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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Healthcare professional with some experience in mental health and emergency medicine here: This is the way to go . Your problem is NOT the noise. The noise is a nuisance but not dangerous. The fixation on your brother is. Because there is a high risk here,that once “noise” doesn’t cut it from the point of view of the patient, he will resolve to other means.

  As said before:

  • Document everything, make a detailed protocol about everything he does or says towards you.

  • Call the police, especially when he threatens you or your brother or claims he is intruding. Make sure that every member of your household is as polite as possible to the officers. If they refuse to do something accept this but kindly ask for their names or collar numbers and the name of their chief constable. Then write a very polite letter to the CC making it clear that you understand the difficulties the officers face but how you feel threatened and miserable and ask for help and advice to resolve this. (Why being polite? Because then it is nearly impossible for any copper to frame this as a *neighbours dispute" or anything - and coppers in the UK are far more inclined to help “members of the public” they see as pure victims themselves)

  • Depending on where in the UK you live contact your “Single Point of Access” mental health team. They are, well, the single point of access for mental health and by definition also are the contact points for friends,family,etc. of mental health patients.There is a good chance of them already knowing him, so that might help. Also,if your mom gets sicker from the whole ordeal, call her an ambulance - more freely than normal, to get that on the file. (And yes,I know this is a moral grey zone)

  • Call your council both in terms of mental health and nuisance laws. Be nice,but pressure them to do something.

  • Find out who the landlord of the neighbour is (if he doesn’t own) and contact him as well as your own landlord.

  Again,let me repeat: The noise is not your problem. The noise is just a symptom of your problem and when the noise goes away and the problem is not resolved something else will come up - very likely something worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Project resource management? Gantt charts, timelines, etc⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah,the most open source solutions atm. Sadly development slowed down a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, the current ones are pretty fantastic - and I find 100€ for the B/W verso and 140€ for the colour one still “reasonably cheap”.

  So far they have eaten anything I gave them to read, work with calibre web (sadly only for download,not sync, but that’s not PBs fault), support the German Onleihe (public library ebooks… fantastic system getting you hundred thousand of books,often for less than 20€/year or even free) and the battery is rock solid.

  So,I don’t really understand the point of the discussion. I am an absolute early adopter with E-readers and can’t remember any cheaper offers on readers that weren’t Amazon’s “bait” ads to sell you kindle unlimited,etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hit it and quit it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually there is afaik a biological reason: Take it with a grain of salt,though - It’s a long time since I attended these lectures. The repeated insertion increases the need for lubrication(which increases sperm transport after ejaculations) and making sure the vaginal canal is opened fully.

  Again, it’s a long time ago I had that lecture and it might not be up-to-date,so someone please confirm this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In the other news: Meta pays another 3 billion Euro due to not following the DSA and getting banned in Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlikely - a vast majority of landscapes in Europe, Asia and the Americas are defined by grazing and so far we are not even remotely close to producing a milk alternative for cheesemaking, which is a cultural staple in a lot of countries.

  So there will likely be some meat. BUT: That wouldn’t mean that we as a planet need to reduce our consumption massively, increase prices in a way that it is unfeasible for most people to consume actual beef a few times a year and supplement it with lab grown meat and insect protein as well as vegan alternatives.

  That would still lead to super rich being able to eat beef every day,yes.

  But that is absolutely not our problem - the problem is that people are super rich…the beef consumption of them is a mere drop in the bucket of their bad footprint on our planet and society. ELMO alone has a larger CO2 flight footprint per year than his meat consumption will ever cause,even if he eats half a cow every day for his whole life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking to upgrade my NAS need advice.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a few considerations:

  • For a 12 bay NAS I would strongly consider ZFS - which makes ECC more or less a must.

  • Mainboard wise the CWK AMD Board is worth a consideration, and so is the Asrock Live Mixer B850 if you want ECC on AMD5

  • A popular build option is using a cheap used or “Chinese” host-build controller as SATA ports are hard to get these days.

  • I would personally look at using Proxmox and then TrueNAS as an NAS OS and simply passthrough the HBA.

  • Another alternative would be using a Zimbra Board and use their expansion options - but that comes with downsides in terms of CPU power and no ECC.

  • For Plex it might be favourable to use a CPU with a built-in GPU for transcoding. Intel is slightly better here, but has other downsides, especially if you want ECC

  • Get a Geekworm PiKvm, a original PiKVM, a NanoPi oder JetKVM…or something like that. it’s worth it.

  • If you don’t feel like self-building anymore have a look at the Ugreen. They come without the “only approved HDDs” Synology bullshit, allow you to install your own OS and are fairly capable. But sadly they do not support ECC. (And they aren’t really cheaper than self building at least not in central Europe.)

  • Self building is absolutely possible and we are here to help you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascist media meets fascist media… well…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t think these would withstand the pressure,tbh. At least as long as you mean 3D printed ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the type of 3D printer.

  Fused Deposition Modeling, the standard “filament” 3D printing everyone thinks about when hearing the word 3D printing prints with plastics - of some sort. All of them,to a certain degree.

  There are incredibly sturdy options nowadays, which include carbon fibers, but in the end the adhesions between layers will always be an issue. There are also options to print a cast for a mold and some funny techniques where you print a model with a specialised filament that is half plastic,half metal powder and send it to a company which “burn off” the plastic part, replace it with metal and send you back an (almost as sturdy as a cast) part that is fully metal.

  Resin based printing is also a thing but not nearly as sturdy as FDM.

  Last but not least there is metal powder based SLS(Selective Laser Sintering), but that does not produce those sturdy parts everyone thinks of, is extremely sensitive/requires a lot of knowledge and lastly money - these printers start around 20k for the better models.

