onlinepersona

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[–] onlinepersona -1 points 12 hours ago

Hmm... I probably missed it, but why are there so many colorful birds in the tropics? It just says that they probably came from outside the tropics, but not why there are so many.

While this new study sheds light on how iridescence spread through the bird family tree over the course of millions of years, some big questions remain. "We still don't know why iridescence evolved in the first place," says Eliason.

Now that, is something I'd like to know too. My guess: to hide from predators.

Prey adapted to blending in to hide from predators. The majority of colors in the tropics are green (leaves), brown (earth, trees), yellow (sunlight?), and blue (sky).
For prey on the ground, the color of the ground, shrubs, etc. is probably green and brown. For prey higher up, if the predator is on the ground, probably blue, green, and brown are good colors to hide. Maybe predators of birds also have adapted to see other colors than the iridescent colors birds have.

Again, a guess, but maybe we'll know someday.

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[–] onlinepersona 0 points 13 hours ago

I think that's the attitude people have that keeps them on old media like twitter, reddit, and others. Blocking lemmy.ml did me some good, personally.

I'm not saying everyone should block lemmy.ml, just that the argument "but it's big" doesn't float.

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[–] onlinepersona 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Amazing. It was published on github, which means it's available forever (anything deleted on github that was forked is still available from the fork).

Btw

The Platform Key, or PK: This provides the root-of-trust anchor in the form of a cryptographic key embedded into the system firmware. It establishes the trust between the platform hardware and all firmware that runs on it.

Does that mean we aren't actually fucked? Can the platform key be updated or is read-only?

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[–] onlinepersona -2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It might be worth looking more deeply into. From a cursory glance, it might be usable for my usecase, but many service have configuration examples for NGINX (or Apache if they're old). I've never seen caddy examples. What has your experience been with adapting those examples to caddy?

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[–] onlinepersona 3 points 19 hours ago

Apache still is a pain in the ass. The only guide I found useful were from 20 years ago or so. All "modern" ones I found didn't explain stuff, but were more like "copy paste this, now you're done". They never fit my usecase.

I honestly don't know why people new to webhosting even bother with Apache when NGINX is around. It's just so much easier.

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[–] onlinepersona 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)
[–] onlinepersona 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ayyyy, congrats! 🎉🎉🎉

You should be able to change your DNS server in your router too so that any new devices don't run into similar issues. Plus it helps with your privacy.

Anyway, glad it all worked out.

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[–] onlinepersona -1 points 1 day ago

Last I remember reading, people were buying unpasturised milk from farms as soon as they were told not to. The next COVID might come from the USA because of people like that.

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[–] onlinepersona 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Accessing these sites on my phone still works (though it didn't until I accessed them through mobile data and switched back to wifi)

Try running dig deb.debian.org then dig @9.9.9.9 deb.debian.org. If the first one fails, it might be your DNS. The second one uses an alternative DNS server.

Here are two articles on how to set a DNS server on mint:

Try setting your DNS server to that of quad9: 9.9.9.9 (literally four nines). They are a privacy-respecting DNS server.

[–] onlinepersona -1 points 1 day ago

After watching the TV show "For All Mankind", I can't help but think just how behind we are on tech and space travel. We could be out there exploring other planets on foot, but we're here with people unable to admit that we're heating up the planet.

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[–] onlinepersona 19 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Is it a crime to voluntarily join a DDoS attack? I remember 4chan using such a tool (ion canon or something?). Maybe that would be a way to contribute to the war?

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I tried accessing [email protected] from programming.dev and there's nothing there, but https://rss.ponder.cat/c/nytimes sure has a bunch.

Is there another federation issue in lemmy again?

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ISPs are forced to block DNS request to certain hosts, they also monitor your DNS requests, and sometimes aren't updated that or are slow.

Which DNS servers do you use or would recommend to others?

 

Caused by security firm CrowdStrike that issued an update.

 

I just finished watching Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository and honestly, while it looks intriguing, it also looks horrible.

Have you run into issues? Did you love it? How was it/

 

I'm having trouble understanding what it is and how to use it. The project website seems to be filled with buzzwords but no actual usecase.

The name hints at a being a DEX, but that doesn't seem to be it. They talk about banking for everyone, but they don't have a coin. What exactly is it and how can one use it? Is it usable by laymen?

Maybe @[email protected] can answer or anybody else who understands it...

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The largest governmental fund for opensource is in danger of being cut by the EU in 2025!

 

The external developer who started the work and was highly praised by Gitlab offered to work for them if they made a team around federation --> nothing.

A group of French universities are now considering making a group in order to work on it themselves and contribute back to Gitlab.

Gitlab will most likely use it as a big selling point once all the work has been done by externals with little to no cost to Gitlab.

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The only real attempt at monetisation that I've seen is https://beetoons.tv/, but they use their own crypto - making it like Odysee. Why is that?

Edit: Please, before you answer consider this monetisation doesn't mean ads!

 
 

Europe's betting big on hydrogen – despite a lot of drawbacks. Is the continent's hydrogen strategy overblown? And if so…why?

A biased video from Deutsche Welle that draws a conclusion in the title, but still interesting to hear the other side even though we might not agree with them.

 

After reading this post about Rust having a "supply chain problem" and @[email protected]'s response linking to the blog post "I'm not a supplier", I couldn't help but think of this talk (opensource conference hosting exclusively on youtube, make that make sense).

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