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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palo Alto Networks confirms mystery zero day now exploited⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The network gear I manage is only accessible via VPN, or from a trusted internal network…

  …and by “my network” I mean my home network (a router and a few managed switches and access points). If a doofus like me can set it up for my home, I’d think that actual companies would be able to figure it out, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guerrilla Women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  …which implies the existence of integer women, real women, complex women, imaginary women, rational & irrational women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨topical⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Open to discussion, but since 2008, the Democrats have won every election where the leadership didn’t “put their finger on the scale” in the primaries/picking the candidate. Obama, Obama; Clinton arguably shouldn’t have been the nominee and Sanders should have; Biden was (?) properly primaries; Harris was picked — obvious pick, but still, not primaried.

  Or the other reason, that the US is too sexist to elect a woman. It’s depressing either way of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨topical⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Democrats, in hindsight, fucked up with the economy and/or the messaging.

  Did inflation happen because of the groundwork that Trump laid down in his term (not to mention global pandemic)? Sure — but did inflation get really bad under Biden? Yes, absolutely. That doesn’t make it his fault, but it makes it a problem that the Democrats probably needed to address more aggressively, an all-out attack on rising cost of living.

  At the start of the pandemic, for me to carry $100 of normal weekly groceries home from the supermarket was a real challenge, but I could do it. Now, I carry $100 no problem, with a toddler on my shoulders. The money doesn’t really matter to me, but from what I’ve been reading, it really mattered to a lot of voters. Again: I think his will be worse under Trump (if it does get better, it’ll be due to some shady tax rebates to supermarkets or big ag or something, IMHO).

  So while the Dems are talking about first time home credits and whatnot, Vance is out there lying about the price of eggs — but it’s a lie that “feels” right to a lot of people, and anecdotally, has some truth to it in that inflation/cost of living increase is real. Nevermind that the R policy is…what, exactly? But they say they’ll fix it, and they point out that Dems are currently in power, and that’s enough for a lot of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lab toys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever you do, do not touch that one BNC cable. Just trust me on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome bandwidth to be sure, but I do think there is a difference between data transfer to RAM (such as network traffic) vs. traffic purely from one location to another (station wagon with tapes/747 with SD cards/etc.).

  For the latter, actually using the data in any meaningful way is probably limited to read time of the media, which is likely slow.

  But yeah, my go-to would be micro SD cards on a plane :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bitey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, the (rough) conversion efficiency of calories to mechanical joules in the human body (separate from the mechanical to electrical you’re referring to) is about 25% — but this is about the same factor as going from calories to joules! So, for a human to put out 13.5 kJ of energy would require about 13.5 food calories (kilocalories).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same argument against vegetarianism/veganism — we have teeth “designed” or evolved for eating meat, thus we should eat meat.

  …we also have brains capable of abstract reasoning, but nevermind that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNC Kitchen – What is the best way to dry your desiccant? (microwave)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps microwaving for significantly longer, at a low power level, would be safer and result in higher success/yield?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it has a lot to do with disposition and convenience. I’m lazy, and I don’t like to drive if I can help it. But I live near enough to public transportation that we’ll spontaneously decide to hop on the subway and grab dinner on the waterfront.

  It’s not the money that’s preventing us from hopping in the car to go to some new beach for dinner, it’s the convenience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean…it depends on the job? I go on walks during working hours all the time to clear my head and think about a problem I’m working on. I don’t try to hide this from my manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to run a reverse proxy only on a specific service or port?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mostly so that I can have SSL handled by nginx (and not per-service), and also for ease of hosting multiple services accessible via subdomains. So every service is its own subdomain.

  Additionally, my internal network (as in, my physical LAN) does not have any port forwarding enabled — everything is over WireGuard to my VPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on true events⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For a while I thought the Google AI result had a pretty logical, well thought out, practical solution — use glue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to run a reverse proxy only on a specific service or port?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My method:

  VPS with reverse proxy to my public facing services. This holds SSL certs, and communicates with home network through WireGuard link configured on my router.

  Local computer with reverse proxy for all services. This also has SSL certs, and handles the same services as the VPS, so I can have local/LAN speeds. Additionally, it serves as a reverse proxy for all my private services, such as my router/switches/access point config pages, Jellyfin, etc.

  No complaints, it mostly just works. I also have my router override DNS entries for my FQDN to resolve locally, so I use the same URL for accessing public services on my LAN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We tend to use between 3kWh (vacation/idle power consumption) and around 8kWh per day. If we switched to electric stove, water heater, and heat pump, and add a hot tub, that’d increase substantially. But if we added solar (on our long Todo list…), the battery in the article (60kWh) would probably be able to handle all our storage needs, and it’d fit in he garage (bonus of it can be placed outside/under a deck!). I live in a major city, but I would absolutely love to effectively be off grid.

