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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt it.
  Tripping over a cable is as likely to damage the socket as it is to rip the cable out of the plug.
  Any appliance that increases risk by being unplugged should probably not be using a consumer connection…

  I think the 3 pin layout caused a lot of headaches, and the integrated fuse required a user-servicable plug.
  So it would have to be a split-shell design of some type, where the appliance cable would have to be cable-gripped to the same part as the plug/socket pins.
  Thus, a bottom-entry (heh) cable grip and a removable back plate that can only be unscrewed when it’s unplugged.
  This was all in a time of bakelite. Plastic wasn’t flexible.

  But no, I think tripping over an early bakelite g-type (I think it’s officially a g-type) plug cable would likely shatter the plug and pull the pins out of the socket… If it didn’t also damage the socket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the cable comes out perpendicular (ie parallel to the wall).
  Which pretty much guarantees foot-pain orientation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I missed that part of the conversation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You sure it’s not WhatsApp that’s link-shortening?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like a fantastic contribution to the fediverse.
  Sounds like suspicious behaviour. So removing and even tracking that kinda crap would be some great tooling!
  Perhaps an addition would be something that notifies people that interact with the deleted post/user to let them know of the deleted accounts behaviour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aeroplane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ailerons are for imparting roll.
  Flaps and slats are not for steering

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wait for GTA 6 has now been so long it must be some kind of record - right? [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Skyrim?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And you finally get to jump

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear that the US has oil and WMDs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨£6 million repaid to workers as Government cracks down on employers underpaying their staff⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this labour doing an actual labour thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They have a right to feel smug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet, there is an entire world out there. With people from all countries that are dealing with sash and case windows, restricted opening windows, or windows that don’t open at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They have a right to feel smug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The “ever” is maybe stretching it.
  I think it can survive the occasional mis-opening. But I wouldn’t do it regularly, not leave it like that for a day.
  Like “yeh, you’ve fucked up but I’m fine for now. Please fix me and never do it again” kinda scenario

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They have a right to feel smug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like it’s a “can survive, but please fix quickly” kinda scenario.
  I have no doubt the mechanism can support it. But used regularly will likely break something (where the entire fucking window falls into your room)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They have a right to feel smug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  1st position detent = tilt (small opening).
  2nd position detent = door (big opening).

  I get that “horizontal handle = door” kinda makes sense… But doesn’t feel intuitive to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A typo/brainfart

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Myst 6…?

  A brainfart/typo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The remaster of myst 1 is good, the remaster of riven is good.
  Must 3-6 felt… Thin. Like, the game was about it being 3d and the tech… Not the puzzles.

  I feel a true successor to the myst 1 & 2 games is Quern: Undying Thoughts.
  Felt like the original premise, but in a modern game engine.

  Another game that gave me the same hook as Myst is Blue Prince. A rogue lite puzzle game that is amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case, maybe look into proxmox and VMs.
  Then run docker inside a VM. Have multiple VMs of docker for different environments (eg a VM for containers that should only use a VPN, another for media server stuff, another for experimenting… Whatever)

  Learning proxmox (or another hypervisor) is well worthwhile, because the base installer sets things up to just work for virtualization. And VMs are great for learning to run services.
  Then you can spin up VMs for isolating environments, and have the benefit of oversight and management tools as well as snapshots. Snapshots means you can take a snapshot, tinker and break things, then roll back to a known good snapshot and try again.

  I use proxmox on any bare metal before I start setting up VMs for services. Even if it’s just a single VM with the majority of resources allocated to it.

  Is proxmox overkill for running a server for some docker containers? Yes.
  Does it make things easier? IMO, yes. At least operationally safer/easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imo, only services that require a VPN exit node should use a VPN exit node.

  github.com/qdm12/gluetun
  Is a well known VPN container that people use, and works with ProtonVPN.

  I don’t know anything about how to do this, but a cursory search for “gluetun qbitorrent docker” suggests that gluetun gets network: “host”. Any container that has to use a VPN exit node gets network_mode: “service:gluetun”. A depends_on: {gluetun details} style option will ensure that any service that should use a VPN exit node will not run unless gluetun is running.

  Then it’s getting the data out of the qbittorent container into whatever you are using as a media server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, gotcha.

