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FYI: The Michigan DNR is seeking feedback on what major investments to make at Belle Isle Park
FYI: The Michigan DNR is seeking feedback on what major investments to make at Belle Isle Park - Lemmy.World
The survey is only open through Labor Day Weekend, so respond soon if you want to participate. The 11 potential projects up for review include: * Beach. Extend the beach and renovate the bath house. * Boathouse. Restore and reactivate the Belle Isle Boathouse for public use. * Park cafe. Create a park cafe at the Belle Isle White House. * Canals and trails. Improve access to canals and create trails. * Carillon Peace Tower.Renovate the Nancy Brown Carillon Peace Tower. * Kids Row. Create a bigger, better Kids Row Playground. * Music band shell. Restore and activate the Remick Music Band Shell. * Piers and docks. Rebuild piers and docks for fishing and potential ferry service. * Sawmill. Create interpretive center at the historic sawmill. * Stable yard. Clean up and activate former stable yard. * Community and volunteer space. Create community and volunteer space at the historic police headquarters. Also important to note >Critical ongoing efforts, such as opening restrooms, slowing vehicle traffic, keeping the bridge open and improving trash pickup are not listed as potential projects because work is already underway to address them.
Today I learned that the Brave Search engine has a tool that allows end users a high degree of freedom to customize the search results they're shown.
Today I learned that the Brave Search engine has a tool that allows end users a high degree of freedom to customize the search results they're shown. - Lemmy.World
I know there’s some controversy surrounding Brave as a company, and I’m not a fan of everything they do, but the goggles feature in their search engine is a really interesting attempt to give users more control over their search results. The tool allows you to re-rank your search results according to custom rule sets. Each rule contains a regex style string to check against webpage URLs, and an instruction for what to do when a match is found. There are four basic types of instruction: 1. Exclude matching URLs from your search results. 2. Boost matching URLs so they appear higher in your search results than they otherwise would 3. Downrank matches, causing them to appear lower in the results than they otherwise would. 4. Highlight matches so they stand out in the list of results. Brave has provided some premade rule sets (called goggles) that you can use right away, such as one that automatically removes all pinterest links, or another that boosts posts from tech related blogs. It’s also relatively straightforward to create your own goggles, which you can either keep private or make public for others to find and use as well. If you want to try it out for yourself you can go to search.brave.com [http://search.brave.com] and do a normal search for whatever you want. Then, on the results page, click the little “goggles” button just below the search bar. You’ll be presented with a variety of premade filters along with a “discover more” button which sends you to a page with more information and filter options.
Has anyone here built a Beowulf Cluster?
Has anyone here built a Beowulf Cluster? - Lemmy.World
A university near me must be going through a hardware refresh, because they’ve recently been auctioning off a bunch of ~5 year old desktops at extremely low prices. The only problem is that you can’t buy just one or two. All the auction lots are batches of 10-30 units. It got me wondering if I could buy a bunch of machines and set them up as a distributed computing cluster, sort of a poor man’s version of the way modern supercomputers are built. A little research revealed that this is far from a new idea. The first ever really successful distributed computing cluster (called Beowulf) was built by a team at NASA in 1994 using off the shelf PCs instead of the expensive custom hardware being used by other super computing projects at the time. It was also a watershed moment for Linux, then only a few yeas old, which was used to run Beowulf. Unfortunately, a cluster like this seems less practical for a homelab than I had hoped. I initially imagined that there would be some kind of abstraction layer allowing any application to run across all computers on the cluster in the same way that it might scale to consume as many threads and cores as are available on a CPU. After some more research I’ve concluded that this is not the case. The only programs that can really take advantage of distributed computing seem to be ones specifically designed for it. Most of these fall broadly into two categories: expensive enterprise software licensed to large companies, and bespoke programs written by academics for their own research. So I’m curious what everyone else thinks about this. Have any of you built or admind a Beowulf cluster? Are there any useful applications that would make it worth building for the average user?
Pi-Hole or something else for network ad blocking?
Pi-Hole or something else for network ad blocking? - Lemmy.World
I’ve been aware of pi-hole for a while now, but never bothered with it because I do most web browsing on a laptop where browser extensions like uBlock origin are good enough. However, with multiple streaming services starting to insert adds into my paid subscriptions, I’m looking to upgrade to a network blocker that will also cover the apps on my smart TV. I run most of my self hosted services on a proxmox server, so I’d like something that’ll run as an LXC container or a VM. I’m also vaguely aware that various competing applications have come out since pi-hole first gained popularity. Is pi-hole still the best thing going, or are there better options?
These cheap scissors are held together with a screw (instead of a rivet), which means they can be tightened when they get loose and sharpened when they get dull.
These cheap scissors are held together with a screw (instead of a rivet), which means they can be tightened when they get loose and sharpened when they get dull. - Lemmy.World
I’m aware that the plastic handles probably disqualify these from being true “buy it for life”, but the exciting thing for me is that they are relatively cheap and can be found on the shelf in most stores with an office supply section. It’s an unfortunate reality that the vast majority of BIFL items are special order and cost several times more than their mainstream equivalent, so I wanted to shout out Scotch brand for maintaining such good serviceability on an item you can literally pick up at Walmart. I just pulled apart a pair of these which was cutting horribly, gave each blade a couple passes on an oil stone, then reassembled and tightened them up with a drop of oil in the joint. They cut as well as the day they were bought, and the handles are still in good shape so I could see doing this several more times before I even have to consider replacing them.
Give Your Yard Back To Nature
Give Your Yard Back To Nature - Lemmy.world
>A garden that’s planted purely by aesthetic decisions is like a car with no engine. It may look beautiful, the stereo works great, but you’re going to have to push it up the hill. This is a really informative article by Popular Mechanics describing how to effectively landscape with native plants, along with the long term benefits you will see as a result.