CameronDev
@CameronDev@programming.dev
- Comment on Good chance of aurora tonight, as two-year peak solar activity nears its end 1 day ago:
It was a bit underwhelming sadly.
- Comment on Good chance of aurora tonight, as two-year peak solar activity nears its end 2 days ago:
Eased off to -12. Still good. More negative is better. A little more to it, but good enough metric.
swpc.noaa.gov/…/aurora-dashboard-experimental
Somewhere there is a site with a graph, but that one will give a numerical value.
- Comment on Good chance of aurora tonight, as two-year peak solar activity nears its end 2 days ago:
Bz is very negative (-29 currently), if it holds there, this will be spectacular.
- Comment on what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge? 5 days ago:
Mango, assert dominance over your colleagues. /j
- Comment on need help with Immich and SMB share 1 week ago:
Look for the additional storage section under the app settings:
- Comment on I just spent my entire rent money on vintage 240p JPEG files of soup, and I've never been happier. AMA. 2 weeks ago:
These are worth $20
- Comment on I just spent my entire rent money on vintage 240p JPEG files of soup, and I've never been happier. AMA. 2 weeks ago:
Show us the JPEGs, I want to feel second hand financial instability
- Comment on Help figuring out my pressure washer? 2 weeks ago:
Does tapping it with a hammer help? Your probably right, and there is a pressure sensor getting stuck. Maybe try find it and tap it with a hammer to see if dislodges?
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 3 weeks ago:
Dont blame the victim, those poor people couldn’t sleep, as if they could critically think /s
- Comment on Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online 4 weeks ago:
QR would be convenient enough
My friend, that is not convenient. Phone numbers need to be memorable, and need to be transmittable offline without relying on technology. Old people use phones…
- Comment on bekind.dedyn.io is dead 5 weeks 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. 1 month ago:
Why not six?
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago:
Yeah, definitely considering that as a replacement.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Drug dealers pledge to ready Americans for a drug-dominated world.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months 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.
