ninekeysdown
@ninekeysdown@lemmy.world
Just a dad with a sysadmin hobby … leaving reddit
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 3 weeks ago:
Headphones as a reasonable accommodation for a disability eg ADHD/Autism/etc might be a good option if it applies to you
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
I’m never gonna give up on quite space… well played btw
- Comment on VW Buzz 2 months ago:
I LOVED it until I saw the price 😢
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
The US Government is entirely metric. It’s just the US Citizens that aren’t. So there’s this entire separation where no one uses metric, so nothing is made for metric, since nothing is made for metric, no one uses metric.
Obviously that’s changing over time plenty of people use a mixture of both systems all the time. The machines are mostly driving adoption at this point. 3D printers, cars, etc.
- Comment on Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy" 3 months ago:
This is why every JR Engineer I’ve mentored is handed a copy of Sysadmin Code Ethics day one along with a copy of Practice of System and Network Administration.
We really need a more formal process for having the title of engineer and we really need a guild. LOPSA/USENIX and CWA are from what I can tell the closest to having anything. Because eventually some congress person is going to get visited by the good idea fairy and try to come down on our profession. So it’s up to us to get our house in order before they do.
- Comment on CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed 3 months ago:
I don’t know about that. In the HPC space we use a lot of EL distros. Mainly Centos & now Rocky. Most of the nodes run the os in ram too. Though almost all those kind of systems have no internet connection and don’t use things like crowdstrike. I’ve worked for a few places where the only part of the company that used windows was the office staff eg accounting, he, etc. everything else is/was using an EL distro or upstream of one eg Fedora. Those type of places usually don’t mess things like crowdstrike for a lot of different reasons eg the kind of data they’re processing and security requirements on that data.
- Comment on Is a cloud backup an acceptable backup for a home server? 4 months ago:
I use backblaze b2 for my storage. I use restic to backup everything to it. It works well and I’ve had it going for YEARS at this point. For things I could never replaced, like photos, I use external drives in addition to B2. Everyone knows that if something happens and we need to leave to just grab the drive that is stuck to the wall and the family photos will be safe.
My though process goes like this, everything backups to my home server. I have snap shots of the data on a normal basis. So if I need to get something back, going to a snap shot is pretty simple. If for some reason my server(s) just stopped existing for some reason I could pull it back from B2. I’ve only had to actually restore from B2 a handful of times and it was worth it.
- Comment on Self hosted employee time clock? 4 months ago:
Yeah, it was always too much for me. But I know quite a few people who run their entire business on it and they’re not small by any means. They hired some people to do custom work for modules too. They all started as small businesses too with Odoo and it just grew with them
- Comment on Self hosted employee time clock? 4 months ago:
Odoo
- Comment on Linux distro for selfhosting server 8 months ago:
Fedora Server, Rocky Linux, and/or Free RHEL dev license. That’s what I use for all of my stuff.
For containers I use podman kube. For storage I use ZFS and VDO.
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 8 months ago:
I got it and it made me laugh
- Comment on Which OS do you use for your homeserver? 9 months ago:
Rocky & RHEL
- Comment on Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program | Ars Technica 10 months ago:
Fucking poor people!! Have they tried NOT being poor!? Bunch of lazy entitled poors!! /s
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 11 months ago:
As am I! Just completely shocked!! And OUTRAGED!! /s
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 11 months ago:
Samsung, Ubisoft, Epic, Chiquita, Dole, Apple, …
Pretty much any big corp is gonna be really shitty…
- Comment on Jailbroken AI Chatbots Can Jailbreak Other Chatbots 11 months ago:
By earned I mean it takes some efforts to gain that knowledge. For example some kind of training, studying, practice, etc.
- Comment on Jailbroken AI Chatbots Can Jailbreak Other Chatbots 11 months ago:
Info hazards are going to be more common place with this kind of technology. At the core of the problem is the ease of access of dangerous information. For example a lot of chat bots will confidently get things wrong. Combine that easy directions to make something like napalm or meth then we get dangerous things that could be incorrectly made. (Granted napalm or meth isn’t that hard to make)
As to what makes it dangerous information, it’s unearned. A chemistry student can make drugs, bombs, etc. but they learn/earn that information (and ideally the discipline) to use it. Kind of like in the US we are having more and more mass shootings due to ease of access of firearms. Restrictions on information or firearms aren’t going to solve the problems that cause them but it does make it (a little) harder.
