[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago

Ideally, set up a battery and inverter system in your house, and turn the charging rate up or down depending on what other electric devices you are using at any given moment. Idea is to keep your power consumption exactly the same regardless of what you are doing at home. That way you give no information to the power company.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

Thanks that's helpful. But there are a bunch of other important rewrites needed, like bypassing redirects.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

Nah, the Firefox thing just seems to have one or two rules, like remove utm_whatever=something parameters. If you expand that to 10 or 20 rules, some of which are site specific like cleaning ALL the parameters from ebay links and doing some similar rewriting with Amazon links, removing gclid and fclid from everything, retrieving the content of a few of the more common link shorteners and cleaning -that- up, etc., you can get a much less trashy experience with maybe 1 page of code. Adblock already does some of that with its site filtering. You don't get everything, but a little bit goes a long way.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 7 points 16 hours ago

It is pretty lame. I have a far more aggressive one written in python that I use in a shell window. One of these days I want to rewrite it in JS and turn it into a firefox extension.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

limitless

Where is the tritium supposed to come from?

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago

Everyone uses ffmpeg for this and Handbrake probably uses it also. I do most of my own conversions on a cheap dedicated server so it's not a big deal if it takes a while, but yeah, h265 is slow.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Black Hand of the Brotherhood of Nod

Empire of the Hand from Star Wars.

Added: yikes, lots of black hands, many unsavory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hand

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Never heard of it but you might give Lemmy a try.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Interesting counterpoint to the stuff we sometimes talk about here. It's more for public chat rooms though. MLS (RFC 9240) still interests me and I've been wanting to try coding it.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 month ago

Wrong community, you wanted lions ate my face.

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[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 months ago

Wait, FOURTEEN? I thought you were going to say 19 or something like that. Either way just be honest, you're taken, there's too much age difference, and (apparently) she's not your type. She should meet up with someone her own age.

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Dead Stars Don’t Radiate (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/science@lemmy.world

By well-known mathematical physicist John C. Baez. This refutes the article that floated around a few days ago saying the universe would end sooner than expected. That article was based on the premise that dead stars (big chunks of matter that aren't black holes) emit Hawking radiation the way that black holes do, and that the matter in the universe would eventually decay through this mechanism. The linked blog post says that the premised is wrong, and matter in normal space doesn't give off Hawking radiation. I guess in 10^74^ years (iirc) we will find out who was right!

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submitted 4 months ago by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/chess@lemmy.ml
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submitted 4 months ago by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

Not sure if I'm posting to the right place since I think this is a lemmy.ml federation problem. I was subscribed to c/covid@hexbear.net but hexbear renamed itself to chapo.chat, so updates are now going to c/covid@chapo.chat. I try to subscribe to that from lemmy.ml and it says "community not found". I can view it directly on chapo.chat and while it's low activity, there is at least 1 newer post there than on .ml's feed of hexbear. Help?

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submitted 1 year ago by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml

I wasn't able to find one by poking around but may have missed it. Tx.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

There is a thread in another community regarding some controversies happening in women's chess. I posted to that thread, recommending a book written by WGM Jennifer Shahade who is a multi-time US women's chess champion. I also linked to a review of the book, the url of which contained the book title.

The Open Library page about the book is here: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5849601W

it seems that the title, as chosen by the female author with considerable self-awareness, contains a word that is sometimes used as a sexist slur. You can see the title by clicking the link above. Unfortunately some kind of bot censored the title from both the post, and the review link (to chessbase.com) that I had posted. I was able to fool the bot by changing a few characters, but the bot's very existence is imho in poor taste.

We are adults here, we shouldn't have robots filtering our language. If we act sexist or abusive then humans should intervene, but not bots. Otherwise we are in an annoying semi-dystopia. The particular post I made, as far as I can tell, is completely legitimate.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm a chess fan. Men-only events were abolished in the 1980s. There are now women's events (no men allowed) and open events (everyone allowed). In practice open events are 90% male, and the male players, especially at the lower levels, tend to fit the smelly and socially inept stereotype. Playing in them can be unpleasant for women, and women's events exist basically to provide playing venues where women can enjoy competitive chess while staying the hell away from us clueless males. As a clueless male myself, I can get behind that, no problem. I understand and I'm fine with it. How do cis women feel about playing alongside trans women? Idk, I'm cis male and I don't feel entitled to spout off about that. But I think they are the ones I'd want to listen to the most.

The top levels from what I can tell aren't as bad as the lower levels, since the effort it takes to reach that level of chess tends to weed out the clueless and lazy. There is still bad stuff though, e.g. the incidents with GM Alejandro Ramirez.

You might like the book Chess Bi tch (that is the title, damn censor bot),by WGM Jennifer Shahade reviewed here , about her experiences in both women's and open chess events coming up through the ranks.

As for FIDE, there currently aren't really alternatives at the top levels. FIDE on the other hand is not much of a factor in lower and mid level chess. Those events tend to be regulated by national and ad hoc federations, etc.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Down with the algorithm telling us what to read. I just want to see most recent first. Thanks.

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submitted 2 years ago by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

https://lemmy.ml/c/flashlight@lemmy.world got that error a few minutes ago when lemmy.world was having some db probs, but works now. I had thought federated posts were supposed to be copied to the local server, and anyway a raw 502 is a confusing diagnostic. This is basically a bug report.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 53 points 2 years ago

There's tons of memes and stuff, but I was never into that, so meh. My thing was specialized nerd groups and they are mostly not here yet. With time, maybe they will come.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

The two top entries on lemmy.world sorted by hot as of a few minutes ago were a porn link on a porn community (nothing against porn per se, but I don't want to see it on the front page) and a bot post to some kind of bot link community. I see the "block user" button but I don't particularly care to see anything from those communities, so blocking the individual poster doesn't help much. I could actually visit the community in order to block it, but that sort of defeats the purpose of blocking. And I know of "Hide NSFW" but I'm not particularly anti-NSFW, I just don't want to see it unintentionally.

So it would be useful to have "block community" as an option along with "block user" in the little buttons underneath the post.

As a broader policy matter, I'd be cool with blocking NSFW from the front page altogether (it would still be available within communities of course). But I understand such a decision would want discussion for and against.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml

I don't use the Play store (don't want a Google account) and prefer to stay away Github because Microsoft. Thanks.

Added: Thanks for the links! Unfortunately it looks like the app requires Android 8.0+ and my phone is still on Android 7. Is that inherent to Jetpack or some other part of the app technology? It would be good to not have to keep churning to the latest shiny.

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