zaphod
@zaphod@lemmy.ca
Just this guy, you know?
- Comment on Why did they put eyeliner on evil Kirk 😳 (I'm watching TOS for the first time) 6 months ago:
Btw that sexual assault scene is even more fucked up when you learn that Grace Lee Whitney was sexually assaulted by an unnamed executive associated with the series…
- Comment on [Long interview] Star Trek Discovery's Wilson Cruz Keeps Making Television History 6 months ago:
But you gotta love the next paragraph:
Two episodes before we shot Hugh’s death [scene], they called me in. They were kind of cagey about it. They said, “Listen, this is Star Trek. Nobody really dies.”
- Comment on Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets 6 months ago:
My Momentum 4s have 60 hours of battery life…
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 7 months ago:
What?
Compiling quality datasets is enormously challenging and labour intensive. OpenAI absolutely knows the providence of the data they train on as it’s part of their secret sauce. And there’s no damn way their CTO won’t have a broad strokes understanding of the origins of their datasets.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
I stand corrected. One project in Italy and two proofs of concept that never went anywhere.
Truly revolutionary.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Did you seriously not read the conclusion?
This author believes it is technologically indefensible to call Fossil a “blockchain” in any sense likely to be understood by a majority of those you’re communicating with. Using a term in a nonstandard way just because you can defend it means you’ve failed any goal that requires clear communication. The people you’re communicating your ideas to must have the same concept of the terms you use.
(Emphasis mine)
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
the technology itself has its use cases.
Cool.
Name one.
I mean, it’s been, what, 15 years of hype? Surely there must be a successful deployment of a commercially viable and useful blockchain, right?
Right?
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
Take it to an electronics recycling center. Seriously.
If you already have a homelab, you plan to replace it, you don’t want to repair it, and you don’t have an obvious use case for another machine (it’s just another computer; you either have the need of another computer or you don’t), then holding onto it is just hoarding.
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 8 months ago:
Sure, in the same way that some people only watch movies once, or read books once.
Speaking for myself, I’ve found only a small handful of games are worth my replay time, and most of them are Mass Effect…
- Comment on What's Your Preferred Server Monitoring Method? 8 months ago:
“Huh weird, I tried to use <insert service here> and it’s not working. Welp, guess I better fix it…”
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Colonialism at its finest! The Apple is the absolute perfect example. “But bones, these people don’t even f*CK! We gotta destroy that lizard cave!”
- Comment on LibreY vs SearXNG, which one do you suggest and why? 8 months ago:
That’s a goal, but it’s hardly the only goal.
My goal is to get a synthesis of search results across multiple engines while eliminating tracking URLs and other garbage. In short it’s a better UX.fir me first and foremost. Privacy (through elimination of cookies and browser fingerprinting) is just a convenient side effect.
And it’s absolutely false to say you get the same effect. Intermediating my access to those search engines means things like cookies and fingerprinting cannot be used to link my search history to my browsing activity.
Furthermore, in my case I host SearX on a VPS that’s independent of my broadband connection which means even IP can’t be used to correlate my activity.
- Comment on What if we added a social component like "Stories" to this calculator app? 9 months ago:
As a former product manager, I feel seen.
- Comment on Government bonds anyone? 9 months ago:
Yup. Folks seems to be oblivious to the fact that increased interest rates mean savings accounts are pretty decent these days if you shop around. I’m getting 4.5% in a high interest savings account which would’ve unthinkable a few years ago.
- Comment on I love my Gitea. Any tips and tricks? 9 months ago:
Absolutely. Every docker container is software you have to upgrade and maintain.
- Comment on I love my Gitea. Any tips and tricks? 9 months ago:
Agreed, which is why you’ll find in a subsequent comment I allow for the fact that in a multi-year scenario, a support service on top of Git makes real sense.
