mbirth

@mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google, Bing, and a plethora of others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else find that 4G+ on O2 is awful?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve started on EE PAYG at £15 per 30 days(!) (because I didn’t want to hold back with using data when out and about) and 2 months later got a call from them and they offered me a post-paid contract at a great price. I’m now paying £12.70 pcm for the same plus the benefits from being in a contract.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Singleboard Alpha: ESP32 powered full featured computer with a capacitive touch keyboard all on one PCB⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of the CardPuter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much, I think. I have it running on a Raspberry Pi 4 with docker-compose:

  version: '3'
  
  services:
    gotosocial:
      image: superseriousbusiness/gotosocial:latest
      restart: unless-stopped
      networks:
        - traefik-public
      environment:
        TZ: Europe/London
        GTS_HOST: xyz.example.com
        GTS_CONFIG_PATH: /gotosocial/storage/config.yaml
        GTS_DB_TYPE: sqlite
        GTS_DB_ADDRESS: /gotosocial/storage/sqlite.db
        GTS_LETSENCRYPT_ENABLED: "false"
        GTS_LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL_ADDRESS: ""
      volumes:
        - smb-gotosocial-data:/gotosocial/storage
      labels:
        traefik.enable: "true"
        traefik.http.routers.gotosocial.rule: Host(`xyz.example.com`)
        traefik.http.routers.gotosocial.entrypoints: websecure
        traefik.http.routers.gotosocial.tls: "true"
        traefik.http.routers.gotosocial.tls.certresolver: le
        traefik.http.services.gotosocial.loadbalancer.server.port: "8080"
  
  volumes:
    smb-gotosocial-data:
      driver_opts:
        type: "smb3"
        device: "//mynas/docker/gotosocial/data"
        # Use nobrl to mitigate SQLite3 byte range locking issue on CIFS/SMB mounts
        o: "rw,nobrl,vers=3.1.1,addr=172.16.254.1,username=xxx,password=xxx,cache=loose,iocharset=utf8,noperm,hard"
  
  networks:
    traefik-public:
      external: true
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is your entire argument about homeless people only about sticky puddles?

  It’s about incentivising bad habits, e.g. homeless people sifting through rubbish bins. People leaving empty bottles out in the street where they get blown around from the wind. Or arguments like “pensioners can just go and collect empty bottles if they want more money”.

  Because sorting like that is very inefficient, expensive, imperfect.

  The attitude of wanting to just throw everything in one pile and want someone else to deal with it, is so early 20th century.

  It’s 2024. Automatic trash sorting machines are a thing - and they have a very high efficiency of up to 99.99%. Making people pay an extra deposit for plastic bottles (even just simple water) and forcing them to keep the empty bottle full of air until it is returned to a machine where it is then shredded to pieces is so late 20th century. (On a sidenote: In Germany alone, the companies producing these bottles “earn” 180M Euros every year just from bottles that got lost/weren’t brought back to a machine - or not accepted (unreadable/missing label, deformed bottle, etc.).)

  I mean, nobody is stopping you from e.g. separating used teabags into organic materials, metal staple and paper label, if you are into these kind of things. But please don’t force other people to do the same.

  People like you are the reason deposits exist at all. If everyone could be trusted to their part there would be no need for a deposit.

  In the same way I could say that people like me are the reason rubbish sorting facilities exist and people there have jobs? If everyone could be trusted to their part, there would be no need for these jobs. ¯\(ツ)/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like anyone gets hurt by a homeless person that looks down a bin. Does it matter if someone empties a bottle on the pavement? It’s a few centilitres at max and it’s better than throwing the bottles in the bin.

  It’s sad that this is necessary and assumed “normal”. And I don’t know about you, but I don’t like to step into some sticky puddle of something the second I take my eyes off the pavement.

  Aren’t your machines printing out coupons with unique barcodes? If not, that’s incredibly stupid.

  They do! But in several shops the return machines were added without being connected to their payment system. Probably because of incompatibility. And people figured out how the barcodes are encoded.

  The point of the system is primarily to stop people from throwing the bottles and cans in the trash. So that’s where all the bottles are in London.

  The trash can be sorted. So why not make it a problem of the rubbish companies to properly sort the plastics and getting them recycled?

  I’m living in the UK for a year now and I totally love the fact that I can just buy a bottle to drink somewhere and once finished get rid of it without wasting 25p or carrying that empty bottle around all day. Or that I can squish bottles at home before they go into the recycling bin outside.

  As somebody that only shops for groceries every few weeks, I absolutely hated the several bags of empty plastic bottles we had to find room for, drive to the supermarket and then spend 20 minutes queuing for and feeding them one by one into the machine.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The deposit scheme in Germany is a huge cash cow as people pay for the deposit but then never return the container or the container gets destroyed, label comes off and gets rejected by the machine, etc.

  And as you said, people leave empty bottles around public bins for homeless people to collect. However, this slowly became an accepted method of “income” for them and you see them checking every rubbish bin for empty bottles. (If a bottle isn’t quite empty, they’ll empty it onto the pavement.) And there are even territorial fights.

  Also, lots of fraud with fake deposit coupons (you deposit the bottles in a machine, machine prints a coupon and you take that coupon to the till where you get your money - people now find someone with a label printer and print fake coupons to cash in).

  And I loathe having to carry an empty plastic bottle around all day when I’m not near any place to return it. You can’t even squish it as then the machine won’t accept it. Which also means you’re taking huge bags of air to the store every few weeks.

  I don’t see any issues with empty bottles and cans around London. Definitely not more than in Berlin. So I can only assume this scheme was proposed so that a few people can fill their pockets with the expected money. As always.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because everything bad that happens since Brexit definitely ALWAYS was caused by Brexit? Even when other European countries face similar challenges?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, e.g. here’s the list of current shortages for Germany:

  anwendungen.pharmnet-bund.de/…/meldungen.xhtml