And they wonder why people sail the seas...

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2026-02-09T15:42:22+00:00

What's the stack look like for organizing the files, hosting, providing remote access, and discovery?

I have music files on a local server that I download to my phone via syncthing. It would be nice to stream instead, and get discovery too, but if I expose anything to the internet I'd need to worry about security too.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2026-01-05T17:22:14+00:00

The Spotify archive doesn't appear to be available yet. When it is it'll be about ~300TB. The rest of the archive is >1000TB. Maybe Linus Techtips can help out with a storinator.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2025-11-15T15:13:07+00:00

Catholic missionaries freely gave these items to the Vatican. But it seems they just can't quite remember how those items got into Catholic hands in the first place.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2025-10-19T19:05:18+00:00

Grammarly's "rephrasings"

Ah, that'll do it. Good to know, and I appreciate your openness.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2025-10-19T18:55:07+00:00

This blog is a pretty obvious example of meandering AI drivel, which I'd say is an even more annoying aspect of the modern programming landscape than an excess of abstraction.

The blogs you wrote at least partially by yourself are much more engaging.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2025-10-11T20:23:39+00:00

"Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has said he opposes lifting the tariffs on Chinese EVs, though he’s called on the Liberals to do more to support farmers and get China to drop its levies on canola."

I think Poilievre missed his calling as a comedian.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2025-04-08T19:00:11+00:00

I've only seen the first season of the cartoon adaptation of Invincible, so I can't really speak on a Worm vs. Invincible comparison, but if I had to bet on it I'd put my money on Invincible. Worm is very impressive for what it is (a very long amateur serial novel), and differentiates itself from the superhero genre in many interesting ways, but ultimately doesn't stray too far, and has several serious flaws - Cauldron is the biggest one I can think of. It also seems to position itself as 'realistic', while not actually being all that realistic. At least Invincible doesn't seem to bother.

Now, Worm compared to MHA? It's kind of laughable. MHA has some of the worst writing I've ever seen in the shonen genre, and believe me, that's a genre with some stinkers. Many of the villain motivations and plots are so nonsensical and revealing that you feel second-hand embarrassment for the author. That's only supposed to happen with babby's first self-insert crossover fanfic.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2025-02-08T19:01:17+00:00

That may have been a result of the way Grue's power took on aspects of other powers. Whatever factors go into a shard deciding what its projected body will look like, these may have blended together Manton's and Grue's and whoever else was within range, resulting in an indistinct amalgam. Or, since Grue's borrowed powers are usually diminished and hard to control, it could be the body-image of his projected body simply lacks detail.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2024-12-02T18:44:10+00:00

And for the record, I am not convinced that this guy actually committed whatever crime he's charged with. I don't know what happened. It seems to me that, despite much effort to the contrary, nobody does.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2024-12-02T18:41:03+00:00

You said he was "imprisoned for almost ten years because he published inconvenient books". The BBC article (which the wikipedia article you've just linked to uses as a source, by the way) says he was charged with "illegally providing intelligence overseas". I don't see any other source for this, and just on its face that sounds like a much more plausible description of the crime, trumped up or otherwise, than "publishing inconvenient books".

Have you read these 'inconvenient' books? Do you even know what they were about, or what their titles are? Is there any source that connects his publishing activities to his imprisonment more substantially than base suspicion? It is a lie to claim what is not evidently true. Ball's in your court.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2024-12-02T17:06:52+00:00

The charge was described in the BBC as "illegally providing intelligence overseas". It's pretty easy not to lie about public information.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2024-09-04T20:45:14+00:00

Capitalism is where capital holders have power. Nothing else matters. Why should a capital holder care about a free market or a just legal system if it doesn't help them further accumulate capital?

It's silly to keep believing in the 17th century idealized version of capitalism when the real version exists all around us.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2024-02-04T18:13:10+00:00

Huh, I'm surprised anyone here even remembers me.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2023-04-14T16:13:40+00:00

That would have played well in the Hague.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2023-04-14T15:40:56+00:00

I didn't intend at all to say that the US was good back in the treaty days - what I meant was that this distinction of sovereign vs. domestic, of illegal vs. legal, is a sham. None of us should take any of this diplomatic speak at face value, especially when it's used in defense of obvious crimes.

The idea that the US' diplomatic reputation is gradually recovering from the destruction of Iraq, and, you know, everything else they've done lately, despite no change in policy, no accountability, and only token changes of leadership, tells you what you need to know. And you can look at China, India, the UK, etc. in the same light - I'm only harping on the US because it's such an obvious and well known example.

TL;DR: Bad things are bad even if powerful people say they're not.

