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Jul (they/she)

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  • What do you NOT do, that you would do without privacy violation? [discussion]

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  • Mostly interacting with other people in-person. I left most corporate social media and lost access to Meta explicitly due to a conflict around my viewpoints on what constitutes hate speech against trans people (hint: saying it's a sickness that needs curing and that justifies cure by torture, eg. conversion therapy, is hate speech). But I lost access to a really active Buy Nothing group in my neighborhood that's on Facebook as well as several groups that only post their in-person events on Facebook. Really sucks that Meta locked us out not for violating a rule, and thus with no possible appeal, but assumedly because they were surveiling their platform and excluding people who argued against their stance. Or at least that's the best guess that those who were blocked have for why.

    Also, I have been losing a lot of home automation from Nest devices because Alphabet bought them and has decided to force allowing access to data for "AI" training and "law enforcement"/government surveillance. If I could keep the data local, I would still be able to use the devices with Home Assistant, but they only allow using their servers.

  • House Socks Recommendations for the Clothing Sensitive

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  • Not bad actually. I've had them for almost three years and wash them every two weeks or so on average. I use delicate cycles in a front loading washer and gentle detergent on most stuff, but even with that they actually haven't worn badly at all.

  • How would you expose Jellyfin securely without a vpn?

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  • Reverse proxy with fail2ban or crowdsec. It's possible to set up things like Pangolin which ultimately use a VPN between external and internal access points but not at the client, though it takes more setup if you want to use apps over pangolin instead of just the browser.

  • House Socks Recommendations for the Clothing Sensitive

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  • I do love bamboo fabrics. I splurged on a sheet set and duvet cover a couple of years ago and it's all I use anymore. So much so that I probably need to buy more, soon, lol.

    Any suggestions on brands? I see a lot of cheap stuff on places like Amazon and I worry they will just tear immediately. I have old hardwood floors that periodically splinter a tiny bit. Also just because I wear then so often.

    Also, do the socks tend to be more slippery than cotton, my sheets sure are, lol? I suppose it might depend on the thickness since thicker socks tend to slip a little less than thinner in general (fabric compression I guess?), but just curious if its a satiny feel or more like a cottony feel. I'm fine with a little slip. I've learned to walk on my hardwood floors with just about anything on my feet, just curious.

  • House Socks Recommendations for the Clothing Sensitive

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  • Thanks! I actually did see some when I was looking around online, but I thought they were compression socks. I'll have to look at them again.

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  • It's Saturday 05/23/2026. Hey, What's Going On!

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  • The girl I'm dating is coming over to spend the day, and night. Lesbian shenanigans are sure to ensue including lots of cuddles, maybe even arms around each other in the park if we're feeling adventurous, lol. It's been a long time since I had a relationship I was excited about.

  • Have you encountered VHS or Cassette piracy in the 80s?

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  • My experience is more late 80s, early 90s as a kid/teen. We recorded tons of stuff on VHS from cable TV and shared with friends and it was extremely common. It's similar to how people use DVRs only you end up with a more portable copy if you want to share it. DVRs took away that sharing capability on purpose to increase cable and streaming revenue. Sure VHS was lower quality, but at that time cable wasn't great either and HD TV's and content weren't common. Cams from movie theaters just wasn't realistic and theater was still about the experience way more than it is now with everything just extra loud and flashy if you go to one.

    I also copied stuff on cassette to share or to make it more portable since I had a cassette walkman. Sometimes that was from radio, but that was harder since you didn't have a guide to what was coming up. Either you had to sit there and hope a song played that you wanted and then rewind if it wasn't one. Or you had to copy from one cassette to another and further lose quality with analog copying. More common was making mix tapes either from original purchase cassettes or CDs once I had a CD player. Then BMG and copycats came along and everyone cheated the free trials to get a ton of free music before torrenting came along later.

  • Oil market clock is ticking as supply crunch looms

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  • Yeah, also price doesn't really slow demand very quickly since people rely on transportation. Especially in the US where electric charging station funding was canceled and most people need to drive at least an hour a day for commutes because of the "return to work" policies to revitalize commercial real estate that collapsed during COVID. Not many people can survive without right now. And if prices were to rise to their actual market driven prices right now, the Republican party would lose a ton of their flock with midterm elections not too far off. Of course, then again it's always possible gasoline riots are the way the Republican party intends to stay in power. Good excuse to cancel elections I suppose. Their flock has taken every other loss of rights without complaining as long as they crack down harder on the enemy of the day, immigrants or trans people probably, or maybe the supreme court will finally get around to ending legal gay marriage as they've been threatening to do.

  • New 🔥 double empathy paper just dropped

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  • I mean, when you're used to having to pretend to not be yourself in order to attract someone, not having to do that is obviously pretty appealing. I haven't dated a neurotypical person in a long time. I refuse to waste all of my energy masking that much anymore.

