ITGuyLevi
@ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 1 week ago:
Pluto ain’t gonna quit, impact craters level out after a while, and that mofo has more geologically interesting shit going on than most people realize.
- Comment on who would win 1 week ago:
I’m a fan of scroll lock, not too useful but powershell is more than happy to turn it on and then back off 200ms later at random intervals… All while showing me a countdown to quitting time and a day counter until I’m out the door.
- Comment on The US bans all new foreign-made network routers 1 week ago:
I’ll stick with my pfsense… Just rebuilt it yesterday to upgrade it a bit.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 1 week ago:
I picked up a 2 pack with a USB charger from amazon for like 10 bucks last year, then when I dug out my old PSP the battery was fine. I love my old PSP.
- Comment on It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology 2 weeks ago:
I agree for the most part, but if we are all walking around in jumpsuits and helmets (Daft Punk style) and repeating the digital beacons of everyone else it seems like false positives are a skill issue for AI. Not too long ago I was watching a video about a guy that was a 100% match in the eyes of AI as someone that was trespassed by the casino. When the cops showed up and he presented his documents, the cops brought him to the station as they thought he must have given false ID when he was originally trespassed. He was eventually able to prove his innocence but the fact he was taken into custody because AI messed up makes me have no issue with people doing stuff to intentionally poison the data.
None of this matters in the present context though because just by wearing that you would be easily identifiable.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 2 weeks ago:
I’m so glad I don’t ‘sideload’ anything, never learned how. I have been installing software since the 90s though and it’s pretty much the same as always.
Joke aside, it really seems more like ‘sideloading’ when you go to a store, to ask it to install something on your phone instead of just installing it directly on the device.
- Comment on It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology 2 weeks ago:
The clothing they wear solves most of those. For the physical side (gait, height, etc) it’s a little harder but shoe’s have an effect on most of those (i.e. the round bottom shoes meant to help people work out just by walking wildly change a normal gait and posture).
For the devices though it could get fun. You could have a device mounted in the helmet that will pretend to be people you’ve passed, essentially just replaying the beacons (SSID broadcasts, etc) for the sake of a digital camouflage.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t used it in the past few months, I’ll definitely give it another try though
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 4 weeks ago:
It works okay, but not great for me. I toss my phone on one of my old laptops docking station at work, but some apps like to force a shit resolution. It is pretty neat having them in moveable windows though.
- Comment on Using huntarr? Perhaps you shouldn't. 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure a successor will come around when room forms for them, I don’t know of a reason any of the core *arr stack should need one. If you know of one don’t hesitate to share, I’m just not really aware of any, they are awesome to me.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 1 month ago:
When I realized they paywalled OIDC I had to look elsewhere.
- Comment on Follow the rules! 1 month ago:
As a current one I concur.
- Comment on Is there a word or phrase in your language to describe the situation when you wanted to fart but shit yourself? 1 month ago:
Yeah, some of us never forget and fondly remember every embarrassing moment we’ve witnessed, thankfully most of us know to not bring it up and just enjoy it to ourselves.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 month ago:
I’ve used both but really like jotty…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I was wondering how far down I would have to scroll for someone to mention that one… That one was pretty damn rough to watch.
- Comment on What is the Best way to migrate Google-Photos to Immich? 2 months ago:
I was too lazy and immich-go may not have existed when I migrated but I just selected and downloaded my pictures from Google Photos then just uploaded them to Immich and they seemed to keep all their metadata.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 months ago:
My wife woke up to a scare when she found a chipmunk in her toilet in the middle of the night. We have no clue how it got in there unless it came in through the cat door and fell in (we are in Georgia in the US for reference).
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 months ago:
I agree at least a little bit… I have no issue peeing with it down. The down votes have it!
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 months ago:
Growing up, pretty much all our hick schools had were encyclopedias; when wikipedia showed up it felt like they were just against the ease of it’s use. Smarter kids would still use the sources cited in Wikipedia, but teachers hated when you referenced a research paper because they couldn’t find it.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 3 months ago:
Just to toss this in there, it totally wasn’t a bug, you were sending a deauth packet to force them to reconnect then recapturing their auth sequence until you had enough packets to crack the WEP key. A pretty fun demo back then was to setup a wireless bridge between an open public network and a rogue AP (usually we’d just use a pcmcia WiFi card bridge to the internal WiFi adapter); then (due to pretty much no https anywhere), you could follow peoples browsing habits, log into their MySpace/LiveJournal/DeadJournal/GeoCities/etc (passwords were pretty commonly passed in plaintext), etc.
It was never done nefariously, but allowed us to learn a lot.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 3 months ago:
I could, but then I would have issues getting to it from work; from the bit I’ve read about mTLS, it’s not really indended for my use case, I think I’ll just stick with TLS.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 3 months ago:
I keep mine accessible from the internet, its just more useful to me like that. I do have registration disabled though and SSO is handled by Authentik so it could be worse (my personal goal has just been to not be the easiest target, perfect security is a myth in my mind).
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 3 months ago:
Agreed! I stayed with Plex for a long time because Jellyfin had a rough time with live TV (antenna) and I already had a PlexPass because of a sale a long time ago. Now Plex is only still running because I love Plexamp.
- Comment on Journiv self hosted journal: Now with markdown and inline media support 3 months ago:
It looks really good, I’m definitely going to be spinning this up once I get a chance. Having OIDC right out the gate is a huge plus in my book!
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 3 months ago:
I couldn’t agree more, I join selfhosting communities all over and not just because I need more stuff to host, because of the community. I love getting to read through the questions and answers, even when they are questions that could be answered by just reading the man page… Maybe it just reminds me of the good old days as I’m getting older and remember asking a lot of similar questions.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 3 months ago:
That’s why permissions are important, so many people want full control of everything then seem to forget when they launch a program, it runs with their permissions. If I want to wipe out everything on a drive I have to elevate my permissions to a level with rights for that, running a program with the rights to wipe their data was definitely a choice.
- Comment on Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos 4 months ago:
Oh yeah, I’ve killed mine a couple times. Usually it’s because I didn’t keep it updated and jumped too far ahead too quickly. Rolling it back and walking it forward fixed it for me once, another time there was something I was supposed to run first and I didn’t read the release notes (that one was a really long time ago though).
- Comment on Perfect size for brats 4 months ago:
Here in the southern US, pigs in a blanket is typically made from little cocktail smokies wrapped in about 1/3’rd of an uncooked pilsbury cresssant, then tossed in an oven until done. I really thought a sausage roll from Tesco would be similar but it was not… That’s when I realized y’all have pretty bad food there (no offense), why did you guys start putting hotdogs in pizza crust? As an aside, I love how orderly everyone queues up for stuff there, almost like a country with functioning adults that teach their kids how to wait their turn.
- Comment on Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement 4 months ago:
OAuth is one thing I hate to see locked behind a paywall; it’s one thing for the pretty, management-geared stuff (dashboards and charts) to be a paid feature, but not security.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 4 months ago:
I’d argue that I bought the car, if they are maintaining a cellular connection to the vehicle to collect telemetry data, I should be allowed to access it as well (I own the car), alternatively they could let me pay for the data connection and not collect stuff.