Dave

@Dave@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of stupid rule is that?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm yeah that’s what we figured. We were on holiday, we couldn’t take food home to eat later so just forced the food down then didn’t eat again for 24 hours 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of stupid rule is that?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok serious question. I live in a country where they don’t serve you free bread.

  What do you do if you eat all the delicious bread then you aren’t hungry anymore?

  I had this real life scenario happen when I was in Canada and we felt obligated to order mains even though we didn’t want them.

  Is it socially acceptable to pay for your drinks and leave?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many containers are you all running?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the containers are grouped into services. I would easily have 15 services running, some run a separate postgres or redis while others do an internal sqlite so hard to say.

  If we’re counting containers then between Nextcloud and Home Assistant I’m probably over 20 already lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would also be confused⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But how do I read these subtle hints, can’t she just tell me how she’s feeling?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Wants To Create Biometric Social Network To Kill X’s Bot Problem⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Chat GPT, generate me an image of an eyeball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people eat this?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fat and salt are the key ingredients in most fried food, so it’s basically deep fried bread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buttcoin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the thing. Either it is all speculators and someone will be left holding the bag, or it’s a real investment.

  Do you believe now that it’s a real investment? If so, then there’s no reason not to buy in now.

  If you don’t believe it’s a real investment, and the price could crash at any point and you lose all your money, then it was as true back then as it is today and selling out was the wise thing to do even if in hindsight you could have made a lot more money.

  Many people would compromise though, sell half to get their original money back and leave half. Then sell half again when/if it doubles, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if you do, contribute it to home assistant and I’ll install it 😆, it’s actually a little surprising conversions aren’t supported natively but I guess there is a lot to cover and they will get there eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Home assistant has an automation event that lets you set the conversation result, but you’ve already passed my ability haha so I can’t tell you how to pull the result in from an external service.

  It may well be worth building it as a home assistant integration rather than just custom sentence triggered automations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth noting you need both the speaker part and the server part. Home assistant sells both as out of the box ready to go but you do need both parts.

  It’s also worth noting it’s a Preview Edition, as in not yet consumer ready.

  It works but you will find quirks, and will find things it can’t do that you’d expect it to, and things it can do that others can’t.

  It’s also very customisable, if you’re a bit technical (honestly you don’t need to be that technical these days, it has come a long way).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have a plan? I have a Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition and it’s great but I don’t think it can do unit conversions without connecting it to an LLM. Timers work locally.

  I guess if it’s an equation you could add automation to pick up on the phrase and reply with the conversion, but that would need each unit to be manually done and wouldn’t work for things like currency conversion that needs live data.

  Also arbitrary things would be challenging, like converting tablespoons of butter into grams or grams of rice into cups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta blocked nearly 550,000 accounts in first days of Australia’s under-16s social media ban⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But the government is getting the surveillance system it always wanted, why would it block it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm lit deal with it 😎⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it in NZ or is this really common? Here’s the one I know: rnz.co.nz/…/himatjit-kahlon-convicted-of-manslaug…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So how was your year in review?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t have to be the moment, just that they would disappear after some amount of time that is less than a year (so they can’t make a year in review page).

  I seem to recall PieFed does delete certain topics (memes?) after some period of time, perhaps configurable per instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with a public facing website, there are significant volumes of scraping still happening. But largely this appears to come out of South East Asia and South America and they take steps to hide who they are so it’s not clear who is doing it or why, but like you say it doesn’t appear to be OpenAI, Google, etc.

  It doesn’t appear to be web search indexing, the scraping is aggressive and the volume will bring down a Lemmy server no matter how powerful the hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password managers...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your solution to this problem for the rest of your digital life?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How customer service jobs be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if you get 50 from a large fries, isn’t it feasible they got 100 from two large fries?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This song, it's infectious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha yip that’s the top album for me, this checks out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regular Animals(2025), Art Basel Miami Beach - Mike Winkelmann(Beeple)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just took the info from the article, what is wrong about it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regular Animals(2025), Art Basel Miami Beach - Mike Winkelmann(Beeple)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In case people are wondering, from left to right in the bottom image:

  • Andy Warhol
  • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Elon Musk
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Beeple, real name Mike Winkelmann (the artist who made them)

  There is also a Jeff Bezos one not in that image but seen in the other images.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I like kiwi⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And kiwifruit doesn’t even grow on a tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I tried this when troubleshooting and didn’t notice a difference. Nevermind, I pretty easily taught her how to bring up the menu and switch audio streams so she can solve it herself now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I didn’t manage to find many options in swiftfin, you don’t know if I can enforce it for a user from the server side?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I set up Jellyfin on my mother-in-law’s TV, it’s just push play.

  My mum has an Apple TV (the device, not the subscription) and on there she uses swiftfin. The only issue has been sound not working on certain audio tracks on certain movies, but in general it is easy for anyone.

  Both are very familiar interfaces for anyone used to playing something from a streaming service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yip, makes sense, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah haha, I actively avoid using google so don’t log in to an account. If you don’t mind me asking, if corporate surveillance isn’t what you’re avoiding, what’s the main reason you’re using a VPN?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No it’s a paid VPN, and it starts fast but after the first 500GB or so it slows right down.

  I do suspect many of the issues are from activity on the VPN rather than specific VPN blocking, but that doesn’t change the issues.

  How do you handle the Google Captchas that never end? That was the worst part for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have, thanks. The impossible to complete captchas are the worst for me, so many sites that are basically broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Browsing lemmy is probably fine, but the general internet is a god damn nightmare to browse on a VPN. Can’t load that one reddit search result with what you need. Endless google captchas making you do traffic light after traffic light on sites you didn’t even kniw used google. Downloading games from GOG is capped at like 0.5Mbps. And I’ve had plenty of instances of cloudflare blocking VPNs to certain sites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted Onedrive alternative⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How so? I have HTTPS on internal sites, I just use DNS validation to get the certificate.