Lunatech

Lunatech, 3 months ago

@ramikrispin What if you are using a Mac and you don't want to mess with Docker? Can you just ignore the "Running Ollama with Docker" part?

Lunatech, 3 months ago

@bananabob Maybe try Ubuntu Server instead, that is what I have been using and I don't have that issue.

Lunatech, 3 months ago

@bananabob On mine I see

drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Aug 15 2020 static

So root is the user/group and permissions are 755.

Lunatech, 3 months ago

@tilvids If you really want to see less #YouTube usage then develop a #Kodi addon that supports #PeerTube or #tilvids or whatever other service you consider a replacement. Because I watch most videos on my TV, not my computer, using Kodi.

Oh, and do what you need to in order to get your addon accepted into the official Kodi addon repository. I don't get addons from janky third-party sites.

Oh, you don't know how to make a Kodi addon? Well neither do I. Or maybe you think there's not enough people like me to try making an alternative addon? Sorry about that, I guess YouTube is my only choice then.

All you folks who think that YouTube videos are only viewed on phones need to wake up. There are many other ways to watch online videos and virtually all of them support YouTube. When they support a viable alternative, maybe folks will switch to that, or at least reduce their use of YouTube.

Lunatech, 3 months ago

@AAKL @BBC If customers hate self checkouts then the store isn't doing them right. As a customer I love self checkouts because then I know that an underpaid clerk is not scanning my itmes twice, and I have time to look at the prices being charged to see if the price at the scanner matches the price in the ad or on the shelf tag. In fact that is the biggest failure I have seen, where the scanner isn't pricing the item correctly, but that would also happen at a human-run register because the prices all come from the same database. And where I live, if there is a scanning error and you are overcharged and you have already completed the transaction and paid, then the store has to pay you a bonus of ten times the difference in the price (between what you were charged and what the price should have been) plus $5. So it it potentially saves the store a LOT of money if customers can see what they are being charged before they complete the transaction, and can get assistance to correct the error.

And sure, in theory you can call an error to the attention of a human cashier, and that's a possibility if you only have a couple of items, but if you have a shopping cart (or trolley as they say in the U.K.) full, an experienced cashier often scans the items so fast you just can't follow along (plus you are often still trying to unload the cart when the clerk begins scanning your order). So all you can do is check your receipt for errors, but now you have to make a trip to the service desk and wait in line there to get an adjustment, and meanwhile all your frozen and refrigerated items are getting warm.

But if I am doing the scanning, I can see the price for each item and if I want to scan my items in a particular order I can do that too. If I don't want my bread or eggs or bananas smashed I can make sure that doesn't happen. If I have to weigh something, I can make sure that a part of the previous customer's order isn't sitting on the scale (that actually happened to me in a human-run checkout line once, and the clerk was totally unapologetic).

And I don't have to try and make small talk, which I hate. Some people may want that, but I don't. I just want to pay for my purchases and get out.

Most of the time the self-scanners at the stores I shop at work great and I really wish all the stores had them. The one store that pisses me off is #Aldi (#aldius); they recently installed a bunch of self-scanners but their scanners neither take cash nor the store's gift cards. So if you want to pay cash for your purchases, you need to use a human-run register and usually there are only one or two of those open, and their cashiers scan items REALLY fast, which is great for people in a hurry but not for people who want to see how each item is being rung up. A store that does self-checkouts right is #Meijer; theirs accept cash and give change and hardly ever make mistakes, and they have so many that even if one or two are out of service it usually doesn't cause a backup - I can't even think of a time I had to wait more than a minute or two since those were installed, except for one day in the middle of the holiday rush where I think I had to wait three or four minutes.

Lunatech, 4 months ago

@malwaretech Psychiatrists are the worst. If ever there was a profession that's full of quacks, it psychiatry.

Lunatech, 5 months ago

@vegos_f06 I beg your pardon? I am in my 70's and I like Kodi a lot! Yes, there is room for improvement in many areas but I definitely would not classify it as a "peace (sic) of shit!"

By the way the word you were looking for is piece, not peace.

Lunatech, 6 months ago

@feditips You should mention that different instances have different post length limits, and that while the default maximum post lenth is 500 characters, there are many instances that allow a higher limit - the one I use has an 11,000 character limit, for example.

(It would also be great if there were a listing of instances that allow more than 500 character posts, showing what the maximum post length is on each!)

Lunatech, 7 months ago

@jmhorner I think Tabby may have a way to do this, or at least reopen the last group of tabs you had open when you last ran the program ("Restore terminal tabs on app start" setting).

Lunatech, 10 months ago

@ScienceDesk So you get to eat all the dirt and chemicals and bacteria and germs that have accumulated on the packaging? No thank you, I'll starve first (seriously)!

Lunatech, 10 months ago

@arstechnica I am not so sure it is because they want to keep using fossil fuels as it is that the only solutions the radical left (yes there is such a thing) propose involve things that Americans simply will not accept. Such as the idea of riding a fucking bicycle to work or school in the dead of winter. Electric cars are a solution many people would accept, but the radical left doesn't like those for some reason. And it would be possible to make smaller vehicles (something akin to a fully enclosed Tuk-Tuk) that could protect people from the elements and make it possible to carry groceries and other items home without needing to try to tie them down and protect them from the weather.

But no, it is only the "solutions" that 90%+ of Americans will NEVER accept (not even in the face of certain death) that the radical left seems to want to talk about. They are their own worst enemy, and they are alienating people who really do want to see climate change reversed as long as a reasonable solution can be found.

https://mastodon.social/users/arstechnica/statuses/110624647638381135

Lunatech, 10 months ago

@w7voa Because that fucker Paul the fake apostle and probably the "false Christ" Jesus warned about (to no avail) would not let women preach in church (or ask questions, or go to church with uncovered heads), and most so-called "Christians" today, especially of the conservative/fundamentalist variety, do not follow Jesus, they follow Paul!

