MrMcGasion

MrMcGasion , 22 days ago to Memes in Oscar Bait

I think it was an interview with Seth Meyers, but somewhere Heidi said she had seen them in costume, but Mikey's lip prosthetic/makeup was much more extreme in the live performance than in rehearsal, and that was what caught her off guard and made her break.

MrMcGasion , 1 month ago to Technology in Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation

Yeah, I know a lot of the smaller, independent search engines are lacking, but the people using the "udm=14" trick to remove Google's AI results now, as if that won't be removed as soon as Google needs to show investors the AI is more profitable.

MrMcGasion , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Oops!

Maybe the meme was made by a dog, who smells war criminal on 47, but that's just because 47 assassinates so many war criminals.

MrMcGasion , 1 month ago to Technology in Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway.

To add to this, Scarlett Johansson took on Disney and they settled. And Disney is like the final boss of litigious companies (either them or Nintendo). If she has the same legal team for this, and they think she has a case against OpenAI, this could open the door for OpenAI to get rightfully clobbered for their tech-bro ignoring of copyright laws.

MrMcGasion , 2 months ago to 196 in Wrong answers only rule: what was Aloy saying to Zo as I paused the game?

Ratchet when Clank makes a bad pun.

MrMcGasion , 2 months ago to homeassistant in Home Assistant things you'd miss now; what is a great little thing HA does for you, I'll start.

I work night shift and use blackout curtains and earplugs to improve my sleep during the day. Rather than cranking the volume on my alarm so it's loud enough to consistently wake me up, I use Home Assistant to turn on some smart bulbs as my alarm. When I started, and even now if I have to be up extra early, I also have an audible alarm set to go off a few minutes after the lights come on - just in case the light doesn't wake me up, but at this point my brain has gotten used to waking up to the lights, and I usually wake up and turn off the other alarm before it goes off.

Another useful automation for me is I have a buggy Samsung PC monitor that has all sorts of annoying issues; like not consistently waking from deep sleep which requires a hard power cycle to correct, and when it is asleep there's some weird high pitched whine that beeps when the standby light flashes. I use a couple of smart plugs with power monitoring and monitor my PCs power draw to turn the power to my monitor on and off at the wall depending on if the PC is on.

MrMcGasion , 3 months ago to Technology in Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

Just to add a bit of clarification, the image wasn't just a headshot, yes that's the part that was originally scanned and used, but it's a cropped in section of the centerfold, a 3-page fold-out image in the magazine. If I remember the story correctly, they needed a large image to scan, and several people brought in images to scan in, and one guy brought a Playboy.

MrMcGasion , 3 months ago to Technology in Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

I remember seeing an interview with the model, who at the time of the interview was in her 70s or 80s, she apparently wasn't enthusiastic about having become a common test image. But since she had technically consented to be in Playboy (which was only a magazine at the time), there wasn't anything she could do to stop it. I think in this case it's probably best to stop using her image specifically, as it does kinda get into a weird messy situation of consent, and how her consent to be in a magazine morphed through technology into something more "permanent" than she originally realized. There are plenty of other models who would absolutely be down for that, and given enough time, knowing how nerds are, there will be other test images of women. But I think it's probably for the best that this one gets retired from this use.

And yes, there are people who have tried to use this instance as a "there shouldn't be images of attractive/implied nude women a standard test images, because it can cause body image issues for women who go into that field." Which on one hand, I can see where they're coming from, but also people take pictures of people, and some people do look better than most of us, having more diverse test images would be a good thing, because we don't all look like that. But some do, and they're probably going to get more pictures taken of them than the rest if us.

MrMcGasion , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in How can I bypass CGNAT by using a VPS with a public IPv4 address?

Not sure exactly how good this would work for your use case of all traffic, but I use autossh and ssh reverse tunneling to forward a few local ports/services from my local machine to my VPS, where I can then proxy those ports in nginx or apache on the VPS. It might take a bit of extra configuration to go this route, but it's been reliable for years for me. Wireguard is probably the "newer, right way" to do what I'm doing, but personally I find using ssh tunnels a bit simpler to wrap my head around and manage.

Technically wireguard would have a touch less latency, but most of the latency will be due to the round trip distance between you and your VPS and the difference in protocols is comparatively negligible.

MrMcGasion , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Are you reusing one postgres instance for all services?

Maybe I'll try and give it another go soon to see if things have improved for what I need since I last tried. I do have a couple aging servers that will probably need upgraded soon anyway, and I'm sure my python scripts that I've used in the past to help automate server migration will need updated anyway since I last used them.

MrMcGasion , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Are you reusing one postgres instance for all services?

I think that my skepticism and desire to have docker get out of my way, has more to do with already knowing the underlying mechanics, being used to managing services before docker was a thing, and then docker coming along and saying "just learn docker instead." Which is fine, if it didn't mean not only an entire shift from what I already know, but a separation from it, with extra networking and docker configuration to fuss with. If I wasn't already used to managing servers pre-docker, then yeah, I totally get it.

MrMcGasion , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Are you reusing one postgres instance for all services?

That's a big reason I actively avoid docker on my servers, I don't like running a dozen instances of my database software, and considering how much work it would take to go through and configure each docker container to use an external database, to me it's just as easy to learn to configure each piece of software for yourself and know what's going on under the hood, rather than relying on a bunch of defaults made by whoever made the docker image.

I hope a good amount of my issues with docker have been solved since I last seriously tried to use docker (which was back when they were literally giving away free tee shirts to get people to try it). But the times I've peeked at it since, to me it seems that docker gets in the way more often than it solves problems.

I don't mean to yuck other people's yum though, so if you like docker, and it works for you, don't let me stop you from enjoying it. I just can't justify the overhead for myself (both at the system resource level, and personal time level of inserting an additional layer of configuration between me and my software).

MrMcGasion , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in This website that threatens anyone who right clicks

Yeah, based on his robots.txt it seems to be a Wordpress site, so he's probably just installed an ineffective plugin to prevent copying. At least he can take solace in the fact that most of us probably aren't any more relevant than he is.

MrMcGasion , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in This website that threatens anyone who right clicks

At the executive level, no I don't think they care or pay attention, but considering both have said "here's how to block our crawler," I do hope that that some mistreated developer did actually program a check in to the crawler. I still think it's worth doing, even though I don't fully trust them.

MrMcGasion , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in This website that threatens anyone who right clicks

Meanwhile, their robots.txt doesn't disallow GPTBot or Google Bard. So apparently they're okay with content being stolen by for-profit companies.