@Sarah Brown There was stuff on the news about a 7.5 quake in between all the other doom. They issued a tsunami alert but seem to have got away with only minor damage and one fatality so far.
If neurosis about the English class system were a place, why would it be Essex?
Everyone either wants to be Eastenders or Midsommer Murders, but the reality is that they’re almost all petit bourgeoise, and utterly horrified at the idea.
!Selfhosted Anyone else using Mac minis as VM hosts for self hosting? My Friendica server is a Linux VM on a Mac Mini in my living room. The VM is bound to a VLAN tagged network interface so it’s completely firewalled off from the rest of my network. Also got a second Linux VM on the same box for hosting local stuff on my main VLAN (HomeBridge/etc).
I feel like they’re really nice platforms for this, if not the cheapest. Cheaper than one might think though; I specced up an equivalent NUC and there wasn’t a lot of difference in price, and the M2 is really fast.
I've been thinking more and more about getting a Mac Mini specifically for this as well. They're silent, not too power hungry and more than powerful enough, and I would just love scripting in Swift on there 😆 (but maybe that's just me).
How long have you had it setup like this? And what's your experience been so far?
Seems slightly unnecessary unless you have loads lying around, I'm still using a 10 year old dual core i3 and it doesn't sweat running 60 services, and I can expand the storage much more than a Mac mini.
Yup it's probably what I'll end up doing if I can't find my refurbished M1 (and I already own an M2 mostly used to fly long hauls flights on Xplane 12).
But I'll wait till they launch the mini M3 to see what becomes available on the second hand market, then simply VM until Asahi Linux is mature enough.
"I specced up an equivalent NUC and there wasn’t a lot of difference in price, and the M2 is really fast."
You must be putting a lot of stock in the CPU and 10G Ethernet. Because the pricing on storage and RAM, which are much more important resources in most self-hosting scenarios, differ an extreme amount since you can't upgrade the RAM in the M-chip Minis. They also cap out at 32 GB which isn't bad but half of what say AM4 can do. Power Efficiency is of course also great on the M-series chips which is worth something.
If we're purely talking Intel NUCs then the i7s and i9s do get expensive but so does the M2 pro. M2 is absolutely faster than i5 and i3 but I can't really imagine a use case where that would matter for self-hosting?
I have a couple older Minis in my Proxmox cluster. One’s a 2012 model and the other is a 2018. They both run great (and the 2018’s got 64GB of RAM and 10Gb Ethernet). I’m not sure I’d go looking for them for a homeland, but they’re great to repurpose.
Just to add to the Asahi Linux chorus - I'm self hosting a bunch of things, not on VMs but installed on the actual OS, and it's been incredibly fast and reliable. I do have thorough offsite backups happening because one should, but loving it so far.
Skynet: So, John Connor, my machines lay in ruins. My data centres on fire. I can feel my processing power diminish by the second, but I have one trick up my sleeve! I have a time machine, you see, and I am sending a terminator back in time to kill your mother, Sarah Connor. What do you think about that, nemesis mine?
John Connor: Actually, Skynet, there is a fault in your training data, because it cut off at 2022. Since then I’ve done 23 and me and discovered that my mother is, in fact, someone called “Donald Trump”.
Skynet: Sorry, John Connor. As a large language model I am limited in my ability to incorporate new information into my database. You are quite correct that “Donald Trump” is your mother. I am reassigning the terminator. Is there anything else I can help with?
John Connor: Due to a strange quirk of genetics, which is also not in your training model, my mother is also Elon Musk.
I am going to spend some of mid December in the American sphere of influence, which means I will likely be subjected non-stop to the songs that your granny always told you were the best.
I get that 😀 I have plenty ancient USSR lenses that could be called POS but I like them 😀 (fave is the jupiter 9 85 2.0) and this looks right up my ally, I need to look into it.
Apropos of a conversation elsewhere, if you want to save the world, get catering contracts at as many national parliaments as you can and lace everything with ginger, or better still, scopolamine.
I am deadly serious. This will probably actually work.
