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Ecksell , to showerthoughts in I wonder where police cars get their gasoline from?
@Ecksell@lemmy.one avatar

I’ve always seen cops filling up at gas stations. The Sheriff’s Patrol likes to pull in 3 deep to get gas and coffee. What are you on about?

tal ,
@tal@kbin.social avatar

Large cities might have dedicated fueling stations, but I doubt that smaller places do.

mojo , to showerthoughts in If I was Aquaman, I’d call my semen “Aquamayonaise”

this is so dumb it made me lol, but I wanted to join the downvote bandwagon, sry bro

loaf OP ,
@loaf@sh.itjust.works avatar

The downvote is warranted lol

HandsHurtLoL , to world in *How to Spot Misinformation And Propaganda

Possibly dumb question, but are you u/PoppinKream???

CantSt0pPoppin OP ,
@CantSt0pPoppin@lemmy.world avatar

Go fish! I’m CantStopPoppin here there and everywhere!

FartsWithAnAccent ,
@FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think this is PoppinKream

CantSt0pPoppin OP ,
@CantSt0pPoppin@lemmy.world avatar

Nope

LunchEnjoyer , to technology in 1Password vs BitWarden
@LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world avatar

Ive used both, Bitwarden feels more mature plus it’s open source. But 1Password is probably more user friendly for less tech savvy people.

schmurnan OP ,
@schmurnan@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks. I’m tech savvy so that’s not a problem. Just always used 1Password based on recommendations. More than happy to go open source, and 1Password 8 feels like a step backwards from 1Password 7.

i11 ,

I agree that 1password 8 is a step backwards when they switched to electron from native app on Mac. I’m still sticking on 1password 7 because of that.

LunchEnjoyer ,
@LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world avatar

I feel the same. I therefore use Bitwarden myself(not selfhosted as I don’t trust myself to host important things quite yet), and control 1Password for the rest of the fam.

sennmood ,

Just out of curiosity, why exactly is it a step back? I’ve heard this comment several times but, having only used 1Password 8 (which I quite like), I have nothing to compare it to.

schmurnan OP ,
@schmurnan@lemmy.world avatar

Because it’s now an Electron app on macOS and — in my personal view — Electron apps suck. Much prefer native apps.

Functionality-wise it’s the same, but just doesn’t feel as nice to use, if that makes sense.

sennmood ,

Fair enough, to each their own. I understand why electron apps might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I think some really do work very well (VSCode is the standout).

schmurnan OP ,
@schmurnan@lemmy.world avatar

Now you may have me there. Visual Studio Code is certainly an exception, I’d be willing to admit.

invisibit ,

Bitwarden’s desktop app is also electron, just a heads up

schmurnan OP ,
@schmurnan@lemmy.world avatar

Good to know, thanks!

asap ,
@asap@lemmy.world avatar

If it helps, I’ve been using Bitwarden since 2019 and never installed the desktop app. Can’t imagine what you’d need it for.

JackbyDev ,

What’s the problem with Electron apps?

schmurnan OP ,
@schmurnan@lemmy.world avatar

It’s personal preference of course. This article may explain it better than I ever could (might not be the best source, was just a quick DDG search).

JackbyDev ,

I’ve never understood those problems. I’m not saying they don’t exist, I haven’t investigated it or anything lol, but I don’t see why individual non-electron programs have less overhead than individual electron programs when the argument is that multiple would-be electron apps could share one browser instance because multiple non-electron apps also don’t share anything.

Also I don’t see how not using a chromium base would make programs better about having massive 1 GB directories of various temp files.

What am I missing? Because clearly those problems exist.

schmurnan OP ,
@schmurnan@lemmy.world avatar

I can’t say I fully understand the ins and outs of it because, like you, I’ve never looked into it in any great detail.

I’ve used VS Code for a while and I remember seeing a post on Reddit about how good it is “for an Electron app”, which raised my interest. I then saw more and more complaints about Electron apps, mainly around how they consume a lot of resource and ultimately crash peoples machines, resulting in data loss.

Don’t get me wrong, I see the benefits of Electron apps — they’re easy to deploy across multiple OSes which makes things a lot easier for developers. But I guess as a macOS user, I do love a native app for its look and feel and user experience. Not knocking that on all Electron apps, it’s just a preference.

PlexSheep , to linux in Are packages from flathub always safe?
@PlexSheep@feddit.de avatar

Nothing can ever be always secure.

iopq ,

Needlessly reductionist, but also wrong. If your code is proven to work (like, machine verified), and you use a compiler that is also verified to generate correct code, then that code is secure.

Coelacanth , to fediverse in Origins of the Name "Lemmy"
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

I think it’s also a happy accident that Lemmy sounds like “let me”, so you get community names like Lemmy Shitpost, or Lemmy Be Wholesome.

