This one also a bit chilling:

A data scientist can tell most of someone’s life story given their zip code, and we try not to think too hard about why that’s always the most predictive feature in the model.

Ugh. So it looks like I can’t even do this with Termux. Gotta dig out one of my few cables that does data transfer.

I get to sleep in on Sundays. Otherwise it’s basically the same as how I was brought up.

As the speaker of an English language me can tell you is not a difficult.

Are you saying that the bulk of inefficiency comes from network traffic?

I don’t think the ideas are all that bad BUT once again we’re glossing over the fact that we’re taking extremely simple tasks and making them less energy efficient on the order of hundreds of thousands. If this kind of thing takes off, at best we’d see companies start to go bankrupt because they can’t keep up with costs and at worst we’d ramp up carbon emitting energy production.

Right. When a request comes in, Traefik, for one, will hold the connection until the service is back up then forward the request as usual. This works for UIs as well. You’ll get a temporary loading page then redirected to the requested UI when the service is up.

It probably would work well with those as long as the startup time was quick (my containers come up almost instantly) and the initiating clients can handle a bit of latency. I didn’t notice any hiccups in my use at all.

Not useful on its own but https://sablierapp.dev/ was really useful for me in getting back resources from some of the heavyweight containers I use. For those unfamiliar with it, Sablier can stop containers that go idle and then spin them back up automatically when a request comes in. It requires Traefik, NGINX, or Caddy running always so it could complicate your server but for me I couldn’t do without it.

What year is it?

I just became a subscriber on Patreon.

For starters, blaming a lot of our woes on illegal immigrants when there’s no indication they significantly contribute to crime. I say significantly because it’s not zero but as a demographic they’re very law abiding. Not to mention unemployment is incredibly low (considered to be “full employment”) so whatever jobs they “stole” Americans apparently found another one.

Printing and scanning. I only print like one thing every couple months and scan things every 6 months, but a backlog is growing. My printer is over 10 years old but it worked well on Windows. Despite their site saying it supports Linux I just can’t get it to print or acknowledge any data is being sent. I’m contemplating a newer printer since deals are going on right now.

Update: Woooo! After a few weeks of fiddling with the install scripts and CUPS config I got something to print via Linux! That being said I’m upgrading, not giving up, to a new EcoTank printer.

Took me a while but I learned one of my managers is highly likely to shoot down any idea that isn’t his. So during planning sessions I started describing partial ideas and pretending I didn’t know how to solve the last leg of the problem so he could jump in and say, “Oh, what if we did…” Still kind of pisses me off I have to feign ignorance but since I started doing that things have gone way smoother.

New admin will do its part by discouraging pregnancy and encouraging people to die sooner.

Not used up per se but sequestered. It’s water that nobody will ever get to drink or use for crops, etc.

It’s not fully selfhosted but I did setup my own runner that integrates with their site.

Obviously the fault of too many studies. /s

AI takes the core directive of “encourage climate friendly solutions” a bit too far.

A drawer option would’ve been sweet. I love my 5.25" drawer. Perfect for flash drives, dongles, extra screws, little screwdriver, or a hiding spot almost nobody would know is there.