IsoKiero

@IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New fuel cell could enable electric aviation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also when sodium hydroxide reacts with acid it releases CO2 and it affects growth of at least some fungus. Also, if a brick sized fuel cell can provide 1kWh and single transatlantic flight consumes at least 20MWh you’d need a pile big enough to build a house which doesn’t sound feasible.

  But I’m not a chemist either, I suppose it boils down to comparing negative effects between this new cell against kerosine. Plus there’s always the case which affects any new kind of storing energy where it’ll be indefinetly ‘ready for market in next 5 years’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ansible sounds interesting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, if you’re using only one or few distributions you can preseed the image and have the installer do the stuff for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually audit open source projects you download?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s something along the lines I do as well, but your methods are far more in depth than mine. I just glance around documentations, how active the development is and get a rough idea if the thing is just a single person hobby-project or something which has a bit more momentum.

  And it of course also depends on if I’m looking for solutions just for myself or is it for others and spesifically if it’s work related. But full audits? No. There’s no way my lifetime would be enough to audit everything I use and even with infinite time I don’t have the skills to do that (which of course wouldn’t be an issue if I had infinite time, but I don’t see that happening).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could save yourself cents per year!

  That’s pretty much it. Maybe even tens of cents. In pre-USB era that actually made sense, Nokia chargers with a barrel jack (and other that era wall-warts) consumed even several watts on idle but (assuming a good quality) modern USB-bricks are way more efficient. They still consume a non-zero amount of power when plugged in but you’re not going to see that on your power bill. You’ll waste far mor energy if you forget your bathroom lights on overnight, even with LED bulbs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But surely in order to “feel things” you would need a nervous system right? When you feel pain from touching something very hot, it’s your nerves that are sending those pain signals to your brain… right?

  On that case, on our meatsacks, yes. But there’s also emotional pain which can cause physical pain or other effects too and that doesn’t require nerves at all. Also there’s nothing stopping from an AI robot to have nervous system too, it would just have different kind of sensors and a CAN bus or something instead of organic stuff. There’s already co-operation robots on factories which have sensors to detect if they are touching something in order to keep humans safe and from there it’s not too far fetched to program it to feel “pain” if forces are big enough.

  And that all boils down to on how you define consciousness, feelings, pain response and all that stuff. “Behold! I’ve brought you a man!” I yell while holding a chiken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  DOT 5.1 to significantly increase that wet boiling point, but it’s expensive for normal car use

  Huh? In here you can get DOT5.1 for the same price than DOT4. Roughly 10€ per litre, depending on brand and how big bottle you get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Copilot Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong, but my personal experience is that it can also lead you down in a pretty convincing but totally wrong direction. I’m not a professional coder, but have at least some experience and I’ve tried the LLM approach on trying to figure out which library/command set/whatever I should use for problem at hand. Sometimes it gives useful answers, sometimes it’s totally wrong which is easy to spot and at worst it gives you something which (at least to me) seems like it could work. And on the last case I then spend more or less time figuring out how to use the thing it proposed, fail, eventually read the actual old fashioned documentation and notice that the proposed solution is somewhat related to my problem but totally wrong.

  And on that point I would have actually saved time if I did things the old fashion way (which is getting more and more annoying as search engines get worse and worse). There’s legitimate use cases too of course, but you really need to have at least some idea on what you’re doing to evaluate the answers LLMs give you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s still things like that on my workplace today. I think there’s some older, rarely used CNC with Win98 on the controller. We just keep spares around when they break, but that’s cheaper than replacing the whole machinery. Also there’s some XP stations running software for an industrial machine which would cost quarter of a million to replace. Some of those need access to network drives and such but they live in a strictly isolated VLAN.

  And, as far as I’ve told at least, there was no option at any point to upgrade just the computers on those things. It’s always the whole assembly line or whatever they’re connected to. There’s not many companies willing to throw hundreds of thousands every 3-5 years to replace equipment which working just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s just practicality.

  I have “enough” years under my belt with Linux and I still prefer Mint on majority of my “daily driver” type machines. I already spend my working hours messing around with all kinds of different systems, figuring out problems, installing new ones and so on and I’m old enough that tweaking system just for the sake of it isn’t really what I’m after anymore. I just want something which doesn’t crap the bed, stays out of the way and lets me run whatever software I happen to need. At least for me Mint checks most of the boxes and the ones it lacks it’s pretty trivial to beat it back into submission.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs – Krebs on Security⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the one I’m waiting the most from the LLM hype. It would be a massive benefit for companies around the world (mine included) if they could just dump their documentation in all shapes and flavours into a model and have it parse standardized documents for you.

