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[-] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

OK fine, we are mid-neocolonial. Accepted.

Do we have any reason to believe there's giant blocks of pure, rare metals on the moon or asteroids?

So far there's no evidence to the contrary. Speculative interest says "keep digging, there's bound to be one out there" among the rocky asteroids. Heck, even "comet water might" bring a price, given trends.

There's no brown people on the moon you can give a dictator weapons to in exchange for keeping the people selling their labor and resources for peanuts.

If you think the next wave of neocolonialism wouldn't consider indentured servitude and/or conscription, well... I guess we shall see. You don't need indigenous people, just poors.

Edit: ...when you can just turn off their air.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 32 minutes ago)

Lemma: Earth lodes are assumed to be limited supply.

Find a Smaug-scale lode of d-block transition metal like gold or palladium on the Moon or a near-Earth asteroid. Crash the market. Buy other metals at fire sale prices.

Also, own the silicon semiconductor market.

Profit.

We did neocolonialism. It was profitable. Nobody forgot that.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

More, shelter.

There's no atmosphere to attenuate hard radiation, so rock overhead is the next best thing.

There's no gravity to contain an atmosphere, and domes are expensive and time consuming to build. Meanwhile the crews are exposed to radiation.

There's nothing but regolith on the surface of the moon-- finely powdered rock of unknown (and likely poor) assay for vital ores and minerals useful to bootstrap a colony.

A cave provides shelter, more assay-ably dense ore resources, potentially water in the form of subsurface ice, and potentially a vitrable (melted, glassified rock) cavity to contain a viable, pressurized atmosphere on the quick.

A cave on the moon is a find. Given the potential for neocolonialism in the next decade or three, it's a boon for whatever program discovers one.

edit: typos

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago

Oh you... 🤣

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Unbound will take updates via API. You could either write exit hooks on your clients, or use the "on commit" event on isc-dhcp-server to construct parameters and execute a script when a new lease is handed out.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I used to selfhost more, but honestly it started to feel like a job, and it was getting exhausting (maybe also irritating) to keep up with patches & updates across all of my services. I made decisions about risks to compromise and data loss from breaches and system failures. In the end, In decided my time was more valuable so now I pay someone to incur those risks for me.

For my outward facing stuff, I used to selfhost my own DNS domains, email + IMAP, web services, and an XMPP service for friends and family. Most of that I've moved off to paid private hosting. Now I maintain my DNS through Porkbun, email through MXroute, and we use Signal instead of XMPP. I still host and manage my own websites but am considering moving to a ghost.org account, or perhaps just host my blogs on a droplet at DO. My needs are modest and it's all just personal stuff. I learned what I wanted, and I'm content to be someone else's customer now.

At home, I still maintain my custom router/firewall services, Unifi wireless controller, Pihole + unbound recursive resolver, Wireguard, Jellyfin, homeassistant, Frigate NVR, and a couple of ADS-B feeders. Since it's all on my home LAN and for my and my wife's personal use, I can afford to let things be down a day or two til I get around to fixing it.

Still need to do better on my backup strategies, but it's getting there.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Forkyz is awesome

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I use Porkbuns API. It's not sophisticated, but it works.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Gandi changed their TOS and price structure last year, so I ported everything over to Porkbun for a small savings, but mostly as a big middle finger to Gandi.

If you're gonna get banged that kind of cash for functions you're already using, you may as well look at better registrars, and get better value for your spend.

Shop around.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Human lifespan is relatively short when considered against even the lifespan of other creatures on our own planet like Galapagos turtles and some species of shark. Against the backdrops of geologic and cosmic time scales, 80-100 years is nearly instantaneous.

Life is short. Enjoy your time to the fullest, because when you're looking back on those decades later in life, even they were fleeting.

Make the time to do the things that make you happy, especially when it feels like you don't have time for it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

How unfortunate!

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I have a few grinders I'd like to replace the stainless mesh between the middle and bottom chambers. Rather than try to track down the OEM info for the grinders, I figured it might be easier to source 60 micron stainless mesh stock and cut some rounds to size. I don't need much-- maybe the equivalent of a sheet or two of US Letter or A4 sized sheets or rolls.

My google-fu is failing me and my local suppliers don't seem to understand what I need.

Anyone here have a source for the screen stock?

edit: solved! Thanks @teft!!

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Fartology is an up and coming science.

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I missed it in the release notes, but there's a breaking change in the ota component in ESPHome 2024.6.0. I figured I'd save folks some time and share the fix here.

If your OTA config looks like this;

...

ota:
  password: "*************"
  num_tries: 3
  safe_mode: on

...

Now you'll need to add a platform key to start a list, and either comment out the other option or move them to a new component.

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ota:
  - platform: esphome
    password: "*************"
  #num_tries: 3
  #safe_mode: on

...

edit: Here's the PR introducing this change https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/6459

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Hear me out...

I was raised, as my family does, to fearfully respect our kitchen knives. Respect their productivity, respect their sharpness, but overall respect their ruthlessness. Even the mildest of disrespect for my family's knives would earn you a nick of you were merely neglectful, and grievous harm if you spoke ill of their aptness.

Of course, when I moved out and set up my own kitchens I acquired my own knives and tried to teach them better. How I was the master, and I was the steel wright. I lavished them with hand baths and fresh oils. I used only the gentlest of hardwoods on their blades and protected them from the hrllscape of the dishwasher. We lived in serene peace, an harmonic existence of a mealwright and his band of merry Riveners.

And then one day, the Inheritance came. Grand Father had died, and his boning knives were my bequest. I was elated, but I would learn.

My friends, that old knife had a soul. Not an evil soul, but a soul that had goals. It was hard steel that took a keen, harsh edge. Bright and tense, like a silver bell on a crisp winter morning. Not Solingen steel, so pliable and yielding as it is fickle in use. Grandfather's knives told you where to cut and if you hesitated, they would cut you instead in frustration. Impertinent things. Not evil, I would say. More, businesslike.

My mistake was to lay them with my other knives. Did you know knives talk? They do! They whisper to each other in their blocks at night when you are asleep. They whisper and they.learn from each other. A good papa hopes they learn the Art of their chef, but when you have a Bad Knife in the block? They learn that too.

Now, all of my knives are angry knives. Not angry at me, necessarily, but angry at their lot in my kitchen, to suffer my children's abusive cooking lessons, my in-laws' insistent prep work degradations, and (occasionally) my neglect.

They bit my wife tonight. Its a Message....

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Happy Dad-dude's Day to all you who celebrate it!

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Nobody's perfect.

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Pretty sure we had the E9112 and E9116 back in the day. Now I have a legit B92FS but it doesn't squirt water. For work reasons.

Ah, nostalgia. (Don't play with guns!)

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That's, "boots & pants & boots & pants...." in American

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