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- Comment on What is the best take your blood pressure to get the most accurate results? 7 hours ago:
At the dr’s office the idea is generally sit down and relax for a few moments, if you have gotten exerted by walking up stairs or whatever. Otherwise there’s not much special. The main difference is they usually have a nurse take your blood pressure with a manual squeeze bulb device, using a stethoscope to listen to your pulse underneath the cuff. This is more accurate than using an automatic pushbutton monitor like most people use at home. The pushbutton monitors work somewhat differently and inherently lose accuracy from that.
I don’t know if it’s possible to take your own blood pressure with the manual gizmo. You might need another person to do it, and they have to know how. It’s not rocket science but it’s more complicated than pressing a button. There are online instructions and youtube vids showing how to do it, I’m sure.
It might be possible to build a fancier machine that does the manual-style measurement automatically, but it would be more expensive than the typical kind.
- Comment on You'll Probably Be Protected: Explaining Differential Privacy Guarantees 9 hours ago:
Mozilla propaganda. It’s not just about individually identifiable data. Privacy means not giving the bad guys ANY data, whether or not it points at any individual.
- Comment on is this something only introverts struggle with? 2 days ago:
Schedule a meeting in a conference room with the one you want to talk to. Just you and the other person.
- Comment on Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs 2 days ago:
How much do you expect to pay for the 24 NVMe disks?
- Comment on Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall? 2 days ago:
It’s possible for a while but there is a whack-a-mole game if you’re doing anything they would care about. So you will have to keep moving it around. VPS forums will have some info.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You will need a fast ship to evade the border patrols. May I suggest the Falcon here. She did the Kessel run in just twelve parsecs.
- Comment on How can I create a Lemmy instance without coding or the use of Ethernet/router wiring? 4 days ago:
Cheap VPS. Look on lowendspirit.com for products and culture about them.
- Comment on Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances 6 days ago:
This is about “Chris Krebs, the former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and a longtime Trump target”.
- Comment on Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues 6 days ago:
The upfront cost of tape is excessive though. It wasn’t always like that. And LTO-9 missed its capacity target: it’s 18TB (1.5x LTO-8) instead of 24TB as planned. Who knows what will happen later in the roadmap.
- Comment on How to self-host a distributed git server cluster? 6 days ago:
Are you familiar with git hooks? See
git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
Scroll to the part about server side hooks. The idea is to automatically propagate updates when you receive them. So git-level replication instead of rsync.
- Comment on How to self-host a distributed git server cluster? 6 days ago:
I see, fair enough. Replication is never instantaneous, so do you have definite bounds on how much latency you’ll accept? Do you really want independent git servers online? Most HA systems have a primary and a failover, so users only see one server. If you want to use Ceph, in practice all servers would be in the same DC. Is that okm
I think I’d look in one of the many git books out there to see what they say about replication schemes. This sounds like something that must have been done before.
- Comment on How to self-host a distributed git server cluster? 6 days ago:
Why do you want 5 git servers instead of, say, 2? Are you after something more than high availability? Are you trying to run something like GitHub where some repos might have stupendous concurrent read traffic? What about update traffic?
What happens if the servers sometimes get out of sync for 0.5 sec or whatever, as long as each is in a consistent state at all times?
Anyway my first idea isn’t rsync, but rather, use update hooks to replicate pushes to the other servers, so the updates will still look atomic to clients.
What real world workload do you have, that appeared suddenly enough that your devs couldn’t stay in top of it, and you find yourself seeking advice from us relatively clueless dweebs on Lemmy? It’s not a problem most git users deal with. Git is pretty fast and most users are ok with a single server and a backup.
- Comment on How to self-host a distributed git server cluster? 6 days ago:
I wonder if you could use HAProxy for that. It’s usually used with web servers. This is a pretty surprising request though, since git is pretty fast. Do you have an actual real world workload that needs such a setup? Otherwise why not just have a normal setup with one server being mirrored, and a failover IP as lots of VPS hosts can supply?
- Comment on How to self-host a distributed git server cluster? 6 days ago:
What does this even mean? You want to replicate between git repositories? Can you do that with push hooks?
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
I still have a made in Finland Nokia N9 that cost $200 around 15 years ago. Too bad it became unusable in the US with the shutdown of the 3G network wherever that was.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
500 Euro for what amounts to a midrange phone still seems like consumerism to me. Better to get an older phone and hold onto it. My Moto G4 lasted 7 years before obsolescence and physical wear caught up with it. I wonder how many current Fairphones will still be in use in 2034.
