DaGeek247

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[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 3 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I don't mean to say it's not a name in use, just that coke might not have as many Jesus bottles as they do Joshua bottles, depending on where this scene was made.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 10 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

Just a heads up, but Joshua is just another name for Jesus. https://www.behindthename.com/name/joshua OP was actually kinda clever with that one considering how much more rare or unlikely an actual Jesus would be.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 15 points 1 day ago

Enforce the usual quality rules and most all llm results will be banned by default. Technically, you could try banning llm work by default, but that just results in people lying, and having to check over llm work anyways.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Another one; https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/

But yeah, OP. You can't reliably stop web scrapers from stealing your data. You can only make more difficult and costly to do so, at the expense of your own server, and in the case of anubis, at the expense of your real users.

I plan on switching to a RPI hosted website at some point, so I can add either iocaine or nepanthes to my website. Might as well make most of the data from my website poison to all the scrapers when I get the chance.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Anyone can learn to use an office suite on their own in very little time so there's no reason to teach it.

That is one hell of a take. Do you say the same thing about building a budget?

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah. The corporations with money are always going to beat the casual users without in regards to processing capability.

There are smarter ways to discourage the big companies from taking pictures of your house than by adding speed bumps to your driveway.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

POW built in to the web spec would be hell. Making every single device in the world do that extra bit of work would noticeably affect energy use across the planet.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hobbies and meetups. It doesn't need to be DND, but little hobby groups always start around the hobby, which then grow into little friend groups around that hobby.

My last DND group was started by me literally texting people I saw on the lfg sheet at the local game store. It takes work to find a group, or start your own, but it's worth the effort to find a group of people to hang out with regularly.

Also, big gatherings are not a bad way to socialise. They're just not a good way to socialise for me. Personal experience varies.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 13 points 6 days ago

Oh! One more. If you're struggling to sleep, and waffle house at midnight isn't in the cards, put your body in timeout for a bit. Move out from the bed to a cold floor (like the kitchen) and lay on that for a while. Then, once your body knows that it could always be worse, head back to bed.

This assumes that the usual tricks, like good sleep hygeine such as avoiding screens before bed, aren't available. You're better off going with what science knows to work when you can, such as morning excersize, over a last minute tip like this.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 30 points 6 days ago (10 children)

So for those of you with diagnosed / actual issues that can't be fixed with a couple habit changes, this won't really work. But for everyone else, I've found these things to actually be super helpful when managing sleep and food.

To fix the nap issue, you gotta combine it with caffeine. (Quickly) drink some form of energy drink, and then take your nap. The caffeine will wake you up and you'll feel a lot more energic about it afterwards.

To reset a sleep schedule (ie, you've been going to bed at 2am for the past couple days and now you struggle to get to bed on time for work) skip dinner and go to bed early. The lack of food and going to bed early is like a little soft reset to your sleep schedule. It'll be a lot easier to get to sleep on time the next day after this.

Snacking throughout the day is the easiest way to gain weight. Lots of little food means you continually feel hungry and that your caloric intake is a lot higher than if you just had two or three proper meals. This is great if you're trying to gain weight, but terrible for maintaining you current weight or trying to lose weight. If you're trying to lose weight, you'll likely be feeling hungry a lot and this isn't really fixable, however, maintaining your current weight shouldn't leave you feeling hungry all the time. I'm not a food person, at all, but picking better food options that don't leave you feeling hungry before your next meal time is the better choice compared to adding a small snack to try to fix hunger.

I'm also not a normal person with regards to people / extroverted stuff, but I've found that big gatherings of people, like a bar or house party, are incredibly shitty ways to manage the need to socialise. A small group of actual friends is a much better way of helping with loneliness. I've been way happier with a small DND group meetup every week or so, as opposed to a meetup group every couple months. You gotta put in the work to find a regular group of friends, but it's worth the effort to do that, compared to just finding a big party every couple of months and feeling sad about it.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The average spotify 3:40 song is going to be about 4MB. This only changes to triple (10MB at the same length for premium and high quality) that size when you pay for it.

If Spotify is using more than 50MB on the audio cache, they absolutely deserve to get ragged on for it.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Likely federation issues. Maybe don't jump straight to the worst possible interpretation the next time you see someone 'make a mistake' on the internet.

 

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An article that details a few paths forward for Windows 10 users post-EOL.

Inb4 "linucks!!!1!!". I have already stopped using windows entirely. That's not an option for everybody, and this article explains the various ways to keep using your computer post-eol. The ignore it and force updates until 2028 workaround under extended security updates in particular is a neat option.

 

The situation has deteriorated for transgender youth around the country, with many clinics shuttering and state AGs unwilling to enforce law. For adults, some states see higher risk.

 

Hey y'all.

I've been running a eBay special server with a pair of Xeon E5-2687W v2 and 64gb of cheap RAM. It's been working pretty great (other than a little bit of instability that randomly went away after a while, but I expect to come back at some point). I've had this setup for a couple years now, and have been eyeballing a couple different upgrade paths.

The reason I want to switch is that the eBay special motherboard does not have enough pci-e slots for what I'm planning in the near future.

The reason I want to upgrade is that I like having nice server hardware.

So I have been looking at alternatives. Is anyone else amazed at how cheap a CPU is, but how expensive a socket SP3 motherboard is? The cheapest sp3 board I've found is more than 500$, used. The cpus which will outperform my setup in every metric cost less than 200$.

This had me looking at new/used gaming hardware instead, which is cheaper, but misses out on ecc and also has a more limited amount of pci-e slots as well, (which is the primary motivation for changing my setup).

I'm trying to find a 16core/32 thread setup with the best single core performance available in that class. My current setup is 8core/16thread x2, and i'd like to avoid 'downgrading' to fewer cores. But the things I run usually run do better with more single thread performance than multi thread performance.

I found the epyc 7371, and the ryzen 5950x which meet my core requirements, but both have downsides I'm trying to mitigate. (Mobo price and ECC ram, respectively)

Do y'all have any alternative options I might've missed?

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