Krik
@Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Solar noon is the only real noon 3 hours ago:
No? UTC by definition doesn’t know time zones.
Let’s say the European goes to work at 8 o’clock UTC. The American in this example goes to work 6 hours later at 14 o’clock UTC. Both now exactly when the other one is in office. Time zones aren’t needed here.
Time zones are an invention to keep the zero hour (for hour counting) at about the same local time - midnight. Midnight was easier to determine that UTC (or GMT). A peasant could do it in a day without the help of expensive tools everywhere on Earth. As a matter of fact almost each city in medieval times had its own local time. To get that sorted out they where clustered into time zones.
- Comment on Solar noon is the only real noon 4 hours ago:
Time to nerd this shit! 🥸
There were several counting systems:
- In Old Egypt and in the medieval times they counted 12 day hours from sunrise to sundown and another 12 night hours from sundown to sunrise. A lot of systems do/did that because one tracked the sun and the other tracked the moon and the stars. It’s more like as 12 + 12 hours system instead of a 24 hours system.
- In the Babylonian system the day had 24 hours, beginning at sunrise. The name has nothing to do with the ancient Babylonians though. 🤷♂️
- The Italian system was the same as the Babylonian system but began counting at sundown. This is also the case in the Hebrew and Islamic calendar. Btw that’s the reason why Christmas night starts at the 24th of December in some countries (like Germany) and the 25th of December in other countries (like USA). The former converted from the old date/time system to the modern done while the later just went 'Nah! We’ll do what the Bible says.'
- The ancient Babylonians had danna, double hours. Hence a day had 6 day and 6 night dannas.
- Then there are still used 12 hour clock dividing the day in ante meridiem (before midday) and post meridiem (after midday). It is mainly used in Britain and countries that were ruled by the British Empire.
- There’s the current 24 hour clock starting and ending at midnight.
- There is the Julian Day where the counting -again- starts at sunrise. It is still used(!) in astronomy.
- There is Rammesses II’s hour calendar where the number of day and night hours changed depending on the month. June-July had 18 day and 6 night hours. December-January had 6 day and 18 night hours. Why does a country near the equator need 18 day or night hours? It’s not that the day and night length change that much during the seasons. 🤷♂️
- The Chinese calendar changed several times. Each day started and ended at midnight (like today) and initially was divided in 100 ke (1 ke = 14.4 minutes). Later that number changed to 120 (12 * 10), 108 (because 12 * 9) and 96 (12 * 8). When they also introduced double hours, ke became 15 minutes long. The double hours started counting at 23:00.
- And many more.
Also it isn’t a bad idea to work less hours in winter so you can experience the sun at all.
In the times before the light bulb work could only be done during the day. Candles made from beewax were too expensive for the peasants. If they used candles instead of kindling they were made from tallow and created a lot of smut and didn’t gave much light. That made them a bit unpopular. I wonder why? 👤
At least in my country work days were divided in morning, midday, afternoon and night. You worked your field during the morning, went to market at midday, did handyman work and chores during afternoon and slept during night time. - Comment on Nokia Put a 4G Cellular Network on the Moon but Couldn’t Make a Phone Call 13 hours ago:
Title: You wouldn’t believe what I found.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 2 days ago:
That’s an interesting take! Maybe I should do that too, when I restart learning Italian again.
Une, due, tre. Short and simple enough for me!
Or I go the masochist route and name them il ragazzo, la ragazza, i ragazzi and le ragazze. :D - Comment on What host names do you use? 2 days ago:
I didn’t meant the newlines. ^^
- Comment on What host names do you use? 2 days ago:
Is that a new kind of masochism?
- Submitted 2 days ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 207 comments
- Comment on Ancient problems require modern solutions 4 days ago:
I like the tape. Won’t hold but also won’t fall apart especially if you want to remove it. The right kind of mixture to make yourself hate yourself. :D
- Comment on How do people even function on a 9:00 to 5? 1 week ago:
In my country you have some overtime on your clock in case you need it for stuff like that. 5-10 hours are usually enough and it doesn’t take long build them up.
- Comment on Decentralized Search Engine 1 week ago:
Google was already shit for years. Its purpose nowadays is not to deliver whatever search results the user requested, it’s purpose is to keep the user dangling so that he clicks on one of the sponsored links - that’s money.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason you won’t find anything anymore on Google.
You can try DuckDuckGo. They are pretty open on what they do. The search engine is Bing and the maps come from Apple and you can chose your preferred AI from a list.
I haven’t heard about the decentralized search engines. Are they any good? Or are they more in like a proof of concept stage?
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 1 week ago:
According to Picard in the Movie First Contact money doesn’t exist anymore. I guess those latinum bars are only used by Ferengies, in border systems and outside the Federation.
