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I'm thankful that despite being an outlander in a new town, I can trust my neighbors.
No. 404 media is written by people. I've personally been impressed by their reporting over the last year.
You could use your SDR to record yourself on a random simplex frequency instead of the repeater. Dial down your transmit power to minimum so you're not blasting everyone. After all you only need the signal to reach your SDR. Key up, start with your callsign and announce a microphone test. Then say a short sentence or two while listening to your SDR.
Choose a clear frequency that's slightly off from national simplex and I think you'll be fine.
Looks like a briar pipe of some kind. I don't really know my pipes but I think it could be a churchwarden or a sherlock style.
There are plenty of online shops that would sell similar pipes. It's a question of how close to the photo you want it to be. I think a high quality briar pipe can run a few hundred dollars. However, you should be able to get something for 30-80 USD if you look at entry-level options.
I sometimes enjoy smoking from my long stemmed 18th century replica clay pipes, which I purchased from pipeshoppe.com. Historically, clay pipes were cheap to produce and somewhat disposable. Even today a fancier clay pipe can be had for <50 USD. However, their current selection of wooden pipes is a bit sparse so you'd have to look elsewhere to match what's in the photo.
I always assumed that it was to quickly delineate what people say in their capacity as a citizen vs what they say in their capacity as a representative of their government.
"Sarah Carter, from the Canadian embassy, says to avoid the all-you-can-eat buffet" could be interpreted as a personal opinion. "Canada says to avoid the all-you-can-eat buffet" is clearly an official statement.
Plus, sometimes the news may be reporting on a memo or announcement from a government entity which was crafted by several people and has no author listed.
I once had a directory in /tmp called etc which contained subdirectories for something I was migrating.
I thought that I was in /tmp when I ran rm -rf etc... I was actually in /
I really enjoyed the Witcher 1. What really sealed it for me was the questline
Vizima Confidential
The whole detective arc was very staisfying, and even if it got a little tedious, I felt like a real flatfoot running around the city chasing down leads.
Hell, you can't even solve the mystery by following the quest. IIRC it's only by talking to the undertaker at the right time that you discover Raymond is a fake.
It beat the pants off of anything from Witcher 2. I also prefer the alchemy system from TW1.
I dislike that TW2 is basically half a game until you replay it. I'm all for branching paths, but compared to TW1 and TW3, TW2 felt way too short.
Forbes 30 under 30 huh?
Reminds me of something...
I bought an Intel GPU for my media server: I got a killer deal for an AMD CPU that didn't have integrated graphics. I just needed a little something for transcodes, and I wanted:
- AV1 support
- kernel modules that ship by default with most distros
- low power consumption
- small size
Turns out that the Intel ARC A380 was a relatively affordable GPU that filled all those needs. Using Ubuntu server, it worked out of the box.
Me getting my identity verified by Nigel the porno photographer because he's an upstanding gentleman
"Yeah, I'd know that asshole anywhere"
It would be interesting if the ring ever made its way onto DS9 and into Quark's hands. Everyone would wonder why he's obsessing about a ring made of worthless gold.
Alternative solution: They collect a sample of lava from Mt. Doom and dump it on Bag End.
I wonder what the envisioned use-case for this would be. Probably not for everyday users, but perhaps industrial technicians at a remote worksite? Something like driving out to a site and then flying to the top of a mountain to inspect radio antennas or wind turbines?
I just wonder if it would ever make sense, considering that most industrial applications would probably still require a licensed pilot to fly the quadcopter part.
The one ring is sitting on the transporter room floor
"Mr. O'Brien, beam it into the fires! Destroy it!"
"No"
I think this is probably more a copy of various East Asian social media services than anything Reddit-like. Pretty sure TikTok and a bunch of Chinese video streaming services already do this. I think the whole Money -> Gifts -> Rubies -> Money chain is intended to dance around money laundering legislation. The same way that Pachinko machines aren't technically considered gambling in Japan.
Also, what is “Harry” short for?
Harold?