  Exciting stuff — it seems these are touted as being extremely robust/safe, which is of course important for me if it’s going to be in/near our house. Storage density not a huge concern, but price is somewhat important — let’s hope this sort of thing ticks all the boxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And your VPN connection to work knows your endpoint…

  Interestingly, there’s another way of finding out if your coworker is in the office — just walk over to their desk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this extremely genre dependent? And regardless, this has been going on for a long time.

  The Supremes? Good looking gals (and great music IMHO).

  Grateful Dead? Sure, rough around the edges.

  The Doors? Um…ever seen a picture of Jim Morrison? Dude would make Derek Zoolander blush.

  Out of curiosity, I asked Spotify for modern metal music, and I got The Black Dahlia Murder — frontman looks like a regular dude who I’d grab a beer with.

  Yeah, modern pop places a ton of emphasis on looks, sure. But I think this has been pretty prominent in music for a very long time, be it the airbrushed R&B of the sixties, the androgynous glam of the eighties, or the metro sexual (guy)/model-esque looks of modern pop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Empires fall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, no hard feelings towards the retail folks, they’re doing what they’re supposed to. It’s just that I wish the corporate incentives were different so it felt more like the staff were trying to help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Empires fall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My only complaint with microcenter is that the commission in incentives come of as extreme. Like I will be walking around with something in my hand and a rando will come up to me, say “hey there boss, lemme just slap this on that for you,” and proceed to put a sticker on it with their ID. Not a big deal, but palpable, and makes it harder to just browse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women in STEM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I took some astronomy classes in the early 2000s, Jocelyn Bell was absolutely credited. In her own words:

  It has been suggested that I should have had a part in the Nobel Prize awarded to Tony Hewish for the discovery of pulsars. There are several comments that I would like to make on this: First, demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve. Secondly, it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project. We hear of cases where a supervisor blames his student for a failure, but we know that it is largely the fault of the supervisor. It seems only fair to me that he should benefit from the successes, too. Thirdly, I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases, and I do not believe this is one of them. Finally, I am not myself upset about it - after all, I am in good company, am I not!

  That said, yeah, I think she absolutely should have been awarded the Nobel prize. But while she did not, she has the admiration — rightly so — of many a budding astronomer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lingering damage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I get that people feel like they have so little control over their lives that they feel the need to generally be passive aggressive assholes to people they deem unworthy, but this is just an overall dick move. Having working public/municipal plumbing is a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted chat service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting TLS certs will be complicated

  I just use Let’s Encrypt with a wildcard domain — same certs for public and private facing domains. I’m sure this isn’t best practice, but it’s mostly just for me so I’m not too worried :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The phrase "Pics or it didn't happen" is largely meaningless now that AI is a thing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing it wouldn’t work for a variety of reasons, but having cameras digitally sign the image+the metadata could be interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted chat service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t expose Jellyfin over the Internet, so it doesn’t matter for me, and wouldn’t work at all over WAN (unless VPN’d to home network).

  Also, it’s all reverse proxied, and there’s nothing preventing having two Jellyfin hostnames, e.g., jf-local.mydomain.com and jf-public.mydomain.com.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted chat service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another fun trick you can play is to use a private IP on your public DNS records. This is useful for Jellyfin on Chromecast for instance — it uses 8.8.8.8 for DNS lookup (and ignores your router settings), so it wants a fully qualified domain name. But it has no problem accessing local hosts, so long as it’s from 8.8.8.8’s record.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted chat service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have set up local DNS entries (with Pi-Hole) to point to my srrver, but I don’t know if it possible to get certs for that, since it is not a real domain.

  So long as your certs are for your fully qualified domain there’s no problem. I do this, as do many people — mydoman.com is fully qualified, but on my own network I override the DNS to the local address. Not a problem at all — DNS is tied to the hostname, not the IP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk destroys astronomy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this was always bound to happen as we expand our presence in space.

  Yes and no — from a different article:

  Radiation associated with Starlink satellites was detected at observing frequencies between 110 and 188 MHz, which is well below the 10.7- 12.7 GHz radio frequencies used for the downlink communication signals.

  (The original article said 5M radiation, which should be around 60MHz.)

  So Starlink is emitting RF in spectrum where they shouldn’t, which is avoidable, but takes effort.

  My guess, and I could be wrong, is that this could be related to something other than the radio(s), such as switching power supplies finding opportunistic structures from which to radiate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …and I don’t see it motivating people to go vote.

  But it can do the opposite perhaps — “motivate” people to stay home who would otherwise vote R. Not that, in general, we should be celebrating voter apathy, but I think that some of these endorsements could dishearten folks enough that they end up abstaining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student dorm does not allow wifi routers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My university was pretty zen about this — essentially, “don’t use your own access point/router please. But if you do, please talk to your resident (University employed) student IT rep and they can probably help you set it up correctly.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always prefer it without the dashes. And just add on HHMMSS while we’re at it!