clif
@clif@lemmy.world
Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.
- Comment on metube: Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites 3 days ago:
Been awhile since I used this since I rebuilt my home server a few months ago but it was solid when I was running it in the past (as a pod in k3s)
I need to add this to my list to re-add…
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 4 days ago:
That’s where you draw the line?
(Also, say hi to your chickens for me)
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 1 week ago:
Your comment made me realize these could be a great digital attack vector. I assume they have wifi? And I doubt security was top of mind in the software development…
- Comment on Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android? 1 week ago:
My exact answer as well. Saved me some typing - thanks :)
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 2 weeks ago:
Aha, the separate breaker box is the part I wasn’t thinking about. I’ll need to do some thinking on how I could make that work for me. Thank you for the info.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 2 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity, how do you have that setup (at a high level)?
I’ve got a bluetti system for emergency power (12kWh, 6kW AC output) but I need to plug things directly into it. It’d be nice to feed it directly to my house wiring but … selectively. That is, I wouldn’t want to power the HVAC but it would be nice to not have to shuffle the fridge/freezer plugs from the wall to the inverter.
Dedicated circuit(s) with a manual switch from mains to inverter, I’m guessing? But then we get into all the extras required to do that safely and avoid back feeding the grid.
Granted, they have systems/setups specifically for whole house power but I don’t want to feed the whole house, just the important circuits/appliances.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 3 weeks ago:
It took three years but we’ve almost rooted it all out.
There’s still one ancient product that will (theoretically) decommission in mid 2028. It makes with money to cyber the Oracle licensing but isn’t worth reworking to migrate.
Knowing how decom goes, I’m sure it’ll still be running in 2035 with that one last client who “can’t move to the newer, better, easier project because… Reasons (I don’t wanna)”
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 3 weeks ago:
Reinstalled Dropbear for remote LUKS unlock after a SSD failure.
SSD failure was two weeks ago or I’d say rebuilding the server from backups and further polishing my Ansible playbook.
- Comment on Using VPS for remote access of my server - some questions 3 weeks ago:
Second for Pangolin.
They have a cloud hosted free tier you can try but it’s time/ transfer limited. If you like it, you can self host on your VPS with no subscription since it’s all FOSS software.
Also, thank you for addressing the native app vs Pangolin auth layer challenge. I’ve been wrestling with that myself.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 3 weeks ago:
“the 1900s”
: /
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 3 weeks ago:
I recently picked up a 2024 model moto g power 5g. The main reason is that I needed the cheapest smart phone I could find locally to test a new provider (phreeli) before committing. That, and to serve as a ready backup if one of ours dies. $115 at a big box store.
It’s… fine. Even after debloating I get about half the battery life of my galaxy s20 which is now 5 years old. I haven’t been able to figure out what’s eating it, or maybe it just has a smaller battery… I should check that.
- Comment on Simple inexpensive cloud backup? 4 weeks ago:
Does borg need an entire python venv?
I was looking at “modern” backup tools while back and when I saw borg was python I decided not to bother.
Instead I focused on restic for a little while and then rsync was already there and I already knew the commands so… Rsync. Though I still have restic on my list.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 4 weeks ago:
I learn something new every day, thanks bud.
- Comment on One for the ignition and one for the trunk 4 weeks ago:
I took a turn too fast in a 1990 S-10 and the keys flew out of the ignition… That’s how I learned about this.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 4 weeks ago:
They’re not supposed to put chicken shit on the sandwich unless you specifically request it.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 1 month ago:
Looks like you called it. Seems the container image(s) default to a subscription plan (“Starter”, free for <50 users) but apparently you can revert to the “Community Edition” which gets rid of it.
Found this post over at the place we no longer speak of :
Hello, I’m Gabriel Engel, the founder of Rocket.Chat. I want to clarify that there is no new limitation for community use. We’ve recently introduced a plan offering all enterprise features for free to groups with fewer than 25 users. For those with more users, you have the opportunity to try the enterprise features. After the trial period, the system will automatically revert to the community version. However, you have the option to bypass the trial in the admin settings. I emphasize that we are not imposing any restrictions; instead, we’re providing the enterprise version free to small teams and inviting larger teams to experience it. Let’s view this as the positive initiative it is. For more details, please visit our forum: forums.rocket.chat/t/…/18736
In the admin settings for your instance you can go to the “Subscription” panel and down at the veeeery bottom is a “Cancel Subscription” button (I’m on the free “starter” subscription, apparently). I’m assuming that’s how you back out of it.
Once I have a chance to warn users that I’m about to do something potentially dramatic, I’ll test it out and see what happens.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 1 month ago:
RocketChat is pretty easy to setup with docker. I couldn’t get it to work in podman after many, many hours of trying despite the documentation saying it does. They have a dedicated podman doc page but I just hit problem after problem after problem. I was trying to do it with the containerized mongo add a PoC though - a lot of problems came from that. Maybe I’ll try again with a “real” db server. Root cause seemed to be networking differences between docker and podman.
I found it really odd that your server has to get a registration key from their server… That part weirds me out.
- Comment on no, I don't have ig 1 month ago:
O shit. What year is it?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
There are times when things need to be broken. But I also definitely understand your angle.
- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 1 month ago:
I appreciates that but unfortunately it is under a different identity and I don’t want to cross the two.
- Comment on Alternatives to Mattermost 1 month ago:
This sounds like exactly my research arc over the last few months. I went with rocket because the 50 user limit is probably fine… Doesnt work with podman regardless of the docs.
Curious to see where you land
- Comment on Best gas masks 1 month ago:
Did Mira used to be Avon?
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 1 month ago:
I switched.
- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 1 month ago:
I started a blog specifically to make me document these things in a digestable manner. I doubt anyone will ever see it, but it’s for me. It’s a historical record of my projects and the steps and problems experienced when setting them up.
I’m using 11ty so I can just write markdown notes and publish static HTML using a very simple 11ty template. That takes all the hassle out of wrangling a website and all I have to do is markdown.
If someone stumbles across it in the slop ridden searchscape, I hope it helps them, but I know it will help me and that’s the goal.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 month ago:
But what about videos of DOGS farting?
- Comment on YSK that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the best engineering school in the world. You can take free courses at MIT online. 1 month ago:
We should start using “my friend Anna” similarly to “friend of Dorothy” but for books.
- Comment on Day 555 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
I recently picked up MCC on Deck for the nostalgia. It’s been at least 15 years since I played the original and I don’t think I played any of the sequels.
MCC is weird on Deck - you have to install the games through the Steam DLC menu, not the “install games here like the instructions say” inside of MCC.
I was super pissed I needed a Microsoft account to play, and that the login screen glitched repeatedly, but I eventually got in.
… Single player only for me.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 months ago:
It’s being pushed very hard by management where I work and I’m consistently seeing the same as above. I mentioned on another thread recently that I’ve heard “I don’t know why Claude did that” multiple times over the past few weeks.
It’s infuriating.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 2 months ago:
One example I like to use is to ask it for the lyrics of an extremely well known song. It just makes shit up based on the title you give it.
The online ones (Claude, chatgpt, copilot, etc) now refuse to do it for ““copyright reasons”” but the offline ones still happily oblige. I assume the online ones added that block because it was such an obvious way to prove they don’t “know” shit.
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 2 months ago:
I’d agree with this. I’m a dev, I can make things work, I can’t do art/graphics/assets/etc for shit. Give me 5 or 6 hours and I might be able to get you one image that is semi passable if the intended artistic style is “3 year old with crayons”