Today’s weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 17°C, max - 29°C. 95% chance of no rain

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    I said goodbye to my beautiful cat today. My house feels empty tonight.

    E: thank you all.

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    So I have an old PC, and I’m thinking of learning how to make a DT bot and using that PC to be it’s 24/7 server, that way no one here has to give up their sleep or risk a double-post anymore :) it’s about time we get another botbot.

    I’m going to start looking into it tomorrow, regarding making one, and thinking of contacting the other City instances to see how they made theirs. I need to fix up my partner’s PC anyway, so I’ll be in the spare room regardless lol!

    If anyone has any tips or anything I should know, please message me :) happy to collaborate as I’ve never coded anything let alone a script. But I’m willing to learn!

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      I’ve offered to do this multiple times and no-one seemed keen. I think it’s because people like the human nature of of the post being made by someone real? I dunno. Weird.

      Please do not run it on a local PC though as you’ll chew through expensive power for an operation that takes milliseconds.

      If you want to run it local you could get it running on an rpi or even your mobile.

      But don’t do that, even the free tiers of all the cloud providers are overkill for the bot requirements. A cron lambda solves this, same on Azure as a Function and will all be free and not reliant of the power to your house.

      The emojis you can do to via a List of special days, and then combine them with an AI to get the sentiment of the previous day and theme for the current day.

      Please add a CI/CD pipeline that’s included in code and open source it so someone else can pick it up when you drop off. Pretty please add many tests.

      This isn’t something I want to pair on as it’s a great first project and something that if I was going to do myself I’d rather just smash out and have fun doing whilst listening to music, not chatting.

      If you get stuck though lemme know and I might help.

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        I’m keen tbh! Keen for a bot and help! Thank you for these tips!!! This is my first time doing anything like this at all!

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          If you’re keen then you will love it.

          I’m looking forward to seeing your solution and I’m genuinely keen to review it.

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        Oh the PC was also going to be a media hub as well, something I can keep on to download torrents and store media files 🏴‍☠️

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        Oh, sorry. I’ve never seen your offers before, I don’t think

        Personally, I do kind of like the human touch, as you put it. Makes me feel like I actually contribute something to the community, anyway

        By the way chud, I get the weather from the BoM, and they seem to have an API (though it seems to be more of a mindfuck than most). I believe AccuWeather has an easily accessible API as well. You could pull the weather forecast from that

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            What’s wrong?

            The original comment was by StudChud. I was replying to you primarily, and then them secondarily, in case they happened to read the 2nd part of my comment. It didn’t really seem important enough to post a 2nd comment about. Sorry if it confused you, but I don’t think the down vote was really necessary.

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              This is a boring game. StudSpud is the username. DMs not fun.

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                Honestly at this point I’m just confused. What are you on about?

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      I was starting to do this but have run into walls trying to get Docker to work and editing the files to configure it.

      You can find existing bots on github that just need a text file changed with the login details for the bot, where to post, and what to post. You can even tell it to pin a post and how long for.

      Here are two to look at, you can either clone or download the repo to your machine:

      https://github.com/arcuru/lemmy-rss-bot

      https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917/lemmy-bot

      I’ll check which one I downloaded to my computer when I can. It’s part of my whole learning linux/remote desktop/making a server project I tinker with when I have time

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        Ah yep I’ve heard there were issues previously, hence why I wanted to crowd source some ideas and help. Thank you for these links so much!

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          The issues aren’t even with aussie.zone, it’s all me trying to figure out the tech side. On paper it seems straightfoward enough, and once you’ve got it working you can ad YAML to your resume

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      Sounds like a solid idea! Just chuck me a heads up so I don’t steamroll BotBot2

      Also, if keeping the PC constantly running eats up too much electricity or space, I’m happy to host it on a VPS I already have. It’s in melbs, so still local. I’m too much of an idiot to figure out how to get the code actually working though, which is why I’ve never done it

      Basically: if you do all the work and figure out what needs to be done to get it working, I’m happy to pilfer it, host it myself, and claim all the credit 😁 /j

      Edit: since you asked, and I forgot to answer, but also offered: if you ever did hand over any form of code to me (or really anyone else from the DT) make sure that the bots email/password aren’t hard coded in the code. No matter how well you know or trust someone, there are very few situations you should hand them this info. The exception maybe being if somebody is helping with you over a call or something. Even then, I’d probably recommend you only do that if you have to, and you know personally know them IRL. But you probably know all of that already. Never hurts to reinforce it though

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      I thought someone had sort of got one working for a short while, a while back?

