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PeriodicallyPedantic

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2010
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  • Thermostats compatible with selfhosted Home Assistant

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  • Well that leaves me with mixed feelings.

    Thread itself doesn't need Internet connectivity, but thread seems to almost always be paired with matter, which does (during provisioning).

    I like that matter provisioning requires verification of their certificate, but I don't like that certificates can expire or the certificate authority can shut down. Although maybe that's all taken care of by the DCL? In which case that'd be fine.

  • Netbird is king.

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  • It seems similar in purpose to pangolin, how do they differ?

  • Rate limiting

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  • Can you explain a bit more about the setup?

    Like would just using a VPS with pangolin secure tunnel work? Or does it have to be a vpn for some other reason?

    Asking because maybe the question really boils down to the VPS provider with the best data transfer rates

  • Thermostats compatible with selfhosted Home Assistant

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  • If you're just starting to build out, what about using thread instead of zigbee or zwave?

  • Using VPS for remote access of my server - some questions

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  • If you're getting a VPS I'd generally recommend getting pangolin. It's basically like cloudflared tunnels, but self hosted (on the vps). It works the same, you use it to map your subdomains to IPs on the other end of the secure tunnel.

    It has things like user access controls for each of the subdomains, the ability connect it to an identity provider, rules governing which paths need authentication and which don't, etc.

    It can optionally come preconfigured with crowedsec, but I had problems with it falsely classifying my normal traffic as an attack and banning my IPs.

    Just be aware that even if your service has a login page, you first need to log into pangolin to be granted access to the service, and although that's fine on the web (especially if you're using an sso), some native apps don't like the extra login. Homeassistant handles it better now, but I haven't gotten jellyfin native android app working yet.

  • Using VPS for remote access of my server - some questions

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  • I agree except crowedsec. The apps I use were frequently phoning home, causing all my devices to get banned by crowedsec. Setting up rules around it was just too painful so I got rid of it. Gonna look into if I can set up fail2ban with it instead

  • What truly sucks about life?

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  • Becoming old

  • How did you choose your username?

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  • Sometimes I can be kinda pedantic

  • Just so there's no confusion

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  • That's the definition of an egg, not chicken egg.

    There is no universally accepted definition, that defines it by the creature that laid it or the creature that hatches from it. If there was, this dilemma wouldn't exist and there wouldn't be any debate.

  • Either the aliens have listed Earth as a no-contact planet or we are probably alone in the universe.

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  • An addendum to 4:We could be one of the first, so life is unusually sparse during this period of time.

    The universe is old, but it takes a lot to build up the components needed for life as we know it. The first two generations of stars wouldn't have created the exotic materials in quantitie we needed to seed a world with the requirements for life.And life couldn't have realistically happened much faster in a 3rd generation system than it did in our system.There are some very old 3rd Gen stars, but it's less common and iirc they're not close to us.

    TldrThis is early phases, life is going to get more common over the next few billion years.

  • Just so there's no confusion

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  • The amazing thing about imagination is it doesn't need to be consistent or based in reality. People can typically imagine such things.

    For example, I can imagine an elephant disguised as a normal sized human in a trench coat, because within my imagination, hammerspace can exist.

    As such, I can imagine an egg that has every single property of a chicken egg; look, flavour, size, smell, colour, etc, such that it was absolutely indistinguishable from a chicken egg until it miraculously hatched an alligator. I extremely strongly suspect that the overwhelming majority of people would have understood what was meant by the thought experiment.

    And literally you're just asserting you're correct by fiat. The people on the other side make the exact same argument about their side. You seem to be missing that this entire dilemma hinges on the fact that there is no specific definition for "chicken egg", so to claim you're correct by definition is baseless afaict.

    The best argument I've seen so far is that the entire dilemma doesn't even make sense since the chicken is the egg; it's the same animal just in different phases of its life, therefore one cannot come before the other; it'd be like saying "which came first, the chicken or the other chicken?". But that comes dangerously close to the question of when life begins, so gonna try to avoid that.

  • What do you think is a realistic peaceful solution to the China-Taiwan issue?

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  • Literally why I started off my comment talking about the difference between peaceful and fair.

    Because many people would consider "peaceful" to mean "without physical violence" in this context - so I described what that could be. Something china is actually actively in the process of doing.

    Idk how that means I have my head up my ass. One of us is using the wrong definition for that idiom.

  • What do you think is a realistic peaceful solution to the China-Taiwan issue?

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  • You have a crazy definition of "advocate".

    Apparently if you describe it, that is considered "advocacy" even if you explicitly denounce it.

  • The size of Portugal compared to Spain

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  • Thank you, I've always wondered how their sizes compare, this is a great visual representation. So clear.

  • Just so there's no confusion

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  • I honestly do not believe that when I said that, you not only didn't but we're unable to imagine an egg that by all properties confirmed to the expectations of a chicken egg until an alligator miraculously hatched out of it.

    I do not believe you're debating in good faith

  • What do you think is a realistic peaceful solution to the China-Taiwan issue?

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  • Why are you conflating "peaceful" with either "act of peace" or "good"? I explicitly said it wasn't fair, eg that it's unethical and I don't support it.

    All I'm saying is that China has a clear path to stop the world from getting involved if they do decide to invade, and that China has had recently success taking over countries with little violence.

    So your framing this as though I'm a Gretzky supporter is kinda wild.

  • What do you think is a realistic peaceful solution to the China-Taiwan issue?

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  • It's almost like you intentionally misunderstood my comment to make a point.

    Would it be an act of peace? Absolutely not.Would it be peace_ful_, if you ignore everything else I said in my comment? Absolutely not.

    But if OP is looking for the most peaceful (least bloodshed) way of "unifying" Taiwan and mainland China, then this is how. Remove Taiwan's value to the west, propaganda tf outta the next gen, come in with overwhelming force as the world looks on and does nothing, install pro-china govt officials, ramp up propaganda, withdrawal blantant military force.

    I explicitly said this was not fair eg it would be bad and unethical so this isn't something I support obviously.

  • What do you think is a realistic peaceful solution to the China-Taiwan issue?

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  • Peaceful or fair?

    For peaceful, I think that China needs to make it so the world doesn't depend on them for high end chip manufacturer, so the USA stops caring about them because they're not a critical strategic national interest. Then they just invade.

    The world isn't doing shit about Gaza, the world is barely doing anything about Ukraine. I think the world sits by and watches it happen, if they're not a critical strategic interest.

  • Nevermind the drink I'm holding

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  • Are you 5?

    You're clearly not supposed to answer OP's question honestly. No context is needed.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Good head-to-head reviews of handhelds that can run bazzite

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Handheld PC reviews only cover Asus and Lenovo.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    If eating a banana is ~0.1μSv, then what is holding a banana for an hour?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    It would have been really funny if a video game ejected the disk if you lost too many times

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Quick Shot

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    I don't piss in the shower, that's gross.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The movie cars is crazy

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    How do people like toast and bread rolls, but not bread crust?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Low flow toilets

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Everyone knows what first aid is, but what is second aid?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Sitting on the toilet

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    It's not funny, we need to talk to you

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Gotta make sure we're under warranty

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    I kinda feel like if I had one good fart, that'd really sort things out for me right now

  • hmmm @lemmy.world
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    hmmm

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Mmmm spicy Kraft Dinner Mac&cheese