That doesn’t mean there’s nothing that measures expense. The Federation might have a lot of available resources but they can’t be infinite.
- Comment on He thinks they'll just GIVE him money? 1 week ago:
- Rob a bank, sack 10 million.
- Travel to USA, buy a gold card.
- Be safe and spend 5 million because the US won’t extradite an American. :D
You need to be fast, though.
- Comment on Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’ 1 week ago:
But Amazon has no problems with the sale of adult toys? Hypocrites!
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 1 week ago:
They still exist? I was under the impression that they are abandoned.
- Comment on Proxmox setup - help needed 1 week ago:
Do I use BTRFS or ZFS? I tend to use ZFS because of its advantages when making backups. What would you do?
Usually VMs are usually I/O starved therefore I would try to go as lightweight as possible and chose Ext4 or XFS (depending on what the VM is used for). The VMs can be backed up whole by Proxmox. You have more than enough space to do that and it’s considerably easier to set up. And honestly how big could the containers and VMs be? I guess the containers are 50-200 MB and a VM a few GBs. That’s almost nothing.
Do I use QEMU/KVM virtual machines or LXC/LXD cointainers? Performance wise QEMU emulating the host architecture should be the way to go, right?
LXC containers are way more lightweight than VMs. I depends on what you want to do. Docker and a file server work better in a VM so far but Pi-hole and Jellyfin run perfectly in a container.
I shy away from running all services as Docker on the same machine for backup/restore purposes and rather have VMs per service. Is there anything wrong with this approach?
I would go for LXC first. If that isn’t possible or too cumbersome I would try docker (in a VM) next and one-VM-per-service last as they need the most resources.
I’d love to keep NextcloudPi (because it’d make it easy to migrate settings and files) and there’s an LXD container for it. Would you recommend doing a switch to Nextcloud AIO instead?
Sorry, no idea.
I’ve equipped the Deskmeet X300 with a WiFi card and antennas. AFAIU trying to use WLAN instead of LAN will create some trouble. Has anyone running Proxmox on a machine with WLAN insteal of LAN access successfully?
I would always try to connect it to LAN.
I’m aware that Proxmox comes with a firewall, but I don’t feel very confortable using a software firewall running on the same machine that hosts the virtual machines. Is this just me being paranoid or would you recommend putting a hardware firewall between the internet access and the Proxmox server?
No idea. I wouldn’t mind a firewall container. If something breaks through you are fucked one way or the other. The firewall in your router isn’t much different than any other.
You should always go for Wireguard or another VPN to access your network from the outside.What else should I think of, but haven’t talked about/asked yet?
Helper scripts for beginners: community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/
Just give them a look.And it seems you are ignoring Proxmox’ LXC. They are one of main reasons to pick that software.
- Submitted 1 week ago to startrek@startrek.website | 48 comments
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 1 week ago:
If the latter is Safari, then WebKit-based browsers are available for Windows and Unix-likes too.
Which are? Please list a few current ones that have reasonable backing and at least a mid-size community.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 1 week ago:
Amarok is the other wolf. I know it looks deceptively similar.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 1 week ago:
- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 1 week ago:
No Greece? Also no India, Indonesia and Japan? Damn that’s unexpected.
- Comment on which softwares can I self host without public IP? 1 week ago:
They’ll shut it down if you send more than a few megabytes down that tunnel. It’s ok if you just need a connection (for ssh and stuff) but anything that generates a lot of traffic will be blocked.
- Comment on telecommunications dish 1 week ago:
- Comment on Skyblivion, the fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, nears completion 2 weeks ago:
A different engine? Are you sure? They just buffed up their creation engine 2 for Starfield.
- Comment on Didn't believe what I was seeing 2 weeks ago:
Curves have entered the chat.
- Comment on Pixar 2 weeks ago:
Number?
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t sound that impressive when Wendelstein 7-X achieved 17 minutes of plasma in 2021.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 2 weeks ago:
Or you just switch to LibreWolf where all these settings are already set. It even comes with uBlock preinstalled.
- Comment on Are Dating Apps Getting Worse? 3 weeks ago:
Those apps are like Google search. They are designed to keep you occupied, to make you pay subscriptions and click on ads.
They are not designed to find you a good partner.
- Comment on Yeah, tunafan9000?? 3 weeks ago:
This doesn’t explain why a truck can drive at double digits mph with the trailer up.
Torque.
But yeah a safety feature would be easy to implement. It could be a buzzer that goes off or a enforced max speed of like 10-20 mph as long as the trailer isn’t locked in the down position.
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 3 weeks ago:
8-10 years is a fully fledged pv system. The small balcony panels pay themselves after about 5 years, longer if you add a battery.
