“Hey why am I on this website, delete me” “Sure, we’ll delete you, thank you for doing the 10,000 pages of opt out paperwork!” “./ingest_florida_counties_public_records.sh” “Hey why am I on this website, delete me” “Sure, we’ll delete you, thank you for doing the 10,000 pages of opt out paperwork!”

And repeat.

The 1% of the time it’s down, there’s always the Internet Archive or reading your own downloaded copy.

Videos count too.

This. A thousand flashcards may get it in, but it slips away unless you ACTIVELY use it.

Endless Sky is great.

Okay, now that’s weird. I switched to “any interface” for what to bind to instead of my Ethernet interface and that somehow made torrenting work again?

I’m pretty sure it’s not ISP throttling but more some weird BitTorrent issue; how was aria2c able to saturate my connection while BitTorrent couldn’t move a single byte to save its life?

Is my VPS provider going to nuke me if I dare use my VPS as my VPN, though? Ionos, if it’s relevant…

Update: I was somehow able to torrent a different one with aria2c, and it went at full speed, so I’m very sure that I’m NOT being blocked by my ISP…

Slow and sustainable growth over fast unsustainable growth that makes Lemmy bloat and explode because it couldn’t expand fast enough. (Sorry for the metaphor if the wording is a bit off)

Tagalog: siya. 3rd person singular.

Nandito siya. He is here. She is here. They are here.

If it doesn’t work, yt-dlp -U. If it still doesn’t work, I don’t know what to do anymore

youtube-dl has since been superseded by yt-dlp

but wanted her to do it for free because he couldn’t be bothered or didn’t have the money.

People demanding free art are a staple of my olden days reading r/entitledpeople (technically it’s more that i listen to a human narrate posts from there while coding). Block and move on, like what everyone else has already said.

Last I checked it costs too much to engrave wikipedia articles into headstones.

What’s the wildest sentence you’ve had to write to cater to the aforementioned corporate five year olds? Like say, a painfully obvious thing that is apparently a very niche detail?

I have a personal MediaWiki installation on my computer (same software as Wikipedia). Been running it since 2022. Most recent offsite backup is from the start of December. I also have a very Wikipedia-like writing style as a result, too.

Any of my descendants, if they will ever exist, will probably have a great time going through great-grandpa’s writings 🙂

Hell, this month I made it into a Kiwix Zim file that I can read when away, but of course that doesn’t support writing to it, so I sometimes write in a physical logbook when I’m away from my computer

never been to the Rumble Quarantine Zone but I would put on a hazmat suit first if I were you

OpenTTD (2004), which traces its roots to Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1994)

And there’s a community of players who have modded the everloving fuck out of the game and the engine itself, one of these patch packs is OpenTTD JGR and we play it like it’s a model railway simulator

I’ve seen people call it GQ: new name, but the same great two-letter brevity of PE