Posts by gemlog@tilde.zone
(DIR) Post #A6bqP9Lth9DG4PsucC by gemlog@tilde.zone
2021-04-24T23:11:47Z
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I guess the world is surviving fine without me. I am back in Terrace now, but still not able to follow anyone normally on my new instance.
(DIR) Post #A7SBrmxmDWyuHr13Jo by gemlog@tilde.zone
2021-05-20T13:28:17Z
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This stupid 1997 gmc 1500 4x4 pickup is like the best 1,000$ I ever spent! :-) I love it! I can go down roads I couldn't before. I'm slowly stuffing it with gear and it's instant camping!Mind you, I can also go down roads I shouldn't!! (and get a tow bill...).Where I live in northern bc is so beautiful. I wish I could convey it properly, but neither my handy nor its operator are up to the challenge :-( The one image shows just what I saw waking up at about 04h30 this morning to the sound of rushing water from the river. The other shows a cute freshet I saw while driving out to get a morning coffee.
(DIR) Post #AEKK67AuGCsOzWrMC8 by gemlog@tilde.zone
2021-12-11T05:13:27Z
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Meat Loaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Lighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C11MzbEcHlw
(DIR) Post #AExuWCcKhGsw7N9vkm by gemlog@tilde.zone
2021-12-31T12:20:42Z
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YUNO Host?I installed it on a vps I have just before xmas and I was blown away by how many working 'apps' there are included in it!So far, beyond hardening ssh to my liking, I've nothing but install Jirafeau (which I actually already have on a different, non-yunohost vps). I'm still out of town for the hols, so I'll address it when I get back to Terrace.What do you guys use it for mostly??#yunohost #vps
(DIR) Post #AFXIyDPdaJ2HZPlH7I by gemlog@tilde.zone
2022-01-17T00:59:40Z
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QOS - using HTB to provide a maximum bandwidth instead of a minimum one.@adamd back in the day, I swapped a lot of emails with devik as I struggled to learn what I was doing and he struggled to write the kernel module - good guy btw. Anyhow...Just off the top of my head, but I can expand and give refs and stuff.There are things called Token Buckets. The idea is that tokens drip into bucket at a steady rate until the bucket is full and someone using bandwidth can pull out a packet with a matching token whenever they want. This limits bandwidth to the drip rate of tokens, but allows for bursting to drain the bucket.This is used to limit the amount of bandwidth that may be used. But what if you wanted to maximize it as I did down in Chetumal years ago?Enter the Hierarchical Token Bucket filter instead of the above tbf https://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.classless.html#AEN690So instead you use HTB https://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.classful.html#AEN1071 You take the bw and squeeze it down a little as normal (or how can you control the flow??) and then you divide it among the users as the MINIMUM they can have. If no one else is around, then one user may have ALL the bw! This makes people happy vs sad and uses the maximum amount of bw available.E.g. if you have 12 of bw and 3 users, then 4 users get 3bw each. If there are 3 users each gets 4bw each. If there is one user they get 12bw.So, my position on your home network is, you should want to use ALL the available bw and not limit people, but they shouldn't be able to hog it all either.Now, you can also 'weight' it so one user gets preference, say they get bw+1 or bw*3.Oh, also I use a sfq to perturb things https://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.classless.html#LARTC.SFQ in case something ESTABLISHED/RELATED manages to take over somehow. That's icing, not sure it was needed really.
(DIR) Post #AG2fOa2xUemIr5sVGa by gemlog@tilde.zone
2022-02-01T19:08:17Z
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Before I selfishly spend what's left of my paypal account on myself, does anyone know the best place to donate for One Dollar Glasses? i.e. legit charity?https://duckduckgo.com/?q=one+dollar+glassesI forgot all about them. I have to put them in my 'remind' file for paydays.Also, thanks to Schenkl Radio listeners https://schoolforafrica.org/donations/2022-block-1/ is looking better, but is still coming up short. No need to sign up or anything, straight paypal or w/e.
(DIR) Post #AH9385dI6uHIbfq7hg by gemlog@tilde.zone
2022-03-06T18:53:58Z
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stellariumhttps://stellarium.org/I took my kids to the planetarium down south years ago. We sat near enough to the console to see what they were doing. I thought "Hey, I've got that at home!" Mind you, I didn't have the cool projector and the big dome-y thing.Also, kstars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KStarsDiscussion with more libre software, stellarium scripts and more at HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30574809#astronomy #software
(DIR) Post #ANQLrRYTAkfelUxpVA by gemlog@tilde.zone
2022-09-10T14:28:30Z
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@martijnbraamI thought it was going to be the SCR 'crowbar' circuit I learned in school :-) @james
(DIR) Post #ANd93XZdfjyGofUi3s by gemlog@tilde.zone
2022-09-16T18:19:44Z
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Organizing my pcI just spent over an hour just moving files and folders into 12 new folders by filetype as a rough first pass on my long-neglected Downloads directory. Took me over an hour :-( find . | wc -l ... 22998So now 2,300 files need to go *somewhere* - even if that place is /dev/nullEstablishing an info management schema has eluded me for decades. I once created a nested hierarchy of dirs/folders based on the library of congress. also dewey. That's too much!Another time I duplicated the categories of my Zimwiki note app on the hard-drive with a script, which was ... kinda good. Problem was my zimwiki wasn't all the well organized in the first place :-( It seems to me that my notes (now in joplin and somewhat better organized), PC and bookmarks should all follow the same layout.But what‽‽‽The default of every desktop and O/S to sort by file type is just plain silly. Knowing how to open each file type is the operating system's problem, not mine. I'm looking for information on a subject/object and I don't care what file type it's in: document, video, music/sound - I don't care.Local search works to some extent on my pc, but not my phone. Tags work in joplin, but not my pc.
