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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do i explain “it’s raining” to my boyfriend?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting,

  If it’s raining outside and it’s raining men come from the same base concept… “It” has a definition closer to the current state of the environment around me. Though admittedly the still breaks slightly for it’s raining men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, I already read half a dozen articles on it from outside the US.

  It was the nasty little comment. There’s no excuse for that tone here. If you can’t argue in good faith without being nasty, they get blocked.

  I had already read the take from several neutral news sources that had dug further and clarified their information without going out of their way to be pejorative.

  Also of note, when arguing, you don’t just go nuh uh and post a single link for someone to read. My problem was clearly with the tone of the bad-faith source they originally used. But then, if you go and look at their post history, they’re just constantly trolling.

  Their account has a lengthy history of negative karma, and I don’t have time for that. Honestly, none of us should put up with that. Block the people being nasty and move on.

  Her case is over, she plead out, she is sentenced. she got a middle of the road sentence for the crime.

  Now, let’s suppose we do cover that article that is in your own words, “proving many points of your statement to be incorrect”. What exactly do you say that disproves? It says it happened, that’s certainly not up for debate. It says Hodge died, and she was arrested and charged with murder. Then then paraphrase the deli managers statement “According to the deli worker, in that instant, the woman pulled out a knife and stabbed Hodge in the stomach.”

  There isn’t anything in that article that is substantially against my statement. You should consider re-reading what I wrote and understand I didn’t claim she didn’t do it, and wasn’t in any case innocent.

  But, if you go and read any one of the other articles, or, what has been listed otherwise in this post, (or the actual coverage of the evidence in the court case) There was back and forth. Spitting and insults were raised, tensions were high, he might have thrown a bottle at her and likely called her names. She threatened him before stabbing him.

  Rich and another customer tried to intervene, but neither Cruz nor Hodge wanted to back down, Rich said. ‘I got in between them - twice,’ said Rich, who remembered another woman joining her and trying to get Hodge to stand down. ‘Don’t to this, you have a good job, let this go,’ Rich recalled the other woman saying. Rich said Hodge, however, took his coat off and said to Cruz, ‘You want to stab me?’

  Yeah, she’s guilty AF, but it wasn’t premeditated. She has some psychological issues, but she’s not some satan hellspawn looking for people to stab. She needs help, it’s good that she’s off the street. It’s fucking Harlem man, if someone threatens to stab you, take em at their word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Free wifi! That’s freaking awesome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Of all the people I know who bought into e-readers, they all just went back to books. Kindle is the only one that seems to still pop up, but people hate amazon so much they’d far father buy from mom and pop shops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cell phones didn’t exist. Kids need to call to get picked up after hours. There were payphones anywhere they would be used. Malls, Outside fast food restaurants, in shopping centers at gas stations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Those phones were durable AF.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  well that’s a GREAT way to get blocked, don’t let the door hit ya!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  She bought a knife, wanted to stab someone

  Sorry, but when a “news” journal is that deep into batshit clickbait propaganda, you can’t use other articles written by them as a source of truth. Hell the second article isn’t even an article it’s just a statement with no source, wrapped in acid.

  I’m not saying she’s innocent or that it was called for, but there’s no reliable truth in that article other than the man is dead.

  Guns aren’t allowed in New York, She’s trans, needs to protect herself. It was a steak knife, not exactly a weapon you use to fight someone for funsies.

  If she was pure evil, she would have gotten 25 years. They gave her 15 because she was in the wrong, but it wasn’t black and white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh the good ole broken post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP, I’ve kinda had a middle of the road experience with it.

  I run JF and Plex on the same shares.

  I dropped 10k tracks on it and a bunch of audiobooks, my stuff is 100% tagged.

  I use tailscale to get to the server because here’s no Nat Holepunching going on.

