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Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI!
  • They have those ... right? Gawd I hope they still have those. I'm not flying till they figure this out. Again.

  • Cats @eviltoast.org dbtng @eviltoast.org
    Albi is Huge ... Fake Crocs for Scale

    I have big feet. This cat is a monster.

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    Tear Down Ham Radio Site
  • Friend, I'm gonna donate it to SurplusGizmos. I have other talents. Somebody else can do RF.

  • Tear Down Ham Radio Site

    My good friend's father passed away several years ago. We are going to clean out the garage. He ran a ham radio station. He did a LOT of awful wiring. (USA 110v systems)

    I'm gonna clean it all up so there are no fires.

    What can I expect? Badly wired 210v setups? Capacitors carrying deadly charge? I'm a computer nerd, and know very little about ham radio.

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    Autism disinformation on Telegram soars in Latin America and Caribbean.
  • Got some nice word clouds in that article.

    radiation from 5G networks, vaccines, reversal of the Earth’s magnetic field, consumption of Doritos, and even chemtrails.

    spiritual healing and attempts to discourage medical treatment, reinforcing the guilt of parents and caregivers.

    anti-vaccine discourse, ‘the new world order,’ scientific denialism, and anti-institutional ideology.

    networks are organized, create meaning, fuel distrust, and capitalize on collective anguish

  • Too Hot for Lemmy.World: "Quantum Fraud"
  • Thanks for the good times Quni. You've brought this community together. Well done.

    Yes. You should harass LinkedIn next. That is the move. Its huge. Imagine all the little groups you could infiltrate and indoctrinate with your unique perspective.

    Or ... now this is a truly wild idea ... you could go back to your futurology instance, click the button, and start your own community.
    d00d. There are other weirdos that will talk to you. You just gotta find them. Build it and they will come.
    And in the mean time, you can work on your presentation skills.

    ....

    BTW ... Folks, this is not AI slop. If you've read the site, this is clearly old-skool crazy, typed at mad speed, around 4am after 16 cups of coffee and some perceived insult on the internet. Back before we had AI to write garbage for us, we had people like Quni. And we still do. Here he is.

  • Is This Drivel? A Practical Framework for Cutting Through Empty Discourse
  • Dude. Here. Scope this out. These are your fellows.

    Carnicom. This is the chemtrail guy from way back. His site used to look more wacky like yours, but he jumped domains and redeployed it all. I bet the old web 1.0 stuff is still online somewhere.
    Dude created hundreds of documents about ... well ... nothing. https://carnicominstitute.org/

    Time Cube. This hasn't been online since 2016, so gotta wayback. The wayback makes the page even uglier than it used to be.
    But ya, that's more of the same. You called it drivel? Fair enough. https://web.archive.org/web/20160112193916/http://timecube.com/

  • Too Hot for Lemmy.World: "Quantum Fraud"
  • Unfortunately, its a crazy person that can't get anybody to listen to them.
    It would be nice if they would just chill and don't have to get banned.

  • Too Hot for Lemmy.World: "Quantum Fraud"
  • Quni settle down. You don't have to alienate everyone on the whole internet.

    Dang dude. Chill.

    And stop posting garbage.

  • Your Wifi Router Emits Photons - QNFO
  • Ya. Well bud, try making sense. That helps a lot.

    Notice in that video that despite the fact that Tong showed up to his Royal Society lecture to rock their world, and in fact the title of his lecture advertised as such, he wait until minute 30 of his hour-long lecture to abruptly tell them all that reality is a lie.

    Tong made this declaration, in this sacred room, in front of Micheal Faraday's desk, to the Royal Fuking Society. Ya get it? He wrapped himself in the flag of standard physics, and when he had them all buttered up, he ripped off the veil.

    One must establish some level of consistency and reliability before one can make outrageous claims and get any sort of positive attention. If you are not credible, well ya. You are "wasting time".

  • Search Proxies - Whoogle and SearXNG
  • The SearXNG UI. A search for bl0rp.

    OMG. I just realized that's probably supposed to be pronounced like "searching". What an awful name. I do like the app tho.

    It's giving me deep search results. Like I used to be able to get out of google. And Alta Vista before that. All kinds of weird stuff. Oh boy. I forgot the internet could look like this. I might get lost in a couple weird websites. You know. Like the old days ...

  • Search Proxies - Whoogle and SearXNG
  • The Whoogle UI. A search for bl0rp.