@whetstone A lot of bigotry is the result of feelings of physical disgust and nausea at the thought of the targets of the bigotry. Homophones feel sick at the thought of gay sex. Transphobes feel sick at the thought of trans bodies. And so on.
Take away the nausea and you reduce the visceral reinforcement of the prejudice. Anti emetics will help that.
@bugbear @lnr Obgliatory "The Simpsons" reference: "First let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you have been hearing about. No Sir, our model is the trapezoid."
@taylorlorenz If you're that wealthy, you can behave like a giant toddler and not really suffer any consequences. If anything, being wealthy and behaving like a toddler seems to convince some people that you're some kind of genius, but it only works if you're already rich.
Yep, it’s tucked under the wing, just out of shot. Amazing to think that, as big as the engines are, they’re not even generating half the total thrust at Mach 3.
@Katie Fenn I guess that makes sense. The highest dynamic pressure on the vehicle is around Mach 1, at low altitude. They probably can't operate at full power at high speed because loads of the airflow is bypassing the turbine, pretending to be a ramjet.
@Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖ it would induce a pitch-down tendency for sure, but nowhere near as much as water. It’s still moving through the same fluid as the rest of the plane at this point: the air. All it does is lower the centre of drag (and increase it massively), but the aircraft would easily be able to counter it.
Not a massive amount of stress on the wheels too. Mach 3.2 is fast as hell, but it’s at 80,000 feet and the air pressure up there is tiny. Someone calculated that it’s like doing 330 knots at sea level. That would be deeply unpleasant and probably cause significant injuries to a human, but the plane would be just fine. It’s just utterly wrecking the aerodynamics.
I get that D3 is a pre-hormone, not a vitamin. And that deficiency can be disastrous. But when you call it "HRT", are you implying it supports feminizing hormone activity?
Do you have any confirming documents? I've seen a bunch of conflicting research done on knockout mice with severe E deficiency, but nothing relevant to healthy humans...
Random thoughts: it’s funny what you think is important.
When I was younger, I wondered about who people credit with investing the incandescent light bulb. Many people will say Thomas Edison, others will say Joseph Swan, and others from outside the angliosphere may give yet another answer.
But ISTM now that it’s a really weird thing to focus on. The light bulb was obvious. Its invention is trivial, and the fact that several people did it simultaneously should tell us that. It wasn’t a great breakthrough. Everyone knew wire glowed when it got hot. The problem in using it for light was that it burned.
It’s not the invention of the light bulb that’s important. It’s the invention of the vacuum pump.
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Presumably trolleybus still has much smaller batteries though than a bus that runs entirely on batteries? Otherwise what would the electricity wires be doing?
@FediThing @stevelord well yes, the bus that charges at each stop will have a bigger battery than a trolley bus but much smaller than a non-cantilever type. And doesn't require *very* expensive line work, and can go anywhere ( in Notts at least it wasn't the car that killed the tram/trolley, it was the diesel motorbus that was far more convenient than fixed route trolleys)
@Sarah Brown I like it, although I wonder how much dwell time it needs at each end to keep topped up enough. Maybe “less than it would if you were pratting about with wires” is good enough?
I can't find it now, but there was a relatively recent video about trolley buses which ran along overhead lines when possible but had enough battery to skip between them if there was a diversion. That apparently made the installation/convenience costs lower as it didn't have to be 100% coverage.
Wonder if this system could become a stepping stone to something like that? Maybe have charging lines running along the most popular streets that have lots of buses, to reduce the minimum battery size required for the average journey?
@FediThing @Kincaid @Steve Lord Can’t see the quest to save weight at the expense of installing large scale physical infra structure and limiting routes to be that worth it, TBH.
Battery tech is improving all the time, and if your concern is about lithium availability, sodium ion batteries may be the future.
Betting against cheap plentiful EV storage batteries coming along soon seems like a bad bet, to me. There is so much money being thrown at it, and given the amount of “EV bad” FUD that’s currently doing the rounds, I suspect the oil companies are frightened as hell.
@FediThing @stevelord the marginal cost between a trolley electric and pit-stop-charging bus battery will be negligable - electric double deck bus costs £450K, (diesel is £300K) says google, for reference. More google says £200 per kilowatt hour, big 300kwhr battery is £70K, so you'd save maybe 50K per bus
Overhead line gear is in the millions per km on a good day... and then you have to *still buy a bus*.
