fizzle
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- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 day ago:
Amazing.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 day ago:
Fair enough. I don’t watch
gambling adsprofessional sports either. - Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 day ago:
More power to you brother, but yeah this holds no meaning for me.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 day ago:
Unpopular thing to say but… I just don’t understand watching other people gaming.
Note that I did not say “people who watch twitch are idiots”.
Just that I personally don’t get it, never will. I’m fine with that too, people do loads of things that I don’t find at all appealing.
- Comment on Anybody out there self hosting Searxing? 1 day ago:
There’s an open issue about this on github. It’s the remote API is only recognising the first word of your query.
This has been bugging me too.
The timeouts are because the engines are presenting captchas. There’s a work around whereby you use your instance as a proxy, navigate to that remote engine, and do the captcha.
These two issues are a real pain in the ass so while I do presently have a searxng instance I’ve been using qwant the last few weeks because I’m just over it.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 days ago:
Not completely self hosted. Searxng is just a front end for a bunch of other engines, so it fetches results from google et al. Its good but glitches a lot as the engines themselves try to block it.
Yacy is self hosted, it crawls the sites you tell it to.
The LLMs are great. You can self host the models or just link to the hugging face API. The models you can find there are tuned for specific purposes and are far superior for those purposes. You can also train “agents” on top of those models, like upload your policy and procedure manual and ask it to create additional procedures in that context.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 2 days ago:
Because more than half of voters didnt want him to be punished.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 days ago:
The short answer is yes, and most companies do.
I have a small consultancy with a few staff, and im passionate about self hosting.
Using FOSS projects I’ve configured a selection of private services, which includes search and Gen AI. If I can do this with no resources…
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 6 days ago:
Woah, citric acid powder?
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 6 days ago:
Nah.
He desperately wanted to be POTUS again so he didnt go to jail.
Since then hes really just enriching himself generally.
I presume he would like to ensure he doesn’t go to jail in the future somehow, but IDK if thats a specific end game or a general goal.
I bet hes asked doctors whether its possible to transplant him into Barron’s body.
- Comment on Does playing audio at a high volume bluetooth wirelessly use more phone battery power than lower volume or are equidraining? 1 week ago:
Obviously.
- Comment on Does playing audio at a high volume bluetooth wirelessly use more phone battery power than lower volume or are equidraining? 1 week ago:
Would there be a stream of data indicating a volume setting? Or rather a once off “volume up” or “volume down” signal? My guess would be the latter but I might be wrong.
- Comment on YSK that you can/should budget yearly for long term purchases 1 week ago:
This. Budgeting is a nebulous topic which means a lot of different things in different contexts.
For a household, if you don’t have any surplus then skip “budgeting” and go straight to minimising costs and increasing income where possible. If you do have surplus then, well… save it for something.
- Comment on Do rich people in landlocked countries have yachts? 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Wait, we have a conservative community on lemmy?!
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 1 week ago:
Their written response is great but I would’ve flagged this with my boss.
- Comment on Suggestions for Community Organizing 1 week ago:
Yeah, I hate facebook too, but sometimes you just have to acknowledge that flying the FOSS flag is not your primary objective. Like someone else said, if you have half the people on whatsapp, you’ll get much less than that with anything else.
I occasionally dream of having a better “community” in my suburb but basically, I just have zero available effort to invest in that. Like I’m not working today and looking forward to spending the afternoon in my pyjamas fiddling around at home. If I feel super motivated and energetic later I might take the kids somewhere. If there were a community thing scheduled I just… wouldn’t feel like going.
I think the best form of community I can manage is simply having a few people’s numbers in my phone and telling them when something happens “Hey Barb, just letting you know the neighbours car got broken into last night, hows things down your end?”
- Comment on Do you rebuild your container images yourself? 1 week ago:
Containers have layers. So if you create an instance of a syncthing container whoever built that container would have started with some other container. Alpine linux is a very popular base layer, just used as an example in this discussion.
When you download an image, all the layers underlying the application that you actually wanted, will only be as fresh as the last time the maintainer built that image. So if there were a bug in the alpine base, that might have been fixed in alpine, but wouldn’t by pushed through to whatever you downloaded.
- Comment on Do you rebuild your container images yourself? 1 week ago:
I didn’t realise this was a problem.
I’m not too worried about it though.
each container has such a small attack surface. As in, my reverse proxy traefik exposes port 80 and port 443, and all the others only expose their API’s or webservers to traefik.
- Comment on Do you rebuild your container images yourself? 1 week ago:
I’m also in this category, but OP is talking about something else.
Like if you use container-x, which has an alpine base. If it hasn’t released a new version in several years then you’re using a several year old alpine distro.
I didn’t really realise this was a thing.
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 1 week ago:
It’s this.
Lawyers: put the warnings on everything.
Managers: what warnings?
Lawyers: the warnings.
Managers: yeah but
Lawyers: on everything. - Comment on Where do you store your bind mounts? 2 weeks ago:
This is me.
For example, /srv/docker/synching contains:
compose.yml
.env
./SyncThat last one is a directory bound to the container which contains all my sync folders.
Occasionally it makes more sense to put the mounted folder in /srv like /srv/photos is mounted by /srv/docker/photoprism/compose.yml
However, thats a rarity. Things mostly accessed by a single compose stack are kept alongside the other files for that stack.
- Comment on Attitudes 2 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of young people on lemmy and I imagine lots of people with unfulfilling jobs.
Im self employed. My job is tough, and stressful. I wouldn’t do it for free, but I choose to do this job because i have the right skills and experience, and I genuinely enjoy “helping” people with my services.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese must show the same determination as John Howard following the Port Arthur massacre 2 weeks ago:
One failure in the 1996 National Firearms Agreement was that it allowed membership of a target shooting gun club to be a valid reason for obtaining a gun licence. This was a serious mistake. Gun clubs were immediately flooded with applications for new members, and the membership fees have helped to support shooters’ parties in state parliaments and to fund gun lobby groups who have a vested interest in weakening gun laws and promoting the sales of more guns and ammunition.
I dont really think this is a fair assessment.
Yes its a concession that allowed some people to have some weapons, but in exchange they had to be connected to a club.
Its easy to forget that at the time, while these laws had a lot of support, there was still a very strong opposition. A significant portion of the population felt the way Americans would - that their rights were being taken away and that it was authoritarian over reach.
Maybe things have changed now, and maybe its time to dial up regulation of gun clubs, but in 1996 the govt of the time did what they could with that legislation.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 2 weeks ago:
Super common in accounting in australia.
Degrees by themselves aren’t very useful, you need the experience as well.
Just tick off 1 unit each semester.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 2 weeks ago:
Study part time, alongside employment.
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned 2 weeks ago:
What jab about your parenting? You seem kinda defensive about that actually. Maybe get that looked at.
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned 2 weeks ago:
Yes you really do seem… disengaged as a parent.
Prior to the ban, most parents wouldn’t tell their kids they couldn’t use social for fear of making them pariahs - excluded from something their peers are partaking of.
The ban provides parents with the agency to restrict their kids from using social, because at least the majority of kids won’t be there.
I dont see how the ban prevents you from having conversations with your children?
- Comment on How do you manage your home server configuration? 2 weeks ago:
Yep.
“I manage my server in yaml. Sometimes yml.”
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned 2 weeks ago:
Sorry chief this is just plain nutty.
I cant really respond to that.
By all means continue believing that wanting to reduce the impact of corporate profiteering on children is “evil”.