Heh, I disn’t consider French Guiyana, well spotted!

How do you count that?

I don’t see any land border connection between south America and Asia…

But I am peobably missing something.

You are technically correct, but you miss the great part of frequent departures in a public transport system.

During peak hours I have a buss departing my local stop every 10 min, it takes me 7 min to walk to the busstop, when I arrive to the metro my train usually departs within less than 5 minutes, it takes 2 min to walk down to the platform from the bus, if I miss the train, the next train will depart 5 min later. When I need to switch lines I just walk over the platform and my train will usualy arrive with in 2 min, though it is not unusual for the train to be at the platform and I have time to cross the platform.

When I then get to my destination I exit the metro and walk 100m to get to my office, my desk is actually just above the entrance/exit of the metro.

Obviously this is under optimal conditions, but it isn’t that uncommon either.

When you have public transport departures that frequent, you don’t really have to took at the timetable, you just walk down to the bus stop and with in minutes you are on the bus.

There are also dedicated buslanes along 97% of the way I take the busses, so traffic jams are seldom an issue.

And should there be an issue with my normal bus, I can walk 15 min to a different bus stop with other busses, or I can walk 20 min and get to the train/bus station and get on a train or yet another bus.

This is fine since large disruptions are quite infrequent.

It is interesting to see that Sweden is only three land borders away from North Korea.

Sweden - Finland

Finland - Russia

Russia - DPRK

The only artist I can think of where I did this is Dr. Bombay.

A Swede/Dane pretending to be Indian doing a lot of crazy stuff.

What is probably his most well known song is Taxi, taxi, taxi! Where he sings about being a blind taxi driver in Calcutta, the music video was recorded in Malaysia:

https://youtu.be/dBwrW9-QgPM

Then there is this song about him taking over a relative’s restaurant, notice the frogs os in the soundtrack…

https://youtu.be/fKtNawQ3cxM

Then he made this sexist song about how he want a wife who cleans, cooks and washes laundry for him, it is made with humor, so how serious it is I can’t say:

https://youtu.be/_BRVbZUe0WA

There are more songs by this character, but the guy behind him then invented the same character to Dr. Mcadoo a crazy scotsman…

This time the songs where more focused on partying:

https://youtu.be/glCK7W0hmhg

So a bit more generic…

https://youtu.be/xeJgdUWZzKg

Then he reinvented himself again into a carzy Mexican called Carlito.

I have not found any live action music videos by that character.

Here is his most well known song as far as I can tell:

https://youtu.be/pSIkcDwxwbw

I was wrong, there is one live action music video by Carlito:

https://youtu.be/4gY1AHjq1y8

Then he went away, only to resurrect Dr. Bombay a few years ago…

https://youtu.be/2lsojtENpQ0

Dr. Bombay would never have got off the ground these days, the idea that a Swede/Dane could pretend to be Indian would just not be acceptable.

He still performes live and does ok from what I can tell, I am happy for him, but starting this kind of act these days would not work.

I am curious, what is the advantage to you foe doing this?

To me it just seems like a hassle, I have a Lemmy account, a Mastodon account and a Pixelfed account.

They all seem to have their own uses, and I guess I just don’t see the point of navigating Lemmy through a Mastodon interface…

But I am probably missing something here…

I would like one, but I have no space to store it, I live in a two room apartment and the bike storage is only really designed for a normal bike.

I used my normal bike with a bike basket on the parcel holder for shopping, it was brilliant!

No need for a bag, just pack the basket when you have paid, and hook it on the parcel holder.

Sadly I lost my bike during a year when I missed that the bike room was being cleared out and didn’t tag it, so it was thrown out as anandoned, this happened as I had messed up my knee, had double flat feet and double heel spurs.

I now drive my car to the shops bur it’s only one kilometer so it feels a bit dumb, meh I drive on electricity so it could be worse.

Once my situation with my general life stabalize a bit more I’ll looks for a bike.

My Hue system is probably one of the best things I ever bought.

I live alone, in a suburb north of Stockholm, so during winters it get really damned depressing to leave the office after sunset, and then get home and open the front door to a dark hole.

Being able to turn some lights on before I open the door has made wonders for my mental health, it makes it feel as if there is someone at home taking care of it and waiting for you to come home.

Then in the mornings, using the lights in my bedroom as an alarmclock in combination with my phone makes me get up far quicker.

And when I have guests over I can set the mood and make my apartment look cool.

If you are still using X, get Fluxbox, very lightweight, requires some config, but that is fairly easy.

I want to get off Mr. Trump’s wild ride!