  I try to use it as much possible for audio, but some days, I just give in and use plexamp (like a guilty pleasure)

  cons:

  • It has issues with displaying some of the songs, they’re tagged right but you just can’t find some of it. They’re all Discogs coded, so there’s not even a lot of extra characters.
  • It doesn’t always remember where in a book I am,
  • It has no idea about collections of book files.
  • Search is very slow, (yes there is a plugin for this, yes it’s complicated enough I haven’t tried it yet)
  • Scrolling a large list is stupid low, it should just stream everything text into ram and bring thumbs in on demand
  • Finamp: Finamp is barely a wrapper for the JF engine to the point that they can’t implement effects or crossfade without the feature being added in JF first. But JF is just using a ready-to-go library to play music, so changes to JF require upstream library updates. Audio development feels stagnant.
  • Finamp scrolling loads one letter at a time. Scroll to Z? you get to wait, A…B…C…D…E…F…G…H…I…J…K…L…M…N…O…P…Q…R…T…U…V…W…X…Y…Z, no skipsies. It literally takes me a couple of minutes to go to songs that start with Z.
  • Plugin installs are complicated and poorly documented, and compatibility with versions is dicey
  • Finamp: If you lose the network in the middle of a song, you can soft-lock the app.
  • Finamp: occasionally crashes if left for a long play session on my late-model Android phone.
  • No options to cast.
  • No listening through a NAT without port forwarding (which is dicey without a security team)
  • No 2FA
  • Finamp?: Shuffle is too random, you can get the same song to play twice in a couple of minutes. it needs to pull at least a couple of hours of list and shuffle that, rather than random play.

  pros:

  • It’s free
  • It works good enough-ish for a daily car ride.
  • It has some form of limited home-grown fail2ban
  • The developers are super nice people.
  • I exported my Plex playlists and used some Python to turn them into m3u lists, which worked fine. (Would be a cool feature to import from Plex)
  • Playlist and Shuffle work mostly fine.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a LOT of pros and cons.

  Pros:

  • Developed by a professional, multi-disciplined full-time team with some security oversight.
  • Hosted caching of The Movie DB for faster lookups
  • Provision of SSL communication to and from your server without any special setup
  • FREE EPG data caching
  • Centralized server management from the web
  • Low-speed relay for those stuck behind CGNAT.
  • A REALLY solid mobile media player (sorry, but plexamp beats the pants off the JF alternatives)
  • Centralized Login for your friends and family with email-based password reset
  • 2FA already set up
  • A nice reflector gauge to see if you’re ports are open and what your limits are
  • Great client support on a LOT of devices
  • Search is fast out of the box, even with extensive collections
  • Their clients tend to do a better job supporting all the decoding features on every player

  Cons:

  • Not free
  • Not Open
  • They have a lot of your historical data and will eventually sell it when they sell the company. This is not going to be optional. That data is worth a lot and they likely already have enough EULA rights to sell it to whoever asks. Imagine if the MPAA gets in on the fun.
  • Their security history is quite dicey
  • The lifetime membership will eventually be enshitified as it’s not economically sound in the long run
  • They constantly change the terms of the agreement.
  • They constantly remove features people are using
  • They constantly push to share data between users
  • They constantly push Ads
  • They are making previously free features pay.
  • Their investors are starving, which makes them a liability.
  • Their clients are generally slower.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Aww come on guys, my JF boner can only handle so much /s

  Seriously though, why did they even give you the option to disagree, you know they’re just going to force it 3-6 months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  David Attenborough or Samuel L. Jackson whichever you choose:

  Here, in its natural habitat…the back side of a surban sprawl…The Tesla Cybertruck finds itself in a most vulnerable position. Its angular frame, designed for dominance on the open road, now proves to be its ‘greatest’ disadvantage. On its back, the beast is utterly helpless, its tires spinning futilely against the air, seeking traction where none exists.

  If left unaided, it must rely on the intervention of a benevolent passerby…or, in rare instances, a particularly determined group of MAGA… to restore it to its upright posture.

  Nature, as ever, is indifferent to the plight of even the most advanced machines…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas governor signs online safety law in blow to Apple and Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a decent enough plan, Watch his support crumble and seconds.

