I could go in-depth, but really, the best way I can describe my docker usage is as a simple and agnostic service manager. Let me explain.

Docker is a container system. A container is essentially an operating system installation in a box. It’s not really a full installation, but it’s close enough that understanding it like that is fine.

So what the service devs do is build a container (operating system image) with their service and all the required dependencies - and essentially nothing else (in order to keep the image as small as possible). A user can then use Docker to run this image on their system and have a running service in just a few terminal commands. It works the same across all distributions. So I can install whatever distro I need on the server for whatever purpose and not have to worry that it won’t run my Docker services. This also means I can test services locally on my desktop without messing with my server environment. If it works on my local Docker, it will work on my server Docker.

There are a lot of other uses for it, like isolated development environments and testing applications using other Linux distro libraries, to name a couple, but again, I personally mostly just use it as a simple service manager.

tldr + eli5 - App devs said “works on my machine”, so Docker lets them ship their machine.

That work has already started with Fediseer. It’s not automatic, but it’s really easy, which is probably the best we’ll get for a while.

That sounds like the default GitHub boilerplate message, to be fair.

Layoffs for three of their most successful studios? That’s surprising.

My ISP says my IP is technically dynamic, but it hasn’t changed once in the 6 years I’ve had their service. But that’s for the best, since they’re the only choice for symmetrical gigabit and their only option for static IPs is for business accounts.

So I continue to trust that they won’t change it. Fingers crossed.

I find that I need to restart VSCode occasionally for reasons similar to this. I write C# daily, and sporadically VSCode will just completely lose track of all namespaces and everything is now a syntax error.

A more crude variation than using dedicated ripping tools is using yt-dlp. If you need a login to a service, you can pass the username and password or login with a browser and pass in the browser’s cookies. I’ve personally heard you can do that to at least rip sub-gated Twitch VODs, anyway.

Definitely ancient since C# has been cross-platform for 4 years with Dotnet Core. If you include Mono, make that 19 years.

Hmmm. I would think that would work, but this is about the extent of my networking knowledge, sorry. :(

The tool tip gives the IP ranges that it opens up, can you make your OpenVPN network live in one of those ranges and try?

You need to enable local network sharing on the Mullvad devices.

This is dope! There are a lot more important things on the roadmap, but a qBitTorrent plugin or compatible endpoint would be amazing.

Holy hell Java on a Smartwatch?

WearOS is based on Android, which uses Android Runtime (ART) as the application runtime. ART uses Java (or any other JVM-compatible language, such as Kotlin) as the development language, but compiles the app to native code when it’s installed on a client device.

So… Kind of?

Yes, I’ve got community icons and avatars working. Which are actually the only things I see in my pictrs volume.

Huh, do I have that misconfigured by some happy accident? My pictrs volume is only around 50Mb after running my instance for over a month. I have both LCS and Lemmony federating popular content, too…

Also, are the images even federated? I know the current line of thinking is that they are, but I could not find them in my local pictrs volume. Not that I wanted to, mind you. But I looked and only saw one picture in there from the problematic time period, and it happened to be one of my user’s avatars. And one of the CSAM posts federated with me, I know for a fact, because I saw the comments even though I couldn’t see the picture (and I feel horrible for those users who saw it, some of them were obviously traumatized).

I’m keeping a close eye on my pictrs volume and really scrutinizing who I allow on my instance after this whole thing, but on the whole, I’m not overly concerned, even as a US-based self-hoster. I registered with the DMCA and will fully comply with any and all takedown requests, even silly ones like copyright. I don’t have the finances or time for prolonged legal battles.

Edit: Figured it out. My pictrs container didn’t have an external network definition, so it was timing out while retrieving external images.

That’s actually really fucking cool.

I agree with your last statement, but I actually really enjoyed the puzzles in Spider-Man 1. The story-based ones were never difficult, and for the optional ones, I just waited until I was in the mood for some puzzles, and then blew through them all in one go.

But if you don’t like puzzles at all, I understand turning them off.

Someone was quick on the draw: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3838

Agreed. I appreciate the bot a lot, don’t get me wrong, but it can add clutter, for sure. I kind of wish there was a Lemmy-wide setting to auto-collapse bot comments, now.

I agree with you, but that line of thought doesn’t apply here. Houston is famously one of the big three blue bastions in Texas, arguably the bluest, and this is a city ordinance. As a Texan, I’d expect this ordinance literally anywhere except Houston, honestly (and possibly Austin).

You want yt-dlp. It’s a command line app, but it’s pretty simple to use. For example, to download a whole playlist to best quality audio, regardless of if the main URL is pointing to a video or playlist, you can do

yt-dlp --yes-playlist -x <url>

If you specifically want mp3 format, you could do

yt-dlp --yes-playlist -x --audio-format mp3 <url>

I’m currently running my Lemmy instance, an Ark server, and a Teamspeak server on a Dell Precision 3260 running Proxmox. I’ve been really happy with it, and honestly a little surprised at just how well it’s been going.

You can see in this image that the meme I’m currently looking at is hosted on lemmy.world even though I’m on my own Lemmy instance.

Text is copied to your instance’s database, but any images are hosted on the other instances and simply linked to. Worst case scenario, you get told to delete something that’s illegal in the country in which you host the instance, you comply, and everything’s peachy.

Edit: That being said, I’m currently hosting an instance for myself and a few friends, and it’s been smooth-sailing. Just make sure to require email verification or admin approval for new sign-ups (or disable them entirely) if you don’t want to be overrun with bots.

The solution to fix my development environment at my old job was disabling IPv6. Gives a good insight into the quality of the software…

Yup. I didn’t vote for those fuckheads, but guess who got displaced for a week because they didn’t have power during that storm? Yeah, that’s me.

And news/social media were counting down to 0 oxygen and playing it out for drama, clicks, and profit. Absolutely disgusting, and much worse than any memes or jokes anyone online could’ve made about the situation.

I was also going to say MMBN, but since that’s been said, I’ll say Golden Sun. Loved both of those games to death.

Breath of Fire 1 and 2 are also great (although technically SNES ports).

I know Republicans generally vote against their own interests, but Abbott pushing back against stuff like this and the tort law that got him his money in the first place will always be wild to me.

What does this mean for Alma and Rocky? My understanding is that they’re basically source clones of RHEL with all branding changes.

I use VSCode for simple commits and merge conflicts. Anything more complicated and I go to CLI since it’s usually better documented.

And, if you don’t want all the drama, you can always spin up your instance

That’s what I did. I get to federate or defederate with whatever instances I want, and as long as I’m not a dickhead, no one will defederate me.

Not vice-versa, oddly enough. I don’t know if this is the norm for the fediverse, but on Lemmy, instance blocking goes one-way. So users on those instances can federate with Beehaw and see communities, posts, and comments, and even post their own stuff, but users on Beehaw won’t see it.

Edit: Ah, correction, this only applies to things on instances that are still federated to the defederated instances. The two instances defederated from Beehaw will no longer get any updates directly from Beehaw, but will still see Beehaw users’ comments on posts on other instances.