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Admiral Patrick

@ ptz @dubvee.org

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I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

Special skills include: Knowing all the "na na na nah nah nah na" parts of the Three's Company theme.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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  • "Nyet, nyet... pyay that man his money!" Dear Fediverse-- do we have a 'film clip' sub/community here? (see post for film clip; it's from "Rounders")

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  • Only one I can find is !movieclips@lemmy.world but it's 3 years old and has 0 submissions. Maybe you can revive it? Surprisingly, the mod for it is still active on the platform.

    Otherwise, "if you build it, they will come".

  • The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.

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  • Maybe AI should be more like a parent and simply say "I don't know. Go read a book, find out, and let me know".

    Pretty sure my mom did know the answer but I learned more by reading a book and telling her what I learned.

  • Bears or no bears?

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  • new york (2) final.docx

    Lol. I would need several extra hands to count the number of times I've had people email me documents with filenames like Copy of new york (2) REVISED-final(1).docx

  • Avril Lavigne - Complicated

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  • She sings better than me. That's a pretty low bar, though 😆

  • Bears or no bears?

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  • It's like when I see a place named "Westmoreland" I'm like "Ok, so someone thought, "there's more land west of where I was, and I'm not very creative".

  • Disturbed - Land Of Confusion

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  • could be seen as passive aggressive commentary against FOSS links

    Nah, I get it. I get annoyed when people post Invidious links. Not because I'm against them, but because I run an Invidious instance myself and have a browser plugin to re-write YT links to use that one that's 15 feet away from me. But the plugin only works if the link is to YouTube. When it's some random Invidious instance on the other side of the planet, it takes forever to load because of the multiple levels of redirection and is just frustrating since my browser plugin would have redirected a YT link to my local server.

    I just figure with my ample bandwidth, PeerTube's P2P load balancing, Lemmy's small-ish userbase not sending a million simultaneous requests to it, and not having to proxy to another source (e.g. YT) it would balance out in my favor.

    Will def continue to provide "corpo" links or maybe switch back to those for the "main" link and provide FOSS ones as alternates. If you've got a preference here, just let me know.

  • Sometimes the transporter clones go a little...weird.

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  • Like so many other shows, it's on my watch list. Just haven't gotten down to it yet.

  • Disturbed - Land Of Confusion

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  • Fair enough!

    I'm a huge fan of people embracing the internet as it was originally intended rather than the corporate machine it turned into. As long as it's not some shady-looking site posted by an hour-old account, I'm perfectly content to stream some tunes from someone's basement homelab haha.

    I've got gigabit fiber so might as well spread the love. This instance is almost 3 years old, and the PeerTube instance runs under a subdomain of it, so hopefully I've established a good enough reputation that people aren't turned off by it.

  • Melania Trump's 'absolute stinker' of a documentary buried by reviewers

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  • Siskel & Ebert give the film no thumbs up: "Not even worth pirating to watch ironically".

  • Sometimes the transporter clones go a little...weird.

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  • What show are these based on? I feel like I need to watch it.

    Edit: Brooklyn Nine-nine?

  • Disturbed - Land Of Confusion

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  • Good deal.

    Not a problem. I've considered posting things from my Navidrome server (where I'm actually listening when I post here) but I don't love the idea of the links getting hit by bots and whatnot

    Heh, I've got bot detection on my web services and they're all redirected to a Nepenthes tarpit where they just get fed an endless stream of slop. Just doing my part to make the world better lol.

  • Funny car engine rebuild after 1 run

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  • That's basically me. If someone dragged me to a race, I'd be trying to find a way to watch the pit crew in action cause I wouldn't give a crap about the actual race haha.

  • In a future that will hold robotic police there will surely be robotic house burglars.

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  • We already have robotic peeping Toms, so yeah, robotic house burglars tracks.

  • cpx Introduced as a Faster, Modern Replacement for Linux cp

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  • That's probably the next wheel some overzealous Rust dev will reinvent.

  • Know when to stop

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  • Lol, exactly that.

  • Know when to stop

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  • It's not really about the karma-farming aspect of things or pleasing a crowd. It's about, in general, making a statement that's otherwise agreeable and then, often pointlessly, following it up with something backhanded, needlessly obnoxious, mean spirited, racist/xenophobic, or otherwise "not good". You know, basic tactfulness.

    A fairly tame example:

  • Know when to stop

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  • "Write out what you have to say, and then delete the last sentence" is also a valid translation and solid advice when corresponding over a written medium.

