Yeah, I don’t get the hate and intentional division being sowed there.

I’m not a fan of Ubuntu since they went all Thanos Snap (the final straw was replacing deb packages in apt with snap stubs), but I can applaud that they’re using Linux.

Just seems like low effort, pointless gatekeeping to me.

RCS is a whole can of worms. It’s presented like a carrier services (and carriers are in the mix, though often just for authentication), but it’s really a Google service. With Android, RCS connects directly to google’s mothership.

I believe on iOS those go to Apple’s servers which “peers” with google. Maybe search the RCS endpoint for Apple and see what comes up?

This is actually one of my New Year’s resolutions lol. Right now, my backups are local and my offsites are a hodgepodge of cloud services (basically holding encrypted container blobs of my stuff). Not ideal.

I’m looking at signing up for rsync.net since a lot of my backups are done via rsync anyway. Plan is to keep my local backups as-is and rsync them to rsync.net.

I’m not making excuses for Judge Merchan, but it’s easy to say what you’re saying when you’re not personally dealing with a guy who can and will send an angry mob of violent nutjobs to your house. Something to keep in mind.

Full disclosure: I have no idea what I’m talking about when it comes to “big money”

Would, say, transferring my 401(k) to a Roth IRA safeguard it against this kind of crap? “Roth IRAs are better” is something I’ve heard people with money say lol.

AI bots absolutely rip through your sites like something rabid.

SemrushBot being the most rabid from my experience. Just will not take “fuck off” as an answer.

That looks pretty much like how I’m doing it, also as an include for each virtual host. The only difference is I don’t even bother with a 403. I just use Nginx’s 444 “response” to immediately close the connection.

Are you doing the IP blocks also in Nginx or lower at the firewall level? Currently I’m doing it at firewall level since many of those will also attempt SSH brute forces (good luck since I only use keys, but still…)

Yeah, I have no idea what the rated wattage for this is. Manual / manufacturer specs are useless. Just says like 740 KWh/yr and “115V/10A”.

I’ve been watching it for the last ~3 hours. Fridge was already cold, but I did open the door for a minute or two so the compressor would kick in.

When the compressor’s running, the draw is about 150W average (swings between 120W and about 160). I can hear it running. Haven’t caught the startup wattage, but the UPS had no issues with it (would have beeped otherwise). I’m not sure if it runs harder or just longer if it needs to cool a warm fridge down (not an expert here lol).

A bit later, the compressor is not running (no hum even with my ear to it). UPS says 400W now, almost on the dot ( +/- 3 watts or so). I’m assuming this is some kind of defrost/de-ice cycle and there’s a heater running or something.

After about 15 minutes, it dropped back down to almost nothing until the compressor kicked on again.

So I guess it really is that energy-efficient. lol. I guess the only remaining question is if there’s anything to watch out for if I want to keep running it on a UPS.

Maybe will be better received at !tech_memes@lemmy.world ?

I tried to make the afterthought that increments the loop counter use the increment function recursively, but Javascript said no lol.

// this increments i:
// Version 2: Now more efficient; only loops to 50 and just rounds up.  That's 50% less inefficient!

function increment(val:number): number {
  for (let i:number = 0; i < 50; i = i +1) {
    val = val + 0.01
  }

  return Math.round(val)
}

let i = 100
i = increment(i)
// 101

Sorry, I’m not a regular poster so I don’t know how to make a FOSS version of a YouTube link.

IMO, just drop the canonical YT link and let people handle it themselves (some Lemmy frontends will rewrite them to Piped/Invidious based on preference, some use browser plugins to redirect them, there’s an annoying bot that auto replies with Piped links, etc).

I’ve always found it annoying to have to deal with links to some random Piped/Invidious instances that are overloaded, slow, unreliable, and/or halfway around the world from where I am. A direct YT link is much easier to automatically re-write to use my local/preferred Invidious instance than having to know about every possible Invidious/Piped instance in the wild in order to detect them.

!republicanjesus@lemmy.world needs to make a comeback. Nothing’s been posted there for at least a year.

If you come across anything cool and want to share, there’s https://midwest.social/c/loops

Another commenter to this post said a Loops web UI update is coming, so hopefully that version will include the og:video metadata so any client can easily support them. It also means I might have to adjust my code to account for those changes in case they don’t add that metadata on the new version lol.

Thanks for the shoutout. Unfortunately, I dropped 0.18.x support back in 1.4.0 so it won’t work with Beehaw right now :(

More like those Ionic Breeze air purifiers.

I’ve never been more satisfied hosting my own email than after reading this.

It’s the latest alt of Lemmy’s longest-term persistent troll, just disregard. They’ve got nothing better to do, and everything they post is basically what they say to themselves in the mirror every morning.

Kroger (grocery store) is doing the same thing this week. They’re doing a 20% off “holiday bonus” discount on a one per-customer basis (20% off your entire order). The catch? Every item in the store is at least 20% more expensive than it was last week.

Not the ‘c’ word I would have used, but still accurate.