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Zoldyck , to pics in South Korea sent a fully-kitted out player for the Olympic shooting. Turkey sent an 51 yr old guy with no specialized lenses, eye cover or ear protection and got the silver medal

Dude is based af

JackbyDev , to fediverse in UPDATE! Now 30% of Lemmy Apps display posts accurately

test ~test~

The above feels wrong but idk if Lemmy has a formal markdown spec. I haven’t had time to dig into it. This is what it looks like in Jerboa. If it wasn’t 6 AM I’d try to file a big report.

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/56cf2f34-12c1-4aff-8901-e150e9ec7d72.png

ArbitraryValue , to pics in South Korea sent a fully-kitted out player for the Olympic shooting. Turkey sent an 51 yr old guy with no specialized lenses, eye cover or ear protection and got the silver medal

I wonder if he would have done better with the equipment. I suppose he couldn’t just put it on if he didn’t train with it, but what if he had trained with it?

unreachable ,
@unreachable@lemmy.world avatar

yes

Scipitie ,

In case you don’t actively check back in the thread: there’s a white in depth answer now what gear the is and why the person answering “yes” is very likely wrong.

Worth a read!

rustyfish , to pics in South Korea sent a fully-kitted out player for the Olympic shooting. Turkey sent an 51 yr old guy with no specialized lenses, eye cover or ear protection and got the silver medal
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

Dude looks like some random Joe walking into the stadium and taking some shots before wandering off to the next pub. I love it.

Spacehooks ,

Went to pub after with his silver.

shiroininja , to patientgamers in What have you been playing this week?

I’ve been playing Forza horizon 4, Euro Truck Sim 2, and ESO. And a little Switch emulation.

IsoKiero , to selfhosted in [Question] Translating public DNS to internal DNS without revealing the internal DNS

That’s not how DNS works. If you publicly query tfk.example.com it’ll reply with a records associated to that entry and that’s it. The client then attempts to connect to those IP addresses and no further DNS queries are made (assuming there’s no CNAME records). If you want to use DNS for that then you’ll need to add entries directly to tfk.example.com which point to your internal addresses.

So, you need to change tfk.example.com records whenever IP addresses change, most likely via some kind of API to automate things, assuming you don’t directly control name servers for tfk.example.com by yourself.

But, as you’re running a proxy anyways it doesn’t reveal internal addresses and the client needs only public addresses to connect into. I haven’t heard about traefik before, so I don’t have a clue on how it works, but ‘traditional’ proxies effectively hide everything on the ‘LAN’ side. (Yes, I know, it’s not necessarily/strictly speaking LAN).

freddo OP ,
@freddo@feddit.nu avatar

I’m aware that this isn’t how DNS works, but I’d imagine it is possible to have a DNS server that when it receives a query from the internet looks at the requested domain and translates it to an internal domain and in turn query that one, returning the result without revealing the internal domain. Something like a ALIAS virtual record provided by some services (but wont work against a internal DNS).

As for Traefik acting as a reverse proxy for internal network addresses, yeah that’s the way it works. However in this case I have several instances of Traefik running on a subset of IP-addresses on a public subnet. So essentially we want to loadbalance several Traefik loadbalancers using DNS.

IsoKiero ,

Apparently you can kind-of rewrite queries on the fly with PowerDNS scripting and answer accordingly. So maybe that’s what you’re looking for.

aniki , to world in Media Bias Fact Check - Automation

So is it time for a new news community then if the admins don’t want to listen?

Rooki OP ,
@Rooki@lemmy.world avatar

You can even be better than that! You can make a community that fact check news article / news pages. Then we can add the threads from that community to the bot and have there news page specific discussion.

bjoern_tantau , to linux in Recommendations for Remote Desktop App
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

I’ve come to prefer Sunshine as the server and Moonlight as the client. It’s meant to be for gaming but that also means that quality and latency are through the roof and wastly superior to all other similar offerings.

MalReynolds ,
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net avatar

Agreed, if the bandwidth is better than bad it’s way better, also, Wayland support.

ChickenLadyLovesLife , to science_memes in Horseshoe Crab Tags

Keep your eyes peeled

Fun horseshoe crab fact: horseshoe crabs have like five different types of eyes. Even that tail is basically one big eye, covered in photoreceptive cells. Those fuckers are really good at crawling around in the mud.

aniki , to world in Media Bias Fact Check - Automation

If the bot doesn’t go away, I’ll write one that counter spams with how much of a piece of shit MBCF website is. The difference is that I will run it off my own instance where you’ll have to defederate to get me to stop. And even then, a simple hostname change and a re-spin of the docker composer will create me a brand new instance. ActivityPub has no defense against this, and as far as I know nothing in the pipeline to combat bad instance admins.

