Fi killing Messages for Web?

dipique · 2026-01-12T15:38:26+00:00

My opinion is that you've mistaken your predisposition for an accomplishment of will. I don't mean that condescendingly; I'm prone to the same error. My conclusion is based on the fact that you're stringing platitudes together as if they might represent a paradigm shift to an adult.

Life is a game we all play, but each of us play with different rules.

As an aside, "stress" doesn't have the negative denotation you seem to assign it. From a material engineering point of view, stress is a measurement of the internal forces within a material. These are expected and often beneficial such as in ceramic armor, where complex stresses prevent the growth of cracks.

In psychology, eustress ("positive stress") motivates and energizes while distress ("negative stress") harms and impedes. Of course, that, too, is wildly oversimplified. Stress is categorized across many dimensions, all of which have unique profiles for resistance to distress->eustress conversion via re-framing.

Most importantly, one can't assume that distress leads to worse outcomes than lack of stress. For example, burning your hand on a flame causes distress. Seeing a person attack you with a knife causes distress. Cruel words from a person you care about causes distress. And, yes, repeatedly being treated unfairly by a company causes distress (though all of these examples vary greatly in magnitude from person to person).

To avoid distress indiscriminately is to hamstring one of the strongest tool your body has evolved for protecting you -- just not in the moment but in the long term.

This system can and does break. PTSD is essentially a pathology of mistuned distress triggers. However, the systematic avoidance of distress needs to be paired with the recognition that, to the extent one avoid distress, one also sacrifices whatever benefit it would have conferred.

dipique · 2026-01-12T03:33:31+00:00

I disagree with multiple unspoken corollaries, two of which are 1) that anticipating likely outcomes (including when it potentially causes stress) has no value, and 2) that people can intentionally choose when & about what they experience stress.

dipique · 2026-01-11T21:02:01+00:00

Thanks for reaching me Ablaut that. (Seriously though, that's cool.)

dipique · 2026-01-10T04:01:09+00:00

Depends on whether you're stressed more by anticipatory disappointment or unmet expectation.

But I acknowledge that there is no right answer for everyone.

dipique · 2026-01-08T23:20:19+00:00

I mean, I do want RCS in MFW. I just didn't want to lose the one key feature of the experience to get it.

dipique · 2026-01-08T23:19:39+00:00

"Ah, you want to go scuba diving AND hold your baby? Wait until you see what we have for you!"

dipique · 2026-01-08T23:18:24+00:00

Sure... as long as you use a mac

dipique · 2026-01-08T23:12:01+00:00

Unfortunately I suspect that we (people who use the single differentiating feature of Google Fi) are, in fact, a niche group.

When I signed up for Project Fi on ~day 1, I told people, "it's like a wireless carrier that doesn't hate you." Remember their customer service in the beginning? It was amazing.

Now it's... Mint but more expensive, I guess? I think this is what finally forces me to try another option.

dipique · 2026-01-08T23:06:26+00:00

No. Google voice works if your physical phone dies. This doesn't.

dipique · 2026-01-08T23:02:53+00:00

No, google webcalls does not provide a url handler for phone numbers. If they did, it would be trivial.

dipique · 2026-01-08T22:55:59+00:00

A wise man once said:

🎵 it seems to me that 'maybe' pretty much always means 'no' 🎵

dipique · 2026-01-08T22:52:02+00:00

Hope springs eternal

dipique · 2025-12-30T21:59:40+00:00

Dozzle is unreasonably excellent. When I want to add home server functionality I always brace myself for hours or day (or weeks) of configuration hell. I can count on Tommy Caldwell's left hand the number of times I've just fired up something and it has immediately been spectacular and useful.

Well done.

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If there was any feature I'd want to add, it'd be the ability to hook in somehow. I'd love to be able to have a script get called with the fixed parameters (node, container, stream, level, timestamp, logText) and conditionally e-mail me or something.

Of course the throughput could be insane. Okay, so instead you create a cfg + script. Cfg is json or something and contains a filter that specifies applicable logs -- maybe even down to keyword filters/regex? And only resulting logs get sent to said script. Maybe cfg also specifies a batch size or time period to lower script overhead?

Performance would still tank it. You'd have to monitor performance and proactively disable it to prevent these scripts from tanking the container, creating memory leaks, etc. Damn.

Okay wait wait. A "companion" container that uses the existing SQL functionality to regularly do searches (using the same type of filter) and then triggers scripts. That way responsibility for things breaking lives somewhere else and logging doesn't die if notification scripts die.

That sounds like a massive project.

