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So, no. I do not have goddamned nginx figured out, and no, the Pleroma 2.0 launch has not made this any less goddamned infuriating.
Sunday, 15-Mar-20 04:19:48 UTC from web-
@scribus The installation of Pleroma comes with an NGINX config file located at /opt/pleroma/installation/pleroma.nginx copy it to the NGINX sites-available directory, change your server names, then symbolically link it to the sites-enabled path
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@oracle I had done that previously and it still wasn't working. The directions said to name it a certain thing, which was not the usual Nginx method of naming it the same as the URL is supposed to be. Might that have been my problem? The second time around, I did try modifying a default, instead of copying the provided one, so obviously that was the error, there. :p Thanks.
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@thismightbeauser Well, my latest (balls-deep-in-failure) attempt is on Ubuntu 20.04, and nginx is 1.17.10 (Ubuntu)
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Friday, 24-Apr-20 04:21:07 UTC from web -
Are people really this appleing stupid? http://rainbowdash.net/url/875491
Sunday, 19-Apr-20 00:30:51 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser a lot of right wing nutjobs are protesting in Virginia too by gathering together in packs, darwinism at its finest
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I find it way more amusing than I probably should that there's a Homestar*Runner reference in the Node.js documentation.
Thursday, 09-Apr-20 23:26:59 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser I always loved how down to Earth open source projects can be, evident by funny documentation and names. A favorite of mine is "the Non-Sucking Service Manager"
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Whenever there will be a decision for a mandatory face mask I'll 3D scan my face, cut out the nose area up to the chin, scale up the model slightly and create holes (nose, mouth), add holders for filters and for a mounting strap, and then 3D print it.
Tuesday, 07-Apr-20 16:25:22 UTC from web-
@adiwan Take pictures if you do. That sounds pretty sweet
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remember that one day the sun will explode and everything will be for nothing http://rainbowdash.net/url/875484
Saturday, 04-Apr-20 17:04:54 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I doubt God will allow the world to last that long considering how much less time he waited to incarnate.
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just bought a new phone, what is this “iCloud” I’m hearing about
Saturday, 04-Apr-20 20:27:11 UTC from web -
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As if on cue, my mother texts me about going to church on Easter...
Saturday, 28-Mar-20 21:14:26 UTC from web -
pretty cool that I decided to buy shares in Ford on account of they’re making ventilators, only for the President to then start Fluffle Puff talking American auto companies, causing my stock to plummet. Cool thing you did there Donald.
Saturday, 28-Mar-20 20:17:10 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Is that what that was about? Was wondering why I was breaking even again. It concerns me that the market is influenced by anything he says. It's clear he hasn't been very concerned with the truth this whole time, but calming people down, as the deadlines for "opening up the country" keep moving further out as he continues to claim they're right around the corner. It's harmful to the response as people who aren't paying attention may miss the actual directions and continue to spread this thing when the fake deadlines come up.
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Just ordered a new New 2DS XL for 90€. I don't care for the 3D display so it works out for me. Gonna need some games for it.
Wednesday, 25-Mar-20 09:12:58 UTC from web-
@adiwan New 2DS XL and Knuckles?
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@thismightbeauser und Knuckles and Knuckles und Knuckles and ...
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Like I said - I have no reason to believe I’ve got it other than this cold, which is also going around right now. No fever, no headaches, nothing. Just congestion.
Thursday, 19-Mar-20 19:31:33 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser But, the Carnegie and Rockefeller and all those families, they used to do public works and stuff. They may have been hoarding the wealth, but not damn *all* of it. Their flash contest was at least servicing the greater good as a side effect of the ostentation. This new crop seems more about raw, bigly yuge numbers, and hoarding, like a dragon (or a priapism). But, again, this is all coming around to perception. . . .
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@scribus I mean, there's Bill Gates and whatnot. On the other hand you get people like this guy, who think it's an okay idea to keep making electric cars at a moderately high risk of illness to his employees with no one to buy them. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875471
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@thismightbeauser @scribus That is indeed the case, a lot of rich people have middle class cars and discrete houses and do their best to keep people from knowing how rich they are, due to the general sentiment of "wealth equals evil"
You can't blame them really, if the mob will hate you just for managing to make good decisions and earning your family big money. I'd probably do the same if I couldn't simply relocate to a fortified compound with a minefield around it. It makes no sense to feel empathy for a group that has none for you, for whom you'll always be the bad guy regardless of what you do or don't do, that openly talks about how good it'd be if you died.
The ones that show off are the sociopaths, politicians and entertainment industry guys, who by default are crooks as that whole industry is built on crime and debauchery.
