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[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 49 minutes ago

If you're into that scene, there is room for real overlap between those phenomena. If you're not, it just sounds crazy. Both camps have there champions to spread the word.

Is Robert Bigelow doing real research, or just a fringe wacko? One's personal feeling about the answer to that question probably correlates with one's proclivity to give an article like this any real consideration.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

I thought it was because Comedy Central had a claimed trademark or something regarding the character he played, but it's been a while so I might be misremembering

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Zero times. Married 15 years now. Identifying and admitting to oneself that they are in a bad relationship can feel scary and overwhelming in the moment, been there too, but it's healthy to break things off with someone with whom you are incompatible.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Don't threaten me with an exciting time

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Tax dollars up in smoke

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fossil fuels are green fuels, war is peace...

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was thinking exactly the same thing

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago

I believe that is a crouching zebra. Do not approach it, it is preparing to attack.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ooo this is a good one to add to the mix (edit: that feels gross to post, but catchy names are helpful for spreading the word, I hope that makes some semblance of sense, I'm gonna go puke now ugh)

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So how is a psychedelic pulling this off? The secret could be serotonin receptors found throughout the body, not just in the brain. When activated, they seem to trigger a cascade of effects that reduce stress, preserve DNA, and promote long-term cell health.

They're talking about psilocin's activity at serotonin receptors, I'm pretty sure

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

He's the king, so that must be good, right?

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Step 1 to learning more about that subject involves travel and the juice is suddenly no longer worth the squeeze.

This position is wild to me. Kids go to school every day, where there is a library that has interlibrary loans as an option. The barrier you are suggesting is mostly imaginary. Libraries today offer ebooks, too, no travel required, and a higher barrier to entry (and thus, higher barrier to spreading misinformation), than the internet.

I'm honestly frustrated you would outright say I'm arguing in bad faith and I don't know where that accusation comes from. "Libraries are hard" is a really bad argument, you are pretending there is a larger barrier than there is and asserting it prohibits information transfer without any evidence to demonstrate it. You can ask the internet anything and have some search engine or LLM tell you why yoy are right, and that isn't exactly useful feedback.

Here's a bad faith argument: you seem to want the ease of asking a search bar for an answer without doing any of the work to understand the context of the response provided or its accuracy.

Here's a better faith one: people will use the tools available to them to the best they learn and feel inclined to do, and in both the past and the present paradigms, lots of people choose the lazy means of information consumption (what the paper/radio/TV says) than the more intellectually intensive (actual research or deferment to subject matter expert recommendation). Catering to that dynamic has been a net detriment to all society to the benefit of people selling impressions for the particularly "engaging" content being offered. I think we need to find a way to incentivize content creation and dispersion differently than what we're doing right now.

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I don't know what species this is, but I was lichen it when I saw it.

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Apologies if the photo quality is insufficient. In a particular bit of forest, I found an area with a large birch population that all seemed to be suffering from the same issue. Something is causing the leaves to first stripe green and yellow, then turn brown/black, and while there are new leaf buds forming, trees are seemingly losing the leaves faster than they can replace them. There are other areas with birch trees on the same forest that don't have this issue at all. In the affected area, some trees have only one or two leaves left with any green in them at all.

This is in New England, USA

 

Greetings. I'm using PiVPN right now. Works great for me, connecting via Wireguard clients and able to use both WAN and LAN. There is one client that I would like to allow to connect to my VPN and be able to use the WAN only, and this is where I'm running into some trouble finding a solution. I took a few swings at the problem by trying to narrow down the Allowed IPs in the wg config file but that not only didn't work but in hindsight it seems like an ineffective way to attack the problem to begin with.

Is there a way to set this up, either via something in the client config file or something else on the hosting side? I don't want to disallow all Wireguard clients from accessing the LAN+WAN. It's just one particular client that I want to allow access to only the WAN.

Thanks!

 

For people interested in learning Old English, Osweald Bera is an introductory book written by Colin Gorrie that, if I recall from his prior announcement about this, leans on a method called comprehensible input to teach the language. As far as I can tell from watching some of his youtube videos and reading his other online material, this looks like it could be useful for folks that are including "Learn Old English" as an item on their New Year's Resolution list.