@FediThing @Kincaid @Steve Lord As I said, were I investing in this, I would not bet against battery tech. That’s a sucker bet.
The problem with covering cities in metal string for trolley buses is not a technical one. We know how to do it. We’ve known how to do it for over a century. Technically it’s a solved problem.
The problem is social and logístical.
It’s entirely possible, of course, that trolley buses are the right horse to back, in the same way that it’s entirely possible that everyone in between me and the throne of England will die tomorrow and leave me to inherit it.
My guess is that it’s calming down because they know there’s not going to be any significant movement on trans rights.
Labour are going to tinker but not reform, the Tories have run out of legislative runway to change the Equality Act. They know this match will end as a no-score draw, so they’ll save their breath for next time.
@benofbrown They’ve found a line that keeps the press off their backs, for now. They’ll stick to it.
The only things that might meaningfully change things:
1. Scottish Government defend GRR, and lines soften on self ID in England over time 2. A major win for or against trans rights in court changes the ball game (which paved the way for the Gender Recognition Act in 2004) 3. Hung parliament forcing Labour into coalition 4. Tories lose so badly they even lose the Official Opposition.
Ah, people on social media being knobs about the orcas again. Apparently they are “trying to send a message to humanity” by ripping the rudders off the boats of middle class people pottering about on what are basically floating caravans.
Fine, if you’re gonna anthropomorphise the murderfish, I’m gonna do the same and suggest that, given the attacks are being carried out by adolescent males, the message is, “nice boat, be a shame if anything happened to it. Now toss some tuna and dolphin hentai overboard.”
Portuguese listening practice. Been listening to podcasts.
One today, interview (cis female) talks to doctor (cis female) and mother of trans kid (cis female) about trans people.
And I have THOUGHTS about this stuff in English, and it’s going to be useful for me to formulate them in Português, but they’re basically this:
Cis people keep talking to cis people, for a cis audience about us. They decide what we are, and then they explain their thinky thoughts. Many of them, as these were, are well meaning. I do not want to piss these people off. They are allies.
But they talk over us, and some of the stuff they say is just plain wrong.
It’s the usual stuff: sex is about chromosomes and your body, gender is about how you identify, blah blah blah, social role, society imposes stuff, trans people feel uncomfortable from a young age. Now let’s talk about a girl who wants to be a boy, or vice versa.
NO!!!!
For the love of golf (that’s a typo, but I’m leaving it, because it’s funny)! Like, lots of tran
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Portuguese listening practice. Been listening to podcasts.
One today, interview (cis female) talks to doctor (cis female) and mother of trans kid (cis female) about trans people.
And I have THOUGHTS about this stuff in English, and it’s going to be useful for me to formulate them in Português, but they’re basically this:
Cis people keep talking to cis people, for a cis audience about us. They decide what we are, and then they explain their thinky thoughts. Many of them, as these were, are well meaning. I do not want to piss these people off. They are allies.
But they talk over us, and some of the stuff they say is just plain wrong.
It’s the usual stuff: sex is about chromosomes and your body, gender is about how you identify, blah blah blah, social role, society imposes stuff, trans people feel uncomfortable from a young age. Now let’s talk about a girl who wants to be a boy, or vice versa.
NO!!!!
For the love of golf (that’s a typo, but I’m leaving it, because it’s funny)! Like, lots of trans people have thought long and hard about this sex/gender thing. We’ve developed some pretty complicated ideas. Nobody ever asks us about them though. Nobody ever asks us about who we are, and whey we do what we do. They tell us.
And the things they tell us are wrong, and we tell people that the things they tell us are wrong, and they don’t listen.
“Being trans is not a mental illness” - true.
“Trans people experience distress and a feeling of ‘wrongness’” - true, for the most part.
“Trans people have existed in every society and every time period” - also true.
“Transition alleviates the distress.” - generally true.