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My new financial strategy of “buying stocks just after Trump has a press conference, then selling just before he has his next on” is paying off so far
Friday, 20-Mar-20 23:42:11 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser Especially since short term capital gains are taxed higher.
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@thismightbeauser But I guess if you're concerned about that then you'd want to wait a year, idk
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@thismightbeauser i don't pay taxes, is what the court summons i can now legally ignore because of coronavirus says
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Another thing I wonder about is "let's make ventilators" just some sleight of hand to get the government to let the auto manufacturers to stay open while continuing business as usual in the shadows. I mean, likely not. Hopefully? I've probably just had too much time to overthink it. The unions certainly wouldn't tolerate it.
Friday, 20-Mar-20 05:43:16 UTC from web -
Aaannd he did it, he checked the "blame Obama" box, as foreseen
Thursday, 19-Mar-20 16:22:24 UTC from web-
@scribus Blame Obama for making Trump look bad by creating an organization Trump dismantled.
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OK completely unrelated to server setup bile, but I seriously didn't feel as much like we were facing The End after 9/11 as it looks for COVID-19. Just about think there were more flights in the air, too.
Sunday, 15-Mar-20 15:46:51 UTC from web-
@scribus I live next to IAD. Usually hear a plane flying overhead several times a day. I think I’ve seen or heard one plane in the last four days.
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@mrmattimation Intra-something device.
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@mrmattimation I used to travel to that area for work. It was all right.
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I accidentally let my domain expire and now I'm really freaking out because I only just noticed today, which is coincidentally the very last day of my provider's grace period... http://rainbowdash.net/url/875463
Monday, 16-Mar-20 05:30:08 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser I would have renewed it myself, but all the controls are locked, even though it's still under their ownership and still resolving. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875464
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That said, I keep meaning to launch a Pleroma instance for myself.... Just keep having problems with nginx.
Thursday, 05-Mar-20 18:36:42 UTC from web-
@nerthos Also the dev team is releasing 2.0 stable next weekend so you might want to wait for that.
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@nerthos @scribus Rin seems to be the dev dealing with nginx https://patch.cx/notice/9snOdafVWNXv6Q8R4y
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I know that ad blocking is a hotly contested right (you're free to do it but you're trash and a thief if so tends to be the argument against it), but when a site pops all sorts of boxes over the content telling me to turn it off, I usually just leave. Even if I'm cool with the publisher, I don't think they realize how complicated it actually is to turn all that off correctly. First I have to allow the scripts for the ad network, usually churning through several refreshes of layered scripts (using an ad network is a major turnoff. It's better if you run your own ads. Coincidentally those ads are far less likely to be blocked by default since they're custom!!!1!), then I have to unblock it in my content blocker, THEN I have to remember to turn that junk back off before I leave. Temporary permissions aren't good enough, because you still have to remember to click the button to revoke them.
Thursday, 05-Mar-20 02:05:37 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser There is literally zero compelling reason to NOT use an ad blocker, site design these days is garbage, laden with so many ads the site itself no longer functions. Not to mention trackers. I refuse to feel ashamed of it. Mother'effers drove me to it.
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I'm sure it's not nearly so simple in reality, but I feel like conquering climate change is a simple matter of banning some of the bad stuff with obvious alternatives (gas vs electric consumer vehicles, for example) and watching the market self-correct. But everyone is afraid to pull that lever because it could be political suicide.
Monday, 02-Mar-20 05:01:17 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser An actual solution to the issue is deglobalization of economies and achieving food and industry autonomy in every relevant country, but good luck cutting the flow of shekel just like that. There is a reason any sort of nationalism is treated as evil incarnate by mainstream political parties and economic groups, a global market that depends on countries not being self-sufficient is extremely profitable, no one can stop buying or selling or their internal situation crumbles within months.
A secondary effect of this, while a positive from an environmental point of view, is that a lot of countries simply don't have the capacity to achieve food autonomy due to having bigger populations than their fertile land can sustain. Take Nigeria for example, <1 million km2 of surface with a rapidly growing population at 190 million right now. Without world trade the country would starve, and lead to open war in the region. -
@thismightbeauser So you not only need to completely reshape the economy of most countries but also need to regulate the population of each to levels their own land can sustain (without further destroying the environment to grow more crops)
Some countries have a food surplus of 10 times their internal consumption, so they can keep their current populations without issue. But what happens with a country that has a food deficit of say, 50% of consumption? the population has to be cut in half or starve. Either way, you have a disaster in your hands with no clean way to solve it. You can pick between genocide, mass starvation or civil war, neither acceptable by any humanitarian standard. And you can be sure it'll spill to neighbouring regions.
