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- Comment on Steam doesn’t want to pay arbitration fees, tells gamers to sue instead 1 month ago:
If it wasn’t better than that, no company would want arbitration cases.
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 1 month ago:
The Android version of the app still has the zoom/cursor offset bug when using a software keyboard from when they sunset RDP 8. That has been a severe usability bug for over three years now.
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 1 month ago:
The Android version of the app still has the zoom/cursor offset bug when using a software keyboard from when they sunset RDP 8. That has been a severe usability bug for over three years now.
- Comment on Haptic: A new local-first, privacy-focused and open-source home for your markdown notes 2 months ago:
It would be extremely barebones, but you can do something like this with Pandoc.
- Comment on ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network 2 months ago:
That I agree with. Microsoft drafted the recommendation to use it for local networks, and Apple ignored it or co-opted it for mDNS.
- Comment on ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network 2 months ago:
Macs aren’t the only thing that use mDNS, either. I have a host monitoring solution that I wrote that uses it.
- Comment on ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s why I started using .lan.
- Comment on ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network 2 months ago:
I was using .local, but it ran into too many conflicts with an mDNS service I host and vice versa. I switched to .lan, but I’m certainly not going to switch to .internal unless another conflict surfaces.
I’ve also developed a host-monitoring solution that uses mDNS, so I’m not about to break my own software. 😅
- Comment on TikTok confirms it offered US government a 'kill switch' 4 months ago:
I would buy this argument if the US had any effective consumer privacy laws in the first place and Byte Dance were flagrantly ignoring them.
The issue of course is that the US doesn’t want to cripple their own social media companies by passing laws that everyone has to follow in the first place.
- Comment on TikTok confirms it offered US government a 'kill switch' 4 months ago:
I agree with this, especially because this hasn’t pushed any discussion forward about federal level consumer privacy laws in the United States.
- Comment on Instagram is updating its algorithm to surface more content from smaller, original creators | TechCrunch 6 months ago:
Or maybe just let me focus on who I choose to follow? I’m not there for content discovery, though I know that’s why most people are.
- Comment on Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama 3 is really good but no chatbot is sophisticated enough to be an 'existential' threat — yet 6 months ago:
I was reflecting on this myself the other day. For all my criticisms of Zuckerberg/Meta (which are very valid), they really didn’t have to release anything concerning LLaMA. They’re practically the only reason we have viable open source weights/models.
- Comment on How to drop files from Android to home server? 8 months ago:
My go-to solution for this is the Android FolderSync app with an SFTP connection.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
I…do not miss XP, but I understand the nostalgia attached to it.
I learned a lot of technical skills on XP, but that’s what made me appreciate the architectural decisions behind UNIX-likes all the more.
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 10 months ago:
Of course!
- Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems 10 months ago:
Valid, but not standard and more inconvenient.
Additionally, you act like query strings can’t be used to track you when they certainly can.
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 10 months ago:
The Docker client communicates over a UNIX socket. If you mount that socket in a container with a Docker client, it can communicate with the host’s Docker instance.
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 10 months ago:
There’s a container web UI called Portainer, but I’ve never used it. It may be what you’re looking for.
I also use a container called Watchtower to automatically update my services. Granted there’s some risk there, but I wrote a script for backup snapshots in case I need to revert, and Docker makes that easy with image tags.
There’s another container called Autoheal that will restart containers with failed healthchecks. (Not every container has a built in healthcheck, but they’re easy to add with a custom Dockerfile or a docker-compose.)
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 10 months ago:
It’s really not! I migrated rapidly from orchestrating services with Vagrant and virtual machines to Docker just because of how much more efficient it is.
Granted, it’s a different tool to learn and takes time, but I feel like the tradeoff was well worth it in my case.
I also further orchestrate my containers using Ansible, but that’s not entirely necessary for everyone.
- Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems 10 months ago:
The issue is that some of those techniques are only useful after the client has rendered the content rather than before.
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 10 months ago:
You can tinker in the image in a variety of ways, but make sure to preserve your state outside the container in some way:
- Extend the image you want to use with a custom Docker file
- Execute an interactive shell session, example
docker exec -it containerName /bin/bash - Replace or expose filesystem resources using host or volume mounts.
Yes, you set a variety of resources constraints, including but not limited to processor and memory utilization.
There’s no reason to “freeze” a container, but if your state is in a host or volume mount, destroy the container, migrate your data, and resume it with a run command or docker-compose file. Different terminology and concept, but same result.
It may be worth it if you want to free up overhead used by virtual machines on your host, store your state more centrally, and/or represent your infrastructure as a docker-compose file or set of docker-compose files.
- Comment on Microsoft Will Charge for Windows 10 Security Updates in 2025 11 months ago:
With his experience (and I agree if this is the case), he’s probably expecting issues with unsupported configurations of Windows 11.
I guarantee that at some point after Windows 10 support drops that Microsoft will start pushing features that require TPM functionality. Maybe it will be minor at first, like you can’t use PIN logins without it. Eventually it might move on to HTTPS requests failing without root certificates protected by a secure element store.
I’ve been a software developer for over a decade, and while I will never say always, usually unsupported configurations like this TPM workaround eventually fails.
- Comment on Meta Joins Google In Turning Its Back On The Open Web, And Embracing Unconstitutional Mandates That Pretend To ‘Protect The Children’ 11 months ago:
What is obscene is subjective.
- Comment on Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business 1 year ago:
Let’s maybe leave the racism at the front door?
- Comment on Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome 1 year ago:
The stupid sidebar on the right is reason enough for me, but I also want an adblocker that’s not crippled.
- Comment on Intel might have slipped that Windows 12 is indeed coming next year | Company CFO sees benefits of a coming "Windows Refresh" 1 year ago:
Plus the indexer was relentless and just smashed HDDs.
I’ll second the issues with the indexer. I disabled it for every disk I had because the additional I/O load for disks was ridiculous. I remember benchmarking game launches with it enabled and disabled to see how much of a difference there would be, and I saw some games take a full minute less to load into a playable state.
I don’t know if I just had more files than the average consumer or what, but they didn’t anticipate the load under certain scenarios.
- Comment on eReaders for Selfhosted book collections 1 year ago:
I’m using a combination of:
- The Boox Palma reader, though they have larger tablets if you prefer. I’m not sure about the others, but the Palma runs Android with the Play Store.
- Kavita to host my ebooks online.
- FolderSync with SFTP to sync all of my books ahead of time to my SD card.
- Moon Reader to add my Kavita server’s OPDS feed as an online catalog if I need to grab something manually.
- Comment on Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail 1 year ago:
By some metrics, Firefox surpasses Chrome now.