  • selfhosting @eviltoast.org dbtng @eviltoast.org
    Search Proxies - Whoogle and SearXNG

    I'm trying to unfuk myself from Google. It's an admirable goal, but damned difficult to do if you intend to continue using the Internet.

    Except ... well ... you actually can do this. You can run a search proxy locally that will completely obfuscate you to the search engines and also strip out all of the tracking and ads they spit back at you.

    I think there are more apps, but there are two primary search proxy platforms that are well developed and support running in a Docker container, so you could run it on any Windows or Linux box.

    ....

    Whoogle https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

    Try this app first. Low system requirements. Super, super easy to setup. "Whoogle is intended to only ever be deployed to private instances by individuals of any background, with as little effort as possible." Let Whoogle be your gateway to running a search proxy.

    I've run Whoogle for almost 6 months now. Google has tried to break it twice. Had to adjust some docker params and upgrade the LXC to fix. I'm extremely satisfied with Whoogle.

    ....

    SearXNG - https://github.com/searxng/searxng

    This app is the all around better tool, but its much more complicated to manage. It's had a fractious background, forked from an older project called SearX. The author of Whoogle says, "I'm a huge fan of Searx though and encourage anyone to use that instead if they want access to other search engines/a different UI/more configuration."

    I've just deployed SearXNG today based on benbusby's recommendation. Ya know, I was a Whoogle fan, but this is just a step above. 140+ search engines, it looks awesome, and its got a large contributor list with lots of recent commits.

    ....

    I run Proxmox VE, and both of these apps have been given the tteck treatment for easy setup.

    Whoogle - https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts?id=whoogle

    SearXNG - https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts?id=searxng

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    Filesystem and virtualization decisions for homeserver build
  • Proxmox is Debian, so much of your ideas could translate directly across. That said, I try to mod the PVE server as liitle as possible.

    Proxmox makes it so easy to spin up yet another VM or LCX to handle services with its core offerings. Also google "proxmox helper scripts" to find tteck's additional stash of ready-made LCX.

  • Your Wifi Router Emits Photons - QNFO
  • Ya, he's been flooding. I'm pretty sure mods nuked his last post.

  • Your Wifi Router Emits Photons - QNFO
  • Ur a nut.

    You should watch the second David Tong video. Notice how he makes his points. Nobody thinks he's nutty. See that?

    Emulate it.

  • Your Wifi Router Emits Photons - QNFO
  • This is just Time Cube or the Carnicom Chemtrails site rehashed. Buncha bullshit. Sure, the author (found a name. Rowan Brad Quni) is discussing some actual physics concepts, but none of this is new or even controversial. Acting like information theory is some sort of conspiracy against reality is just not going to move any subject forward.

    Don't bother trying to interpret their point.
    Here. Some actual info.

    Vijay Balasubramanian Space-Time: The Biggest Problem in Physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIqVnFtOSr4

    David Tong The Standard Model of Particle Physics: A Triumph of Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unl1jXFnzgo

    Or a younger David Tong doing what this unfortunate lunatic Quni was trying to do, breaking down your notion of reality and building it back up from fields. Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg

  • Do you want more eviltoast?
  • Thanks for hosting us. I hope the upgrade and migration goes well!

    I found eviltoast via a directory of instances after I searched for science and tech. I'm new to lemmy, but lemmy itself is new enough that there's a lot of folks who are also new. It's been pretty darn cool so far. Hate to say it, but sorta like reddit used to be.

    Local content? Expect me to dump more in the selfhosting and cats communities. I've got a hell of a homelab going, and I need to brag. BTW if you don't think its a security risk, and ya have a sec, tell us about your new gear!

    But do we need more local content? From what I see around lemmy, there's a lot of duplicated effort and many of those dupe communities look fairly abandoned, so I've not even considered starting a new community here. I think the local content question is best answered by asking what do we want or need to talk about? For me, that's cats and data systems.

  • disconnects?
  • It sure seems more stable now. My login session isn't getting reset all the time. No errors. Thanks for fixing it!

    I'll look into Jerboa. I tried Voyager on my phone, and didn't see a way to change my home instance from lem.ee to eviltoast. I should probably go read the directions.

  • ESXi free - possible to use Proxmox import wizard?
  • For anybody considering using the Proxmox ESXi Import Wizard, you should watch this video.

    https://www.proxmox.com/en/services/training-courses/videos/proxmox-virtual-environment/proxmox-ve-import-wizard-for-vmware

    Personally, I don't watch tech videos. Give me the documentation and let me go. Well, the folks at Proxmox made the unusual decision of releasing the full and complete directions on using the Import Tool via this video. I don't know of any other official source where you get the full intricate details of an optimal virtual machine import and conversion to VirtIO.

