CameronDev

@CameronDev@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bekind.dedyn.io is dead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d avoid using a domain you dont actually own. Those free DNS places can take the domain back at any time. They are also often very low reputation domains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think the reason we evolved 5 fingers is so we can carry hot serving dishes farther by alternating which one is in contact with the hot thing.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not six?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing they can rip the other end of the lock out of the wall tbh.

  But realistically, theifs aren’t that sophisticated, they aren’t going to waste time trying to find and destroy the DVR, the will grab whatever valuables they can carry and pawn and leave as fast as possible.

  The cameras are really just a deterant, they will move on to an easier house instead of risking it with mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Home security first of all, with cameras to deter thiefs. That alone mostly solves the problem, but I’m in a relatively safe area.

  My “lab” is just a switch, nuc and unifi cloud key, and while they are warm in their closet, its not super hot.

  I have a Kensington lock on the security camera box, but someone could theoretically yank that out of the wall.

  The rest really isnt worth breaking in to steal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do bots/scrapers check uncommon ports?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I used to have SSH on a nonstandard port, I got login failures from bots. It really depends on the bot and how aggressive they have set it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is the right way to do it, make the ereader work properly, and then make the store so attractive that you use it anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They list EPUB as a supported format. Nothing on their site says DRM EPUB doesnt work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont think that is true at all. They describe it as an e-reader and its reasonable to assume that that means it can read e-books. They even list EPUB on the supported formats section of the specs. No caveat there about only partially supporting EPUB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently for america, it works relatively seamlessly, but the rest of the world doesnt. No idea why, but that is what my brief research told me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, definitely considering that as a replacement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tangent, but I have had an incredibly poor experience getting a library eBook onto a kindle. Libby gives out time restricted epubs - fair enough, I am actually borrowing the book, that makes sense. Kindle, despite being the “goto” ereader, and epubs being a standard format, cannot read them.

  So, despite wanting to legitimately borrow and read the book, instead I am borrowing and DeDRM’ing it (which is its own convoluted process).

  Why is Amazon pushing so hard for piracy? Its one thing to make their store easier to use, but breaking all other valid use cases just leaves the one remaining option…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Between Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea, etc., which do you prefer and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a bit of a hog at times. But it hasnt been bad enough for me to switch. Does forgejo do CI?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Between Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea, etc., which do you prefer and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gitlab. Was on gitea, but it lacked CI integration (not sure if that has changed) and generally felt less polished. Gitlab is used at work, so its nice having something familiar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some (most?) UPSs have a way for them to communicate to the PC so that the PC can automatically cleanly shutdown. You should look into that if its available on your UPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I had realized how shitty the sound was in the MRI headphones I would not have asked for one of my favorite bands when they asked me what music I wanted⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah, I forgot about the bullseye. I have one of my brain, I was hoping to find a way to convert the images to a model so I could 3D print it, but didn’t find a good way to convert it sadly.

  hopefully your scan shows nothing serious, and you get some cool pictures :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I had realized how shitty the sound was in the MRI headphones I would not have asked for one of my favorite bands when they asked me what music I wanted⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually ask for silence for the same reason, better to try just close eyes and meditate/dissociate through it. Was your head inside the machine? Pretty claustrophobic either way, but head first is particularly not nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really doesn’t matter what the “training” entails, because Amazon aren’t going to do it anyway. Its all lip service, and all voluntary, and all to pull the wool over the regulatory bodies eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess sticking with the drug dealer metaphor, providing needles/spoons/lighters would be the equivalent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Drug dealers pledge to ready Americans for a drug-dominated world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, makes sense. I’d go with TikTok, as my cat can’t really hold attention for that long, but otherwise I see your point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Care to elaborate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whats your goal? Your current network works presumably, what are you trying to achieve by upgrading? Faster network? Reliability? Expansion options?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV crew discovers two missing shipwrecks off West Australian coast⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too soon :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, the U16 social media was rammed through, and looks to be expanded to include search engines, with little patience or care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many primary school kids will never have a male teacher, and experts say that's a problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A properly designed quota (mandatory minimum ratio, mandatory minimum qualifications, meaningful penalties, etc) should in theory drive up pay and treatment (increase pay to lure them in, improve treatment to prevent them walking).

  But that is pretty unlikely to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but lots more tooling and libraries for Python. Its just one more attack surface 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely, but sandboxes can be escaped, and you can’t protect everything via sandbox. Apparently its all cloud anyway, but if it were local and sandboxed, there are still exploits like rowhammer and spectre that may cause further risks.

  Its taken years to get browser sandboxes to where they are, and even they get broken every so often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Still sounds like you’d be shipping your data to the cloud, where it can be exfilled from there.

  Would potentially be a great phishing tool, just need to trick someone into putting sensitive data into a precooked excel file, and it gets exfilled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Could result in some very cursed codebases.

  “We dont use git, we just update the excel spreadsheet”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Integrated python scripts in excel sounds like a malware developers dream.