So challenge accepted, I guess…

sandbox ,

I’d be happy to contribute to this project, set up an open source repo somewhere and let’s get cracking.

aniki ,

I’ll get started sometime this weekend. Are you familiar with pytorhead? Its the library db0 started for the Lemmy api.

sandbox ,

I’m not - I’m a professional software dev though I mainly work with C# - but I’m sure I can pick it up - DM me with something you want me to put together and I can take a look

aniki ,

I’ve already got one bot under my belt so I’ll get the bones working and link you the repo. Python is cake compared to C

sandbox ,

Yeah I’ve used python before a good number of times - actually I taught basic python to some school kids back in the day, though I’m definitely gonna be a bit rusty. But yep, sounds good!

wanderingmagus ,

Sounds like you’re violating Rule 6, and also making terroristic threats.

aniki ,

Mommy know you’re on the internet?

wanderingmagus ,

Shipmate, why don’t you come on down to King’s Bay and find out?

smeg , to casualuk in As an ex Redditor..

If you haven’t done so already, have a 2 minute read up on how federation and the fediverse works. It sounds a bit complex to start with but it’s basically just a bunch of servers that all talk to each other (like how if you’re on gmail you can send an email to someone on outlook even though it’s a different server).

As for feddit.uk, I think it’s generally got a pretty good Casual UK sort of feel. You’ll find that some instances take things very seriously or have power-tripping mods, this one seems to generally be pretty chill!

The main different compared to reddit is that it’s much smaller here. Don’t expect an active community for every niche interest, and don’t expect thousands of new posts every day. Due to how federation works you might need to use external tools to find stuff, for instance lemmyverse search to find few communities.

Ultimately it is what you make of it. Find the stuff you like, ignore the stuff you don’t, and post the stuff you want to see more of!

TheImpressiveX , to lemmyshitpost in "they say this house is haunted. I've been living here for the past 430 years and haven't seen a ghost yet"
@TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml avatar

So you think I have a gambling problem?

I’ll bet you $100 that I don’t!

NightShot , to pics in Olympic gymnast Giorgia Villa is sponsored by parmesan and takes many photos with a wheel of cheese

Hope she gets one of those cheese wheels dropped on her head. Go Vegan !

iamericandre ,

Those things are 90 pounds, so you want this woman to be killed for posing with cheese? Get help

Ookami38 ,

Well yeah. She’s daring to consume something from an animal. That’s definitely one of the worst things a human can do. /s

FlyingSquid ,
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When your stance is more extreme than PETA’s, there may be an issue.

Maalus ,

Just for you, I’m grilling tonight

NightShot ,

TLDR: Cheese wheel good… vegaaan baad ! OOH AAHH MUST BURN INOCENT ANIMAL ON FIRE !

Go fuck yourself.

Maalus ,

Those innocent animals were burned because of your actions.

NightShot ,

How suprising, moron says dumb thing and then does dumb things. Oga-boga shit for brains ;-)

Welt ,

And you lack the self-awareness to understand why so many think “vegan bad”. You’re a naive and petulant child.

NightShot ,

Nah, you think theres a relation between being in a majority and being right. And Im telling you your not right and I dont accept your stupid excuses.

There is no excuse for 77 billion deaths every year.

Nazis where in majority during the 30s, these days we look back at it diffrently. Enjoy moron :-)

OfficerBribe , to pics in South Korea sent a fully-kitted out player for the Olympic shooting. Turkey sent an 51 yr old guy with no specialized lenses, eye cover or ear protection and got the silver medal

His name is Yusuf Dikeç

eee , (edited ) to pics in South Korea sent a fully-kitted out player for the Olympic shooting. Turkey sent an 51 yr old guy with no specialized lenses, eye cover or ear protection and got the silver medal

This meme is funny but they are pretty similar. The only “gear” Yejin is wearing is the shooting glasses, which is basically a prescription lens (no magnification is allowed - these lens make things look less blurry, but can’t make them look bigger) on a frame that allows more adjustment than normal eyeglasses, with a piece of plastic instead of lens over the other eye. You can achieve something very similar by taping a piece of paper to the left lens of your own glasses.

