ITGuyLevi

@ITGuyLevi@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for opinions on Trilium Notes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have used both but just started using jotty (jotty.page, github link on the bottom). The SSO setup with Authentik was seamless and it seems really snappy so far and the Dev seems active and involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Twingate good for remote access to a selfhosted Nextcloud server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally like to use a proxy for that like NPM (a handy dockerized nginnx reverse proxy setup). Not as secure as a VPN but I really like being able to access my stuff from anywhere I’m likely to be. I’ve combined it with a few other things to try and add simplicity (in use) and a little extra privacy by using Authentik for SSO. My main goal with the use of NPM though was to limit the number of ports I had punched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨jotty·page - Checklists & Notes made it easy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for this! I’ve just got mine setup and will set up the SSO tomorrow. Seems like exactly like what I’m looking for, you rock!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google flags Immich sites as dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a ‘dangerous site’ warning and then prompts for crap on my Vaultwarden instance (didn’t see it on Immich but this was a while ago). I think I had to prove I owned the domain with some DNS TXT records then let them “recheck” the domain. It seems to have worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They need to bring you in to feel their power over you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in a similar spot, my closest teammates are about 80 miles away and everything is over teams. My only solice is the fact no one works in my building so it’s really quiet (almost too quiet at times).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After reading your comment I had to do more searching and I guess they did actually use it in America… For the bike that I never saw in person, made by Life Fitness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only time I called a number similar was the one on the bottom of my NES or SNES to ask about a connector and what it was for… The guy said it was like a trailer hitch in case they wanted to make something to connect to it. To my country boy self, that made sense. I don’t know if they ever used it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who wishes someone had told me… Adults don’t know what we are doing either. It took me way too long to realize I’m not an imposter pretending to be an adult, we are all just kind of winging it.

  As you grow older you’ll have seen more stuff and it will be a little easier, but I can attest I don’t have a clue what’s for dinner, just like I don’t know what new headache the next meeting will bring. Live life for life’s sake, the clock will keep ticking whether you’re ready or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨International Shitpost Wednesday! ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So many memories getting posted lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a boomer but do love when my wife calls and everyone gets to hear the ever-classic ‘Helo Moto’ ringtone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about 15 bean soup.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found lots of rocks in bags of beans over the years, could be a regional or economic thing too (just as a point of reference, I grew up really poor in the South). As a kid I remember pouring them out on a backing sheet to sort them, little did I realize I’d end up doing something similar as a teen with an AOL CD tin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought my wife a cheap Lenovo laptop when she needed something that supported the “Lockdown” browser (no Linux support). Didn’t realize when I bought it what “S” meant (and I’ve been an IT guy for over 20 years). Got it home and realized what was up, it couldn’t even run that browser because it had to be the preconfigured browser from her school and not one from the MS store. An evening of fiddling and a $3 grey market key and she was back onto a normal Windows install.

  On the plus side the laptop was only like $299 or $399 and really isn’t too bad on the hardware side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Round Two: Can I manage to set up Jellyfin correctly this time?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Umm… Not sure if you are serious but knowledge is meant to be shared so… A reverse proxy isn’t really for convenience, it sits between two networks and proxies traffic according to specific rules. It also has the benefit of masking the origin server a bit (like its IP) and in a lot of cases can be used as a way to ensure traffic going to a server or service that doesn’t support transport encryption actually transverses the internet within a secure tunnel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Round Two: Can I manage to set up Jellyfin correctly this time?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least we are more likely to hear about them than we would for PMS. Quickest way to find vulnerabilities is to have as many eyes as possible on it, if you only let the 20 devs you employ look a lot can be missed. Just my opinion though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, I’ve been in some hot places but massive cooling towers tend to radiate a bit more (now I know what I’m reading about today) and a data center without the ability to pump heat outside isn’t going to make it a whole day before it’s toast.

  Not necessarily disagreeing, just curious about how much heat is dispersed by the ones here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More like a GW of heat… Thankfully I’m sure that will counteract whatever has caused it to be over 80 degrees on my way to work before 0700.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only air conditioned room at my first duty station was a closet they called a server room… No one wanted to do the computer stuff when the cool toys were on the airstrip.

  As for advice… Don’t be scared, every adult you meet is faking it to some extent and it took me a long time to realize it. Also, be wary of random advice on the internet lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just my area or has this been an insanely humid summer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was 81 degrees (27 for the rest of the world) out this morning on my drive to work before 0700. I didn’t have air conditioning growing up so maybe my memories are skewed but it seems way hotter now than it was in the 80s/90s (Captain Planet warned me about this).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does farting make you lighter or heavier ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You get heavier, totally anecdotal evidence on my part but I’ve stepped on the scale in the morning, let a glorious one rip, and the number went up by 0.1.

  I am not saying that I gained 0.1 lbs, just that afterward the scale rounded it up instead of down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Been on it for about 19 months now, it’s what Android should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the play store is sandboxed. Those stupid games covered in ads, no where near as bad when the app never has a network connection or access to any files outside its directory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Umm… Around the year 2000 I worked at a couple of different convenience stores in the south, ours were never cleaned, shit they were rarely changed with the exception of Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper because our regulars would tear through them. I remember the lines being clear…ish? They had the embedded nylon or whatever in the clear tube but ours were way nastier than my 18 year old brain wanted to realize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to leave tech: what do I do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Overall I liked a couple things I hadn’t thought of (NGOs), but the end of the article… that just sounded like any other consultancy service to me. Perhaps that’s too harsh but it doesn’t feel like a new career field (just my opinion).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why your old mobile phone may be polluting Thailand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, I have a box with all my cell phones (as well as my wife’s phones) going back to 2005 when I was able to get my first one. Man I miss my Razor v3 and the OG Motorola Droid, at least I can still look at them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still rocking a Pebble Steel from a decade ago, I tried a fitbit and Galaxy one but this Pebble has outlived them all. Thankfully I managed to find a silicon band for it when the leather one finally gave up on me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Years ago my neighborhood was wired for fiber, well all except for 24 of our houses because it wasn’t profitable, copper still came on our side though… Now that’s been turned off so the 24 of us have the option of cable or wireless.

  Having to stare at a coil of fiber across the street on the end of the pole (not even buried fiber, its on the damn poles) while I enjoy overpaying for 48Mbps… so fast it must be high speed (seriously debated a wireless link to the house across the street but I’m a stickler for the rules).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for an html-based secure message service⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you mentioned Nextcloud and if you happen to already be running it you can use the add-on/module/whatever called Secrets, its exactly what you describe. You make note, send link (can password protect if you want) and once its been viewed its gone.

  If you don’t already have Nextcloud, check out vaultwarden’s (bitwarden) send feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think being able to summon a 60 ton object falling from orbit could do a bit more than kill just one person. Definitely an interesting use though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google might replace the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button with AI Mode⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a Bing fan either because it used to be regurgitated Google results. For now I’m just self-hosting an instance of SearXNG.

  Copilot is pretty good for Azure stuff though, really I just like it because it always has links back to Microsoft’s documentation (even though it’s constantly changing).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google might replace the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button with AI Mode⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to use it… I thought it would take you straight to the first result (but it’s been a long time since I used it)… Now all the top results are hot garbage.