  So… You generally have to pay a VPN company to get access to their VPN exit nodes, and “hide” in among all the other traffic.
  There is nothing you can self-host to do that.

  ProtonVPN used to be a popular recommendation, however they are slipping out of favour due to behaviour over the last couple of years.
  If you are looking for a VPN for anonymity, be careful of “review” articles posted on blogs owned by dodgy VPN providers.
  I’m not sure who the “go to” VPN provider is these days.

  If you rent a VPS (virtual private server) in order to run your own VPN exit node, and the VPS provider gets a letter regarding illegal activity, then your VPS will be deleted.
  I don’t know of a VPS provider that will protect customers privacy WRT legal requests (maybe there are, but they will be exceptionally expensive).

  So everyone pays a VPN provider that doesn’t keep logs in order to hide amongst the herd.

  In order to make sure that your file downloading system uses a VPN instead of the default gateway for internet access is a huge field.
  So you need to describe exactly the software you want to use the VPN exit node, and how it’s installed.
  Because the solution could be host firewall, docker networking, isolated networks… Pretty sure there are many others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t hide your public IP. It’s public.

  I presume your servers sit on your home network, and it’s a basic flat network. And you have a basic home router. And you forward a port on your router to your server that’s running wireguard.
  Sound about right?

  You already use a VPN to access your homelab/home-servers.
  So the only ports you are forwarding (presumably) relate to wireguard. So the only accessable ports are secured sensibly (by wireguard, cause thats what it is).

  So you are already doing everything right.

  If you want a fancier router/firewall, then OpnSense or OpenWRT are good options.
  But I wouldn’t run everything through your server. Let your server serve. And use a router to do network things.
  If you really want to hyperconverge onto a single server like that, then I’d do it inside different VMs (probably running on a proxmox host). Have a VM running OpnSense that only does network and routing. Then VMs for other services.
  You’re directly coupling your home internet access to the proxmox host and the VM, tho.
  Which is why I prefer using a more embedded/dedicated router appliance (I’m a huge fan of mikrotik stuff, but my home network is TP-Link Omada. Tho I think I’ll move to Unifi)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is in for the antivax in a government?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “God will protect us. He has sent judgement on those unworthy” also contributes. Not directly eugenics, but damn fucking close

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emoji Recently Added 🫩⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🫟 🍆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine the debuff that blueballs would inflict because you missed the quicktime event

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What about liquid particles in the flatulence phase-changing and lowering the temperature? (Like how an evaporative swamp cooler works)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our GPU Black Market Documentary Has Been Taken Down by Bloomberg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A bunch of other YouTubers are reuploading it in protest.
  So, you can watch it on one of the reuploads.
  Just make sure you watch it again on Gamers Nexus when it comes back, help them jump re-start it on the algorithm so it gets the views it deserves.

  Thankfully the Streisand effect will take care of the publicity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing that - from my experience of the CasualUK community when I used to be on Reddit - they have similar rules of ABSOLUTELY no politics. Even something that might lead to politics.
  It’s to keep the place extremely light hearted and not turn into a depressing news/politics community.

  So immigration/border policy and Palestine Action would both be out.
  Even jokes about small boats would likely be too close.

  It is a fun story, glad you shared it. And good on the mods recommending an alternative community

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, the classic “scientists dicover cure ^in vitro^”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Refuses to Deny UK Encryption Demands⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeh, good.
  Hopefully they will realise what a farce OSA is as well, considering the skyrocketing VPN usage!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only other solutions to “VPNs circumvent OSA” are:

  1. Licence/regulate VPN usage (which is essentially a ban WRT the OSA).
     Extremely difficult to do. It’s fairly trivial to just tunnel your connection over SSH to a VPS in another country.
     Also fairly trivial to get a VPN that tunnels over a websocket, making the traffic identical to website traffic.
     The government is going to play cat&mouse with decades of legitimate infosec.

  2. Do something progressive, and drop the OSA (which isn’t going to happen).
     They’ve literally just implemented these laws. It’s not getting repealed.

  They are going to make consumer use of anything that changes the public source address of a packet illegal.
  How they enforce that, I dunno.
  Like the whole OSA, it seems really poorly thought out. I dunno how they completely overlooked VPN usage