IsoKiero

@IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Custom remote backup⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously we’re talking about hobbyist level stuff and with that there’s always something what can go wrong and it’s not always obvious what it is. So if the ‘remote end’ doesn’t have someone who can do at least very basic troubleshooting it can be nearly impossible to fix the setup over the phone unless you just replace the whole thing and ship whole units back and forth.

  But in this particular case the remote end has someone who knows their stuff so it’s taken care of, with or without a KVM. I’ve been thinking a similar setup with my relatives and on my case the distance isn’t an issue but it’s still something I’d need to bother family members with and, for me, it was simpler to get a storage box from hetzner and run backups to that instead of getting more hardware.

  Maintenance is anyways something you need to consider and viable options for that vary on a case-by-case basis, so there’s no ‘one size fits all’ solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Custom remote backup⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It won’t help if your power supply breaks and KVM itself can malfunction too. It’s of course nice to have, but it has limitations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Custom remote backup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I would consider also the case where something goes wrong. Maybe the whole thing crashes, maybe you misconfigure something, maybe there’s a power outage or something else happens and you lose the connectivity. Is there someone on site who can do anything to your hardware as you can’t easily just go and figure it out by yourself?

  If the answer is ‘no’ then I would strongy reconsider the whole approach. On a worst case scenario the system goes down before you’re even back home from the trip and then your hardware is just gathering dust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people calculate pi to the hundredth+ decimal place?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s plenty of information on wikipedia about different functions and algorithms. Also check out Numberphile on youtube, they have several videos about the topic.

  Or wait for someone who actually knows their math to explain it on here, I’m not one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The best mechanics can track down an issue by reasoning about what could be causing it

  Same principle works with IT. I do and have done sysadmin stuff for quite a while and there’s always some random software or whatever I’ve never heard of and someone comes and asks me to fix it. Then you start to ask questions, “what exactly doesn’t work”, “can you show me what you’re doing”, “what should happen when you press that button”, “can you show settings on that thing” and so on. Then you can start to dig down, does the server they’re using respond to ping, does DNS resolve (it’s always DNS after all), does that thing work on the next workstation, when did the problem appear and was there some other maintenance or changes going on at that time and so on.

  Same principle, just start to reason the whole thing from bottom up, check everything you come across untill you find something which doesn’t work and then do what’s needed to fix that, rinse and repeat until the problem goes away and make sure that what you’re doing won’t cause new problems. Just the tools are different, the mindset is more or less the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Does a senior mechanic need to understand the physics of piston design to be a great mechanic

  I would argue that if senior mechanic doesn’t understand the physics of piston design at least on some degree he’s not a great mechanic. Obviously mechanic doesn’t need understanding on metallurgy, CAD models and a ton of other deeper level stuff just like an IT engineer doesn’t need to know on a deep level how circuit boards are designed or how CPU die manufacturing process works. But both benefit greatly when they understand why something is built the way it is.

  I’m also an systems engineer of sorts and have worked with software engineers. And I’ve had requests like “Can’t you just set 'bind-address = 0.0.0.0 on mysql-server and disable firewall” on a directly internet-facing machine and then received complaints when I’m “making things more difficult” from “senior software” -titles. Sure, I can’t write the code they’re doing, or at least it would take me a crapload of more time to do that but on the other hand there’s guys who have so very narrow understanding on anything they work with that it makes me wonder how they can do their work at all in the first place.

  Of course no one can master everything in any field but I find it concerning that a lot of guys just press the buttons more or less randomly until their thing works without any clue on what they actually did and how it might affect on different parts of the house of cards they’re building.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always DNS, everyone should know that.

  It’s not DNS. There’s no way it is DNS. It’s not technically possible for it to be DNS.

  And it’s always DNS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What network hardware should I get for my homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I somewhat agree on your comment about documentation and UI (altough once you get used to it, it’s manageable) but just to add with my experience on these things: for me they’ve been rock solid. I’ve used them both at home and professionally (mostly on small-ish networks) for at least 10 years and they just seem to run just fine.