The advantage shooting glasses provide is the ability to move the lens up/down/sideways. Depending on your specific shooting stance, if your head is tilted too much, normal eyeglasses may not provide the best field of view if you’re only looking through one side of it. In those cases, you buy a pair of shooting glasses and move the lens. If you look at Yejin’s shooting stance, her arm is almost parallel with her body, whereas Dikec’s arm is slightly angled forwards (not much, maybe 10 degrees?). This means Dikec can see more out of his regular eyeglasses than Yejin can in their respective shooting stances, which is probably why Dikec didn’t need shooting glasses.

Besides ear protection (which Dikec is actually wearing - if you watch videos of the match he has bright yellow earplugs in), no other gear is allowed in this event - shoes cannot go above the ankle, clothing cannot restrict movement. Most people wear some sort of flat-soled shoes, whatever clothing you wear literally doesn’t matter except to keep you warm/cool. This is in contrast to air rifle, where stiff clothing is allowed - competitors basically wear what looks like clunky armor (upload.wikimedia.org/…/Air-rifle-shooting.jpg), it’s hard to bend your knees in them and nearly impossible to squat. I used to train with those guys, I’d take the piss out of them by pretending to be nice and offering them some water, then putting it on the floor in front of them.

And before anyone mentions it, putting their hand in the pocket is the standard stance for air pistol shooting. Only one hand is allowed on the gun. And in a sport where your breathing and heart rate interferes with your accuracy, having one hand free means it might move around and cause micro movements to your body, so everyone puts their other hand in their jacket/pants pocket, or tucks the thumb in their waistband.

It does look badass though.

Source: I used to compete in ISSF 10m and 25m air pistol events like these (this is 10m)

FINAL EDIT: I just wanted to end by saying that Dikec (the Turkish guy) may look cool and casual, and I enjoy all the “retired hitman rolls out of bed casually” memes just as much as everyone, but don’t let that diminish the decades of training and dedication he’s put into the sport. Dude has been competing for more than 20 years and first set a world record in a different shooting event in 2006. Shooting is one sport where age isn’t a big disadvantage.

Blaze OP ,

Interesting!

givesomefucks ,

Oh yeah, just act like the stuffed elephant tied to her finger isn’t an advantage…

/s

Madison420 ,

Illegal counterbalance.

givesomefucks ,

I did look at the picture again, and those glasses seem a lot more custom then that guy explained.

Like, in something where eye sight is so important, corrective lens/surgery/contacts/whatever does seem like a super grey area.

Like, they could “dial it in” so her vision is perfect for the set range. And having adjustments be possible on the fly makes it seem that’s what they’re doing. 20/20 isn’t “perfect” it’s average. I got LASIK and right after mine was like 20/15 from being 20/200 or something ridiculous. How do you prove corrective lenses only bring them up to average eyesight? And it’s safe to assume people without them are better than 20/20, so should they be allowed to go as high as them?

And honestly, that elephant was just a joke the first time I saw it, but it’s tied tight around her finger.

That makes pulse a lot more noticeable, and controlling heart rate and breathing is also important here.

So like, she’s not cheating, she’s just going up exactly to the line. Which is why it makes the old dude more impressive

eee , (edited )

Eyesight is not the issue here - this isn’t an eye test. At 10m the target looks like a small circle, there isn’t any further detail to see. Air pistols can only have iron sights, so there are three things to look at while shooting: the rear sight, the front sight, and the target. If you’re focusing on the right thing (your sights), the target will be slightly out of focus anyway.

So yes, anyone with perfect eyesight can get lenses made, but it doesn’t help much. Back when I was shooting, the best guy on my team had like +0.75 in his shooting eye but he didn’t bother wearing corrective lens while shooting. That said, I was a teenager so standards were different - maybe you do need perfect eyesight to compete at an Olympics level. But everyone can buy shooting glasses with corrective lens anyway.

The glasses are custom in the sense that nobody wears them outside of shooting because you look like a dork in them, but they can be bought off the shelf - this is the first result I found on Google, there are tons more:

buinger.com/Shooting-Glasses

The elephant… I’ve never seen it before, it’s probably light enough that it doesn’t work as a counterweight. But you don’t need that to judge your own heart rate. When your gun is lifted you can feel your own heartrate.

