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Can someone send me an invite for cock.li?

Edit: Got one, thank you.
 
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Boris Blank's glass eye said:
If the buds themselves are/work/sound fine I'd recommend buying a pack of Comply foam tips instead. Most cheap-ish models are going to have silicon tips anyway, that's the standard these days.
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I did not knew that such a thing existed. Will try them in the future!

As for a following to my post, I decided to buy a pair of Moripods last week after some research and mostly good impressions on different sites and I like them, they are not heavy and sound ok for the price range. They feel kinda cheap tho but I can not complain with the $30 price tag they had.
 
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Safir said:
I work in a place which uses slim docker images (the debian family, so, buster and bullseye). I don't know docker so I try not to fuck with it, but I noticed a linux package for the wrong database in the Dockerfile (mysql instead of postgres), so I decided to check what else might be unnecessary there. I know I need libpq and some pdf related stuff.

So I watch the docker image assembling and it turns out when it gets to RUN apt-get install my_shit it pulls like 120 MB from the online, which it says would expand to 450 MB. Python fucking 3.7, JDK, libasound2, then python3 python3-cffi-backend python3-minimal python3-ply python3-pycparser (yes this is separate from python 3.7) - say what? the image is supposed to come with Python 3.10 already. When it's done installing Linux packages, it downloads python libraries from the repo (all of them are cached locally, but the image doesn't know about it).

I suspected the -y option might be saying "yes" to some stupid "for newbies" prompt and looked for ways to stop it. --no-install-recommends gets me down to a 98 MB download and 400 MB of "additional disk space" used.
This looks horribly inefficient.

How do I prevent Linux from installing all the unnecessary shit? I mean, better people than me designed that slim image. If 3.7 were mandatory they'd have kept it in.
How do I prevent docker from downloading all the (necessary) shit every time I reassemble the container?
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You have my sympathy..

Really seems like Docker is just obfuscating what would be normal internal package management in this case.

-y just answers 'Yes' to the 'we're going to ignore all this shit, y/n'? prompts.

Just guessing, but I would assume that the image uses one of the separate repos that provide updated Python versions for Debian stable. I think most of these install the binaries to /usr/local/bin or some other alternative location to the system default- reasonably enough, given that at times Debian stable, and all Python applications shipped with it has been several major versions behind, which could lead those regular 'stable' applications to shit the bed if they were run with newer versions. They probably won't be set up to 'offer' to be the system /usr/bin/python or /usr/bin/python3, and the .deb's won't specify Provides: python3 in the metadata, so if anything requires python3 or whatever, then the system Python 3.7 will be installed.

Can you run
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apt-cache rdepends --installed PACKAGENAME
for python3 and the rest after the installs are done? Should start showing what's driving those installs.
 
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Safir said:
I work in a place which uses slim docker images (the debian family, so, buster and bullseye). I don't know docker so I try not to fuck with it, but I noticed a linux package for the wrong database in the Dockerfile (mysql instead of postgres), so I decided to check what else might be unnecessary there. I know I need libpq and some pdf related stuff.

So I watch the docker image assembling and it turns out when it gets to RUN apt-get install my_shit it pulls like 120 MB from the online, which it says would expand to 450 MB. Python fucking 3.7, JDK, libasound2, then python3 python3-cffi-backend python3-minimal python3-ply python3-pycparser (yes this is separate from python 3.7) - say what? the image is supposed to come with Python 3.10 already. When it's done installing Linux packages, it downloads python libraries from the repo (all of them are cached locally, but the image doesn't know about it).

I suspected the -y option might be saying "yes" to some stupid "for newbies" prompt and looked for ways to stop it. --no-install-recommends gets me down to a 98 MB download and 400 MB of "additional disk space" used.
This looks horribly inefficient.

How do I prevent Linux from installing all the unnecessary shit? I mean, better people than me designed that slim image. If 3.7 were mandatory they'd have kept it in.
How do I prevent docker from downloading all the (necessary) shit every time I reassemble the container?
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All the python3-* packages are a part of Debian's philosophy of packaging, where you can omit parts of the very bloated python3 interpreter runtime by not installing some of them. These are probably getting pulled by the python3.7 metapackage. As for why 3.7 and not 3.10 is pulled, you might want to read the setup.py and requirements.txt of whatever it is that you're using inside your container, if it exists. Often Python and package versions are pinned so you can guarantee that a program will work 100% of the time, whereas new versions can have some subtle changes that break things.
 
