MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 days ago:
'Twould be sweet irony and a blessing for the earth.
Although the best method for removing it I’ve found is donating plasma (PFAs down 30% in 6 months of regular donation, the hope is nanoplastics are also removed…) so it might be the poors (in USA) and generous that get to have kids, so that’s nice…
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 days ago:
plastic is inert
wat? In no way is it inert.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 days ago:
What did plastic replace? Good chance we can go back, if we can convince some people the line doesn’t need to go up. Good joke, everybody laughs…
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 days ago:
Yeah, but the nanoplastics get past the BBB (Blood Brain Barrier), what’s it, a plastic spoon in every human brain? Enough for some psych effects I guess. Oh, there’s 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics spread across just the top layer of the temperate to subtropical North Atlantic
Shit’s pervasive and in your brain.
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 2 weeks ago:
Is a VPN needed to keep your ip from being exposed ? No more so than using any search engine directly, it’s a nice to have. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Is just using an existing searxng instance just less secure then? By the time you’ve investigated it, you could have stood up your own instance…
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 2 weeks ago:
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again.
Oz gov yet again doing something unfathomably stupid with tech privacy, shocked I tell ya. Might have to point my SearxNG instance VPN endpoint somewhere else, maybe, see how it pans out…
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like a them problem then.
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 2 weeks ago:
podman exists and doesn’t force root…
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 2 weeks ago:
It’s yours, no issues trusting a public instance with your searches. Pages full of settings to tweak as you like. Less problems with an algorithm ‘helping’ you. It averages searches over multiple search engines that you choose, you can set up your own (or a curated) block list of crappy AI slop sites, don’t like fandom.com or something, gone. Manage your own bangs, e.g. !aa for annas-archive. Pipe it through a VPN with gluetun for better isolation. If you have your head around docker already it’s more like half an hour to set up, so why not?
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 2 months ago:
know truth from fiction.
You jest, but…
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 2 months ago:
You are aware that Netflix et.al. put compression on their streams (usually quite a bit in regards to bitrate) ? It is often the case that BluRay rips etc. are available better on the high seas…
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 2 months ago:
While I generally agree and consider this insightful, it behooves us to remember the (actual, 1930s) Nazis did it with newspapers, radio and rallies (… in a cave, with a box of scraps).
- Comment on InlineStyle, open fediverse based cloud 2 months ago:
Not sure I’d use either, but may I suggest both? Throw stuff at the wall, see what sticks…
- Comment on How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI? 3 months ago:
Sure, works fine for inference with tensor parallelism, USB4 / thunderbolt 4/5 is a better (40Gbit+ and already there) bet than ethernet (see distributed-llama). Trash for training / fine tuning, that needs higher inter GPU speed, or better a bigger GPU VRAM.
- Comment on Advice for a newbie trying to selfhost 3 months ago:
Seems like data integrity is your highest priority, and you’re doing pretty well, the next step is keeping a copy offsite. It’s the 3-2-1 backup strategy, 3 copies, 2 media (used to mean CDs etc but now think offline drives) 1 offsite (in case of fire, meteor strike etc), so look to that, stash a copy at a friends or something.
In your case I’d look at getting some online storage to fill the offsite role while you’re overseas (paid probably, but a year of 1 or 2 Tb is quite reasonable) leaving you with no pressure on the selfhosting side, just tailscale in, muck around and have fun, and if something breaks, no harm done, data safe.
I’ve done it for what seems like forever and I’d still be worried about leaving a system out of physical control for any extended period of time, at the very least having someone to reboot it if connectivity or power fails will be invaluable, but talking them through a broken update is another thing entirely, and you shouldn’t make that a critical necessity, too much stress.
- Comment on Any OMV + SnapRAID/MergerFS users here? 5 months ago:
The old adage is never use v x.0 of anything, which I’d expect to go double for data integrity. Is there any particular reason ZFS gets a pass here (speaking as someone who really wants this feature). TrueNAS isn’t merging it for a couple of months yet, I believe.
- Comment on How Star Trek: Lower Decks Managed To Get Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock To Appear, And Why She’s Only Credited By Her First Name 6 months ago:
If you believe in the final episode, they failed, hard. Otherwise, I’ve grown to like it, found the beard from the latter half of season 3. Shame the post 9/11 dark shift killed it before it could get its seven. Feel much the same about Lower Decks, too soon.
- Comment on So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet 7 months ago:
From the country that brought you the ASSact and “The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia” comes another fine example of tech law innovation /s.
How are we going to implement it ? We have the concept of a plan… But our approval from boomers just went up 2 points, so who cares?
- Comment on Boo 8 months ago:
Well, anything over a non-continuous x for example off the top of my head (and, yes for well-defined forms you can do the integral), still I have no idea what the cartoonist is on about and haven’t heard ‘anti-derivative’ for a donkey’s age, guess it’s poorly defined grade school stuff.
- Comment on Here’s the paper no one read before declaring the demise of modern cryptography 8 months ago:
And everyone thinks about real time implications, what about historical ? Seems pretty likely that the NSA has been storing an appreciable fraction of the internet for a long damn while. Come Q-Day that all gets opened and searchable. What would Trump do ?
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 8 months ago:
Nah, you got it.
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 8 months ago:
Dear God (hope you got the letter and…), so that’s where my photo ends up. So much overkill.
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 8 months ago:
Damn, really ? Citation requested.
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 8 months ago:
Love to see it. Exploit preferential voting, have your say (personally greens, but anything other than abortion illegal will do)
- Comment on Why solar will soon dominate & what that means for the world 8 months ago:
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Could you kindly fuck off
Immediate disregard.
- Comment on Trying to avoid US elections content as a non-US citizen. Is this possible on the default Lemmy-UI? I prefer it over Tesseract, Photon, Alexandrite and Voyager (which have built-in keyword filters) 8 months ago:
Yeah, keyword list would be awesome.
I have a personal bunch of communities as is allowed and occasionally jump to main when I run out of content. Usually see something I regret, often Trumpian, amusing but depressing. Maccas window Trump etc. Will code for relief if it’s not too (ironically) political.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 8 months ago:
Not sure, but it is still active with like 80 contributors. It’s much the same as the original with a couple of extra features and more languages, so transition should be minimally painful, maybe even export - import level. I’ve been using it for years as I saw the original wasn’t very active, but they’re pretty much (essential) feature complete and stable, which is good. Apparently, google thinks that’s bad.
- Comment on Has anyone tried the new Resilio Sync 3? 8 months ago:
Syncthing-Fork (F-Droid)
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 8 months ago:
- Comment on Honey 8 months ago:
isn’t most of modern vegetable agriculture at least equally harmful
I’m a going with far more harmful.