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e0qdk

@ e0qdk @reddthat.com

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Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition

I used to be on kbin as e0qdk@kbin.social before it broke down.

  • Can anyone confirm?

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  • That's a pretty decent response. The Google responses other people are posting are Cuil-tier.

  • Make the privacy SHIFT happen with the new Murena SHIFTphone 8 and its hardware kill switch - Murena - deGoogled phones and services

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  • Seem like they're not selling this one in the US?

  • US | California could mandate tobacco-style health labels on social media

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  • We keep the entomologists in the basement.

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  • There are parasitoid wasps that lay eggs inside other species of insect and have a symbiotic relationship with polydnaviruses that suppress the host's immune system so it doesn't attack the wasp eggs.

    Basically, if you're an unlucky caterpillar, ant, or whatever, a wasp may come along, penetrate you with its girldick (ovipositor), and give you insect AIDS so that its young can hatch inside you and eat your still living flesh...

  • Is there a self-hosted project that does url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion?

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  • There's something else going on there besides base64 encoding of the URL -- possibly they have some binary tracking data or other crap that only makes sense to the creator of the link.

    It's not hard to write a small Python script that gets what you want out of a URL like that though. Here's one that works with your sample link:

     
            #!/usr/bin/env python3

    import base64
    import binascii
    import itertools
    import string
    import sys

    input_url = sys.argv[1]
    parts = input_url.split("/")
      
    for chunk in itertools.accumulate(reversed(parts), lambda b,a: "/".join([a,b])):
      try:
        text = base64.b64decode(chunk).decode("ascii", errors="ignore")
        clean = "".join(itertools.takewhile(lambda x: x in string.printable, text))
        print(clean)
      except binascii.Error:
        continue

    Save that to a file like decode.py and then you can you run it on the command line like python3 ./decode.py 'YOUR-LINK-HERE'

    e.g. 

     
            $ python3 ./decode.py 'https://link.sfchronicle.com/external/41488169.38548/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG90ZG9nYmlsbHMuY29tL2hhbWJ1cmdlci1tb2xkcy9idXJnZXItZG9nLW1vbGQ_c2lkPTY4MTNkMTljYzM0ZWJjZTE4NDA1ZGVjYSZzcz1QJnN0X3JpZD1udWxsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV90ZXJtPWJyaWVmaW5nJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zZmNfYml0ZWN1cmlvdXM/6813d19cc34ebce18405decaB7ef84e41'
    https://www.hotdogbills.com/hamburger-molds/burger-dog-mold

    This script works by spitting the URL at '/' characters and then recombining the parts (right-to-left) and checking if that chunk of text can be base64 decoded successfully. If it does, it then takes any printable ASCII characters at the start of the string and outputs it (to clean up the garbage characters at the end). If there's more than one possible valid interpretation as base64 it will print them all as it finds them.

  • Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent

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  • Stock Android users, are you considering switching your phone to another OS such as /e/os, GrapheneOS, LineageOS?

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  • My old phone is 5+ years old at this point and the battery's going spicy pillow on me... Considering replacing it with one of Murena's offerings (which ship with /e/OS) but I'm still on the fence.

  • Silksong main menu glitching?

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  • I haven't encountered that running the GOG Windows version through Lutris.

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 37]

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  • I'm not sure if it ever made it to DVD.

    It did. I have a DVD copy in a box somewhere.

  • How could AI be better than an encyclopedia?

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  • If it actually worked reliably enough, it would be like having a dedicated, knowledgeable, and infinitely patient tutor that you can ask questions to and interactively explore a subject with who can adapt their explanations specifically to your way of thinking. i.e. it would understand not just the subject matter but also you. That would help facilitate knowledge transfer and could reduce the tedium of trying to make sense of something that's not explained well enough for you to understand (as written) with your current background knowledge but which you are capable of understanding.

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    Anime with a high death count that's actually good?

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  • I also recommend From The New World (Shin Sekai Yori).

  • Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive

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  • It doesn't actually include all the media, and -- I think -- edit history. It does give you a decent offline copy of the articles with at least the thumbnails of images though.

