PeriodicallyPedantic

@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thermostats compatible with selfhosted Home Assistant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that leaves me with mixed feelings.

  Thread itself doesn’t need Internet connectivity, but thread seems to almost always be paired with matter, which does (during provisioning).

  I like that matter provisioning requires verification of their certificate, but I don’t like that certificates can expire or the certificate authority can shut down. Although maybe that’s all taken care of by the DCL? In which case that’d be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netbird is king.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems similar in purpose to pangolin, how do they differ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rate limiting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you explain a bit more about the setup?

  Like would just using a VPS with pangolin secure tunnel work? Or does it have to be a vpn for some other reason?

  Asking because maybe the question really boils down to the VPS provider with the best data transfer rates

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thermostats compatible with selfhosted Home Assistant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re just starting to build out, what about using thread instead of zigbee or zwave?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using VPS for remote access of my server - some questions⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re getting a VPS I’d generally recommend getting pangolin. It’s basically like cloudflared tunnels, but self hosted (on the vps). It works the same, you use it to map your subdomains to IPs on the other end of the secure tunnel.

  It has things like user access controls for each of the subdomains, the ability connect it to an identity provider, rules governing which paths need authentication and which don’t, etc.

  It can optionally come preconfigured with crowedsec, but I had problems with it falsely classifying my normal traffic as an attack and banning my IPs.

  Just be aware that even if your service has a login page, you first need to log into pangolin to be granted access to the service, and although that’s fine on the web (especially if you’re using an sso), some native apps don’t like the extra login. Homeassistant handles it better now, but I haven’t gotten jellyfin native android app working yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using VPS for remote access of my server - some questions⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree except crowedsec. The apps I use were frequently phoning home, causing all my devices to get banned by crowedsec. Setting up rules around it was just too painful so I got rid of it.
  Gonna look into if I can set up fail2ban with it instead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Either the aliens have listed Earth as a no-contact planet or we are probably alone in the universe.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  An addendum to 4:
  We could be one of the first, so life is unusually sparse during this period of time.

  The universe is old, but it takes a lot to build up the components needed for life as we know it. The first two generations of stars wouldn’t have created the exotic materials in quantitie we needed to seed a world with the requirements for life.
  And life couldn’t have realistically happened much faster in a 3rd generation system than it did in our system.
  There are some very old 3rd Gen stars, but it’s less common and iirc they’re not close to us.

  Tldr
  This is early phases, life is going to get more common over the next few billion years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The size of Portugal compared to Spain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, I’ve always wondered how their sizes compare, this is a great visual representation. So clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nevermind the drink I'm holding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you 10?

  You’re clearly not supposed to answer OP’s question honestly. No context is needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nevermind the drink I'm holding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linoceros

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh get over yourself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Short form is cool because it’s like constrained writing.

  Tiktok was pretty great while it was just silly videos.\ But it’s not short form anymore so it’s full of political essays and propaganda.

  I kinda hope that loops is more like vine than tiktok or vertical YouTube. But it’ll probably be up to the instance to govern video length.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Small little shenanigans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s my name, but I have to congratulate you on the excellent pedantry!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Small little shenanigans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that just because they use non-magnetic metals for implants?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Knight of Seven Kingdoms goes so hard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone knows more limbs means more capable, and above them all is zero limbs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes ya think⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like this.

  Plz delete

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it for downloading illegal content? i can’t tell

  I assume some of it is related to torrenting, but I can’t tell which ones and how much. They can’t all be for torrenting, right???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can you host with limited bandwidth but lots of storage?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Store a lot of things you never access

  Hope that helps 😌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Knight of Seven Kingdoms goes so hard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a lot of dragons. You sure they’re not wyverns?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you pay attention to panhandlers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I need to do more to help the poor people around me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes ya think⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Toad isn’t a mushroom, it’s an example of convergent evolution 😌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rage for the machine?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Step aside butthole surfers, here come the butthole sniffers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate how so many of the arr apps don’t describe what they do in a way that people who don’t already know can understand.

  Even the tutorials and guides are frustratingly vague.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But the Canadien stock market is over 33,000!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m skeptical of this - where do you get those figures from?

  Objective counter-evidence: Why are they not selling out big stadiums if spectating is that popular?

  Anecdotal counter-evidence: I hear people talk about hockey matches, I rarely hear people talk about curling matches.

  They’re both good sports and I like both, I’d like to try curling sometime.
  But surface level evidence suggests you’re incorrect, so you need to provide more convincing evidence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ikr, this at least makes the pole get hot because current is actually running through part of it.
  But at no point is a human part of the path of least resistance for the electricity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ICE agents already in Canada.

  It’s not out of the realm of possibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. But the chance that your booby trap is discovered by the law without it blowing up is way higher than it serving it’s purpose as an uno reverse against ICE.

  So rather than going to prison for no reason, I say take the fight to them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like you got my point and you’re just kidding around, but just in case:

  It’s not subtle, it’s probably going to be discovered and you arrested before it has an opportunity to serve it’s purpose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but you don’t wanna do the illegal thing AT YOUR HOUSE.

  Set it up in a bush near the police station or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If he doesn’t explode, why have you and everyone else died?