7/10 when an average show is 5/10, 9/10 when the whole rating skews towards high values, on IMDB anything average gets 7-8 points.

Thought the 1st season was pretty good, 7/10 normal rating, 9/10 IMDB-style rating. Never read the books (don’t know why), so that didn’t colour anything. Very excited to watch the new season, though I don’t even know when, our backlog is currently the final 3 episodes of BSG rewatch, Succession, From, Silo. Good thing it comes out weekly, that way there’s no rush to start it ;)

Note that proxmox also supports containers (LXCs), they are just different from Docker containers.

LXCs are closer to VMs than Docker containers are, but they are still different. One big difference: Docker containers are stateless/immutable, while LXCs are not. I prefer the mutability ;)

Proxmox is often recommended because it makes administering things easy (never used k8s, but I heard it makes it rather hard because it’s built for scale) when you use LXCs (though you can still use docker, I have a VM for docker-only apps), incremental backups with deduplication thanks to PBS, still efficient backups otherwise, everything with a nice web interface, but with nice command line tools available.

I checked, the !lemmy bang is not in use ;)

Yes, but it’s not as easy as appending “lemmy”. Here, the content is spread over a wide number of URLs, and unlike reddit, they don’t rank super high in the results.

But thanks to federation, search engines should eventually pick up most content, even when concentrating on just a few big instances. I’m guessing that eventually, you’ll be able to do a search with site:lemmy.ml and get most results (as with that many users, chances are high any other post has been copied via federation). Until then, you might need a more widespread search, I created a lens for kagi (paid search engine), that searches the biggest instances: kbin.social, lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works, lemm.ee, programming.dev

The result is this:

That does not work with site:lemmy.ml and would instead require site:lemmy.world on google.

Caveat: Duplicate content detection might really throw things off. Normally, if two sites have the same content, but different URLs and no canonical html reference, then one will be detected as spam (or should be), I’m not sure how search engine indexing will be affected by this in the future.

I think it is (well, it would be here), but the oppressed person in an abusive relationship rarely sues. The software itself is legal because it’s just software.

Ubiquity Unifi AC-Lite. But if I were to redo it, I’d use something that runs OpenWRT.

Crime is high, but I guess I’ve been lucky, overall I’ve now spent about 10 months there without ever being the victim of a crime (well, unless you count the fuckhead of our white racist landlady stifling us on our deposit)

Just tested it, at least with number of characters in a word and splitting words, GPT4 does it flawlessly.

South Africa: Hate of walking, danger of walking.

I’m from Germany, I’ve walked to school in 1st grade already. In South Africa there’s an American-Style car culture, and a lot of crime. So mostly the very poor walk. I’ve lived there for half a year in a rich area. I walked to the store, because it’s a nice walk (Uber back, because we lived on top of a mountain… some of the cars even struggled, only tried walking that direction once) every time I went shopping, I was the only white guy to walk that street. Some black employees (it was a rich area) of the mansions there were walking, but mostly it was just SUVs.

My wife’s niece’s school is maybe 1 km away from where they live. Car, both ways, every time. She’s 13.

Last time we visited, we went to a restaurant. It was dark (minor culture shock: It’s crazy how fast the sun disappears in comparison to Northern Germany. Bright-dark-black. No slow sunset) when we walked back (~500 meters). When we arrived, her uncle was just leaving and told us we really shouldn’t do that, it’s far too dangerous. About 350 meters of those were brightly lit …

Also, not so much culture shock directly, but a ton of things were new and strange to me, a white guy whose exposure to black people was pretty much just TV and cinema. Simply that hair works so different was completely new to me because I never thought about it.

In SA, there’s some added strangeness from surviving tribal rituals that sometimes get blended or live side-by-side with Christianity. Last time we were there (my wife is from the Sotho tribe), there was the ritual overnight slaughter and cooking of a lamb, which also involved making bread and brewing some kind of beer, and then eat, drink and either smoke or take snuff. Even the tiniest amount was okay, so even the children participated. This was to ask the ancestors to bless our lives and our trip back to Germany. Then, because a ton has (?, not quite clear, my wife is not very traditional :D) to be made, they had to find people to eat/drink all that stuff.

That wasn’t always the case, when I was younger the clubs had to close at 5. Which meant locking the door and only allowing people out, but not in. Until 6 when they opened again for the morning club ;)

easier overwiev of your spending

It’s the opposite for me. I have to be far more involved to track cash payments, with bank accounts I can easily see and track everything and make sure my budget stays in sync.

It was never true, I’ve been paying almost exclusively with cards for years, but since Covid & SumUp (easy and cheap card reader, including a phone extender) I finally feel comfortable simply not having cash at all most of the time. Last year’s Christmas market had several booths with PayPal options, as did a few flea market’s I’ve been to this year.

I did not mean to imply they are not. This was simple the single biggest outpouring of toxicity I had seen, so far. I have a very low opinion of humanity, so it’s not as if I expect any one group to be better.

You search for the URL. Not sure why that is required, but doing that works. Once someone has subscribed, the normal /c/communityname@kbin.social works.

• Shady company, free-tier stopped working for fake reasons. But it’s very fast: NopeCHA

• OSS with multiple backends: https://github.com/dessant/buster

Captcha or ReCaptcha are easier to solve for the bot I use to solve it for me, than it is for me…

Your 2nd idea is trivial to solve for any specialized bot.

Took a few tries, especially the last one certainly sounds like GPT, but could possibly be fixed with a better system prompt:

GPT 3.5 (what chatGPT was at the beginning) failed at non-trivial math ;) It couldn’t figure out how many characters even were in a word.

That only works as long as the bots are generic and not targeted. Just let the bots use headless chrome and fill out visible stuff.