remotelove

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[–] remotelove 2 points 2 hours ago

I second the litterbox with a cover suggestion. It should help a bit, or at a minimum, keep the scratching confined to the litterbox itself.

Still, scratching like this isn't uncommon for cats. What I have noticed with my cats over the years is that they start young learning to cover the smell but they forget "why" they do it and "scratch whatever" out of habit as they get older. (I am talking many years or transition, btw.)

Once cats get really old, having them used to a litterbox cover helps if they start to miss the litter completely. (We had an "old man" once that just forgot how to aim and his butt always ended up over the edge of the box.) Still, not something you hopefully need to worry about any time soon.

TBH, each cat behavior is unique. Watch and adapt as you can.

[–] remotelove 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A Chevy is still an American brand and the ecotec engines were also used in a variety of European cars.

[–] remotelove 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Conspiracy theories were supposed to be fun and not really taken seriously. Once "groups" like Q-Anon showed up, all the nutters quickly linked everything to politics and the conspiracy theories that may have had a believable hint of truth just got destroyed by complete bat-shit crazy rambling.

[–] remotelove 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A proper fork of Lemmy needs to happen and a new dev team needs to be established, me thinks. Unfortunately, .ml is basically a support hub for Lemmy admins so it's not as easy to defederate as you would think.

That was my last understanding and things may have changed a bit since I stuck my head into "Lemmy politics". Feel free to correct me if I am just wildly wrong.

[–] remotelove 7 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Did you miss the first bit where it said 2011 Chevrolet?

[–] remotelove 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sorry if it sounded like my rant was directed at you as it absolutely wasn't. Your comment triggered me, because I absolutely fully agreed with yours as well. ;)

[–] remotelove 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

setenforce 0 is much cleaner, I have found.

[–] remotelove 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Its just complex

When a security mechanism becomes more complex to manage than what it is supposed to protect, it becomes a vulnerability itself.

If you had a minimal system that you built from the ground up yourself and wanted to only have that system function in very specific ways, SELinux would be perfect. I would go so far as to say it would be nearing perfection in some ways.

Sorry, but in the real world, ain't nobody got time for that shit. If you use auto configuration tools or pre-canned configs for SELinux on a system you are unfamiliar with, it's more likely to cause application issues, create security gaps and will likely be shut off by a Jr. admin who really has no fucking clue what he is doing anyway.

It's just easier to keep your system patched and ensure basic network security practices anyway.

It's not impossible to manage these days. In the early days it was, but most everything is automagic now. If I am not mistaken, SELinux can be enabled to 'log only' which would give you data better handled by a HIPS anyway. (Don't quote me on that.)

[–] remotelove 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] remotelove 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good luck finding those.

Now, if you referring to the ones from 'murica, we have something to agree on.

[–] remotelove 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes. Sudo, the left one, is quite judgy. Fenn, the one on the right, doesn't quite know what he is doing besides mimicking his brother.

 
 

It's kinda useless for productivity or usability but I like it a ton. ;)

 

Weird "all" feed blanking bug. This is more likely to happen if the 20-30 thumbnails have not completed load.

 

This seems to be related to thumbnails that aren't fully loaded, but not always?

  1. When scrolling fast and preventing thumbnails from fully loading, I can get the feed to temporarily hang until it finishes loading loading some thumbnails.

  2. I will eventually hit a "feed limit" when scrolling through the feed to ~100 posts.

  3. Sometimes, slowly scrolling back up the feed to allow unloaded thumbnails to finish may "unblock" the feed for a bit, but not always. It may load one or two additional posts, and hang again.

There seem to be multiple conditions causing the feed to pause vs completely hang, and I can't nail those conditions down.

This issue has gotten much better since 219, but is still a bit quirky.

 

This is an odd problem to describe.

I can scroll through about 20 posts and then the feed will "hang". Once those 20 or so posts finish loading thumbnails, additional older posts will be loaded.

This is not as noticeable on fast connections, but causes significant lag on slow connects. There is no immediate indicator that Connect is still loading newer post data when you hit the end of the feed cache/buffer. (It feels like feeds have been split into "pages" and after 20 or so posts, there is a delay when hitting another "page".)

Thanks for attempting to read this shitty description of a problem. I tried.

Edit: The feed will actually get "stuck" sometimes. It's common for me on "all". I had 800mb in cache and just cleared it. It's got a little better for some reason. I can get close to 50-60 posts before the feed pauses or hangs.