(DIR) Post #ANzavEb9PYQFqG9DJw by gemlog@tilde.zone
2022-09-27T14:24:40Z
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In the highly unlikely situation where you use both Kate text editor AND Remind calendar program, I just found a syntax file for Kate! :-) https://github.com/rkelly/kate-remind<!-- ~/.local/share/katepart5/syntax -->Works as a location for me, but I adjusted the pattern to match my own .reminders file naming convention on line 6.
(DIR) Post #APRwOlfctQeNoFVyRE by gemlog@tilde.zone
2022-11-10T04:36:49Z
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@Ruticl #Fensterfreitag (ViernesDeVentana en alemán) viene... :-)
(DIR) Post #AQImGCLbipCADobIiu by gemlog@tilde.zone
2022-12-05T15:31:50Z
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Is it only me or do all aging humanoids gradually begin to type errors like 'there' for 'their' and so on? I'm sure I wasn't as bad when I was younger.Well, nearly sure. I think... :-)
(DIR) Post #AaOFmDsAxlmpwDli1w by gemlog@tilde.zone
2023-10-02T18:02:25Z
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PSA - mostly to remind myself what a great idea this is for the next time I take something apart!
(DIR) Post #AaXwGoniX87Q13iY7M by gemlog@tilde.zone
2023-10-08T01:22:13Z
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@tootbrute I made my filesytem match my notes system, so I can find stuff.Joplin has linked notes too, which is nice to link to other things within joplin, but I do two other things too. file:///Documents/subdir/somefileand the other way 'round as well.I have a file extension I made in kde. I cleverly named it... wait for it... dot joplin! :-) Anyhow, all it does is call a script with:cat $1 | xargs -I % xdg-open %Which pulls up joplin with the right note. Right-clicks on joplin notes put the note id in your clipboard, so it isn't onerous to make little files like that for convenience.
(DIR) Post #AaibvIal4DPN6ehnpw by gemlog@tilde.zone
2023-10-13T06:01:36Z
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Scrollbars are becoming a problem"Scrollbars. Ever heard of them? They’re pretty cool. Click and drag on a scrollbar and you can move content around in a scrollable content pane. I love that shit. Every day I am scrolling on my computer, all day long. But the scrollbars are getting smaller and this is increasingly becoming a problem. I would show you screenshots but they’re so small that even screenshotting them is hard to do. And people keep making them even smaller, hiding them away, its like they don’t want you to scroll!"https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.htmlHN Comments:way more unhappy people!"It's amazing how much damage these cargo-cult UI/UX morons have done in the past ten years. They threw out several decades of usability pioneered by real HID experts for something that looks pretty but doesn't fucking work for a lot of people."Not only me then. Good to know!https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37864867
(DIR) Post #AaotdQFqTuC8IDaD5c by gemlog@tilde.zone
2023-10-15T18:34:56Z
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Pinky and the BrainActual cartoonists at WB> The mice were inspired by a writer duo on the Tiny Toons staff. “Tom Minton spoke very low, very quietly. He’s very funny, but you’d have to lean in close,” says Ruegger. “And Eddie Fitzgerald was a good friend of his, who was much more vocal and boisterous. And so they’re in the next office, and Tom would say something that Eddie would find very funny, and Eddie would just explode. He’d go ‘Narf! That’s amazing, Tom!’ I mean, he literally said the word ‘Narf.’ I thought, what are they doing in there?—because Tom’s whispering. It’s like they’re planning to take over the world.”just bumped into a joplin note I made back in january that had this.
(DIR) Post #AbMxN7cLm18Wv2ASWW by gemlog@tilde.zone
2023-11-01T16:27:40Z
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Panama Canal reduces ship traffic due to drought, as El Nino bites The waterway, through which about six per cent of global maritime trade passes, welcomed an average of 39 ships a day in 2022 Traffic will be reduced to 25 ships a day from Friday, down from 29, and will drop to 18 ships a day by February, the Panama Canal Authority saidhttps://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3240016/panama-canal-reduces-ship-traffic-due-drought-el-nino-biteshttps://news.yahoo.com/drought-forces-deeper-cuts-shipping-000612882.html?fr=sycsrp_catchallhttps://en.mercopress.com/2023/05/03/shortage-of-rain-water-threatens-panama-canal-crossings-forcing-ships-to-reduce-their-draft-and-cargoes
(DIR) Post #AcPtJvGgiXSwqM6ZHc by gemlog@tilde.zone
2023-12-03T01:06:18Z
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I did here of a food shortage in Germany. It *may* also effect Sausage and Cheese, but that's the Wurst Käse scenario.
(DIR) Post #AcYP9NYxvfJBD7LkWW by gemlog@tilde.zone
2023-12-07T03:43:35Z
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Christopher “publius” Carson“Man and Atom” mediahttps://www.patreon.com/man_and_atomI'm going with 'Pedantic, yet fun' here :-) He can sue me! :-) He has shows on anonradio:https://archives.anonradio.net/#publius (the archives)https://anonradio.net/He's @publius on here
(DIR) Post #AcaLp4xCOGaYkzTSam by gemlog@tilde.zone
2023-12-08T02:03:40Z
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I have two pet mallards They are named Homer and Hesiod.They’re Greek author ducks...