    Ya, it sux. Watch the video anyway.

  • ESXi free - possible to use Proxmox import wizard?
  • Um ... that thing about vmdk and qcow being the same ... that's ... not correct. I've never heard anyone say anything like that before. Its so wild that I can't even find a link to refute it.

    But anyway, to convert VMDK and QCOW2, you need qemu-utils. Run this ...

    qemu-img convert

  • PVE update: Removable bootloader found at ...
  • Um ... you did that yourself, you know. You ran this.

    apt update

    The correct command is this.

    apt-get dist-upgrade.

    If you use the GUI to upgrade and watch what it does, it runs this second command. As you've discovered, its not optional. Fabian should have told you so in that post. He's probably tired of relating that message to folks.

  • selfhosting @eviltoast.org dbtng @eviltoast.org
    Replace Gen13 PowerEdge DVD w/SATA Bay

    I'm new to lemmy. I posted this in one of the big self-hosting forums and it was deleted by the mod. I assume they felt it was off topic.

    =======

    This is a hack to add an extra drive bay to a Dell Server. Tried with both PowerEdge R230 and R430.

    Replace DVD w/SATA Bay. They make replacements for laptop DVD bays that allow you to put a second sata drive there instead. This replacement part can also drop right in place of the slim DVD bay on a Dell PowerEdge. I’ve seen multiple references to this setup working. This guy’s blog has screenshots of it. https://tachytelic.net/2019/10/install-ssd-optical-13th-generation-poweredge/

    I don’t see the disk. At all. The OS doesn’t. PERCCLI doesn’t see it. iDRAC doesn’t. When I got into Lifecycle Controller to manage the disks, It used to see the SATA DVD drive at the end of the list, but now there’s no entry. (On the R230 when I removed the drop-in and put the original DVD back, it went back to normal. The bay is in the R430 right now.)

    I’ve got the right bay, it fits. More important, the electrical stuff all matches up. The drive light activates. Got a brand new drive in there. It hasn’t been tested otherwise, but I’d like to think its ok. In the post I’ve linked, it looks like he has his SATA set to ATA, not AHCI, so I tried that, but no change. Poked at it quite a bit. Can’t think of anything else to examine.

    Alright … so there’s all the setup. And here’s why I think it doesn’t work. My main disks are all SAS on both machines. R230 PERC H330 - 4 x SAS 7.5k 3.5" spinners R430 PERC H730 mini - 6 x SAS 10.5k 2.5" spinners

    I’ve read that you can’t mix SAS and SATA drives. As the DVD seemed to be a normal SATA, I figured I could use that port with a SATA SSD. But maybe not. It’s not worked on either server, and all the gear involved appears to be operational. It’s worked for other people. But every reference I’ve seen to this working seems to be all SATA setups.

    Does anybody know for sure?

    =======

    Since I first wrote this, I've decided to remove all the SAS drives from the machine and test with just this SATA SSD. I'll do that soon, when I'm ready to tear down the current array.

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    eviltoast.org support @eviltoast.org dbtng @eviltoast.org
    disconnects?

    The site seems to go down intermittently. One time I got a message about too many requests, but mostly it just gives a generic lemmy error page.

    Sometimes the issue goes away real quick and it drops my login session. Other times, it lasts long enough for me to give up and try a different site.

    I'm not doing anything particularly unusual. I browse lemmy as I would reddit, killing an hour or two. When eviltoast stops working for me, I've tried testing from other browsers and computers. Yes I'm using ublock on firefox, but I've gotcha whitelisted. My chrome is clean, same issue.

    I have access to remote systems to test as well, and it seems the issue is not related to me or my connection. Or that's the way it looks so far. I could do more remote testing if needed.

    Are we hitting a throttle of some sort?

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    Cats @eviltoast.org dbtng @eviltoast.org
    Wally. Blep. No thoughts.

    Whacha thinkin about Wally?

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    Cats @eviltoast.org dbtng @eviltoast.org
    Wally was having a thought. It hurt.

    He doesn't think much.

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    Cats @eviltoast.org dbtng @eviltoast.org
    Munchkin did not like other cats.

    Notice the claw marks on the TV. Munchie meant schabusiness. TV kitty must die.

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    dbtng dbtng @eviltoast.org

    Rocket Surgeon

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