BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What should Israel have done in response to October 7th? 2 weeks ago:
Opened the gates to Egypt, and pushed every single Palestinian out of Gaza.
There is no peaceful end game here, it will never happen. Both sides hate each other and no amount of talking is going to change that.
The least deadly option is to remove the smaller group to other places. Especially since those nearby places are far more culturally similar, and many Palestinians have family or historical ties there already.
- Comment on Why is self-hosted voice chat so hard? 4 weeks ago:
Nothing is stopping it, it’s just not particularly convenient because it’s designed around the limitations of the phone system.
SIP could handle it all if you wanted though.
- Comment on Can turkey motion machines be used for producing electricity? 4 weeks ago:
They’re a type of heat engine using evaporation.
Technically it would work, but it wouldn’t scale up nicely no.
It would be far less efficient than everything we currently use for power.
- Comment on I made a way to remotely control my homelab without any internet access required 5 weeks ago:
Then then answer to your question is yes, you interpreted it incorrectly. The original (and common) definition of that word is vastly different than what you assumed.
- Comment on I made a way to remotely control my homelab without any internet access required 5 weeks ago:
Do you know what a semaphore is?
Quite literally designed for long distance communication.
Used extensively in many different variations before wire/electricity based systems became available, then even used after that for communication in places where you couldn’t have a wire (like between boats)
- Comment on Why is Minecraft able to be forced to put restrictions on online servers, but web browsers aren't held accountable for providing access to the web? 5 weeks ago:
You need to use minecrafts game files to access minecraft servers.
There are hundreds of browsers available, and since the standard is open it’s easy to create a new one.
- Comment on Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice? 1 month ago:
My authenticator app requires my fingerprint, which is biometric, so fingerprint plus device for the MFA.
- Comment on Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice? 1 month ago:
Fingerprint + Authenticator as well.
- Comment on Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice? 1 month ago:
Fuck passwords, use proper MFA.
Phishing training is good though.
- Comment on Self hosted live streaming 1 month ago:
The number one google result is Owncast.
Looks like it doesn’t save the video by default but there are workarounds to record it.
- Comment on What's the laziest way to create a website that looks really nice and is maintainable? 1 month ago:
To add to this a bit, if the site is just a single page that will be fine. If your site has a bunch of pages that all need to share the same theme and headers and footers and such it may be worth learning a simple templating system that runs before the site is sent for hosting.
That way if you need to update something in the design or theme you can do it once, rather than on dozens of pages.
Personally I use eleventy for my little site.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 month ago:
I don’t see your argument against teams.
It sounds like:
“It’s all together in one place, how dare they.”
At this point I don’t even bother using the desktop version of outlook, the web app is easier for emails and my calendar is in teams.
You act like cloud services are bad, they aren’t. If they were terrible, people would be switching away from them. They’re adding value beyond their cost and everyone knows it.
Could Microsoft be better at some things? Sure.
But they’re already far better than the alternative, which is a janky ass system of 30 different products from 30 different vendors.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 month ago:
Total number of businesses maybe, but they account for something like two thirds of all employees.
You can’t really say it’s much of a business IT stack if it’s just a single freelancer using a Mac.
They wouldn’t be setting up teams in the first place.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 month ago:
“lots of businesses operate on macOS”
No, they definitely do not. If you go into any business in Canada or the US with more than 200 employees, they are running windows on the computers sitting in front of every office drone they have.
Very specific industries or business may, especially those who are stuck on Adobe’s software, but “lots” is extremely far from the truth.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 month ago:
There’s no mass exodus towards Linux in the business user space.
It’s still 99.9% Microsoft Windows.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 month ago:
Lync, not Lynx.
And technically Lync got birthed from the corpse of Office Communicator, not MSN messenger.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 month ago:
I quite literally teach and consult on Teams, and have for 8 years now. I worked with Lync, Skype for Business, and Communicator before that.
People complain about it all the time, and yet… I’ve never had any significant issues with it.
Other than M365 outages, which impact everyone, I’ve never seen it crash. I’ve never had issues not loading. I’ve never had sound or sharing issues that couldn’t be resolved by clicking the dropdown and selecting the correct option.
It can be a bit slow, especially loading file related stuff, but it’s not any worse than a network drive.
