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hperrin

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  • Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects

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  • I’m amazed that they haven’t backtracked this yet. They’re just cool losing all those customers.

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    How much time and money would it take to set up and maintain a server similar to disroot.org, offering the same services, for a group of ten people?

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  • For most of those services, you’re looking at a few days to assemble and set up a server. For email, plan to spend the next month learning and troubleshooting.

    You can run all of that on basically any computer. If you have an old desktop, that would work great.

    Email often isn’t possible to self host because many ISPs block outbound connections on port 25. But, you can host it on some VPS providers, like DigitalOcean. The IP they give you will almost certainly have a terrible reputation and result in a lot of your mail going into people’s spam folders. So, you’ll have to spend some time contacting IP blacklist providers.

    Another option is to host the inbound SMTP servers, and handle outbound through a relay server. I’m not gonna recommend any, because I’m not too familiar with them.

    I know a fair bit about running email services, because I created and run https://port87.com/, a fairly new email service. I had to learn a lot about email to build it.

  • What are things you know because of your personal interests that most people have no idea about ?

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  • What are things you know because of your personal interests that most people have no idea about ?

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  • Be careful with that makeshift speaker cabling though. If you’re using small gauge power cables, you could easily melt those cables with a powerful enough audio signal.

  • What are things you know because of your personal interests that most people have no idea about ?

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  • There are dangerous spots to dive, and there are safe spots to dive. Diving can be incredibly safe as long as you know what you’re doing. And it’s incredibly fun. :)

  • What are things you know because of your personal interests that most people have no idea about ?

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  • People really misunderstand a lot about diving.

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    • SCUBA is an acronym that stands for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Aparatus
    • SCUBA specifically refers to the gear with a tank, and not gear that uses an air hose connected to a boat
    • Tanks are usually filled with just regular air, nothing special about it
    • Oxygen becomes toxic at depth, so if you were to dive with 100% oxygen, you’d die at a fairly shallow depth

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    • Your flesh and blood absorb nitrogen from the air
    • The amount it absorbs is based on the pressure of your environment/the air you’re breathing
    • When you come back up to one atmosphere (1 bar) of pressure, your body slowly releases the nitrogen it has absorbed at depth
    • This is a physical process, not one your body has any control over
    • If you stay down for too long or come up too quickly, the nitrogen will become bubbles in your flesh and blood (the bends)
    • That’s painful and can kill you
    • A hyperbaric chamber (hyper-more than normal, baric-atmospheric pressure) can help by forcing the nitrogen bubbles to dissolve back into your flesh and release slowly
    • You can use a special mix of air with more oxygen and less nitrogen than normal to increase safe dive times, but this also decreases maximum depth, because of oxygen toxicity

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    • Another danger is if you ascend without breathing out, your lungs can pop
    • Humans don’t have any sense to tell us our lungs are too full
    • This is called lung over-expansion and can also kill you
    • It is also treated with a stay in a hyperbaric chamber

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    • Another danger is nitrogen at depth can induce an intoxicating effect like alcohol
    • This is called nitrogen narcosis and can cause you to act carelessly and get yourself killed
    • If you experience this, the correct course of action is to ascend a bit (like 15 feet) and wait until it subsides before you attempt to descend again
    • You can use a special mix of air with helium or a special mix of just helium and oxygen to reduce the risk of narcosis on deep dives

    5

    • Regular diving gear has two second stage regulators, your main and your octo
    • The name octo comes from how it makes your gear look like an octopus
    • It’s a backup for you and for anyone who might need it
    • The hose is yellow to make it easy to see

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    • The vest you wear (not everyone uses one, but most divers do) is called a Buoyancy Control Device, or BCD, or just BC
    • It fills with air from your tank when you want to ascend to increase your buoyancy
    • In an emergency, you can drop your weights, which should make you positively buoyant and cause you to ascend

    And last, but not least:

    • Diving is incredibly fun and an experience I’d recommend to everyone who is even remotely interested
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    What's the weirdest hobby you've heard of?

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  • I don’t remember his name, but there was a guy who collected sex dolls. He had like over a hundred of them. I think his wife left him because of it. I wanna say I saw him on My Strange Addiction, but I don’t remember.

    Edit: I looked it up and it’s not the guy from My Strange Addiction. He “married” a doll, but I think he just had the one. I don’t know where I saw about the other guy.

  • Marylandposting

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  • GenAI is great, trust me bro

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  • Look, I know you’ve been using this software for twenty years, and love how it works and what it does, but hear me out: what if we fuck it up? Like, a lot.

  • Joe Rogan on Trump's mass deportations: "I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals"

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  • Joe Rogan is so god damned stupid I’m surprised he can drink from the right end of a glass.

  • Any Linux laptops available in retail?

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  • I think the idea is that they don’t want to alienate white supremacists. Well, anyone who doesn’t want to alienate white supremacists has alienated me.

  • Any Linux laptops available in retail?

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  • Jesus Christ, what an absolutely awful response. So Framework is basically saying, “we’re happy to fund Nazis as long as they like open source too.”

    Well, I was a fan of Framework.

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  • The shape of the roots of the shrubs is somewhat exaggerated. Many do go that deep, but they’re not that wide all the way down. There are only a few types that grow roots that look like that.

    There are also deep root grasses if you want a lawn, but don’t want to ruin your soil.

    https://thankyourlawn.com/grass-root-depth/

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  • I was in college, fresh out of high school. I started learning PHP that year. I think I was working at One Stop Systems, a company that produces enterprise PCIe equipment.

    I was still using Windows at that point, and I would switch to Linux the next year.

  • Length of video you're willing to watch?

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  • If it’s from a good friend, maybe twenty minutes. If it’s from an acquaintance, maybe five minutes. If it’s from a stranger, I’m not gonna watch it unless I find the subject very interesting.

  • TIL about Wiki.js

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  • I just started using it last week. I really like it.

  • Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society

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  • Well that’s good, because it definitely is.

  • Object Notation

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  • When I say “build anything”, I mean it works in nearly every environment, including natively in the browser. I can write the same code on the server as in the browser as in a mobile app as in a desktop app.

    React has been around, and improving, for 12 years. You can run code from the first version today. The DOM has been stable since about 1998, so anything built on it should still run today.

    It is true that JavaScript libraries tend to change quickly, but that doesn’t mean old versions stop working. It’s not like the native Linux ecosystem, where you need to build on the current kernel and libraries or it won’t work, it’s more like Docker or Flatpak, where you can build your libraries into your bundle and they will keep working. That’s why websites that were built 20 years ago, with the libraries of the time, still work today.

  • Object Notation

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  • I wrote an entire email service (https://port87.com/) in JavaScript (Node.js and SvelteKit). I know some people have strong feelings against JavaScript, but the fact that you can build basically anything in it is pretty nice.