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manicdave

@ manicdave @feddit.uk

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  • Learn to code

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  • I don't know. When I first heard about the horizon scandal I understood what had happened immediately and have since been of the opinion that making financial software that isn't Byzantine fault tolerant should be a criminal offence.

  • Alright you nerds, I made the jump to Linux.

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  • You don't have to have anything particularly special. I just have nextcloud via yunohost on a raspberry pi. It's apparently possible to just plug the harddrive in and use it as external storage, but I've mounted it in place of my home folder.

  • The glass is NOT half full

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  • What's really gonna bake your noodle is that the jug will be less full of you tilt it to the right slightly.

  • Alright you nerds, I made the jump to Linux.

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  • A bit of unsolicited advice now you're in to tinkering. Set up some kind of NAS.

    Having everything available wherever and whenever you need it is so much better than messing about with thumb drives.

  • Game Piracy 101

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  • You can use tribler as your client. It has built in onion routing.

  • Being an adult

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  • You buy several matching sets and can't match the lids to the tubs so you buy more sets and make the problem worse.

  • Being an adult

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  • You also have one piece of cutlery that you hate and you don't know where it came from. You don't get rid of it though. You'd sooner do the washing up while starving than use that stupid slightly wider fork, but it stays in the draw just in case.

  • oopsie

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  • I feel like back in the day trolling was more of an art where you'd say something stupid to expose someone's cognitive dissonance.

    Now it just refers to people being dicks. Trolling itself has become enshittified.

  • For a group that considers .world to be Reddit 2.0 and a "CIA propaganda front" they seem to get awfully mad whenever it comes up

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  • .ml vs .world fights are always hilarious. And for that reason, they should stay federated.

  • This is some Los Angeles Trump supporter LMAO.

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  • Wouldn't the neighbours house already being on fire be considered a pre existing condition?

  • The erasure of Luigi Mangione

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  • What's even more annoying is when their refinements end up putting an objectively wrong answer as the authoritative record.

    I found a question where someone new to electronics was how to get more current from a USB power supply.

    The "correct" answer that was posted before the question was closed was that a source can't limit current and the questioner should learn more about electricity.

    The actual correct answer - and probably what the questioner was looking for - is to short the data lines together because a compliant USB charger will only supply 500mA by default, not it's stated max current.

  • What could cause this botched surface?

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  • Check the whole path of the filament, or maybe rotate the part before printing. Sometimes a combination of factors can cause just enough friction to under-extrude in just parts of a print. I sometimes get it when the filament roll rubs on the holder. This looks like it could be that it's doing a fast bit while twisting the Bowden tube.

  • Meta now lets users say gay and trans people have ‘mental illness’

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  • Which crush of yours are you now glad that things didn't work out with them?

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  • "how long was she using for?"

    Oh she didn't use them, she just kept calling my heroin stupid and useless.

  • Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.?

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  • Maybe I'll actually get round to implementing my ideas 🤷

    I guess there's no harm in making it work even if nobody uses it.

    I know the peertube one is sorta broken at the minute because the WASM POW script doesn't accept difficulty as a variable. Maybe I should check up and see if anyone has fixed it.

  • Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.?

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  • A lot of crypto projects are ready for implementation right now, but they all have their own unique problems and one rather large shared problem.

    I made a peertube plugin a while back that will tip XNO to any creators you watched based on watch time.

    The user journey for everyone was as simple as could possibly be imagined. Viewers added a few quid to a browser wallet and forget about it. Creators added an XNO address to the video description and the plugin would automatically pay like 10p a minute or something. Nobody even needed an account to make it work and there was no issues with federation as long as you were watching from the instance with your wallet.

    I've even been writing my own fedi-first blog engine and been thinking about adding paywalls. It'd be super easy to do technically and the UX would be as good or better than any existing services.

    You'd just set a cookie when people look at a post and generate a new wallet on the server. If a reader wants to view a paywalled post, they click a link or scan a QR code to send payment, the payment clears in two seconds and refreshes the page. Server checks the cookie and that the new wallet has the fee in, sees the article is paid for and serves it.

    The thing is that this project is targeting a niche within a niche within a niche within a niche.

    The deepest niche is why XNO? It has JS wallets, is feeless, actually decentralised, clears within two seconds and the project leader seems to be ideologically driven to create a functional currency above all else. The problems are that it's not anonymous, it's premined, and that it's deflationary.

    Already this is a hard niche to get out of. I can already see that people will be arguing to use alternatives like monero because it's more secure, but it also has fees, is difficult to exchange for real currency and will probably get you on a no fly list. Or SOL because the fees are really low and a lot of people already use it. But I'm wanting to do instant transactions with no fees so sending pennies is feasible, so this makes me a statist spy wants to push my shitcoin because I'm a massive bag holder.

    The next niche is that we have a small user base here that's incredibly sceptical about crypto. The whole crypto sphere is incredibly toxic. It's mostly environmentally destructive and the vast majority of what it holds up is fraud, organised crime and gambling.

    The majority of pro-crypto people here are cypherpunks who put their ideological commitment to monero or bitcoin above usability. The majority of anti-crypto -and overall majority- of people here are jaded by crypto nonsense and won't give a new project a hearing.

    The next niche is marketing. We don't do that here. It's uncouth and immoral. A spam campaign would be annoying and get the spammers banned and is just generally bad in everyway. Alternatively if any of the influencers on here decided to sell out to help us reach a critical mass where crypto payments aren't entirely stagnant, we wouldn't have the money to pay them. Crypto kind of has to be unprofitable to move on from being another form of gambling.

    The last niche is onboarding. The market we want for microtransactions really isn't the market that centralised exchanges want. A decentralised payments network really should be competing with netflix and substack. We want high churn, low volume for people to be able to feasibly make an income. That's going to be ruined by the fact that people wanting to pay a tenner a month are going to lose most of that money before they even get it into a wallet, and the people recieving that money might just lose 20% of it at any given moment due to market movements.

    So after narrowing it all down this leaves us with maybe a dozen people on here left to support it but they aren't even going to cross paths enough to make any transactions.

  • I was given a "Nest Hub" by a family member, I'm very privacy conscious. What can I do with this thing?

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  • It might* be worth trying this and installing home assistant.

    *I say might because I just got some IoT stuff on sale and installed home assistant before realising there's nothing useful in home automation except zoned heating. Fun to play with though, I guess.

  • YSK "honey", the discount coupon finding browser extensions (owned by PayPal), is a scam stealing commissions from people who actually should get it.

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  • I'm all for scamming scammers, but I'm quite happy to give a tip to YouTubers I watch by way of e-commerce commissions.

  • merry holidays!

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  • On the one hand, it's bait.

    On the other hand I don't think the country that has formalised slavery and a culture of policing which views it's own citizens as prey really has the right to dictate conversation on race relations.

    In no other field would such failure be seen as authority. You wouldn't pick a garage to fix your car because them accidentally destroying the most engines shows they're experts.