Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Why do so many services require email configuration? 4 hours ago:
I’m starting to wonder if a mailpit instance is a bad idea. Just a page you go to where any email goes, make sure it’s not externally accessible.
- Comment on If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences 6 hours ago:
We are human, we have done almost this exact thing for thousands of years and leave ecosystem devastation in our wake.
People with rockets would absolutely go down to that planet without a second thought.
- Comment on Aeroplane 2 days ago:
If it has autopilot and autobrakes, surely all those other buttons aren’t needed?
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 3 days ago:
Don’t forget unique email addresses. I’ve had two spam emails in the last 6 months, I could trace them to exactly which company I gave that email address to (one data breach, one I’m pretty sure was the company selling my data). I can block those addresses and move on with my life.
My old email address from before I started doing this still receives 10+ spam emails a day.
- Comment on What do you guys think of my PoE-Powered grow lights? 6 days ago:
I hope you’re using a VPN, a proxy isn’t secure. Don’t want to get caught pirating photosynthesis.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 1 week ago:
I do nightly borg backups of much more than 200gb. The idea of incremental backups is you’re only doing the changes, and photos don’t tend to change.
What challenge did you come across with a 200GB backup?
- Comment on K&T Host, a hosting provider for many Fediverse software including Lemmy has announced they're shutting down 1 week ago:
Looks like it’s one of those sites that let you easily host an instance of various sites, one of which includes Lemmy.
I’m not sure who will be affected but if it’s anyone, probably mostly single user instances.
- Comment on Sounds about right 2 weeks ago:
The first line says the boss lives across the street
- Comment on Are you sure there aren't any ... ?? 2 weeks ago:
- Is it like anything else I might be familiar with to help me understand better? (Note: almost 70 so may need old references.)
Reddit was mentioned, but that explains the format of this site, that people post stuff and people can upvote stuff they like to make it more visible to others.
But I haven’t (so far) seen anyone mention something similar to answer the question as to why there are so many different sites here. People from lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, lemmy.nz, and others are all participating here, all on their own sites but all somehow connected.
The old (and still well used) equivalent here is email. Email is a federated service, it’s not hosted by one company, anyone can operate an email server and jn fact it’s very common. Emails look perhaps like dave@gmail.com or dave@company.com or dave@something.com. the part after the @ tells your email provider how to reach the server of the person you are emailing. You’ll notice user names can look similar to an email address, but have an @ at the beginning to identify them as separate from email addresses.
But yes, as others have mentioned, lemmy.world is the largest lemmy website, run by some people called the Fedihosting Foundation. Anyone can sign up there, and anyone can create a community there. It seems very unlikely there is an official relationship between Lemmy.world and Perchance.
- Comment on It's good to have goals. 2 weeks ago:
He wants to be the guy getting paid to put stuff in the microwave.
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 2 weeks ago:
Well according to the OP, it’s a list they offer for free and it’s integrated with many browsers including Firefox…
- Comment on Living his best life. 3 weeks ago:
Maybe the committee doesn’t like calling people and is hoping they won’t answer.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 3 weeks ago:
Fixed now?
- Comment on Taxes and nature 4 weeks ago:
Wikipedia briefly covers this on the page about Noah, and also talks about a story about Deucalion:
The story of Noah in the Pentateuch is similar to the flood narrative in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, composed around 1800 BC, where a hero builds an ark to survive a divinely sent flood. Scholars suggest that the biblical account was influenced by earlier Mesopotamian traditions, with notable parallels in plot elements and structure. Comparisons are also drawn between Noah and the Greek hero Deucalion, who, like Noah, is warned of a flood, builds an ark, and sends a bird to check on the flood’s aftermath.
- Comment on Taxes and nature 4 weeks ago:
Also, did all the babies that God drowned go to heaven?
Also you have no idea how happy to hear that Noah, his wife, and his three sons weren’t the only ones on board the ark. The wives of his sons were apparently there as well, otherwise that could have got awkward.
- Comment on Then and Now 4 weeks ago:
I find the more I eat of sugary or fatty food the more I can handle. My body seems to get used to it. So I’m guessing how people do it is they slowly increase over time without noticing.