The problem isn't just that people are making AI slop: It's also a problem that Zuck has seen the engagement that this trash generates and realized that it's good for Meta's metrics. They're never going to do anything to stop it if the alternative is that investors might realize that Facebook is a rotten log.
If you're doing activities outdoors: Always bring an extra bottle of water. That is to say, bring a bottle to drink, and then another for when you get thirstier than expected. This season is relatively cool, but you really don't want to be caught unprepared. Also: Arizona has a law requiring businesses to serve water for free if you ask. Don't let anyone bullshit you and ask for money.
Keep an eye on the weather reports, and do not hike down washes, ravines, or narrow canyons if there's a rain storm anywhere nearby. Heavy rainfall several miles away can turn a sunny, dry ravine into a raging torrent that can kill. If you see a road that's currently flowing with water, don't try to cross it, even in a big car. You don't know how deep it really is, and even just a few cms of fast water is enough to sweep a person off their feet and drown them. It doesn't take much more to get a car stuck.
If you're going to Northern Arizona, bring warm clothes. People can be caught unprepared when they leave Phoenix for a day trip and it's 60⁰F, but when they get to Flagstaff 2h later it's snowing.
If you see a Jumping Cholla:
Don't get too close. Their spines are longer than they look because they get so thin as to be nearly invisible.
Just from a quick glance, you might want to check your client-side GET request: Ask yourself what happens when the file is larger than your packet buffer? Use the debugger or print statements to confirm if your expectations match reality. It might help to do some testing with a really tiny buffer (eg 5 bytes) so you can step through your 21 byte payload easily. What happens when your buffer is smaller than the DONE packet? If your implementation is correct then we would expect that even a 1 byte buffer should work in all cases.
I see a similar code pattern in your server-side PUT request, so if you can solve it for one half, you should be able to fix both.
Exploitation/underground animated films?
Anyone have recommendations for more films like Heavy Metal, or the stuff Ralph Bakshi made? There's a kind of sleaze to those low-budget animated movies that I find fun, but the art is also really compelling.
It doesn't have to be 70s/80s
I got a secondhand Amscope a few weeks back. Haven't used it for soldering yet, because I need a proper temperature controlled iron with finer tips than my current one.
It's been great for pulling splinters out of my fingers though!
Look up the GPU on these charts to find out what codecs it will support: https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new
NVENC support will tell you what codecs your GPU can generate for client devices, and NVDEC support determines the codecs your GPU can read.
Then compare it with the list of codecs that your Intel can handle natively.
Praise-post for OpenMW for android
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/18604056
> I'm playing for the first time in my life now. > > I've recently had my first kid, and as such, I need a game that I can quickly pick up and put down. Ideally, the game is also playable in long form as well. > > Enter openmw for android. > The only on screen controls that have ever been usable. Convenient quick save. Minimal load times. > > I can hop on, play a little, and get off in a hurry if I need to. I thought I'd be stuck playing old Pokemon ROMs with save states until she hit an age of independence.
Some docker containers need manual start after host reboot
I generally let my server do its thing, but I run into an issue consistently when I install system updates and then reboot: Some docker containers come online, while others need to be started manually. All containers were running before the system shut down.
- My containers are managed with docker compose.
- Their compose files have
restart: always - It's not always the same containers that fail to come online
- Some of them depend on an NFS mount point being ready on the host, but not all
Host is running Ubuntu Noble
Most of these containers were migrated from my previous server, and this issue never manifested.
I wonder if anyone has ideas for what to look for?
SOLVED
The issue was that docker was starting before my NFS mount point was ready, and the containers which depended on it were crashing.
