ShellMonkey
@ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com
Someone with too much time and server space who decided to host a couple things because reasons.
- Comment on 2025, still no flying cars! 2 weeks ago:
You ever heard the noise a small personal drone makes? Multiply that a few times over flying over your house routinely. That surely wouldn’t get annoying.
- Comment on FediMeteo - The Weather Forecasts comes to the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
Why tho?
What’s the use case for a ActPub based weather info service that wouldn’t be adequately addressed by a basic API on an existing service?
- Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity 3 weeks ago:
A reliable source on TV told me you can’t go wrong with
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 3 weeks ago:
For me a lot of it is in trying to maximize efficiencies. Setting up task duties and resources where you have plenty enough but not overloading your storage. Defensive position designs to counter any possible situation. Layouts to the base to allow free movement.
Lot of others try for specific artistic ideas or scenario goals, but I’m something of engineer minded player.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 3 weeks ago:
Rimworld, way too much Rimworld. A big part of it is that I’ll often have it one a second computer during the workday just on pause to pop in during downtime but I guess that still counts as playtime just being loaded.
- Comment on Time is an unstoppable force 4 weeks ago:
I mean it’s technically not wrong. I’m 46 was born in 98, also in 88, and 78 as well.
- Comment on Roskomnadzor sent an abuse report to Hetzner regarding @Bellingcat account on mstdn.social fedi instance 4 weeks ago:
Pretty simple simple ‘castle & moat’ setup. Lots of firewall, IPS, dynamic threat, etc around it with separate subnets and all the usual biz. My ISP doesn’t use CGNAT so I’m lucky that way, though they did question WTF I was doing last I made a service call to them based on the bandwidth usage.
- Comment on Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"? 4 weeks ago:
That’s a big part of the appeal of the fediverse for me. Setting up a personal site used to be fairly easy, but was largely isolated and unidirectional. With the AP protocol, and frankly a lot of self-hostable apps in general these days, you can make something to converse with the whole globe and you don’t even need to make a big effort to help people find it.
Webrings still exist, but finding them is less than trivial when they get drowned out by the noise of corporate sites. I’ve used IRC within the last year, but had to look up the proper use of nicserve commands. The old web mentality is still out there, but for the major part people want simplicity. Few want to go through the learning curve to deal with some of the more esoteric parts of it when they can just auth into a site and do a thing.
- Comment on Roskomnadzor sent an abuse report to Hetzner regarding @Bellingcat account on mstdn.social fedi instance 5 weeks ago:
I tend to find the R820 behind me to be a pretty reliable host so long as you don’t mind footing the power bill to run it.
- Comment on This spoon. 1 month ago:
Don’t know about them, I had The Matrix come to mind though.
- Comment on This spoon. 1 month ago:
Pretty sure that’s the type you’re supposed to be able to shape and bend with your mind
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 1 month ago:
Was put to me at a young age that non-profit only means they spend any revenue they get before it gets to the bottom line to show up as a gain or loss. Always good to sort out the shady from the legit.
- Comment on Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit 1 month ago:
So is sounds like effectively his donation was supposed to force them to stay open and develop tech on the cheap that he could then take to use in his commercial systems.
- Comment on Tech companies put on notice as Australia passes world-first social media ban for under-16s | CNN 1 month ago:
But didn’t they already have a popup window asking if they’re old enough? That should have fixed it already.
- Comment on Fashion is cyclical 1 month ago:
Sometimes it’s ok to just have some curious/silly news without it being used as an opportunity to remind people how terrible they are…
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 1 month ago:
I didn’t mean that you where, but if the Latino population shifted their votes more R this year it seems an odd explanation that they where offended by the democrats shifting right on policies. If that was the case then why would they go in with people who are even more to the right?
I think this whole question needs another field to it for the turnout difference. It may be (not to keep picking on Latinos but) they made up 5% in 2020 and 6% in 2024, but is that of all eligible voters, or of those that actually showed up? If 1/2 showed up last time and 1/3 did this time, but the ones who showed up where the more conservative portion then it would look like they ‘shifted’ right, but it wouldn’t be real.
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 1 month ago:
So the solution to not liking the democrat shift right is to join in with the side off the scale right? I’m not following the logic there…
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 1 month ago:
Do some rough math say there are 200,000,000 total eligible voters.
2024 would have 12,000,000 male Latino voters 2020 would have 10,000,000 based on the 3rd column
Even if 100% went left to right at most you have a 12M shift.
That shift though in absolute numbers was far less than that though based on the R/D split, so not a tremendous impact over all.
There was just a lot less people showing up over all for any reason.
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 1 month ago:
Need some titles on those columns. I’m guessing red/blue are the usual party colors, but what is the 3rd?
The biggest factor really is disengagement. There where millions who where involved in 2020 that just skipped out this time.
- Comment on Traffic on Bluesky, an X competitor, is up 500% since the election. How will it handle the surge? 1 month ago:
They did make a brief mention of Mastodon, but like a lot of places made it sound a lot more confusing than it is.
Are there any well maintained indexes out there where you could put in a few check boxes of interests and it spits out an instance to join in fedi space yet?
- Comment on Anon preps for a hurricane 1 month ago:
Professional boxing keeps a running tally of wins via KO, if death by punch was that common I suspect it would be banned as a sport by now.
- Comment on Anon gets a blood transfusion 2 months ago:
Huh, small rabbit hole there, wasn’t aware there was a special baby blood type. So basically someone who has the luck to have dodged what sounds like a super common virus all their life gets to have special uses for their donations.
- Comment on Stars 2 months ago:
Well these guys from Super Mario Galaxy would probably look pretty round from the side I guess.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 2 months ago:
Here’s another part of the equation, the owner gets enough of a share of the business profit where they can buy a new house, expand to multiple locations, buy new cars, etc.
The extra couple bucks an hour per employee is a tiny drop in the cost pool per business operational hour compared to that. They could perfectly well keep prices the same without paying sub-minimum wages by taking a smaller cut themselves.
- Comment on Tiny pp 2 months ago:
Gives new meaning to ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’.
- Comment on Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You 2 months ago:
They claim $100 B in ‘losses’ to this kind of game. Unless they’re actually running red on their books what they really mean is ‘we think we should make at least $100 B more per year’.
I’m sure that the vast majority of that would go directly to the front of house employees they’re pinning this too
- Comment on anon working as behaviour interventionist 2 months ago:
Hey look, another person who’s bitter with everything around them and feels the need to attempt to shame everyone they see.
- Comment on Anon gives up dating apps 2 months ago:
Probably one of the most socially friendly places I recall in recent years was a CrossFit gym. I know people shit in them as being full of cultish twats, and to some extent I won’t argue that, but compared to a standard gym there’s quite a ‘us’ rather than ‘me’ vibe to it. Find those kind of places where people look to support and improve each other rather than show off what they know or can do.
Though I’m about the least socially apt person around one thing that really has stuck out to me, don’t go there with a goal other than to do the thing. If you go with the goal of a date you’re gonna be disappointed, go with the intent of doing what you like instead.
- Comment on Humane slashes the price of its AI Pin after weak sales 2 months ago:
So pretty much one of those smart speaker things with a pin on it, for hundreds of $$$ and a subscription to boot? What a great idea…
- Comment on Humane slashes the price of its AI Pin after weak sales 2 months ago:
I’ve never heard of this thing, is it supposed to do what the analyze this picture or ID the song playing features of my phone already could do, or is there something novel I’m missing?
