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- Comment on Silent Storage Solutions for Homelab? 4 hours ago:
Annoyingly, disk discovery. It refused to use my disks, claiming they didn’t have serial numbers. I could see the serial numbers in the fronted and the console, but their middleware just hated them.
I am using a USB multi-disk drive thing, which didn’t work properly on an old kernel, but it should have been fine with the new kernel.
I reported the bug, which didn’t really get addressed, and then had to build my array using the command line tools (which aren’t documented).
- Comment on Silent Storage Solutions for Homelab? 4 hours ago:
I dunno about recommending FreeNAS (Known as truenas now). It is basically an appliance OS, and unless you are using enterprise level hardware, they want nothing to do with you.
I’m currently using it, but it was a very unpleasant experience setting it up.
- Comment on 6 hours ago:
Eh, that still wastes the energy used to process the material, so still unideal. But probably better?
Could change the model so that the festival provides the tents for $0 (or some tiny fee), but with a $500 bond. Trash the tent, lose $500, look after it and it gets re-used next festival.
- Comment on 16 hours ago:
What if we just move the tents outside the environment?
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I’m guessing (given you have at least 2 tents) you’re treating it properly and taking care of it though, which inebriated festival goers probably aren’t.
And $50 a decade ago bought you a much better tent than today, there is some absolute garbage out there now.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Tents are cheap: www.aussiedisposals.com.au/…/dome-tents.html
$40. And these tents likely won’t survive multiple uses anyway.
They are still grubs for leaving them behind.
- Comment on Trump says US needs to own Greenland to deter Russia, China 2 days ago:
Exactly my point.
- Comment on Trump says US needs to own Greenland to deter Russia, China 3 days ago:
I wasn’t aware, but that doesn’t change my point. Build another if one isn’t enough, and then re-declare it under US + Denmark + NATO protection.
- Comment on Trump says US needs to own Greenland to deter Russia, China 3 days ago:
So, make a deal, build an airbase, declare it under US + Denmark + NATO protection. No need to conquer it to deter anyone.
- Comment on People using Cloudflare, are you still happy with it? Would you consider any self-hosted alternative? 3 days ago:
You’re not wrong, but the only difference (and time will tell if its sufficient), is that they intentionally and explicitly use the free tier for advertisement, so killing that kills their reputation overnight.
But if all else fails and they try to enshitify, their apps are BSD licenced on github, and headscale is adequate, so the free tier would just shift to headscale and carry on.
- Comment on If Luigi Mangione is considered a "hero", then Punisher, Dexter Morgan and Jigsaw should be considered "heroes" too. 4 days ago:
Lol, cut me’s some slack’s.
- Comment on If Luigi Mangione is considered a "hero", then Punisher, Dexter Morgan and Jigsaw should be considered "heroes" too. 4 days ago:
They are called hero’s. Flawed hero’s, but thats still a subset of hero’s.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 5 days ago:
Thank you Sir Pedantry :D. “ad” just felt wrong somehow, but you are correct.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 6 days ago:
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 6 days ago:
Honestly, this might be good for the AD industry. Force them to get to the point quicker. Alternatively, we could see a return of epilepsy inducing flashing ads.
I like the idea of IRL billboard ads being “dismissable”. If the ad is too obnoxious, someone gets to press a button and wipe the billboard.
- Comment on Vienna would need about 150 km² of solar panels to produce enough electricity 1 week ago:
Its not super wrong to include external costs as well, but it definitely explains the crazy estimate they got to.
The most misleading part is that this is cherry picking a dense city, and implying all power generation needs to be within city limits. 3 out 11 thermal power stations in Austria are in Vienna, the rest are outside of the main city.
- Comment on Blue could have been a warmest color 1 week ago:
Humanity may not have, but there are (admittedly very few) natural blue flames:
- Comment on Meta smart glasses pose a threat to women, campaigners say 1 week ago:
korkortonline.se/en/theory-test/
Practise test. I got bored before finishing, but its pretty basic
- Comment on Meta smart glasses pose a threat to women, campaigners say 1 week ago:
How dumb do you have to be to need to cheat a drivers test…
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 week ago:
I dont think any of these tech execs (all execs?) use their products. They all have assistants to do everything for them, so they have no idea what this whole “internet” thing is, other than it makes them money.
- Comment on How do I migrate my VPS out of Cloudflare? 1 week ago:
Crowdsec does not provide DDOS protection in the same manner as Cloudflare. You can use crowdsec to block the traffic at your server, but it has already reached your server, and will be using up your ingress bandwidth regardless. So if you were DDOS’d, your site will go down.
Cloudflare prevents the traffic ever reaching your server, while allowing the legitimate traffic through. They block it on their servers, which have much higher bandwidth than any VPS provider has.
- Comment on If you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save? 2 weeks ago:
The first save gets downgraded from a “life save” to a “6 months save”. You have to return the hero crown they gave you.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Self-hosting with an old laptop 2 weeks ago:
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Yes, lots of people do this. Good idea to remove the battery if possible, or you’ll have a spicy balloon eventually.
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VPN (or cloudflare tunnel) is not a bad idea, but its not essential either, my server is publically exposed, and it largely isnt a problem. I only expose port 443 and some specific random high ports though. I wouldnt expose 22 to the internet.
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Keep SSH, just dont expose to the internet, its always nice to have multiple ways into a box, incase one is hung or something.
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- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 3 weeks ago:
Wikipedia has google translate (2006) pre-dating android (2008) by 2 years. Iphone was 2007. It has improved significantly since, but it was pretty good even then. Adequate enough to communicate with foreign language speakers. I used to use it to email a japanese penpal, and while it may not have been perfect, it was understandable even then.
- Comment on "No pain, no gain" would be an interesting slogan for an injury attorney. 3 weeks ago:
Or a Colorectal Surgeon.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 3 weeks ago:
To address the edit, I think part of the US’s problem is that you are already on the slope, and have been for a while. Violence has been normalised and accepted (and legalised as you’ve pointed out). I’d like to beleive you can reverse course, but it certainly doesnt seem likely.
I dont have any answers for you or op, but if it were me, I would focus on the defence and protection of my family/community first, rather than searching for retribution. I know that sounds hollow and empty though.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 3 weeks ago:
I can definitely place people above the line so to speak, but I dont think I could draw an objective one-size-fits-all line.
Humanity is a continuous spectrum from people living in extreme poverty up to the one percent, and its very hard to find any clean delinineation that I would be comfortable drawing the line through.
And the other problem is that the definition of that line would vary wildly from person to person.
If I’m honest with myself, I live in a well off first world country, that in of itself means that I am indirectly responsible for a non-zero amount human suffering in other parts of the world. It doesnt necessarily make me black and white evil, but to someone in one of those parts of the world, they definitely might see it that way.
I’m happy with death as a penalty for certain acts of evil, but I would want it to be the exception, not the rule. Everytime someone is death-row’d, we should all be unanimously sure that its the right thing to do.
- Comment on Here is a more polished release of nanogram. Fully compatible on raspberry pi now. 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Separate out each part out. You are currently publishing the equivalent of of a compiled binary. If you split it up, and use a script to “compile” it back into the mega shell script.
It means that changes to each file can tracked (and audited) individually, you can conditionally compile bits in or out, and most usefully, you can write tests for the individual components.
- Comment on Here is a more polished release of nanogram. Fully compatible on raspberry pi now. 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, but a photo of a directory structure is not a source tree.
Your git repo consists of 4 files, a readme, a licence, and two packed shell scripts.
If you have an actual published source repo, link people to it.