Symptoms:
journalctl -b0 -u docker showed the following log lines (-b0 means to limit logs to the most recent boot):
level=error msg="failed to start container" container=fe98f37d1bc3debb204a52eddd0c9448e8f0562aea533c5dc80d7abbbb969ea3 error="error while creating mount source path '/mnt/nas/REDACTED': mkdir /mnt/nas/REDACTED: operation not permitted" ... level=warning msg="ShouldRestart failed, container will not be restarted" container=fe98f37d1bc3debb204a52eddd0c9448e8f0562aea533c5dc80d7abbbb969ea3 daemonShuttingDown=true error="restart canceled" execDuration=5m8.349967675s exitStatus="{0 2024-10-29 00:07:32.878574627 +0000 UTC}" hasBeenManuallyStopped=false restartCount=0
I had previously set my mount directory to be un-writable if the NFS were not ready, so this lined up with my expectations.
I couldn't remember how systemd names mount points, but the following command helped me find it:
systemctl list-units -t mount | grep /mnt/nas
It gave me mnt-nas.mount as the name of the mount unit, so then I just added it to the After= and Requires= lines in my /etc/systemd/system/docker.service file:
[Unit] Description=Docker Application Container Engine Documentation=https://docs.docker.com After=network-online.target docker.socket firewalld.service containerd.service time-set.target mnt-nas.mount Wants=network-online.target containerd.service Requires=docker.socket mnt-nas.mount ...
The Ramses mission would rendezvous with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its 2029 close approach to Earth.
Can't we just toss some C4 at it?
"Realtime" mods?
Anyone know of any realtime menu mods for OpenMW? Specifically, I'd like to have dialog take place in real time. It always feels strange that I can have a whole conversation with someone, but never recuperate my fatigue level.
Is anyone still alive here?
Not even sure if my posts will be federated with this community.
Once I get some furniture back from the repair shop (fuck you, shipping company), I'll have something to share.
Recommendation: Affordable soldering station for SMD work
I recently got a nice deal on a stereo microscope, and leapt at the chance. I've had a few projects in mind that would entail SMD soldering, and now all I need is a proper soldering station.
My current iron is pretty basic, but gets the job done for splicing wires and DIP work. Now I want something with temp control and a good supply of tips.
It seems like hobbyists are all talking about affordable Chinese T12 stations from brands like KSGER and Quecoo. There are just so many different models, it's hard to understand the features and differences. It also seems like there's a lot of "Reddit folk knowledge" where people just keep repeating what others have said. Eg: People say that some KSGER stations have no case grounding, but nobody says which models do or don't have the issue. All of them? Then people talk about the microcontrollers STM vs STC, but nobody says why it matters.
Changing coffee beans: What do you do when there aren't enough beans to make a final brew?
In our house, we generally go for variety in our coffee beans. That means when we are finishing one bag, we're going to open a different bag with totally different beans inside.
What do you do if there aren't enough old beans to make a full serving of coffee?
It may be heresey, but I mix the final old beans with a few beans from the new bag and call it my "bonus blend".
Amateur radio IP networks. What's out there?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/20077977
> What cool stuff is going on with IP over ham radio? I want to build simple services accessible to other hams in my area, and would love to learn about what's out there. > > - New Packet Radio: This looks pretty cool, although until the FCC makes a decision on updated VHF/UHF bandwidth and symbol rate restrictions, I'll hold off on buying any dedicated hardware > > - Broadband HamNet: I'm not sure if there's any existing network in my area. Since it's 802.11 with yagis and amplifiers, I feel like you'd need a good density of local users for anything cool to develop. > > - AX.25 with TCP/IP: I might play around with this. It doesn't require equipment except a UHF/VHF radio, antenna, and a computer, so it might be easier to convince others to try it too. Obviously you're very limited in bitrate, but it would be fun to set up a gohper hole or a BBS. > > > Are there other technologies or projects worth looking into? Even though I'm not personally interested in buying new equipment for it, I'd still like to hear what's out there.