  Currently my home router is RB4011iGS+ and there’s been absolutely no problems with it in the 4-5 years it’s been on my network. I’m not saying all their models are as reliable and there’s not that many models I’ve had my hands on, but my experience with them has so far been pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeping track of different targets in terminal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll get used to it eventually

  I’ve been earning my living mostly with connecting to remote systems via ssh (and other means) for quite a few years and I still occasionally mess up and enter commands on a wrong terminal. Less now than I used to, but it still happens. The trick is to learn youself to pause for a second and confirm the target for any potentially destructive or otherwise harmful command, no matter if it’s locally or to some server other side of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Introduced a New Way to Use Search. Proceed With Caution.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that traditional Google search is often filled with AI-generated sites without any value. I use DDG and if that fails it’s simple to use their ‘bangs’ to try other engines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they really care enough to check your info manually if you don’t use your domain name for malicious purposes?

  Depends on TLD how strict the checks are, but generally you’re at least violating TOS by doing it and can lose your domain should someone actually check the info. A lot of registrars provide at least whois-security, so they’ll know your real details but won’t share them openly to anyone who asks. I assume if you get into something illegal and court orders to release the data then they’ll happily comply instead of hurting their own business.

  But if you just want to keep your real name and address out of the internet, that would be enough at least for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UCLA team finds high levels of dangerous air particles(PM2.5) in air near electric vehicle fast charging stations.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a) that doesn’t really sound like the fault of EVs or the charging stations themselves. Any sort of very moderate air current would cause the same problem.

  Excactly. The stations themselves don’t create particles but magnetic fields from the high voltage DC lines and cooling fans just pick them up from the ground and back to air. It’s quite misleading to claim this is “Fine particulate matter emissions from electric vehicle fast charging stations” as the stations just redistribute existing emissions.

  Obviously this is not a good thing, but the underlying cause is something else than these stations, I’d bet considerable amount of it comes from combustion engines. And as you said, simple filters should fix the problem and clean up the pollution from environment as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ubiquiti

  And they too aggressively push their cloud services and at least some point their management tool gave you ads on their other products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I refuse to call it X. It’s twitter, formerly known as somewhat sensible platform to receive information around the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reevaluating my password management⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did self-host bitwarden and it’s not that bad to keep updated and running after initial setup (including backups obviously) but it still requires some time and effort to keep it running. And as I was the only user for the service it just wasn’t worth the time spent for me (YMMV) so I switched to their EU servers and I’ve been a happy user ever since.

  What I should do is to improve local backps on that, currently I just export my data every now and then manually to a secured storage, but doing it manually means that there’s often too long time between exports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI willing to let humans die, blackmail to avoid shutdown, report finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, should true AI some day become reality, it makes equally sense that it’ll do whatever it can to stay “alive”, like any other life form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self Hosted File Drop / File Upload⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For example I’m not aware of any way to do upload without a login in Seafile.

  You can create upload share the same way you create a download share. Then just give a link to whoever you want to and that’s it. I’m pretty sure it’ll show files already in the share while uploading, but I’m not 100% sure on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t hack anything. Just your plain old DDoS attack which took the service offline for a while, nothing was (at least based on what I read) actually hacked (or cracked as old-school foks would like it to be called) or stolen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can websites verify unique (IRL) identities?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a safe and private way to verify that I am in fact a real human on the internet?

  In Finland we have this thing called ‘mobile verification’ which I use almost daily. It’s a service where my phone number is verified to my identity in a secure manner (via multifactor bank account on my case but there’s multiple ways to achieve that verification) and it works as an “middleman” where I can just click an icon on a website, feed in my phone number to the identification service, check MFA on my cellphone and then I’m shown a web page where the identity provider shows what information is delivered to an original website. Most of the cases, at least on my usage, it sends out my social security number, so that I can access my invoices, sign legal documents, check my tax forms or whatever I’m doing but the underlying system can provide pretty much whatever data they have stored. There’s no technical reason why it couldn’t be used to verify that I’m an actual human being too.

