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deberon commented on Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say   washingtonpost.com/invest... · Posted by u/mdhb
abeppu · 4 months ago
In practice, what does that look like? B/c large corporations are constantly doing shady stuff, but in day-to-day life, how does one avoid being in situations where you're dependent on them, without that avoidance becoming its own large source of problems?

- who provides your utilities?

- who provides your food, medications, other stuff that goes in your body?

- where do you get financial services, insurance, etc?

- do you drive? who made your car? do you ever fly?

For many of these categories there are likely a few examples of local governments, co-ops, or mid-size/small companies offering in some of these categories, but not in a comprehensive way -- i.e. you can get some of your food from a local CSA but likely not your whole diet, you might get much of your medical care from a Direct Primary Care model until you need something that's outside of their capacities, etc.

deberon · 4 months ago
Aren’t those all industries that are now highly regulated because they proved themselves to be untrustworthy?
deberon commented on Cognitive decline can be slowed down with lifestyle changes   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/ulrischa
pkaler · 5 months ago
I'm actually working on an app for myself to remind me of that.

For example, there is a full glass of water sitting on my desk from 9am. It's noon. I haven't taken a sip. Until now.

Constant reminders do work.

deberon · 5 months ago
Oh shit I missed my water break. Thanks for the reminder friend.
deberon commented on Matrix v1.15   matrix.org/blog/2025/06/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
deberon · 6 months ago
There’s a surprising amount of negativity in here. Matrix is great for me. I’m happy to see the improvements. I’m also happy to hear the team is approaching sustainability. Matrix isn’t perfect but it has only improved in the 5 years I’ve been using it. I’m looking forward to what they can do in another 5 years.
deberon commented on Libro: a command-line tool to track your books   github.com/mkaz/libro... · Posted by u/marcuskaz
candiddevmike · 8 months ago
I discovered Audiobookshelf over the weekend and it seems like the ultimate self hosted solution for audiobook and ebook management. Mobile apps, user accounts for the kids, great metadata support.

https://www.audiobookshelf.org/

deberon · 8 months ago
Audiobookshelf has become a key service in my self hosted stack. I use it primarily for podcast management and it’s been wonderful. I use plappa on iOS as my client and the offline support is stellar. I’m building a FreeBSD port for it too so it can have a forever home on my stable server.
deberon commented on Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]   brightonruby.com/2024/get... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
deberon · a year ago
This was a thoughtful comment but I’m not sure how useful it is at all due to the typo. Commendable vs commandable? I have a pet peeve for typos so your highly accomplished comment is really unworthy of the photons used to display it.

Or maybe we can be more supportive of each other and our accomplishments.

deberon commented on Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure   sydney.edu.au/news-opinio... · Posted by u/geox
TuringTourist · a year ago
possibly counter to intuition, I find that since I have started to religiously use my stationary bike in the morning, I have a lot more energy for the day, not less. I suppose if you're butting up against caloric/nutrient limits you might suffer. I personally find exercise clarifies my thoughts and improves my mood, even if its the last thing I want to do when I do it.
deberon · a year ago
The mind-body connection is quite real. Improving your physical state will almost certainly have a non-zero improvement on your mental state. Exercising can really help you make sense of all those other things you have going on. Not to mention that being in shape and strong makes every physical thing you do easier.
deberon commented on A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff   rachelbythebay.com/w/2024... · Posted by u/ingve
hinkley · a year ago
Related to this, is the advice I give everyone for editing the sudoers file:

First, open two superuser terminals. The second one is so if you fuck up the sudoers format so it doesn't parse and you accidentally 'exit' one too many times in the first terminal.

deberon · a year ago
The visudo command is often times available as well. It won’t let you save a malformed sudoers file. Finding other footguns though is an exercise for the reader.
deberon commented on Show HN: Hacker League – Open-Source Rocket League on Linux   github.com/moritztng/hack... · Posted by u/molli
ProteanLabsJohn · a year ago
Do a flip reset :)
deberon · a year ago
I just ran a test and I was able to do just as many flip resets in Hacker League as I was in Rocket League.
deberon commented on Crows are even smarter than we thought   nautil.us/crows-are-even-... · Posted by u/dnetesn
_huayra_ · a year ago
The real separation (and is something that comes long after 2 years of age in humans) is the ability to observe one's thoughts. I totally get that dolphins and elephants and many "big brain" mammals can have social structures, long memories, and the ability to pass down behaviors directly (e.g. "here's how you hunt fish effectively" may not be in dolphin genes, but they do a damn good job of it, or also the "fads" of orcas like the "salmon hat" or, more recently, attacking sailboats).

The absolutely blistering pace a child can learn at, though, is indeed quite a sight to behold.

deberon · a year ago
In the time it took me to learn a new programming language, my kid learned how to be a whole entire human being. Including free thought and autocorrect mode. I don’t know what makes us special in the animal kingdom, but watching that happen certainly feels special. Do whales feel the same way about their young?
deberon commented on Setting up a secondary Pi-Hole on my home network   dzombak.com/blog/2024/02/... · Posted by u/ingve
rahimnathwani · 2 years ago
There are two ways a home router can control your DNS:

A) Each client has one DNS server: the router's local IP address. The router runs dnsmasq or whatever to proxy the DNS requests.

B) Each client has one or more DNS servers, with the router's IP address not listed, or listed last.

If you set up B, I think most operating systems will usually use the servers in order, i.e. only fall back to the second (ISP) server if the primary (pi-hole) doesn't respond.

deberon · 2 years ago
FWIW I had to undo B) just yesterday. I thought the same thing about resolving records in order but it does not. I didn’t dive too far in, but my proxy server would occasionally query my router instead of the pihole for DNS requests. Maybe I just did it wrong :)

For the record I was assigning these DNS server IPs via docker compose. So perhaps that makes a difference.

u/deberon

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