Placeholder avatars in different parts of the App? Teams doesn’t even support task assignment, tasks are handled in MS Planner which is an entirely different product that just happens to be visible inside Teams if you want.
Touch? Mac? Airpods? What the fuck are you doing? You aren’t doing real business tasks if you’re using an iPad.
Maybe the people with problems are the ones running 10 year old hardware with a barely supported operating system?
- Comment on Without getting into current politics can someone describe to me what an authoritarian regime looks like? 2 months ago:
A single person, or small group, control everything.
Dissention is not allowed. Those people are removed via various methods from threats, to the jailing, and potentially all the way up to accidentally falling out a window or off a balcony.
- Comment on Where are the marketing volunteers? 2 months ago:
I mean, half the people who work for charities are technically doing some sort of Marketing.
- Comment on Easily available 940 nm transparent films? 2 months ago:
Most IR pass through filters are for 890-900nm not 940.
I ran into this issue myself for a slightly different use case.
The thing I found worked surprisingly well was a scrap piece of car window tint. I literally just walked into a local shop and asked for a small piece of scrap.
- Comment on What is the champagne of champagne? 2 months ago:
Prosecco
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 2 months ago:
I hate having anything inside the sink when it’s not actively being washed. Anything dirty that doesn’t directly go in the dishwasher sits on the counter to the right of the sink until such time as it can be washed.
My in-laws house is terrible for this, both sinks full of dirty dishes all the time. You have to remove them all before you can start the washing process, it’s absolutely stupid. You can’t even wash your hands in the sink properly because of it.
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 2 months ago:
Do you only have a single sink? Most homes here come with double sinks (left and right)
I put hot soapy water in the left, and then pull things out and wash, then rinse in the right.
The soaking makes it significantly easier to scrub/wash grime and grease off.
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 2 months ago:
See them? Zero
The most common problem I have with other people’s dishes (often relatives) is that they are greasy after it’s been washed because they use the same water for the entire set of dishes and especially if their dish washing order sucks.
When hand washing I always do it in a particular order:
Re-usable Water Bottles, Pot lids which are not visibly dirty, Glasses/Cups, Utensils.
If the water is now greasy, I will drain and re-fill at this point.
Then Plates and bowls, Baking pans that are not greasy, Pots, Frying Pans, then Baking pans that are greasy.
- Comment on Is "depress" ever used in this context? 2 months ago:
Tongue depressor is a common example of this use case.
- Comment on What are good option for self hosting home security camera? 2 months ago:
You can absolutely use your external IP rather than a domain, your ISP likely keeps your IP the same for long stretches of time. Mine only ever really changes during long power outages.
You can get around that the IP issue by broadcasting your ip from your local machine to a known service, there are some free ones but they aren’t the most stable things in the world if it’s critical. Google Dynamic DNS
- Comment on Is there a self-help way to deal with fear of germs/"contamination"? 2 months ago:
Is there a specific location where you’re worried? Kitchen? Bathroom? Public transport? Work/school?
- Comment on Anybody out there self hosting Searxing? 2 months ago:
I just have it running in a docker container…
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 2 months ago:
The administration of a basic income sitting outside of the government?
The government already has a list of every citizen registered via birth or immigration, and provides identification for people. They’re always going to need to do that. There’s really no reason to replicate that level of information outside of the government.
Most people would just go online and register where you’d like your money to be sent (Direct deposit, Mailed cheque)
However, you would still need a few call centers to handle issues, and If someone needs in-person support, the government already has common government service offices like DMVs and service centers that can provide in person service if required, saving significant money on needing dedicated service locations just for this one service.
Tl;dr Economies of Scale matter, and it doesn’t make any sense to replicate the parts that the government already does and has to continue doing.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 2 months ago:
It depends on what you mean by social welfare programs.
A basic income system requires very little administration, and what parts of it are required wouldn’t make sense to have it sitting outside the government.
I’d rather see a basic income than need non-profit food banks needing to exist. Grocery stores already exist, are reasonably competitive, and are enormously more efficient if people have the money available to use them.
For things like helping people with disabilities, where economies of scale are mostly irrelevant, ngos and non-profits can make more sense because they can specialize according to the need.