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Iced Raktajino

@ IcedRaktajino @startrek.website

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I'm beautiful and tough like a diamond...or beef jerky in a ball gown.

  • A PSA to any meme poster of PieFed

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  • Good to know. Is that only in the local sidebar or does the retention policy federate with the community info?

    I'm not super active in meme communities, but would be nice to know they're on a ticking clock before I do post something. That, or I just avoid Piefed communities.

  • A PSA to any meme poster of PieFed

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  • I've never used Piefed, so I have so many questions:

    Does it do that by default? Is it something you can toggle on/off? Why would anyone want it to do that? Is it healthy for the Fediverse to half self-destructing content?

  • Religious spam by lem.cochrun.xyz accounts

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  • users seeking to evangelize their beliefs across the Threadiverse

    I mean, replace religion with communism/anarchism/whatever stupid -ism, and that's like half the people here.

    But also, any time you see anything "blogspot [dot] com" here, it's 99.9999% always blogspam so I just report and block.

  • How quick are you to block someone on Lemmy?

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  • I started keeping a spreadsheet of my blocks so I could know why I blocked someone. As of this comment, I have 1,493 accounts blocked. Round that up to 1,500, easily, to account for the blocks I made before I started tracking them.

    So to answer your question, very quick.

  • The 'American Horror Story' Reunion Could Be a Sequel to 'Coven

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  • Same. I thought I was going to hate it after the masterpiece of Season 2 (Asylum) but it was so unbelievably campy it was actually good.

  • What is that one software that you are using for 10 years and still loving it?

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  • OpenLDAP. Have been running that as the backend of several of my services since 2015.

    I use it for authentication/authorization, either directly or via Authelia, as well as the backend storage for my DNS, DHCP, Kerberos, email servers, and a few internal / self-built applications. I even registered an official IANA PEN so my custom LDAP schema are properly implemented. It's setup with a 4-way multi-master replication strategy and highly available via two load balancers in different data centers (plus one locally).

    Runner up is Nginx as I've been running it for just as long or a bit longer, and it also underpins most of my services in some way (at least as the frontend proxy/WAF).

  • How do we reduce toxicity on the Fediverse, and on the wider internet?

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  • My coffee hasn't kicked in yet, so this is as diplomatic as I can phrase it under current conditions:

    Both are entrenched identity politics instances ("aNaRchISM!") and a good chunk of the calls for violence around here are from users there. You'll be over here trying to have a rational discussion, and someone from there comes in like the world's dumbest parrot who can only say "Bawk! Guillotines! Bawk! Luigi".

    dbzer0 was aight when it was just the piracy instance, but they've shifted more to far left politics and re-federated with Hexbear, so they're basically Hexbear-lite these days. Quokk turns a complete blind eye (or tacitly endorses) several power users who do nothing but call for violence, doxx, and/or do nothing but spread anarchist propaganda.

  • How do we reduce toxicity on the Fediverse, and on the wider internet?

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    • Shun the toxic people. Block them and don't look back.
    • Seriously, block them. They're still gonna toxic whether you're there to observe it or not.
    • Find a well moderated instance that isn't afraid to show toxic people the door
    • Block .ml, grad, hexbear, dbzer0, and quokk.au
    • Block any other instance or person that centers itself around identity politics
    • Block all the news/politics communities. Just get your news from actual news services. The comment section for most news/politics posts here is worse than an entire garbage dump on fire.

    And you'll end up with like 3 federated users left which is basically my /all feed now 😑

  • Why you should stop unnecessarily making image posts on the fediverse

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  • If you reverse the polarity of a fire-alarm, you get a fire-starter.

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  • If you reverse the polarity of lots of things, you get a fire starter.

  • Would it be silly of me to get a small dog if I am a little afraid of bigger ones?

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  • I suppose I'm afraid that having a dog myself would be like a magnet for other dogs while on walks that I might be uncomfortable with or that my being nervous could make a normal meet and greet go poorly.

    Yes. Also, your dog will pick up on your nervousness and either get nervous themselves or become defensive, neither of which are ideal and could make for a bad situation if you're ever at a park or out for a walk. Dogs are little copycats when it comes to mirroring their owner's anxieties and behaviors, and even if you deal with your anxiety, the dog may have adopted it in the mean time and you'd have to work to repair that damage.

    Basically, you're smart to be asking these questions before taking on the responsibility of adoption. I'd recommend waiting until you've worked out your issues before potentially passing them on to your four-legged friend.

  • After many years, at last I have become sufficiently cantankerous that one egregiously stupid post to c/showerthoughts is enough to make me block someone.

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  • You mean the one from the obvious troll account that was obvious?

  • What instances are the most frequent on your user block list?

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  • I don't really consider blahaj as an "identity politics" instance, but I think I know which users you're referring to (or at least their style). I've probably had those blocked for a while now.

    Edit: A few of those have older hexbear alts which kind-of explains things.

  • What instances are the most frequent on your user block list?

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  • Don't want to start any drama by listing specifics, but basically any instance that advertises itself as "a space for {insert flavor of identity politics here}".

  • Wrong answers only - what is this?

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  • Excellent catch!

    "Tell me how old you are without telling me how old you are" 😢

    Don't feel bad. I was able to distinguish by ear between a T.38 fax handshake and a V.34+ modem handshake which definitely reveals my oldness 😆

  • Wrong answers only - what is this?

