GreatBlueHeron

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WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I must be old - it's WordPerfect to me.

Firefox with uBlock Origin slow on some sites in c/firefox@fedia.io
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So, it sounds like this isn't expected behaviour? Now that I've gone looking for examples, I can't find any. Maybe there was some temporary problems yesterday..

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Firefox with uBlock Origin slow on some sites (lemmy.ca)
 

I'm using Firefox with uBlock Origin on both android and windows. I'm finding more and more sites that are very slow to load, or won't load at all. Yet when I open them in Chrome they work fine. I'm assuming the sites are just failing because of the privacy protection features of ff+ubo, and I'm happy enough to just avoid these shitty sites in general. But - I'm just checking to see - is this expected behaviour, might I have configuration issues?

Linux only has 0.3% market share in Antarctica unfortunately in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Where do you live that Antarctica is "up"?

Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Once an end-to-end, encrypted, connection is established between a pair of peers then anything can be sent through it. The establishment proces is generally facilitated by a server of some description so neither peer needs to allow inbound connections. (I'm a long, long way from being an expert on this and happy to be corrected - but this seems like network fundamentals?)

Doing my bit? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I thought I was doing well with 8 down and 20 up! In my defence - a lot of the stuff I'm seeding is old (10+ years) and I'm the only seed.

What's your favorite band's best album? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a 3 way tie between Back in Black, Led Zeppelin II and Wish You Were Here.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On a Commodore64?

Can we get a "block all non-english/non-default language communities" button? in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I recently learned this, and changed mine to English only. I still see non-English communities in All. I suspect it's up to community owners to set the language of their community and a lot don't?

Why you should (probably not) run Slackware in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Wow, that brings back memories. Slackware 3.x was my into to Linux in the '90s.

Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

No, I didn't.

Language filter option? in c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel this should be a Lemmy capability and not client specific? I'd like to see it too - I feel like I'm somehow disrespecting all these interesting looking communities just because I can't understand the language.

Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But there's no future profit for Sonos in them providing the ability for us to play music we already own from our own library.

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Project idea for learning (lemmy.ca)
 

I'm a retired Unix sysadmin. Over the years I've built things in COBOL, FORTAN, C, perl, rexx, PHP, visual basic, various Unix shells and maybe others. Nothing has been a real "application" - mostly just utilities to help me get things done.

Now that I'm retired, and it's cold outside, I'm curious to try some more coding - and I have an idea.

The music communities here seem to post links to YouTube. I generally use Lemmy on my phone but don't use YouTube, or listen to music, on my phone if I can help it. I'd like to scrape a music community here and add the songs posted to a playlist in my musicbrainz account.

Does that sound like a reasonable learner project? Any suggestions for language and libraries appreciated. My preferred IDE is vim on bash and I have a home server running Linux where this could run as a daemon, or be scheduled.

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Looking for men's work pants (lemmy.ca)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca to c/buyitforlife@slrpnk.net
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I'm retired spend most of my time in my workshop or doing maintenance on outbuildings on our rural property. I really like Dickies Duck Logger pants, but they seem to wear out quickly. I have three pairs that get worn almost constantly in rotation. The oldest pair is now just over two years old and is worn out - I've repaired the seam in the crotch once, but now the fabric either side of it is thread bare. My phone has worn trough the bottom of the right front pocket.

Are there similar pants that will last longer, or am I expecting too much?

I'm in Canada.

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Should I move to Docker? (lemmy.ca)
 

I'm a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I've kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I've managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked for a technology company and did plenty of "interesting" reading and training.

It seems that more and more stuff that I want to run at home is being delivered as Docker-first and I have to really go out of my way to find a non-Docker install.

I'm thinking it's no longer a fad and I should invest some time getting comfortable with it?

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