After I taught my cat to shake paws, she started coming up to us and offering her paw to us. She’ll either place her paw on us / on our hands or paw at the air in front of us.

My homelab has been mostly on autopilot for a while. Synology 6 bay running most lighter weight docker stuff (arrstack, immich, etc) and an Intel nuc running heavy stuff (quicksync transcodes for Plex+jf, ollama). Both connected to digitalocean via WG for reverse proxy due to CGNAT.

I had my router SSD either die or get corrupted this past week, haven’t looked much at the old SSD besides trying to extract the config off of it. I ended up just fresh installing opnsense because I didnt have any recent backups (my Synology and nuc back up to rsync.net, but I haven’t gotten around to automated backups for my router since it’s basically a plain config, and my cloud reverse proxy which is just a basic docker compose + small haproxy config). Luckily my homelab reaching out to the cloud reverse proxy means there’s basically no important config on my router anymore, they just need DHCP and a connection.

Besides that the arrstack just chugs along on its own.

I recently figured out I can load jellyfin playback URLs into vrchat video players, either direct stream or through the transcoding pipeline as an m3u8 that live transcodes based on the url parameters you set. This is great because the way watch parties in VRChat works is that everyone in an instance loads the same URL pasted into media players and syncs the playback. That means you need to have a publicly accessible url (preferably with a token of some sort) that can be loaded by an arbitrary number of unique IP addresses simultaneously, which I don’t think is doable with Plex.

I’m now working on a little web app to let me log into Jellyfin, search/browse media, and generate the links with arbitrary or pre-set transcode settings for easy copy/pasting into VRChat. The reason it’s needed is that Jellyfin only provides the original file without transcoding when you use the “copy stream” option, so I believe the only way to get a transcoded stream url currently is to set the web interface to specific settings and grab the URL from the network. But that doesn’t let you set arbitrary stuff like codecs and subtitle burn in and overriding what it thinks you support. So a simple app to construct the URL will make VRChat watch parties a lot easier.

MS ❤️ Open Source

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gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme

Welp, I already got the maid outfit last Halloween

I’d say download everything and keep track of what you can’t find, then rip those because there will probably be people in the data hoarder or lost media communities who would love to hoard and share it.

I remember going to defcon in 2016 and there was a guy wielding a foam sword with a qr code t-shirt that said “scan me”, and when you scanned it and told him it said “arrrr”, he’d beat you with the sword while berating you for scanning an untrusted code.

Damn I’m just realizing that was almost 10 years ago

I think you’ve exactly described why some people need a VPN. My ISP does 3 strikes when they get complaints :/

The new beta timeline is sooo smooth! I finally don’t hate scrolling back to find a specific old photo. The scrolling performance feels completely native to me now.

Once when I visited a friend of my partner’s, I met a dog they were taking care of that was rescued and hated men. To everyone’s shock we ended up spooning within an hour. I guess add that to the pile of signs lmao

I don’t think YouTube actually has tracking parameters in the url normally, but if you use the share button then the youtu.be link will include the video ID as well tracking. But it looks like you can kinda use it there too if you select the link with tracking, it seems to detect that it’s a link and offers the clean link option when you right click it.

If you go to an Amazon item page then you should see it available when right clicking the address bar.

ClearURLs was my go to on Firefox, I think it’s still great but it gave me trouble on a couple of sites because it modified the url in the address bar (it was like AliExpress and shopee, Chinese e-commerce sites that look like a web dev vomited, so I hardly blame ClearURLs)

Firefox also now has “copy clean link” when you right click the url bar which also works great.

It looks like it starts to actually answer, both in English and when asked in Chinese, so it looks like the filtering is in the web UI and not the model itself. If you’re curious you could find another provider or run it locally to see the answer.

My partner just tells me to take off my pants

• Shotz Laundry Liquid
• EcoLiving Laundry Detergent Sheets (lavender scent)
• Re-Stor Laundry Detergent Sheets (fresh linen scent)

Shotz Laundry Liquid and EcoLiving Laundry Detergent Sheets with lavender scent scored a very low 27 out of 100, the same points level given to washing with only water. Re-Stor Laundry Detergent Sheets fresh linen scent, a product sold at Woolworths, fared even worse under the Consumer NZ testing.

Imo it’s not enough of gap to be a big deal, there are much worse age gaps, especially when you’re talking about only people above 21. I’ve often dated older and when I was in my early 20s I would go on the occasional date with someone around 30 and the biggest reaction I got from friends or people around me was light teasing, but most didn’t really care. Now that I’m 30 I don’t feel that uncomfortable dating down to around 25, but I also look young and don’t feel like I’ve matured that much since my 20s.

I don’t think most people would care at the end of the day, I feel like it only becomes weird when you’re like in your 40s dating down to 20 something.

I was always terrified to take the bus for this reason. I never did in grade school (always was picked up) so the few times I had to take the bus was pretty bad - none of the teachers or bus drivers ever told us how to do it, it was just assumed that everyone knew where all the stops were. This was exacerbated by the fact that since I was not a regular, the driver forgot my stop. So the second and maybe last time I took the bus, little 10yo me got off 1 stop early out of fear and walked the rest of the way.

This caused a deep seated trauma around buses and public transit that was only mitigated when I moved somewhere with excellent (by US standards) transit, though I still feel like a fish out of water if I don’t know the route or the stops - so trains are a lot less stressful.

Lmao

The wiki does have this to say about the hazard tag

The hazard=* tag is intended to tag hazards that are explicitly declared by posted signage and/or government declaration.

Fun fact, there is some hazard=dragon also in the database, but that seems to be well supported by the existence of this signage

I’m pretty sure I have an anxiety disorder so I doubt it, but it’s a nice sentiment haha

Back in the day I home hosted shit using http over 443 because my ISP blocked 80 inbound but not 443. It was a little weird but it worked lmao.