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I'm just an old guy with a lot of opinions. I am a sysadmin by trade. I like Linux, cool gadgets, Sci-Fi, DC comics, bass guitar, prog rock/metal, and annoying my kids with dumb dad jokes.
Polaris strikes me as the retelling of a fever dream. I did enjoy The White Ship more than Polaris because it seemed to be a little more cohesive. Either story could easily be the basis for a concept album by Rush or an epic song by Iron Maiden.
I have to admit that I don't much care for these early writings. They are brief and somewhat disjointed, a little too dreamlike to hold my interest. I do hold them in some regard since they show the beginnings of his Dreamlands ideas that take on fuller form in his later writings.
The Doom That Came To Sarnath was my first introduction to the writings of HPL many many years ago. I enjoy re-reading it as much as I did the first time. This time I opted to listen to it on HorrorBabble, the narrater was very good.
I always find myself thinking about little side stories in the same setting. What did the "people" of Ib ever do to deserve the hate of Sarnath? The beings that inhabited Ib seemed to just keep to themselves. They are described as having "bulging eyes, pouting, flabby lips, and curious ears, and were without voices". Is it just simple pure xenophobia that drove the people of Sarnath to kill them all, or were there unstated incursions into Sarnath? The story does does not describe the denizens of Ib as anything other than ugly, and maybe that was enough for the people of Sarnath.
In the end the people of Sarnath got what they deserve, which is a somewhat surprising result considering how deeply xenophobic HPL was at the time of the writing. One would expect a Sarnath apologist viewpoint.
I always feel like Doom has an almost cinematic feel to it. Even though the story is brief the setting is lush and very interesting.
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There are currently 70 subscribers to this community thus far but I think we can do better than that! Please tell your friends about us!
And please consider taking part in the book club that Seeker of Carcosa is doing such great work on!
I need to get caught up on the book club. I sputtered out after week one because of some work commitments and travel. I certainly hope that others in the community will switch from lurk mode to active participants. I sincerely appreciate your time and effort to put these readings together and hopefully in the next week or two I can find the time to get caught up.
Be seeing you!
Gorgeous! Is there any chance that you have more build details? A list of parts needed or even perhaps photos or video of your work would be great!
I don't hate it. It makes room to tell new "old" stories without just completely dismissing canon. The idea of a "fixed point in time" is a concept that I think originated with Doctor Who. The Strange New Worlds concept is similar, but instead of a fixed point its a fixed event or fixed outcome.
I do wonder though, how much of this "time pushing back" is actually that? Or is it actually just the "Federation Time Cops" from the far future making sure things happen even if someone successfully meddles with history. I actually kind of hate the concept of time travel being a thing in Star Trek. Leave it to shows like Doctor Who.
There seems to be very little allegory or subtlety in any shows these days. I remember having high hopes for this Prisoner remake based almost solely on McKellen being cast in it. This was my first re-watch after watching it as it aired. I thought I'd give it another chance and maybe pay more attention to see if I missed something. I didn't, what a disappointment.
The Barnes and Noble one is my favorite in terms of looks.
Love it! Thanks for sharing!
Consider joining my Show Me What You Got community to share this there. This is exactly the kind of content I'd love to see there.
Show me what you got!
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This is a sub to show off your stuff. Whatever it may be. Do you make fine handmade furniture? Do you have a nice record collection? Do you have a special talent? Did you take a picture/video of something interesting? Show me what you got! Upvoting and downvoting is encouraged to drive the coolest stuff to the top.
Please no porn.
Some of my faves...
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My musical tastes are fairly obvious. Classic rock, metal, prog. Show me what YOU got!
Deadwood adjacent "Justified"
I've been re-watching Justified to get ready for the new series/season starting this month. I really hope we see some Deadwood actors appear again like we did before. A lot of people make fun of Olyphant's acting, but I really enjoy it. He was kind of wooden in Deadwood, but I think it is played to pretty great effect. I love seeing him stride down the thoroughfare like a randy maniac bishop.
A great actor for #2 in a not so great adaptation.
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I recently rewatched this newer adaptation of the Prisoner and while it was mostly not great, I really did think McKellen has what it takes to be a great #2.