  Hi, Verizon I need a phone that’s not running Android or iOS…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The sun is killing off SpaceX's Starlink satellites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So the article says that it can reduce their lifespan by up to 10 days.

  A quick check on the lifespan of the satellite, They claim they’re about 5 years.

  I’d say the article title got done splainin’ to do.

  In other news, how can we help the sun do better, 10 days is not enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Into the meat grinder!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Human attempt #32,324,568,693

  fail

  Human attempt #32,324,568,694

  fail

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not have the meters detect and control a disconnect. with all the solar generation around, someone’s gotta have a bad transfer switch somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question] Send NTFY notification to a dashboard like Glance? | Self-host a simple dynamic json api to hook to the Glance dashboard (custom API)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad to hear you got it worked out.

  You can use copilot for free, you don’t have to install anything just creating an account, you can do it in a vanilla browser They don’t even really get that much good information off of you.

  For learning something that you’ve never done before it’s honestly pretty damn good of all the horrible things AI is used for this is one of the least detrimental.

  Just remember if you do use it for anything don’t just copy and paste willy-nilly read it, use it to understand things. Some of the data it’s trained on are jokes telling people to delete their hard drives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question] Send NTFY notification to a dashboard like Glance? | Self-host a simple dynamic json api to hook to the Glance dashboard (custom API)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m running NTFY at my house in a container.

  Then I have a cloudflare container that gives me HTTPS through a tunnel to that NTFS

  In my scenario I would probably just spin up my own container, write a little application in Python or maybe NodeJS that subscribes to an NTFY topic and makes web calls based on the data that comes in.

  This is actually a simple enough thing you could ask and AI to help you with the exact code. There’s no harm in using it as a learning tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Butterfly effect is as likely to make him more dangerous as it is to make him less

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Descentralized AI book reading server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I explained what I did, and how it worked.

  generally, this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV1Ab0qWyT8

  the numbers came from my experience, ymmv.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grieve with me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Take a tooth floss pick and dig all the pocket crud out of it, both the top and bottom side. try a fresh cable, if that fails try some deoxit on the port

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Descentralized AI book reading server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Rag is fucking awesome, But in its current state it can’t handle unlimited amounts of data. On consumer machines I think you can throw around 100 megs at it before it starts losing it That’s quite a lot of text, but not really a decent collection of books. They might be able to get away with separating the books into categories and adding them as different knowledge bases. They’d have to select which knowledge base they wanted to ask but if they could keep the size down it might work relatively well

  I fed mine about a year’s worth of slack traffic from work. I would ask it how many times people had trouble with a certain system. It would say three, meanwhile there were 500 tickets in the system of people having trouble with it.

  No if I asked it about those three things it would have great detail. I can even ask it for sentiment of people that were talking about it It would recognize reasonably well if they were upset, understanding or angry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the past 20 years, has anyone learned anything watching The Learning Channel (TLC)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Loads and loads, up until 1998 when they pivoted to reality TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m down for paying for a piece of software. I bought a lifetime subscription back in the day I feel like until recently it served me pretty well. And to be fair they are caching the movie database, providing SSL keys, epg, low speed proxy through cgnat for people, there’s quite a bit too there cloud operations that they do deserve money for.

  What pisses me off is the mining of my watch habits, and the slow and enshitification of features.

  14 years of lifetime Plex pass for $75, they don’t really owe me anything, But I am moving on.

  I’m slowly digging my way out of sights with algorithms, clawing my way out of Google is particularly difficult. I’m considering spinning my own Alexa with whisper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did no such thing!

  So are you unable to not stop responding due to contract or programming?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ohh, wait, are you another one of those people (or bots) that can’t not get the last word in? I LOVE THOSE!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hahahahahahah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you want to re-try all the cherry-picking you’ve done to all these people over the years and not be a troll?

  We can just call it even, or you can figure it out. or well, maybe you can’t…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you say Nazi Germany collapsing would be a bad thing? Are we Nazi Germany? USA to collapse to the point that they can’t. Does the country and all those juicy resources just disappear? Nawww, people outside of the country are already calling the shots.