hyacin

joined 2 years ago
[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

A little boy was walking down a path and he came across a rattlesnake. The rattlesnake was getting old. He asked, "Please little boy, can you take me to the top of the mountain? I hope to see the sunset one last time before I die." The little boy answered "No Mr. Rattlesnake. If I pick you up, you'll bite me, and I'll die." The rattlesnake said, "No, I promise. I won't bite you. Just please take me up to the mountain." The little boy thought about it and finally picked up that rattlesnake and took it close to his chest and carried it up to the top of the mountain.

They sat there and watched the sunset together. It was so beautiful. Then after sunset the rattlesnake turned to the little boy and asked, "Can I go home now? I am tired, and I am old." The little boy picked up the rattlesnake and again took it to his chest and held it tightly and safely. He came all the way down the mountain holding the snake carefully and took it to his home to give him some food and a place to sleep. The next day the rattlesnake turned to the boy and asked, "Please little boy, will you take me back to my home now? It is time for me to leave this world, and I would like to be at my home now." The little boy felt he had been safe all this time and the snake had kept his word, so he would take it home as asked.

He carefully picked up the snake, took it close to his chest, and carried him back to the woods, to his home to die. Just before he laid the rattlesnake down, the rattlesnake turned and bit him in the chest. The little boy cried out and threw the snake upon the ground. "Mr. Snake, why did you do that? Now I will surely die!" The rattlesnake looked up at him and grinned, "You knew what I was when you picked me up."

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

I feel like they think the same thing about us. Especially the odd time I try to explain something seemingly basic to them (say, 'innocent civilians shouldn't be bombed' for example.)

And it always falls on deaf ears.

I'm just cutting more and more of them out of my life at this point because their toxicity is so bad it affects my mental and emotional well being.

 

CBC is exposing the Canada to Israel Charity Pipeline.

On Friday October 17, CBC's The Fifth Estate will release "Funding the Occupation." They are following “the trail of millions in Canadian tax-deductible charitable donations [that] are supporting Israeli settlements deemed illegal under international law." 

In 2024 alone, Canadian charities sent at least $222 million to Israel. This is only the amount they reported on their "Schedule 2" as money being sent out of country. This does not necessarily include all donations to qualified donnees or registered charities in Canada, who then send the money to Israeli institutions. So we expect the figure is closer to $400 million, based on an analysis which identified $100 million in donations to Israeli universities and their associated Canadian orgs in 2023. 

Watch "Funding the Occupation" on or after October 17, 9pm on CBC-TV, YouTube (https://buff.ly/qSE8WdJ), or CBC Gem (https://buff.ly/WBJUJYQ). 

To learn more about the Canada to Israel Charity Pipeline, check out HERE.

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

OpenBSD

ducks

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

yep, this, cold turkey ragequit. Have since had to go back for the odd super niche technical question/subject/area, but now I'm thinking I'll keep that readonly and delete my account (after trashing everything on it, ofc, which I did a week ago after a Reddit-typical terrible interaction with a terrible human.)

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Currently messing around with Talos Linux in a VM.

Yes!! Now LOVE Talos, after, drumroll, trying it out in my lab on my Proxmox boxes!! Figured it out 'good enough', and then rolled a live cluster with it - also on the same Proxmox hardware!! Labs, production services, loaner 'lab boxes' for people doing certs - with hardware to spare! LOVE Proxmox so much!!!

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Proxmox.

/thread

Anything else you want to run, you can run in Proxmox. If it's too much hardware for what you're doing, all the more reason to run Proxmox. You can build an Arch VM, and NixOS VM, and whatever else you want in it!

If you go with just one of them right on the hardware, that's all you can do with it, you're done, you're stuck.

When you have Proxmox on it, you can try every OS! And then some! It is a superpower for learning.

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

All of them if you're on enough LSD!

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

3rd. <3 <3 <3 that port forwarding.

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because you're talking about a law or rule - it is literally all about how it is written - people build entire careers on debating the interpretation of how they are written.

"No government employee can wear political symbols to work" is 100%, clearly and entirely not the same as "No political symbols may be shown anywhere on any government property"

Seriously?? A downvote?? You asked why it matters, I explained why it matters, jfc, leave the nasty Reddit behaviour on Reddit tyvm.

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

There used to be. They weren't profitable enough so they were put down.

RIP Cardboard. RIP Daydream (though that was a pricy piece of plastic.)

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Made by Meta - hell no.

Made by someone else - possibly.

My main interests are navigation guidance on a HUD, real-time translation, and to a lesser degree teleprompting for speeches or presentations.

Wouldn't even really care if they had a camera or not - though what I've seen from the ones that do, being able to look at something that is in another language and ask it to translate it for you is pretty seriously cool. Can't imagine I'd use cameras for much else - but honestly with how uncomfortable they'd make everyone around me, I'd be quite willing to just forego them and pull out my phone to snap a pic and translate something that is text.

I was looking at the Even G1 pretty hard but then read some reviews that say the real-time translation is TERRIBLE, and to make it slightly less terrible you have to pay subscription fees, so I unsubscribed from their mailing list pretty quick.

Saw one on a Kickstarter recently that also piqued my interest, but they have cameras and were pretty bulky ... I may wait a generation or three for them to shrink down a bit more.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31223847

"Do not bury my photos. Let them scream for me, tell my story, expose all I have seen and all I could not save.”

– Fatima

 

"Do not bury my photos. Let them scream for me, tell my story, expose all I have seen and all I could not save.”

– Fatima

 

He's apparently been a nuisance in the nearby gardens. Pictured here plotting his next move I do believe.

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