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Question: How to curl the lemmy API? by Illecors in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 day ago

I've found this more understandable.

I've also hacked together a quick thing for spamwaves that were happening last year here.

The purpose of that script is to ban, but there're auth bits that might help you get a grasp on your task.

How to achieve this audio setup in linux ? by Illecors in c/linux@lemmy.world

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 day ago

Not sure how much of your ground it would cover, but I've used easyeffects in the past to apply noise cancellation. Worked very well. It's also on pipewire level so you don't have to mess with alsa directly.

I do recall it having many more plugins as well as eq, I just didn't have a reason to use it.

Friday Night Unreal Tournament LAN Parties by Illecors in c/nostalgia@lemmy.ca

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 0 points 2 days ago

Block the posting bot - a very simple way to solve it.

US Crime Rate Drops to ‘Historic’ Lows With Murders, Rapes, and Robbery Plunging, New Statistics Show by Illecors in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago

If The Wire and The Shield have taught me anything - it's that all the stats are cooked.

The Fediverse by Illecors in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 days ago

I've been running mine for just over 5 years now - initial setup was ass, but it's very much hands off now - email simply doesn't change anymore.

If you have a domain to test - I can host it for you. If you then decide that it works well enough for you - I'll show you how to set it up on your own server.

Cloudflare is bad. Youre right. by Illecors in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 days ago

Wireguard works best for private traffic, but you can't host a public site with that.

Of course you can! Nginx and wireguard on a VPS and actual services wherever you want.

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[LIVE] Boeing and NASA to attempt to launch Starliner again (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/spacetime@lemmy.cafe

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Youtube

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Lemmy Cafe Financial Report October 2023 - February 2024 (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 3 months ago by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/general@lemmy.cafe

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It's been a while since I've last done one of those. Life happened, but things are settling down slowly. I'll combine all five months since September into a single post, but will keep them separated visually.

Income is applied on date of arrival. Stripe (LiberaPay uses it as processor) pays out in advance and as such income shows up as 0, even though LiberaPay banner shows a non-zero value.

Any financial help is greatly appreciated! To donate click the banner here or in the sidebar:

February 2024

Contributions

LiberaPay: £0

Expenses

Servers: £38.94

Month balance

-£38.94

Previous balance

-£216.05

Balance to date

-£254.99

January 2024

Contributions

LiberaPay: £0

Expenses

Servers: £38.66

Month balance

-£38.66

Previous balance

-£177.39

Balance to date

-£216.05

December 2023

Contributions

LiberaPay: £0

Expenses

Servers: £38.59
Backblaze B2: £0.64

Month balance

-£39.23

Previous balance

-£138.16

Balance to date

-£177.39

November 2023

Contributions

LiberaPay: £0

Expenses

Servers: £38.74

Month balance

-£38.74

Previous balance

-£99.42

Balance to date

-£138.16

October 2023

Contributions

LiberaPay: £0

Expenses

Servers: £37.32

Month balance

-£37.32

Previous balance

-£62.1

Balance to date

-£99.42

Finance History

	September 2023	August 2023	July 2023	June 2023
Contributions	£11.41	£15.26	£0	£0
Expenses	£28.85	£24.75	£19.18	£15.99
Difference	-£17.44	-£9.49	-£19.18	-£15.99
Balance	-£62.1	-£44.66	-£35.17	-£15.99

Previous reports

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes by Illecors in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 186 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The article is crap, but it is correct in that you don't need to use airplane mode. I would, however, advise to still use it purely to preserve battery life of your device as otherwise it will very aggressively keep scanning for networks and drain it.

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People using 'less' when they should be using 'fewer' (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

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EDIT: you guys have dug up some truly horrible pisstakes :D Thank you for those.

To the serious folk - relax a little. This is Mildly Infuriating, not I'm dying if this doesn't stop. As a non-native speaker I was taught a certain way to use the language. The rules were not written down by me, nor the teachers - it was done by the native folk. Peace!

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OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy departs firm (www.reuters.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/folderol@lemmy.cafe

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Archive link

Maybe those board and ceo shenanigans did leave a bad taste internally, afterall.

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[APOD] Rosette Deep Field (apod.nasa.gov)

submitted 4 months ago by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/spacetime@lemmy.cafe

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nasa.gov

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On the road to success there are no shortcuts (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/11foot8@lemmy.cafe

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The Definitive 11Foot8 Bridge Crash Compilation (youtube.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/11foot8@lemmy.cafe

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But should you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/11foot8@lemmy.cafe

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11608344

Credit: https://mas.to/@markarayner

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Federation testing for jlai.lu (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 4 months ago by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/qrf@lemmy.cafe

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something or other

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Lemmy Cafe has had the database upgraded to PostgreSQL 16 (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 4 months ago by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/general@lemmy.cafe

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The upgrade has gone through smoothly and everything seems to be running smoothly.

The performance looks to be better on the backend, time will tell if the memory leak issue is actually solved. So far, though - so good!

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[Maintenance] 2 February 10AM UTC (www.timeanddate.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/general@lemmy.cafe

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Lemmy Cafe will be having its database upgraded.

Reasons

Pict-rs is expecting PostgreSQL 16. It's running fine now, but it might not be at some future point.
PostgreSQL 15 has a bug that requires jit to be turned off - otherwise DB keeps consuming all the memory available on the system and then some. In the end it gets culled by the kernel. This has performance as well as reliability issues. While turning jit off has remedied the constant failure, it has also made the database a bit slower. I prefer squeezing out as much performance as possible :)

Plan

Point nginx to the maintenance page
Shut down PostgreSQL 15
Run the upgrade tool
Start up PostgreSQL 16
Point nginx to lemmy

Expected downtime

About an hour, if things go well. More if not so.

Will try to keep the maintenance page updated.

Here's the timezone converter

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Lemmy is a perfect reddit replacement in terms of saving a post "for later" and never coming back to it (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 5 months ago by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible by Illecors in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 130 points 8 months ago

Threads? Seriously? Have they learnt nothing?

Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation by Illecors in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 108 points 8 months ago

I see angry wankers want to moan for the sake of moaning.

Eliminating smoking is a goos thing! I'll take my wins whenever possible, doesn't happen all that often.

Cancer cases in people below 50 up nearly 80 percent in last three decades by Illecors in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 114 points 9 months ago

I think a lot of it is increase in diagnostic capabilities.

Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits by Illecors in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 196 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I just don't get it. If it's unlimited - in what universe is using it beyond 15TB considered abuse?

I get the reseller part, I get the stupid chia mining part. But if they can say that was the problem - then get rid of those users, as clearly you have already identified them. Don't shift the blame away from your dumbass marketing team onto your users and play an innocent company.

I can't believe how much support dropbox is getting. People seem to accept, without questioning, every bollocks pr statement these days.

Intel Gets Hogwarts Legacy Running On Linux Driver By Pretending Not To Be Intel Graphics by Illecors in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 120 points 10 months ago

I'm glad they found a way, but at the same time - what the hell? Why is it OK for game devs of this magnitude to have a hardcoded hardware list? Look for feature support, not a string that is easy to manipulate outside your control!