Brkdncr

@Brkdncr@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anything I can do to decrease the gap in my blinds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Glue a strip of material to the backside of each fin to extend coverage.

  It won’t looks great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Home hvac units don’t let in fresh air all of the time, they recycle air.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tons of services used daily.

  Piled on the ground under a board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨easy way to manage audio metadata / file organization?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using Picard musicbrainz.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Friend of a friend used dating apps to find places to sleep while traveling, and couch surfing apps to find hookups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude is full of himself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, heat pumps use a lot of energy when running. They are the most efficient way to cool your home though.

  Only an electric water heater or clothes dryer compares to the amount of electricity they use.

  You can improve your homes insulation or set your thermostat higher if you want to reduce the amount used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One extreme defensive move for an enterprise would be to implement full redundancy for anything not hosted on-premises. Redundancy for data protection is relatively straightforward, but having multiple email, supply chain, or e-commerce services is very expensive and disruptive. What are the odds that it would even be needed? Whatever those odds were, they just became much higher.

  This is simply dumb. The odds are greater than zero. you must have a disaster plan. It sucks that MS did this but I don’t have much sympathy for anyone that decided to save money by ignoring DR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are the research projects for long-term storage already deployed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Silica is expected to survive for thousands of years in nearly any temperature, humidity, and chemical environment

  Thousands of years is very different than 1 million years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are the research projects for long-term storage already deployed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even things that seem like they won’t ever change don’t last. Erosion, tectonic plate movement, natural decay of atoms.

  Even giant letters written inside of a mountain won’t last.

  Best you can do is create a simple structure that takes intelligence to create with the only purpose being to show that you once existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Budget small (ish) case for a nas.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Small nas and any size case for compute?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are the research projects for long-term storage already deployed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There nothing that can stick around 1 million years.

  The 3rd installment of the 3 body problem touches on this subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for recommendations for a multi home NAS solution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Synology nas. They recently started thumbing their nose at budget/home users and if I had to buy new I’d consider QNap.

  I would set up a nas at each location and enable quick connect.

  I would set up a redundant drive pool and create volumes to avoid single drive failure.

  I would set up the Drive services. This works just like Dropbox or onedrive. I believe there’s a component that allows Drive on one NAS to sync with Drive on another.

  I would set up hyperbackup between the NAS and use Tailscale to avoid playing with firewalls, dns, NAT.

  Advanced I would set up federated authentication between the nas.

  I would set up firewalls and dns.

  Clients I would set up the photos mobile app for everyone.

  I would set up google/onedrive backups.

  I would set up the Drive app on their machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any social media without memes and US politics?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  LinkedIn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pacific dengue cases highest in a decade: World Health Organization⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dengue is awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shared storage between virtual instances⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is what incus supports. If you have multiple hypervisor hosts then you are talking about remote storage.

  linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/…/storage/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tens of thousands knocked offline after software failure at Musk’s Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not typical. Starlink is more stable than most. I monitor over 8 locations using multiple different services for internet access and Starlink is about as reliable as mpls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replacing Wooden Edges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure but maybe weed control fabric from the turf to the edge of the yard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replacing Wooden Edges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Start pulling one out and see if it’s connected anywhere. I really doubt it will be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • finding and hiring staff will be harder
  • attracting top tier talent will be harder
  • rent will be more expensive
  • childcare will require more sick leave
  • illness will require more sick leave
  • expanding to new territories will be harder

  The c-suite evaluated the cost of rent pretty good and had an existing problem of not being able to hire above average younger talent because the work they were doing was pretty boring. Advertising a good hybrid wfh policy (once a week or once a month in-office depending on different factors) has brought in good people.

  Basically, they saw that it was bringing in cash.

  The biggest challenge has been getting new hires integrated well with existing team leaders.

  There’s also team leaders that refuse to use Teams/zoom, but also don’t answer their phone. In the past you could corner them in their office but now they sort of anchor their team. It’s mostly self-repairing as they stagnate and other teams flourish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨set up local DNS using Pi-hole + nginx + audiobookshelf⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see an immediate issue but I do see some general issues.

  Unless you own local.com, don’t use it.

  While you could use .local as your tld, I wouldn’t do that either. You can buy a domain name for cheap and really that’s the way to go.

  Also, reference your FQDN and not your hostname. Don’t expect hosts to fill in the blanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a Mastodon Moderator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People ask me what it’s like to be a moderator

  Really? I’m interested but I don’t think I would ask a mod “hey what is it like?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sues YouTuber for alleged iOS 26 trade-secret theft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A long time ago I did some work that involved apple v Samsung and they were pretty strict about even showing a dev device over a voip call.

  Exterior window blinds had to be shut, screens set up on the interior so you couldn’t see through the doors, no recording devices, legal representation on-site to verify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech archeology like this is pretty neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep storage separate or run the nas as a vm on the hypervisor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar powered personal umbrella with battery?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ecoflow makes a hat with panels that charge a battery pack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not where it ends though. They can send you to collections.

  Happened to me from Verizon after I returned their modem and they said I didn’t.

  Many different collectors called and wouldn’t the same track# and photos to show it was returned. It eventually went on my credit, which took a slight hit for all of 2 months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for guidance on safely exposing services⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep it simple. Have an “inside” network and an “outside”

  Use a vpn access stuff inside your network. Split tunneling is fine for mobile devices.

  Secure services that are exposed from outside to inside. Requiring mfa for all accounts goes a long way here. You can use some sort of proxy service.

  Your should manage the firewall, so watch out for Upnp services that try to set up inbound ports automatically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ATT SMTP port 25 unblocking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Port reflector or smtp relay. But the cost approaches the cost of hosted mails service.

  If i had to do this myself i would look at a vps or a business-class ISP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just created my own zero trust network!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a domain and cert doesn’t equal zero trust network.