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  1. Comment on Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets in ~life.pets

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    Thanks! My last dog before her was a black lab, who grew to about 55 pounds and was a bit bigger than Lana. So I was expecting a bit of a bigger dog, but I'm certainly not complaining, Lana is a...

    Thanks! My last dog before her was a black lab, who grew to about 55 pounds and was a bit bigger than Lana. So I was expecting a bit of a bigger dog, but I'm certainly not complaining, Lana is a great size and a great dog.

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  2. Comment on Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets in ~life.pets

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    The picture does appear grey around her snout, but I think that's from the sand. She's hasn't started to grey, yet, thankfully!

    The picture does appear grey around her snout, but I think that's from the sand. She's hasn't started to grey, yet, thankfully!

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  3. Comment on Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets in ~life.pets

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    This is Lana, being a majestic beach dog. She's a lab mix my wife and I adopted back in 2015, from a rescue group. Her mom was a black lab, like, 100% black fur black lab, about 70 pounds. We...

    This is Lana, being a majestic beach dog.

    She's a lab mix my wife and I adopted back in 2015, from a rescue group. Her mom was a black lab, like, 100% black fur black lab, about 70 pounds. We figured Lana was going to grow to be bigger than she turned out to be, but she grew to about 45 pounds, and almost but not quite the size of your "regular, full sized lab".

    She is among the goodest of girls, but not very photogenic. This is one of the better photos I have of her. Despite being 10 years old, she still has boundless energy, and hasn't shown any signs of aging/deficit yet. I'm hoping she's nowhere near the end of her life, because we love her very much.

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  5. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    My usual caveat that I'm an audiobook listener rather than a sit-down-and-reader. Just finished Beyond Band of Brothers, which has been on my "Want to read" list for years, but I finally made an...

    My usual caveat that I'm an audiobook listener rather than a sit-down-and-reader.

    Just finished Beyond Band of Brothers, which has been on my "Want to read" list for years, but I finally made an effort to get to it, and I largely enjoyed it. The depiction of the life of a parachute infantryman in world war two was pretty harrowing, in an enlightening way. And there were a few points about "being a good leader" than resonated with me, both in my past professional experience, and in things I "could do better, to be a better leader".

    Up next is Armored, by Mark Greaney. I bought in to Mark Greaney from his Gray Man book series. I was looking for something to listen to on a long drive I took last summer. As a kid, I read Tom Clancy, and I saw that Mark Greaney co-authored some stuff with Clancy so I decided to give him a try. I loved the Gray Man series, burned through all 14 books over the second half of 2025, and the newest 15th book came out last month, took me about 8 days to get through. With no more Gray Man to get in to, I decided to try out another one of Greaney's works (Armored).

    Apparently Greaney first released Armored as an audio drama/play in 2021, and after it gained success, he re-released it in 2022, using the more traditional "book" style of much more internal monologue, tactical details, and character backstory that wasn't in the audio play. I decided to go in to the 2022 re-release, but I wonder if I'd enjoy it more if I'd started with the original 2021 release first.

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  6. Comment on What are you no longer a fan of? in ~talk

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    I get where you're coming from. And I don't think Americans grandstanding "through Old Montreal with an anti-Trump t-shirt" does anything for anyone except themselves, they may be just as much a...

    I get where you're coming from. And I don't think Americans grandstanding "through Old Montreal with an anti-Trump t-shirt" does anything for anyone except themselves, they may be just as much a part of the problem.

    I hope one day you reconsider your viewpoint, though. I hate to be grouped into the lump sum for things happening I don't agree with, actively voted against, and that do not reflect my ideologies and world view.

    I vote, I do what I can to have productive conversations with those who might actually be swayed to less "radical viewpoints". I'm no elected official, but I will and do reach out to them to tell them how I want them to vote when representing me.

    I'm sorry America has made you feel the way it has. I get why. I'll continue to try and do my part to shape this country into what I, and I argue many others, feel it should be.

