This is definitely up my alley, I gave up on keeping all my media in my torrent client indefinitely for seeding because of the performance, so I’ve long dreamed of making some way to reconnect loose files back to torrents so I can seed them.

Seems I could maybe build something on top of this? I tried running magnetico for a while (going so far as to add postgres support to help it scale) but it quickly grows far larger than I want to manage.

My next idea is to make a file scanner that maintains a list of file paths and several common hashes, then do a dht crawl and only save stuff that matches. Then I can hopefully automatically add and remove torrents to a client that has read-only access to the files as needed (remove if plenty of seeders, keep for a while if no or low seeders and rotate through prioritizing stuff that needs seeds)

I’m wondering if there’s some useful overlap between what you’re doing and my goals but I think I need to dig into it more.

Dust and jank you say? Behold, my old basement homelab when I rented just outside Boston with a very permissive landlord who agreed to let me have Comcast gig pro fiber pulled into the basement, running off an outlet I installed without asking on a free slot in our breaker box. The dust was terrible, the rack was a hodge podge, I had to put up that sign because maintenance guys kept plugging their power tools into the UPS when I wasn’t around and tripping it. But Comcast fucked up the billing and the 2gig + 1gig symmetric internet is still active to this day for free, which I left behind minimally working for the next tenants after parting out the rack. The tower by the side was a friend who wanted to colocate on my fiber, and I had some fun stuff like a slide out vga console. I also pulled Ethernet into every room, most of them installed with nice wall plates all bundled down to the rack, so with a house full of gamers, you could have multiple people pulling a gig on a game download without anyone stepping on anyone else’s toes.

Yeah I’m more talking about everything they do in addition to make the non-premium experience more painful. The incentive is to make it as annoying as people are willing to tolerate with dark patterns and little irritations. That kind of thing is entirely done on purpose, and I think it’s gross to have to capitulate.

And this is very evident whenever you’re outside the lemmy / technically skilled bubble, on reddit and many other places, whenever the topic of YouTube ads / premium come up, a surprising proportion of the comments will be to the effect of “just pay for premium” and “premium is so worth it” or “yt premium is the most valuable subscription out of them all”. People don’t seem to care that so much of the value of premium is avoiding a problem entirely fabricated by YT.

I did this on my ebike years ago, following oz cycles’ recipe at the time which was just parafin and a specific size Teflon powder. I keep a mini croc pot that always has the wax in it and dip my chain whenever I feel like it’s been long enough.

Thanks that’s actually really reassuring to hear 😄

Ah gotcha, I’m mainly thinking about anything except boobs haha, which I’m hoping to avoid with my excellent boob-free family genetics combined with raloxifene. I’m like 2 months in and basically waiting to see how long it takes to notice something other than softer skin. I feel like if I never dress differently (I feel very comfortable being like a tomboy) and can avoid boobs (or use sports bras) it might take a while for other changes to be obvious like face or overall fat distribution. But those are the changes I’m most excited about.

Not me nuh uh totally cis just taking E recreationally the sports bra improves my vrchat body tracker performance and the smooth legs are for aero

Ah I see, I thought your criticism was that I was repeating someone else who had already referenced Clark and Dawe in this thread. My mistake. If you just don’t like when people reference or repeat commonly known jokes, then you’re free to your opinion. I don’t think there’s really any point in discussing it though, since your issue is predicated on an opinion we don’t share.

In my defense, I did check if any of the other replies had specifically referenced Clarke and Dawe before I made my comment, and unless federation delay is in play, I don’t think I repeated anyone else’s reference to the same.

The front just fell off

How long has it been for you? I feel like it’s hard to get an idea of how long changes take cause most people change a lot about their presentation too but I’m not and just want the body changes for now

Apparently red/green colorblindness is the most common. Also, if you pick a dark enough shade of green and a light enough shade of red, they’ll appear the same in black and white. Someone might assume that the darker is red and the lighter one is green and might get it right most of the time, but looking at just one thing by itself you would have nothing to compare to.

For meat eaters, probably sous vide steak with a mayo sear on cast iron, with mashed potatoes (using a ricer to make it 100% smooth) with butter and cream that’s had a bunch of herbs simmering in it (inside a tea steeper so it can all be removed), I also sometimes add flour to the dairy to make a roux or bechamel to kind of follow the Julia Child’s recipe.

Or perhaps spaghetti carbonara with diced pancetta (it might be the oil from the pancetta or the egg/dairy but this can upset stomachs, but the sauce ends up being very creamy and delicious)

For seafood lovers, I love to make creamy New England style clam chowder in my instant pot, which I add fish sauce, soy sauce, old bay, and paprika to, as well as bacon bits if they can have pork. I usually make it thick by mashing the potato bits until it’s about right, and leave the rest of the potatoes as bite sized pieces. This recipe is a mashup of a bunch of clam chowder recipes, trying to find the best unique parts of each one I could find and adding it if it makes mine taste better.

I typically do bar soap, then for acne areas (face and back) I do a benzoyl peroxide wash. It seems a lot gentler then benzoyl peroxide lotions because it gets washed away immediately, but I’ve also used it in low concentration lotions to avoid causing irritation. Then I follow up with hyaluronic acid moisturizer for the face and alpha hydroxy (50% glycolic 50% lactic) for my back, since that’s a harsher chemical exfoliant that I don’t think is recommend for the face.

Before moisturizer, I also use niacinamide serums and lotions that typically have vitamin c, turmeric, and other ingredients for areas with dark spots, and when I’m not due for laser, I’ll use a dark spot correcting bar soap with retinol as well as other retinol products. Those make your skin sensitive to sunlight, so definitely needs to be paused around laser sessions and taking more care to sunscreen when going outside.

It doesn’t always! That’s why I specifically said it assumes the people using the addon are representative of the overall population.

Yes, Return YouTube Dislike made by Dmitry Selivanov basically maintains it’s own like/dislike database using like/dislike data from those using the extension, then applies that ratio to the public number of likes to estimate how many total dislikes there are among everyone including those not using the extension, assuming the data from users using the extension is representative of all people who liked/disliked. Overall it works well enough to tell what people’s sentiment is, and the more people use it, the closer you get to having the actual number of dislikes.

Thanks, relevant snippet:

Mozilla already offers a paid VPN service in partnership with Mullvad. Firefox’s free VPN won’t be using Mullvad’s infra though; it’s hosted on Mozilla servers around the world (if beta testing of the feature done in late 2025 tracks).

Interesting to see VR mentioned. I wonder if it’d be feasible, since wine seems like the place for translation layers, to translate the old oculus sdk (from the DK2 days) to openvr or steamvr. That could enable games that were never updated to modern APIs and to be played, like AAAAA for the awesome, the base jumping game which supports VR, albeit only with the 0.5 or 0.6 version of the beta oculus sdk apparently.

Anyone know what provider the VPN is? Mozilla’s paid VPN is just a mullvad reseller, so it would be cool if the free VPN was mullvad too.