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- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 1 week ago:
This is the Achilles heel of the fediverse, or indeed of any non corporate platform. It’s more often than not run by passionate volunteers, but passion will only get you so far and it doesn’t always last forever.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 1 week ago:
Honestly I can relate.
- Submitted 1 week ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 34 comments
- Comment on How do you get a certificate for an internal domain? 1 week ago:
This would involve a stream when using nginx as a reverse proxy, correct?
- Submitted 1 week ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on reverse proxy over vpn without docker? 1 week ago:
Well I have the vpn working but the connection seems to close after 2-5 minutes unless the client keeps talking to the server, at which point I have to ping the server from the client to re-open the tunnel. Is there a way to keep the tunnel open?
- Comment on reverse proxy over vpn without docker? 1 week ago:
You are correct, I want the VPs’s IP to be what people see, not my home IP.
- Comment on reverse proxy over vpn without docker? 1 week ago:
You mean nginx the regular web server, not nginx proxy manager, correct?
- Submitted 1 week ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Offline TTS in 2026? 1 week ago:
I’m fairly confident espeak is all you’re going to get that’s FOSS, local, and with any non English support. Yes every espeak language sounds like a Brittish guy badly pronouncing that language, and this includes the American English voice as well.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
How’s this for an “I’m getting old” moment: sonic 1 was released on the Genesis in 1991. Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was released on the GameCube in 2001. Sonic has been on Nintendo consoles for over twice the time he’s been a Sega exclusive.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on What activity or pastime of yours is barrels of fun? 2 weeks ago:
If you haven’t already done so, check out !worldbuilding@lemmy.world. I enjoy conlanging and worldbuilding for similar reasons. One thing I miss from Reddit is the worldbuilding sub. It was orders of magnitude more active so there was always something to dig into.
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- Comment on If you were dropped into a pool of people's spit and prevented from getting out, would you melt to death? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you would melt, considering your own mouth is full of saliva and does fine. You would be at huge risk of infection though.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 weeks ago:
Shmups are fun and should be revived as a genre. I’ve been saying for years that Nintendo should make Star Fox into a 2D scrolling shooter.
Though playing Megabonk earlier today made me realize that it and other clones of Vampire Survivors are like shmups in many ways. You gain powerups that you lose when you die, you have little to do other than move, and maneuvering around the level is a big part of the gameplay.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 weeks ago:
Mega man is comfort food. I don’t expect it to do anything new. I just want it to be decent.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 weeks ago:
I blame Minecraft for the lack of tutorials in survival games. Notch never added one before the game got popular enough to generate clones.
- Comment on Offline TTS in 2026? 2 weeks ago:
None of this may be relevant, but I’m curious what your use case is. I use TTS very extensively to consume media and have my preferences. None of them are open source, but as far as I know all operate locally, though they’re baked into other programs like screen readers and ebook readers.
I prefer older more robotic voices because they remain intelligible at high speed. Eloquence is a favorite, as are the older Apple voices like Fred and Ralph. I think it has gone by other names but TruVoice (spacing and capitalization may vary) is also up there. It was semi popular during the surreal meme era. Another memetic synth that’s a little before my time but I quite enjoy is DECTalk (AKA the Moonbase Alpha voice). I believe Vocalizer was responsible for the OG Siri voice Samantha and that one’s a more human voice that’s still serviceable at high speeds.
- Comment on They should make a reboot of Freakazoid where he gets his powers from the 2025 internet instead of the 1995 internet. 2 weeks ago:
I saw it when it first aired. Like Spielberg’s other cartoons a lot of the humor went over my head as a kid and isn’t quite my preferred style of humor as an adult, but I nevertheless remember it fondly simply for the childhood nostalgia.
- Comment on They should make a reboot of Freakazoid where he gets his powers from the 2025 internet instead of the 1995 internet. 2 weeks ago:
Push it back a few years and he would just be trollface
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on In what way am I the product when using CloudFlare's free tier? 2 weeks ago:
How much traffic before the sales team comes knocking?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Can anyone recommend a logging blood pressure cuff that doesn't require an app or account? 2 weeks ago:
Because I’ll never keep it up to date. I’ll be in a hurry or something and just measure it without recording.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 3 weeks ago:
Conlanging is a very cheap hobby. Quoth Tolkien:
It is incidentally one of the attractions of this hobby that it needs so little apparatus!
- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 3 weeks ago:
Just guessing here, but Christmas has cemented itself in the wider cultural consciousness thanks in part to commercially exploitable traditions like gift-giving. It’s is often celebrated in some way by people who are not even Christian (Japan, for example). There are very specific themes, religious and secular, associated with Christmas that you can write songs about, The birth of Jesus, obviously, but also family gatherings, winter weather (Northern hemisphere bias), the whole Santa mythos and so on.
What Americans associate with Christmas is actually three separate feasts scrunched into one. Saint Nicholas day (December 6th) which is why Saint Nicholas is associated with Christmas, and Epiphany (January 6th) again for the magi, are the traditional gift-giving holidays, but got engulfed by the unstoppable Yule Tide. So you have these three different occasions with their own songs combined together.
New years doesn’t have the same cultural presence.