    Edit: If you want all the media from Wikimedia Commons (which may also include files that are not in Wikipedia articles directly) the stats for that are:

    Total file size for all 126,598,734 files: 745,450,666,761,889 bytes (677.98 TB).

    according to their media statistics page.

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 30 minutes and counting now

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  • I just got it a half hour ago (2025-09-04 ~3PM UTC) on GOG and can confirm -- no issues at that time!

  • How to relax and most importantly stop thinking about the things i could be doing?

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  • I had similar problems and couldn't figure out how to get out of that cycle before it ended up with me having panic attacks, and anxiety/depression bad enough to be put on SSRIs. If you can't relax and feel tense all the time, that is a serious issue! Nip it in the bud if you can.

    What I eventually figured out is that I needed separation between my work and my personal time -- and yes, those kinds of personal projects are still work even if you're just doing them for yourself.

    Decide how long you want to dedicate to working -- then hold yourself to that. Like, actually write down the start and end times you worked so that you can prove to yourself that you really put in the effort. I use plain text files on my computer for this; do what works for you. After you've put in the time you committed to, you are OFF THE CLOCK. Stop working -- even if you have to force yourself -- and go do something else. Without guilt.

  • Having trouble setting up Nginx

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  • Nginx is running in Docker

    Are you launching the container with the correct ports exposed? You generally cannot make connections into a container from the outside unless you explicitly tell Docker that you want it to allow that to happen... i.e. assuming you want a simple one-to-one mapping for HTTP and HTTPS standard ports are you passing something like -p 80:80 -p 443:443 to docker run on the command line, adding the appropriate ports in your compose file, or doing something similar with another tool for bringing the container up?

  • Putting HDDs to sleep

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  • I've put drives into standby mode with the gnome disks GUI tool on my regular desktop when they were being noisy and I wanted some peace for a while. If the drive was mounted before I put it to sleep, trying to access something on the disk will cause it to spin back up.

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    Can we all agree kids shouldn't be watching Porn?

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  • Fuck no, I don't agree with that at all. People mature at different rates, and the main reason IMO not to show sexual content to very little kids is that they literally don't have the capability to understand it having not yet hit puberty. If you're old enough to be interested in sexuality, you're old enough that you're going to start trying to explore it... and it's a hell of a lot safer to explore it through media than through doing things IRL. I don't think there's anything particularly harmful about a ~13+ year old searching for boobs or dicks if they're interested and want to see them; I did it myself. I may have gotten a few weird ideas about sex from seeing porn online when I was a teenager -- that took me a couple years to sort through while growing up -- but I never got an STD or got anyone pregnant from looking at porn!

    I reached the point of being interested in sexuality around 9th grade -- and I seemed to be on the late side compared to my peers based on things I heard from them in 7th and 8th grade. As far as I can recall, the first time I encountered something explicitly sexual was in a novel I found at a library when I was in 6th grade; I was more traumatized by the taboo around sexuality than anything in the book itself (which was a fairly tame sexual fantasy that the main character had involving comparing a girl's breasts to fruit of various sizes, IIRC). I was not ready for that content yet, and that led to me having a formative conversation with my dad about the subject -- i.e. it was ultimately a positive experience for me growing up, even though I was briefly uncomfortable for a bit while I was going through it. When I was a teenager, I was ready to deal with it and sought it out on my own. Speaking as someone who grew up in the goatse/lemonparty/tubgirl era of the internet, if I ran into something that was too extreme, I backed off and said "yeah, that ain't for me!" I don't think I would've turned out better if I'd been locked out of it.

  • Bandcamp - A community to share and discuss Bandcamp music

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  • Thanks for the ping! I'll post a few links to some albums I've been listening to lately to help kick things off. Curious to see what other people like as well!

  • The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room

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  • I'm not complaining about Framework's HW there; my old desktop (which uses an ASUS MB, IIRC) had that issue. I'm on my own figuring out WTF is going wrong between the CPU, the kernel, quirks of the motherboard, BIOS, GPU -- or whatever else might be causing it to enter a boot loop if I try to suspend and then resume the system.

    If I had a similar problem with the Framework system, I could go to Framework and say "Fix it!" and expect to get help because they officially support the configuration. That's my point.