    I've read lots of comments here and elsewhere where a downvote would have been an upvote had they stopped talking one sentence earlier.

  • Do you backup your docker images?

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  • I also run (well, ran) a local registry. It ended up being more trouble than it was worth.

    Would you have to docker load them all when rebuilding a host?

    Only if you want to ensure you bring the replacement stack back up with the exact same version of everything or need to bring it up while you're offline. I'm bad about using the :latest tag so this is my way of version-controlling. I've had things break (cough Authelia cough) when I moved it to another server and it pulled a newer image that had breaking config changes.

    For me, it's about having everything I need on hand in order to quickly move a service or restore it from a backup. It also depends on what your needs are and the challenges you are trying to overcome. i.e. When I started doing this style of deployment, I had slow, unreliable, ad heavily data-capped internet. Even if my connection was up, pulling a bunch of images was time consuming and ate away at my measly satellite internet data cap. Having the ability to rebuild stuff offline was a hard requirement when I started doing things this way. That's now no longer a limitation, but I like the way this works so have stuck with it.

    Everything a service (or stack of services) needs is all in my deploy directory which looks like this:

     
        
/apps/{app_name}/
    docker-compose.yml
    .env
    build/
        Dockerfile
        {build assets}
    data/
        {app_name}
        {app2_name}  # If there are multiple applications in the stack
        ...
    conf/                   # If separate from the app data
        {app_name}
        {app2_name}
        ...
    images/
        {app_name}-{tag}-{arch}.tar.gz
        {app2_name}-{tag}-{arch}.tar.gz

    When I run backups, I tar.gz the whole base {app_name} folder which includes the deploy file, data, config, and dumps of its services images and pipe that over SSH to my backup server (rsync also works for this). The only ones I do differently are ones with in-stack databases that need a consistent snapshot.

    When I pull new images to update the stack, I move the old images and docker save the now current ones. The old images get deleted after the update is considered successful (so usually within 3-5 days).

    A local registry would work, but you would have to re-tag all of the pre-made images to your registry (e.g. docker tag library/nginx docker.example.com/nginx) in order to push them to it. That makes updates more involved and was a frequent cause of me running 2+ year old versions of some images.

    Plus, you'd need the registry server and any infrastructure it needs such as DNS, file server, reverse proxy, etc before you could bootstrap anything else. Or if you're deploying your stack to a different environment outside your own, then your registry server might not be available.

    Bottom line is I am a big fan of using Docker to make my complex stacks easy to port around, backup, and restore. There's many ways to do that, but this is what works best for me.

  • Funny car engine rebuild after 1 run

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  • Lol, yeah. That's how my friend tries to get me into Formula 1, and I can definitely see and respect it from that angle. I just can't get past the resources wasted to make a spectacle out of it. I'm just a curmudgeon like that haha.

    Those arguments go away with Formula-E but I just haven't dove into it

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    A Day in the Life of Captain Penjamin Sisko

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    May the profits and/or Prophets bless you

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Internet-Connected Consoles Are Retro Now, And That Means Problems

    hackaday.com /2025/12/22/internet-connected-consoles-are-retro-now-and-that-means-problems/
  • Raspberry Pi @programming.dev
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    The Boot Order of the Raspberry Pi is Unusual

    patrickmccanna.net /the-raspberry-pi-boot-order-is-unusual/
  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Reading "Q-Squared" and trying to follow the track changes has me like...

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Changed one letter in the subtitles and made it relevant IRL. Also dropping a new meme template.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Where in the world is Peggy Sandiego?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    50 Corns, 50 Days, 1 Message

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    How Solar Panels Work: Alternate Theory

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2025/12/shady-data-center-deals-doom-americans-to-higher-energy-bills-senators-say/
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    This is wrong on so many hilarious levels

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Follow Captain Gomez on social media for more life pro tips

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    No one knows what to call these things (AI Smart Glasses)

    www.theverge.com /gadgets/841536/smart-glasses-ai-glasses-xr-ar-headsets-terminology-wearables
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    All this shitposting is making me hungry

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    I liked this community better when it was just corn. What a great but weird few days.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    A DS9 Christmas Special: A Very Garak Christmas

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    When someone tries to "whatabout" me into a "gotcha"

  • Web Development @programming.dev
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    Anyone know the User Agent strings for the various AI browsers?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Capital Corn: What's in your teeth?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    All things in moderation