pezhore
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- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 2 days ago:
Why not Sly? I mean, the closed captioning budget would have to be huge to let people know what he’s saying, but it could be funny.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 4 days ago:
The official meshtastic app has a map view that shows all known nodes.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 4 days ago:
Yep, that can be normal. For my city, the local group has a private (but free to join) channel that’s a bit more active.
Do a web search for meshtastic and your city and see if one pops up.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 4 days ago:
It is cool! The barrier to entry is relatively low. The only thing to really worry about is:
- What band/frequency is appropriate for you country.
- Are there others around to which you can connect?
If there’s not a lot of people around it’s not the end of the world. Nodes can connect over the Internet via MQTT servers. Yes, this defeats the purpose of having an offline/decentralized communication platform, but it is a good stop gap until more nodes are put up.
Here’s a sample of what I can see in a somewhat large-ish Midwest City in the US (there’s about 63 nodes I can reach by hopping through relays).
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 6 days ago:
There was a site I found in highschool around 1998 - the paradigm of pessimism.
Full of dark humor and anti-jokes, in glorious web 1.0 - that site had a huge impact on my humor. I’ve never been able to find it again. Just a random site someone hosted somewhere on the Internet - no scams, no paywalls, just a bunch of weird humor.
- Comment on Maybe just do the hard work yourself 1 week ago:
I think in the original thread he mentions that he had it write an apology letter.
- Comment on Chinese satellites appear to dock in orbit for historic refuelling mission 2 weeks ago:
Good luck completing that by 2026 when we’re constantly fucking over NASA.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt rolls out free security certs for IP addresses 4 weeks ago:
Don’t even need your own Certificate Authority - get a public domain and do a wildcard sub-domain from let’s encrypt.
- Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 4 weeks ago:
Someone posted a screenshot from 4chan where they were talking about how to fake submissions… 😠
- Comment on Is this soldered controller repairable by an amateur? 4 weeks ago:
Am I also seeing heat shrink tubing that hasn’t been heat shrunk?
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 5 weeks ago:
I wish Expedition 33 was more than 10% off. I get why, but still.
My wishlist has some sub $5USD games so I’ll probably drop 20 or so. I really don’t need the extras though. According to SteamDB, I’ve only played about 41% of my 714 games - and that doesn’t include all the GOG and free Epic/Amazon games I’ve snagged over the years.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 5 weeks ago:
Cast to Chill is a pretty great fishing game for the steam deck. I’ve been enjoying it since the NextFest demo.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 5 weeks ago:
Is there something on your wishlist that’s on discount?
- Comment on The Career Calamity: Monster. com and CareerBuilder, Two of the most prominent legacy job application sites file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Together. Maybe they lost their edge. 5 weeks ago:
Shit, indeed actually got me a job once, and I’m starting to look again after 8 years.
- Comment on If you are looking for fun co-op game checkout Peak 5 weeks ago:
Noclip Crew did a quick look for this: youtu.be/jeiKOdka6DA
It looks good!
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been meaning to add his patreon. I have too many as it is and need to call a bit, but I just feel guilty about it.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 5 weeks ago:
It’s not like you can learn from it (even if the topic is something you’ll never use like a 2 hour dissertation on heat pumps or a multi-video series on how an old pinball machine uses only relays to calculate scores).
Why yes, I am subscribed to Technology Connections, how could you tell?
- Comment on Selfhost Media server and NAS 1 month ago:
I would get multiple drives and do RAID. Here’s a helpful calculator to figure out drive quantity, size, and configuration. The reason to do RAID is redundancy. Hard drives will fail (even NAS branded drives). You do not want your photos, media, etc to be lost in that case. I personally do not go with anything below RAID5 (and for super sensitive things, I’ll even go RAID6 - despite the hit on overall capacity. If the optiplex has drive capacity for multiple drives, I strongly recommend you go this route.
- Comment on Can't get DNS to work on web server 1 month ago:
An easy way to check is to visit a site like this and check for port 443: www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/. You don’t need to be on the server that’s hosting your portfolio, just any thing that’s on the same network as your portfolio (something behind your external router)
- Comment on Can't get DNS to work on web server 1 month ago:
What does your nginx config look like for ssl? It should specify a certificate and key file - that certificate subject needs to match your fully qualified domain name (fqdn). Certificate can have subject alternative names (SAN) for other names and even IP addresses.
For instance, you could have a single certificate for foo.bar with a SAN for just foo and an IP SAN for 192.168.1.30.
Certificates also need to be signed by a certificate authority (CA), and in order for your browser to visit
https://foo.bar/without a warning your browser must trust that CA.If you did a self signed cert, this is most likely the problem you’re running into.
It’s important to know that your communication is still encrypted because of SSL, but since your browser doesn’t trust the CA (or the subject doesn’t match the FQDN) the browser will say it’s not secure.
- Comment on The gospel according to... 1 month ago:
I’ve been trying to find some good blogs that offer some fact driven counters to the insanity. So far I just have Where’s Your Ed At, I would love to add other ones to my list.
- Comment on 3D Printing A Modular Guitar Means It Can Look Like Whatever You Want 1 month ago:
Heck, African American! That’s all you had to say!
Hooooboy. Their comment gets worse the further you read.
- Comment on They're low key addictive tbh 1 month ago:
Nope. It looks like it may be my instance - infosec.pub 😟
- Comment on They're low key addictive tbh 1 month ago:
Man, Voyager has been having issues with images lately. This didn’t load with a message:
{"code":"validate-width","msg":"Too wide"} - Comment on Console war, console war never changes 1 month ago:
If you haven’t yet, check out the latest steamos update - they finally added battery charge limits it won’t help a dying battery get better, but it may stave off the demise.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
They’re also no picnic for people who want kids but can’t have them despite years of trying.
- Comment on How can I properly learn deaf sign languages? 1 month ago:
Well, looks like the National Institute for the Deaf (NTID) had at one point partnered with Georgia Tech on an app, PopSign, but that download link doesn’t work anymore.
Similarly, NTID had a free class, but it got cancelled.
I’m a little surprised there isn’t more from the first (and largest) national technical dead institute…
- Comment on Console war, console war never changes 1 month ago:
I love my steam deck. It’s the reason why I finally ditched Windows for Linux on my gaming PC.
This past week I got into emulation on it and have been shocked at how well it has been performing.
- Comment on how to set up a remote managed node for mom 2 months ago:
We were visiting for about a week and I think it took three separate days, about 20 minutes each day before she felt comfortable doing the VPN stuff herself.
It was definitely painful, but if you’re patient, it’s doable.
Good luck with whichever option you choose!
- Comment on how to set up a remote managed node for mom 2 months ago:
Speaking as someone who has recently taken on a far-remote (e.g. about 22 hour drive away) support for a MIL, the best thing you could do is set up a VPN.
- It works both ways (typically) so you can easily remote in to their system when they’re on the VPN for updates/troubleshooting
- it minimizes the hardware “on-site” at their location
- Depending on your VPN client, it can have an easy to use GUI, further lowering the barrier if your remote person is tech-inept
For me, I’m still on Plex with a very old lifetime account with my MIL using a dedicated user account - that access is over the Internet. The VPN is to provide access to Overseerr so that she can do things like request specific movies/TV shows without having to email/call.
It’s not perfect - one day I woke up to 26 seasons of “Into the Country”, but it works fairly well.
I sat down with her one day while visiting about a year or so ago and walked her through connecting to the VPN, then getting to the hosted site, then disconnecting from the VPN - basically running drills and making her take notes until she felt she could do it by herself.
