Deebster

@Deebster@lemmyrs.org

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Deebster,

It's so rare that we get a new video, but it's always a special day when it happens.

Deebster, (edited )

I was wondering if it was something like the first word of every task they did, but then I remembered they don't do them in the same order (and some don't get shown to us at all). So perhaps it is just a secret envelope somewhere in the house (like behind the Metropolis Greg painting).

Deebster,

Surely he now has a new nickname, I wonder what it is.

Deebster,

Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.

Deebster,

As I was reading the article, I was thinking how glad I was that I switched - I am on the yearly plan now because I'm not going back to "free" search engines.

Deebster,

The stupid thing is, all the author had to do was write "kind of tells you who invented ASCII" and he'd have been 100% right in his logic and history.

Deebster,

I think the author's intended implication is absolutely that it's a dollar because the USA invented the computer. The two problems I have is that:

  1. He's talking about the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, not computers at that point
  2. Brits or Germans invented the computer (although I can't deny that most of today's commercial computers trace back to the US)

It's just a lazy bit of thinking in an otherwise excellent and internationally-minded article and so it stuck out to me too.

Deebster,

I assume it's the standard inertia-type reasons: doing nothing is easier than changing a bunch of stuff, not changing involves fewer unknowns, and they probably have ad blockers and custom rules that mean they don't personally have to deal with the worst of it.

Deebster,

It's so good, although I think I only ever got about 20% through. I should try again now I'm older and wiser(?).

Deebster,

Parth Ferengi's Heart Place

It's can't be anything else, surely! I kinda want that ep to have a character that can't act.

Deebster,

I've been running OSMC (Kodi on Debian) plus a few useful things like maintaining a reverse SSH connection to a VPS.

Deebster,

It's the root OS; that Pi is a media centre in the living room (plus it's taken on a few extra duties since it's always online). It's been going for a good few years now, 8+?

Deebster,

It allows me to connect into the house via the VPS without opening ports or knowing my home address.

Nowadays there are various companies offering tunnelling services, but my setup has been working for a long time and I see no reason to change.

Deebster,

He always mysteriously gets frail and feeble-minded when it's time for him to have to testify in court. Once that's over his memory magically returns to him and he goes back to his mafia don mode.

There was a hack in 2011 where The Sun's website claimed Murdoch was dead.

Deebster,

Yes, uBlock Origin works brilliantly on Firefox for Android (can't comment on other mobile OSes).

Deebster,

Just a heads up: not all plants like this because the tannic acid can make the soil too acidic for them.

Deebster,

What's this easy fix then? Just a lower number? That will just mean more publishers.

AI detection tools don't work, and humans aren't much better, unless they're subject experts. How do we stop AI books?

Deebster,

I've been using Kagi for two months and I'm loving it - the ability to control your results is amazing. Some things I do:

  • remove or downrate things like pinterest and w3schools from my results
  • rewrite www.reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/*
  • rewrite to send some sources through archive.today or similar to break paywalls
  • rewrite to set the language of some sites that GeoIP my location but ignore my language headers

Also, having keyboard controls - like Google used to have - is so welcome, and their AI summarisation tools are actually useful too.

Deebster,

https://www.example.com/(.*)|https://archive.today/search/?q=https://www.example.com/$1

This takes you to the search results so it's an extra click to get to the actual page.

My actual regex is a bit more complicated since it deals with multiple domains but that's the gist.

Deebster,

The article mentions that Hurd is also a recursive acronym, but doesn't go into any more details.

After looking it up on Wikipedia, I see why not:

It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

Deebster,

It's long running, so you want a database so you can store your state. If you're storing state, locking it into a state machine makes sense.

I do agree with some of the commenters that making it closer to an event source design would make more sense still.

Deebster,

This is probably too late to be useful, but what's on markdownguide.org works:

  1. First item
  2. Second item
  3. Third item
    • Indented item
    • Indented item
  4. Fourth item

Or

  1. First item
  2. Second item
  3. Third item
    1. Indented item
    2. Indented item
  4. Fourth item

It's not 1a, but it is how you do sublists.

Deebster,

This guy's got great taste in films, I'll have to watch some of those that I haven't and then I get to enjoy the book cover.

Deebster,

I'd add that Picard now also has spoilers for DS9.

ch0ccyra1n, to startrek
@ch0ccyra1n@emeraldsocial.org avatar

I love having an entire live TV channel dedicated to re-runs of old Star Trek episodes

Ok so, I have a little Kodi setup which includes a live tv system hooked up to Pluto so I can grab a bunch of channels for free. Turns out, this includes not one, but two whole channels of just Star Trek!

The first one is mostly TNG and the original series, and the other one ("creatively" called More Star Trek) has mainly Voyager and Deep Space Nine. I like these because I don't even have to think about what episode to watch, and can just enjoy some Star Trek!

The only downside to this is well, ads lol

@startrek

Deebster,

I used to run a plugin on my Kodi that would make TV-style channels based on the original airing channel, complete with EPG and everything.

However, it wouldn't let you add lists of shows and create channels that way. I never got around to making my version, but perhaps someone else has done the work since then.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • thenastyranch
  • magazineikmin
  • tacticalgear
  • cubers
  • Youngstown
  • mdbf
  • slotface
  • rosin
  • osvaldo12
  • ngwrru68w68
  • GTA5RPClips
  • provamag3
  • InstantRegret
  • everett
  • Durango
  • cisconetworking
  • khanakhh
  • ethstaker
  • tester
  • anitta
  • Leos
  • normalnudes
  • modclub
  • megavids
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •