Admiral Patrick

I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • If you step back and think about it, so much of human society revolves around people wearing the right costume for the occasion.

    Sometimes it makes sense (protective gear, etc) other times it just seems like “that’s what we’ve always worn for X [occasion | profession | etc].”

    How does removing your hat imply respect? What is the purpose for standing up when the judge enters the courtroom? Just a bunch of stupid rituals that may have made sense at one time that we keep doing for…reasons.




  • If you are hosting a Lemmy instance, I suggest requiring new accounts to provide an email address and pass a captcha

    Those are easy to bypass (or a human can spin up a bunch with throwaway emails and plug them into bots). I recommend enabling registration applications. While not foolproof, it gives the admins eyes on every new account. Also, consider denying any application that uses a throwaway email service.




  • My instance has “Rule 3: No AI Slop. This is a platform for humans to interact” and it’s enforced pretty vigorously.

    As far as “how”:

    1. Sometimes it’s obvious. In those cases, the posts are removed and the account behind it investigated. If the account has a pattern of it, they get a one way ticket to Ban City

    2. Sometimes they’re not obvious, but the account owner will slip up and admit to it in another post. Found a handful that way, and you guessed it, straight to Ban City.

    3. Sometimes t’s difficult on an individual post level unless there are telltale signs. Typically have to look for patterns in different posts by the same account and account for writing styles. This is more difficult / time consuming, but I’ve caught a few this way (and let some slide that were likely AI generated but not close enough to the threshold to ban).

    4. I hate the consumer AI crap (it has its place, but in every consumer product is not one of them), but sometimes if I’m desperate, I’ll try to get one of them to generate a similar post as one I’m evaluating. If it comes back very close, I’ll assume the post I’m evaluating was AI-generated and remove it while looking at other content by that user, changing their account status to Nina Ban Horn if appropriate.

    5. If an account has a high frequency of posts that seems unorganic, the Eye of Sauron will be upon them.

    6. User reports are extremely helpful as well

    7. I’ve even banned accounts that post legit news articles but use AI to summarize the article in the post body; that violates rule 3 (no AI slop) and Rule 6 (misinformation) since AI has no place near the news.

    If you haven’t noticed, this process is quite tedious and absolutely cannot scale under a small team. My suggestion: if something seems AI generated, do the legwork yourself (as described above) and report them; be as descriptive in the report as possible to save the mod/admin quite a bit of work.





  • Probably better to just keep it. Probably.

    Interest rates haven’t changed much since 2021 (they may even be higher?). Unless your credit score has massively improved to potentially secure a lower rate on a new finance, it’s probably not going to be any better than the 7.59 you have now.

    Do you think you could sell your HRV for $16,000 in a private sale? Even at that, you’d be breaking even with the payoff, and the replacement would be 100% out of pocket (or a new finance at whatever current rates are).

    Do you have your eye on something already as a replacement? If so, how much would it cost? Do you think you could tack that amount (or part of it) on to the $16K sale price of your HRV to help pay for it?

    Ultimately, those are only things you can answer. I’m more of a play it safe /devil you know person, so I would probably just stick with it but pay extra on principal to help pay it down quicker and reduce interest on the loan.


  • Depends on what I’m transferring and to/from where:

    • scp is my go-to since I’m a Linux household and have SSH keys setup and LDAP SSO as a fallback
    • sshfs if I’m too lazy to connect via SMB/NFS (or I don’t feel like installing the tools for them) or I’m traversing a WAN
    • rsync for bulk transfer and backups
    • Snapdrop/Pairdrop for one-off file/text shares between devices with GUIs (mostly phone <–> PC)
    • SMB if I’m on a client PC and need to work with the files directly from the fileserver
    • NFS between servers
    • To get bulk data to my phone (e.g. updating my music library), I connect via USB in MTP mode and copy from the server via SMB or sshfs.