We live the the worst timeline

You are not helping…

Yep, LVM is basically a software raid 0, I used it when setting up Linux server VMs for years at my last job, as far as I know they are still running fine.

The VM system backed up all VMs regularly, so I used LVMs as it made increasing the storage on a server easier for me.

Since it is just a raid 0 that can span several disks and one disk failiure can bring it down I don’t want any irriplacable data on it, so games from Steam seems like an excellwnt idea.

That also means that being able to just have a volume spanning several disks would be an easy and simple way to increase storage when space is running tight.

I am an avid hobby photographer and I would never trust an LVM without some kind of added protection, I am looking to get a Synology NAS with minimum of four drives raided in raid 5.

I have a very old Intel NAS with used drives that I used for many years, but I don’t trust it anymore, I keep it powered off as a cold backup.

Thanks Cpt. Obvious.

I have not read that book, but seeing as the right is on the rise also here in Europe, it might be worth checking it out.

It is soo easy to forget about just how much identifying metadata you leave on the internet just by reading stuff.

You know the cookie banners you see? Those that claim to let you opt out from being tracked by advertisers?

Yeah, those are just the overt tracking mechanism, tracking pixels are far far more insidious.

Lets backtrack a bit, back when Facebook started getting big, companies started embedded Like buttons on their webpages, cool right? You could just click the Like button and it would help you post a link to your Facebook feed to the page you were visiting.

Seems fine, right? What’s the issue?

It would be fine if the image of the Like button was stored on the local web server hosting the rest of the site.

But it isn’t.

It is stored on Facebook’s servers, it is stored in a way that every single Like button has their own ID, so every time you load up your favourite website about abandoned radiation experiment sites it makes your browser send a request to Facebook’s servers as well and depending on how the request is sent they can at minimum log that your IP address loaded the Like button with the ID number X, the ID number X is tied to the specific webpage you visited.

Then you go and do some research on impotense and how to cure it, the pages you read all have Like buttons as above, but with their own ID numbers, Facebook now knows at a minimum that you are a man who is interested in science, technology, society and modern history, you may also suffer from impotense.

Well, you keep browsing the web and read local news, well the Like button is also there, and with the ID number Facebook can add an area of interest to your profile.

It keeps going like this, but with one huge important change, people are starting getting warey of the Like buttons and Facebook in general, so they simply remove the button, while introducing the tracking pixel, a 1px*1px transparent picture, it works like how the Like button loads, and keeps generating data for Facebook.

Facebook is not alone in this, I just used them as an example.

You can read more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_pixel

This is also not even getting into browser fingerprinting.

Are you talking about split tunneling?

Because last I heard it was considered bad as it was haibg a hard time deciding what traffic to tunnel and what traffic to not

IT tech here, yes, yes it can.

Network infrastructure is both increadibly smart while also being dumb in other ways.

To do an ELI5 answer:

Imagine you have a container of pearls that you need to sort, red, green and blue pearls all need to be dropped into a red, green or blue hole.

The container is being refilled, but slow enough that it only gets a new pearl once you have sorted the previous.

The holes are connected to pipes going to separate buckets.

Everything is fine, but then some adds a new hole that is muticolored and tells you that all pearls should go there.

You tell your friends that you have a faster way to deal with the perls and to send you their pearls.

The new hole also has a pipe, but that is connected to the container that recieves pearls, so every time you drop a pearl into the new hole, it appears in the container again.

So now you have a situation where you not only get your normal ammount of pearls, but everyone else’s pearls and you also get every pearl you send back again.

You are smart and quickly realize that something is wrong and call for your teacher for help, networking gear don’t have that capabillity to understand that it is wrong, it just looks at each pearl and not the big picture.

If we go back to the real world, we have developed tools to deal with this situation, we have protocols line spanning tree which can have switches speak with eachother and figure out if there is a physical loop before sending traffic through it.

There are other tools as well, but they all need to be configured and to be honest, it is easily forgotten or made a low priority since it happens rarely.

It is something that is often implemented after a big outage.

That depends on your usecase.

I have setup servers where I mounted extra drives on /srv/nfs

When/If I switch to Linux I will probably mount my secondary drives to folders like

/home/stoy/videos

/home/stoy/music

/home/stoy/photos

/home/stoy/documents

/home/stoy/games

The ~/games will probably be an LVM since it contains little critical data and may absolutely need to be expanded to span several drives, though I would also be able to reduce the size of it and remove a drive from the LVM if needed.

I’d make a simple conky config to keep track of the drive space used

I’d just keep using the default automount spot for automounting drives.

Is she missing an eye?

Get rid of FPTP, and get genuine representation, then you’ll see some change, but since that isn’t what the rich guys want, it wont happen.