    22 votes

  7. Comment on What are you no longer a fan of? in ~talk

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    There is (clearly) a non-insignificant quantity of Americans who support these, uh, policy decisions. But for what it's worth, please know there are still (many) Americans (myself included) who...

    There is (clearly) a non-insignificant quantity of Americans who support these, uh, policy decisions. But for what it's worth, please know there are still (many) Americans (myself included) who resent them, who actively vote against them, and who can't wait for America to treat its allies like its allies again.

    A few years ago, I was pulled into a conversation of someone shitting on France, and how "Without the US, there would be no France after WW2". My response was "Sure, but without France, there would be no America, or have you forgotten about their navy's role in the revolutionary war?"

    America is what it is, because of its allies. I, and I would argue many other Americans, have not and would not forget that. But, that said, I'd like to formally apologize for our behavior and I genuinely hope things take a turn for the better.

    50 votes

  8. Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy in ~tech

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    So far it seems people have only found the pseudonym I've tied to my username. I'd be curious to see if anyone could get my first name. But I suppose that's also not in the spirit of this site and...

    So far it seems people have only found the pseudonym I've tied to my username. I'd be curious to see if anyone could get my first name. But I suppose that's also not in the spirit of this site and what it's about.

    12 votes

  9. Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy in ~tech

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    Nobody has ever accused me of being subtle. In fact, my D&D party often refers to me as "the big noisy distraction"!

    Nobody has ever accused me of being subtle. In fact, my D&D party often refers to me as "the big noisy distraction"!

    8 votes

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  11. Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy in ~tech

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    My pseudo-real-name is on there, youngster :)

    your real name is on there.

    My pseudo-real-name is on there, youngster :)

    17 votes

  12. Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy in ~tech

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    I'd be curious to litmus test this claim on myself, but I'm unsure how. I've gone through some considerable effort to separate my online identity from my real one, and (I feel) I've done a fairly...

    I'd be curious to litmus test this claim on myself, but I'm unsure how. I've gone through some considerable effort to separate my online identity from my real one, and (I feel) I've done a fairly good job. But I wonder how good I've really done.

    12 votes

  13. Comment on What's an obscure book/series that you've read that you would like to recommend? in ~books

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    The books are fairly "short", as well, so easy to digest. I should caveat, I do audiobooks rather than sitting down and reading a physical/e-book. But in that realm, most of my regular audiobooks...

    The books are fairly "short", as well, so easy to digest. I should caveat, I do audiobooks rather than sitting down and reading a physical/e-book. But in that realm, most of my regular audiobooks can vary 14-18 hours in length. Each of the Lucky's books was about 5-6 hours.

    All that to say, it's not a huge commitment to try it out and decide if you like it or not.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on What are some bands you regret not seeing live (or, just never had the chance to see in the first place)? in ~music

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    My tight group of friends and I were recently chatting in our group message, the topic was: And while it was very difficult to narrow it down to just one album, ultimately I went with Meteora, as...

    My tight group of friends and I were recently chatting in our group message, the topic was:

    What Album/Band would you say was pivotal in setting your music preference?

    And while it was very difficult to narrow it down to just one album, ultimately I went with Meteora, as it's the one I probably go back to the most all these years later. I'll always have a special place in my heart for that album.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on What are some bands you regret not seeing live (or, just never had the chance to see in the first place)? in ~music

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    In 2012, my cousin bought two tickets to see Linkin Park in concert. He lives in the DFW area (Texas), I live in Atlanta (Georgia). The day before the concert, the friend he was going to go with...