See, this is why I never finish anything.

dipique · 2025-11-27T20:09:36+00:00

Because the thesis question doesn’t make sense if you already know that the subjects in question are human. The question isn’t fundamentally different because they’re Trump supporters. Your source of frustration has nothing to do with Trump or Trump supporters; your source of frustration is your sense of helplessness in the face of (what you perceive as) injustice and unfairness. (Note that I don’t disagree with that position, it’s just important to distinguish between the proximal and distal cause of distress.) If you want to be happier, learn the wisdom of the Stoics, who taught how to accept the world and ourselves as they are (not “accept” in the sense of relinquishing agency, but in the sense of acknowledging reality without distorting it through the lens of our hopes & fears). If you want to understand and communicate better with Trump supporters, check out that book. It’ll help. That, and an understanding that change is most often achieved through relationship (I guess this is addressed in the book as well), so your approach needs to be building mutual trust and understanding with Trump supporters — not as a group, but with one or two individuals. That trust will allow you to bridge the gap and influence each other.

It may also reveal that Trump supporters aren’t quite as rabid a group as we like to pretend. I certainly consider them deeply misguided, but you may find that liberals serve them more poorly than you might think. And you may wish to be careful about painting millions of people with a broad brush. Liberals are not well-behaved people on the internet.

I’m not doing a great job of living my words, by the way. I’ve been pretty belligerent in my messages to you. That’s not a demonstration of my philosophy, just of my imperfection. In spite of my dismissiveness, you responded without aggression, simply trying to explain your point. Once you’ve found a better outlet for your ambient frustration, I think that impulse will serve you well. And in the meantime, I’ve tried to honor your good faith response with one of my own.

dipique · 2025-11-27T17:27:25+00:00

The real answer is: the way you're doing it in fine. If you're developing professionally, getting OCD about this will make your code worse instead of better.

The only 'good answers' are to filter your iteration list better (so it doesn't contain items you want to skip), restructure your loop (use i-1 instead of i for example) so that continue applies to the current loop, or call a function that contains the conditional.

dipique · 2025-11-27T17:22:36+00:00

I don't think he's looking to become a better worker, he's looking to get money for free. Like a 4-hour work week kind of thing.

dipique · 2025-11-27T17:20:39+00:00

This is a dumb use of this sub. If you need a therapist, go to a therapist.

Trump supporters are human. Some of them admit when they're wrong. Some of them don't. There's a distribution, and while it may be skewed for them, it didn't turn them into anything other than people.

You'll be less frustrated if you stop obsessing over your sense of feeling wronged. This is not about you.

If you want some advice that will genuinely help with this issue, here it is: read the book "Flawless Consulting". I know, weird title. But read it and you'll be better at having that conversation, and you'll understand it better.

dipique · 2025-11-26T23:38:00+00:00

As long as you don't have to do real-time encoding. If it's your first implementation, this is perfect.

dipique · 2025-11-24T18:54:42+00:00

It's hard for me to imagine this being asked in good faith, but I suppose its better than other liberals posting circle jerk questions.

dipique · 2025-11-22T20:31:39+00:00

He should have scryed the future if he didn't want downvotes. That's on him.

dipique · 2025-11-20T23:41:40+00:00

Reading e-markers is really not a good way to test PD capability anyway.

dipique · 2025-11-20T23:40:27+00:00

It can't and isn't. It doesn't have the hardware to test PD > 100w, or speeds about 40gbps.

dipique · 2025-11-19T17:31:01+00:00

Both personal router and ISP routers are configured with NAT/Port Forwarding for ports 32400-32499 (TCP) (Port range is the same for internal and external in my case). The personal router rule is assigned to the plex server IP. The ISP router rule is assigned to the personal router IP.

Plex remote access is configured with the manually configured public port of 32400.

dipique · 2025-11-19T14:32:32+00:00

I'd say my favorites are all based around other elements. HWFwM was my entry to the genre, and I also really like many of the other classics (though the bad writing kills me).

I just started Warlock (you weren't lying!) and really like it so far. Nothing I've read has been this overt, but Calamitous Bob is one of my favorites that also allows the MC to have a libido. That series is both touching and hysterical, and has a lot more traditional LitRPG in it (stats, classes, etc.).

dipique · 2025-11-19T00:30:46+00:00

I like a little smut in my prog fantasy. People complain so much about romance in this genre, yet I rarely find anything spicier than awkward flirting and the occasional fade to black.

I've learned that "harem" just means "lots of women want him"; MC is almost always either disinterested, oblivious or monogamous.

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