Deebster

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[–] Deebster 9 points 4 hours ago

Maybe in a week or two, TheButton Redox, once you've had time to make your tweaks and a bit of word to get round.

[–] Deebster 10 points 5 hours ago

It's not asking for your password, it just needs you to tell it your username and server so it can send you a magic link. It's technically logging in, but it needs to know who you are so you can press the button (and use the chat).

This is how this kind of event always works on the Fediverse. It's not putting your account at risk and I don't really see the problem.

[–] Deebster 4 points 7 hours ago

It did occur to me that perhaps the site itself had localised it. That would be odd for a science site given that science is usually done in metric, but as the New Scientist is pop sci they might have thought it would help grow US readership.

Was it really difficult?

Assuming this is referring to my comment about making life difficult, you had to either do the maths or use a conversion tool. You made it (now fixed, thanks) so that half (I expected a higher %age tbh) of the people reading it had to do that.

[–] Deebster 3 points 10 hours ago

There's a breaking change in this: Spotify can no longer be used to fetch images (or anything - did it do anything else?)

From the commit message:

Remove the built-in Spotify adapter from Navidrome due to Spotify's change in API usage policy. Since March 9, 2026, all Spotify Development Mode apps require the app owner to have an active Spotify Premium subscription, making it impractical to maintain as a built-in integration.

Deezer is a good built-in replacement for artist images, and it works out-of-box, no need for extra configuration. Users can also use artist-nfo-metadata as the first agent option to override any incorrect images. For those who want Apple Music integration, the new Apple Music plugin is available as a drop-in replacement using the plugin system.

[–] Deebster 13 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

That's 9.1°C, according to the title on the site.

@Innerworld@lemmy.world Did you change the title to have it in Fahrenheit instead? You could have just added the conversion so it had both, instead of making life difficult for the majority of the world that works in Celsius.

[–] Deebster 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's beautiful, I might struggle through with a translation app since my French is too woefully inadequate to do it myself.

[–] Deebster 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, they used female as an adjective when describing their friend. I agree it's unpleasant when people talk about "females" but that's not what happened here.

[–] Deebster 2 points 2 days ago

No, I never got to a happy place with this feature. I was trying to parse the wikitext (the markup language used for MediaWiki) but it's a hairy beast so I thought about parsing the output html instead. Then the site started being really unreliable and I put the transcriptions on the back burner.

[–] Deebster 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You mean because businesses don't pay VAT? In that case it makes sense to not include it.

[–] Deebster 16 points 6 days ago

It's also for learning English, which is something a large language model is probably the most suitable for. It's not going to be much use teaching music or drama.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Deebster to c/chrisspargo@feddit.uk
 

My favourite bit is this from the comments:

I wrote "please do not deliver this letter" on a correctly addressed and stamped letter once, it never arrived. A thrilling day indeed.

 

I love Doom Bar and I'm not alone since it's among the bestselling cask ales in the UK, but it seems that the US owners are going for a quick payout by closing and asset stripping what's left.

I wonder how long until they start building houses or an industrial park on the old site?

 

This video covers Great Ormond Street Hospital, Quality Street and copyright special cases.

 

A severed mosquito proboscis can be turned into an extremely fine nozzle for 3D printing, and this could help create replacement tissues and organs for transplants.

I've linked to a decent write-up on Tom's Hardware, but New Scientist covered it last week too.

Source paper: 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing (science.org)

 

An Australian YouTuber got invited to a NATO wargame and made this very interesting video about it.

The section that starts at 3m30s (10 minutes long) discusses the military history of wargaming which I found fascinating.

The rest of it is also well worth a watch.

It's not new (it sat in my watch later list for a month since it's 65 minutes long) so apologies if you've already seen it.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Deebster to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net
 

My personal domain has hundreds of aliases - one for each site I deal with. This is great for identifying the source of spam, and I retire any aliases that get spam.

haveibeenpwned.com lets me add a domain, but wants 3912 USD a year to actually tell me which addresses leaked. This is obviously an insane price for a nice-to-have.

Is there an alternative for free or very cheap? A self-hosted tool that would pull down lists would be great, but I suppose those lists aren't public.

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Tricky one today

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