Lunatech, 10 months ago

@juddlegum Jusy my opinion but you really need to get on an instance that will let you post all your thoughts in one post instead of breaking your thoughts into chunks of 500 characters or less. Your multi-part post today came in almost completely random order, with parts missing and interspaced with other posts. I could not have followed it all unless I copied every post to a text editor and then rearranged them in order, assuming I could even find all the pieces.

Just FYI, infosec.exchange (the instance I am currently using) allows posts of up to 11,000 characters. But there are other instances that allow long posts as well.

Lunatech, 11 months ago

@analyticus @sociology So much baloney, so little time...

People of all ages are much happier in societies where 1% of the population isn't allowed to control 99% of the wealth AND where authoritarians aren't in power. But no, let's blame people for wanting to thrive and follow their passions, THAT'S the problem!

BALONEY!!!

Lunatech, 11 months ago

@ScienceDesk Give your cats lots of stimulation - release a bunch of mice into your house today! 😂​

Lunatech, 11 months ago

@nixCraft Actually for me it's "4" - I don't get many voice calls and when I do I always have trouble figuring out how to answer them.

Buit there is another reason not mentioned: "Phone was in another room and I either did not hear it ring or couldn't get to it in time."

Lunatech, 11 months ago

@nixCraft There's a solution for that...
(example in debian-based distros)

sudo apt purge vim

nano

😆​

Lunatech, 11 months ago

@itsfoss WHY? Don't they realioze that snaps are one of thge things driving some people away from Ubuntu? Or do they just not care?

Lunatech, 11 months ago

@arstechnica And people in other countries (and some far left liberals) just can't understand why so many Americans shun public transportation. Besides the risk of getting mugged, robbed, shot or stabbed, there is always this. Very few people are willing to give up their cars and ride buses or trains when there are people like this around. I know that if you can't or don't own a car you have few other options, but I am just explaining why people who do own cars don't want to give them up. It might be better for the global environment, but it's not better for my personal environment nor that of the people I Love and associate with. And I realize that people walking around with TB is a relatively rare occurrence, but people also get on buses and trains while they are infected with Covid, the flu, and various other respiratory ailments, and you have no idea who they are so you can't even try to avoid sitting or standing near them.

https://mastodon.social/users/arstechnica/statuses/110419800055689037

Lunatech, 11 months ago

@dansup What makes you think that everyone on the planet even HAS a mobile phone? In many parts of the world those cost money and not everyone has them. And even people who do have them to often don't want to give out their number to random services on the Internet, for fear of getting increased junk/spam calls or other misuse. There is really know way of "knowing" your number wouldn't be stored and misused, as your question presupposes.

Personally I think this is a terrible idea, both because of the discrimination against people who do not have mobile phones, but also because you are asking users to trust random instance owners not to do anything bad with their phone numbers. The "bad apples" among instance owners (can you absolutely guarantee there aren't any?) are probably hoping something like this will be enabled real soon now!

Lunatech, 3 months ago

@Catweazle @accretionist For what it's worth, I will just point out that one big difference between the USA and many other countries is our constitution, particularly the fact that it is so old and by design very difficult to modify. And then we have one political party in particular that believe the constitution should only be interpreted as the "founding fathers" (all white guys, mostly rich, many slaveowners) would have intended - but only when such interpretations disadvantage the people they don't like. For example, I don't think any of the "founding fathers", believers in limited government that they were, would have approved of the horrible, terrible, despicible "Citizens United" decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.

If the U.S. were like some other countries (possibly those with newer constitutions) it would be easier for the legislature to amend the constitution to give a big upraised middle finger to this corrupt court, and nullify such an obviously bad decision. But in the U.S.A., we have a constitution written back in a time when huge corporations didn't exist, and nobody foresaw a time when one political party would serve only themselves and the interests of their wealthy benefactors.

I mean, to give but one example, the constitution supposedly guarantees freedom of the press. Now, if there were true press freedom, you would not see small news outlets (and larger ones as well) gobbled up by big corporations and turned into fascist propaganda vehicles. But because "freedom of press" is interpreted by the corrupt Supreme Court, along with the rest of the constitution, a large and growing segment of our news media has become tightly-controlled propaganda. I mean, even if all we could do is make it a criminal act to knowingly lie and deceive people, and enforce that against the propaganda outlets that tell the same lies to their audience day after day, that would give us more protection than we have now, but because some old guys that were still used to newspapers printed using wooden type didn't better define freedom of speech and freedom of the press to exclude deliberate lying, there isn't much we can do.

(And yes, I realize there would be endless fights over whether or not something is a deliberate lie or just a misunderstanding, but at least the media would understand that they can't just make shit up about their opponents out of thin air).

Now one could take the view that if the fascists burn down our country, one possible side effect would be that the survivors would throw out the parts of the constitution that just don't work anymore. But that would assume a couple of things, first that the survivors aren't the fascists, and second, that at the point when we are at our weakest one of the other authoritarians doesn't swoop in and take over. I just read that Putin wants to take back Alaska and while he wouldn't dare attempt that today, if we were in the midst of a civil war there would be nothing stopping him, and once he had Alaska who says he'd stop there? I'm sure Russia, China, and possibly North Korea, Cuba, or even some other countries in this hemisphere would want a bite of the United States if they could get it.

You only need to look at Russia to see that a constitution is no guarantee of a good government, or that it will stop an authoritarian tyrant. I fear that if the fascist Republicans take power, we will either wind up very much LIKE Russia or even as a PART of Russia. You may scoff and say that would never happen, but look at all the other things we never thought we'd see in the United States that have happened recently.