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  • Gender PHP extension is a port of the gender.c program originally written by Joerg Michael. The main purpose is to find out the gender of firstnames. The current database contains >40000 firstnames from 54 countries.

    For anyone curious but not curious enough to go digging around.

  • No love for Rambley the Raccoon?

  • It's an insurance thing: If they willingly and maliciously ignored the danger sign then they are at fault. /s

  • If I wanted to self host a search engine, I'd just use a proper one that actually searches content rather than regurgitates bullshit.

    Search engines worked just fine until Google and Microsoft decided that they wanted to sell their AI products.

  • Ehh... I'll do it tomorrow.

  • If moving to another language erases 15 years of experience, you probably don't have a good grasp on the fundamentals...

  • Huh, the remake of Chicken Run is looking very different from the original.

  • Wonder if ChatGPT just scraped an example token from somewhere and is using that.

  • Dumbware.io - Stupid Simple Software

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  • I like the idea of simple apps, but does their website have to have that silly dvd bouncing thing obstructing text? Especially since it starts playing sound if you interact with it wrong.

  • In regards to full system backups, there's no real need to back up the OS itself. Canonical will give you a clean Ubuntu install if you ask then nice enough, after all. Personally, the risk of having to spend an afternoon reconfiguring my system isn't that big a deal compared to the storage and time needed to back up an entire image.

    I know systems generate a lot of "cruft" in terms of instslled programs and tweaked configurations over time which can be hard to keep track of and remember. But imo that should be avoided at all costs because it leads to compatibility and security issues.

    For backing up databases, there's scripts like automysqlbackup and pg_dump which will export a database to an sql file which can be easily backed up without worrying about copying a broken file.

    I actually recently set up borgmatic earlier today and I'd recommend it except for the fact that you seem to be using Docker, and I'm not sure how best to backup containers.

  • Daily backups here. Storage is cheap. Losing data is not.

  • I'm lucky that my sister already went through the "which drug works?" song and dance. Went to my GP, he prescribed me the same one (sertaline) and a few weeks later started feeling much better (with therapy also playing a part).

  • Engineer probably wanted to work on the Dispair Pit.

  • I broadly agree with the message in this comic but... Isn't the 664 billionaires thing a bit misleading? It ignores all the inflation and population growth that has happened in the past 30 years.

  • Nazis

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  • He's just into war reenactment and also expressing that his heart went out to him (/s).

  • Spend the last few hours cleaning

    "Sorry the place is such a tip"

  • ... So when you said "lol", you didn't mean it? ;_;

  • Imo, anyone that seems to routinely complain about people "taking things too seriously" with their edgy jokes tend to rely more on shock value than actual comedy...

    Y'all aren't teenagers any more. Using slurs isn't funny any more.

  • I think a peer to peer model could work for social media, but if you're trying to sell it using a pepe meme, I'm not interested...

    But fundamentally... Why not implement what you're thinking ontop of ActivityPub or ATProto than rolling your own thing? None of the issues you've described facing them are particularly insurmountable. They just need a bit of devwork.