fizzle

@fizzle@quokk.au

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In my city it would be outside the Library, which happens to be “the town square”, on the main street.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it really depends on the nature of the societal collapse.

  I can imagine situations in which being able to press a gold necklace into the right palm might get you out of a tricky situation.

  On the other hand it’s hard to imagine a situation where a horde of gold bullion in your safe at home would be very helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are all dinosaur fossils 'replicas'?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no benefit to displaying the real thing if you can’t tell the difference.

  In most cases you’re free to believe its the actual fossil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker security⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I basically just avoid exposing ports from containers unless I really do want them exposed on the host?

  Most services go through my reverse proxy, traefik.

  Things like databases don’t publish ports on the host because they’re only accessed internally, using their container name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but 4 is easier to remember?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solutions for remote access?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve been using wireguard for a long time myself personally, and more recently for a small team to access an intranet.

  I’m a big fan. After a half hour or so trying to understand configs it’s pretty manageable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For most of human history people who couldn’t do math, or read, or understand a map, have been communicating directions to each other.

  4 directions is just enough to tell someone which way to face, without being too many to remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isint lemmy more popular?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  network effect. There’s fewer people here so there’s fewer people here.

  That said, I like it just how it is and would caution anyone against wishing for more users.

  Don’t focus on getting more users. Focus on making the content here the best it can be.

  It’s inevitable that the quality of the experience here will change with more users. Whether it’s a net positive or negative remains to be seen.

  To be sure, these are the “good old days” of lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isint lemmy more popular?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  other platforms are bringing in age verification.

  Will be interesting to see how this pans out for lemmy.

  You’re right there will be a movement away from the larger platforms. I don’t think it will be a movement to lemmy though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How will the Military be after this mess with Trump?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You may not agree with what the military does, but you have to respect them for that reason alone, above all else.

  You seem to have strange ideas of what I, or others, will respect people for doing?

  I would have incredible respect for anyone refusing an order because they feel that it is illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted alternatives to Discord with screensharing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been trying to get zulip working.

  Sounds like it addresses your requirements.

  Seems to be a real bitch to self host - I’ve been doing this a while but the compose yaml is pretty arcane with hundreds of environment variables.

  I didn’t “give up” exactly but it’s been on the back burner for a month or so now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I make a Bluetooth button to skip YouTube ads on the computer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On one hand I agree that today, the easiest solution is freetube or similar.

  However, this problem seems to become “unsolved” every other Wednesday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could another country like Great Britain Release the Full Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On one hand, I imagine the administration is treating these documents with the utmost care.

  On the other hand, it sounds like thousands of people have been involved in handling them.

  There are probably dozens of people with their own copies, ready for use as blackmail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m honestly kinda surprised that Google is apparently not in fact doing this already and (according to the comments here) continues to not do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women and men and consensual sex⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hyperbole, surely.