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  • So many things wrong with that though:

    1. That's a fax machine handshake not a data modem.
    2. That's a LOT of data to be hissing over dial-up in a highly compressed GSM voice channel
    3. She didn't dial anywhere near enough numbers
    4. The background noise would have had that handshake repeating over and over

  • Wrong answers only - what is this?

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  • The most nostalgic chiptune generator you'll ever hear.

  • Self-Hosted Offline EAS Alerts Over Meshtastic with RTL-SDR

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  • I was surprised by that, too. When I went looking for a way to decode them with RTL-SDR, I assumed it wouldn't be parsing the audio but a narrowband data stream. TIL also.

    Edit: It does kind of make sense with it being AFSK encoded in-band, though, or maybe I'm just so used to it being that way. I always thought the screeches were there to demand attention (and also be something that headend equipment can pick up and respond to). So it's interesting they're doing double duty as both an unmistakable audio cue to pay attention as well as containing the actual alert data.

    Plus there are NOAA stations all over the country rather than centralized like the time signal transmitters. It was probably cheaper to do it in band at that scale.

  • GitHub - RCGV1/Meshtastic-SAME-EAS-Alerter

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  • I don't use MQTT currently, but there's several things you can do with it:

    • Pass some messages as plaintext for use in, say, HomeAssistant
    • Bridge meshes over the internet
    • Send/receive ProtoBuf messages from an MQTT client to the Meshtastic node and the mesh
    • Plugging in some of the mesh mapping programs to visualize the mesh

    I tried setting up MQTT with HomeAssistant but couldn't get messages to come in correctly. Most likely my own fault but I just never got back to it as I didn't have a specific need in mind when I was setting it up.

  • GitHub - RCGV1/Meshtastic-SAME-EAS-Alerter

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  • Most of what I've dealt with were ESP32-based devices like the Heltec V3 (now V4) that have integrated LoRa radios. It should be possible to add on a SX1262 LoRa radio via SPI and flash Meshtastic firmware, but most people just start with a pre-built kit since they're pretty inexpensive and have battery charging circuitry and everything already onboard (which you'd otherwise have to handle yourself with a vanilla ESP32).

    I started with the Heltec V3, and the V4 improves several gripes I had with it. They're easy to get started with, lots of case designs available, and generally good entry points.

    SeeedStudio has a lot of pre-built options as well. My new daily driver is the SenseCap T1000e which is about the size of a few credit cards stacked together. Posted about it here: https://startrek.website/post/34105873

    There's two main flavors of Meshtastic devices: ESP32-based and nRF-based. The former are generally a little less expensive and have WiFi but are a lot more power hungry.

    The nRF-based ones are more power efficient and can run longer from smaller batteries. The tradeoff is those only have Bluetooth and lack WiFi. I don't really use WiFi with these, but it can be useful if you want to connect a node to MQTT.

    Check out Seeed to see some of their pre-made options: https://www.seeedstudio.com/LoRa-and-Meshtastic-and-4G-c-2423.html

  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
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    Always enjoy seeing this happen

  • me_irl @lemmy.world
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    me_irl

  • AskUSA @discuss.online
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    Is Nevada (the state) pronounced "Ne-vaugh-da" or "Neh-VA-da"?

  • Web Development @programming.dev
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    Best practice for resetting a user's MFA?

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Why did everyone keep asking the duck to pull up his pants?

  • Television @piefed.social
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    What were some short-lived tropes?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    The [US] car industry is racing to replace Chinese code

    www.msn.com /en-us/news/technology/the-car-industry-is-racing-to-replace-chinese-code/ar-AA1VMPmy
  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    How Resident Evil 2 For The N64 Kept Its FMV Cutscenes

    hackaday.com /2026/02/03/how-resident-evil-2-for-the-n64-kept-its-fmv-cutscenes/
  • Television @piefed.social
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    Catherine O'Hara, Star of Beetlejuice, Schitt's Creek, and Home Alone, Has Died

    gizmodo.com /catherine-ohara-star-of-beetlejuice-and-home-alone-has-died-2000716080
  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
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    Straight to "The Bad Place" with you.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Comcast keeps losing customers despite price guarantee and unlimited data

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2026/01/comcast-keeps-losing-customers-despite-price-guarantee-and-unlimited-data/
  • Linux Phones @lemmy.ca
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    Pi Compute Module Powers Fully Open Smartphone

    hackaday.com /2026/01/27/pi-compute-module-powers-fully-open-smartphone/
  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
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    We did this to ourselves here

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Fediverse Challenge: Prove there's still good in the world

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    What do cows call their tabloid magazines? Fake moos.

  • 30 Rock @dubvee.org
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    Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr / Civil Rights Day. Or, as Colleen calls it...

  • me_irl @lemmy.world
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    me🍗irl

  • Lemmy411 - Don't know where to find what you're looking for? @lemmy.ca
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    Community for discussing solar power setups, getting started, planning, etc.

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    MOOSE: A proposed emergency "bail-out" system capable of bringing a single astronaut safely down from Earth orbit to the planet's surface

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MOOSE
  • 30 Rock @dubvee.org
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    When your instance is going down for maintenance and you gotta get some things off your chest