I switched to Technitium and I’ve been pretty happy. Seems very robust, and as a bonus was easy to use it to stop DNS leaks (each upstream has a static route through a different Mullvad VPN, and since they’re queried in parallel, a VPN connection can go down without losing any DNS…maybe this is how pihole would have handled it too though).

And of course, wildcards supported no problem.

Maybe take a look at Outline. (Not affiliated, but I host it for myself.)

I also host KitchenOwl, but mostly just as a grocery list.

Nice Dali-esque chair!

Oh thank God it’s tobacco, I read it as Tabasco and was very worried.

"While I’m up here I want to shout out all of our friends and neighbors who couldn’t be here tonight. Our international friends and neighbors who cannot safely travel to this country. Our immigrant friends and neighbors who cannot safely travel inside this country. Our trans friends and neighbors who cannot safely travel after having their driver’s licenses revoked overnight without warning by a cruel and unnecessary legislative act.

“Our friends and neighbors in places like Iran, Venezuela, or Gaza who fear for their lives on a daily basis because of cruel and unnecessary violence. I don’t have any plans to stand on this stage again anytime soon, but if I ever were to do so again I would want it to be amongst all of my friends and neighbors, safe and thriving.”

I would love to see some enterprising politicians try to pass massive funding for solar/renewable and just call it some stupid nationalistic thing to make it popular with the grey matter-challenged demographic.

Go renewable to save the planet? Fuck off hippie! Go renewable because then we can bomb with impunity? I’m listening…

Never done meshtastic, but I do a little amateur radio. For a high gain antenna, do you just experiment with where it’s pointing, or do you point towards something in particular?

The dot-com bubble burst, but…well, it got better.

Of course there were some casualties (famously pets.com), but Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Amazon…yeah they got their clock cleaned at the time, but long term they were pretty successful.

For all the problems with tech companies, having a chunk of compensation be in the form of RSUs isn’t the worst idea ever. (I know it’s not specific to tech companies, but it’s generally a very prominent aspect of tech company compensation, Netflix notwithstanding.)

To those asking “who celebrated”…Linux was not always well supported by Flash. The promise of HTML5, with first class Linux support, was very appealing.

https://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/flash-installer-confusion.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3620537

I brought this up to my ex over the course of our usual conversations

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If we are weeks away from never being able to meet again

…🤔

At this point, they no longer obey the laws of classical physics, and the resulting quantum phenomena — known as relativistic effects…

This is…not how I would word things. Atomic physics is usually not in a classical (Newtonian) regime, and a quantum treatment is standard.

Adding relativistic effects to the quantum treatment is also standard, but many aspects of e.g. the hydrogen atom are reasonably well described without relativistic effects, though of course relativistic effects do matter.

Nitpicking aside, neat stuff!

I’m really really glad that I get root on my work computer.

Well, smallpox was definitely harmful to humans, and it’s a virus which is different from an animal.

(…and yes, I know that “harmful to humans” often means “good for the planet.”)

This louse was reportedly not harmful to its hosts.

Kinda interested to hear an ethics of science type argument for/against this human-made extinction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics

I have heard, but have trouble finding references to it, that you can build a simple arbitrary waveform generator circuit by using an analog scope, a photodiode, and a cardboard cutout.

You make a photodiode circuit that rails high with no light, but light on the photodiode pushes the signal low. Then you aim this at the phosphor screen with a cardboard cutout of the desired waveform: signal goes up until the phosphor trace is above the screen, and then it gets pushed low (i.e., feedback keeps the trace right on the edge of the cardboard).

Never seen it in action, but I choose to believe it works beautifully :)

Will anything concrete change in your life — will you get kicked out of your home, will you suddenly be financially responsible for things you previously weren’t, etc.?

If it’s any consolation, a lot of us don’t feel like adults, and that’s ok! My kids seem to think I’m a grown up, so I managed to fool them at least.

Just keep learning as you go, and ask questions. We all love talking about things we know/have experience with (just ask the average Lemmy user what Linux distro you should install…), and there’s basically no such thing as “cheating” when it comes to figuring out how to be an adult.

One day at a time!

I think glass is technically an amorphous solid .

Fare from Mars back to Earth should always be free.