piezoelectron

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[–] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

You nailed it, this was the one!! Thanks so much!

[–] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey, what's your budget? You could go far with a second-hand NUC (next unit of computing), I'm sure you can get one for under $100 and you could do more than just nextcloud with it (peertube, VPN, chat etc).

 

Cross-posting for visibility, any help scratching this itch greatly appreciated.

 

I'm desperately trying to find a recent dramatic happening in the open source world in which the admin for the most popular website to download a specific package turned the homepage into a slew of antivax/COVID denial messages, to the anger of the community.

I've tried searching but to no avail. It happened just a few months ago. IIRC, it was a specific, very popular open source package. Also, this wasn't the official website, just the most popular mirror for downloading the package.

Any help in tracking down this drama appreciated. Please do cross post to other relevant communities if you're feeling particularly helpful.

[–] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Alleged murderer

[–] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Security is fundamentally subjective because whatever objective calculus you use will always depend on the threat model at hand, and everyone's threat model is different, i.e. subjective. I've personally lost a physical credit card but never had my card details stolen in 10+ years of using payment apps.

[–] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago (19 children)

This is the most unhelpful kind of comment where you basically shame someone for having preferences. Why people feel the need to make their callousness public instead of just shutting up, I never know.

 

I'm going to be camping for 4 days at a location without easy access to fire (hence no boiled water). As such, I'm going to be packing a bunch of canned stuff for my daily meals. The place is in England, where we're expecting a few hot days this week and maybe some rain over the weekend.

However, I have some free time before the trip to cook food. But I'm not sure if there's any good foods I could bring along that could keep for 3-4 days without a fridge. I guess that crosses out most meat dishes.

Some ideas I had were: falafel, fritters, bread, calzones, pasties. Have you tried taking such foods camping and if so, did they last a few days without spoiling? Are there any other foods you'd recommend? Thank you so much!

[–] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This is effectively saying, "This article is correct but for the wrong reasons". People aren't angry about why hundreds of migrants dying isn't newsworthy. They're angry that it's not newsworthy.

I'm frankly surprised that not enough people find it disgusting that the EU passively killing hundreds of refugees is less interesting because the EU does so regularly.

[–] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I should emphasize that a lot of pro-Western outlets and commentators have recently weaponised the term to discredit any diverging points of view re-the Ukraine War. So someone like Cornel West would be a "tankie" by this point of view, which is actually kind of disgusting in how dishonest it is.

 

I'm trying to set up a Linux laptop for a friend who lives in another city. They have only ever used Windows, and likely won't have easy access to fix issues (not that I'm an expert).

First off, is it a good idea to give them a Linux PC at all? Have others had good/bad experiences giving technophobes Linux?

Secondly, if I go ahead with it, what's a good, stable, "safe" OS for a beginner? I'm shy of anything that's a rolling release (e.g. Arch, Manjaro etc) as "bleeding edge" can break things more often than not. I'm leaning towards Debian or something Debian based. But I've also heard good things about Fedora.

If I was the one using the PC, I'd have installed Fedora, as I've heard it's well-maintained. Then again there's been some good buzz about Debian 12. What would your advice be? Thanks!

[–] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If they're actually going for accuracy, they should make the US the demonic antagonist, and Cuba, South Africa, Laos, Vietnam etc as the protagonists.

 

For context, I have no idea on how to take care of plants, but I'd like these three baby plants I bought to thrive.

I'd also love to snip them every now and then when I'm cooking, making a salad or a tea etc.

Right now each plant is quite young and in small plastic pots. The chocolate mint is already about 8-12 inches tall. The lemon balm and orange thyme are both less than 5 inches tall.

My questions where I'd love your advice are:

  • How often should I water these plants?
  • They're all newly bought and in disposable plastic containers. When I repot them, will it be dangerous to mix their current soil and the generic store bought soil I'm planning to get?
  • How fast do these plants grow? Should I be optimistic and already buy semi-large pots, even though they're quite tiny right now?
  • Any other general tips to care for these plants?

Appreciate your advice, whether it's plant-specific or applies to all the three plants. Thanks in advance!

 

For me it's either Punchup at a Wedding ('you had to piss on our parade .... you had to ruin it for all concerned') or Bodysnatchers ('your mouth only moves with someone's hand up your ass', re-the Spez AMA). How about you?

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