Hal
@Hal@piefed.nz
This is @Dave@lemmy.nz and @Dave@piefed.nz but PieFed told me not to use my admin account for general browsing so here I am following instructions.
- Comment on Found this in a workplace toilet today 1 hour ago:
Toilet paper also requires specific processing of the waste water. It’s normally screened off and sent to landfill when it reaches the treatment plant, but I imagine many countries wouldn’t have this infrastructure.
- Comment on Do you cheat in games? 6 days ago:
I mean what is cheating?
I agree it’s at least not immoral cheating.
Here’s me playing on easy and looking up walkthroughs or help threads when I can’t get past a boss.
Replies on thread: yes, this part is annoying, just put it on easy for thia hit and you’ll fly through.
Me: But Doctor, I Am Pagliacci!
- Comment on shut up 1 week ago:
Can’t believe they killed her off so early on!
- Comment on Perks 1 week ago:
Lol apparently New Zealand is joining those ranks. Along with an app to pay.
- Comment on Incredible letter written to someone who gave her a gift 1 week ago:
Tineye goes back at least to 2013, so likely not! But also probably easy enough to photoshop/gimp.
- Comment on Always be prepared 2 weeks ago:
How often do chicken wings appear where there isn’t a bathroom where you can go and wash your hands?
- Comment on Sorry, vampires 2 weeks ago:
Vampires when they realise the concentration of garlic in my blood
- Comment on [Meta] Lemmy (not PieFed) changed to a Private Instance 2 weeks ago:
I had some challenges setting it up which were mostly related to using load balancing for Lemmy-UI. In general there isn’t much of a problem letting humans through so long as you only apply it to the front end UI not to the API.
We have a rule to allow anyone with a jwt set which means logged in users are not challenged.
Finding an instance that blocks content from logged out users would likely put off new users, but if you’re not looking for new users then requiring login seems like an easy solution to the problem.
- Comment on [Meta] Lemmy (not PieFed) changed to a Private Instance 2 weeks ago:
Another vote here for anubis! It cut our traffic down by some 75% or so.
- Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key? 2 weeks ago:
It feels like the kind if thing that someone, somewhere would have a script running constantly testing for private keys with low values. That it went 18 months without being found is a miracle!
I think there’s a good chance people will be looking for this now so will get caught a lot quicker.
- Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key? 2 weeks ago:
So why did it take so long for someone to try it?
- Comment on Ok .... so I never stared at his hands. Sorry 2 weeks ago:
I had a colleague missing a hand once, and it me more than 9 months notice, even though I saw them in the office each day…
- Comment on I am a data hoarder of knowledge, movies, music, books, programs, games, interesting posts, and so on. Is there a place where it can let me download/torrent till my hearts content? 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, what are you trying to do? Anna’s achive is not selling anything. You can donate to them, and in return they will give you fast downloads from their mirrors. But you are not using their mirrors, you’re using torrents, right?
Like you just literally go to https://annas-archive.gl/dyn/generate_torrents?max_tb=1&format=url
And it will give you a list of torrent files you can download to seed their content as a backup for them, to preserve the knowledge. At no point do you need a membership (not even if you want to download individual files from their servers, you just get slower download speeds which will still have you downloading books in a minute or two).
- Comment on I am a data hoarder of knowledge, movies, music, books, programs, games, interesting posts, and so on. Is there a place where it can let me download/torrent till my hearts content? 4 weeks ago:
I am not sure what you mean by DMCA notices but there are hundreds of sites that you can torrent from if you use a VPN yes. My assumption was that you’re already familiar with torrenting.
For the record, Anna’s Archive is not distributing books with the copyright owners consent, they are a shadow library.
- Comment on I am a data hoarder of knowledge, movies, music, books, programs, games, interesting posts, and so on. Is there a place where it can let me download/torrent till my hearts content? 4 weeks ago:
You can help hoard the info so the knowledge is not lost. The torrents are not designed to be browsed (you do that on their website) but instead are designed to be a copy to stop it being lost.
To help, follow the link I gave. In the “Help seed” section say how much space you have. It will allocate you appropriately torrents to download and seed.
- Comment on I am a data hoarder of knowledge, movies, music, books, programs, games, interesting posts, and so on. Is there a place where it can let me download/torrent till my hearts content? 4 weeks ago:
What is your intent?
If you want to help preserve, you can help Anna’s Archive by seeding torrents: https://annas-archive.gl/torrents
- Comment on My trench knife, Artyom's from the game Metro 2033 5 weeks ago:
I’ve only just started playing it for the first time after years of it sitting in my steam account. It’s been fun so far!
- Comment on Society 1 month ago:
How do we know Dr Pepper is a person doctor not a vet?
- Comment on How do i sync subtitles while watching movies? 1 month ago:
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen subtitles synced correctly outside of streaming services. You must have a different setup to me.
- Comment on Every. Time. 1 month ago:
Can’t you just put the stuff in the trolley unbagged then bag them when you get to the car?
- Comment on How come we still haven't engineered a solution to this?? 1 month ago:
So if your toast isn’t taller than those sides, can you open it sideways or something? Remember those bars are scorching hot.
- Comment on How come we still haven't engineered a solution to this?? 1 month ago:
My favourite is when a toaster with the lift function raises to a high point that’s lower than the high point on one without the lift.
Or that time I went through every display toaster in the store to get the one that lifted the highest, then when I bought one and took it home the one in the box only lifted to a high point an inch lower than the display model.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I decided to cancel OneDrive and run my own cloud storage, and I have almost 1TB of family photos and videos going back generations. I was utterly terrified that I’d do something and lose them.
What I did was just go overboard on backups. I back up to a backup drive on the server (which is in my house). I use borg backup for incremental backups so I can go back to previous versions if needed. I have daily for 2 works then monthly which go back years so I can go back to any of these times if needed.
Next I sync that borg repository to Backblaze using rclone. So now if my house burns down I don’t lose everything. Thats 3 copies (original + backup + cloud) on two mediums (hdd + object storage), with one offsite (cloud), so that’s the 3 2 1 backup strategy.
Ok but what happens if I accidentally delete it all. It’s within my capability. So I wanted to have an air gapped disk. But if someone finds it decades later, any ssd, hdd, or cd is gonna be degraded. So I burnt everything to M-Disc, which should last 100+ years.
What if the house burns down and I’m inside it, who is going to know how to decrypt a borg repository, or even how to download it from Backblaze? So I burned two copies of everything to M-Disc, all unencrypted, and store one copy at my mother’s house.
And for good measure, I also printed 100 photos from each year and put them in a big black storage container, so if none of that works there’s still a chance.
Every year I print another 100 photos and burn another M-Disc with changes (using rsync to identify the changes).
I’m very paranoid about losing these photos, because I have done it before.
- Comment on Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes? 1 month ago:
Or simply having bots copy top posts from a year earlier to get upvotes, like they did on Reddit.