  But the generic OpenAI/Copilot models aren’t reliable enough just yet, hallucinations and made up data just doesn’t go with that. I’m not even sure if those models are ever capable on such task alone, maybe it needs additional component which checks the facts from originals or something to make it actually useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can place a pretty hefty bet that this thought has not visited Elmos head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can get conductive epoxy, but I think it’s more expensive than a new controller. But maybe something like that, graphite or iron dust mixed in epoxy? That would most likely need some trial and error to get proper mixture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LED lights for sauna⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point, will do. Currently I’m just focusing just on the lights themselves. Dimming even with a off-the-shelf constant current module would most likely be enough so I could set it once for suitable level and leave it at that, but of course it would be nice to extend into more adaptive lights while I’m working on it anyways.

  Other what I’ve been thinking is if I should go full RGBW and just set colour temperature and intensity as a whole to something nice, but that would mean more wires and more complex setup as a whole and I’m not too sure if that’s worth the effort. It’s sauna after all, not a disco.

• LED lights for sauna
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been writing a small powershell script at work lately and as vscode now offers their AI bundled in I just tried it out of curiosity. It does a half decent job. Nothing I couldn’t write on my own, but on a simple script it saved some time as I’m a long term linux guy and just getting my toes wet with powershell so I need to dig up proper functions and syntax pretty often.

  But it also created a script which would have broken syntax and errors in it, so it still needed manual tweaking, but as long as you know what you’re doing it can be useful. And also potentially dump your company data to some learning database.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Nothing is Exposed, Am I Safe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is my current set up secure, assuming strong passwords were used for everything?

  Network security is a complicated beast to manage. If general public can access your services over the internet, that’s a threat you need to mitigate. Strong passwords is a good start on that, but it doesn’t take into account if there’s a flaw or bug on the service you’re running. Also if you have external users, they might reuse their passwords and leak for those might cause a threat too, specially if there’s privilege escalation bugs on the software you’re running.

  And so on, it’s a too wide field to cover in a short comment here, but when you’re building your stuff, and what is maybe the most disticntive feature on a good professional between a not so good one, is to think ahead and prepare for every imaginable scenario where something goes wrong. Every time you add a way to access your network, no matter how minuscle, think what happens if that way gets compromised and what it might mean on the very worst case.

  Maybe you want to add another access point to your network since your terrace isn’t properly covered. That’s nice to have, but now everyone around 100 meters around your house/apartment might have access to your stuff if they can break your wifi security. Maybe you set up a reverse proxy or tailscale on the stack. Now the whole internet can at least probe your stuff and try to find vulnerabilities, try to use stolen credentials and even try to social engineer their way into your stuff. Or maybe you made an mistake and left something open that shouldn’t be.

  I’m not trying to scare you off out of anything. Go ahead and play with your stuff, break things, learn how to fix them, have fun while doing it. Just remember to think ahead about worst case scenarios, weigh their risks, think ahead and then go on. Learn about DNAT, reverse proxies, VPN and network layers and whatever you come across on your adventure but keep in mind that shit will hit the fan at some point. And learn to accept that, learn from your mistakes and do better next time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The option to run one cable to the monitor, or reversely charge your laptop with one docking cable.

  USB-C docks can already do this. Obviously with less power and it’s not perfect by any means, but we don’t need another technology for this. And sure, it’s two cables, one from wall outlet to integrated dock/monitor and usb-c from dock to laptop, but no matter the technology you still need something to plug in to wall outlet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend EU webhosting provider to replace DreamHost?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hetzner provides managed web hosting too. For emails I think you need to look for some other provider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point, but basic physics has been a part of our education program for at least 60 years. Also for few years the ‘exchange priced’ or ‘market valued’ electricity has been somewhat popular and on the news, which adds up to the general understanding as if you know your stuff it means quite literal money as your bills are smaller. So, maybe ‘absolutely everyone’ is a bit of a stretch, but in general the majority of adult people understand the concept.

  And also a ton of common folk understand it at least a bit on a deeper level as basic physics is included to studies beyond elementary school regardless on what you study. Sure, not everyone understands (or cares) how 3 phase AC in here adds up to 400V or why you need to have 2,5mm² wires for 16A fuse, but it’s still pretty common that people, specially in a separate house, understand how you can only pull 2300W out of a 10A circuit or 3600W from a 16A one (10 and 16A being the most common fuses in a household in here).

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which non-US domain registrar to use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been a happy customer with joker.com (Germany) for at least 10 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel publicly announces genocidal intent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the terrorists are actually the lesser evil

  “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom figher.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What host names do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mostly use battlestar galactica ship names for my own hardware, but it’s been mixed with boring ‘<function>.mydomain.foo’ names as well. I should rename a bunch of stuff around and include them in my DNS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email provider for home server alerts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant that the technology itself is reliable. And you can do self hosting just fine too, I’ve been doing it since 2010 or so, but running a local smarthost which sends messages via reputable SMTP provider works just fine too. Or even directly interacting with the SMTP provider from all the applications you’re running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨30win: A Plataforma Completa para Diversão e Recompensas⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Advertising spam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email provider for home server alerts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Commodore 64 is a home computer released at 1982. Modern expansions for it allows the thing to actually have tcp/ip stack and it can run things like telnet, but your single mastodon server, in comparison of what was available in 1980s, is pretty much equal of the whole bandwidth and storage of the internet (or arpanet, depending on how you want to time things).

