ITGuyLevi

@ITGuyLevi@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had to look this up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you kindly for the links, I was just about to search for the Manchester Bombing, if I’m being honest I thought “The Troubles” was the name of a book or movie. I didn’t realize they gave such a non-chillant name to such a bloody conflict. Suddenly the meme makes sense though!

  Thanks again!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She strongly disagrees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally not trying to sow discourse but I don’t think the person you are replying meant that any meaningful search has occurred beyond our planet. I believe they may have just been saying that over the course of human history so many people have been trying to prove it and none of them have made any real progress.

  Now we have museums showing people living with dinosaurs because enough people wouldn’t believe the bones were buried by the devil to test our faith… I’m all up for any evidence someone has, history is terrifying beautiful, and the bible has some interesting stories, but it doesn’t seem very grounded in this reality (personal opinion I suppose).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would put that more on the ad networks, if the ads were related to the article, it may generate a few more clicks. The ads are completely random and built off a profile they assume would contain relevant info about me… but it doesn’t really seem to be accurate (this is kind of by my own choosing though).

  Instead articles about rebuilding cars should have ads related to perhaps rebuilding cars and not some fucking nutritional supplement or some other unrelated thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for opinions on Trilium Notes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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! ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So many memories getting posted lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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).