Posts by stib@aus.social
(DIR) Post #An5dz1h7HP5PSblePw by stib@aus.social
2024-10-17T07:17:08Z
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@futurebirdThese guys?
(DIR) Post #Anex4mTMa4hgIWxTJA by stib@aus.social
2024-11-03T08:06:03Z
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@historyofpunkrockThree black men with afros and flared jeans. They are all wearing teal t-shirts with the word Death and a logo on them. One is smoking and another points to the camera.Wow, what a great rabbit hole. Found their album "For the Whole World to See" on YouTube.
(DIR) Post #Anh3YDkBFoPzJjAJv6 by stib@aus.social
2024-11-04T07:38:14Z
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Been mig #welding some aluminium today. (building #bike trailer 2.0). I am getting semi competent with steel, but with aluminium I've gone back to reclaim my World's Worst Welder title. Not going to show pics because there are some ugly ugly welds happening right here.
(DIR) Post #AnvjHY5Zf7mUAqHRNA by stib@aus.social
2024-11-11T10:21:36Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Looking forward to Ladybird/Servo releasing their beta. Then there will be another completely different browser that sucks.
(DIR) Post #Ao8KUPqndDQwaYt4y0 by stib@aus.social
2024-11-17T12:13:14Z
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@mina @futurebird it's a quote from William Burroughs' novel The Ticket That Exploded.In 1986 he elaborated the idea in an essay in The Adding Machine:"My general theory since 1971 has been that the Word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the Word Virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute. But the Word clearly bears the single identifying feature of virus: it is an organism with no internal function other than to replicate itself."
(DIR) Post #AoB6wTA26NYd4zFK0O by stib@aus.social
2024-06-25T10:59:04Z
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@mhoye Saint Benedictus thinks she's basic.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-the-fantastically-bejeweled-skeletons-of-catholicisms-forgotten-martyrs-284882/
(DIR) Post #Aocv96D4Iiu2RcYTXU by stib@aus.social
2024-12-02T04:58:02Z
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@ewen I was interested to do a back-of-the-envelope estimate.Say we make the weights out of something relatively cheap like concrete. 1 cubic meter of GP concrete weighs about 2.3 tonnes. To lift 1kg up 1m takes 9.8 Joules, so to lift 2,300kg up two storeys (say, 10m) is 225,553J which looks like a lot, but works out to 62 Watt hours. So it would take a lump of concrete the size of a bar fridge being hoisted a couple of storeys to run, say a bar fridge for an hour.I think that might be why it's not being investigated as an energy storage medium for domestic use.
(DIR) Post #Aocv99GivabpvpHw9Y by stib@aus.social
2024-12-02T05:24:26Z
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@ewen If you used steel it would be about 7,800kg, or lead 11,340kg, so the energy density would be three to five times higher, though more expensive to buy. And of course lifting any large weight is going to be a non-trivial engineering issue; and the higher the energy stored the greater the demands on the building. Not an engineer, but I'd reckon yeeting a dozen tonnes up a stairwell would probably require structural strength that couldn't be retro-fitted into an existing structure.
(DIR) Post #ArfmW4QNuGje04j76O by stib@aus.social
2025-03-02T12:30:26Z
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I seem to have a #DNS problem (unheard of, right?).I've got #nginx working with #HTTPS, using #certbot, and there's an A record that points at the IP address of the server. So I can go to https://mydomain.com and it's all dandy (thank you @eff). Now I want a TLS certificate for the #Dovecot mail server. I've set up a virtual server for mail.mydomain.com like this:```server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name mail.mydomain.com; root /usr/share/nginx/html/; location ~ /.well-known/acme-challenge { allow all; }}```But when I run certbot I get this:```NoRecordsFatalNo valid A or AAAA records could be ultimately resolved for mail.mydomain.com. This means that Let's Encrypt would not be able to connect to your domain to perform HTTP validation, since it would not know where to connect to.No A or AAAA records found. ```On my domain registrar's dashboard it says that I don't need to set up a MX record if I have only one mail server and it is on the same IP address as my Domain Record. But I'm thinking the certbot error doesn't sound like it's looking for an MX record. Should I temporarily make a subdomain record for mail.mydomain.com?#ImSoConfused #AskFedi #FediTechSupport
(DIR) Post #AsN0wjNvVqD7wOgKUy by stib@aus.social
2025-03-24T04:12:51Z
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On the internet, no-one knows that you love eating cat poo.#DogsOfMastodon
(DIR) Post #AtPlMc4mJL5ilb5BGi by stib@aus.social
2025-04-24T11:26:38Z
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@stux It's, it's a banger. Kinda amazing that the site took off really.
(DIR) Post #AuPq62iGxYnUtWyzWC by stib@aus.social
2025-05-24T09:28:17Z
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Struggling to get the SBS app on my TV to just play the goddamn news and after watching the spinning wheel of death for minutes, turning it off and on again, no really off, reconnecting the goddamn Bluetooth for the umpteenth time, and remembering fondly the days when you just had to adjust the aerial to find the sweet spot where the picture wouldn't roll.
(DIR) Post #AurWW5xZgPuXvK0b4K by stib@aus.social
2025-06-06T06:19:39Z
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Colours that are their Hex values #1 (if you include alpha)
(DIR) Post #AurWWHEzjzNiuXFAFU by stib@aus.social
2025-06-06T06:22:33Z
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Colours that are their Hex values #2(For certain values of B000B1E5)
(DIR) Post #AurWWRmgXaGxbv5D9M by stib@aus.social
2025-06-06T06:25:28Z
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BTW if you're wondering I made a tool for #DaVinciResolve and #Fusion that lets you input hex colour values into a colour generator. Free as in beer, speech and solo, along with my other fuses at https://codeberg.org/stib/stibs_fuses/#IMadeAThing #DCTL #Lua
(DIR) Post #AxWhPCmj3RwoXJ4ApE by stib@aus.social
2025-08-25T11:12:44Z
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@aral @nordacious worth noting for the alt text that the old white man depicted is Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia.
(DIR) Post #AyXvEivJoTWMzOwD0y by stib@aus.social
2025-09-24T23:09:38Z
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Having trouble using the built-in #sftp client on #MacOS. I'm trying to get data from a NOAA #ftp server, but using sftp on the command line always times out without connecting. I downloaded a random ftp app from the apple app store and it can connect just fine. I'm thinking that maybe the problem is that NOAA server isn't using sftp, so I tried specifying port 21, but that didn't work. Does anyone know where I can get a working command line FTP client for macOS?
(DIR) Post #AyYgxoszBgkmMGqtZA by stib@aus.social
2025-09-25T07:30:02Z
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@lackthereof ahah. I got to sftp because it was the only thing that came up when I tried `apropos ftp`.
(DIR) Post #AyYhGInchzOgLV9nJQ by stib@aus.social
2025-09-25T08:13:41Z
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@divVerent @lackthereof Since I was last using MacOS the command line tools seem to have been completely nerfed.
(DIR) Post #B09dM6O93RhpIwVvA8 by stib@aus.social
2025-11-12T01:41:35Z
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@discatte is that a real live MT-80S? Roland gear from the late 80s was the apex of UX, nothing today comes close. Away with your touch screens! Give me soft-touch buttons!