As for cheating… The real cheating occurs with stuff like heart medication to make your heartbeat slower, and beta blockers to reduce anxiety. A lot of shooting is a mental game. At a high enough level, nearly every shot needs to be a bullseye, so it’s about maintaining that consistent standard and not letting the occasional 9/10 shot creep into your head and affect the rest of your shots.

givesomefucks ,

Air pistols can only have iron sights

Gee, maybe that’s why she’s wearing those crazy glasses in the picture…

stephen01king ,

It’s already been explained that the glasses cannot have magnification, so what advantage do you think they offer when looking through iron sights?

givesomefucks ,

And also that theyre prescription…

And 20/20 isn’t “perfect” vision, it’s perfectly average.

So someone can get glasses to improve their vision (especially at a certain distance) to better than 20/20 and have an advantage.

While still not having magnification.

Do you think glasses that help you see further are working via magnification?

eee ,

The point is that there’s nothing further to see beyond a tiny solid black dot.

givesomefucks ,

You really don’t see how vision is important in marksmanship?

stephen01king ,

You really don’t see how improving your vision doesn’t make the target look bigger to you?

eee ,

I know what you said intuitively sounds like it makes sense, but I’d encourage you to try a shooting sport in person if you’re really interested in the subject.

givesomefucks ,

I’m one generation away from subsistence hunting…

I had “my own” shotgun before I was born…

I know about guns bruh. Having better vision is an advantage in shooting.

It’s not rocket appliance

eee ,

Hunting and precision shooting is different. Not to mention air powered guns are very different from gunpowder based firearms.

Look, I’m not the right person you should be arguing this with - there isn’t anything else I can say to convince you, except to say that the international world of shooting has accepted that corrective glasses don’t confer an unfair advantage in competition. If you’re really interested, find your local gun club, see if they have any air pistol events, try it out, ask the club director about the rules.

stephen01king ,

Nobody said anything about 20/20 vision.

Improving your vision means being able to differentiate details better. Magnification means that you can make something look bigger.

Having a prescription glasses that adds detail but not magnification means that the small target will still look just as small to you as it would to a person with perfectly healthy vision. How do you think this gives them an advantage over someone with normal vision?

atzanteol ,

If you’re focusing on the right thing (your sights), the target will be slightly out of focus anyway.

One description I found said that the lens part of her glasses contains an adjustable “iris that can be adjusted to change the perceived depth of field” - which sounds to me like an adjustable aperture in photography. With a smaller aperture (larger f-number in photography) I believe she would potentially be able to have both the sights and the target in focus? Otherwise I’m not sure what the point would be.

Edit; Oh - and the elephant is her daughter’s. :-)

LH0ezVT ,

As someone else already said, you don’t see the target anyway. You focus on your sights, not the target, because unlike stuff like hunting, it’s much more important to line up the shot perfectly than keeping track of what you shoot at (the discs tend to not run away). And at 10m, the palm-sized target is just a black circle.

Iirc most people aim below the target on purpose (and adjust the sights) anyway. That stuff confuses the hell out of me when I pick up someone else’s gun. Is it set to aim dead center? Is it set to aim just below? Is it set to aim at 4.20 mm to 69° down to compensate for that dude’s preference? Who knows!

atzanteol ,

Yeah - I read the other comments thanks - it would be helpful if you read mine.

So you don’t look at the target at all? Like you’re only looking at the sights and hope there is a target downrange somewhere? No - right? Because “most people aim below the target” right? And near-sighted people wouldn’t need glasses at all if they “didn’t look at the target”. I don’t doubt that the focus is on the sights, but the sights are pointing at something… right?

So what I’m wondering is - what is the point of an adjustable aperture on her lens then? I was speculating that it’s because it would keep the tiny distant target in focus while she also lines up the sights. Or maybe it helps keep the near and far posts of the sights in focus at the same time? Human vision can have a pretty narrow depth of field.

atzanteol ,

And in fact it seems that my speculation may be correct: pyramydair.com/…/10-meter-pistol-shooting-part-4/

“Because the light is reduced, the shooter’s eye acts like a camera lens and adjusts the depth of field (range of distances at which objects appear in focus) to the maximum. That’s what keeps both the sight picture and the bullseye in sharp focus, but the shooter wants the front sight to be in the sharpest focus, because it’s what he focuses on.”

So you get a sharper target while focusing on the very close (by comparison) sight.

BottleOfAlkahest ,

I have had some involvement in very similar rifle shooting and there is obviously crossovers with pistol shooting. Honestly the fact that you consider those glasses a “gray area” of cheating made me snort laugh. No one in that sport would consider that even close to cheating. Full stop. I’m not trying to be rude but you clearly know nothing about this sport. Those glasses are ubiquitous in many types of competitive shooting at this level especially air pistol/rifle.

