DontNoodles
@DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law 4 days ago:
No, I’m surprised at the irony. Maybe an ‘‽’ would have been better than the ‘?’ I put at the end of my comment.
- Comment on Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law 4 days ago:
Didn’t their prime minister recently use a VPN to congratulate Trump on X, which is blocked from access by the same govt?
- Comment on Mechanical engineering uni project 1 month ago:
I am not sure if this will pique your interest but I find kinetic sand tables really fascinating. Sisyphus came up with it first and there have been a number of open source implementations in due course. One way is to implement it using a scara arm mechanism but they have the problem of load weight in the case of long arms.
I came across this design that rethinks the design using an elegant rack and pinion arm but still needs a belt that may go out of calibration over time. This looks to be improved further using [two, concentric rings] (frew.io/work/sisyphish) but this design is not available to explore/copy.
I have no idea about 3D designing, but I would love to create a table one day: something that will not need constant adjustment. If you get around to taking this up, I would love to see what design improvements you can come up with.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
Yes, i think squid proxy would do the trick too. It even has installers for windows.
- Comment on Bangladesh’s internet blackout immobilizes its booming tech industry. 3 months ago:
At least their computers must have escaped the recent windows BSOD.
- Comment on xkcd #2921: Eclipse Path Maps 7 months ago:
I cannot complain about this. I grew up in a small settlement and while my parents encouraged my scientific temperament, we were too poor to travel anywhere just to see an eclipse. One of the best celestial show comes around and my town is right in the middle of 22km wide line of totality and we got 45 glorious seconds of darkness. Those 45 seconds cemented my love for space.
- Comment on Build an Automated Hydroponic System 8 months ago:
The biggest challenge i faced was getting the pH and nutrient right. The pre measured hydroponics nutrients were only available online to me at a big premium over big bags of similar sounding stuff like NPK, micronutrientes at local stores that sell them for farmers. I read up as best I could, found calculators, weighed and measured doses but I failed and my dear tomato saplings wilted in hours before my eyes.
- Comment on Build an Automated Hydroponic System 8 months ago:
I half assed in trying to build a hydroponic system a few years ago. Looking at this video, i realise how much effort it takes. But it must be so rewarding.
- Comment on What's the deal with Docker? 8 months ago:
Does portainer, and docker in turn, allow taking/accessing something like point in time snapshots of containers like VM software do? They make it easy to tinker with stuff, knowing that if I mess up, I can go back to a snapshot and be good again.
- Comment on Fighting with immich 9 months ago:
I stand with you for the subdomain and bare metal thing. There are many great applications that I’m facing trouble implementing since I don’t have control over A domain settings within my setup. Setting mysite.xyz/something is trivial that I have full control over. Docker thing I can understand to some extent but I wish it was as simple as python venv kind of thing.
I’m sure people will come after me saying this or that is very easy but your post proves that I’m not alone. Maybe someone will come to the rescue of us novices too.
- Comment on DIY book scanner project 10 months ago:
Thanks for this, but as far as I could understand this teaches how to torrent the files independently. I’m struggling with the part: how to get my book listed on Anna’s Archive
- Comment on Backing-up Single Board Computer 10 months ago:
I am still figuring it out since it is my hobby and I’m unable to devote much time to it. But I think it will be something like Ubuntu live disks which enabled you to try Ubuntu by running it from a DVD. You could run anything like web server, save files, settings etc. Only they would not persist after a reboot since every thing was saved in RAM. Only here it’ll be a write locked SD card instead of a DVD.
I’m also sure there must be a name for it and step by step tutorial somewhere. If only Google was not so bad these days…
- Comment on Backing-up Single Board Computer 10 months ago:
It might not be applicable to you but in many cases single board computers are used where there is minimal changes in files in day to day basis. For example when used for displaying stuff. For such cases, it is useful to know that after installing all the required stuff, the SD card can be turned into read only mode. This prolongs its life exponentially. Temporary files can still be generated in the RAM and if needed, you can push them to an external storage/FTP through a cron job or something. I have built a digital display with weather/photos/news where beyond the initial install, everything is pulled from the internet. I’m working towards implementing what I’ve suggested above.
- Comment on DIY book scanner project 10 months ago:
And once scanned, how can I upload it to sites like Anna’s Archive so that it’ll live on forever?
