actually enjoy the thing or listen to it more than once. Even after napster paved the way for free listening via piracy, one still had to work to actually find the music.

  Spotify (and similar services) finally collected (almost) all of it under one app, so that I could discover and listen seemlessly. It is instant gratification music discovery. I’ll never give up my self hosted collection, but I also don’t have much hope that any self curated collection will be able to complete with the way that I use Spotify. Spotify is just the new radio. It’s never the end of my listening though. Just like with radio, when I find something I like enough, then I can expend the energy (or more often expend the money as directly with the band as I can) to add it to my collection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal genres⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot take: Most metal is just Classical Music II Electric Bugaloo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d ask a couple thousand people to guess in private. So the most popular answer would probably be either surprisingly close to correct or Cuppy McHazelnutface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to playing games on my calculator. I suppose you still can, but I used to do it. I remember I had RISK on my TI-89, but the games on my TI-82 were on par with the version of snake shown in the post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait till they hear about the people farming, harvesting, and shipping the vegetables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have always been at war with the Kingdom of Myrm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Primates make tools to help eating ants, among other things. It’s a bit of an unusual snack, but people eat ants too. We are anteaters? How much of your diet needs to be ants before you’re considered an anteater?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disco Panic!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to be confused with disco snails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How fast could a human accellerate (while staying alive)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in awe of a stomach so delicate it can be turned by an animated stick figure physics diagram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4011⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Somebodies lying (or at least being deceptive). I checked the link. There’s no mention of 20 countries anywhere. Nobody said 20 countries here either. Setting that pedantry aside. In fact, even if it were used by significantly fewer than twenty countries, the ones that without a doubt do use them are spread around the globe. Thus, they are used globally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Einsteinium⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this AI slop or someone cosplaying David Byrne during Stop Making Sense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A fucking Members Only pizza.