 

I am going to edit this post and get some screenshots. (Done)

Note: Backing out of this post, after navigating to this post, via my profile, triggered the "blank feed" issue again. (See blank screenshot in comments.)

(Sorry for the issue replication testing in this post.)

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Your friends will change. (self.stopdrinking)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by remotelove to c/[email protected]
 

A key point of many recovery programs is to separate yourself from your drinking buddies, which is probably the most difficult thing for anyone in any situation. It's something I still deal with in some ways: Drinking friends are extremely easy to find. Real friends absolutely do not show up everyday.

I was just thinking about some of the people this morning that I just don't have the need to associate with anymore. There are two that I still occasionally hang out with, but there was a deeper friendship besides booze from the start.

If you are having this problem now, it gets better over time, I promise. It may take a couple of years to learn life again, but you can heal. In retrospect, having much more time on my hands just made the initial loneliness much worse.

My friends changed but also the reasons to hangout with other people also changed. This took time for me to understand. What matters to me personally has slowly morphed over these last few years and that is reflected in who I choose to associate with.

My conclusion is that I absolutely underestimated the time recovery actually takes and how my views on things like friendship would shift. As my entire personality was based on alcohol, I have found that reevaluating past decisions or assumptions can be useful, if not paramount to moving forward. This, unfortunately, takes lots time and time is not a friend to anyone fresh into recovery.

(This was just another one of my random annual stopdrinking posts. If you needed to relate to this in some way, that is awesome. For me, self-reflection is important and I choose to make it public. If this post seems self-centered, that is because it is: It's just not unhealthy.)

 

Edit: This is a weird thread, and might be a one-off. Maybe I have one of those users blocked and it's hiding the rest of the thread? I dunno, and I'll check. // It doesn't appear that I have any of those users blocked.

After opening my profile history, I can open a thread in my profile view. Clicking into a reply comment takes me to my comment on the post.

I cannot see the full comment thread when I view the full posts history on a post and trying to actually get to new comments is like trying finding the exit at IKEA.

Basically, I can't navigate to a thread to reply, and I had an awesome snarky comment prepared, but forgot it trying to get there.

Navigation behavior is so strange, either I have developed pre-release Alzheimer's, or Connect is bugged. (I don't discount either scenario.)

Sorry, I got jokes today.

 

After a post is clicked, it seems that all thumbnails are forced to refresh. (Attached image shown immediately after a click)

Also, what may just be the result of a cache clear, doom scrolling seems to cause a similar lag after scrolling past +50 posts. Thumbnail loading becomes laggy, but not sure if related to the issue above.

When the lag starts, Connect will lag fairly bad for as long as a minute. I have also turned off image preload, but that had no effect.

Side bug, changing the title in the new post edit cleared my first post body.

 

I haven't seen this particular issue since early versions of Connect.

 

I don't particularly care for dubstep but am more into traditional EDM, trance, electro-house. Basically, anything using simple or modified four-to-the-floor styles with heavy synth work. (Deadmau5, Rabbit in the Moon, Tiesto, etc, etc...)

Recently, I have been playing the game of "duplicate the sound" with my soft synths. I'll hear a song in my car driving back from dropping the kid off at school in the morning and then spend an hour or so with my soft synths duplicating a sound with its effects before I start work.

Copying Rezz has been interesting though. Her "signature" bass sound is a saw with a hair of distortion with some really cool (but still simple) LFO/filter work for rhythm. Add some traditional sidechain compression tied to a kick and most of the work is done. Where she excels is tying in lots of fx into the overall rhythm of the bass that seems to have lots of dubstep'esq influence.

That led me into (newer) dubstep with the drones, wobbles and all-around crunchy bass. Truth be told, it was an eye opener a few months ago when I discovered that most of the crazy "bass rhythm" sounds live above 500hz and that a basic sin wave below 500hz is all you really need for power.

My main issue is that I can't quite duplicate traditional dubstep and/or even super-clean wobbles. (An example here at 1:44: https://youtu.be/CNiLnw1t0UU)

I have figured out that (especially in the example above) that most of the sound is just lots of low and high pass filter work, probably tied to what I know as an "automation" in FL Studio. (I don't know if that is a general term or if it's FL Studio specific.) Hell, I was playing a couple synths tonight free-style and got super close to some of the key sounds, actually.

When I try and expand on that with, say, Skrillex type bass, I simply don't even know where to start or what tools and techniques to use to distort and destroy the bass line into something like dubstep.

I guess, after all of that, if you wanted to make some really crunchy bass lines, what techniques would you use?

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