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scrubbles , 1 day ago

It's only a bandaid over a gaping wound, but check out Fakespot, an extension for Firefox and Chrome. It won't help with google play, but when browsing Amazon, BestBuy, or other retailers they use machine learning to detect duplicate/repetitive reviews, and go into reviewers' history to determine if they are trustworthy.

I've seen a lot of "5 star products" get an adjusted rating of <2 because of this extension.

scrubbles , 2 days ago

Great, now we can have traffic but on these old rails.

How about, and I know this is a radical idea, actually fixing up the old rail lines and putting trains on them instead of this gimmick?

scrubbles , 2 days ago

Depends on what you call a "whole ass train". Many of these routes could be easily service by a 1 or 2 car DMU like the rural routes in Scotland and Wales.

scrubbles , 2 days ago

I've used those request stops! Those sort of rural lines are exactly what we're missing here in the states, just bouncing back and forth on the line. You can see here Americans don't even know what they are, but they're the perfect solution for these lines going between little towns

scrubbles , 6 days ago

We are all susceptible to propaganda, every one of us. I know I've caught myself a few times.

People on Facebook though.... They are VERY susceptible

scrubbles , 9 days ago

Satisfactory for me personally, I enjoy factorio but I like the first person vibe more

scrubbles , 9 days ago

It's their next update, it's been a long road to 1.0 but the game is finally feeling complete. They've announced the next update will be 1.0, and it's expected this year.

scrubbles , 10 days ago

I am shocked.

scrubbles , 10 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dKrUE_O0VE

scrubbles , 10 days ago

He seemed to casually ignore that at the end of the tunnel was still the concept of an offramp with a 25mph street that everyone was funneling to.

Of course he never planned on building it anyway. It was all just to distract from California High Speed Rail, because that directly gets in his way of selling more cars.

scrubbles , 10 days ago

This really sucks, but we do know it's a cat and mouse game. AI/coded, doesn't matter, it's pattern recognition. It's only a matter of time until someone figured out how to change the pattern in a way that isn't detected.

scrubbles OP , 12 days ago

hindsight is 20/20 there, yeah, wish I hadn't done this. To others, this is the best approach, don't accept it in the first place

scrubbles OP , 12 days ago

I don't like hosting things I disagree with for others to view and consume

scrubbles OP , 12 days ago

Good level headed reply, I like this. Others have suggested that as well, I'll move the crud over to her own library, then it doesn't pollute my main library and I can hide it from the others.

scrubbles OP , 12 days ago

This is a good idea, and an approach I'm going to think about and probably take. Then it's away from everything else, and not polluting my actual good movies.

scrubbles OP , 11 days ago

Honestly I'd be fine if it were hallmark movies. This is pure christian propaganda - very clear jabs that if you aren't christian then you are not happy. Take the lame hallmark plots that are fine, but then add in that they finding jesus suddenly made them happy, they gave up all of their non christian friends, and renounced their old life type stuff. Face value it's fine, but the undertone is just vile to me.

scrubbles , 12 days ago

Yeah, there is 0 way that reddit reviews even 10% of of the content, probably even 5%, if even that. There's just no way. This is just a scare tactic to get you into their walled garden, to download their app, sign you up, and become a metric.

scrubbles , 13 days ago

I'm looking at chimera. Mostly because I also want to use the same machine for gaming, and since chimera boots right to steam, then I could add an entry for jellyfin

scrubbles , 12 days ago

Yeah, definitely an issue. I'm slowly building up a new rig just for that, and I'm going team red for that build. Honestly the new AMD GPUs are just tanks, and they take on all but the most high end NVidia ones. Doesn't help if you already have a GPU, but if you're in the market I can tell you it's pretty dang awesome. I have looked into Bazzite too, Chimera seems a bit more synced with SteamOS which is why I like it.

scrubbles , 14 days ago

So will he just give up already and admit the fediverse is a pretty good idea?

scrubbles , 14 days ago

I run plenty of services in my lab on k3s. Most of them I had to manually build charts for and add them to my cluster. I doubt anyone has built charts for Lemmy, maybe mastodon. Anything that's dockerized like Lemmy can be put into kubernetes, but it's going to take some doing. Good luck out there, and of course if you get it working then I think the maintainers would be happy to get a helm chart merged into their repo.

scrubbles , 14 days ago

I start simple with mine. Start with the deployment, just getting the pod up and running, completely stateless. Get that stabilized, once that's happy then start moving onto the service, connecting to the UI. Then I finish anything else I can before adding in state - environment variables (first just in the deployment, then once that's done worry about a config map and secrets). (Adding volumes in just complicates it because then you have to reset those volumes if you want to go back to a clean state).

As a list:

• Deployment (stateless) - get to not crash
• Service - connect to it
• Environment variables, extracting out what can be
• Secrets, adding those to the chart
• Volumes, adding in state
• Move to a nice clean setup with a clean values.yaml.

Finally, once your happy, then make it conform to other standards. Getting it stood up in k8s is the hard part, then customizing can come after.

scrubbles , 14 days ago

I've done... an annoying amount of them now. I hope my trials help you.

