DigitalDilemma, digdilem@lemmy.ml

I used wview for years, and published a couple of weather stations publically. Sadly that looks to be abandoned now.

Nowadays I just run Home Assistant and combine an anenometer, a rain tip gauge and about a million different temperature sensors into that, mostly with 8266’s running Esphome to collect and forward that data. It’s a fun and cheap little hobby if you like collecting data. The gauge and anenometer were off aliexpress for about £5 each, the esps about the same, and temp sensors less than a quid each. All software foss of course, and uses almost no resources so can run on any linux server.

This is true. I get insane write speeds when storing data in /dev/null

Hero of War also a strong fave of mine. Bleak as fuck. No Bravery by James Blunt is on similar lines.

“Boys will be boys” by Stella Donnelly. Best listened to blind, imo, so won’t give context.

Hero of War by Rise Against. An American soldier’s view of war.

Raoui by Souad Moussi (I can’t understand arabic so she might be singing a shopping list, but the pain in her voice gives me shivers every time)

No Bravery by James Blunt. A British soldier’s view of war.

I have a long playlist of stuff like this called “Managed Melancholy” - it’s part of my mental health self care to immerse myself in sad sometimes and really feel. (I’m fine btw, and this is part of giving me an outlet)

Any chance there’s an ip conflict?

Some of us gamers have been training for that our whole lives.

Please, don’t expose VNC to the internet, ever. It’s a horrendously insecure protocol that uses plaintext passwords of no more than 8 characters and everything that passes over the connection is unencrypted and visible to anyone sniffing the traffic.

Once it was the only option, but there are dozens of better things out there now which should be used, even on a lan or vpn.

Why add age checks?

I’ve read this from several sources now and not found anywhere that explains why they’re doing this. Are they being threatened with legal action?

Agree. Although Mariadb has drifted significantly (and with very good reason) in terms code, features and SQL - I still mentally parse “Mysql” as “MariaDb”. It’s one of the best forks I’ve ever encountered in all my time using foss. I currently maintain around 80 MariaDb servers and have remarkably few problems.

Much as I like to see variety in software, I do kind of wish more recognition of MariaDb was given, and more support.

Just installed debian on a S440 tonight to replace a HP Pavilion that had just ejected its charge port. Doubt the thinkpad will have the same problem, the HPs flex so much I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did.

The thinkpad install was flawless, even had the wifi drivers in the installer without needing non-free.

That happened ™

It happens every day. Hundreds if not thousands of times.

Never heard of something like that, and I suspect anyone who started creating it soon filed it under “Really bad ideas” alongside “Whoops, why did my kernel just stop?”

sar is the traditional way to watch for high load processes, but do the basics first as that’s not exactly trivial to get going. Things like running htop. Not only will that give you a simple breakdown of memory usage (others have already pointed out swap load which is very likely), but also sorting by cpu usage. htop is more than just a linux taskmgr, it’s a first step triage for stuff like this.

Not a Lemmy resource, but if you do want reasonably unbiased news that gets suppressed - especially in certain countries, Wikipedia does cover some of it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

1490s

Yeah. Why didn’t people just stay put?

I’m older than most on here and seen more decades, and yes, I agree totally.

We’re lucky enough to have lived through a long period of relative global peace, but that seems to be drawing to an end. Corruption, fascism, stupidity, control, fear and lack of freedom are all far more now than at any time since the 1940s.

Not that I particularly want this to sound anti-American, but if there’s just less overwhelmingly US-centric news I’d be very interested.

I mean this in the nicest way, but you guys over there are fucking mental at the moment and it’s exhausting just hearing about it.

Even if you do know code, nobody reads all the source code when trying something out.

We still rely largely on trust, and herd protection. Lots of stars on github? Been around for a while? Keeps showing up in “Top lists” and on those posts on social media where people list the foss software they use? Issues get solved reasonably quickly and there’s no ancient and ignored posts on there? It hasn’t changed hands recently to somebody with a new account and no history? It’s probably a good project.

It is still a risk, but a managed one.

End of NSA dependence

Former allies are being unpredictable, and reliance on existing intelligence sharing arrangements are falling apart. It’s not so surprising that countries want to continue using the access they already have, even if one door is closed to them.

I doubt it’s just Germany drawing up contingencies after the past year.