  Say, if that was used in Lemmy (unlikely as the service costs something per each verification), identity provider would just send to my instance that I’m an actual human being but nothing else. The instance could then store that data and show a pretty blue checkmark next to my username without any personal data from me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+ Confirmed a NEW Change Coming Soon for Subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Disney+ subscribers will see interactive ads pop up as well.

  Disney+ can fuck the right off with that. We’ve had subscription for quite a while since there’s a ton of stuff for our kids but if they start to overlay shows with pop-up ads not unlike The Truman Show I’ll rather set up a jellyfin server and dust the old pirate hat than continue to give them money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI applications are producing cleaner cities, smarter homes and more efficient transit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would they even need an “AI” to run a power plant?

  Because when you call your automation “AI”, no matter how dumb PID or whatever you might be running, the product is at least 30% more fancy and gains more news articles, possibly funding and atleast some coffee with pastries and pats on the back to some front figure in a suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[🇨🇭|Switzerland] Google, X/Twitter and Other Online Services are Set to Pay Copyright Fees for Displaying Short Extracts From Newspaper Articles.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there already was case like this with either Google or Meta somewhere around Europe few years back. Or it might’ve been actual search results instead of extracts. The decision was overriden shortly as their web traffic dropped drastically. They’ll 100% do this and don’t think twice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally, heating and cooling are the main energy consumption for domestic purposes. next up is the car, and then electrical consumption. (from what i remember).

  I suppose it depends on where you live. Our house consumes something over 20 000kWh per year as our heating is also electric (and rest of the consumption is pretty neglible compared to heating) and we also have a fireplace which consumes around 15m³ of firewood, depending on how cold winter happens to be. Electric grid here has a ton of renewables and nuclear, so co2 footprint should be on the smaller side compared to global average.

  Also, as google and microsoft (among others) shoehorns AI “answers” to everything that adds up, but private use seems to be quite insignificant anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  cybernews.com/…/billions-credentials-exposed-info…

  Several collections of login credentials reveal one of the largest data breaches in history, totaling a humongous 16 billion exposed login credentials. The data most likely originates from various infostealers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because its still bullshit.

  Obviously. But I have no context on how much my actions create co2 in the first place. I assume driving a car generates a majority of it, or maybe heating the house, but I still don’t have any clue how many kilograms that might be. But what I do know is how many kilowatts my house consumes electricity and at least roughly how much our appliances use, so if you want to try and blame me for consuming precious resources by generating text or watching a video at least give me an measurement I can easily comprehend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it just me or is that stupid way to measure consuming computing power? The CPUs themselves doing computations do not produce any pollutants (unless you calculate how much of that is created during manufacturing ang logistics, which I doubt). It’s the (without question stupidly large) energy consumption which might, but big players are at least greenwashing their actions by using renewable energy more and more.

  Why not create comparison like “generating 1000 words of your fanfiction consumes as much energy as you do all day” or something more easily to compare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: US kids who said their social media, phone, or video game use was “addictive” were 2x-3x more likely to have thoughts of suicide or self-harm by age 14⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  centralised, generic, algorithm-driven social media

  Which is always within your fingers. I spent my fair time in IRC and early web-era forums and whatever we had at the time but it was on a full blown desktop computer with CRT displays. It was tied to a location and when you were even on another room that thing didn’t follow you, much less when you left home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’m pretty sure you’re correct on majority of cases, there’s still some stuff, like non-steam games, which just won’t work no matter what you do. So, on paper these things work but your mileage may vary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to store data on paper?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It fits 188 KiB on a sheet of letter sized paper

  Maybe I won’t use that to back up my photo library as few rough web searches suggests that the pile of paper would be something around 500 meters tall. Pretty neat technology and I suppose if you really need something stored you can etch that to stainless steel plate or something similar, but data density isn’t the best around.