Rare esoteric wisdom that can only be gained by fucking around and finding out

AKA my 20s. I fucked around a lot but I also learned from every “finding out”.

Happy cake day!

Probably most of them, at least in small “butterfly effect” ways. But mostly, I paid attention in class and remember how to think without having to have answers spoon fed to me. So many people I work with, of a variety of age groups, just seem to lack that skill.

You mentioned home economics, and I only had to take one semester as a required elective (yes, you read that right) and just kind of coasted through it. While I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I appreciate knowing how to use a sewing kit to make small repairs. I’ve patched several holes in my favorite “lounging around the house” robe and extended its life probably 3 times.

NVMe SSD in a USB 3 enclosure is about as fast as you’re going to get.

I queried my instance’s database. Admin privilege. The info here isn’t any kind of private information so I can share it.

OP nuked their 2 hour old account:

lemmy=# select id, actor_id, banned, deleted, published from person where name='happyhouseslave';
    id    |               actor_id                | banned | deleted |           published           
----------+---------------------------------------+--------+---------+-------------------------------
 12117366 | https://lemmy.world/u/happyhouseslave | f      | t       | 2026-06-18 13:21:00.995133+00



lemmy=# select name, deleted, removed, ap_id from post where creator_id=12117366;
         name          | deleted | removed |               ap_id               
-----------------------+---------+---------+-----------------------------------
 *Permanently Deleted* | t       | f       | https://lemmy.world/post/48327685
 *Permanently Deleted* | t       | f       | https://lemmy.world/post/48324567

One of many reasons I refuse to interact with accounts less than a week old and/or those that have no other activity history.

I’ve been in an airbags deployed accident while wearing glasses. I was fine, and so were my glasses.

Getting hit in the face with a pillow is actually worse than hitting the airbag at 50 mph. The airbag also partially deflates nearly as fast as it inflates. i.e. you don’t smack into it hard and it just cushions you and keeps you from smacking into the steering wheel. It’s also designed to work with the seatbelts, so those should also be keeping you from being right up in the airbag’s business. Hence, the technical name for airbags, SRS (supplemental restraint system)

You’d have to be eye-level with the center of the steering wheel, not wearing a seatbelt, and right up on it for that to be a concern.

It’s annoying AF, agreed, but there’s no provision in the API to do anything about it. That’s just how the platform is designed to operate.

The only things we can do about it are:

1. Notice who does that frequently and refuse to interact with them (block them, tag them, remember their username, whatever works). If mods notice this, it would be nice if they’d ban those users from the community because what they do IS disruptive to the community.
2. Optionally, don’t interact with accounts younger than a week in the “ask” communities because those are known to self destruct.

If a user deletes their account or nukes the post, even admins can’t restore it as it just says “Permanently deleted”

Removed by mod

The upstairs neighbor: [Frost troll wearing clogs doing jumping jacks]

I would never feed the beast to attempt that, but if anyone would, I’d be interested to see the plan it generates and if the fediverse is a part of that.

Yeah, I think that’s it. This is the lowest hanging fruit with an <input type="text" field that gets picked up by LLM scrapers. :sigh:

I used to, but I try to do better. Lately, I’ve had “blind voting” turned on in my app, so I can only see the score after I’ve voted one way or the other. Basically forces me to read and vote on the submission without being influenced by the current score.

Worked at a local pizza place my junior and senior years of high school.

Pancakes … In there silverware drawer

The Fediverse is just full of Carols (on the right/brown coat):

What do you want to practice? Just general sysadmin stuff? Networking? Clustering? Horizontal scaling? All of the above?

Old PCs are just Debian servers waiting to happen. Depending on their specs, you may be able to do VMs or you can utilize container frameworks like Podman, Docker, or LXC to deploy individual applications or application stacks. Or you can just bare metal install anything you want.

Years ago, I bought a batch of 16 Wyse thin clients on eBay for about $15/each. These had 4GB SSDs and 2 GB RAM, so I upgraded about half of them with 64-120GB SSDs (whatever I had lying around) and 8 GB RAM. Thin clients can usually be found pretty inexpensively and are pretty power efficient, but they’re not performant workhorses. They’re great for practicing networking, VLANs, system orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Cockpit) application clustering and horizontal scaling, diskless workstations, setting up a demo office server and workstations, and even VMs if you’re just practicing; they’re a little underpowered to run a lot of VMs, but you can certainly run a few small ones just to practice managing them.

Webapp. It’s the development branch of Tesseract.

I can use regexes, so it makes it a bit shorter list:

Any time I hear Minerva without that K-Rock intro, it just sounds wrong to me lol. That, and the “That was new Deftones. Minerva is the name of that song” at the end.

Yeah, I think so.

Man, why is sharing a 10 second mp3 so hard? lol. This or a shorter version without the “world premiere” part is what I was recalling:

https://tube.dubvee.org/w/gC3pchZNmSTeZxX2V2fqrK