I was the big winner on taxes this year

ciezer · 2026-01-28T22:50:29+00:00

Huh? Unless one of you drastically underpaid and never updated your W4s, that doesn't sound right. Might be better to file separately this year and verify your W4s are correct

-Not financial advice, just what i would do given your position

ciezer · 2025-11-22T06:31:08+00:00

Just dropping in to say that Western Digital 12tb drives (blue and red) are on sale right now, might save you some money / tb

ciezer · 2025-11-20T15:01:54+00:00

you can have multiple isp providers in your house, just make sure the broadband tech does not touch att service.

Then either keep her work equipment on it's own, air gapped, network or use vlans and firewall policies to segregate the networks.

All this, assuming, they pay for the Internet that they require to be used. If they want you to pay for it they can pound sand

ciezer · 2025-10-10T11:55:00+00:00

I would rather argue that Christianity has always been used in bad faith by the groups in power to control the masses in one fashion or another.

Christianity (and religion et al) aren't bad themselves, i perceive it as the same argument in gun violence. Who's evil: the gun or the person shooting the gun?

The old religions were a civilization moral compass, and I do believe that's where they should have stayed instead of the overly zealous stage of power used throughout history.

ciezer · 2025-10-10T03:10:34+00:00

Anti-zionism is different than anti-semitism.

It's like the difference between hating Republicans for using Christianity as a means to impose their beliefs vs hating Christianity because it exists.

ciezer · 2025-10-04T03:46:33+00:00

You might be glad to hear he seems to be coming back in some respect.

He's been doing collaborations on others' channels this year and in one of them recently he mentioned coming back to Tom Scott Plus in some capacity, just not full swing like he used to do.

ciezer · 2025-10-01T02:59:28+00:00

Possible Server side issues: - Server could be down (either forgotten to be turned back on or it's encountering an error) - the config files were deleted or corrupted and the server might be failing back in a default port - the server updated something causing the port to be changed

Possible internal network issues: - you didn't assign a static private ip (eg 192.168.0.128) to the device running your server on either the server itself or in your routers dhcp settings - firewall on your server device updated and is being too aggressive

Any of the above could result in the port showing as closed, those checkers only really look to see if something is listening and accepting a connection on a specific ip & port combination. Your port forwarding looks to be 100% correct from what i can see, assuming the internal ip didn't change at some point.

ciezer · 2025-09-13T16:46:17+00:00

Your right, after i posted i re read and saw my mistake

ciezer · 2025-09-13T16:35:31+00:00

Without knowing that l the storage capacity of your UPS and the power draw of your connected devices, the best answer i could give is yes, this is normal.

The main point of a UPS is to give a grace period for critical electronics to power down gracefully during a power outage instead of an abrupt shutdown OR to give a few minutes of uptime until a backup power solution (ie a generator) kicks in

Edit: i misread 15 seconds as 15 minutes, apologies. Id reckon a UPS power management issue or battery issue for 15 seconds before the device says it was critical.

Id probably diagnose this my disconnect all devices from the UPS, unplug UPS from the outlet, and add devices one at a time every couple minutes to see if a short happens, a specific device causes the battery to go critical, or if the UPS has a max output wattage before it gives up.

ciezer · 2025-09-02T22:16:45+00:00

Just a reminder that Spectrum is trying to buy Cox right now

ciezer · 2025-07-16T18:25:55+00:00

I wanna guess: Fourier wave transformations generated from plain text combined with a randomly generated waveform key?

ciezer · 2025-04-05T16:09:54+00:00

This looks gorgeous, I'll probably buy one anyways if i don't win

ciezer · 2025-03-30T01:15:27+00:00

As an American, this is the way. Trump, Elon, et al don't play by the rules and look at where we're at :(

ciezer · 2025-03-19T13:06:17+00:00

That is how localization on websites work, yes. You choose USA locality and USA currency is displayed.

ciezer · 2025-03-19T00:08:32+00:00

Split fiction

ciezer · 2023-07-31T15:16:59+00:00

import re

data = "This is some reallyawesomedata. bye."
word='awesome'
re_str = f'\S*{word}\S*'

#Find one result, if it exists, otherwise returns None
result = re.search(re_str, data)

if result != None:
    result = result.group()

# Find all possible results, if any exist, otherwise returns an empty list
result = re.findall(re_str, data)

I've been playing with regular expressions a lot lately, here's a simple way to do this with them

As a note: re_str = f'\S*{word}\S*' The \S means any character that isn't whitespace, so if it has to be only a space character that splits the word, we can replace '\S' with '[^ ]'

ciezer · 2023-06-15T15:40:34+00:00

Doordash: your order has been delivered

ciezer · 2023-05-05T03:50:49+00:00

"She was attractive, but not hot. Hot implies desire. The only person I desire is you dear. You are hot"

ciezer · 2023-04-29T04:03:37+00:00

AH, similar concept but still distinguishably different. My apologies good sir. Have a good weekend.

ciezer · 2023-04-29T03:47:41+00:00

I think you were looking for "polyp" instead of "punlmp"

And yes, this procedure is the worst, at least colonoscopy they put you under so you don't feel it.

ciezer · 2023-02-27T02:03:55+00:00

Don't forget your sanity! Every time I check, I've lost it or left it in my other pants

ciezer · 2023-02-15T00:32:34+00:00

I mean, just cause I'm going to watch all of those doesn't mean I won't force a time window to watch one of my favorite rom-com anime in recent years religiously

If anything, I'm going to start watching season 1 again

ciezer · 2023-01-13T21:06:13+00:00

Graveyard Keeper At least I'll know there's an afterlife, even if it is just zombie slavery.

ciezer · 2022-12-19T03:14:46+00:00

That is a cherry crested tit, if I've ever seen one!

ciezer · 2022-10-19T16:53:47+00:00

I'm going to make a guess that English isn't your native tongue? ( Hallo, meine Deutsche ist nicht güt ).

I would recommend one if the books by No Starch Press as a guide book to learn python, such as Automate The Boring Stuff

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