/ˈbɑːltəkʊteɪ/. Knows some chemistry and piping stuff. TeXmacs user.
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Ultimately, mining should be banned from the surface of Earth. Let miners build orbital solar panel infrastructure close to the Sun where power is plentiful. See Bitcoin developer Peter Todd's 2017-09-10 presentation on the subject (transcript).
Edit: Fixed URL. Edit2; Add transcript link.
Excluding communities simply because you feel like theyʼre unclean is so... boring. Like, we as a species have done the whole / “racial purity” / “religious monoculture” thing for thousands of years now. Excluding people for non-violent reasons doesnʼt give you an advantage; you just get left behind as people with new ideas get poached by inclusive tolerant cultures that are intolerant of your intolerance. You can try to raise the switching cost by building walls and making emigration illegal, but sooner or later you get invaded; at best you get ignored and stagnate, dying an early death from silly things like tooth decay because you chased out all the dentists.
Shin Sekai Yori is an light novel / anime about what happens when these thoughts have power and how a society might develop to control the destructive consequences of said thoughts.
God, I wish I could have read Terry Pratchett's Discworld-themed take on LLMs and how they're an elf plot to use L-Space to zombify techbros and their money-making schemes.
Gross.
The Seattle police officer in the video didn't hit the woman with his cruiser. One of the people in his police union did, of which he is vice-president.
I imagine more people would use Tor if they could get paid to provide bandwidth (like Orchid as described on FLOSS Weekly 633).
Their gender is “baby” and their identity is “stink”.
Keyboards were so nice when you wanted to accurately input characters without putting your faith in auto-correct. God help you if you need to input something not in its dictionary like someone's name.
A “Deez nuts” joke involving two nuts (fasteners) welded together to resemble two testes.
Donate to Mozilla Thunderbird. Free software isn't free.
How many arms does a catboy need? Honestly.
ISROʼs last lunar exploration mission was in 2019 and called Chandrayaan-2. The lunar orbiter succeeded. The lunar lander, named Vikram, failed, crashing onto the lunar surface. Vikram contained a lunar rover named Pragyan.
Here is Scott Manleyʼs review of the Vikram failure.
Here is a New York Times gift article link about today's (2023-07-14) launch.
Here are animations of the planned orbits (Videos (1,2) by Phoenix777 / 🅭🅯🄎 4.0):
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No, Jerry, we're not going to implement The Purge to bring back Malthusian population cycles. We've already got the Demographic Transition at home.
Source (2022-06-02)
When they were allowed to buy YouTube because their Google Video couldn't compete was the turning point.
Mark Mazzetti, Ronen Bergman, and Adam Goldman. (2023-07-31). “Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The F.B.I., an F.B.I. Inquiry Found.”. New York Times. Accessed 2023-08-02.
When The New York Times reported in April that a contractor had purchased and deployed a spying tool made by NSO, the contentious Israeli hacking firm, for use by the U.S. government, White House officials said they were unaware of the contract and put the F.B.I. in charge of figuring out who might have been using the technology.
After an investigation, the F.B.I. uncovered at least part of the answer: It was the F.B.I.
The deal for the surveillance tool between the contractor, Riva Networks, and NSO was completed in November 2021. Only days before, the Biden administration had put NSO on a Commerce Department blacklist, which effectively banned U.S. firms from doing business with the company. For years, NSO’s spyware had been abused by governments around the world.
This particular tool, known as Landmark, allowed government officials to track people in Mexico without their knowledge or consent.
Note: It is improbable that Pegasus is restricted by whether a target phone is in Mexico or not. Therefore, I find it highly probable the FBI contractor or the FBI itself used Pegasus to spy on US citizens.
Reminds me of how George Jetson's career was centered around the pressing a single button a grueling three hours a day three days a week.
If it's anything like SMTP on a Mediawiki or Discourse instance (example notes, then what you probably need is something called “transactional email” (I'm guessing you're looking at a guide like this?). I've made use of this guide for looking up vendors for that service.
In theory, the same server hosting a Lemmy service could also send and receive emails. However, in practice there's a high probability of these emails landing in spam boxes. The defacto proof-of-work hurdle that inhibits email spam today is paying commercial transactional email companies a monthly fee. I'm hopeful that one day self-hosted email server software will become easier to set up through things like FreedomBox (via Postfix, Dovecot, and Rspamd), but the fundamental reputation problem remains, imo.
So, I doubt a Lemmy setup guide would automatically take care of email setup. In any case, the process involves creating at least one MX record (according to instructions provided by your transactional email service) with your DNS provider which depends on the name servers you have configured for your domain registrar. The transactional email service you select should provide instructions for what port to open, as well as what SMTP URL, user name, password, and postmaster email address to provide to Lemmy.
See List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet for the graveyard list. Sorting by Price helps. Some other notable companies that Google acquired rather than compete with:
Next logical step is to modify the uploaded video itself to contain ads around the video frame or on automatically detected clear surfaces in the video.
I would argue the original theft was when the publisher coerced creators to sign away their copyright power due to the monopoly the publisher has on the market: i.e. if you don't sign your rights away, you can't play.
In theory, creators could punish publishers by going on strike, but publishers abuse copyright law to remove potential competitors striking creators might flee to. The DMCA's overly broad application of DRM that also prevents creators from freeing their content from publishers also inhibits competition by increasing switching costs for customers who build up a library or DRM's content that they cannot transfer to another publisher.
Breaking up monopolies by restoring anti-trust law to a pre-Reagan state would prevent the original coersion-theft of rights from creators since creators could reassign copyright from misbehaving publishers, enabling customers to transfer their purchased libraries to another publisher.
