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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Why all the fucking lawyers (indictment of them)? Why a massive laundry list of false statements, false testimony, et al?

    Because lawyers have a sworn obligation to enter evidence and testimony they understand to be truthful and argue in pleadings in a manner that they understand to be legally sound and in compliance with the rules of the court in the state of the filing. Trump used a number of lawyers - dating at least back to Cohen - who were willing and comfortable breaking both of those ethical obligations.

    Put simply, lawyers do not have a free speech right to say anything they wish in court.

    Nobody is being charged with what you’re describing. If that’s what they’re trying to prosecute trump for, then fucking charge him with it. The Twitter bullshit was sedition. The pence shenanigans was electoral fraud (maybe not pence personally, but the conversation was absolutely fraud on Trump’s part).

    They’ve got to be able to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, and realistically he’s getting more deference on that front than any other American in history. The number of people who believe nothing he does is wrong, is astounding. I fully expect the Georgia indictment to add charges through discovery and witness cooperation deals. The RICO indictment gives them a lot of wiggle room to tie Trump to the crimes of others.

    The charges reflect a fishing expedition. We don’t like this guy, lets dig some shit up…

    Hard disagree. The charges reflect the stark reality that the normal institutions that should have handled this situation are broken. In any normal reality, Trump should have been successfully impeached during one of his two impeachments or impeached a third time for January 6th. Mitch McConnell’s argument that a trial was moot, was not founded in the law. As impeachment includes barring the convict from future Federal office they could have and should have tried him in the Senate.

    I have zero doubt that the currently sitting Republicans will weaponize government against anyone who didn’t bend the knee including Biden. They’re not even waiting, if you’re following along they’re trying their best to remove or pressure Fani Willis in the middle of a perfectly valid criminal trial. That is the weaponization of government.


  • I just don’t like that this entire process is pretty clearly a matter of politics rather than justice. It’s a political headhunt, and it’s very reminiscent of pre-collapse Soviet government. We’re trying to fill the gulags up in this motherfucker. I’m not really speaking in support of the defense, Im speaking against the witch hunt.

    You have really jumped the shark, friend. This is anything but a politically-motivated protection. And your allusion to Soviet Russia is comical, in a world where Putin blew up a rival last month.

    Trump brought us as close to the collapse of American democracy as we have been since the Civil War, and arguably closer. It’s hard to deny there were two plots to replace Mike Pence before the election was certified: a subgroup of the protesters wanted to hang him, and part of the Secret Service detail was ready to escort/detain him away from the capital. They didn’t even try to hide it - Grassley said he planned on presiding over the Senate. They walked it back, but it happened.

    If this were truly a political witch-hunt, Trump would be either incarcerated for life already, or dead and buried.










  • Real talk: those lenses aren’t worth basing your whole buying decision on.

    To answer the question you asked, the smallest camera Canon ever made in EF mount is the Rebel SL series. It’s a little pricey for its features even second hand. The EOS 800D (Rebel T7i) is only slightly bigger, has a much better low light AF system and is generally available for less.

    My recommendation though would be to sell those lenses and get something more in line with your photography goals. Do you really want interchangeable lenses? Because you can get prosumer point and clicks with better quality integrated lenses, and ditching the whole mounting system saves a ton of weight and space.

    If you want interchangeable lenses, look at something mirrorless. Canon, Sony, Panasonic. Find a good lens or three and base your body purchase around that. If your lens inventory value isn’t 5-10x the value of your body, you probably would have been better off with a point and shoot.

    On that side, look at the Sony DSC-RX100 series. And pay attention to the lens. At some point in the series, Sony switched from a 24-70 to a 28-200; if you’re looking at an old enough model that it’s got the 24-70, Sony makes a brand new “budget” model called the ZV-1 that’s basically an updated older RX100.



  • I made a post that was similar a week or so back that was fairly controversial where I advocated changing how the federation protocol works. I’ve been thinking about it more, and I think I have a solution to your concern (and mine) that keeps the admins feelings about federation and not allowing one instance to dominate in mind.

    On Reddit, especially old.reddit, when you search at the top you actually get two different search results: subreddits matching %string% at the top, posts matching %string% at the bottom.

    We should mirror that. The current search should be modified in the same structure and pump the search string into https://browse.feddit.de/ or implement it’s process into the server code.

    I think when someone types in android, getting a list of currently existing Lemmy communities with their respective populations and post counts is probably the easiest way to smooth out the learning curve.


  • Yes.

    And to some of the child replies, I think there’s a question of scale that often gets overlooked. In all these discussions, there seems to be two different groups commingling: ones who just need 1-2 simultaneous streams, and ones who are doing true whole-house-plus systems.

    I’m serving subtitles-enabled streams to (mostly) Roku clients - who need the server to burn in the subtitle track for some insane reason. It’s nothing for my Plexbox to be serving 6 simultaneous streams. A 4790K would definitely not cut it for me.


  • Honestly, don’t bother with a dGPU and get a 12th or 13th gen Intel Core chip with QSV. Intel quietly tuned it up to the point where it’s faster than nVidia’s NVENC engine even in the latest gen plus you don’t have mess around with the uncap streams hack and you’re transcoding through system RAM not dGPU RAM, so far less likely that your stream limit will be artificially constrained by memory limitations.

    To answer the question you asked though, the nVidia NVENC is the best solution on a dGPU. It’s performance is largely the same across the same board generation, with one exception in the GTX 10X0 series. The absolute cheapest card you can lay your hands on that has an NVENC engine is the 1050TI.

    The caveat is the 1070 and 1080 have two NVENC engines. It will double max number of streams in theory, however in reality you’re memory bound on those cards and it’s more like a 33% bump.



  • Here we go:

    Example files

    Any place you see <something>, you need to change it to fit and omit the <>. If something <matches> in two differet places <matches> like this, make sure they match when you’re done as well. Specifically, the postgres user and password in the lemmy docker file and the lemmy.hjson.

    Finally, in Google drive the files end in .txt so you can view them. You’ll need to correct the file names when you download them if you intend to use them. You should have two docker-compose.yml, one in each of the two directories you create, and one lemmy.hjson.

    From a fresh CLI Debian 11 install:

    su
    /sbin/usermod -aG sudo <user>
    groups <user>
    apt-get install sudo
    cd /opt
    mkdir npm
    cd npm
    (copy or create docker-compose.yml)
    apt-get install docker-compose
    docker-compose up -d
    cd /opt
    mkdir lemmy
    cd lemmy
    (copy or create docker-compose.yml and lemmy.hjson)
    mkdir -p volumes/pictrs
    chown -R 991:991 volumes/pictrs
    docker-compose up -d
    docker ps (verify containers are all running, grab ip address for lemmy container)
    Configure port forwarding in npm for your lemmy container (npm should be accessible at debian_ip_address:81)
    Remember to do the custom paths from the various guides. The lemmy port in this guide is 1234.
    

    Please note I am not addressing federation or SSL or true hosting yet. I haven’t got that far yet. But if you can get the damn thing running, the last mile shouldn’t be too bad.