Amateur radio IP networks. What's out there?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/20077977
> What cool stuff is going on with IP over ham radio? I want to build simple services accessible to other hams in my area, and would love to learn about what's out there. > > - New Packet Radio: This looks pretty cool, although until the FCC makes a decision on updated VHF/UHF bandwidth and symbol rate restrictions, I'll hold off on buying any dedicated hardware > > - Broadband HamNet: I'm not sure if there's any existing network in my area. Since it's 802.11 with yagis and amplifiers, I feel like you'd need a good density of local users for anything cool to develop. > > - AX.25 with TCP/IP: I might play around with this. It doesn't require equipment except a UHF/VHF radio, antenna, and a computer, so it might be easier to convince others to try it too. Obviously you're very limited in bitrate, but it would be fun to set up a gohper hole or a BBS. > > > Are there other technologies or projects worth looking into? Even though I'm not personally interested in buying new equipment for it, I'd still like to hear what's out there.
Amateur radio IP networks. What's out there?
What cool stuff is going on with IP over ham radio? I want to build simple services accessible to other hams in my area, and would love to learn about what's out there.
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New Packet Radio: This looks pretty cool, although until the FCC makes a decision on updated VHF/UHF bandwidth and symbol rate restrictions, I'll hold off on buying any dedicated hardware
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Broadband HamNet: I'm not sure if there's any existing network in my area. Since it's 802.11 with yagis and amplifiers, I feel like you'd need a good density of local users for anything cool to develop.
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AX.25 with TCP/IP: I might play around with this. It doesn't require equipment except a UHF/VHF radio, antenna, and a computer, so it might be easier to convince others to try it too. Obviously you're very limited in bitrate, but it would be fun to set up a gohper hole or a BBS.
Are there other technologies or projects worth looking into? Even though I'm not personally interested in buying new equipment for it, I'd still like to hear what's out there.
Small animals dying in the window well of my basement
I work in a basement office. There is a below-grade egress window, with a 3-4ft ladder and a large plexiglass dome that you can push out of the way.
I noticed a terrible smell when I opened my window the other day, and it was because of a dead mouse that presumably couldn't get out of the recess. On inspection, I found the remains of several more dead rodents there, so this has been a problem in the past too.
Any ideas on how to prevent this? I both feel bad for the dead animals and am disgusted by the smell when they decay. The plexiglass dome has chicken wire for airflow, so I can't necessarily block those off. Maybe there's some method to repell them, or help them escape?
OpenMW Lua: Music playlist support merged
Moves playlist logic from C++ to Lua. Basically, it uses an approach from Skyrim - when you can have several active playlists in the same time...
The latest dev builds of OpenMW now support music playlists run from Lua. Mods could now create custom music playlists based on location, weather, combat status, or anything else that can be measured with Lua. The pull request includes a sample mod to play certain music when fighting muscrabs.
I look forward to all the new ambience mods that this will make possible!
Morrowind as my rock
Sounds a bit trite, but Morrowind represents a kind of comfy stability for me. I can always go to Vvardenfel any time, and it's always the same place.
Yesterday, I moved houses. The neighborhood is different, there are boxes everywhere, I can't find anything, and there's no internet. On top of that, I get very stressed out whenever even a small thing in my life changes. I try to focus on one task at a time, and that's all I can do.
However, all I need for Morrowind is to unpack my PC, monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Tonight, when the takeout food is gone, but I'm not ready to sleep (in a new room that smells weird), there will be Morrowind.
Lua mod showcase: AttendMe
Figured I'd share some of my favorite OpenMW mods. Today is AttendMe, a cool UI for monitoring your companions. It tracks health, stamina, magicka, as well as whatever spells/weapons they have equipped. I find it very useful for all the slave rescue quests, so I know who to heal.
Maggie Chow: What was her plan?
Played DX a few times, but the only part of the plot that never fully makes sense to me is Maggie Chow:
- She is an MJ12 plant who knows JC is Paul's brother, but doesn't know he's a fugitive? Or she does know he's a fugitive but doesn't call her MJ12 guards to take him out?
- She sends JC to the police station on a mission to steal information, but then the information incriminates her. Why? JC even asks her what she expected to happen.
Not so much a plot thing, but I also find it strange that she runs up to fight JC in Versalife with just a sword and no armor. It's the least threatening fight in the game. I know the people in Hong Kong say she used to do Kung Fu movies, it would have been cool if there was some allusion to that during the fight.