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  • should know this already. :)

    What in the gosh darn condescending non sequitur is that? I have a special kind of dislike for people who, instead of trying to promote learning for anyone and everyone at any stage, instead choose to ridicule people for having missed some trivial detail that has about as much in common with Bash as does COBOL (basically nothing). Web scripting is, unsurprisingly, its own skill, and it's very, surpassingly, extremely, stupendously, and obviously conceivable that someone could have years of Bash experience but only recently started putting around with scripting for things like API access or HTML parsing. But you should know this already. :)

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    The Veluwemeer Aqueduct: Netherland's Unique Water Bridge
  • It's a road on a man-made land bridge before and after this aqueduct. In this shot here, it's a bit hard to see, but the road is actually on a slight angle to make more room for the aqueduct. The walls around the road are only for this section, as out of frame the road is almost certainly on top of your bog standard land bridge.

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    Voyagers favorite Ensign. Forever... an Ensign.
  • I never remember this happening. Unless the Kazon make a return in S6/S7 (as I haven't finished those yet), the closest thing was the Silver Blood Harry™ (died with the rest of the duplicate ship) or the Deadlock Duplicate Harry™ that replaced the Harry that was killed when attempting to repair a hull breach.

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    Trauma response
  • Everyone knows the old rhyme, "Step in a cargo hold, break your back."

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    The duality of man. Or man-like androids anyway.
  • I did a reverse image search, and I guess it's by someone named Moosoppart.

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    Memory Alpha can get REAL specific
  • They even have a page about the past tense written in the past tense.

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    Memory Alpha can get REAL specific
  • Isn't that a stylistic constraint of all Memory Alpha wiki submissions?

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    I'd like to thank to my dog for letting me take a picture of a bee during his walk [OC]
  • Ok, and?

    We need to make the disrespectfully disinterested "Ok, and?" comment a thing on pics. It seems to parody the weird negative overtones regarding innocent content effectively.

    Context

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    A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one
  • I'm just glad that I can resell microphone windscreens as Tribble plushies if I ever need another source of income.

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    The United States has Florida and "Florida Man". What state/province/region has your country's version of Florida Man (stereotypically home to crazy people)?
  • I've been meaning to watch more of the show, since I really love the Handyman Corner segments.

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    Are post about more general paper craft allowed ?
  • It's fine for now. Lemmy is a bit of a ghost town on more niche topics, so I don't see how turning away active members would make that any better. In other words, go ham.

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    Anyone used Open Tax Solver to do your taxes? (US)
  • I had no idea FOSS tax software was a thing. Huh. I'll try and play around with it at some point and let you know.

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    Instance graveyard website
  • Morton up in here spreading free salt.

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    Star Trek: Dark O'Brien
  • It's fine, the plot of the next (and all subsequent) episodes forgot about that for him.

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    Has YouTube Blocked Your Adblocker Yet??
  • Patching a newer version of the Youtube app resolved the issues with playback I was having.

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    The prevalence of touchscreens has probably resulted in a decrease in average fingernail length
  • Perhaps, but I sucked at touch typing when I was younger.

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    The prevalence of touchscreens has probably resulted in a decrease in average fingernail length
  • No idea; does autocorrect even exist in an inbuilt fashion on Windows? I've never really tried using anything like that.

    Oh, and here's a one-off test I just did without autocorrection turned on. With a few more tries, I'm sure I could get up to 100+.

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  • Mine is probably the crane or the jumping frog at this point, but I'm probably overlooking a ton of other cool traditional models. Anyone else have any they like to fold?

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    https:// normalcity.life /c/origami

    !origami@normalcity.life

    https://normalcity.life/c/origami

    A community about origami, on Lemmy. From what I can tell, this is the very first community of its kind on Lemmy; a bit surprising, if you ask me. I've been getting more into trying to fold my own origami designs, and I run the instance where this community is hosted. I guess you could say my stake in the community is two-fold, but I wish to build a community that's more than paper-thin. If you like creating origami or want to learn more about it, please stop by. I'll probably release the first of my freely-licensed designs here, assuming I can create anything that isn't an eyesore. It would be cool if others did the same, but a place to share knowledge and cool folds is the real end goal. So, that's really it: origami, but on Lemmy.

