markstos
@markstos@lemmy.world
- Comment on In Indiana, Putting Up Solar Panels Is Doing God’s Work 19 hours ago:
Solar panels are popular with progressive Indiana churches too, who don’t mind saying they help address climate change.
In either case, a reality is that churches are a big buildings with big power needs, and the panels can pay for themselves over their life.
And if the panels get fully or partially funded by donations, that ROI can come much sooner.
- Comment on In Indiana, Putting Up Solar Panels Is Doing God’s Work 19 hours ago:
I helped my Indiana church get 304 solar panels installed. It was the most panels for a church in the state at the time.
They save about $500/month in electricity.
- Comment on MAZANOKE v1.1.0: Self-hosted local image optimizer in your browser — now supports HEIC, clipboard paste, and more 6 days ago:
No, this is all happening in the browser, there are no other image manipulation tools being called.
- Comment on MAZANOKE v1.1.0: Self-hosted local image optimizer in your browser — now supports HEIC, clipboard paste, and more 6 days ago:
I just tested the new release. Consider defaulting PNGs to convert to JPEGs unless they have a PNG-specific feature like transparency. Lots of screenshots are initially PNGs, but not because they need any PNG-specific features. Consider: In a test screenshot, it compressed 3.4% with the default 80% setting and PNG->PNG, but for PNG->JPG, it compressed 84.6%. Image
- Comment on Postiz v1.39.2 - Open-source social media scheduling tool, Introducing MCP. 1 week ago:
MCP sounds like a standardized way for AI clients to connect to data sources, the Model Context Protocol.
www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol
It sounds like it may compete some with Google’s A2A protocol, which is for AI agent to agent communication.
Both share the same goal of making services easier for AI to consume.
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 1 week ago:
Do you have a source to cite for the literal 99%?
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 1 week ago:
The top-rated answer to this question on the Security StackExhange is “not really”. …stackexchange.com/…/does-it-improve-security-to-…
On Serverfault, the top answer is that random SSH ports provide “no serious defense” serverfault.com/…/does-changing-default-port-numb…
Or the answer here, highlight that scanners check a whole range ports and all the pitfalls of changing the port. Concluding: “Often times it is simply easier to just configure your firewall to only allow access to 22 from specific hosts, as opposed to the whole Internet.” …stackexchange.com/…/should-i-change-the-default-…
- Comment on Wind/solar motorcycle [with 50 km solar/wind range] looks like an April Fools' joke ... but it's legit 2 weeks ago:
Coming soon to FortNite?
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 2 weeks ago:
Using a nonstandard port doesn’t get you much, especially popular nonstandard ports like 2222.
I used that port once and just as much junk traffic and ultimately regretted bothering.
- Comment on MAZANOKE update (image optimizer via browser): Batch upload and download 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad to have some competition for the Frost Oven Squoosh, which is being lightly maintained. I opened some issues in the Mazanoke issue tracker for some features to consider.
One feature I started on for that project but got stuck on was implementing a STDIN / STDOUT CLI workflow.
github.com/frostoven/Squoosh-with-CLI/issues/10
As I said there, the goal was a workflow where I take a screenshot, annotate it, optimize it, copy it and paste it into my blog… without creating any intermediate temp files.
At least on Linux, all the the steps of the pipeline are solved, except for a CLI image compressor that could accept an image STDIN and produce a compressed image on STDOUT.
- Comment on MAZANOKE update (image optimizer via browser): Batch upload and download 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like an oversight. Consider filing a bug with them.
- Comment on MAZANOKE update (image optimizer via browser): Batch upload and download 2 weeks ago:
Nice. I use Squoosh for this, which is also free and runs in the browser.
- Comment on On email privacy: can I store my own email and relay them through an email provider? 2 weeks ago:
Https give you encryption in transit. The files you view will be accesible to the host.
Same idea with email.
- Comment on On email privacy: can I store my own email and relay them through an email provider? 2 weeks ago:
Not true that most incoming email will plaintext. It’s the opposite:
“Most of today’s email services, including Gmail, employ transport layer security (TLS) to protect emails in transit”
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 3 weeks ago:
It uses layers, the same way a phone keyboard has a separate layer for numbers and symbols. Holding down one of the three thumb keys on either side activates a new layer. Since you can use your thumb and fingers at the same time, there’s no lose in typing speed. Indeed, the layout puts numbers and symbols closer to the home row on a layer than using a physical number number.
For all symbols, you would have needed a shift-modifier to access those before. With this design, the symbols are closer but use a layer switch key instead of a shift key to access them.
Everyone who uses a phone keyboard has learned a new compact keyboard layout. It’s not so hard.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 1 month ago:
To your list add that new Tesla sales are also competing against an increasing number of Tesla owners who now want to divest themselves of the brand.
More used Teslas on the market will only push down the market rates and thus profits of new Teslas even further.
- Comment on Are there any self hosted news aggregators? 1 month ago:
You could self-host Lemmy and use RSS to Lemmy services to post to your personal communities.
- Comment on Looking for a VPS. I don't know who to choose. 1 month ago:
The opposite of VPS is more like “home lab”.
Managing a VPS yourself still counts as self-hosting.
- Comment on Uline turned to Mexico to staff warehouses, but paid them a fraction of US workers, sources say 2 months ago:
Wow, from the same company that sent me a 500-page catalog unsolicited.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 months ago:
What’s an example of a place with conflicting names in different countries that handled differently?
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 months ago:
There are other big players for maps that are less visible to end users.
Esri is a GIS firm hired by governments at many levels for map tech.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 months ago:
From the article:
“When official names vary between countries, Maps users see their official local name. Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names. That applies here too,” Google said.
Nothing exceptional is happening on Google’s end. They are following their policy on names as they have before.
- Comment on Looking for personal cloud storage alternatives 2 months ago:
The requirements asked for a web UI. You are right though, except for that, other kind of shared folder solutions might work.
- Comment on Ghost blog adding activitypub 2 months ago:
Wordpress has become an all-purpose CMS known security vulnerabilities via unsafe plugins.
Ghost has APIs instead of plugins for nearly everything, so it eliminated a lot of security and maintenance headache that way.
Ghost focuses on just a few features centered around independent content creators: blogging, email newsletters and subscriptions.
So features for sending bulk emails and accepting payments are built in, but you won’t find native support for other things like podcasts or recipe markup.
Ghost meets my need, and I love not dealing with 30 plugins at risk of being exploited if I don’t upgrade them promptly.
- Comment on Self host websites 2 months ago:
Exactly. It’s not just downtime to worry about, either. It’s disks filling up. It’s hardware failure. It’s DNS outages. It’s random DDoS attacks. It’s automated scans of the internet targeting WordPress. It’s OS, php and database upgrades. It’s setting up graphing, monitoring, alerting and being on-call 24/7 to deal with the issues that come up.
If these businesses are at all serious, pay for professional hosting and spend your time running the business.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 3 months ago:
Ironically, when I tried to load Wired’s story about this travesty, Wired quickly hid the content with pop-over asking me to subscribe.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 4 months ago:
Looks like it might have been dark and foggy. The government failed to block the extremely dangerous situation— a standard practice when a bridge is put in other places.
- Comment on Is there any front end YouTube that can allow me to still comment? 5 months ago:
At one time there were browser extensions that allowed you to comment on any web page and allowed other extension users to see your comments.
The comments were hosted through the extension and not on the pages themselves.
Something like that would be possible but I don’t know anyone offering it now. I presume no one wants to moderate that.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 5 months ago:
- Comment on WhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contacts 5 months ago:
Is this deshittification?
