brandon

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[–] brandon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Looks like it’s pretty easy to add assuming the instance adheres to the policy documented in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/blob/main/src/features/auth/login/data/README.md

Edit: looks likes ToU and Privacy Policy needs to be added to https://vegantheoryclub.org/legal at the bare minimum. Probably worth pinging the instance owner to verify the criteria are met and submit a PR.

[–] brandon@lemmy.world 103 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Maybe they will start to realize the persistent election cycle is not a good thing. I would love to see a ban on all election campaigning until 90 days before said election but that wouldn’t get past a 1st amendment challenge.

[–] brandon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not surprised, my basement is 58-64F (~14-18C) year round, no matter how hot or cold it is outside.

[–] brandon@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s cheaper if you don’t have constant load as you are only paying for resources you are actively using. Once you have constant load, you are paying a premium for flexibility you don’t need.

For example, I did a cost estimate of porting one of our high volume, high compute services to an event-driven, serverless architecture and it would be literally millions of dollars a month vs $10,000s a month rolling our own solution with EC2 or ECS instances.

Of course, self hosting in our own data center is even cheaper, where we can buy and run new hardware that we can run for years for a fraction of the cost of even the most cost-effective cloud solutions, as long as you have the people to maintain it.

[–] brandon@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A large segment of the US population is still extremely anti-Muslim and think they are all terrorists, especially those at the center and center-right. I’ve met numerous supposed “centrist democrats” that think we should turn every Muslim country to glass.

[–] brandon@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I have, and use Calibre with LL instead and it still requires a lot of hand holding and manual grooming to get a clean library.

My big issue with Readarr is that it had a hard time fetching data for various popular and/or prolific authors. So if I wanted to fetch all the books for a particular author, there was a high likelihood it wouldn’t actually fetch the necessary book data to do so.

[–] brandon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I prefer LazyLibrarian over Readarr but it still leaves a lot to be desired for end-user usability. One of the big issues with ebooks is that data is a mess, with each book having a billion different editions with spotty metadata support that makes it hard to tell what is what.

Goodreads seems like it was a decent source of data for these types of projects but they shut off new API access a couple years ago and legacy access can go away at any moment. Hardcover seems like a promising API alternative but not sure if anyone has started integrating with them yet. Manga and comics seem to be in a better state, with a more rabid fanbase maintaining data but still nowhere near what’s available for movies and tv.

[–] brandon@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There was most likely a closet or other crawl space storage area there. My house has closets like that but luckily full height entries to them so we can actually step in. I’ve seen other houses with 1/2 or 1/3 height doors leading to under-roof crawl spaces for storage.

[–] brandon@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I had a family member go through 3 doctors and many months of unbearable pain in their leg, all saying it was a simple sports injury that’ll go away on its own, before someone realized they had a pool noodle sized tumor in their leg. I blame this incompetence for their death.

[–] brandon@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

The attempted robbery of the Hyde Museum

Two guys, one of whom pretending to be a Vanderbilt, attempted to rob a museum but were foiled by getting stuck in holiday traffic in their stolen delivery van.

One of the guys was a suspect in the Isabella Stewart Gardner robbery about a decade later.

[–] brandon@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Yup, that’s what I said, either entire sum or pay someone to post bond on his behalf.

[–] brandon@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Either the entire sum or pay someone 10% to post bond. If he doesn’t put up the whole sum 9% interest will continue to accrue (roughly $87k/day). If he doesn’t appeal nor pay, the prosecutor can start asking for assets to be seized.

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