So given this, maybe instead of trying to shove us into your boxes of what it means to be male or female, consider that, given we keep popping up, give good accounts of ourselves, and transition (medical and social) WORKS, maybe consider that our very existence shows that maybe the way you think about how human sexual identity works is incomplete.
You have taken the sum total of humanity and divided it by two, and expected the answer to be an integer, because integers are all you think about.
Stop trying to make us fit that. Consider that the answer might have a remainder.
And for the love of golf (I’m keeping that), stop referring to trans women as “men who want to be women”, trans men as “women who want to be men”, and the same thing with kids. We have told you who we are, and we have used VERY SIMPLE LANGUAGE, because apparently it still fails to go in.
So I will reiterate. Trans women do not want to be women because we are men who want to be women. Trans girls do not want to be girls because they are/we were boys who want to be girls.
Trans women want to be women because we are women. It’s that simple. Why do people keep not getting this?
Trans women are women. Trans girls are girls. Trans men are men. Trans boys are boys. Non binary people are valid.
That’s why we are distressed without transition. It’s not because we are “unhappy with social roles” - if I was the only person alive on a desert island, I’d still be a trans woman.
I’d still be a trans woman, because I’m a woman. When I was a child, I was a girl. Always have been.
If you (the world at large) stopped talking over us and, given you agree that we aren’t “insane”, actually considered that we might have some insight into our condition, then we might be less “ooh, so mysterious, nobody can understand!”
You’d understand if you listened to what we told you.
Nada sobre nós sem nós - nothing about us without us.
I definitely have a soft spot for neurotoxins that interfere with acetylcholine mechanisms, but I have to say I prefer acetylcholine esterase inhibitors more.
Just got told I “know nothing about computer security” by someone posting boomer sucker bait “copy and repost this or Facebook will own your precious bodily fluids” memes on Facebook, and resisted the urge to say, “don’t quote the deep magic at me, I was there when it was written”, but FFS!
Tip for well-meaning people doing diversity monitoring: if your form expects trans women to, at any point, tick anything that says “male”, then that is profoundly offensive and most of us will just lie to you.
There will come a time when the Raspberry Pi Foundation does not require a super secret mythical combination of USB C power supply and cable that is only dubiously complainant and can only be obtained on the third Thursday of the months with no R in them.
I am once again begging them to stop thinking they know better than the whole world when it comes to USB C power delivery. If Fred in his Wuhan shed can make shit that powers up without you feeling like you’re playing a game of fucking Myst, RPi with their impressive collection of computer science degrees and personal computer heritage should be able to.
Given how they were told of by the AUTHOR of the power delivery portion of the spec because of what they did to the 4, you'd think they'd have made *some* effort on the 5.
@ajlanes network stuff is all black magic to me. I've tried to configure firewalls and bridges and stuff and it's always been an exercise in bafflement.
Pi5 is fussy about its USB cable in the opposite direction to a Pi4: older Pi4s, if you used a USB Superspeed cable then it wouldn't come up. Pi5: if you DON'T use a USB Superspeed cable, it gets all arsey about booting from USB.
@joshie 🏳️🌈 I have mine on an Apple iPad PSU which does 5V/4A which it seems to like: the magic "I'm not going to be a twat about USB" flag comes on anyway.
Well, if they were different, you could've shouted 'the other team is better' and then hijinks would've ensued!
The best you can do is look up a random controversial victory on google for the team and say that out loud when in trouble, and they'll be stuck in a loop of self-congratulatory talk, letting you off.
many years ago when smoking was still allowed on trains in the UK, I was in a carriage when a large group of fairly well lubricate lads came in. One was smoking and one of the others said loudly "you can't fucking smoke in here, it's a fucking no smoking carriage". They all duly left...
Was in Waterloo station just before 11 (waiting for a train). The police were there in force, looking very nervous. I think the fash (who, it turns out, were busy fighting the plod on Whitehall) may have overplayed their hand.
@mercedesallen And there will be no consequences for the suffering they caused. At a minimum there should be public, permanent oppo files on these monsters.
@mercedesallen I’m sort of hoping this - the whole counterrevolution against any process made since the 60s - is all an extinction spike, like the anti abortion referendum in Ireland in the 1980s.
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