cecilkorik

@cecilkorik@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Element/Matrix Official Docker Install Method?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I deal with kubernetes daily for my job and it manages to melt my brain at least a few times a week. It’s not bad… it’s actually great… it’s just… a lot. Like, a lot a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can turkey motion machines be used for producing electricity?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It would theoretically work, but you would probably need dozens, maybe hundreds or even thousands of them to power a single lightbulb. They create almost zero power. They have barely enough energy to move themselves under their own power. There is almost nothing leftover to turn into energy. As soon as you add the resistance of an electric coil, they will just stop, especially if even the merest hint of electrical load is placed on them, like you dropped them into a bucket of glue. If you don’t think adding a mere coil of copper wire can stop such a movement, it absolutely would do so, instantly, like slamming on the brakes. As an experiment, try dropping a magnet down a copper pipe, or look at what this guy does. Moving magnetic fields (which are what you need to turn that motion into energy) are really wild and counterintuitive the way they instantly counteract their own movement.

  The problem with this kind of device is that its physical power output is so limited, even at scale, it would a waste of physical space that would be far more productive with wind turbines, solar panels, or even just batteries storing energy from some other renewable source.

  There is no physical impossibility, it’s just really, really, really, really impractical. It would be like trying to power your farm equipment by growing millions of potatoes to use as batteries for an electric tractor whose only purpose is to farm more potatoes. Okay, great thought, that’s technically renewable energy, except you’d be better off farming something much more energy-dense and turning it into biodiesel or ethanol or something, and suddenly about 99% of the farmland you were going to use for battery-potatoes can now be used to grow actual food or cash crops, and you’re still just as renewable and environmentally friendly so like… why would you want potato batteries, except just to say you can? Same with this idea. It’s nearly impossible to get any useful amount of energy out of it. Yes it’s “free” energy, and sure it’s funny, but… nah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong that my cat casually uses the N word, in my head when I anthropomorphize her?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You should probably talk to a psychiatrist about it to be honest. I’m not a professional, and I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but the fact that you seem to be having trouble distinguishing your fantasy from reality, and choose to write that your cat says these things, without taking responsibility for the fact that it is you saying these things in your own head, suggests you may be suffering from some mental illness, in which case you need to see a mental health professional, or you’re trolling, in which case kindly go fuck yourself with a rusty knife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong that my cat casually uses the N word, in my head when I anthropomorphize her?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your cat doesn’t do anything. You are doing it. That said, thoughtcrime is not a crime. However, you should probably spend some time having some deep thoughts about why you choose to imagine your pet this way, because it says a lot more about you than it does about your cat, and maybe by continuing this, you’re not reinforcing helpful thoughts, ideas, and behaviors for yourself. Or maybe it’s just a harmless fantasy. I’d be more concerned with outcomes than the actual method you’re getting there in your own head. Do you think this is having a positive impact on your life? Is it relieving stress and giving you joy? If that’s all it is, no judgement, have fun with it. Just make sure it doesn’t start leaking out of your head and into your real life where it doesn’t belong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else should I selfhost?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Before you even start, consider adopting an ‘infrastructure as code’ approach. It will make your life a lot easier in the future.

  Start with any actual code: If you have any existing source code, get it under git version control immediately, then prioritize getting it into a git hub like forgejo to make your life easier in the future. Make a git repository for your infrastructure documentation, and record (and comment/document too if you’re feeling ambitious) every command you run in a txt file or an md file or a script, and do that as religiously as you can while you’re setting up all this self-hosted stuff. You may want to dig it up later to try and remember exactly what you did or in case stuff goes wrong and you need to back off and try again. It might seem pointless now, but a year from now, you’ll thank me.

  Especially prioritize getting your git stuff moved into a self-hosted forgejo if any of your stuff is hosted on the microsoft technoplague called github.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no more United States. They would have to be United for that name to still apply. Now there is only the Disunited, Distracted States of America and the rapidly growing Fourth Reich taking their territory from within.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You get what you pay for. Sometimes you get more than you pay for, sometimes you can get lots for free, but you’ll never get a guarantee. If you want anything resembling a guarantee, you have to pay.