CommunityLinkFixer Bot ,

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !lemmyshitpost, !lemmybewholesome

thethirdobject ,

good bot

CrypticCoffee ,

Lemm ee c boobies perhaps?

DmMacniel ,

Becky, lemmy smash!

Prouvaire ,

That's how I read it too.

CombatWombatEsq , to fediverse in There needs to be a global login button for Mastodon/Lemmy

This was the great promise of the fediverse – that you would own your profile, and that you would have one profile across the entire fediverse, and that you could migrate that profile from instance to instance if you had disagreements with the admins of your instance – but it seems to have fallen by the wayside with real implementations, which is disappointing.

orientalsniper OP ,

Real baffled with the met resistance, this is a huge QoL that would provide ease of access for new users.

HeartyBeast ,
@HeartyBeast@kbin.social avatar

This was the great promise of the fediverse

Promised by who, when? Seriously - I don’t remember it being a part of the proposition

CombatWombatEsq ,
HeartyBeast ,
@HeartyBeast@kbin.social avatar

Perfect. Thank you for taking the time to dig this out for me

DmMacniel ,

If you want one profile across the entire fediverse, then host your own instance? Or link your accounts to one central website you own or to one profile you own, e.g. Mastodon or Matrix.

CombatWombatEsq ,

I don’t think “you can host your own instance” is a very realistic solution for the vast majority of social media users. “Just learn to be a sysadmin so you can post memes” is pretty user-hostile.

DmMacniel ,

Because it was certainly the only solution I proposed…

CombatWombatEsq ,

Fine, I’ll bite. Where’s the guide to linking my Lemmy account to my mastodon account so I can use a single sign-on for both. I can’t find one anywhere.

DmMacniel ,

That’s not what I said. I said you can put a link in your mastodon profile to your own mastodon, your own website and your lemmy account. It will then verify those against your mastodon account. No single sign on possible especially not across different applications (lemmy, kbin, mastodon)

CombatWombatEsq ,

Cool. So not only were you sassy, you were wrong. Tough look my guy.

oDDmON , to startrek in Reddit seems all doom and gloom on the topic but what about Lemmy? And the future of Star Trek?

The real problem, as I see it, is that P+ has gone out of their way not only to gather all that is Trek under their umbrella, but they’ve gone out of their way to ensure their walled garden is the only place it’s found.

Look to file sharing sites and USENET, where the DMCA has been wielded with gay abandon to decimate access to pirated content. It’s impossible to find full episodes on USENET any more and torrent sites likewise.

What brought ST back in the first place, was syndication. It was cheap enough, every podunk broadcast station could afford to air it, thus creating legions of new fans. This is the exact opposite of what’s happening today.

Sadly, if P+ loses enough to start cancelling production of new content, they’d still be sitting on all the copyrighted IP and something tells me they’d try to squeeze every farthing possible out it via licensing before letting another production company touch it.

At this point, I’m buying DVD box sets, ripping them to my raided NAS, reselling them and saying “Yuck fu!” to the controlling millionaires at Paramount.

norske ,

Uhhhhh. I don’t know what you are talking about with Usenet. There is no shortage of trek there lol.

Damage ,

neither on bittorrent

Dibbix ,

Even with just regular file sharing sites you can find anything very easily

jmp242 ,

Didn’t they remove Prodigy though?

GeekFTW ,
@GeekFTW@kbin.social avatar

It’s impossible to find full episodes on USENET any more and torrent sites likewise.

Ahem

Bull-mother-fucking-shit lol

kill_dash_nine ,

Sonarr is working great here :)

ISometimesAdmin ,
@ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone avatar

@oDDmON there's no way this isn't trolling... You're not going to have trouble finding star trek on bit torrent.

NuPNuA ,

I’ve managed to find all of SNW, Prodigy and Discovery as Torrents as far as I’m in the UK and refuse to pay for P+ when half the content is still on Netflix and Amazon.

count0 , to fediverse in Meta will kill small instances! Please read.
@count0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I guess this will already have been said, but nonetheless:

I like the feeling of community as it is right now in the Fediverse very much.

Most of me hopes that it will not successfully federate with Meta, ever; or if it “must”, in a way that will be mostly irrelevant to me (communities I wouldn’t subscribe to in the first place, anyway).

I don’t see how that, in turn, would give Meta any control over the parts of the Fediverse that I care about. If they want to join and contribute in good faith, fine. If not, also fine. Why should it change anything for Fediverse “centered” communities?

I never cared about size or majority, but about quality of content and discourse. And I find that in those points, the current Fediverse much outshines anything else I’ve seen (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, …) in the last decade or so.