    In 2012, my cousin bought two tickets to see Linkin Park in concert. He lives in the DFW area (Texas), I live in Atlanta (Georgia). The day before the concert, the friend he was going to go with backed out, so he reached out to see if I wanted to go since we've bonded over being LP fans. I was scheduled to work that day (the next day), and couldn't easily find anyone to cover for me, so I told him I couldn't. I'll always regret not just calling out and seeing Chester before he died.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on What's an obscure book/series that you've read that you would like to recommend? in ~books

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    Lucky's Marines, from a relatively small/independent author, Joshua James. It's a space opera/sci-fi series about a plannet spanning human species with various factions in an intergalactic...

    Lucky's Marines, from a relatively small/independent author, Joshua James.

    It's a space opera/sci-fi series about a plannet spanning human species with various factions in an intergalactic conflict. It's mostly action driven, the books feel "always switched on".

    2 votes

  17. Comment on The internet was weeks away from disaster and no one knew in ~tech

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    Yeah, I remember this, almost two years ago I was (would have?) been vulnerable, as LZMA is my favorite compressor, I tend to get much smaller archives with it than others. And all my hosts are...

    Yeah, I remember this, almost two years ago

    I was (would have?) been vulnerable, as LZMA is my favorite compressor, I tend to get much smaller archives with it than others. And all my hosts are Debian. Makes you wonder what commonly used software out there may be affected in the same ways that have not been discovered yet.

    8 votes

  18. Comment on Creating server documentation progromatically in bash in ~comp

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    Actually my primary reason for spinning it up, originally, was for my DnD party. It was an effort to find a more collaborative way for us to take notes than various Google Docs. I wanted something...

    Actually my primary reason for spinning it up, originally, was for my DnD party. It was an effort to find a more collaborative way for us to take notes than various Google Docs. I wanted something like MediaWiki, but I find MediaWiki to feel very old/clunky. I wanted an easy way to paste images from clipboard, reference other pages without difficult links, and use a more modern markdown with a "prettier" WYSIWYG editor as you typed (not having to use a "Preview" window, or save your page to see what it rendered like).

    It has great ACL's, as well. So immediately after loving it for DND, I created an additional "Space" only for me (Think of a "Space" as a wiki, I created one for the DnD party and gave all the players/DM access to it), and named my new space "Home Lab" with me as the only one with access to it. I then began shifting my various notes from various places into the DocMost wiki, and it's been liberating cleaning up the various .txt files, .md files, and other notes I had lying around about what I did, why, and the general architecture. Makes it much easier to reference, for example, what to do if one of my LE SSL certs fails to renew but I set up the cert and auto-renew script 2 years ago and totally forgot what does what, what commands I need, etc.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Creating server documentation progromatically in bash in ~comp

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    I recently spun up the DocMost container, as a replacement for MediaWiki. I immediately felt it was a much better way to document my HomeLab, and the couple of other notes/things I keep track of...

    Any thoughts on the direction I could go with the script (or the homelab for that matter)?

    I recently spun up the DocMost container, as a replacement for MediaWiki. I immediately felt it was a much better way to document my HomeLab, and the couple of other notes/things I keep track of in a wiki format. If you find yourself wanting a place to document things, highly recommend it!

    The thing that initially started my homelab was spinning up the original Paperless, which eventually evolved in to Paperless-ng, and now Paperless-ngx. I purchased a second hand Brother ADS-2500W, set up "Scan to FTP", and set the destination as my consume directory for Paperless. Being able to convert three file cabinets work of paper down to less than 1 GB of disk space was almost as satisfying as taking all that paper to my local recycling center.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on ‘Andor’ creator Tony Gilroy gives the interview he couldn’t during its release in ~tv

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    I can't just rest on voting up @dhcrazy333's comment, without making another to +1 the recommendation. It is, hands down, my favorite piece from the Star Wars universe, and one of my favorite...

    I can't just rest on voting up @dhcrazy333's comment, without making another to +1 the recommendation. It is, hands down, my favorite piece from the Star Wars universe, and one of my favorite shows over the last ten years. I enjoyed the first season more -- don't get me wrong, the second was good too, but the first was an absolute masterpiece (in my opinion).

    17 votes