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BlueEther ,
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come on, Brodie is not that bad

ps (i can't remember whos channel i saw this on) If you have 2 videos with the same content and the same title but one has that style of thumbnail, the one with that style of thumbnail will get promoted by the algorithm. If I remember correctly it was something huge on the engagement

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Someone had to be first...

I'll get mt coat

BlueEther ,
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A little tongue in cheek and showing my age alittle ...

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but there are some good youtube channels around, then there are resources like Arch's wiki and for the hard liner there is the Gentoo doc's

BlueEther ,
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We hang out next to the Apollo set, just don't tell anyone

BlueEther ,
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Well that was almost as much of a rant as that other fellow.

what's your current linux distro?

wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with...

BlueEther ,
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I'm currently on Neon on the desktop (and macOS on the mac). On the servers it nearly all debian and a couple of BSDs

Over the last almost 25 years i've almost exclusively ran KDE when not being stuck with windows (for various reasons). Ive heard good things about Arch, but I'm getting far too old to be bothered with a semi-complex install (yes I have run Gentoo for several years, so I think it is an age thing).

BlueEther ,
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I think a bit of planning wouldn't go amiss

We did well last year (and also helped aussie.zone towards the end)

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BlueEther ,
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maybe push the !newzealand a little higher and rotate the kiwi fruit kiwi?

BlueEther ,
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For such a small community[s] *.nz did well last year, looking forward to the coming event.

@grant can you put the time in gmt / utc for the rest of the world?

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BlueEther ,
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I would say "Why don't these old farts just turn over and die", but they are not that much older than I am - so it cant be an age issue. This only leaves them as bigoted arseholes - I still wish that they would turn over and die

BlueEther ,
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I had no idea you can eat gorse!

It's flowers are meant to make a nice wine/mead

Crosposting to !nzwildlife

BlueEther ,
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Look up gorse flower wine and cordial, I've not tried it myself, but must try to make some gorse mead one day

BlueEther ,
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https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy used to work well, not sure if it is maintained still @ubergeek77 ?

BlueEther ,
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Well it works well enough for my small instance, so a thimbs up from here.

I'll also point out that it was easy to configure and chang for my needs

BlueEther ,
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Well done @Dave

I guess that no.lastname.nz will be 1 year in a couple of days (goes and checks, yep - on the 4th).

You have had a worse time than I have with server issues and spam, and I'm glad that you have kept it all together of the last year of very fast growth in lemmy.

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What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?

@asklemmy

BlueEther ,
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no, they were our parents, and they never let us youngins (now around 50) forget it

BlueEther ,
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I remember running BeOS back in the early 90s so I guess I’d go with Haiku

BlueEther ,
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Well that was a rabbit hole

BlueEther ,
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There is a fellow kiwi that debunks conspiracies (mostly flat earth) on youtube that has come out as trans (@Planarwalk). The utter vitriol that has been directed at her since she came out (and a little before as she at that stage tended towards effeminate) has been incredible to see. Trans people must be some of the strongest folk around.

BlueEther , (edited )
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What licence are they using? Do you know something everyone else does not?

Just because Llama Group want to control what goes into FreeLlama? Just like every other open source with a leadership?

Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version

If I release project qwtop as open source I still retain ownership of my code and make the decisions about what makes it into the main release; how is this different so far, when we haven't seen the licence?

<edit: see post below>

BlueEther ,
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thanks, there was nothing about a licence with the original post that i saw

BlueEther ,
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Kaikoura Earthquake

To give some perspective, parts of the Kaikoura cost had 8m vertical displacement and others were displaced 5m north

We felt it some 700km away

BlueEther ,
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You called?

Problems with creating my own instance

I am currently trying to create my own Lemmy instance and am following the join-lemmy.org docker guide. But unfortunately docker compose up doesn't work with the default config and throw's a yaml: line 32: found character that cannot start any token error. Is there something I can do to fix this?...

BlueEther ,
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I switched to using https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy by @ubergeek77

BlueEther ,
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came to say just that

BlueEther OP ,
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I see that the predicted peak is about 3 this afternoon

BlueEther OP ,
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looks like the predicted peak is now towards early night "It is expected to peak tonight, with the US Space Weather Prediction Centre forecasting severe conditions from 6-9pm (NZ time) on Saturday."

BlueEther ,
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I just wonder how up and downvoting would work since that would go very differently from Lemmy.

how so?

BlueEther ,
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well for me:

  • just passed 50 last month
  • been kicking around 'PCs' since the vic-20
  • buun using linux since Mandrake Helios (6.1)
  • have self hosted all sorts (including email for nearly 10 yrs, not any more other than a relay for my lemmy)
  • had a mastodon instance for about 2-3 years - but use mastodon.nz
  • spun up my instance of lemmy just as the exodus started
  • been into tinkering with electronics from childhood

I guess that puts me in the the tech group that seems very common here

other groups that seem well represented are the 'left' and lgbqt+

BlueEther ,
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i think ive seen a few in your age bracket. there seems to be a good amount that must be around the 50+ mark

BlueEther ,
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sometimes it is a good reference point though

BlueEther ,
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I’ve used influx and grafana in the past

There are some good options here for further reading

BlueEther ,
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Not almost cut my thumb off, the fucking thing ached like I don't know what, espitally while my wife was squeezing my hand during the ceremony.

That was over 25 years ago and the pain was real

BlueEther ,
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looks nice

BlueEther ,
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This theme seem to be ongoing throughout literature and art, from Hemingway / Banksy to the great...

GNU Terry Pratchett

BlueEther ,
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Well the documentation is very nice and filled out.

I think I'll spin up a test container for a project that my Mrs is starting on that I was going to put on wordpress with federation.

BlueEther ,
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I had my home setup like that for years. ONT <-> Switch <-> Opnsense <-> Back to Switch

Five things our research uncovered when we recreated 16th century beer (and barrels) ( phys.org )

It's true that our 16th-century ancestors drank much more than Irish people do today. But why they did so and what their beer was like are questions shrouded in myth. The authors were part of a team who set out to find some answers....

BlueEther ,
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For the full rundown: https://foodcult.eu/exhibition/brewing-historical-beer/

BlueEther , (edited )
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Our first daughter had a old smart phone at about 8 (she has just turned 9). It doesn't have data turned on, so is more or less a dumb phone unless she is at home. I don't think her little sister could care less about getting one.

I think that it's good for her to have one as it means she can contact us if she goes up the road to her friends or park/shop.

She doesn't have it for at school or general day to day life - so it may not be the best example

BlueEther ,
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and in the wes we have mink farms (europe) and mass swine and chicken farms, we also have (particularly in the Americas?) have industrial farming of beef/milk. All have the potential (and have done in the past) to do the same fast spread and interspecies transmission of diseases.

This strikes as a little anti China/Asia and 'think of the poor foxes and dogs' as why are not 'western' things to farm

BlueEther ,
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We are generally vegetarian/peciterian at home, except when we get given free wild venison (a pest species here in NZ)

BlueEther ,
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Grandpa don't know shit...

BlueEther OP ,
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Thoughts for the day...

Oh dear, really, already?

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BlueEther OP ,
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Thanks, it's in a couple of days time but this was the first card

BlueEther ,
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The earthquakes were caused by space lasers, and the coming eclipse is god doing his best to drop them from orbit. His plan is to have them fall on Mar-a-Lago

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Anyone have an interesting blog that uses the WordPress ActivityPub plugin?

If so, please leave a link/handle as a reply to this post.

(And even if you don't, please boost this thread on so it can reach people who do.)

@pfefferle @fediverse @asklemmy @technology

BlueEther ,
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testing @homeschool

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