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Peter Thiel and Larry Page are preparing to flee California in case the state passes a billionaire wealth tax, report says in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 95 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Ooo let's make it nationwide then

My mom says that people who don't have "value" don't deserve to live and that "depression" is just an excuse for laziness. What's is your rebuttal for it? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That story sounds somewhat Scienterrific

Do you rebuild your container images yourself? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Yes, because I mostly like to have my services built in a Debian container inside my Proxmox environment. If I'm running it in Docker, there's a good chance it's temporary/PoC, and in that case I do not rebuild or anything, I run it for whatever purpose it serves and then it either goes away or gets migrated to a handcrafted Debian container.

"It's a disgrace": Enraged Democrats vow to fight "Trump-Kennedy Center" renaming in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

This is the kind of thinking we need to be sending to office, people

does this count as a science meme? :3 in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Well then it's time to move on. She did, after all.

Is there a word or (concise) phrase to describe the paradox of sharing something (like a website) that you don't like, but because you're sharing it you're tacitly helping it? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I don't have a word or short phrase for you, but I do have an upvote and engagement. Best I can compare what you describe to is this: Remember when you or one of your friends in grade school smelled a particularly smelly pair of shoes or a bad fart or whatever else, and the immediate reaction is to say to the rest of the group, "Whoa sniff this!"? It's like that.

We'd never deport veterans, Noem says in earshot of deported veteran in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly. And add to that some journalistic solidarity, when the person before you asks a question that gets dodged and then you are called on ASK THE SAME QUESTION and keep doing it until either theres an answer or the admin is forced to end the press conference in shame

Dad, what time is your dentist appointment? in c/dadjokes@lemmy.world
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

To tell you the tooth, I dent remember.

Don’t use ‘admin’: UK’s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar in c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well lookie here, someone doesn't use a leading space for their password

The Alleged Drug Boat Wasn’t Even Heading to the U.S.: Report in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think this one is Operation Túrin's Bain, the one with the big, stinky dragon

Why does no one in the bible have a last name? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They absolutely were. Biblical AF as friggin hell, man. Anyway, hope they hit a home run out of the park at the game!

Unpopular Opinion: You should plug your monitor into your iGPU, not your dGPU in c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

...and set that folder down next to a running shopvac labeled "OneDrive"

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Neat looking lichen (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by boydster@sh.itjust.works to c/Lichen@mander.xyz
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I don't know what species this is, but I was lichen it when I saw it.

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What's wrong with these birch trees? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by boydster@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Apologies if the photo quality is insufficient. In a particular bit of forest, I found an area with a large birch population that all seemed to be suffering from the same issue. Something is causing the leaves to first stripe green and yellow, then turn brown/black, and while there are new leaf buds forming, trees are seemingly losing the leaves faster than they can replace them. There are other areas with birch trees on the same forest that don't have this issue at all. In the affected area, some trees have only one or two leaves left with any green in them at all.

This is in New England, USA

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Trump is being "handled" just like his dad was with dementia (sh.itjust.works)
 

According to the lore, Fred Trump, while in the grips of Alzheimer's, insisted on still going to work every day. And the people that surrounded him, in order to let him keep feeling powerful while minimizing the amount of damage he could do to their business dealings, would have him sit in an executive office all day signing papers.

With that backdrop, I got to thinking. I know the administration has been planning on using a steady stream of EOs to keep overwhelming the news cycle. But I think the people surrounding Trump also realize he's completely toast at this point and they're deploying the Fred Trump strategy of keeping him busy signing "very important papers."

That was all. Just some random shower thoughts that were probably too political for the showerthoughts community.

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Cow Suckling Calf, circa 9th century, India (more pics in comments) (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by boydster@sh.itjust.works to c/historyartifacts@lemmy.world
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Saw this at the Art Institute of Chicago recently

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[Solved] Trying to allow one client to access WAN but not LAN (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by boydster@sh.itjust.works to c/wireguard@lemmy.ml
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Greetings. I'm using PiVPN right now. Works great for me, connecting via Wireguard clients and able to use both WAN and LAN. There is one client that I would like to allow to connect to my VPN and be able to use the WAN only, and this is where I'm running into some trouble finding a solution. I took a few swings at the problem by trying to narrow down the Allowed IPs in the wg config file but that not only didn't work but in hindsight it seems like an ineffective way to attack the problem to begin with.

Is there a way to set this up, either via something in the client config file or something else on the hosting side? I don't want to disallow all Wireguard clients from accessing the LAN+WAN. It's just one particular client that I want to allow access to only the WAN.

Thanks!

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Osweald Bera: An Introduction to Old English [Pre-Order] | Vergil Press (ancientlanguage.com)
 

For people interested in learning Old English, Osweald Bera is an introductory book written by Colin Gorrie that, if I recall from his prior announcement about this, leans on a method called comprehensible input to teach the language. As far as I can tell from watching some of his youtube videos and reading his other online material, this looks like it could be useful for folks that are including "Learn Old English" as an item on their New Year's Resolution list.

The preorders were just announced. They are saying they intend to begin shipping the books themselves mid-November.

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[2019 flashback article] Amid Trump Tariffs, Farm Bankruptcies And Suicides Rise (www.forbes.com)
 

Trump was on Univision yesterday for a town hall, and during one exchange he made a huge deal about how great he was for farmers. Additionally, he's been talking about crazy tariffs again at recent events like the Economic Club of Chicago. With those things in mind, I thought it would be relevant to take a quick walk down memory lane. It's also worth noting, the article is pre-COVID - August 30, 2019. As many people with functioning memories will recall, things would not go on to get better from there.

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Iran's Trump hack and assassination plot "act of war," Lindsey Graham says (www.newsweek.com)
 

Iran's alleged plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump and hack the Trump campaign amount to "an act of war," according to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

Just days after a would-be assassin's bullet grazed Trump's ear in July, the FBI announced that Iran had allegedly been separately plotting to kill the former president. Federal officials later revealed that Iran had hacked and stolen confidential information from the Trump campaign.

...

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‘Bullets Are Flying, And It Will Only Get Worse!’ Trump Blames Harris and ‘Communist Left Rhetoric’ for ‘New Level of Hatred’ (www.mediaite.com)
 

Paraphrasing his psychotic post that they are discussing in this article: "Bullets are flying, the war has begun, the Immigrant Problem must be brought to a final solution!"

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History of Middle-earth boxed sets (www.tolkienguide.com)
 

Just saw these new HoMe boxed sets are coming out, with the first set releasing in November

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On the matter of World Trees (sh.itjust.works)
 

Here's a fun, ten-minute video from PBS Digital Studios and hosted by Dr. Moiya McTier & Dr. Emily Zarka that discusses trees, especially World Trees (or Great Trees) as seen in so many mythologies, and their prevalence in ancient stories. From Baobab trees to Yggdrasil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txy-3IpFz8M

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World Mythology: An Anthology of the Great Myths and Epics, Second Edition by Donna Rosenberg (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by boydster@sh.itjust.works to c/mythology@sh.itjust.works
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I'm currently reading the Third Edition of Rosenberg's World Mythology, which is what I referenced when writing the Enuma Elish summary before. For anyone wanting to read more of her work, the Second Edition of her book is available online free and has a ton of great content:

https://archive.org/details/worldmythologyan0000rose

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