Gabe Poirot was riding an electric skateboard at around 30 miles per hour without a helmet in October 2021 when he hit a small bump in the road and flipped backwards, landing directly on his head.
The impact cracked the then 20-year-old’s skull, causing a traumatic brain injury.
It’s kind of tragic how badly a TBI can mess up someone’s life, especially at such a young age.
I don’t think I’ve upvoted any of their posts, but there’s been some reasonable discussions under some of them. Would you be happier if they’d found the image somewhere else? I mean, all original content would be nice, but realistically most of it is going to come from somewhere else. I think what’s bothering me is that I only see you doing this under this one user, when there are multiple other users who also habitually repost, and it seems to have become something of a monomania. My apologies if I’ve missed some more widespread comments.
I won’t block you because, apart from this, I generally don’t mind your posts, and I remember that you used to post more positively and even humourously. I hope that we see more of that, the fediverse needs more positivity. Besides, your username makes me laugh every time I see it.
Hugo can handle images through its asset pipelines, so you should be able to just store them with your markdown. I agree it’s a little more friction than a blogging pkatform, but it does mean that you can just write your posts in your editor of choice and publish them with just a command, or if you’re feeling fancy, set up git to trigger publishing when you push.
Depending on exactly what features you actually need in term of things like commenting, you might want to look into a static site generator. Something like hugo woud probably do what you need in terms of translating the markdown into a blog. It has the advantage that you can them host the pages on a normal web server, rather than running a blogging platform, giving you a much lighter weight server footprint, and a much smaller attack surface too.
Honestly, at this point, I’m not sure what you hope to achieve by these responses. Their account is marked as a bot, and for anyone who doesn’t want to see the reposts, the block button is just a click away. I, and I’m sure many others, don’t habitually go to reddit, so this is “new” content to us.
Obviously I’d much prefer if they added even a modicum of original thought to their posts, but the constant campaign of posting screen shots is equally wearing. I’ve seen your argument elsewhere that they’re ‘monopolising’ communities, but even if that were a meaningful metric, this isn’t the way to deal with it. Downvote them, certainly, but more people posting more content is the natural antidote. It doesn’t really matter that someone is reposting from elsewhere when there’s other content appearing too, and if there isn’t that other new content, even reposted content helps drive engagement in the community. Ultimately, if the mods of the community don’t want them posting, they can just block them from doing so, so it may be worth contacting them to register your dislike of this sort of content.
Some new words just burn themselves into your brain, and this is one of those cases. I didn’t need the word “wankerchief” stuck in my head, but now it is, and I keep giggling at odd times. Thanks a bunch.
A kilt is generally considered acceptable attire in most places, and deals with this issue.
Your aim is to get both of them chasing you, then hide until they take each other out. Hopefully. If they team up we’re really cooked. Either way, video it on your phone and upload it for big views!
So do they spin a big wheel-of-fortune type thing to see who gets the rat poison, or do they give every competitor a cocktail of weird stuff, one of which also contains the poison?
Stack several of your favourite pizzas on top of each other while they’re still piping hot, so the cheese sticks them together, frost with your preferred sauce, or leave uncoated it preferred, cut in to wedges and tuck in like you’re at a 5 year old’s birthday party.
I reckon it’d be pretty good, but very filling.
I’ve found Hetzner to be reasonable for VPSs and even bare metal servers, especially if you keep an eye on their auctions.
Whether you’re hosting it all at home, all on a remote server, or some combination of the two, it’s worth taking the time to first learn some form of automation tooling, so that your setup is reproducible and you know exactly how everything is set up. From the first time you have to rebuild everything due to a hardware failure trashing your server, or a careless rm -rf, you’ll be glad of it.
Ansible is a good place to start as it’s pretty straighforward to get going, and your playbook can grow with your requirements. If you’re using a lot of containers, make sure you understand docker, and maybe consider Kubenetes, especially if you want to split your workload across servers.
That attitude would probably drop you down a few places… Then you’d need a marker to update the mug.
It would be “Darth Cest” surely?
I find that a dedicated RSS reader is a much better experience, as, especially when you’ve got a lot if feeds, organising them and keeping track of what you’ve read becomes quite important. If you take your eye off of a chat based system, you’re going to have so many unread messages it’ll be hard to keep up.
There speaks experience.
I reckon they didn’t even bother 3d printing it. I think they just printed an image on paper and stuck it to the sky. When it goes below the horizon they scrape it off and put a new sticker up, with an image rendered from a slightly different angle, so it’s ready for the next night.
Jupiter made with blender? CONFIRMED: SPACE IS A HOAX!!1!
Way back, in the UK, the call didn’t drop if the answering party hung up. The caller got a tone to tell them the other party had disconnected or hung up, but if the answering party picked up (or reconnected) again, the call would continue.
I think they changed it because fraudsters were using it. They’d call someone, claim to be the bank, and tell the person to call their branch as a security measure. The fraudster would then play the disconnected sound until the victim hung up, then they’d play the dial tone, and wait for the victim to pick up and dial their branch number. The fraudster could then act like the brank again, and persuade the victim to give them their secure details, as they were obviously talking to the bank.
See, I think you have that backwards. “I’m afraid” is an active, albiet negative, emotion, and drives you to find a solution, whether that’s running away or turning and facing your fear. “I hope” is entirely passive, you just want the universe to drop your desired outcome in your lap. I see hope as the killer of striving, of trying to make things better. A better positive view is to ask “what can I do to make my desired outcome more likely?” It’s not quite as pithy as “I hope…”, but it encourages action, rather tgan passivity. Obviously there are some things we don’t have any control over, and for those, all we have is hope.
They’re right though, money can’t buy happiness, but it certainly can remove a lot of the things that impede it.