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    Tw rape, current events

    I found a rusty 12 foot ladder and looked. I regret it and should have just… not. Next time I won’t.

    But I know the details now and while they are allegations they do not sound made up. It’s too familiar. Too consistent. Involving vulnerable women he could get a hold over. It sounds like a plausible pattern of slimy manipulative and predatory behaviour.

    I’m deleting my previous comments because while not intended to they might vaguely sound like I’m defending him. Yeah, fuck that guy.

    Please excuse me while I go scrub the floor and my brain.

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      I feel this. It is too familiar for those of us who have been victims of such people before. I have difficulty believing those women are lying, the details are too real to me.

      He grew up in scientology, I hope they grab him and have him scrub the floors of their sea org boat for the rest of his billion year contract.

      He’s not getting any of my money any more. He’s dead to me.

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        Oh I never thought they were lying. I was just kind of boggling and maybe a bit in denial

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    Back home and it’s unsurprisingly several degrees hotter than outside; started sweating after a minute inside… Might need double melatonin to help myself conk out asap tonight. Kind of good to be back. Looking forward to seeing my colleagues tomorrow

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      To me it looks like Carney.

      I’m going by the fact I can write cursive.

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      Franny? Fanny?

      It’s something-anny I think, her second name I can’t make out

      Edit: Harry? Perry?

      Edit: oranniy ugh

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      Fanny Louisa ??? Surname is obscured, but might start with G. Effing copperplate.

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        Jennings is clear to me, the first name eludes me. Given the book age there is a typical group, which this doesn’t fit.

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        An extremely appropriate suggestion, but I don’t see it

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    I just got home after work. No wonder I was thirsty when I got to work this morning - my morning cup of tea was still sitting on the kitchen table untouched. I hadn’t even put milk in it. It was just on the other side of the table so clearly I didn’t notice it this morning.

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    It’s kind of exciting looking for new roles. Picked up a bunch of useful skills and lingo where I am now so have been able to go for better roles.

    Let’s see how all this plays out.

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      Scrum, Stand up, agile, boil the sea and process mapping!

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        Gather the artefacts! Process flow! Service delivery! Suck my balls!

        It’s amazing how easy it is to sound qualified if you have confidence, a sales background and a firm grasp of terminology lol

        Edit: I’d like to add stakeholder fucking management to the list. Over and fucking over. It’s the main part of my role i.e taking the punches for the company but i still hate that title.

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          They love the term stakeholder in interviews though. Gotta qualify internal and external though, and how you deal with each differently

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            I managed stakeholders all across the 3d plane of existence lol.

            But in all seriousness, you’re right. I always play up executive stakeholder management both internal and external.

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        Haven’t heard boil the sea before - what’s that?

        Just remembered that I can work google, lol. What a weird phrase

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          Not letting the scope creep too far that the original purpose of what you were trying to do gets lost in the bigger piece of work. Basically means burning effort.

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    shelf removed from laundry cupboard. Template mapped on new piece of specrite board. Next steps: make the actual rail part of pull out clothesline rail and mount on slides.

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    I’m winning. 8 - 6. The sledging is getting good. He’s plying me with soju. Things could change quickly.

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    I follow Saxsquatch on YouTube and I’m trying to figure out his livestreams. They must be old streams put together because there’s no way someone could play saxophone for 18 hours

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    The books will remain on the bookshelf, until I am in a better state of mind; I’m triggered and having my own flashbacks so I recognise that I am not in a position to make decisions on sentimental books.

    Thank you for everyone’s input, I really appreciate your ideas and perspectives 💜

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      If it happens further down the line after you’ve settled then you know you’ll have to pack them away or throw them away.

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    My stupid question of the day.

    What is Sherlock Holmes’ first name?

    Luckily I stopped that one before I said it out loud to Mr Seagoon, he would never let me live it down 🫥

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      This is like those memes that go, ‘What’s Obama’s last name?’

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      Not really related, but you reminded me that one of my workers from 2 places ago (the last resi) called me “Sherlock” for 4 and a half years. She told me how to do something I was already in the process of doing, so I said “no shit Sherlock” (I was 12. This was 2019.) Then I became the Sherlock lol. I saw her a few months ago, and I was still Sherlock lol

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      You coulda doublebluffed him, ACD sketched out some stories with the character not named Sherlock but sherrinford holmes. So technically that was his first name.

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    Anyone delt with a conveyancer whose name implies doing precise things to punctuation? They are the major problem here.