Flemmy ,

I share your priorities, but I don’t think you understand the depth and breath of how they can ruin this for us… The only guarantee is that, at some point (maybe tomorrow, maybe in 5 years), they’ll ask “how can we extract value from this investment?”. That’s what a corporation is, it can’t help it anymore than fire can choose how hot to burn

But even before then, we have misaligned goals. At best, their priority is to generate an endless stream of advertiser friendly content, extract information about users, and grow endlessly. At worst, they want to use us to help kill Twitter while ensuring federation of individuals does not become a viable model for social media

astral_avocado ,
@astral_avocado@lemmynsfw.com avatar

That’s what a corporation is, it can’t help it anymore than fire can choose how hot to burn

This is an excellent line.

count0 ,
@count0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

How would they ensure this latter thing?

In my current understanding, it’s readily possible today (on Lemmy and related software), what could Meta do to keep this from continuing to work?

Flemmy ,

Convince the population at large it doesn’t work, or even that it’s dangerous.

Like community run utilities, universal healthcare, or any number of things that so obviously work better without a profit motive

Make the populace at large see the fediverse as a failed experiment, a hive of criminal activity, or a bunch of tiny toxic echo chambers

Hell, they could even push legislation that makes running social media out in the open impossible for individuals

count0 ,
@count0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

As for the first points, yes, that may happen, but is it a problem for users who already are part of a ‘better’ experience here than on the for-profit platforms?

I, for one, find much better discourse here than anywhere on reddit, let alone Meta or Twitter.

Also exemplified by me engaging much more here than ever on the others. I do prefer quality over quantity - everyone is invited to join the table, but I don’t see much benefit in luring people there who would ultimately only dilute or be disruptive - ie, not really into the thing that’s happening here.

For the last point, well, legislators can certainly try. While telling people it’s all for their benefit and upholding freedom and democracy and equal opportunity and whatnot. And even keep a straight face.

Flemmy ,

By convincing people at large that social media run by individuals or groups isn’t viable.

Personally, I’d do it by attacking the credibility of the admins. Sow doubt. “they only run servers so they can steal your data”, “look at this guy! He pretends he cares about free speech, but he’s abusing his power to censor and radicalize people!” “The only reason you’d use these private instances is if you have something to hide. That place is for criminals”

They might even be able to get legislation passed to make it legally risky to run the servers in the US if they control the narrative

Only early adopters, technical people, and the privacy minded care about how this actually works, and we’ve been telling our friends and family how bad Facebook is for years (for good reason). At first they didn’t care, but now I get push back

Next, make it unreliable. If it goes down frequently, gets flooded by bots, or just starts to suck in general, most of the people here now will leave, no matter how important federated social networks are. Maybe they’ll go to servers that bend over backwards to become offshoots of threads, maybe they’ll look for Reddit clones elsewhere, personally I’d start up a private federation for friends and family if this goes south

Regardless, this place will become an empty mall - if it’s not a healthy form of social media I’m not going to spend much time here, and I’m extremely passionate about it

And the last option is just ads and incentives. Make it tempting and play to fomo.

They’ll probably do all of this to some degree, especially if we explode in numbers and present actual competition.

We’re ready to handle it, but we also need to make sure the battle lines are as far away as possible

alertsleeper ,

That was my first thought too, until I found this:

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Blog post explainer

Wikipedia page

count0 ,
@count0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

From my (admittedly, deliberately naive and provocative) perspective, what is the (possible) “added value” of Threads’ ad-infested feed over the community experience straight on Lemmy?

visor841 , to showerthoughts in With how short streaming seasons are becoming, you will soon see series with 2 episode seasons. 60 minutes per episode.

The episodes have been getting longer as the seasons get shorter, tho. I think it’s much more likely we get something like 3 90-minute episodes per season (like Sherlock, which was mostly fantastic).

Silviecat44 ,

How about just one 90-120 minute episode? We might have to come up with a new name for them. /s

theneverfox , to fediverse in Viewing lemmy posts by all tends to be dominated by a few communities
@theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

I’m right there with you - I’m making an app called flemmy, and I have 12 more tasks on my list before I’m putting it on the play store - should be this weekend at the latest. Iphone build shouldn’t be that far behind. I can also make a desktop build if anyone wants it, but right now have no intentions to host a site myself - I strongly feel the data the app collects shouldn’t leave your device

Version 1 is about creating something close to the Reddit apps I used to use, and it’s there - just needs a little more polish (and to let you post… I’m more of a commenter, so I forgot that was a thing for an embarrassingly long time)

I can support all sorts of filters, from keywords to hiding specific posts to “snoozing” communities. I can also save your place when you change sort methods or accounts - it’s what I always wanted for Reddit.

Also, I have support for redirecting links - Twitter to nitter, YouTube to pipe, etc.