Be ready, it's a very annoying and slow process, watching logs, figuring out why things are failing, debugging, githubs, everything. I just did one last week that was saying that it couldn't write to /etc/passXXXXX, and it took 2 hours to track down that there was an optional command I could pass in that would change the running user of the container I was running (separate from the kube user). It's a slog, but when you get it running it's a rush of endorphins.

Biggest thing - kubernetes is a read-only file system compared to docker. So, for good devs they minimize writes to the filesystem unless they have to, and keep them localized. For bad devs, they write everywhere - and that gets sticky fast. So, if you're getting write errors, know that there's probably another volume you need to attach. The kicker is knowing which ones can be an emptyDir scratch directory and which ones actually need to persist. If you have a docker-compose file it's a great place to start, just set all the volumes to emptyDir to start off with.

Good luck!

scrubbles , 15 days ago

Yeah, to any engineer it's no secret why the system has been in "beta" for almost a decade. It's because there is no way they can probe it works 100% of the time

scrubbles OP , 16 days ago

don't forget the giant sign that just says JESUS. Nothing else, literally just that.

scrubbles OP , 16 days ago

See also - 7 hour drive? Oh yeah that's a small roadtrip

scrubbles OP , 16 days ago

https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/pictrs/image/37672123-ba7b-41b0-ac15-7d5c8409077a.png

scrubbles OP , 16 days ago

Shame, that was a staple of the cross Iowa road trip. Always kind of wanted to stop in just after seeing those signs for my entire life

scrubbles OP , 15 days ago

Same thing! Famous actor for us. Most famous thing was being born there. Left when they were a teenager and never looked back

scrubbles , 16 days ago

Jesus when are stockholders going to realize what he's like at the helm and kick him out of CEO? This is the first thing I've heard about Musk doing anything with Tesla since Twitter happened. How do stockholders trust this man. Throwing away everything about him, this is an absent CEO who learned about one project that everyone was watching, he comes in, kicks down the door, and first response is to fire the whole team. To me, that says "this company is a shitshow"

scrubbles , 21 days ago

(If it's not failing, which would be the first thing I'd check)

Do you have any new VMs up and running. IO was the bane of my existence with proxmox, but realized it's just that VMs eat a ton of IO, especially with ZFS. A standard HDD won't cut it (unless you have one and only one VM using that disk). Even sata SSDs just didn't cut it over time, I had to build a full raid that would support 5-10 VMs on it before I saw IO wait drop enough.

scrubbles , 21 days ago

I had bad luck with ZFS on proxmox because of all of the overhead, I found with my tiny cluster it was better to do good old ext4 and then just do regular backups. ZFS actually killed quite a few of my drives because of it's heavyweight. Not saying that's your problem, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was

scrubbles , 22 days ago

So freaking tone-deaf lol. I was just getting into the article and agreeing with them and then the paywall showed up. THATS THE PROBLEM YO

scrubbles , 22 days ago

What, I'm shocked, the tech bros didn't think about sociological issues before "innovating"?

scrubbles , 25 days ago

highly recommend doing infrastructure-as-code, it makes it really easy to git commit and save a previously working state, so you can backtrack when something goes wrong

scrubbles , 26 days ago

Password managers, people. Use a password manager

scrubbles , 26 days ago

I'll hop on this, a while back I was curious about hosting game wikis, like ripping from fandom and hosting myself. Any good ideas for that?

scrubbles , 29 days ago

I have, I don't have my yml on hand today, but ping me later if I forget and I'll grab it for you. I do have one problem where the cache pvc continuously runs out of storage, but other than that it's been stable

scrubbles , 1 month ago

Really? Is there an article or release about this?

scrubbles , 1 month ago

Oh no, here in America we have FREEDOM. the freedom to work! We have something called "right to work" which means we have the RIGHTS to work and quit a job with no contracts. We also gave up every single worker protection for these supposed rights, but since it was named right to work we are meant to believe it's good for us

scrubbles , 1 month ago

Right? They're still triggered about masks?

scrubbles , 1 month ago

Like how my vaccine was going to liquify me in 2 years. Then 3. Now 5.

scrubbles , 1 month ago

Yeah, 100% , had Mediacom years ago and they were migrating to docsis 3. I'd be very surprised if the lumbering slow Mediacom suddenly switched off.

scrubbles , 1 month ago

First big lesson as a CEO. If they would have ignored this it would have made the rounds but faded into irrelevance. After all it is just a blog, on the fediverse. By engaging though it became very clickable, and now it's going to hurt way worse than the original blog.

scrubbles , 1 month ago

Okay if I'm reading this it's because you want to ssh into two or more servers from the outside. I get the goal, but I'll tell you it's not great security.

What I personally have used and recommend is that you set up a bastion ssh server. A public ssh server that is exposed, preferably on another port, that is heavily locked down. Once you ssh into the bastion, then you're in the network and can ssh anywhere using your internal DNS.

The added security benefit is that if someone does get into that box, they still need to learn your network topography. Not security, but bastion doesn't do anything, so they're not immediately into a core system.

Added bonus if you do a honepot on 22 and bastion on a different port.

scrubbles OP , 1 month ago

See also "Triggered by literally anything they don't understand"