#LazyWeb

I remember as a child seeing a documentary about one of the most idiotic projects that the Nazis did:

Some of their senior leadership so firmly believed the Hollow Earth theory that they set up a V2 launcher on a South Pacific island with a view of slingshotting missiles around the Sun and landing them anywhere in Europe or America. It turns out the Sun isn't in the middle of the Earth (who knew?!?) so this didn't work.

It came to mind because another government seems to have a similar attitude to science at the moment.

I can find no online references to this at all. Did the documentary maker make the whole thing up? Did I dream the documentary?

Dear #lazyweb I have a request for some audio and video that I need for a project that I am working on.

I am the editor for an adults-oriented show, the Mosquito and Spider Show. It's based on Nik Caesar's indie comic, Mosquito and Spider. A bit Space Ghost, a bit Ren and Stimpy, and lots of adult humor.

I am in need of a couple of audio and video clips. But as this is an indie project (but the episodes will be sold eventually), I can't justify the $100 a month to Storyblocks for stock footag

EDIT: we put the "30mm or so of copper" back on (which I had pegged as bluetooth ant) and GPS works now.

Oh #electronics #lazyweb, I have an #askfedi - I'm looking at a garmin gps watch (instinct 2s) it's not getting GPS. We think the GPS antenna has been damaged, thing is I'm not even sure which part is the GPS antenna. There's a couple of things that look like antennas put they're just 30mm or so of copper. I thought a gps antenna hadda be more complicated than that?. Anyone know of a teardown article or vid on garmins, or some tech doco?

Help! #Boot / #GRUB advice:

I have a relatively new laptop. Recently when rebooting it just went to the GRUB bash-like interface rather than booting.

99 times out of 100 when rebooting the laptop doesn't recognize any USB key is plugged in and goes straight to GRUB recovery. #EFI boot sees the drives EFI files though.

1 in 100 times the whole thing boots just fine from either the drive or USB key.

BIOS hard drive diagnostics says it's fine.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot?

Next one for the hive mind. You've suggested Synology but not Qnap. Both are Taiwanese so not US (Good).
Why Synology over Qnap?
If Synology why not the j (the cheaper one)?
With this many questions am I even qualified to embark on this project?!
and yes, I've tagged everyone who chimed in on the HDD questions...

#NAS #ITAdvice #LazyWeb
@leighelse @futuresprog @thomasbeagle @stojg @haydng

Dear #lazyweb

If you needed to do a full stack bootcamp to learn how to build web applications, where would you turn? Anything you think is great, or also stuff to avoid would be very helpful.

Thanks!

Do I remember someone mentioning a simple solution for preventing Mastodon instances from hammering a website when a link is posted?

(Might have slightly broken Mrs E's website, but I think it's recovered now.)

Dear #IoT #Lazyweb (esp Mr @fast_code_r_us) established wisdom (i..e 20 mins of googling and scrolling past the AI Lies) is that the ESP32-CAM camera module is too wimpy to generate native portrait-format JPEG's on-device (either by rotating them or adding magic metadata). Anyone know different?

How can I tell which is going to last the best in a hard working Raspberry Pi?
I don't see any 'read/write cycles' data.
#SDCards #LazyWeb #Rpi

Anyone have recommendations for a macOS app to manage and organize PDFs? I have somewhere over 1000.

I used to use the Books.app, but the rewrite a few years ago took away a bunch of the organization ability (tagging, metadata editing etc).

I Ideally want something that keeps the PDFs stored in a folder of my choosing and keeps all the metadata in the files themselves. It should have it's own database that is simply an index of those PDFs to make searching/organization quick and easy.

Would it be possible to "toggle" requests with #htmx? Like, first click makes the request, second one doesn't, third one makes a new request and so on...

Any cactus experts out there in socials land? Are these lighter green blobs just more growth or are they the first sign of buds?

Is it possible to use a view transition for an exit animation of something in the top-layer? For example, a popover that’s open, but following a link within it causes a transition (and consequently the popover is closed after the transition). #CSS #LazyWeb

Are there more up to date, and not entirely useless acrobat reader admx files than the ones from 2015 I could find? Like, what use is “Disable JavaScript” when users can just open the pdf, and klick “enable all features”? That shit even works from unsafe locations…

Ideas for the best backup HD & software for my elderly parents?
*& for me, I'm too old to do tech support!!
#LazyWeb

Dumb E-bike question: what do I look for to pull kids in a trailer?

Was nimmt heutzutage, wenn man mal eben ein 50+MiB File jemandem zur Verfügung stellen will und keinen auf adminhassle hat?

Dear #LazyWeb #FediHerd,

with different disasters - both natural and otherwise - on the rise, I am looking for recommendations on a radio receiver that would be well suited (also) for in such occasions.

What I imagine - but if you thought it through better, do let me know - one would need:
- AM, FM, DAB (I imagine internet radio is most fragile)
- battery - either easy replaceable or rechargeable
- also work without batteries
- good quality and sturdy
- portable
- world coverage would be cool

Dear #lazyWeb & #lazyFedi,

I've built a small model in @OpenSCAD and I'm looking to get it 3D printed. Does anyone have any recommendations for 3D printing services?

I'd like it printed with a decent bit of mechanical performance. It will get wet, it will probably get oily and grimy. Part of it will be under "reasonable" compression load.

Are PCBWay or JLC any good? What about Treatstock? UK or EU preferred.

Personal experiences desired! I know how to Google/DDG.

#LazyWeb: At some point 15-20 years ago, I was reading some Austin’s Group rationale for deprecating ucontext_t and friends, which said it was the only safe way of jumping out of a signal handler but was problematic because people were using it to implement userspace threading and it was not safe to do so because this required synchronising state that was not always visible in userspace. I can no longer find this and it appears not to be in the rationale section for any #POSIX spec I’ve checked. Does anyone have the reference to hand?