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Great Blue Heron

@ GreatBlueHeron @lemmy.ca

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  • It makes sense to subscribe to niche communities on Lemmy because the popular ones appear in c/all anyway.

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  • Two thoughts -

    1. I believe (with nothing to support it) that "in the beginning" a bunch of communites were created by some sort of automation, to mirror Reddit, and they are now dead because no-one actually wanted them here in the first place and
    2. I often join communites because I'm mildly interested in the topic and am curious to learn more by observing to conversation - I'll probably never end up posting. I don't have any weight to pull in this scenario.

  • LibreOffice Leave X/Twitter in favor of Mastodon

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  • I'm not sure if it's Lemmy or my client (Jerboa) but when I tap on that link I don't get their real Mastodon profile. I get something that looks legit, but it has minimal details and only one post from 9 months ago??

  • Russian losses exceeded recruitment for second month in a row, Ukraine says

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  • ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

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  • It's not just that it's slavery, but it's literally destroying the people doing it. Being exposed to so much horrendous content has lasting impact. It's like the coal mines (or any number of other body destroying examples) but it's not lungs that suffer, it's the brain.

  • Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now.

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  • I've been using Niagara forever (since at least early 2019) and it is different, but it really works for me. I've tried to use other launchers from time to time out of curiosity but keep coming back.

  • Jensen Huang: Israel has become Nvidia’s second home

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  • I'll disagree. The Israeli leadership is doing horrible things and the only way for those of us not in Israel to attempt to stop them is to boycott all of Israel - we have no way of picking and choosing products/services from Israel that will help/hurt the regime. Moves like this by NVIDIA are seen as subverting the boycott in a very significant way and draw out the negative responses you see here. The only people that can legitimately change the Israeli leadership are the Israeli people and they are going to face negative opinions from outside until they do. I understand very well that I'm extremely lucky that I live in a country that has not been taken over by fascists and I do what I can to keep it that way.

  • Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw

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  • I can't remember the timeline - whichever came first should have been the last.

  • Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw

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  • Grab em by the pussy should have been the last straw!

  • Anti-Corruption Foundation exposes Putin’s new palace in Crimea — with its own fully-equipped private hospital

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  • I had no idea where Aya was so I looked it up. It's about as far west as he could possibly get and still be in "Russia". It's probably a lovely spot on the black sea, but I'm sure there are nice places that are safer. It's like he's deliberately looking for ways to be aggressive and project power.

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    Latest Epstein release contains picture of Noam Chomsky with Steve Bannon

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  • Nah, the left is going to get a real thought leader any day now

  • Can I develop without VS Code?

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  • I understand that - that's why I mentioned terminal sessions into my home assistant instance and the file editor add-on. But when developing a home assistant component the only way to run it is in a home assistant instance. VS Code with devcontainers provides a development home assistant instance for this purpose. If I'm just editing the files in my production instance then I need to keep.restarting it to load new versions etc. Maybe I'll just install another instance for development.

  • Can I develop without VS Code?

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  • Yeah, I'm just learning that now. Devcontainers is great because it runs a full instance of Home Assistant for debugging and test. There is DevPod Containers that might do the same thing, but I don't use DevPod so it's also a bit overwhelming (using that word a lot today..) to get going and I'm not sure if it's compatible with the devcontaiers configuration in the Home Assistant dev tree.

  • Can I develop without VS Code?

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  • Codium sounds perfect - thanks. It's still going to be a bit overwhelming - but that's another learning experience.

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Can I develop without VS Code?

  • Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution.

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  • Thank you. I made a comment about it being a shame that we don't capture the waste heat from some process a while back and someone quipped something like "2nd law of thermodynamics moment". I went and did some reading, but couldn't make sense of it. Your explanation makes sense.

  • Thanks Solver

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  • You can't always trust the KPatience solver for some games. I have not worked out yet which games it's broken for but I routinely win Simple Simon games that it says can't be won. There others, but I can't remember which.

    I also have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the solver hinting - I'd like hints to only point out moves that I've missed based on the cards on the table. The hints often seem to be positioning the cards for future moves.

  • Options for under performing Cat6 cable

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  • I'd had good luck running similar length copper outside, between buildings, in the past. I had regular blue indoor cat5 just under the surface, tacked to the bottom of fences etc for 7 years and never had a problem with it. Dropping a roll of pre terminated cable built for direct burial in the trench seemed like a no brainer.

    With the benefit of hindsight - having that 4' deep trench open was a once in a lifetime opportunity that I should have better taken advantage of.

  • Options for under performing Cat6 cable

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  • I think I've figured it out, but have not fixed it.

    I'm fairly sure it's a ground loop type issue. It comes and goes. It ran at 1Gbps for a few weeks at one point and I thought it was resolved, but it's now back to 100Mbps.

    I have a few options - I have a pair of Ubiquiti airmax gigabeams that I can put back into service, I can dig a shallow trench and bury some fibre (it only recently occurred to me that fibre is not electricity so doesn't need to be down 2') or I can dig a shallow trench and bond the ground between the two buildings.

    The gigabeams are obviously the easiest, the fibre is the best (and what I should have done in the first place) and bonding the grounds would only really be out of curiosity to see if it actually works.

    And with your advice I have another option - double check the contacts for cleanliness and possible corrosion.

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Should I get a ZBT-2?

  • Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away

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  • You are correct - they have no legal obligation. They do however have a moral obligation. It seems to me that if corporations want to be people when it comes to things like political donations then they should be people when it comes to their moral obligations as well.

  • [WindowMaker] Stuck in the 2000's

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  • I switched my main desktop from Windows to Linux a few months back. I've been running KDE, but it just doesn't feel right. I recently tried IceWM with the Motif theme and it's much more comfortable. I was a Unix admin in the '90's and '00's.

    If I can find an audio mixer applet that works (volumeicon does not like my system for some reason..) and figure out how to stop the screen blanking when Firefox is playing a video I think I'll make the change permanent.

  • Everything ZFS @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Help - who mounted all my snapshots??

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Any IKEA Zigbee experts here?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Finally using Linux as my desktop

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    I don't get the love for Nextcloud - alternative for just files?

  • Android @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Is Google deliberately crippling my phone...

  • Electricians @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    More weird potential offsets

  • Electricians @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Supply voltage variance

  • Electricians @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    20V AC between slab and electrical ground

  • Google Pixel @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    I'll be looking for Pixel alternatives when I can afford a new phone

  • networking @sh.itjust.works
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Options for under performing Cat6 cable

  • Everything ZFS @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    To scrub, or not to scrub

  • nextcloud @lemmy.ml
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Apache or nginx WebDAV with Nextcloud sync client?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Should I move to Docker?

  • Sony @lemdro.id
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Google is now putting product ads on the home screen of my Sony Bravia TV