SteveTech

@SteveTech@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smart engineering⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Title text too: Wow, that’s less than $200 per … uh … that’s a good deal!

  xkcd.com/670/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I swear Lemmy comments for YouTube had a feature that let you open it for any page, but it seems the GitHub and Firefox page been deleted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Guest VM Filesystem for NTFS Host⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea how CoW interacts with NTFS

  With btrfs you can disable COW for specific files, that might give you a little performance boost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To their partners*. Which I believe are companies that help out with support or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is connection from home server to cloudflare HTTPS or HTTP when using cloudflare tunnel?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloudflare tunnels uses a QUIC connection between the cloudflared on the server and Cloudflare itself, which is encrypted similarly to HTTPS.

  Whatever protocol cloudflared uses to talk to your webserver locally is configurable through the Cloudflare access web UI (just change http to https). I’ve actually got it configured to use unix sockets, which lets me treat it differently in my nginx config.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fixed¡⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The unflipped version was also shared yesterday, for those who missed it: fedia.io/m/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world/t/1017044

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For ergonomics, the plugin should be able to spot cuts in the video so you can easily select the correct frames.

  This shouldn’t even be too hard, I doubt YouTube is completely rerendering every video with ads, they’d just insert the ad in before an I frame in the video. So each ad will start with an I frame, and the video will resume on an I frame, meaning just let the user select all the I frames, no fancy cut detection algorithm is needed.

  I have no idea how to do this from JS though.

  Also I mean video I frames, not HTML iframes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is the global IT crash fixed yet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a third one I’ve heard:

  • Intel VPro (the thing that privacy people disable because runs at a lower level than the OS and does mysterious stuff), is being used to remove the broken file while the OS is booting/crashed.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If anything happen to Linux today, like what happened to Windows, most of the internet would be dead.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also allows users to store dates back to ~1902.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted dvr⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC the RTL chip inside them was originally designed for TV, so it works great! I’m actually using very cheap AliExpress clones for the TV ones, because they otherwise don’t work very well.

  I’m also using the outdoor TV antenna on my roof (common in Australia, idk elsewhere), and a splitter and adaptors. And with that I get every channel with no artifacts, at 30% strength, but that’ll probably be higher with not awful SDRs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted dvr⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got an interesting setup I’d like to share:

  So I’ve got a Raspberry Pi with 4 RTL-SDRs, 2 for TV, 1 for radio, and 1 for plane transponders. That runs SatPi for the 2 TV SDRs, which TVHeadend running on my main server connects to, to record and stream. Jellyfin also connects to TVHeadend to properly index everything and for easy access to recordings and live TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This mini ITX board combines Alder Lake-N processor with 10 Gb and 2.5 GbE networking and up to 8 storage devices (2 x NVMe + 6 x SATA) - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like 2x 4 pin fan headers:

  A diagram of the motherboard

  But yeah I’ve got an AliExpress X99 board, which threw all sorts of hardware errors, had no fan speed control (100% all the time), no working hwmon sensors, and I ended up buying a used Supermicro board instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Will I see any performance increase?

  Like others have said LLMs mostly use VRAM, they can use system RAM if you’re running them on CPU, but that’s ridiculously slow.

  It will however increase the speed of your compile times, which is especially useful if you’re compiling something large like the Linux kernel on a regular basis.

  I’m also worried about not having ECC RAM.

  If you are using it purely for LLMs, if it’s going to get bit flips, it’ll happen in VRAM.

  If you are compiling large things for customers, I’d recommend ECC, just in case, e.g. you don’t want a bricking firmware from a bit flip. But according to EDAC and my TIG stack, my server’s ECC RAM has never even detected an error in the past year, if I understand EDAC properly, so it’s really not important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New apartment Internet has no port forwarding, admin login⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the HOA’s router supports UPnP/NAT-PMP/PCP then you might be able to use that to get some ports forwarded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They were expecting it to not be Android, but something more custom. Like I feel even just bare bones Linux would’ve been more acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨madlad⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they divorced and he found someone else, which is why he stopped making videos.

  (I’m not joking, he explained it in one of his most recent videos)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i wouldve never expected him to make such a rookie mistake⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah usually it’ll still use your dGPU to render, but the frames still have to go back through the iGPU, so there’s a fair bit of overhead compared to plugging straight into the dGPU. I’d imagine it might also increase CPU usage too, as it has to coordinate transfering frames between 2 GPUs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I might be completely wrong, but I’ve heard that a key is only a few hundred dollars, and once you’ve got it you can sign whatever you want. I think ReactOS also used to offer free driver signing for open source projects.

  So I guess if ReactOS can afford one, so can most anti-cheat companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuse replacement guide⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  3AG is just the physical size of the fuse, they usually go up to 20 amps from memory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FLOSS communities right now⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some discord servers can require a verified phone number, not any I know of, but it can be enabled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Intel gatekeeping WiFi 7? A very quick look at the Intel BE200.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sorry I wrote the comment before I watched the video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Intel gatekeeping WiFi 7? A very quick look at the Intel BE200.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve looked into getting one for my AMD laptop but I haven’t actually got one yet. Some models are locked, some are not, here’s my research:

  • The common BE200.NGWG is a CNVi module and everything except the radio itself was moved into Intel’s CPUs, for cost savings.
  • The BE200.NGWG.NV is a normal NIC and should support AMD.
  • The BE200.NGWG.NVX - same as above but with an X?
  • Anything starting with BE202 sucks, avoid it.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely agree with automatically configured stuff, but I enjoy setting link-local static IP address with IPv6, like my home server is fe80::bad:c0de or 192.168.0.2, and my NAS is fe80::coo1:da1a or 192.168.0.3. I’ve definitely mistyped the IPv4 a few times (see your 169 typo), but the IPv6 always delivers hackerman vibes.

  I have also set <prefix>::bad:c0de and have my IPv6 prefix on a keybind, but I understand that’s a bit of a stretch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep that was exactly the issue I faced before giving up with NVMe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t completed read through the tutorial, but UEFITool does exist for Linux. (I had unsuccessfully added NVMe support to an old motherboard previously)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly why this project exists, to allow users to add ReBAR support to their old motherboards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hosting websites over 4g⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt this will be any use, but my Telstra 4G has a public IPv6.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’d avoid the cloud version, but SNMP monitoring on the networked version is nice when you want multiple things to shutdown without relying on a single host.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Systemd-boot and Full Disk Encryption in Tumbleweed and MicroOS⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow, I’ve been looking for something like sdbootutil, I hope it works fine on Debian (although it doesn’t seem to complicated if it doesn’t).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare is not working for me the way I hoped it would.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloudflare Tunnels will let you proxy any port, as long as it’s HTTP(S) or SSH, even on free tier.

  Also I believe there’s a thing now for proxying other ports anyway on free tier without tunnels, but I haven’t looked too much into it.