- Comment on I love my Gitea. Any tips and tricks? 9 months ago:
A great service for what? If you’re a solo developer storing your code locally with no intention to share or collaborate, a self-hosted service adds a ton of complexity for very little value.
Frankly, I suspect a ton of folks simply don’t realize that you don’t need a service to push/pull remote got repositories because they largely cargo cult their way through source control.
- Comment on I love my Gitea. Any tips and tricks? 9 months ago:
The idea of “self-hosting” git is so incredibly weird to me. Somehow GitHub managed to convince everyone that Git requires some kind of backend service. Meanwhile, I just push private repos to a bare repository on my NAS via SSH.
- Comment on Me IRL 9 months ago:
Cuz I have restless leg syndrome and it won’t let me sleep otherwise.
- Comment on Star Trek: The Deep Space Nine episode that predicted a US crisis [bbc.com] 9 months ago:
Is it prophetic, or do we have a techno-capitalist elite that looked as those books as a roadmap rather than a cautionary tale? Hmm…
- Comment on Tempo – An open source music client for Subsonic built natively for Android, now with Android Auto support 10 months ago:
Frankly, I’d rather pay a motivated and focused developer if the product is good. And Symfonium is fantastic.
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 11 months ago:
My vote: not if you can avoid it.
For casual home admins docker containers are mysterious black boxes that are difficult to configure and even worse to inspect and debug.
I prefer lightweight VMs hosting one or more services on an OS I understand and control (in my case Debian stable).
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 11 months ago:
I wonder how long it’ll take before we finally collectively reject the SV ethos that size is the only metric that matters and success is only achieved monopoly…
There was a time when Usenet and BBBses and IRC was a tiny and yet people still found value through community in those places.
Maybe, and I know this is a wild idea, platforms don’t have to include every human on the planet to be meaningful, relevant, or valuable.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Not if you use a Hurricane Electric tunnel for ipv6 transit. My ISP hands out V6 addresses and I still use HE so I get a stable, globally routable /48 that moves with me (I had to switch ISPs recently and I just had to update my tunnel and everything just worked).
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Lol, they’re not? THIS WOULD BE YELLING AT YOU. This is me calmly explaining that “running for profit” and “running at a profit” isn’t the same thing.
- Comment on Uncommon Syncthing usecases 11 months ago:
No it doesn’t.
Syncthing only needs to remember the current state of the files/folders it’s syncing. Not everything it’s every sync’d.
It does that by either periodically scanning the filesystem to look for changes since it last scanned (based on the file creation and modification dates that are stored in the filesystem), or it registers with the operating system to receive events when files are created, modified, or deleted.
When Syncthing notices a create, update, or delete, it pushes those changes to the receiver.
It also pushes whole files, not deltas. So it doesn’t care how the files changed, only that they did.
Even with hundreds of thousands of files to sync this is a relatively small amount of state as it’s just file paths and their create/modify dates.
- Comment on Uncommon Syncthing usecases 11 months ago:
The client on the sender side knows it sent the file. It doesn’t care if the receiver side changed or deleted it. That’s why the mode is called “Send Only”.
- Comment on Uncommon Syncthing usecases 11 months ago:
Again, Syncthing supports one-way sync so allowing paperless to delete them and having that delete sync back to the phone is entirely optional.
- Comment on Uncommon Syncthing usecases 11 months ago:
That’d exactly what you want! When the file initially lands in the sync folder, Syncthing sends it to paperless. Paperless ingests it, deletes it, and it disappears from my phone, now stored in paperless. Exactly what I need.
If I wanted the files to stay on the phone I’d set up the phone as Send Only and the paperless side as Recieved Only.
- Comment on Tempo - an open source music client for Subsonic built natively for Android 11 months ago:
If those are deal breakers for you, that’s fine. Most of the apps on my phone aren’t open source and I already accept my phone is a device I don’t control. I focus on running open infra and controlling my data, and don’t worry as much about the phone save for a few key items (e.g. password management).