Very cool! I didnt know this existed. Thanks for sharing!
Perhaps you will find something interesting here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmkeI_NrzwcIgZYHCFSxXTQ
In the real world, the "drugs and/or brainwashing" can be replaced with poor education and fixation on cults of personality and outrage culture pushed into their brains and eyeballs through 24/7 media coverage. The wolves are the media, the billionaires, and others in power who need the sheep to move and vote in the ways that is often against their own best interest. Sorry to get a little political, but those factors are in play no matter what the ideology is.
I think that there is a combination of all those things. I believe there are Village agents, "wolves among the sheep", who influence villager actions. I also believe that many of the villagers have long been broken via drugs and/or brainwashing. This makes them pliable to anything that the agents embedded in the community wants them to do. I think that the Village probably doesn't take on more than a handful of people like #6 at any one time for fear that they might team up and influence an easily influenced group of villagers by emulating what the embedded agents do. TLDR, I think most of the villagers are more or less brainwashed lemmings and the ones that aren't are agents.
It's not an easy process, but it's getting close to a nearly full SteamOS feel.
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/the-linux-coders-turning-the-rog-ally-and-other-handhelds-into-steam-deck-clones/
I do appreciate your feedback, but I think at a minimum that anyone trying to run a Lemmy instance in Docker should know how to install docker and docker compose and how to run basic commands like docker compose up -d
. There are many tutorials out there for doing just that and I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. Once you have gotten that part done my document kicks in and picks up where the official documentation is currently lacking (in my opinion).
I do explain a lot, but I did my best to explain it in terms that most anyone could understand.
I will take your feedback to heart and maybe try to write a step by step tutorial for people who are completely new to Docker as well.
I don't use unraid, so I'd have no way to develop and test it. But I think all you really need to do is install docker and docker compose and then just follow my guide.
Thanks for your comment, but I don't see much value in pulling a new copy of the docker-compose.yml from the Lemmy GitHub. The only things I would be updating when Lemmy updates is the tag/version. If they added new environment variables some time in the future I could certainly take a look at their updated compose file to see the changes but I wouldn't want to pull it down and replace my custom compose.
I specifically don't care for their (Lemmy devs) choices for logging, docker networking, and the built in nginx, so removing and simplifying all that was my main goal. Everyone has their own way of doing things, and this is mine.
I will probably take a look at your Traefik configs and add them as a separate document for those that don't want to use NPM. My goal is to add a subsection for most of the current revproxy choices.
I do not recommend using Ansible. It adds additional requirements and complexities that are unnecessary. Ansible is a great tool for managing multiple servers and software installs, in my opinion it is not the right tool to install Lemmy on a single instance. My install instructions require only that you have docker and docker compose installed.
That said, you could easily replace the docker-compose.yml that Ansible set up for you with the one I am providing. Just don't run Ansible against your server again or it will wipe out your changes.
streamlined docker compose for Lemmy
I apologize for the wall of text, but I wanted to thoroughly explain my choices and reasoning for this docker-compose.yml. I hope you find it useful.
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I am working on writing up some quality help/instructions for Lemmy instance admins. This is targeted toward those that are newer to Lemmy and Docker, but even those that know a thing or two might learn something from me. I have been a sysadmin for over 20 years, so I know some things.
I thought I'd share the first complete page I have written. I'd love some feedback if you have any to share.
Be seeing you.
P.S. I frequent the Lemmy Admin matrix chat and I moderate the Install Support channel. Stop by if you have questions! https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-support-new-instance:discuss.online
It's one of the few remaining intact and operating Rockafire Explosion animatronic band. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock-afire_Explosion
Seems like the best thing to do would be to run that on a daily schedule and also ideally something done in the ui. I worry for those admins that just "followed the recipe" to get a Lemmy instance up and running but lack any real sysadmin ability.
I think theres probably a big overlap between the novice admins and the instances where the admins are unaware they are getting flooded with bot registration.
Opinion: Open registration is just asking for future legal trouble
I'm sure I'm not the first to think about this, but I haven't seen it mentioned yet. I believe there is another problem with open registration instances besides just the threat of spamming.
If you go through the process of making a new post in ANY community and you attach an image and then cancel the post the image is STILL on the server at the given URL and is publically viewable if someone has that URL.