At least that’s my understanding of it.
- Comment on A bride to be discovers a reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography 11 months ago:
Gonna provide more information or is this just a trust me bro situation?
- Comment on XMPP Server? 11 months ago:
I’m wasn’t implying that you shouldn’t host it yourself at all. Just maybe use a VPS for hosting it yourself.
Getting buy in on the family & friends aspect is being able to match or exceed the popular free services. If there’s a perception that it’s not reliable then it’s highly unlikely they’ll keep using it. So the last thing you want is to have something happen to your internet connection, NAS, etc. At the end of the day it’s the pesky perception equals reality thing that dooms things like this and tanks the spouse approval factor.
- Comment on XMPP Server? 11 months ago:
Self hosting XMPP works well for most internal things. IMHO communication software that you’re relying on shouldn’t be hosted at home.
Both of those that you mentioned are great. I’ve used ejabberd in addition to that. I think prosody is better. Here’s a link to a list of more servers.
Another option since XMPP can do E2EE is use conversations.im it is my go to for XMPP hosting.
- Comment on A bride to be discovers a reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography 11 months ago:
Correct, I was referring to RAW shot on mobile not a proper DLSR. I guess I should have been more clear about that. Sorry!
- Comment on A bride to be discovers a reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography 11 months ago:
So what was I wrong about? I’m always happy to learn from my mistakes! 😊
Do you have some whitepapers I can reference too?
- Comment on A bride to be discovers a reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography 11 months ago:
Correct, I was referring to RAW shot on mobile devices not a proper DSLR. That was my observations based off of using the iPhone raw and android raw formats.
This isn’t my area of expertise so if I’m wrong about that aspect too let me know! 😃
- Comment on A bride to be discovers a reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography 11 months ago:
That’s over simplified. There’s only so much you can get on a sensor at the sizes in mobile devices. To compensate there’s A LOT of processing that goes on. Even higher end DSLR cameras are doing post processing.
Even shooting RAW like you’re suggesting involves some amount of post processing for things like lens corrections.
It’s all that post processing that allows us to have things like HDR images for example. It also allows us to compensate for various lighting and motion changes.
Mobile phone cameras are more about the software than the hardware these days
- Comment on I thought the other guy was opening his towel to flash the man on fire. 11 months ago:
enthusiastic double gonorrhea… mongo is appalled
- Comment on Judge rules it's fine for car makers to intercept your text messages 11 months ago:
Agreed. The letter of the law vs the spirt of the law. So legal but not right
People shouldn’t have to not use or rip out their infotainment systems to have privacy. The automakers know that people are just going to take the path of least resistance and know that people aren’t going to read the fine print
- Comment on Lookin for self hosted invoice system 11 months ago:
TBH, if something like invoice ninja isn’t working for you, even the paid hosted version, then maybe just use PayPal?
- Comment on Lookin for self hosted invoice system 11 months ago:
Some things are, but the core functionality is easily extended through modules and you can find a lot of sites with them. Some of the best modules are going to cost you some money but it’s worth it.
That being said Odoo is overkill if you just need to send an invoice. Odoo is perfect for running a business though. It can and will do EVERYTHING and then some.
I know people who run their entire businesses on it. Website, HR, inventory, time clocks, billing, etc etc. it scales really well too. Largest business I know using it has 100s of employees. They even have a paid developer on staff that writes and maintains custom modules for them. Smallest business I know of using it has 5 employees, including the owners.
It’s seriously impressive software!
- Comment on Passive Salt Water Cooling Boosts CPU Performance by Almost 33% 11 months ago:
That’s pretty neat! I’m not a chemistry expert by any stretch of the imagination, so I’m curious how those salts work. The article does an okay job at explaining it but I’d like more information because it’s super interesting!
- Comment on NFS or iSCSI? 1 year ago:
Are we just gonna not talk about OP using 10/8? 😂