The lander and rover has until September 4th until it loses sunlight and therefore power (it doesn't have an RTG).
Unless anti-trust law changes, Google will just buy ChatGPT and Stability to reduce competition and form a new monopoly.
Theoretically, I don't think an MX record is absolutely needed to send, but it definitely is needed to receive. An MX record helps an email sending server to figure out which IP address to actually send email data packets towards based on the domain name in the email address (i.e. the @apple.com in steve@apple.com).
Even if you're self-hosting your own email server and are using the same domain name for all services and are using port number to differentiate incoming traffic, incoming email won't come in unless an MX record can explicitly tell other email servers where to send emails labeled with your domain name. An MX record can also be a handy way to redirect email traffic to a different IP address in case the one your server uses is blacklisted by other email servers (e.g. if spammers have used your IP address in the past).
An A record can associate an IP address with a domain name but an MX record is needed to tell a sending server that a domain name is prepared to accept email at all.
That said, if you examine the DNS setup instructions that a transactional email company will send you, you'll see that they also want you to create other DNS records for purposes. For example, Mailgun has me store a public key in a TXT record (making it a DKIM record) used to cryptographically authenticate emails against emails sent by your server (that are forwarded and signed by Mailgun's private key) to prevent email address impersonation, which might be important even if you're only sending password reset emails and not expecting to receive email. (I recall receiving several emails from emperorpalpatine@senate.gov while in college, probably sent by mischievous CS students learning about email stuff themselves and realizing our school's email setup was old and crusty) Mailgun also has me keep a CNAME record as well for some kind of delivery confirmation service (a transactional email service is basically a trusted man-in-the-middle); I forget the details. But, basically, thanks to spammers, there's more to setting up your own email service than creating an MX record, even if all you're doing is setting up a Lemmy instance that only needs to send password reset emails.
Source: someone who has bumbled through Discourse and Mediawiki email setup for small projects.
My kill rate dropped significantly after #EveOnline shut down Dust514 and the orbital bombardment mechanic.
Yamamaya!
Rofl. Top kek.
TL;DR: fgallery is a dumb static web gallery generator: EXAMPLE, SETUP.
There's fgallery which is a small Debian package that takes an input directory (e.g. photo-dir) and creates a static website in a new directory (e.g. my-gallery).
$ fgallery photo-dir my-gallery
From the Debian package details page.
static HTML+JavaScript photo album generator
“fgallery” is a static photo gallery generator with no frills that has a stylish, minimalist look. “fgallery” shows your photos, and nothing else.
There is no server-side processing, only static generation. The resulting gallery can be uploaded anywhere without additional requirements and works with any modern browser.
Among all the Debian packages similar to this one, this seems the most recently maintained (version 1.9.1 came out 2022-12-31). It is licensed GPLv2+ so the source code is available.
After running fgallery as described above, upload my-gallery to your static web page directory (e.g. /var/www/html/ with a typical apache2 setup) and open the index.html through a web browser.
Here's an example gallery I made just now (setup procedure).
( Photo by Baltakatei / 🅭🅯🄎 4.0 )
To view the gallery locally without uploading to a web server (e.g. a Digital Ocean droplet) or static content hosting service (e.g. AWS S3), you can do so with your own web browser. However, because the fgallery webpage uses Javascript and since modern browsers refuse to render Javascript in HTML pages at local file system addresses (e.g. file:///) due to same-origin policy, the easiest solution is to make a simple webserver via python3:
$ python3 -m http.server -d ./my-gallery
Then, you can visit the my-gallery/index.html file via a local http:// address at http://localhost:8000/.
fgallery lacks many complex features (no image database, no metadata editing, no dynamic server processes for editing images, etc.). However, I'd argue its lack of features is the main feature. It just takes a directory of photos and spits out a directory you can plug into your hosting service. Updating the the gallery is just a matter of running the same $ fgallery photo-dir my-gallery command again and re-uploading.
Edit(2023-07-07T12:05+00): Clarify python3 commend.
TL;DR: fgallery is a dumb static web gallery generator: EXAMPLE, SETUP.
Rotate board 90 degrees widdershins.
Maybe try out FreedomBox? freedombox is a Debian package which automatically sets up apache2, firewalld, fail2ban and Letʼs Encrypt. It also automatically adds pre-canned configuration files for applications you install with it (e.g. Mediawiki, WordPress, Matrix, Postfix/Dovecot). The theoretical goal of FreedomBox is to allow anyone to set up a webserver and administer it via a webUI. So, although I would say itʼs not quite there yet for command-line-illiterate users, I have found the software useful as a turnkey server to see what makes certain web applications tick, albeït in mostly vanilla form.
For example, after installing a new app like WordPress, you could examine what exactly the FreedomBox scripts changed in the /etc/apache2/ or /etc/fail2ban/ configuration files.
I’ll believe it when it doesn’t crash and burn like the last one.
Check back here on 2023-08-23, then.
Can we have space settlement without the war and genocide? It's not like killing Indians and robbing trains is a fundamental requirement.
Amazon replacements:
As for video streaming, it's going to take a breakup of the Big Tech monopolies via revival of anti-trust laws to fix that. Hear the first chapter of The Internet Con (skip to 2m5s) by Cory Doctorow for more on that.
In my opinion, it was when anti-trust laws did not trigger upon Google acquiring YouTube because Google Video couldn't compete. That meant it was open season on start-ups that otherwise might have grown to kill Google or other big tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.