Theoretically, someone could upload illegal images this way and hotlink to them from another site. Because there are no posts on the instance with the bad image attached an instance admin would have no way of knowing the images were there unless they make a habit of browsing the pict-rs datastore regularly. There's currently no easy way to moderate or delete images in the pict-rs datastore.
I don't think I need to elaborate more on what kinds of images could be lurking on your very own server which could be hotlinked into VERY dark places on the web. Saying that you "didnt know" that they were there is not a defense. When the authorities are knocking on your door because you are hosting illegal images you will be sorry that you didn't take a more active role in your user base.
I realize that even if you close or set manual registration that there's still the danger of a bad user doing this very thing, but I think putting in some minor hurdles would greatly decrease the chances.
Regardless, I think there needs to be a better way to manage the pict-rs part of Lemmy and an easy way for admins and instance owners to be able to view EVERY attachment on their server to make sure there's nothing there that could get them in trouble.
I run a small instance that just have people I personally know on it, so it's not a worry for me. But the larger instances that are opening signups to strangers should be aware and take precautions.
I only have com/net/org domains, so I never noticed that. But you've provided good information. There is a list of CloudFlare supported TLD's here https://www.cloudflare.com/tld-policies/
Filmmaker Mike Flanagan is 'optimistic' his adaptation of Stephen King's epic 'The Dark Tower' story is going to happen: 'We're on a great path.'
I really try not to get over hyped on this news. I think Flanagan is the best steward for the Dark Tower adaptation. I really hope this comes to fruition.
If you're a fan, this probably isn't news to you. But I thought I'd share it anyway.
I am really excited for this, and I hope it succeeds where others have failed.
Do you enjoy the stories of H.P. Lovecraft? Do you yearn to join Roland's Ka-Tet? Join these communities! Be seeing you!
Two new communities for Lovecraft fans and for Stephen King's Dark Tower universe.
We've started an HP Lovecraft book club! Join in the fun!
https://ka.tet42.org/c/lovecraft
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https://ka.tet42.org/c/dark_tower
--- Extra bonus community for the classic British TV show The Prisoner.
https://ka.tet42.org/c/theprisoner
suggestion for guiding new account signups
First I want to say that I love the idea of Lemmy. I think it's very reminiscent of the old days of BBS's and networked message boards (FIDOnet).
With that in mind I'd like to suggest that maybe some thought should go into guiding people to the right instances to sign up on.
I think more instances should try to specialize in certain content and host communities that cater to that. Much like the BBS's of the olden days you could have an instance that is all about sports, or an instance specializing in comic book communities, or an instance that caters to a certain region or state.
With that in mind, it would be great to have a page that indexes instances by interest groups so people could make better decisions about which instance to join rather than just everyone trying to pile up on lemmy.ml.
Thoughts?
A community for the Dark Tower (Stephen King) connected universe.
Come here to discuss the Dark Tower series and all the other connected stories.
If you get a 404 when you click the link above, use the main link in the post title and search/add the community to your instance manually.
A community for fans of the Prisoner (British TV series)
We want information. Information! INFORMATION! Watch all episodes online for free at https://www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/the-prisoner [https://www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/the-prisoner]
We want information. Information. INFORMATION.
If you get a 404 when you click the link above, use the main link in the post title and search/add the community to your instance manually.
Favorite episode?
What's your favorite episode? I am currently re-watching the series and my favorite as always is Hammer Into Anvil.
spoiler
It's my favorite because I love how #6 turns the tables and through his actions makes #2 paranoid.
A community for Lovecraft fans
Just started a book club! Join in the fun!
If you get a 404 when you click the link above, use the main link in the post title and search/add the community to your instance manually.
The Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Want to be Like You (Official HD Video)
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Great song! Terrible video.
I am not a number, I am a free man!
I started this server and this community to bring together like minded people. I haven’t seen a Prisoner community in the community browser so I figured I would take matters into my own hands.
Be seeing you!
Hile gunslingers!
I started this server and this community to bring together like minded people. I haven’t seen a Dark Tower community in the community browser so I figured I would take matters into my own hands.
Long days and pleasant nights.