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Cantercoin said:
I have not tried that yet but this seems to be some sort of software issue because uninstalling my keyboard drivers and restarting seems to have solved this issue for now
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I'm case you still care its probably a hot key function in the driver flipping off your keyboard due to a bug which is why stripping off the driver fixed it.
 
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DaddyDickDown said:
Can someone explain to me the most current reason to use the kiwi github?
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Microsoft GitHub doesn't allow the use of the +NIGGER license modifier.
EDIT: And wants your phone number so it can be given to authorities.
 
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3119967d0c said:
Microsoft GitHub doesn't allow the use of the +NIGGER license modifier.
EDIT: And wants your phone number so it can be given to authorities.
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I haven't done anything with Github really sense the news on 2FA becoming a requirement for "active developers" or whatever they said, but I thought TOTP was also acceptable? If so then no need for a phone number and FreeOTP is an open source app for that so just a slight added inconvenience though arguably a big boost in security.

For the extra lazy, KeepassXC lets you use TOTP as well which kinda defeats the purpose but if don't care about the MFA-ness of it then it's fine.
 
Aidan said:
I haven't done anything with Github really sense the news on 2FA becoming a requirement for "active developers" or whatever they said, but I thought TOTP was also acceptable? If so then no need for a phone number and FreeOTP is an open source app for that so just a slight added inconvenience though arguably a big boost in security.

For the extra lazy, KeepassXC lets you use TOTP as well which kinda defeats the purpose but if don't care about the MFA-ness of it then it's fine.
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I primarily refer to the fact that you need to provide a phone number to sign up a new account.
 
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I primarily refer to the fact that you need to provide a phone number to sign up a new account.
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Does it work with a virtual phone number like a Text Now account? Might be a workaround.

And since I’m here I’d like to beg for a Dall-e 2 invite if anyone has one, I’ll trade ya few Midjourney invites. Help a Kiwi make some art.
 
Any suggestions for good wireless noise canceling ear buds?
I brought two in the span of a month and returned them because I could still hear things during my commute/workouts

Preferred price is under 100 USD. But I can go up to 125 USD. Id go higher, but my neighborhood has a sizeable gypsy population. So I (rightfully) fear they'll be stolen.
 
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Disco Inferno said:
Any suggestions for good wireless noise canceling ear buds?
I brought two in the span of a month and returned them because I could still hear things during my commute/workouts

Preferred price is under 100 USD. But I can go up to 125 USD. Id go higher, but my neighborhood has a sizeable gypsy population. So I (rightfully) fear they'll be stolen.
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My condolences about those gyppos.

Would any of these work?
Toss in one of these Comply tips to help with noise filtering for the A2 and you're still under $100 US.
 
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Disco Inferno said:
I brought two in the span of a month and returned them because I could still hear things during my commute/workouts
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Please don't wear noise-cancelling anything while commuting. You need to be able to hear the traffic around you.

Also note that no noise-cancelling headset can completely remove noise. Especially in consumer-priced sets, and in small sets like earbuds, the tech isn't perfect. When I vacuum while wearing my headphones with ANC turned on, the vacuum cleaner sounds more like a warm whirr than, well, a vacuum cleaner; it seems to be cancelling out the more bass-y sounds than anything. But I can still hear something.
 
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Disco Inferno said:
Any suggestions for good wireless noise canceling ear buds?
I brought two in the span of a month and returned them because I could still hear things during my commute/workouts

Preferred price is under 100 USD. But I can go up to 125 USD. Id go higher, but my neighborhood has a sizeable gypsy population. So I (rightfully) fear they'll be stolen.
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I like to picture this playing on a loop on your phone for your whole commute.
 
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Boris Blank's glass eye said:
Sorry about that m8. I prefer wired for anything audio.
What about these?
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No need to apologize. I'll check these out when my recent refund goes through
Least Concern said:
Please don't wear noise-cancelling anything while commuting. You need to be able to hear the traffic around you.
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I use public transportation.
Never Scored said:
I like to picture this playing on a loop on your phone for your whole commute.
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Good guess. But I actually listen to this.
 
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Looking to pick up some courses this summer.

I already know the basics. Any recommendations on what to study? ie Frontend/Backend/Databases/Security?

I know how to set up stuff in html, python, react, angular. I wNna follow up with the next level.
 
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