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e0qdk

@ e0qdk @reddthat.com

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Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition

I used to be on kbin as e0qdk@kbin.social before it broke down.

  • Do you still remember the layout of all the houses/apartments you've lived in? Are there any other places where you still have a "map" of in your head?

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  • All of them? No. I can remember some details of a lot of them, and some of them very well, but there's others -- especially from when I was very young -- that I no longer have a good full mental map of.

    I definitely do not remember the layout of all my schools. I moved a lot and some of these are just disconnected fragments of areas to me now. I have no idea how my classroom and the cafeteria were connected in the school I was at in 3rd grade, for example, and I'm struggling to even remember how I got home from school then -- even though I do remember taking the bus to school at that age, and I remember some of the places I had to wait to catch the bus home when I was even younger than that... It's strange what sticks in memory and what doesn't, sometimes.

  • Trump administration has still not settled on reasons for going to war with Iran

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  • What search engine do you guys use?

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  • I've been using the HTML only version of DuckDuckGo as my default since Google made JS mandatory to run searches. It works ok for most of the simple queries I make. (e.g. looking something up from the Python docs, MDN, etc.) I resort to Google still for the stuff it completely flubs.

    Gone from probably 99% Google + 1% of other to maybe something like 95% DDG + 5% other (mostly Google).

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  • Is this a Bayeskisser meme? 😛️

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  • We use VPNs at work a lot for protecting traffic as it passes over the public internet between distant sites. From a security perspective, it's better not to give devices direct access to the internet if they don't actually need it. That's stuff we're running ourselves though; not a commercial VPN service we're paying for.

  • What do you belive is the best reddit alternative?

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  • I liked the UI when I first encountered it, but it being invite-only killed what interest I had in it pretty quick during the 2023 reddit exodus. Seems to still be invite only in 2026.

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  • I wonder how they'd take to being called "morbidly rich"? 🤔️

  • My favorite chili

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  • Sounds like we've followed similar paths in cooking. :p

    Did you ever try Isaac Toups's chicken and sausage gumbo recipe? That's another good, hearty cold weather dish. I think this was the video on YouTube that I learned it from. (I usually prefer to do it with just chicken though personally.)

  • My favorite chili

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  • Mmmm chili...

    The best I've made at home was a variation on one of Kenji's recipes -- this one, I think?

  • A hero

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  • Those tiny guys are cute compared to this horror from Hawaii:

    (Image from Wikipedia -- article is here)

    You gotta make sure to shake out your shoes before putting them on and check your sheets before getting in bed if you live around those guys...

  • What do you talk with family about?

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  • I talk to my Dad about once a week or so for maybe 20 or 30 mins. Usually just "How's it going?" kind of small talk. Work. Health issues. Sometimes about food or hobbies. Commiserating about politics. Updates about relatives moving/getting jobs/etc. Things like that. Helps us both stay sane in this crazy world.

    Once a month or so, I talk to my uncle. He's more chatty, so those calls go on for longer. He likes to tell me bits of family lore, about his interests in detail, about food and his pet and what's going on with his friends and neighbors -- like trips he's taken with them to go out shopping and such.

    My other relatives don't talk to me very often, so those are more of life catch-up talks every couple months/years or conversations about specific things that I have skills in that they'd like help learning.

    Maybe try asking your mom what's on her mind lately -- other than you -- and take it from there? Most people love to talk about themselves if given a chance. Ask questions about what she says and try to find a topic of mutual interest.

  • Ghost of Lemm.ee?

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  • Looking back through your history, that's a post by a user local to your instance. You can see it because you're on the same instance.

    If I understand how federation works correctly, posts don't go directly to the instance a community is on when they are made. They are created locally on your own instance, and then federate out if/when they can. Since you're both on the same instance, you can see the post and interact with it, but the post and your comments are (presumably) stuck in a queue trying to federate to the now defunct instance. Since lemm.ee is gone, it can't federate out, so other people don't see the post/comment on their instance.

    I think that's what's going on.

  • Licks aggressively

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  • Move over Gopher -- Dramatic Lick Kitty is here!

  • theoretical considerations on identity management

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    Digital picture frame from a monitor or TV?

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  • Should be trivial to set up something like that if you've got parts you want to work with. Any desktop with an automatic background switcher should be able to cycle through images in a directory you specify on a timer. Set up your favorite remote access software (SSH, Samba, NFS ...) and you're done. If you want more control over the behavior, you could script up something custom with a little more effort -- but it's still not particularly hard to implement something like that.

    Watch out for burn in on the screen if you're leaving it on all the time.

  • Free Up Disk Space by Removing Old Snap Versions - OMG! Ubuntu

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  • The snap came back

    It wouldn't stay away

    It was on my desktop

    The very next day 🎵️

  • Fan Duct

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  • Is that Pokemon Gold in your Game Boy Color?

  • Mapping-file approach for multi-markup reader?

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  • Are you trying to write your own parsers for these formats or something like that? I don't think I really get the issue you're running into.

    If you want to just display formatted text (esp. including HTML), you can use a browser (either as an embedded widget in a custom app, via an Electron app, or in a regular browser via an HTTP server) and generate the output on the fly. You don't need to save the converted output if it's fast enough to generate...

  • Best Practices for Encrypted Search

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  • the contents of these tickets need to be encrypted at rest

    If that's the actual requirement -- i.e encrypted at rest -- then store the database on an encrypted volume instead of encrypting the messages themselves inside the DB. It will likely be more performant, and much, much easier to both implement and maintain while still providing good security.