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- Comment on Teef stonks 📈 1 day ago:
This is a screenshot from the Morning Brew newsletter. They’re honestly pretty great, love these stock hot takes.
- Comment on Bombs Awat 2 days ago:
Also, gotta think about whether 5% mortality rate is acceptable.
For an airdrop number of pond fish? Sure!
For your hobbyist number of expensive fish? Absolutely not
- Comment on But yes. 6 days ago:
I know that… I was taking liberties to take hydroelectric power to its furthest logical extension by saying that the sun is evaporating (boiling) the water, it goes through the water cycle, it is deposited atop mountains or further upriver, and it then flows back down through the hydroelectric stations.
- Comment on But yes. 6 days ago:
One could even argue that hydro power is just boiling water, letting it condense, and then letting it spin a turbine
- Comment on WILD 2 weeks ago:
I don’t believe any single part of this, it just can’t be true
- Comment on Anyone self-hosting ActualBudget? (with connection to bank) 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t help our friends in the EU, but I’m hopeful that the CFPB’s “Open Banking” rules might actually make it possible to do this with an open source product with OAuth and common APIs rather than these aggregators that are just web scraping your bank.
- Comment on What would tools/services would you recommend for hosting without self hosting? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard others recommend Low End Box before but I have no experience, so do some due diligence before selecting any of these!
- Comment on Where to start as a beginner 3 weeks ago:
I started with the 2020 tutorial from these guys. They’ve updated it a few times through the years so I can’t speak to how good the new version is, but I’m sure it’s probably plenty to get started.
smarthomebeginner.com/traefik-v3-docker-compose-g…
After I followed this guide, I’ve deviated significantly as I learned and started to do my own thing. It’s a great place to start and learn the basics of containerized applications and once you have that then you can host most things that are dockerized. All I need to do now to start up a new service is pull up the README on Docker Hub (or better yet, if LinuxServer.io has a container that does what I want to do, on their website), figure out what I want to do with the variables and any setup that needs to happen, and then I add it to my .yml and start it up!
I’ve got it all tracked now on GitHub so I can see what I’ve changed and when and if something were to go wrong I could revert back to a known-good configuration.
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 4 weeks ago:
I think the reason why regular store bought gizmos won’t let you decrypt it is because content can require HDCP to make sure you don’t gain access to the data. If there were a device at Best Buy that just bypassed this, I think the DMCA and rights holders would come down hard on the seller.
I’ve heard of gizmos from shadier places may be able to decrypt the data but it’s likely because they’re acting outside of the law.
- Comment on that's a huge sprout 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
In general, use numerals to express numbers 10 and above, and use words to express numbers zero through nine.
Example given:
students were in the third, sixth, eighth, 10th, and 12th grades
Your example does not follow the style guide and is an example of when to use digits
Percentages 50% 75%–80%
If you’re a professional writer, you should be following the style guide and this is explicitly spelled out by the APA.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps 1 month ago:
Direct from the Cloudflare Blog
I find their write ups to be fascinating.
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 1 month ago:
Edit: seems I was wrong about the escape mechanism for helium, it seems the primary mechanism is polar wind escape.
Also, hydrogen can also apparently escape from the Earth.
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 1 month ago:
At the height of the French Revolution, he was charged with tax fraud and selling adulterated tobacco, and was guillotined despite appeals to spare his life in recognition of his contributions to science. A year and a half later, he was exonerated by the French government.
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 1 month ago:
I mean too much Helium isn’t a problem. It’s one of the few (only?) elements that will just disappear if you don’t do anything with it.
It’s light enough that it rises to the very tip top of the earth’s atmosphere and is then stripped away by solar radiation. That’s why is a depleting natural resource, not because it’s burned or used or anything, but because it just escapes.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
unless you’re sending megabytes of text or something
That’s exactly what someone malicious would do though, either in a single password submission or DOS via the password maximum repeatedly. IMO there is no functional security difference between a 64 and a 256 character password, so the NIST 64 character max is reasonable.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
You can also just run it when you need it rather than having to add an extension. Just add a bookmarklet with the code here and just click it when you encounter a problematic website.
It’ll reduce your attack surface while still getting the job done.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
What is the first name of your first best friend?
eoY&Z9m4LNRDY!Gzdd%q98LYiBi8Nq
Oh old eoY&Z9m4LNRDY!Gzdd%q98LYiBi8Nq and I go way back! I met eoY&Z9m4LNRDY!Gzdd%q98LYiBi8Nq in Pre-K and we’ve been inseparable ever since.
It is quite annoying if they’re a service that makes you read aloud your security questions to phone reps to prove your identity. One of my retirement accounts requires that and I have to sigh and read out the full string. I’ve changed it since to an all lowercase, 20 digit string as a compromise.
- Comment on There exists a position inside the earth where it is possible to cook a perfect pizza just by leaving it there 1 month ago:
Luckily, we can mathematically prove this with the Intermediate Value Theorem!
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
Definitely RuneScape that did it for me
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
Tbf my work Dell Latitude 5440 has a USB A with a SS5, an A with a SS5 and charging indicator, a C with a thunderbolt indicator, and a C with a battery and a thunderbolt indicator.
So at least some of their laptops do in fact have the indicators similar-ish enough to what the infographic shows.
- Comment on Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user? 2 months ago:
Here’s the stats for mastodon.world and Lemmy.world
(And a few other fediverse sites)
- Comment on Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing 2 months ago:
I mean my AirPods are fantastic. I think they’re great at playing my podcasts and I’ve not had any problems with random disconnects. Granted I’ve only ever used them with my phone but still.
- Comment on Any non-tech-background self-hosters? 2 months ago:
De-Googling was what got me started as well. Wanted to be able to have my own Google Drive clone with Nextcloud. From there it was just one little improvement / additional service at a time as I learned to use Linux and docker. Now I run a Linux laptop and am considering an android phone.
Engineering background for reference.
- Comment on Happy Weekend boiz 2 months ago:
H20 H2O
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- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
I’d recommend looking into Bazzite. Built on top of Fedora for rock solid stability and relatively up to date kernel (with all the latest drivers).
They’re shooting for the same stability and high level gaming experience as Steam Deck, but for any computer.
I use Bluefin because I’m less bothered by gaming, but it’s been absolutely fantastic with the stability and ability to run anything I’ve tried.
- Comment on Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton 2 months ago:
This is definitely great news and refreshing to see from a company, but this came out two months ago.
Published on June 17, 2024
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
Except, prior to this announcement, there was apparently another statement from Anova that you can’t control the first gen ones.
the announcement follows an Anova statement saying it will no longer let users remotely control their kitchen gadgets via Bluetooth starting on September 28, 2025.
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 3 months ago:
I use Voyager and it’s fantastic.
- Comment on ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network 3 months ago:
It was just always so annoying having to go into the iPhone keyboard punctuation twice for each domain