- Comment on How to selfhost a llm? 10 months ago:
I’ve heard good things about H2O AI if you want to self host and tweak the model by uploading documents of your own (so that you get answers based on your dataset). I’m not sure how difficult it is. Maybe someone more knowledgeable will chime in.
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 11 months ago:
I think I’m not aware of the exporting/publishing part and that’s the cause of my woes. I get everything running on the machine with unrestricted access, move to the machine with restricted access go “docker compose up” and get stuck. I’ll read up on exporting/publishing, thank you.
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 11 months ago:
Thank you for these links, they look just right. Most tutorials I come across these days are videos. Maybe they are easier to make. These tutorials that allow you to tinker at your own pace seem better to me. Will you mind if I reach out to you over DM if I get stuck at something while learning and am not able to find the right answer easily?
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 11 months ago:
I’m not much into new year resolutions, but I think I’ll make a conscious effort to learn Docker in the coming months. Any suggestions for good guides for someone coming from VM end will be appreciated.
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 11 months ago:
I hate it very much. I am sure it is due to my limited understanding of it, but I’ve been stuck on some things that were very easy for me using VM.
We have two networks, one of which has very limited internet connectivity, behind proxy. When using VMs, I used to configure everything: code, files, settings on a machine with no restrictions; shut it down; move the VM files to the restricted network; boot and be happily on my way.
I’m unable to make this work with docker. Getting my Ubuntu server fetch its updates behind proxy is easy enough; setting it for python Pip is another level; realising the specific python libraries need special keys to work around proxies is yet another; figuring out how to get it done for Docker and python under it is when I gave up. Why can it not be as simple as the VM!
Maybe I’m not looking using the right terms or maybe I should go and learn docker “properly”, but there is no doubt that using Docker is much more difficult for my use case than using VMs.
- Comment on Microvawe transformer spotwelder. Is there a way to improve it? 1 year ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_pD0W_Fm6g
He burnt himself off a 12v battery. Increase the voltage by the amount you want to live dangerously at the benefit of getting better weld. It also suggests using two MCBs in series in case one of them does not trip for any reason.
- Comment on Microvawe transformer spotwelder. Is there a way to improve it? 1 year ago:
I don’t have any improvements to offer but I want to mention that I saw a crazy video that used a circuit breaker as a spot welding device. The concept is pretty much right and it is as cheap as it can gets, but it is electroboom kind of crazy and the guy even hurt himself on camera while using it.
- Comment on xkcd #2834: Book Podcasts 1 year ago:
‘Limetown’ made one of our 6 hour roadtrip memorable.
- Comment on What do you prefer for a self hosted calendar? 1 year ago:
Sounds good for setting the events up and getting notifications part. A good calender would also let you see the upcoming events in week, month at a glance. Cron entries are non sorted lists. Is there a cron visualizer like they have visualizers for logs?
- Comment on Jitsi meet...what are the advantages of self-hosted in this case? 1 year ago:
I dabbled with it in pre COVID times. Yes, Firefox support for Jitsi was almost not there back then. Same went with mobile support. Getting others to install apps was always a pain. I never tried cooking Jitsi powered ramen though.
- Comment on Jitsi meet...what are the advantages of self-hosted in this case? 1 year ago:
I have hosted Jitsi publicly for my organisation for a bit and all the while I was hosting it, there was not much difference between it and the one hosted by Jitsi. Sometimes the add-ons like etherpad etc are a bit of a hassle to configure. Sometimes these features offered by the online service are an iteration or two ahead since the folks at Jitsi are actively developing it and have access to alpha/beta builds that are a trouble to implement locally.
Since you are already considering the privacy concerns, there is nothing much remaining. Maybe uptime concerns if third parties are going to use your service too and will shout at you if they can’t access your service.
I also dabbled with hosting it through OpenFire which gives you more granular control over scheduling the meetings. Maybe you could explore that too.
Overall it is a fun thing and you feel fully in control.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
1 or 3, but with an interrobang ‽
- Comment on Should I be aware of something when buying a TV? 1 year ago:
You’ll probably also need a speaker to connect to the monitor to make it sound good. Long ago, I set it up on a 23" full HD monitor back when even 32" TVs were not full HD.