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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3124: Grounded⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes it do be like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What almost impresses me most is the architecture of the Parthenon in Athens. Nothing in it is perpendicular. There’s a rise in the middle of the floor of about 6.5cm over a span of 30 meters that makes the floor bowed and prevents it from looking like it’s sagging in the middle. All of the columns are just slightly tilted inwards. They’re not straight-sided, either, they’re bowed. The whole danged thing is an optical illusion to make it appear perpendicular, because it’s so big that if they didn’t, it wouldn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automating Restic backups⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My recommendation is to put all of the variables in an environment file, and use systemd’s EnvironmentFile (in [Service] to point to it.

  One of my backup service files (I back up to disks and cloud) looks like this:

  [Unit]
  Description=Backup to MyUsbDrive
  Requires=media-MyUsbDrive.mount
  After=media-MyUsbDrive.mount
  
  [Service]
  EnvironmentFile=/etc/backup/environment
  Type=simple
  ExecStart=/usr/bin/restic backup --tag=prefailure-2 --files-from ${FILES} --exclude-file ${EXCLUDES} --one-file-system
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.timer
  

  FILES is a file containing files and directories to be backed up, and is defined in the environment file; so is EXCLUDES, but you could simply point restic at the directory you want to back up instead.

  My environment file looks essentially like

  RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/mnt/MyUsbDrive/backup
  RESTIC_PASSWORD=blahblahblah
  KEEP_DAILY=7
  KEEP_MONTHLY=3
  KEEP_YEARLY=2
  EXCLUDES=/etc/backup/excludes
  FILES=/etc/backup/files
  

  If you’re having trouble, start by looking at how you’re passing in the password, and whether it’s quoted properly. It’s been a couple of years since I had this issue, but at one point I know I had spaces in a passphrase and had quoted the variable, and the quotes were getting passed in verbatim.

  My VPS backups are more complex and get their passwords from a keystore, but for my desktop I keep it simple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calibre-Web-Automated v3.1.1 - The Community Update 👬 Hardcover Integration 💜, Calibre Plugins 🔌, Split Library Support 💞, KoReader Sync 🗘 and much more! 📚⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope this isn’t a step towards replacing the native app with an SPA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, in the US, you learn to drive first, at 16, but can’t drink legally until 21. So you get people who’ve been driving for 5 years and confident with their driving ability, learning what their alcohol limits are. Yes, plenty of teens drink illicitly, but I always thought Germany did it better: you get experienced with alcohol and have been drinking for 6 or 7 years by the time you get your license.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the olden days, when people got married a lot younger, there were probably lots of grandparents in their thirties⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Life expectancy tended to be a lot lower, too. Once you lost your teeth, it was only matter of time. With no antibiotics, any injury that broke skin could be a death sentance, and over 30, 40 years, the odds stack up.

  Childbirth was a pretty dangerous thing for women, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The nursery rhyme "monkeys jumping on the bed" gives children the impression that you can just call your family doctor who will pick up immediately.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s space. There’s actually 28 hours in space, but she does get bathroom breaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life is letting go⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you read any Stoic writings? That sounds like a hot take from Stoicism cliff notes.

  And, no. I see no issue with Stoicism; I think it’s a very pragmatic philosophy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im an unworthy Fraud when it comes to Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a funny joke, but

  I’d type a crying Emoji, but my Foss degoogled keyboard doesn’t have Emojis)

  HeliBoard? Or, literally any of the dozen other FOSS keyboards in FDroid?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you put a "s" in front of the "sh" in chivalry, they turn into a "k" like in schism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We didn’t do most of the fuckery in English. It was the Normans, while they were in charge, who forced scribes to use screwed-up French spelling for words.

  It’s always the god-damned French.

  (jk, love you France! 🩷)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The nursery rhyme "monkeys jumping on the bed" gives children the impression that you can just call your family doctor who will pick up immediately.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a thing called “concierge doctor.” You pay $X per month and get basically 27/7 access to your doctor, and free consultations. It’s not covered by insurance, and specialists (which is almost everything) still require insurance or other payment.

  If you can afford it, concierge is absolutely fantastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life is letting go⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The main character in the movie Croupier has a really great philosophy: “Hang on tightly, let go lightly.” It took me longer to wrap my head around, but ultimately I realized it’s a rephrasing of a core stoicism concept, and I love especially memorable quotes like this.

  You have ultimately no control over events. A loved one could be struck by a fatal aneurysm tomorrow and you could’t prevent it. All you can do is cherish what you have, always knowing that you could lose it at any moment.

  It’s easy to read Epictitus and hear, "don’t care about your wife, because she is already dead,” and I think Epictitus really was kind of a dick. Aurelius was either a better or not compassionate author, though, and phrased it around cultivating an awareness that we are powerless against much of the universe, so hang on tightly to what you have, while you have it, but let go lightly when it is time, and don’t carry unnecessary grief and things you can’t control.