- Comment on What would the USA look like if it had Referrendums/Initiatives on both the Federal and State level? 1 week ago:
Gamed by special interests just like they already are in the states that have them.
- Comment on An alternative to Contabo (VPS provider) 1 week ago:
Added: also look at kimsufi.com as an alternative to Hetzner.
- Comment on An alternative to Contabo (VPS provider) 1 week ago:
Dedi will perform a lot better and be more consistent and reliable. They’re not THAT expensive if you’re making nontrivial use of them. Otherwise maybe you can keep moving around between Contabo products. Keep in mind too that hdd performance will seem a lot better when you’re not sharing it with dozens of other users. I have an HDD server and it’s fine for browsing. Might not be great for large seek-intensive databases but I’m not currently doing that
Anyway you can also ask on lowendspirit.com which is a forum about budget vps.
- Comment on An alternative to Contabo (VPS provider) 1 week ago:
Get a Hetzner dedicated server. Don’t mess with vps once it gets that large. Look on hetzner.com/sb for auction servers that might be better deals than regular ones. And does your 800gb of storage really have to be all SSD? Hard disks still exist and cost lots less.
- Comment on Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread? 1 week ago:
If the bread is just stale you can restore it by wetting it and heating an oven or microwave.
- Comment on Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? 1 week ago:
AI has become an abbreviation for “bad” and I wouldn’t want that, but yes, I’ve been interested for a while in building language models into search engines, to give the queries more reach into the document semantics. Unfortunately, naive approaches like looking for matching vector embeddings instead of (or alongside) search terms seems near useless, and just clutters up the results.
I’d be interested in knowing what approaches you’re using. FOSS, I hope.
- Comment on How long before I can sleep on my memory foam mattress? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah thinking back, when we got one here we didn’t literally take it outside, we left it in a room with the door closed and the windows open, so the fumes didn’t get into the rest of the house much. It stopped smelling after a few days.
- Comment on How long before I can sleep on my memory foam mattress? 2 weeks ago:
Leave it outside for 3 days to let the plastic smell dissipate. It will be expanded by then too.
- Comment on YSK: If the frontpage constantly looks like the same 5 - 8 posts, try sorting by "Hot". 2 weeks ago:
Sort by new.
- Comment on Good self-hosted webmail client? 2 weeks ago:
I used Squirrelmail briefly. It had a minor security bug whic was fairly easy to fix, but when I reported it to the devs, I couldn’t convince them that it was actually a bug. I decided that they weren’t paranoid enough to be working on that type of software, so I stopped using it.
Currently I’m not self-hosting email but am using mxroute.com which has a FOSS mail client that seems ok. I can’t check right now what it is, but maybe later.
Fastmail’s webmail is pretty good and they said something a while back about releasing it as FOSS but idk if that has happened.
Right now I mostly use Thunderbird rather than webmail. It sucks in many ways but I’ve had too much going on to pursue alternatives.
I think Google got it right early on when they realized that email clients should be backed by a serious search engine. The search features of a typical IMAP server aren’t enough and the one in Thunderbird is crap. So I think this is an area where FOSS clients could use some work, if it hasn’t already been done.
- Comment on Is there a portable swamp cooler with a window hose like air conditioners have? 2 weeks ago:
Swamp coolers increase humidity not decrease it. You put water into them and the vapor goes into the air. AC is the opposite, it condenses water from the air and that’s why the drip tube is there.
- Comment on Lemmy vote aggregation idea 2 weeks ago:
The forums I’ve enjoyed the most didn’t have voting and I’d rather that Lemmy just shut it off. VBB has a “thank” button you can click on posts, but they still show up in chronological order. That’s less gameable and less subject to outrage amplification and similar social media hazards. This isn’t Facebook and we don’t need to reproduce Facebook’s evil.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m not mercantile enough to go around doing stuff like that, but I understand the thought. I don’t NEED another laptop. It was tempting, but I can keep making do with what I have now.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs. 2 weeks ago:
There is still some Lenovos on sale at bestbuy and it’s a little bit tempting to buy one due to FOMO if the prices might suddenly go up. I considered it earlier in the year, but moved my stuff to an old Thinkpad T520 instead and am using that right now. I think I can stay with the T520 for now.