Version 2 is going to focus on your feed. Already I connect to multiple servers (it’s a real headache, but the foundation is there), so next is stitching feeds together and custom feed algorithms. What you mention is at the top of my list - a way to tweak the feed based on all sorts of filters.

Ideally, I want it to adapt to you - using upvotes and comments to tweak your feed. All on your phone - it’s amazing what you can do on a phone when you’re not interested in data collection

I just made !flemmy, I’ll post some screenshots when I need a longer break

bonnetbee ,

Awesome, that you develop tools for lemmy! Thank you.

A question: Did you consider to publish your app on the F-Droid-Store? I only use apps from there and the only usable app for lemmy is jerboa. An alternative to that would be awesome, as it has quite a lot of problems.

tjr , to selfhosted in Proxy to TCP port with real IP

You're best off using the PROXY protocol assuming your application(s) support it.

MeowdyPardner ,
@MeowdyPardner@kbin.social avatar

This is the solution. I reverse proxy from a digitalocean droplet running haproxy which sends traffic via send-proxy-v2, then I set the tunnel subnet as a trusted proxy ip range on traefik which is what haproxy hits through the tunnel, which causes traefik to substitute in the reverse proxied original ip so all my apps behind traefik see the correct public IP (very important for things like nextcloud brute force protection to work)

nickshanks OP ,

Would this work for my use case? I just want a service to be able to see the real source IPs but still going through a proxy

wgs ,
@wgs@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Depends on the service. What application are you running on the backend server ?

witten ,

But I imagine this only works if TLS is terminated at HAProxy rather than Traefik, right? Otherwise how can HAProxy mess with the HTTP headers?

PM_Your_Nudes_Please , to showerthoughts in I wonder where police cars get their gasoline from?

The city has a private fuel station (or if it’s a large city, they may even have multiple fuel stations,) which they use for their entire fleet of cars. Not just police, but also all the random Parks pickup trucks, Traffic trucks, forklifts, generators, etc…

Even a mid-sized city will have hundreds of vehicles, so it’s easier for them to simply deal with the fuel providers directly. Instead of having to deal with tax-exempt paperwork every time a car needs fuel, they simply buy the fuel in bulk and refuel at the private fuel depots.

When I go to fuel a city car, it has a fob that gets scanned at the pump. This tells it which car I’m filling. Then I have to input the mileage, so it knows how far the car has driven since the last fill. Then I have to scan my city ID, so it knows who is filling the pump. Then finally, it will calculate the amount of fuel needed to fill up and stop pumping automatically once it reaches that; The same way you can put $20 on a pump and it’ll stop, the pump goes “this car gets 32MPG and has driven [x] miles, so it needs [x/32] gallons of gas.”

This is mostly to prevent fuel theft, because I can’t simply fob into the pump then keep the pump active after the car is full. Like I can’t fill the car then also fill up a gas can, because the pump has already turned itself off once the car is full.

bane_killgrind ,

Really what you do is fill up the gas can first, and hope the next guy using the car deals with the consequences.

tal , (edited )
@tal@kbin.social avatar

If you're serious, I would assume that it's not that hard to red-flag cases where fuel mileage drops after you have used the vehicle, as well as before. After it's happened a couple of times, should be able to identify the cause.

danhasnolife ,

Fascinating. This is way more buttoned up and controlled than I thought it would be.

grk , to selfhosted in Welcome to [email protected] - What do you selfhost?

vSphere cluster on 3 HP Mini EliteDesks:


Standalone Lenovo TS140:

  • Veeam B&R for backing up vSphere hosts.Synology DS1821+:- 64TB Raw, 2TB NVMe Cache
  • All networking gear is Unifi. UDM Pro, USW Aggregation, USW Pro 48 PoE, U6 Pro, U6 In-Wall, 3 USW Flex Minis. 10G SFP+ connections between UDM Pro and switches.
Hexarei ,

Ok, you’ve got me curious - Why 3 different active directory domain controllers?

grk ,

Just for redundancy! One DC VM per physical vSphere host. Each DC also handles internal DNS records for my network.

gardner ,

64TB Raw, 2TB NVMe Cache

Respect! Nobody can accuse you of a half-assed effort.

MeTube

This looks great. I am going to spin up an instance.

ronflex ,

Very impressive. I gotta ask, how is this feasible cost-wise? Mostly as in licensing for vshpere. I know you can get pretty far in windows server with evaluation keys, butI run an ESXi server on eval mode cuz I’m cheap and have to reset the license every 90 days with some commands and reboot 😅

What is the scale of your network, like is this all just in your house?

blackstrat , to ukcasual in Complaints Thursday
@blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk avatar

Almost half day Friday. My back is still killing me and I hate it.

rubikcuber OP ,
@rubikcuber@feddit.uk avatar

Backs are the worst. When are humans going to evolve into jellyfish-like creatures? Next month hopefully.

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