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    This was one of my first attempts at using a repeating base pattern to create a more complex model. In other words, I basically folded a bird base in four smaller sections of the paper, which left me with several little subsections that I could fold in a way that added a more sculpted look. Since I was coincidentally using black and white paper and realized that I could fold the rear portion to look like a tail, I decided to try to fold a very oversimplified Orca. It has no dorsal fin, no anatomically-accurate underbelly, and little in the way of intrigue. Still, this is essentially my second design, and I think it's an interesting concept. I'm still not super happy with it, so I think I'll scrap it until I can create something better. Still, it's fun to share photos of folds like this, even when they aren't perfect.

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    github.com GitHub - oripa/oripa: ORIPA is a drawing software dedicated to designing the crease patterns of origami. The unique feature of ORIPA is calculation of the folded shape from the pattern.

    ORIPA is a drawing software dedicated to designing the crease patterns of origami. The unique feature of ORIPA is calculation of the folded shape from the pattern. - GitHub - oripa/oripa: ORIPA is ...

    ORIPA is the closest thing we have to CAD for origami. It's based on Java, although it does have binary builds for several major platforms. I couldn't get the Windows build to work, so I installed the OpenJDK and used the .jar file. The program is essentially based on editing a crease pattern, allowing you to visualize the final model in 3D. One of the killer features is that you can export the 3D view as a mesh, which means you could potentially edit it for 3D printing or create nice renders of your origami designs in Blender. It has many fold options available and should accommodate various origami styles.

    I think one of the more promising ways to use this is to use it in tandem with a physical prototype for designing origami, as this gives you a clean template when you arrive at a design that you like. Some people have also mentioned that they design origami in this program before they ever fold it, which seems fairly difficult to me. Still, it's the closest thing I've found to a CAD program for origami, and it has a lot of features that make it genuinely useful. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it is a true little open-source gem that I imagine is easily overlooked for people new to origami.

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    https:// normalcity.life /c/vaporwaveart

    https://normalcity.life/c/vaporwaveart

    !vaporwaveart@normalcity.life

    This community was one of my main motivations to start a Lemmy instance. I'm a moderator of a few smaller tech/creative subs, and wanted to properly maintain a corner of Lemmy that felt a bit like Reddit. NormalCity is proving to be a fair bit of work, but I think it's worth it.

    The Vaporwave Art community here on Lemmy is moderated by the same people as the subreddit, and NormalCity (our home instance) is hosted and operated by me. The goal is pretty simple: a place to post vaporware artwork. We don't really have too many criteria, and have a pretty strong legacy on Reddit of hosting weirder, more experimental artwork than some of our larger counterparts. I'll admit: I don't really like people telling me what is and isn't vaporware. I think the community can figure out what it likes, for the most part. So, if you're still looking for a just-visual-art place to dump your vaporware-inspired work, stop on by. I promise we won't bite, unless you post Outrun. We'll probably bite then.

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    I should add that this isn't the first time this has happened, but it is the first time since I reduced the allocation of RAM for PostgreSQL in the configuration file. I swore that that was the problem, but I guess not. It's been almost a full week without any usage spikes or service interruptions of this kind, but all of a sudden, my RAM and CPU are maxing out again at regular intervals. When this occurs, the instance is unreachable until the issue resolves itself, which seemingly takes 5-10 minutes.

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    The usage spikes only started today out of a seven-day graph; they are far above my idle usage.

    I thought the issue was something to do with Lemmy periodically fetching some sort of remote data and slamming the database, which is why I reduced the RAM allocation for PostgreSQL to 1.5 GB instead of the full 2 GB. As you can see in the above graph, my idle resource utilization is really low. Since it's probably cut off from the image, I'll add that my disk utilization is currently 25-30%. Everything seemed to be in order for basically an entire week, but this problem showed up again.

    Does anyone know what is causing this? Clearly, something is happening that is loading the server more than usual.

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    I just used the tool linked here in the documentation to create a Bootstrap theme, but I can't find the folder they're referencing. I've used Ansible to install Lemmy, which is working fine, but I'm not really sure how to handle themes as a result. Do I place them somewhere in my Ansible stuff, or is there that directory somewhere on the server? I found the Docker /volumes/ folder, but the directory names were random strings and not labeled like they supposedly are at the link above.

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    I used the Ansible playbook instructions and got my instance up and running, which is where I'm sending this from now. Still, I was not able to get the SMTP side of things working. Does this whole setup self-host SMTP on the Lemmy instance, or is it something I'll have to sort out externally? I've heard some people have had issues with Digital Ocean on certain ports, which is the VPS provider I'm hosting on, but even other ports I've tried have not worked.

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