GiuseppeAndTheYeti

joined 2 years ago

Bummer. I'll hop on a redeye Amtrak train tonight and bark at the moon in his honor. Silliness aside, he always seemed like a genuine good guy. Hope he's able to find peace and his family solace in the kind words that will be spoke of him in the coming days. If nothing else I'll always really enjoy his hits when they come up in my playlists.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if this has anything to due with the lack of air traffic controllers and their quality of training due to high turnover. Probably not. Let's just keep waiting for the next 300+ fatality disaster so we can fix it with thoughts and prayers.

Not perfect, but it does seem much faster and MUCH more stable. Load times are less than 10s compared to ~30s before and I haven't had a time out error yet. That's using Voyager as a frontend app and download speeds of 227Mbps for reference. Thanks for what you do seahorse! Hope you never feel underappreciated.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sorry you hate golf. Public pools and libraries are also heavily subsidized by tax payer money. Parks for that matter are too. Sometimes it's just a good thing to provide your citizens with something to do outside. I'm certainly not a rich white asshole that drives a BMW or Merc. I drive a 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe with 130k miles on it.

I no longer live there but in the 4000 population town I grew up in, the only tax funded public entity that turned a profit for the city budget was the golf course. The public pool never showed profit in the 8 years I was a lifeguard there. The best it ever managed to do was about a $6k loss. The library lost money because of building maintenance and after school programs. And the parks district was the biggest drain on public funds due to recreational sports for kids and an outdoor theater production for local kids to act in. If anything, the golf course helped fund other local programs.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 5 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Feel free to form your own opinion, but I've only ever heard good things about Top Golf and it's not a massive drain on resources or space like traditional golf courses are. But I also enjoy golfing at public golf courses from time to time. It's fun to get out on the course with 3 of my buddies to whack a ball and have some beers outside. Never will consider a private membership or course though. Private golf courses can be burned to the ground for all I care.

That's the unfortunate reality. You and I and he are sympathetic to other people's space and well-being so it's difficult in the moment to press more serious charges like assault with a deadly weapon when you can hope that the situation and being informed that he COULD have been charged with that will be enough to change his behavior.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It could be a case of intentional word play but the wording of the article makes it seem like it's more than just usenet. Specifically the line: "inciting serious sexual abuse of children via a messenger service and producing child pornography content"

It doesn't read as though it's simply CSAM traffic through his network and if that were the case, I'd imagine the other 2 would be looking at similar charges, but news media notoriously bad a properly representing tech so that's what gives me caution.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Yeah, I don't care if you're seeding the entirety of film history for free. If you're also helping distribute child pornography, you deserve to rot.

I do wonder if this is a usenet case though. I know that's a concern for a lot of people.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 15 points 5 days ago (4 children)

That's a hell of a chain. I'd be interested to see how big it was and what his injuries were

Worse.

"There must be more to life than having everything”, the note read.

Donald: Yes, there is, but I won’t tell you what it is

Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is

Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey

Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it

Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?

Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you

Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.

Not really related, but I did a complete 180 on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Back in the early months of the conflict I posted a comment here suggesting that bombing in Gaza was targeting Hamas strategic targets and there was evidence of "roof knocking" to warn innocent occupants of an incoming attack. I didn't realize how naive I was at the time parroting propaganda. If people hadn't continued posting evidence of the IDF and their genocide/war crimes I wouldn't have known any better.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's it! I had no clue that white tailed deer made this noise and I've lived here for 30 years!

 

Took this audio recording while walking my dogs near a river valley in Central Illinois. The noise I'm not sure about is like a low whooshing sound. Kind of like someone spinning a jump rope really fast through the air.

If I had to guess the noise was on the other side of a 500ft clearing in a tree line. The Merlin app wasn't able to identify it as a bird of any sort and I have no idea what sort of mammal would make this noise in the midwest. It's not like any bobcat, fox, or coyote call I've ever encountered and I cant imagine it was something smaller than that still.

 

ST. LOUIS — Robert Thomas skated into the left corner of the St. Louis Blues’ defensive zone, flipped the puck up to himself with his stick and held it in his glove.

There was no time left on the clock, so Thomas wasn’t looking to add another point to his eye-popping totals of late. He was retrieving the souvenir puck from the Blues’ franchise-record 12th straight victory, a 5-4 win over the Colorado Avalanche.

Yes, the club that was the last in the NHL in the 2024-25 season to win three in a row has now won a league-best 12 in a row.

“I am proud of that group in there to be able to overcome all of the adversity that we’ve had this year,” said Blues coach Jim Montgomery, who took over in November. “Whether that was self-inflicted by us, it doesn’t matter, we’ve overcome it. I’m proud of that group for what they’ve achieved.”

 
 

I've been using Weatherbug as my "gold standard" for years as an athletic trainer to track incoming storms and lightning strike data during outdoor sports events, so those features are pretty important to me. I've just gotten so fed up with their shitty practices. The ads are getting worse and worse(to the point that they're almost exclusively clickbait malware) and they keep nudging me with push notifications to buy the ad free version. Which is of course a subscription instead of a one time payment. They even tested locking the future radar behind a paywall briefly. They must have gotten hammered by uninstalls because it didn't last very long, but I'm not comfortable with staying engaged with a company that's constantly trying to see what features they can get away with removing.

Thanks!

 
 

I'm trying to set up a Pi-hole on my in-laws' home network. I've got everything configured on the pi but ad-blocking wasn't working. So I did some digging into the logs and found that DNS requests were all coming from the router.

After some reading it seems that the DHCP server that the router used was adding a DNS suffix to all requests (search.charter), so I turned off the DHCP server on the router and used pi-hole's built-in DHCP to see if this would resolve the issue. I didn't have enough time to test the fix, but here's my understanding of what was happening before I changed the configuration:

I set the primary DNS server to the IP address of the pi-hole in the router settings so they would have network wide adblocking. All of the clients get a DHCP assigned DNS server address which was set to the router's address. I would input example.com into a client's browser, the DNS request would be sent to the router, then the router would act as a client in the pi-hole logs. Pi-hole tells the router that example.com is found at 192.158.1.38 and the ads being hosted on the website are at 0.0.0.0. The router sees that the DNS server didn't return a result for one of the queries, so it goes to an upstream DNS server hosted by the ISP where they provide the IP for the ad. Both addresses are sent along to the client device and the pi-hole shows the ad domain as being blocked.

Is that true? Did changing the DHCP server to the Pi-hole fix the problem? Is there anything more that I need to do? Did I totally whiff on troubleshooting? Let me know if you need more information. Any help would be appreciated since I'm trying to learn a little bit more about networking and take a little more control of my home network. Thanks!

 

Some background. I set up a Jellyfin server for my family to host TV shows and movies for them for free. I finally had enough of Xfinity and switched to T-Mobile 5G home internet, but in doing so, I lost the ability to control my network's port forwarding. I'm spending literally half the previous amount on internet and getting the same speeds, so I don't plan on going back.

What I do plan on doing is setting up a new server at my parent's house and running it on their network. Problem is that I'm 2 hours away. My plan is to use Qbit, jackett, and the arrs to automatically download torrents. Is there any way to automatically rename torrents to match Jellyfin's naming convention for organization and metadata downloads?

 
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