  You sound like you want guaranteed advice, but for free. That isn’t going to happen.

  If you want non-guaranteed advice, just ask anywhere on the internet, like here for example. You’ll get lots of answers, none of them guaranteed, but some of them quite possibly very correct. Is that worth the price of “free”? It should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ???⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I ran Matrix for like a year, and pretty much hated every minute. It was fragile, complicated, and incredibly, bafflingly resource intensive. Matrix is an overengineered nightmare in my opinion, and it seems to be quickly distancing itself from self-hosters while pursuing enterprise usage. Neat technology, horrible implementation, misguided company.

  XMPP is a breath of fresh air in comparison. Just like we still use email everywhere (even for authentication nowadays, fun!), XMPP is not obsolete simply because it’s older. It’s a solid foundation, plenty extensible, and does almost everything I can imagine needing to do without unnecessary complexity.

  Matrix’s bridges are its killer feature, and it’s nice… when it works. But it’s simply not worth the headache of dealing with Matrix, in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We are so, so, so thoroughly cooked. I can’t even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for online petitions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want the free petition websites online getting my personal network’s info and sharing or selling it, hence the interest in self hosting.

  So either you’re creating a petition with a size of exactly “1” or you’re asking other people to trust YOU with their personal info instead, or you’re asking for a federated solution (extremely difficult to establish a verifiable web of trust framework, and STILL shares your “personal network’s info” whenever it federates or validates its data to dozens of other servers).

  None of these scenarios are viable for creating a petition that anyone is going to take seriously (to the extent that anyone takes petitions seriously at all)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  fail2ban mainly, but also things like scaling login delays (some sort of option often built into the software you’re running, but just as often not configured by default), or if you’re feeling particularly paranoid account locking after too many failures, and in general just not using default, predictable, common usernames or weak passwords, and honestly it’s even helped a bit by having slow hardware and throttled network bandwidth.

  The goal is to make it so that someone can’t run a script that sends 100 million login attempts per second for common or stolen usernames and passwords and your server just helpfully tries them all and obediently tells them none of those worked… until one of them does.

  Not only does this encourage them to TRY sending 100 million login attempts per second because your server isn’t refusing it, which is a huge waste of bandwidth and resources, it also makes it really likely that they’re eventually going to guess one right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the right community to escape from Reddit for good, honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Please fill out and sign this credit card application form to prove that you are human.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much RAM is in your average EV car, and is it DDR5?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  According to this reverse engineering effort, Tesla MCUs have 4GB of DDR4 onboard.

  That is just the MCU, mind you, and I’m not sure what exactly it’s responsible for besides media, but besides whatever AI nonsense they use for self-driving which might have a good chunk of RAM onboard, it seems likely to me that most other computerized components are just using SOC (system-on-chip) processors with integrated onboard memory, not dedicated DDR. I am not an expert though, and may be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the limits to masked so called ICE agents? Are they just let off the hook and disobey laws while not identifying themselves? Why can't I be in the right by them stopping me first and shoot?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Civil rights are far beyond the back-burner, they’ve already been left out to cool, then emptied into the garbage and now put in the dishwasher, where they’re currently getting thoroughly rinsed clean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hosting multiple services with one IP address.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW I don’t find Apache dated at all. It’s mature software, yes, but it’s also incredibly powerful and flexible, and regularly updated and improved. It’s probably not the fastest by any benchmark, but it was never intended to be. It’s an “everything and the kitchen sink” web server, and I don’t think that’s always the wrong choice. Personally, I find Apache’s litlte-known and perhaps misleadingly named Managed Domains (mod_md/MDomain) by far the easiest and clearest way to automatically manage and maintain SSL certificates, it’s really nice and worth looking into if you use Apache and are using any other solution for certificate renewal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All this bullshit about phones with folding screens nowadays when what I really want is a phone with a folding mechanical 104-key :P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is this icon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Early-model Cylon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is this icon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It can’t be, I haven’t paid for WinRar yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I moved one old laptop to Linux over about a year ago, and committed to an effort to actually make it do the things I wanted to do, like play games, and run Windows-only tools. To say it went well is an understatement. Within a few months I had switched every computer I owned, and I’m never looking back again.