The preorders were just announced. They are saying they intend to begin shipping the books themselves mid-November.

 

Trump was on Univision yesterday for a town hall, and during one exchange he made a huge deal about how great he was for farmers. Additionally, he's been talking about crazy tariffs again at recent events like the Economic Club of Chicago. With those things in mind, I thought it would be relevant to take a quick walk down memory lane. It's also worth noting, the article is pre-COVID - August 30, 2019. As many people with functioning memories will recall, things would not go on to get better from there.

 

Iran's alleged plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump and hack the Trump campaign amount to "an act of war," according to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

Just days after a would-be assassin's bullet grazed Trump's ear in July, the FBI announced that Iran had allegedly been separately plotting to kill the former president. Federal officials later revealed that Iran had hacked and stolen confidential information from the Trump campaign.

...

 

Paraphrasing his psychotic post that they are discussing in this article: "Bullets are flying, the war has begun, the Immigrant Problem must be brought to a final solution!"

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After seeing someone else posting their struggles with getting Docker running on their system, I thought I might share my process for setting up new Docker nodes. I don't make any representations about my way being the right way, or the best way, but this way has been working for me. I have been playing around with a swarm, but if you aren't setting up a swarm you can just omit the swarm commands and some of the firewall allows (keep what you need open, obviously, like 22 for SSH if you're using it). Similarly, if you aren't connecting to a NAS, you can leave out the part about mounting external storage.

# new Docker Swarm node setup from fresh Debian Netinst

# as root, all nodes
apt install sudo
usermod -aG sudo [user]
logout

# as [user], all nodes
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install fail2ban rkhunter ufw unattended-upgrades ca-certificates curl -y
sudo ufw allow 22 
sudo ufw allow 2377
sudo ufw allow 7946
sudo ufw allow 4789
sudo ufw enable
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin -y
sudo usermod -aG docker [user]

## Shared Storage Stuff, all nodes ##

nano ~/.smbcredentials
# paste the following:
#   username=[cluserUser]
#   password=[clusterPW]
#
# add mount point for shared storage
sudo nano /etc/fstab
# add the following to the bottom:
# /[NAS.IP.Address]/[ClusterStorageFolder]/ /home/[user]/share cifs credentials=/home/[user]/.smbcredentials 0 0

# on main node only
docker swarm init --advertise-address 
  #  copy the join command, we'll need it next

# on any additional nodes, paste the command copied above
docker swarm join [...all the rest of the command...]

# for each docker container, on any manager node
mkdir ~/share/[serviceName]  
cd ~/share/[serviceName]
  #  copy relevant compose.yml into the folder
  #  if necessary, also create any needed directories
docker compose up -d
docker compose down
docker stack deploy -c compose.yml
 

Just saw these new HoMe boxed sets are coming out, with the first set releasing in November

 

Credit: TimeMaps

As part of a personal educational journey, I've been exploring early human cultures. There are a lot of great websites I've encountered along the way, but this one had escaped my radar until yesterday.

I grabbed the map portion from a series of posts they had about early farming and strung them all together into a gif so I could visualize it better for myself, and it ended up looking pretty neat so it seemed crazy not to share it.

The green parts of each slide show you where the farming was happening at the time. The first slide represents 10000 BCE, and each slide after is dated 1000 years further ahead in time, all the way up to the last slide at 3000 BCE, as outlined by the TimeMaps folks.

 

Here's a fun, ten-minute video from PBS Digital Studios and hosted by Dr. Moiya McTier & Dr. Emily Zarka that discusses trees, especially World Trees (or Great Trees) as seen in so many mythologies, and their prevalence in ancient stories. From Baobab trees to Yggdrasil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txy-3IpFz8M

 

I'm currently reading the Third Edition of Rosenberg's World Mythology, which is what I referenced when writing the Enuma Elish summary before. For anyone wanting to read more of her work, the Second Edition of her book is available online free and has a ton of great content:

https://archive.org/details/worldmythologyan0000rose

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