Timothy Olyphant returns in Justified: City Primeval, a limited series revival that takes everyone's favorite modern day cowboy to Detroit.
Now I feel dumb.
That didn't work earlier.
I just went to copy the error message I saw before and... it's working.
Maybe because I switched back to Namecheap's nameserver? Or maybe because I cleared my cache again? Or maybe because I game it some more propagation time?
Or maybe magic?
Each potential reason seems equally likely to me.
Thanks
Lemmy Easy Deploy. I didn't know where to find any tutorials for using an Oracle Cloud VM. Did the official have that?
In over my head
Today I decided to get an inexpensive custom domain from Namecheap and try self-hosting Lemmy. A few bucks later I was thinking, "Hey, this is going to be cake."
I'd read some of the warnings about Oracle Cloud free tier, but figured I'd still give it a shot for hosting. I found a simple how-to for quickly getting an Ubuntu instance spun up with Docker and Portainer. A few minutes later I'm thinking, "This is so easy!"
Then I try to access Portainer using HTTPS and see my first "Your connection is not private," warning. "No worries," I think. "Advanced>Proceed. I'm in."
So I run Lemmy Easy Deploy. "The lights are green, the trap is clean! Boom. Here we go!"
Nothing.
Ports seem to be open on Oracle, but no Lemmy at either 80 or 443.
"Maybe Lemmy is more particular about SSL certificates and such?" I think, for the first time getting worried.
"Err, I think that if I change my nameserver to Cloudflare I can destroy my Lemmy containers, re-run Lemmy Easy Deploy with a Cloudflare API token, and maybe fix it?
Four hours later, after repeatedly starting over, clearing my browser cache every 5 minutes, switching back and forth between nameservers, even deleting the whole Oracle Cloud VM and starting from scratch, I realize that an HTTP connection to port 443 is returning "Client sent an HTTP request to an HTTPS server."
"Were you there before, message?" I wonder.
Lemmy friends, can you help me? Or am I better off just deleting the VM and giving up the whole idea?
readarr
I thought it was ebooks-only. I didn't realize was for audiobooks also. Thanks!
Something Overseer-like for requesting audiobooks for Plex.
No recent great ones, but Mo Gawdat's "Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World" was ok.
ChatGPT and I came up with this bookmarklet which I'm using until this is resolved.
You set your home instance, then just click it when on a post on another instance. It grabs the post title and the author, redirects to a post search of the title on your home instance, and copies the author to your clipboard to Ctrl-F if there are too many results.
You have to be pretty quick on the draw to be able to enable clipboard access when using it on a new instance for the first time. So it's like a game, too.
javascript:(function(){
let instance = "lemm.ee";
const personListing = document.querySelector('.person-listing');
const author = personListing.getAttribute('title');
navigator.clipboard.writeText(author);
alert("Post author copied to clipboard.\n\nCtrl-F + Crtl-V when redirected, if necessary.");
var title = document.title;
var lastDashIndex = title.lastIndexOf(" - ");
if (lastDashIndex !== -1) {
title = title.substr(0, lastDashIndex);
}
var encodedTitle = encodeURIComponent(title);
let search = "https://" + instance + "/search?q=" + encodedTitle + "&type=Posts";
window.location.href = search
})();
You might also want to check out this Python script which syncs profiles, communities, and blocks between multiple Lemmy accounts.
That was it exactly. Thank you.
This was a journey, so I'm documenting it here for anyone who might run into a similar situation.
I'm using a Chromebook with Linux enabled.
To confirm my version of Python I ran python --version:
Python 3.9.2
OK! Getting somewhere. So I have to check what distribution of Linux is installed with grep '^PRETTY_NAME' /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
Alright. Google says if I want to upgrade Python on Debian 11 I have to compile it from source. Yikes! But, wait, there's a PPA - Yay! But the PPA is for Ubuntu - Boo.
There isn't an active community for ChromeOS on Lemmy yet, but that other website has directions for replacing Debian with Ubuntu.
I'm lazy so I'm not doing that. I'm just going to spin up a temporary Ubuntu container that I can delete later, so my directions are much simpler:
Ctr-Alt-T to enter crosh, the ChromeOS developer shell.
vmc start termina
lxc launch ubuntu:22.04 ubuntu
lxc exec ubuntu -- bash
apt update && apt -y upgrade
add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
apt update
apt install -y python3.11 python3.11-venv
python3.11 -m ensurepip
git clone https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync.git
cd lemmy_account_sync/
pip3.11 install -r requirements.txt
cp exampleconfig.ini src/myconfig.ini
nano src/myconfig.ini
python3.11 src/lemmy_sync.py
Success! I had to escape some special characters in my passwords, but that's easily Google-able.
I'll be keeping the container around for a little while to do some periodic syncs. Then I'll remove it using crosh.
vmc start termina
lxc delete ubuntu --force
You might want to check out https://github.com/amirzaidi/lemmy. I stumbled upon it. Beehaw defederated Lemmy.world (info.) This section on defederating may help you understand that if it's unclear.
Most of us are also new to the Fediverse, but learning every day. Welcome!
I'm getting a TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |: 'type' and 'NoneType' when I do:
git clone https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync.git
cd lemmy_account_sync/
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp exampleconfig.ini src/myconfig.ini
nano src/myconfig.ini
python3 src/lemmy_sync.py
I've confirmed that my [Main Account] and [Account 2] details are correct in myconfig.ini, but beyond that I don't really know what I'm doing.
Audible is great, but also check out Libby and your local library. New, popular titles tend to have long queues, but I always check Libby before buying from Audible. Most libraries also have a "suggest a book" option if there is something on Audible that your library doesn't have in Libby, and I've been lucky that my local library is fast to accept and fill requests.
Anyone else listening to Hard Fork from NYT?
Lots of AI news, which suits me.
While UnderUnderstood feels more like the spiritual successor to Gimlet's Reply All, the co-hosts of Hard Fork (Kevin Roose and Casey Newton) banter in a way that reminds me of P. J. Vogt and Alex Goldman.
TIL wasps swarm, and now I have a new fear.
According to this site wasps might swarm if their nest is disturbed, at a change of season, or to establish a new colony (like @[email protected] said.)
Always there. Here's an ELI5 from Bing:
The article is about a very quiet sound that comes from space. The sound is made by things that are very big and heavy, like giant balls of fire or holes that suck everything in. The sound is so quiet that we can't hear it, but we can use special machines to find it.
The article says that this sound is all around us, and it comes from different places in space. Some places are very far away, like other stars or other worlds. Some places are closer, like our big family of stars. The article also says that this sound can help us learn more about space and how it works.
The article is very cool because it shows that there are many things in space that we don't see, but we can find them by listening to the sounds they make.