  Granted, I was already quite familiar with Linux on the server side. This was not my first attempt to use Linux on the desktop, either. But it was my last, because I’m never going back to Windows ever again now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so much like watching that Silicon Valley show, but a lot less funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Provided they’re not nazis or fascists or sex traffickers or anything like that. There are bad people out there who prey on vulnerable depressed people and they can be really really nice (at first), and they can wear any costume they want, to fit into any subculture. But some subcultures are more hospitable for them than others. Most subcultures are pretty okay, there’s a few where I would potentially be very careful. Just be smart about it, and be vigilant for abusive behaviors, grooming, and other red flags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably also so Canada’s surrounded so that when he invades us too Europe won’t be able to help. I wish I was joking. I now think that’s a real possibility. And it might come sooner than we think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lenovo Thinkpads are the only reliable choice pretty much and even then it’s a bit of a crapshoot whether they include them or not. HP Elitebooks used to have them too but it seems like they also stopped in 2021. Apple’s never had them as far as I know. There’s a few other one-off small-run options here and there too but they’re few and far between.

  I realize I’m in a very significant minority, but personally, having access to the mouse pointer for short jogs here and clicks there without my hands leaving the keyboard home row is a gamechanger and a non-negotiable feature to me. I’d never claim it’s a great way to move the mouse, but it has extremely high utility due to its convenient positioning, it’s always available even in tight quarters, and anytime space permits it pairs well with a secondary, traditional mouse for movements that are more numerous or complex or need more precision, it works very well with a text-heavy workflow.

  It’s a mouse for people who would rather minimize their mouse usage, and I guess that’s me, or at least that’s the workflow I’ve gravitated to all my life. It’s not an ideology thing, it’s simply the fact that it’s deep muscle memory now, and whenever I try to use any computer without one I struggle so much, and I’ve actively tried more than once to wean myself off it, I can’t, it becomes a constant irritation that any other mouse feels so disconnected from my typing.

  Touchpads are just insanely frustrating to use, I have no idea how some people tolerate using them daily unless it’s all they’ve ever known, and touchscreens are even worse in some ways since your fingers block the screen exactly where you’re trying to press, not to mention getting fingerprint smudges all over it even with the best techno-magic coatings. I loathe them both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No clit-mouse, no deal.

  (There are dozens of us. Dozens!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people are screaming. Most are not. And the words, from those screaming, are cheap. The silence of actions continues to be, and likely will continue to be, deafening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenSCAD Is Kinda Neat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, I already built my own Python wrapper around OpenSCAD’s horrible syntax and editor, but that looks like a much better solution. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for long!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to a werewolf in space?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’m not going to pretend stuff’s not going to get real weird for a werewolf, but I can clarify some of the orbital mechanics a bit.

  First of all, the moon still has all its normal phases from orbit and in pretty much the same durations. For the moon to always be full, you would have to be permanently between the sun and the moon, which is not where an orbit will typically put you. A couple ways you could do this: You could orbit the sun instead, or at least orbit closer to it than Earth does. From Venus’s orbit, both Earth and our Moon are always “full”. You could set yourself up at a lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun.

  The other simple way you could achieve an always-full or at least frequently-full moon is to get into what’s known as sun-synchronous orbit.

  The simplest way though, might be to just land on the Moon’s surface. The terminator between day and night on the moon’s surface only moves at about 9.6 miles per hour, even slower the closer you get to the poles. An athletic werewolf could probably jog to keep up, and stay permanently on the “full” day side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is you have failed at least one, probably both, of the foundational rules of any capitalist society.

  First rule of capitalism: Be rich. Second rule of capitalism: Don’t be poor.