  Mastodon server requires (roughly) at least 2 gigabytes of memory and 20 gigabytes of storage. And with that it needs at least dual core 2GHz CPU to run it.

  Commodore 64 had 1Mhz. A million hertz sounds like a big number, but we’re talking (at minimum) of two processor cores running with 2000 million hertz. Also, C=64 had 64 000 bytes of memory while the absolute minimum to run mastodon instance is 2 000 000 000 bytes.

  And then there’s the storage. Your minimum mastodon instance should have at least 20GB of storage. 1541 used 5,25" floppy disks which could store up to 170 kilobytes. So you’d need someone to change disks as needed on a over 400 meter tall tower of floppy disks.

  So, please tell me again where to get disk images to run mastodon server on a C=64 and how you just know that plain old email is garbage and old people just don’t know what they’re talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email provider for home server alerts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you very much can not run mastodon server on a Commodore 64. You absolutely can.

  Ok. Send me the link of disk image of that. I have C64 laying around with 1541 disk drive. I’ll set up a public mastodon instance running on a C64 with a webcam stream of the setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email provider for home server alerts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea what any of that means…

  That checks out. You conveniently skipped the part where I requested a single messaging solution which works with either modern android/ios devices or with anything you’ll find in your dad’s(or grandads I guess) drawer, can manage multiple recipients, escalations to sms/home automation bells, works reliably even if the uplink goes down for few hours and so on.

  And no, you very much can not run mastodon server on a Commodore 64.

  But you seem like a young and enthustiatic individual. I was one “a few” years ago. Keep it going, but that arrogant attitude won’t get you anywhere. Email has been a thing since the 1970s and there’s a reason why it’s still going strong. Things like XMPP has been around for a good while and there’s a reason why they’re not even close of overtaking email as a primary communication technology around.

  You’ll live and learn. My guess is that when you reach my age, email is still working just fine and majority of the hot stuff which is around right now has faded to the history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email provider for home server alerts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  aren’t reliant on any particular company or service, and are easier to run and manage without requiring approval from your ISP

  What other than email provides that? Browser notifications generally don’t work on mobile. Most of the common instant messengers rely on a single instance running the thing if you’re not suggesting sending messages via IRC or XMPP (or matrix or…) which have their own problems. App notifications require that you have the thing which app is running to be available and online and they more often that not require some spesific device. Also even if you had linux desktop “app” it requires that the software is running.

  Also I have not met an ISP which would block sending email via gmail/amazon/protonmail/whoever. Sure, my current ISP blocks tcp/25 to the world by default, but you can request to open that too if you really want to and ports 587 and 465 are open, so you can work around that if you don’t want a smarthost for some reason.

  With other options you wouldn’t need to because they already provide the features you’re looking for in those apps.

  Which other protocol allows notifications at the same time on all the mobile devices, all the workstations and allow easy way to send the very same message to arbitary amount of recipients to all of their devices? I had email on a palm pilot device at 2001 or so, over mobile data with IRDA and you can read email even with Commodore 64 if you really want to (well, to be more spesific, use C=64 as an terminal for *nix server to access email, I think there’s no actual IMAP/POP client for it). There’s just no way for any other modern service to even try to compete with versatility with email.

  And then there’s the more sopisthicated approaches like pushing email trough however complex procmail/perl/python/whatever scripting you like where you can develop quite literally whatever you can imagine. Set up a old fire alarm bell, hook it up to your home automation, process incoming emails and if it’s severe enough turn the bell on. Sure, at least a some of that is possible via instant messengers too, but with email I can be pretty sure that if I write a script today for it it’ll still run quite happily for the next 10-15 years.

  Please do tell me which of the modern messaging alternatives offer all of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email provider for home server alerts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It just boggles my mind that we haven’t moved away from this archaic technology.

  None of the alternatives are as standardized as plain old email. You can use whatever you like to read them, you don’t have to rely on a single company like Meta with WhatsApp for communication, it’s easy to use, pretty damn reliable and fault resistant and just ticks all the boxes you’ll ever need for a simple message delivery.

  Personally I would absolutely hate if software started to offer notifications only on slack or signal or whatever. Just let me have my email and I can then read it with a browser in library, on my cellphone, on my desktop and laptop and on pretty much every other internet connected device on the planet. And if I want, I can pass that trough to teams, sms, all the messaging platforms and even straight to my printer should I need to. With other message delivery options that’s often either pretty difficult or straight up impossible.