  In terms of additive manufacturing people are able to print non load bearing gun parts. Maybe even sturdier than before. And easier. (A 400$ printer nowadays does what a 1300$ printer did a year ago and a 15000$ printer did 15 years ago. But for everything load/pressure/shock bearing, like a barrel, spring assembly,firing pin,etc. will still need to be from pure metal. So people would still need to improvise these,most important, parts.

  BUT: There are also self-built CNC machines. MPCNC, etc. are a thing, and more advanced projects for around 2500-3000$ omwards can easily achieve a level of precision on steel that is more than sufficient for an all metal ghost gun and close to what industrial guns makers in WW1, maybe even WW2, achieved.

  It’s currently really the golden age of home manufacturing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dual immunity (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I am a healthcare professional,but not your HCP and you won’t be able to know if I say the truth here either.

  So the easiest way for you is to read the wikipedia article or the MSD manual,etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter hit with $8.2 million verdict following eviction from Boulder HQ after Musk takeover⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The good news is not that X and Elmo did lose the case and now have to pay.

  It’s about the signal it sends out. It will be far harder and more expensive for any of his companies to rent property somewhere in the future. Also just a drop in the bucket, but a far more substantial one compared to the ruling. And that is a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dual immunity (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that immune system(if one wants to call it so) is within the eyeball,not on the outside. Lacrimal immune response is something else again.

  Overall: It’s called Immune privilege and is present in the central nervous system, the uterus and the testicles as well.

  It’s nowhere near as extreme as the comment OP posted thinks it is - if you think about it closely it doesn’t make sense. The interior of the eye is highly vascularized and of course “regular” immun system parts go through that.

  In reality it’s more like"the eye" has an “extra Immunsystem” that helps it keep its special structures functional. Both alone as well as with the help of the body’s main system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, don’t you think we tried that? The first time we got Schickelcutlerstalin for some reason who killed everyone with his out off-control biological weapons. Then for some fucking reason we got a fucking snake hitler!

  And now we are all out of time-travel juice and locked down in a reality where hitler lived AND an orange is also hitler. Well, I had a little bit left,but a giant testicle came along, kicked me in my testicles,shouted “you want fucking Mother Theresa torturing everyone to death” and disappeared.

  Now I am stuck here. Fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one of the really bad, annoying aspects of doing drugs is the lack of quality control⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same in Switzerland,btw. And going on for a long time.

  Very effective - there is ample evidence that it reduces both the amount of overdose as well as the general rate of addiction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia to enforce location tracking app on all foreigners in Moscow⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The war started in 2014 but somehow half of Europe and all of the US forgot.

  Not to mention what happened in Georgia. Or what happened in Chechnya.

  Or with people living in Moscow just because Putler wanted to start a war. Or journalists.

  Sorry,but Russia never was a beloved uncle. Russia was always the “shady, violent, uncle who can’t keep his hand off his kids but everyone ignores that because some family image they need to uphold and furthermore while he is quite poor he makes great gifts to the rest of the family. So everyone tolerates him.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wiring Check: Is the wiring correct?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That will surely get you some interesting light show. Ask a professional

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reverse proxy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This plus technitium DNS is exactly my approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you document your Homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn,yeah …it was late…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you document your Homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use different things:

  • Netplan for the actual hard “inventory” like documentation. What cable goes where, what powers what, what MAC is assigned to what, when did I buy this or that?(The later with an addon). In theory I also have snipe-it,but doing it all in netplan is more convenient.

  • Wiki.js for the concept and How-To-Side. Lots of draw.io diagrams (which can be done directly in articles), HOWTOs as a reminder for me, naming conventions, etc. Also some basic inventory information for disaster recovery. (Wiki.js is not hosted locally)

  • Vaultwarden for all secrets,passwords, recovery keys, ssh keys,etc.

  • And last but not least I do backups to Mdisc Blue Rays every few months. These include the documentation, the most important files (knx project for example), etc. and are stored at a different location (bank safe). There is also an detailled explanation in both my wifes and my own will how to access these so if something happens the kiddos or someone taking care of them can gain access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you need a more MS Office like feel: Use Softmaker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mullvad Leta is at least google minus the tracking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is a problem of the legal system around it.

  Within most(or all) EU countries this would count as a continuation of business and all previous liabilities (e.g. employees contracts, customers contracts, etc.) would need to be honored.

  Why it is done this way? To prevent people from doing exact that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No,more like an “AD” replacement. Does a lot of things(DNS,DHCP,some Apps),always depends on what one needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yepp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A woman who has literally not done a fucking thing to earn her wealth, has intentionally bribed witnesses (and never went to prison for it) and openly influences elections to get what she wants. Ever her children are against her.

  She need to be taxed to the maximum - imagine what Australia could be without her accumulated wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like it, but there are a few things I still need to do.

  • AMP Gamemanager to get better control of the servers for the kiddos

  • Codeproject AI for better image recognition with agent dvr

  • A proper voice AI setup with HA

  • I need to get my PBX setup going again
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but Netbox is really really neat to document cabeling, IPAM, the rack and does asset management as well with a plugin.

  But it’s really hard to document HOWTOs in it. And wiki.js is really a bad idea for the former.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone tested yunohost?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have a look at Cloudron as well,then. It’s free for 2 Apps and Johannes (the founder) is a fairly nice guy from Bavaria.

  Anyway,yeah. I have a different post here what I self host (which doesn’t even include everything…) so it’s a slippery slope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides using the power consumption there are also various ways to integrate smart devices - e.g. Bosch Siemens HomeConnect directly and let “the house” react to it. For the later a “no cloud” local integration has become available as well.