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@nerthos I think some of this makes sense, but I have a hard time believing that the world's current population level isn't sustainable, just that we haven't figured things out yet. There's a lot of junk produced that isn't necessary, or made in inefficient ways that could be cut out. I get what you're saying about deglobalization and the whole "buy local" slogan that environmentalists have been pushing kind of points back to that. Where do you draw the line though? Even goods shipped within larger countries like the US or China can travel vast distances before reaching their destination. Do those countries have to be split into regions then? People would probably be freaking out about that. No more California oranges in PA? No way! Probably not a great example due to Florida being closer, but still.
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I meant to add more to that but submitted accidentally. Supposedly China is already taking some measures to improve by nature of being actively strangled by their own pollution density, but it probably won't be enough. I guess we can't refuse to do business with their polluting businesses, at least not quickly enough to matter.
Monday, 02-Mar-20 16:07:11 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser Sure we can! We just need to be ready to deal with about a century of lifestyle backslide.
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I'm sad that I didn't get a chance to even consider Buttigieg, but I guess we still haven't had a woman president so having a gay one is asking *way* too much...
Monday, 02-Mar-20 05:04:04 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser I was never big on Buttigieg. Guy felt so disingenuous to me. Still, I am disheartened that the youngest man in the field now is 77 years old.
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@mrmattimation I was never big on Buttigieg because I never knew anything about him and don't have any reason to find out now.
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HOTELS IN LOS ANGELES ARE EXPENSIVE!!!!! TF!!!!!
Thursday, 27-Feb-20 08:02:46 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@mrmattimation So, there's this coffee shop in Hollywood that serves a "Turbo-Coke," a double espresso and a half-litre of Mexican Coca-Cola, that is somewhat less expensive than a hotel
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@scribus I don’t know why the idea of someone ordering a Turbo Coke and being asked “is Pepsi OK?” Is so funny to me but it just is
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@ceruleanspark It totally is XD
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Megalovania on toothbrushes, scanners, steam cleaners, and a kitchen sink http://rainbowdash.net/url/875439
Tuesday, 11-Feb-20 18:26:00 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Damn, Sage and Savant dropped a musical act due to a difference of sociopolitical opinion. It's a decision I agree with, but still - it wasn't a thing I imagine anyone actually wanted. Not naming names, but they do share an initialism with which just amuses the permanent child in me.
Monday, 20-Jan-20 02:21:17 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@scribus Yep, that's the one I thought you meant, and that there was some other artist called Sage.
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@scribus I find it funny that the link still works even though the text is censored
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@thismightbeauser lol Yeah, convenient too!
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Ah, yes, taxes are coming up. What are we gonna do on the bed, Uncle Sam?
Sunday, 19-Jan-20 19:17:23 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@mrmattimation Rest assured, it's special. He never does this with those rich people he's always hanging around at work. All for you....
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@mrmattimation Eat perfectly cooked rice and watch some Schoolhouse Rock?
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I remember shortly after Steve Irwin died, I said something disparaging about how he probably was doing something unnecessarily risky when he died (my family nicknamed him "Stupid Guy") and I got scolded because you're not supposed to speak poorly of the dead because they can't defend themselves. Turns out it wasn't really his fault, he just ran into some bad luck with an animal that shouldn't have been interested in attacking him at all.
Sunday, 19-Jan-20 21:55:01 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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The face of a mad scientist http://rainbowdash.net/url/875420
Sunday, 19-Jan-20 21:43:01 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Code lines that are not avoidable: butt.isEnabled = true; (Enabling a button)
Monday, 13-Jan-20 09:38:51 UTC from web- Scribus and Jonathan Chouinard like this.
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@oracle butt.setStatus(true);
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@oracle This is a property (C#). So it is just a fancier way to make the same as void isEnabled(bool setValue) and bool isEnabled() but without the parenthesis.
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@adiwan C# is honestly the best Java-like ever and this is one example why.
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From reddit:
mkdir temp
chmod -R 400 temp
cd temp
alias "you=touch"
you this
you: can't touch thisThursday, 02-Jan-20 19:15:03 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Apparently reading a binary file to a char pointer and casting to a struct is a bad thing because different architectures can insert padding between the fields to cause them to align "better" for that machine. Writing is the same. I was writing an RLE binary file (a packed bitmap) this way on x64 and reading on 6502 (Commodore 64) and I guess I got lucky that nothing exploded since all the fields were in order of descending size.
Sunday, 22-Dec-19 03:43:18 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@thismightbeauser Actually I double checked and I guess it's fine since the writer just uses offsets. The reader was coded for the C64 so it doesn't matter if it's portable.
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