Hell, maybe they do feel like shit all the time but don’t associate it with their diet.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 4 weeks ago:
Yeah you’d have to set some criteria for the list! Does any amount count or do you set a minimum that eliminates many spices? And if you do, then you’re counting things on one person’s list that aren’t on someone else’s.
People probably eat 1000 foods in a year if we have no minimum amount!
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 4 weeks ago:
I’m tempted to start a list. Sure, the majority of our food will be a handful of staples, but I feel like the average person from a rich country must eat quite a variety between seasonal variations of the food they eat at home, eating out, eating at a friends place, fast food, slow food, etc.
If I wrote a list, I think I would find over 100 different plants in the last year. If I have take out dumplings, I’d probably be eating onion, garlic, a couple of kinds of cabbage, soy sauce, sesame oil, pepper, carrot, ginger, maybe more.
It might be a shorter list without the flavourings but I still think I’d hit 100.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 4 weeks ago:
Do people (in general) really only eat 100 different plants? I feel like that number must be too low. Surely if you listed out all the plant foods that people consider “normal”, there would easily be more than 100.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 5 weeks ago:
I found this page explaining that it’s not that it’s illegal (necessarily, keep reading), but that there is a GDPR exemption for private property and if you’re filming areas the public access then you need to comply with GDPR. The page says for dashcams you need to comply with GDPR as well.
This page says it’s generally not allowed to record, but if you read the Swedish version is has a flow chart (that I can’t read 😅).
What most interests me is that it keeps referring to the GDPR as the reason why you can’t record public areas (or your neighbours). I’m not in Europe and don’t know much about the GDPR but why is Sweden special with these rules, why aren’t all countries in the European Union limiting the use of security cameras on public areas?
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 5 weeks ago:
That’s really interesting. Is it specifically security cameras?
Can you generally take videos of people in public places? Photos?
- Comment on Security camera recommendations? 1 month ago:
Can confirm, I’ve recently got some cameras and set up Frigate and it’s been great. Not using Reolink but the ones I have work well enough. I have a TPLink that I like, and a Hilook starlight camera that I am not convinced on as it doesn’t seem to have auto-exposure adjustment. Both work well for object detection, though there’s a bit of a learning curve with frigate needing to be configured via YAML for a lot of things.
I’ve also started playing with Frigate’s face detection but I don’t think the cameras are really positioned for it. It probably makes more sense for a front door camera getting a good view of the person.
I’ve also got Home Assistant picking up the frigate camera streams which works well too.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
Heaps of servings in the dish, but only one meal haha.
I once read it can be hard to put as much salt in your home cooked meals as what you get in fast food or processed food. And if you’re shaking the salt on top, it may be negligible no matter how much you put on.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
Well aware that excessive salt can be unhealthy 😅. I don’t even track what I eat too closely. I might make a big dish of lasagne, maybe the meat has 3 or 4 teaspoons of salt, then the pasta has some, the sauce has some, I might also throw in some soy sauce, the cheese has some, etc. Then out of this giant dish, I serve up one scoop, throw on some tomato sauce that has salt in it, and serve alongside vegetables that have their own salt content depending on how they were cooked.
I honestly have no idea if I eat 2, 5, or 15 teaspoons of salt a day 😆
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
I’d be curious to know how much salt you actually end up eating. It’s all fine to say no more than 5 grams, but how do you go about working out how much you actually had?
E.g. I cook pasta with heaps of salt in the water, salty like the sea, but the vast majority of the salt goes down the drain when the pasta is strained.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
Who told you she over salted it, the people making the bland food? 😅
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 1 month ago:
And only 41% believe it!
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
I want some big, strong kidneys! Got to train them every day.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
Taste as you go!
Though I have definitely been caught out by salting it perfectly then it reduces and is then too salty.
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 1 month ago:
Yup, seems the issue for this is still open.
I have local storage for my photos, then backup to object storage using Borgmatic and Rclone to B2. But you’re right, you can’t directly use object storage with Immich.
