GreatBlueHeron

joined 1 year ago
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So, it sounds like this isn't expected behaviour? Now that I've gone looking for examples, I can't find any. Maybe there was some temporary problems yesterday..

 

I'm using Firefox with uBlock Origin on both android and windows. I'm finding more and more sites that are very slow to load, or won't load at all. Yet when I open them in Chrome they work fine. I'm assuming the sites are just failing because of the privacy protection features of ff+ubo, and I'm happy enough to just avoid these shitty sites in general. But - I'm just checking to see - is this expected behaviour, might I have configuration issues?

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Where do you live that Antarctica is "up"?

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Once an end-to-end, encrypted, connection is established between a pair of peers then anything can be sent through it. The establishment proces is generally facilitated by a server of some description so neither peer needs to allow inbound connections. (I'm a long, long way from being an expert on this and happy to be corrected - but this seems like network fundamentals?)

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I thought I was doing well with 8 down and 20 up! In my defence - a lot of the stuff I'm seeding is old (10+ years) and I'm the only seed.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a 3 way tie between Back in Black, Led Zeppelin II and Wish You Were Here.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On a Commodore64?

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I recently learned this, and changed mine to English only. I still see non-English communities in All. I suspect it's up to community owners to set the language of their community and a lot don't?

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I'm really dismayed by your political system - I can't put into words how much it disturbs me. I know it's a good thing that the Harris Walz campaign is doing well, but all I hear when seeing news like this is how much money politicians are taking from "average" people to give to insanely rich advertising firms, to develop ads, and even more insanely rich media corporations, to run them. It's messed up.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Wow, that brings back memories. Slackware 3.x was my into to Linux in the '90s.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tried to just downvote and ignore you, but I'll give you my perspective instead.

Nature is cruel - lots and lots of animals survive by eating other animals. We are just animals that have evolved to, in most cases, be at the top of the food chain. As a species we have used our brains to abuse this position over the last several hundred years. Slowly (very slowly) we, as a species, are realising that this is wrong and are starting to use our brains to move away from animal consumption. I applaud those of you that have made a commitment to be the leading edge of this change, but I'm not there.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That looks perfect, if I weren't in Canada.

 

I'm not vegan, but I'm trying to reduce my meat consumption. Unfortunately I really like snacking on pepperoni sticks - I like to tough, chewy texture and the spicyness. When I search for vegan pepperoni substitutes I can only find things intended for making pizza etc. Any suggestions for vegan snacks similar to pepperoni sticks?

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago
 

I'm a retired Unix sysadmin. Over the years I've built things in COBOL, FORTAN, C, perl, rexx, PHP, visual basic, various Unix shells and maybe others. Nothing has been a real "application" - mostly just utilities to help me get things done.

Now that I'm retired, and it's cold outside, I'm curious to try some more coding - and I have an idea.

The music communities here seem to post links to YouTube. I generally use Lemmy on my phone but don't use YouTube, or listen to music, on my phone if I can help it. I'd like to scrape a music community here and add the songs posted to a playlist in my musicbrainz account.

Does that sound like a reasonable learner project? Any suggestions for language and libraries appreciated. My preferred IDE is vim on bash and I have a home server running Linux where this could run as a daemon, or be scheduled.

 

I'm a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I've kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I've managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked for a technology company and did plenty of "interesting" reading and training.

It seems that more and more stuff that I want to run at home is being delivered as Docker-first and I have to really go out of my way to find a non-Docker install.

I'm thinking it's no longer a fad and I should invest some time getting comfortable with it?

 

Up until now I've only seen suggestions for content offered by the various streaming services. Today I started getting ads for a Hyundai car!

I tried to log a support call with Sony but they said they couldn't do anything without a photo of the offending ad. I now have a photo so will try again tomorrow. I know a single support call won't do anything (though I intend to be very persistent), but if enough people log formal complaints maybe Sony will "talk to" Google.

I know this is deep first world problems territory, but I feel really betrayed having a device I paid $2,300 for being used to shove ads in my face.

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