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TerryHancock

@TerryHancock@realsocial.life

Fan of space, film, free/open-source software and free culture. Former pro astronomer. Writer, blogger, editor, visual artist. Occasional free-software developer. (Personal Account)

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TerryHancock, to random
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The Nextcloud package defaults to providing a "Photos" app that collects ALL of the photos on the site into one ginormous gallery.

There are PNG streams in this collection. :welp:

I could hear the server fans spinning up as it tried to preview literally 10s of thousands of images...

So, I guess I'll just disable that app...

TerryHancock,
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Sort of marveling at the mindset that figures there'll probably be only be a few dozen images that pop up if you search the entire site for image files. 😅 🤦

TerryHancock,
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Would've been kind of cool if it respected directory structure.

TerryHancock, to random
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"I have never met a professional carpenter who uses only a multi-tool to get their job done."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24152987/apple-crush-ad-piano-ipad

TerryHancock,
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@inkican

Personally, I thought it was a pretty honest impression of everything I expect (and loathe) from Apple. :welp:

But then, I've never really been a fan of their whole aesthetic.

I've always preferred technology with "visible screws". The sort of thing you can open up and tinker with. The monolithic slab of glass has always felt like disempowerment to me.

TerryHancock, to random
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It's very weird when people ask if you "believe" in documented scientific facts. 🤨

I don't have to "believe" in those. I'm just following the evidence.

The preponderance of the evidence can change, in which case I'll change my opinion. But there's a lot of really well established facts that would take an awful lot of very solid evidence for them to be disputed.

18+ urusan, to random
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I'm really annoyed by the recent rhetoric that AI training is the worst intellectual (property) theft in history when the enclosure of the 20th century's public domain under effectively perpetual copyright is in fact the worst such theft in history.

I'm against copyright entirely, but if it must exist then it should last at most 14 years, not a century-ish.

If we had reasonable copyright terms (even 30 years!) there would be no lack of public domain training data for AI.

TerryHancock,
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@urusan

I fear that the moral panic over AI training (which is really driven not by "theft" of art, but with "theft" of commissions, due to competition -- would they actually care if the training sets were all PD?) is going to lead to yet more invasive copyright or para-copyright, which will suck even more for artists than the corporate nightmare we have now.

I understand the fear of income loss driving it, but I think it could make things so much worse.

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The supports on this print are looking creepy.

TerryHancock,
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@TheMNWolf

The supports seem like they might be more interesting than the print?

That would definitely go in the "set pieces for alien spacecraft" bin for me...

mrundkvist, to ArtificialIntelligence
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All artefacts degrade over time. What is the component of a 1980s home computer that gives out first? When did/does this happen?

TerryHancock,
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@mrundkvist
The real time clock battery. It was replaceable on most, but not all motherboards.

Cooling fans are also an issue -- any moving parts. And very sensitive to dust.

darnell, to random
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I am not looking forward to going into work tomorrow as many of my conservative colleagues will be raging about this! 😆

👉🏾 Boy Scouts is changing its name to Scouting America | AP News https://apnews.com/article/boy-scouts-new-name-scouting-america-d583f5712680f155b4f6b762128734d3

Honestly though, I think kids really do benefit from camping ⛺️ & getting to know the outdoors (as well as how to survive in the forest). It gives them a greater appreciation for nature & hopefully a desire to preserve it for the next generation.

TerryHancock,
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@darnell

Seems like a good move to me, though I haven't really been keeping up,

TerryHancock, to random
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Huh. Well, there's another weirdness for today:

The "host" command on AV Linux no longer respects /etc/hosts.

I looked this up on Stack Exchange, and see self-satisfied responses claiming it was always this way.

No. It absolutely was not!

I used this a LOT, so I know. For me, this behavior changed last week when I switched from Ubuntu Studio to AV Linux.

The simple answer is probably that Debian was including a different "host" command (or alias?).

TerryHancock,
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Looks like "getent hosts" has a similar behavior. Could have just been an alias to that, I guess?

Also, I just noticed that /etc/host.conf is missing the "order hosts,bind" line. Without that, ping wasn't working.