  • Using a kanban board to manage my life

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  • It definitely couldn't hurt...well it would hurt, but....

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  • Using a kanban board to manage my life

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  • Not naggy enough for me to remember to check it. LOL

  • Iran Has Destroyed Roughly $1 Billion Worth of US Reaper Drones

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  • But look at all the profit that General Atomics is making right now making more. That's great for the US economy, right? /s

  • People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question)

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  • I have a lifetime pass from many years ago when it was cheap. So I'm not in a huge rush to convert and want to do it right. But I am on the path to converting. I decided to make a major change to my home server infrastructure and it's still in an experimental stage. Moving from a really old standalone computer I've used for. HTPC purposes over the years, currently dedicated to Plex combined with a few raspberry pi's of various generations for the little stuff, and a single, good NUC for my router, to adding two additional NUCs and eventually upgrading the Plex computer with a more modern processor and video card for ML stuff for Immich and a few other systems that I plan to start using. I'm not just moving from Plex, but also a lot of Google and Nest products.

    My dilemma has been Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes. I was trying to set up Kubernetes in a way that is easily repeatable and self documenting, but ended up with lots of manual steps required to install things and lots of things that I had to write my own helm charts for as well as the scripts to install and set up Kubernetes itself on each of the servers. Lots of custom stuff. Docker Swarm would be way easier, but the issue is I'm worried about Docker getting so proprietary these days and swarm mode getting so little attention, and Podman quadlets aren't self balancing across multiple small servers like swarm. So that's why I haven't switched to Jellyfin yet.

  • Dr. Margaret Connolly: “Irish People Are Behind the Palestinian Cause”

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  • When I first read that headline I thought this was going to be a Zionist extremist kind of thing blaming Irish people for supporting Palestinian "terrorists". Glad I was wrong. 🙂

  • So many LGBTQ Texans are moving to this city, it may declare an 'emergency'

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  • Yeah property tax is really high in Texas because it makes up for all the tax cuts over the years and lower sales tax. I paid more in taxes for a small condo I had there that was about 1/5th of the value of a small townhouse I eventually bought here. I had kept it thinking I'd move back, but Seattle won me over and Austin became less welcoming, so the property taxes made it not worth it even as an investment with the prices starting to rise at the time. Back then the cost for small homes was about 3-4 times Austin, now it's around 1.5 to 2 times the cost from what friends have shown me. Looking at current average cost it looks like Seattle is about 875K, Austin is about 510K and Houston is about 260K. I don't know about rent now, but at the time it was about double Austin's in Seattle.

    But other than property tax, which is just generally ridiculous in Texas compared to many other states, the cost of living here is significantly higher. Food (I miss HEB prices), gasoline, electricity, trash, car registration, rent/house prices, internet service (screw Comcast and their virtual monopoly, though it is getting better lately), almost everything was more here when I moved from Austin but that was over a decade ago. One thing that was cheaper is public transportation, though. I do appreciate that, living in the city.

  • The U.S. threatens to revoke the Palestinian U.N. ambassador's visa

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  • UN needs to relocate at this point, unfortunately. If the US is going to threaten its independence, then it shouldn't stay here.

  • Alberta lawmakers recommend October vote on remaining in Canada

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  • I wish it was possible in the US. The western portions of the west coast states have been talking about separation from the US for ages to escape the fact that they fund a majority of a country they have very little political power in, and end up paying ridiculous prices for necessities compared to the rest of the country on top of paying so much in taxes anf being denied subsidies for things like infrastructure that other, more conservative states get. But unfortunately there's no legal way to do it here.

  • Amazon, Facebook, ICE, and FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network

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  • Yep, that's why I left most social media and try to keep things private. Not because i have anything to hide. I just don't want everything I do, read, and say to be used against me or trigger hate-based attacks. These days everyone has at least one thing that some hate group would target them for since that's how fascism works. Make everyone an enemy in small subgroups and trigger hate against that small subgroup whenever you need to distract from taking away rights or taking people's money.

  • "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden" (it isn't good)

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  • That's positive at least. I hadn't looked at that part. Still having the whole dump of data and attacking it locally vs having to query a web server repeatedly for each attempt is a major advantage. This is why I significantly prefer Vaultwarden over a synchronized database, especially if it's publicly synchronized in a publicly accessible git server or something making it relatively trivial to copy.

  • A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

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  • The cops maybe, but the agencies are in the pockets of the companies that sell it. And they control the message given to politicians who are also on the pockets of these companies. The companies have no qualms bribing all over the spectrum of politics and haven't been stopped from doing it up to now. The systems are crap but super expensive for this very reason. The primary cost of the product is the bribes, not the technology. It's how the industry of road cameras (plate tracking, red light, speed, etc.) has always been.

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