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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hey all. I'm heading to Quakecon 2024 tomorrow and will be repping the penguin. I've got all my games set up and ready, but was now wondering, are there any extra steps I should take as far as network security goes?

I'm sure I'm not as vulnerable to random badness as the flock of Windows machines that will be on the network, but you never know. The only thing on my list so far is to disable sshd. I thought about installing Portmaster but it has always messed up my DNS in the past...

I'll probably run Wireshark just to see if I can capture anything interesting there. Do you all have any other suggestions for prepping my PC?

[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago

As much as I appreciated Biden's "violence has no place in American politics" comment, I had to laugh about it. Bitch, of course it does. It's a regular part of our culture. We're training elementary students to dress gunshot wounds for christ's sake. Own it.

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Has anyone else been experiencing performance problems for the last few weeks? About half my requests time out when using Jerboa. The site on desktop is a little better but Lemmy still performs pretty poorly compared to how it has in the past.

Is this an instance issue or an issue with Lemmy itself?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I went to this game last night and it was one of the best hockey games I've ever been to. The boys battled hard, especially during a crazy 2nd period.

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Corpse/Refuse dump (midwest.social)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This is the coolest corpse/refuse disposal system I've built yet. A couple stockpiles collect the garbage, and the mine cart pulls from those. When it's full, a citizen pushes it down the track to be dumped in a nearby lava lake!

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I just found this cool utility a couple days ago and have found that it's a great solution to sandboxed versions of Discord being unable to provide rich presence. It's a Python script that queries the Steam web API to get info to forward to Discord's API. The "installer" sets up a systemd service that will auto-run the script for you.

It requires you to get your own Steam API key which was a trivial, though slightly buggy, process for me. You can optionally use your own Discord app ID, or just use the one owned by the guy that created this script.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago

A vast amount of the Pacific Garbage Patch consists of discarded commercial fishing gear.

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RIP James Randi (midwest.social)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

RIP James Randi who died before anyone could claim the his prize for playing RB1 over the board against Levy.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Sorry for the messy work bench but that's how it is with my DIY projects. 🙂 This is the Build Kit Boards Duo kit with a custom battery setup.

The battery enclosure is one from their site that is on fire sale due to being left over from their previous kit version. It doesn't exactly fit so I did a little work on it with a hacksaw. It is bound to the board via 8 thumb screws that attach to steel threaded inserts that I installed on the deck. I do have to remove all the screws to take the batteries out and charge them... I'd like to come up with a better solution but no good ideas so far.

For batteries I'm running three 5000mAh 4S LiPo batteries in series, so effectively a 12 cell. There is room in the enclosure for three more of these so I can have two 12 cell packs in parallel. I'm hoping for a 25 mile range from that setup.

I commuted to work on this this morning and had a blast! Electric skateboards kick ass.

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I can't use AMD (midwest.social)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

It's necessary for my very important hobby of generating anime nudes.

[-] [email protected] 111 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

McCain is one of the old guard Republicans that went down fighting. His final vote thumbs down for the repeal of the ACA was legendary. I didn't vote for him but I do have great respect for him.

Contrast that against all the limp dicks who are silently retiring instead of speaking out and trying to right the ship.

[-] [email protected] 82 points 6 months ago

"Alright, now that I'm logged in to my cloud terminal account, let me enter my root password for sudo."

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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This song popped up on Sirius XM this past weekend and I loved it. It's like a blend of Dimmu and Wilderun.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago

This meme brought to you by people who get all their news from memes

[-] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

NASA already killed god in 2011

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago

A software developer's worst nightmare. "When I turn logging on the problem goes away."

[-] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago

He's gonna be pissed when he finds out how many current citizens also don't like "our" religion.

[-] [email protected] 118 points 10 months ago

I found a good stick once. Damn, that was a nice stick.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago

And he makes himself right at home.

I have two nieces who get bullied at school about different things. One so bad that she is switching to online-only for the next school year.

Anti-bullying my fuckin ass. Schools aren't doing shit other than waving some flags around.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

I still wonder why console players allowed their online services to require subscriptions in the first place.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

“They need to know that they can’t just get away with examining the evidence and presenting a decision in accordance with the law.”

lol

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