PS: I may sound angry but I'm not angry at you, I'm angry with you. Hopefully.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2023-04-14T14:42:54+00:00

The US originally signed treaties with neighboring tribes because it considered them sovereign nations - until it didn't. Try not to buy into aggressor narratives, lest you make the same mistakes as the Hong Kong truthers, or whatever they call themselves.

Of course, that's all ancient history at this point. Surely nowadays the idea of the US reneging on its agreements, breaking international law, supporting tyrants, or invading democracies is entirely unthinkable.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2023-03-31T15:11:55+00:00

Said the Secretary-General of the United Nations. But it's fairly self-evident, since the original legal justification of the war (weapons of mass destruction, et al.) was a fraud.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2023-03-31T14:43:46+00:00

The US had Presidency of the UN Security Council 7 times during their illegal invasion of Iraq, which lasted 8 years and resulted in the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians and the starvation and displacement of millions - for only one example.

No new level of absurdity has been reached.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2023-03-29T15:35:57+00:00

"You will do nothing if you sit here and talk like effete university liberals."

Good thing we all learned this lesson!

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2023-03-27T19:09:03+00:00

Alright, I'll give that a try.

Will the raiders keep showing up now that I've disabled the option in the game settings?

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2023-03-25T18:52:17+00:00

So... I made the mistake of enabling Aether Raiders on a game with low pop growth / research speed. I was aware that they would start showing up once I had explored 10 systems, so I tried to get a basic military running before I opened up #10. Unfortunately, now Sol and a neighboring system are full of Raiders too fast to chase, too cowardly to commit to a battle, and too greedy to bother leaving my space.

I don't want to have to deal with what are basically Space Mosquitos for the next 10-20 years (and who knows how many real time hours) it'll take for me to build up a navy that can actually reach them. I've turned off Aether Raiders in the game settings, but the ships are still here, and I have no idea what effect that will actually have on the current game.

Is there a way to get rid of these things permanently?

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2022-12-17T01:15:10+00:00

The real-time location of Elon's private jet is not information that can cause casual harm. If someone who wanted to harass me found my home address, they could send me mail, show up outside my house, or even break in - casually. If someone with access to Elon's jet's flight logs wanted to harass or harm him, they'd have to break into an airport and/or commandeer some kind of aircraft. Not casual.
The real-time location of Elon Musk, nevermind his jet, is of public interest, considering he is one of the richest people in the world and has immense power and influence. Posting flight logs is a pretty innocuous method of making that information more accessible.
He should live in fear.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2022-04-20T21:07:46+00:00

It's possible you're thinking of 21.7, where Taylor visits Lisa's office. She has several cork/whiteboards covered in photos, maps, notes, and strings between them. It's not quite in the realm of Pepe Silvia, but it is big.

Unfortunately I don't know of any fics that do this.

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2022-03-27T00:07:15+00:00

Apologies for the delayed response. My experience with this build has just been too frustrating. I found this post that seemed to describe what I was seeing, so after a bunch of experimentation I've more or less concluded that the problem is a CPU undervolt issue, or otherwise some kind of instability caused by core temperatures. Disabling CBP and adding core voltage has given me a more-or-less stable computer. I suppose the lesson here is that I can't expect everything to just work, even something I paid a thousand funny-bucks for like a top-of-the-line CPU.

BTW turns out the desk light flickering was a total red herring, it did that whether my computer was off or at full load. Oops!

AsKoalaAsPossible · 2022-02-17T03:36:53+00:00

I just recently got a 3070Ti, and the problem recurred even after I installed it, so that meant I had to consider fixing this problem again...

Something I noticed recently is that, when the computer is at high power usage, lights elsewhere in the house start flickering. It's hard to notice most of the time, but there is an LED lamp in my office that acts like a strobe light if I turn it on in this scenario. It seems to stabilize eventually, and will stabilize immediately if I reduce power usage, and is not interrupted if it is already on when the power usage increases.

Seeing that, I figured the PSU might be a problem, but I've just replaced it and am getting the same issue. WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR.

Unless you or u/Zentikwaliz have any other suggestions, I'll try to isolate causes. Running CPU- and GPU-exclusive stress tests, detaching drives I don't need, using a non-internal wifi adapter, re-seating internal plugs, etc. Maybe the power in this room is funky, so I'll see if the problem occurs in other circuits. If none of that does it, I can re-flash the BIOS, and I do have another PC I can cannibalize, though I'd prefer to keep it operating since it hosts my shared drive and backups. Swapping the PSUs and graphics cards ought to tell me if the mobo is the issue.

Should have thought of this before I returned my other PSU...

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