derpgon

@derpgon@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  At this moment I am seriously considering if we mayhaps need a tool that automatically queries the AI tools with random garbage just to eat up their budget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  WaterFox

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just get a 256GB SSD and boom, cheap RAM - albeit slow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone not liking Tapo, a good alternative is Reolink. They offer about the same features, but use cameras with higher megapixels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People always ask why even paying users exist - simple, I am a paying user myself, and by that I hold the power to actually cut their revenue rather than just leave the platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right before Facebook, Instagram, Xitter, and probably some other social scourges that I forget about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is always either that the license is not permissive enough, too many changes are required that upstream wouldn’t merge and its would be hard to keep rebased, showing the world that they can be absolutely independent, or not having enough experience and experts for given stack. Maybe I missed some reasons, but that’d be all I think of.

  Either way, if it’s open sourced our company might switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is actually not hard to extend the software. I, for example, set up automatic uploading of cal recordings to a Peertube instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what made me stop using Google Photos and start self hosting Immich. I lost a video from my house construction that showed where the cables were exactly laid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, I never thought about storing build data in an SQLite file. That’s quite clever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people discovering random subdomains on my server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Easily verified by creating another bunch of domains and using a browser that doesn’t do tracking - like waterfox

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been seeing articles like these for the past at least 10 years, it is always “New China brrakthrough, can make drinkable water from enriched uranium” or some shit. It is never scalable, sustainable, or usable, and is never really widely, used or adopted. It is always technology, pharmaceutics, construction, or energy related.

  They like to fake their image to the world and have been trying for very long. The only thing they succeeded at larger scale is oppresion, tracking of people, and selling knockoffs. Of course, mass manufacturing cannot be omitted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Archive it and move on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  True, anyone can do anything, but try doing that while having a family and having to pay bills when living paycheck to paycheck. You gotta know when to join in and when to cheer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using it to code a microservice as PoC for semantic search. As I’ve basically never coded Python (mainly PHP, but can do many langs) I’ve had to rely on AI (Kimi K2, or agentic Claude I think 4.5 or 4, can’t remember) because I don’t know the syntax, features, best practices, and tools to use for formatting, static analysis, and type checks.

  Mind you, I’ve basically never coded in Python besides some shit in uni, which was 5-10 years ago. AI was a big help - albeit it didn’t spit out fully working code, I have enough knowledge in this field to fix the issues. As I learn mainly by practice and not theory, AI is great because - same as many YouTubers and free tutorials - it spits out unoptimized and broken code.

  I am usually not using it for my main line of work (PHP) besides some boiler plate (take this class, make a test, make it look the same as this other test = 300 lines I don’t have to write myself).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like honey much - the taste, that is. But I use it to sweeten tea or curd (with raspberries or banana, for breakfast)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sex drive: 0

  Laundry capacity: 8kg

  Diagnostics: water leak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero Chull⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worst thing is, they don’t make that much more money than some repeatable manual labor, but instead of being useful to the society, they help destroy it.

  Internet was a mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tutorial series for self hosting beginners?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use a similar setup with Traefik instead of Nginx PM, and Headscale instead of Tailscale. It is almost the same kind of setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tutorial series for self hosting beginners?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You basically never want to expose your local network to the internet. The most secure and simple way are either Tailscale or WireGuard combined with a VPS that is exposed to the internet and takes all the beating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do, and always will. Hopefully more studios will split into smaller ones and start making small, simple games for $15 that will sell like hotcakes. Creative talent is simply wasted on this AAA slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh it’s never about that. You can’t milk a game that lives for free. Although they pay for publicity (ads, etc.), getting it for free means less cash flow, means less numbers on quarterly earnings, means less investor money.

  It is always about the number on their bank account, never about you, me, or anyone else. They don’t give a flying fuck, they’d happily let us burn in a house fire if it meant just a teensy bit more dollars.

  Fuck Sony, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, ActiBlizzosoft, and the rest of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to find⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then it is probably not for you. It specializes in “general” trade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to find⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly no termination condition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to find⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kagi gang here. For whoever debating of it is worth the price - go for it. Worst thing that can happen is you lost like $5. Or, for tech savvy people, go for SearXNG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use a knife to thin it. I used to have a box of thin ones, but had to buy larger sturdier round ones, so last time I just sharpened it with a knife and it worked like a charm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Open-source and source-available are used interchangeably. Releasing the source does not mean the license will allow any form of redistribution or recompilation.

  If you decompile the game yourself you can infinitely distribute the game as well. This is not an argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caltech team sets record with 6,100 qubit array⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but you might be colorblind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Super easy with Docker, and also quite portable. Usually is a copy paste and minor changes that irk me, but now I don’t have to explain my family what are torrents, how are torrents, what is a tracker, give them my credentials, and teach them to SSH to the server in order to copy a file let alone show them how to properly name it in order for Jellyfin to correctly recognize it.

  All I have to do is log them in the app once, and tell them "If you want a movie, find it here, and it will probably be available in Jellyfin in and hour or two.