In fact if you think this is cheating you need to see what rifle shooters wear because those rules allow way more gear (including your “grey area” glasses).

Also you don’t need something tied to your finger to feel your heart rate…You can clearly see your heart rate in your sights (yes, even irons).It could be a counter balance if it was measured perfectly but that’s risky because if her stance changed at all it could pull her off. I’m honestly surprised her coaches let her risk having that thing at all. It looks like a liability to me.

Edit: I just went back and looked a d there’s no way that things a counter weight. It would need to be close to the weight of that pistol to be helpful. Air pistols are light but they aren’t “stuffy” light.

atzanteol ,

Apparently it’s her daughter’s elephant.

Treczoks ,

(no magnification is allowed)

What would a person do who needs prescription glasses? Put me there with ±0 glasses, and I’d be just a threat to the environment, because I had a hard time to know where I’m roughly pointing that thing…

5opn0o30 ,

Lose.

eee , (edited )

Prescription glasses are allowed - both competitors are wearing them. Those lens can correct for short sightedness, astigmatism etc, but they’re the exact same lens you find in eyeglasses. I used to wear these - I bought the shooting glasses off the shelf (or rather our club got them in bulk for us), then to get the lens made, I went to the exact same optical store where I got my prescription glasses made and basically told them to just order one lens for my right eye.

What I meant by magnification was, you can’t put optics on it so it works like a 2x scope. So the lens can make stuff look less blurry but not make it look bigger.

sem ,

If they don’t magnify why do they make people’s eyes look bigger

Tarquinn2049 , (edited )

Well, then I guess they wouldn’t be allowed to wear them backwards.

Glasses actually make everything we see smaller, though the effect is lessened the closer the glasses are to the correct distance from our eyes. And the reason glasses change the perceived size of the wearers’ eyes is because they specifically are bending light to change how it hits our eyes.

If the glasses are for someone who is farsighted, they make their eyes look bigger, if they are to correct nearsightedness, they make the eyes look smaller.

And actually, despite what I say in my first sentence, they don’t even make stuff bigger when you wear them backwards. That effect is limited to the distance eyes are away from the lenses normally, beyond that things are actually still smaller even when looking through them backwards. How much smaller depends on how far they are from your eye.

Empricorn ,

Eyeglasses vs binoculars.

Eyeglasses unblur the world to those who need them, but there’s no magnification.

Look through binoculars and things look a lot closer because of the magnification. But you can also make it look blurry if you turn the adjustment the wrong way.

littlewonder ,

Those air rifle outfits look like bad anime cosplay.

BossDj ,

Thanks for posting this. He looks bad ass and she looks bad ass.

Fuck anyone comparing the two for whatever reason, especially if you actually watch and notice the majority of competitors are wearing the shooting glasses, which is why the guy is unique. Even his teammate (he won a team medal) is wearing special gear. And he’s been doing this for decades!! He was at 2008 Olympics

Ugh. All I see is misogyny in this.

napoleonsdumbcousin ,

The korean shooter Yeji Kim became a (positive) meme first for her cyberpunk aesthetics, which many people found cool. Shortly after the turkish shooter Yusuf Dikeç also became a meme for his own, very different aesthetic.

Also there is a bunch of other memes in circulation that compare the turkish shooter with various other people, e.g. i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/…/0f7.png

Just because you are comparing a woman and a man does not make it misogyny. This is basically just a crossover of two recent memes.

BossDj ,

I’m not the one making the comparison. This post is… It names her in the description. I’m not talking about other posts. I’m talking about this one.

I’m saying the post could have been “this bad ass from Turkey came with no specialized gear and took home silver!” Or even “vs All the other teams decked out in gear!” Not singling out “South Korea sent this knitted out player” when she was wearing what the vast majority were.

She and her partner also won gold and silver. There was a more positive way to make them both sound awesome, not making him sound like he’s better than her by comparison because he does it without gear

napoleonsdumbcousin ,

I talked about the other posts to provide context. These are not unknown people and she is not the only one who gets compared to the turkish shooter.

The poster likely chose the korean shooter as counterpart, because she already garnered attention beforehand for her aesthetic. She is already relatively famous, so I don’t think it is surprising if somebody chose (and named) her over other, less known athletes. The poster also described her as “record-breaking” in the description, so I do not think it was the intention to make her look bad.

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