wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like this is an incomplete setup to a joke where the eyes get bigger every panel until it's just the black void.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The scale is a significant part of the problem though, which can't just be hand waved away.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, didn't want to jump to conclusions, but that detail was quite absent from the blog post.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Also his claim that email chains end up creating an extra copy of an attachment every time? That's not how most email clients handle attachments. They usually only carry forward in forwards.

And even if his idea is true for his setup somehow, data deduplication at the storage level isn't particularly difficult to set up, and I would argue is table stakes for any business doing self hosting.

Similar when it comes to data retention policies, quotas, auto deletion of spam after a shorter time window. It's not fun and for some setups may not be easy, but it's part of the bare minimum for email. So yeah, you absolutely do it yourself or pay someone to do it for you.

Edit: and if you pay someone to do it for you, you have to abide by whatever dumb hoops they make you jump through, or find someone else to pay.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you, I didn't want to jump to conclusions, but his setup seemed like a convoluted way to have Google handle the storage at no cost to himself. Glad I'm not the only one with that takeaway.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

This is awful, but while I see the huge impact for personal users, I'm not sure I see the business case for his current setup. I'm sure this will inpact business setups, but his specific use case just seems off.

He really buries the lede about why the weird setup of why address@businessdomain.com (to my mind the professional business email) had to be accessible from businessname_address@gmail.com (to my mind a misused personal email) in the first place. It's down in the comments:

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You can't be serious. Especially for a company he runs, this is silly. Just tell them they have to use the business domain for business email. The whole @gmail.com thing also opens up potential regulatory issues depending on the details of the business.

With his current setup Google is already accessing all his company mail data. I don't really get his objection to having the MX record directly route to them at this point.

I'm probably missing some big detail, but I don't get why he has his current setup to begin with.

Edit: Didn't want to jump to conclusions, but I'm not the only one with the takeaway that this seems to be jwz trying to use google/gmail for email storage without paying for google workspaces for his employees. Maybe that isn't the case, but it sure looks like it.

If I recall correctly they had involvement with the harassment the drove byuu (another emulator dev) to suicide. There was also some supposed harassment of the Duckstation dev, and potentially some license violation when they forked Duckstation to make the "Swanstation" core. Ah, found the weird obsessed wordpress site, and it looks like most of the shit was around a decade ago, so I guess it's not really even worth mentioning anymore.

I intentionally try to stay away from emulator dev drama. It takes a certain type of person to develop these things and they pretty frequently aren't in a good headspace and aren't particularly good at interacting with other people.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago (8 children)

RetroArch for most stuff. The main devs aren't good people but the tech of it is good, and most of the cores are by other people than the main devs. Dolphin standalone for GC and Wii. PPSSPP standalone for PSP. Both of those don't run well through retroarch

Anything I'm not already familiar with in terms of what retroarch core to use, I'll check https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

That's the wiki for 4chans ongoing emulation threads.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My wife went to bed early one night, not feeling good. Next day sang as a choral section leader, made a quick appearance at a kid's birthday party to drop off our gift, then spent the rest of the day in bed. Very weird for her. Kept telling me she was ok and just needed to rest. The next morning I woke up, took one look at her and told her we were going to the emergency room. Pale and just... I could tell something was wrong.

By the end of the day she had her appendix out.

I was worried because surgery took almost three times as long as anticipated. The surgeon that talked to me post-op was super excited about how her body prevented it from rupturing by everything around the appendix swelling up and effectively giving it no room to do so. The surgery had taken so long because they carefully had to move everything out of the way before removing the appendix, then when they saw the state of it they decided to do their full "clean sweep" they would do for a ruptured one just to be safe (and confirmed no leakage/rupture), then move things back. I told him that she had started feeling bad nearly a day and a half before she felt bad enough to come in, and we joked about her pain tolerance. I could tell that surgeon just did what would probably be his favorite surgery that year, he was so excited about it.

I had known my wife had a high pain tolerance, but that hammered home just how seriously I need to take when she doesn't feel good, lol.

Way to ruin it! I can only get off if my Shrek x Sonic is outside of wedlock.

Now on the other hand, if this is Shrek trying to move forward with Sonic after their bastard-affront-to-god hybrid shreknic baby died due to m-preg birth complications, and they have a poor marriage trapped in the shadow of that loss until Shrek starts an affair with Shadow?

Well then I'm back in.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago (6 children)

That's the neat part, they won't highlight the ad content. The entire plan, from the start, was to weave ads in seamlessly.

Parallel Killers would make a sick band name.

 

Honestly? That's rookie numbers.

 

Definitely a repost, but it fits the season

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/parenting@lemmy.world
 

My daughter is a little over two, and through well meaning family and friends we have more toys than we know what to do with.

My wife keeps buying what are essentially (fancy looking) big boxes and just dumping everything in them. Love my wife, but that's not working, it's just hiding some of the mess in a box.

We end up with these hardly ever opened boxes full of unorganized piles of toys that we end up having to dig through to find anything specific, and the toys that my daughter is actively using just end up scattered around the floor so they don't disappear into the box dimension.

Every once in a while my daughter opens and digs through the boxes and dumps half the contents on the floor anyway (not like she can see specific things to grab what she wants) and then we just kind of arbitrarily choose some of it to put back in the box and a new combination of mess to leave out.

Unfortunately we have another baby on the way, so I'm probably not getting my wife to let us toss any of it right now.

I'm leaning towards cubby shelves with individual bins for different "types" of toys like her daycare does, but I wanted to hear what strategies other parents tried, and what has and hasn't worked.

 

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Came like this, they absolutely knew:

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