  Stoicism seems, to me, to focus much on answering your specific question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was I born as a singularity built need and desperation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This content really enhances Lemmy. I, too, want to know the answer to the wing question. It’s been long enough to grow wings, surely?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The future is NOT Self-Hosted, but Self-Sovereign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This seriously got an out-loud chuckle from me. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for a version control system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sourcehut also supports Mercurial, so you also have an option to the herd mentality.

  Sourcehut also has zero, or almost zero, JavaScript in the interface, so it doesn’t suck

  Sourcehut is also componentized, so you can mix and match the pieces you want or need:

  • VCS hosting
  • masking list management
  • issue management
  • build server
  • man server

  Sourcehut is by far the best hosted VCS option at the moment. The Mercurial support alone puts it miles ahead of the others, which are all hobbled by tight coupling to git.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are China Parties like Tupperware Parties, where friends get together and one shills a pyramid scheme? That’s what CP is, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The worst day to get Groundhog Day'd would be when you have an early flight in the morning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  American remakes generally suck. The same could be for remakes in other countries; I can’t speak to that, but the French original La Femme Nikita was incredible. The American remake sucked. The British original Who’s Line Is It, Anyway (TV) was great; the US series stank.

  I think that’s just the nature of remakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future is NOT Self-Hosted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  E2E usually suffers from the same thing HTTP does: the MITM might not be able to read what you’re saying, but they know who you’re saying it to, and they may know in what context. This is a lot of information that can be used in profiling.

  So you end up with systems like SimpleX, where everyone has a different UID for every contact, but that has its own problems, as anyone who’s used systems like that are aware. We haven’t really solved making that a good user experience for messaging; I don’t see it translating to broader social media any time soon.

  Nostr has some really good specs and tooling that neatly addresses these topics, including great cryptography support, signing, ad-hoc IDs, and an entirely voluntary simple naming lookup; it doesn’t exactly solve zooko’s triangle, but it provides a toolset sufficient to mix and match characteristics for whatever your threat model is. Sadly, Nostr is utterly dominated by the crypto crowd (and is associated with some controversial personalities), and even if you’re not cryptocurrency-hostile, it’s a really dull echo chamber with little other content that has prevented people who might otherwise build interesting platforms in it from doing so.

  Mastodon was around for ages before (the in practice centralized) Bluesky; why did it take Bluesky to open a mass exodus from X?

  This is a hard problem to solve. Throwing E2E at it doesn’t make it easier; it’s just tossing a buzzword in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it ok to store Backrest/Restic within the stacks managed by Dockge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean by “all right?” What are your concerns?

  restic backups are encrypted by default; it should be safe to store them almost anywhere in the cloud. The container needs the credentials, but you can improve security with something like OpenBAO (Hashicorp Vauly fork, github.com/openbao/openbao), SOPS (gitgub.com/getsops/sops), infisical (github.com/Infisical/infisical), or any number of other secrets management tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authentik vs Authelia?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why don’t you like LDAP? OpenLDAP is a PITA (necessarily, I guess, to be considered “enterprise”), but lldap has been pretty nice to me. I mean, it’s the identity protocol, it’s just that the server software has been complex until relatively recently.

  What would you use instead? A SQL DB with some custom schema, that just re-invents LDAP?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authentik vs Authelia?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the motivation behind this, but have a allergy to running critical infrastructure like authentication on node.

  To each their own, though, and good luck with the project. Diversity is life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article talks specifically about an EV battery plant in Nevada has drained all of the water and destroyed habitats. I don’t think that’s going to be offset by people driving EVs.

  But that’s not necessarily an inerrant issue with EV batteries; it’s an issue with that particular battery maker having a poor environmental policy. It’s not the same as burning coal, where you can do it a little less bad but pollution is essentially unavoidable in the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horny🧠⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, basically: always horny. That scans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t hear that the hostile reaction from the Europeans to Elon’s shenanigans affected his behavior much. He bitched about it, but didn’t change anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horny🧠⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was the opposite: dangerous situations kicked the hormones into overdrive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife is 2 inches shorter than I (6’) am. When she’s feeling girlie, she can snuggle up, but in 4 inch heels her legs go on forever and she towers.

  She’s got the best of both worlds, and consequently, so do I.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but the article is 90% about a plant in Nevada; EU regulations aren’t going to affect that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TL;DR companies making EV batteries don’t have good environmental processes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qutos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Qutos”, a new State Trek Ferengi comic relief character who goes around sagely quoting capitalist aphorisms that make no sense to anyone but other Ferengi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You either know what cute aggression is, and understand it...or you think the concept makes a person sound like a future serial killer who's going around squeezing the life out of puppies.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely understand the call of the void. The mental image of killing my cats quells any desire to squish them - for me - but I get it.