But ssh was.

Go figure. 🤷‍♂️

TerryHancock, to random
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Maybe it's going to work out. Maybe not.

But today, Nextcloud is really pissing me off. :dumpsterfire:

Slow.
Latency from hell.
Insane symlink behavior.

Honestly, if you can't beat rsync with your snazzy new code, you should just write a web front-end for rsync and be done with it.

Hmmm.... :leftsharkdance:

TerryHancock,
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Now I'm wondering if I could just do that...

A little Flask app that just sets up the parameters right and calls rsync?

Could that work..? :raccoon_cool:

Probably not for everything, but maybe for those damned EXR-stream Render folders.

TerryHancock,
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I think people have tendency to underestimate how much thought went into utilities like rsync.

Those UNIX utilities are bomb-proof, man. They've Seen Things.

TerryHancock,
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Just to expound on "insane symlink behavior":

I have a setup like this:

Episodes
. S1E01
. Renders --> ../../Renders/S1E01
. Seq
. MySeqFiles.blend
...
Renders
. S1E01
. Gazillions of EXR streams

Nextcloud Desktop is giving me:

Episodes
. S1E01
. Renders~
. Gazillions of EXR streams

(Note the tilde symbol).

WTH? WHY?!

TerryHancock,
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It's creating a NEW folder with the symlink name + "~" and then shoveling the hoards of data from the "real" Renders directory into that.

I was specifically trying to avoid copying all that data by using a symlink to separate it from the source files.

But it's not even putting the files where they "really" are. NOR ignoring the symlink. NOR dereferencing the symlink.

It's doing a whole new thing. And STILL copying all the data (which BTW, it says will take DAYS, so I had to stop it).

TerryHancock,
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Remember, this is going across a room over a couple of CAT5 cables and a hub. There's no "cloud" here, or ISP. No "series of tubes". Just the one CAT5 "tube".

So, even though this IS nearly a terabyte of data, it still shouldn't really take DAYS to complete, even if it does the stupid thing and copies all the data I told it not to.

rsync can do this transfer in a couple of hours, IIRC.

TerryHancock,
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Maybe it's because I had "Renders" as a symlink in the target directory?

So instead of following it.

Or just refusing to transfer.

It made a "backup/alternate" folder with the "~" to just keep blundering on with..? Because it's absolutely determined to move those files..?
🤦

IDK.

TerryHancock,
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I mean, I'm hoping this is mostly my own ineptitude with Nextcloud and that there is a way to do this right.

But it sure is confusing me.

And playing merry hell with my existing solution of using a symlink to separate the renders from the source.

TerryHancock,
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Hmm. Naturally, I'm not the first to think of putting a front-end on rsync. I wonder if "Grsync" would do for synchronizing render folders? This is already in the repo for AV Linux.

https://www.unixmen.com/grsync-gadmin-rsync-graphical-front-end-applications-rsync-tool/

TerryHancock,
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I probably still want Nextcloud to handle the source files.

So this will leave me with the challenge of getting Nextcloud to ignore the render directories.

It's a little weird that the ignore list just takes patterns, rather than paths. But maybe it will still do the trick.

TerryHancock,
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Hmm. Might be a little TOO flexible. I see how a contributor could shoot themselves in the foot with this one.

Might have to write a more targeted tool than this.

More advanced tab of Grsync. This is fairly routine if you are familiar with using rsync, but probably a lot of stuff users wouldn't know what to do with, otherwise. OTOH, contributors would want some of this, like "Compress file data" and "Copy symlinks as symlinks".

TerryHancock, to random
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Just saw a popular meme repeated that essentially reduces to this: "you can recognize true history because it makes you feel bad. If it makes you feel good, it must be false."

Yeah, that's "confirmation bias" + pessimism. It's nonsense.

True history will make you feel all kinds of ways, because "good" and "bad" have been happening all along. Plus, half the time, it's not clear which is which.

Pessimism is NOT realism.

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ST:Voyager titles are so cryptic. I've seen them all, but usually have no idea which episode a title refers to!

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