Brewchin
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- Comment on Notice: failed container health check for example.org 20 hours ago:
I mean, this is exactly why example.com exists. But I bet ICANN didn’t expect this level of meta abstraction to the absurdity. 😅
- Comment on Russia is using DNS and DPI to block YouTube, Telegram and WhatsApp while pushing state-controlled MAX as alternative 20 hours ago:
Improvement? Unsure. Likely? Yes.
- Comment on Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE 2 days ago:
What does Zionism have to do with this topic?
- Comment on Is browser preference a personality flaw? AI job interview evaluation raises questions— AI said applicant's 'habitual' Chrome use could indicate a 'lack of adaptability' after screening interview 2 days ago:
Classic example of a buyer’s market.
Knew a guy who worked for Goldman Sachs in London pre-2008. One of their interview tests was to ask the candidate to stand on a chair with one leg in the air, and hold the pose. Will doing this absurdity get you the job? Choose wisely…
When you have people lining up down the street for one job, you can make people bark like a dog or cluck like a chicken, knowing they’ll never know if agreeing to debase themselves is a pass or fail.
The interviewer probably doesn’t even know until they spin the (mental) wheel. The humiliation/inconsequentiality is the point.
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 1 week ago:
My recommendation is Debian for a server (real or virtual), or Proxmox. The former is perfectly reasonable and excellent experience; the latter is more flexible and more complex.
Debian is the parent distro of numerous Linux flavours (including *buntu, which aren’t suitable as a server OS, IMHO), so administration and services are all common (apt, etc). No need to learn dnf, pacman/yay, etc.
It’s still my preferred server OS, despite other options and being experienced.
Though I do also have a NUC running Proxmox (for VMs and LXCs), and both a NAS and RasPi running Docker. 🤷♂️ My Debian server is a VM inside one of them.
- Comment on New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer 1 week ago:
It’s a good post. I’m not in the US, so will take their word for it on the details.
Good intentions, it seems, but classic thin-end-of-the-wedge territory. IP holders must be rubbing their hands with glee.
As with the US DMCA, I can easily see this DRM expanding to include patterns and blueprints of patented items so “Blocked: This file’s characteristics seem to match a patent/IP owned by Ford” (or Apple, Hasbro, John Deere, etc) will almost certainly follow quickly.
And as with the UK Child Safety Act, even poorly written, unfit for purpose laws can expand rapidly. It went from “age verification on adult sites” to “…and all VPNs” in mere months, and is heading to “age verify everything!” if they get their way.
- Comment on Guitar technology 2 weeks ago:
I was imagining that setup with any stringed instrument that traditionally uses catgut or nylon. “Loaded gun” doesn’t begin to describe that. 😄
- Comment on How to revert Firefox’s latest changes to address bar suggestions 2 weeks ago:
Waterfox had a rocky start, with privacy settings being reset to defaults on each load. Once that was unbroken, I made it my permanent browser on PC and mobile. Zero regrets.
Mozilla is a shadow of its former self. I understand they desperately want that Google pay cheque, but “number must go up” mentality and MBA-infected CxOs can both get in the bin.
- Comment on Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires – The HFT Guy 3 weeks ago:
Unless it was laid in the 1950s, in which case it’s probably aluminium wire rather than copper.
There’s an area like that between the local exchange and my house, which meant internet speeds were like living in a time capsule before FTTC came along. Always 25% of what the rest of the town had.
But other than edge cases like mine, I agree. Copper lasts a long time with minimal things to go wrong. Modern solutions like FTTC require their own power, air conditioning, etc.
- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. But one climb down means potentially more, as needed. 🤞🏻
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 4 weeks ago:
Yes, the “yet” is doing all the work here. Along with a heft dose of “Digg was great” for those of its who used it and, well, the inevitable enshittification that all PE-led startups follow. And Rose has proven he’s no exception.
A bit like Bluesky, where the USP is “just like Xitter, but without Elmo at the helm”. The days are numbered, etc.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps where you live.
Internet 101: Laws aren’t the same everywhere.
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 5 weeks ago:
Microslop going full “the beatings will continue until morale improves” with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.
- Comment on Small or medium-sized Mastodon instances? 5 weeks ago:
The @FediTips@social.growyourown.services account created a site specifically to help people decide on a Mastodon server based on their needs and wants:
They’re also an account worth following.
- Comment on Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1 5 weeks ago:
I’d forgotten about that. How dumb. 🤦🏻♂️
- Comment on Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1 5 weeks ago:
The 80s, I think, thanks to AutoDesk. AutoCAD required their DB9 serial dongle (in-line with the mouse) for the software to function.
As you say, well before DRM was the default for everything. I thought they were an awful company for it, but little did I know how things would pan out due to the DMCA… 😒
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe $100/year? I prefer games without a “box price”, though I do make exceptions.
Most are free-to-play that specifically aren’t pay-to-win, and play them for years. I’ll also consider paying for DLC and/or “battle pass” systems in them if the content and bang-for-buck is worth it to me.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 5 weeks ago:
Hence me mentioning the price. When does it stop being worth it? You were clearly happy with $120/year, but everyone has their own threshold.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 month ago:
What I see: “You can verify this image if you install our app.” Garbage post.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 month ago:
Game Pass sounds great, but the average game play time is ~2 weeks. You’re paying $240–480/year to skim the surface of multiple games.
That’s a lot for what is essentially a demo experience. There are better ways to approach gaming.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 month ago:
I never pre-order nor pay for early access. Examples are plenty, but a couple that spring to mind are New World and Ashes of Creation. (Even excluding the infinite early access of PUBG, and whatever the hell Star Citizen is).
For the former, their “beta test” was “yeah, it runs: ship it” and ZERO feedback was noted or actioned. The release day was The Single Worst game release I’ve ever seen, and 4 years later when Amazon decided to kill it, ALL of the beta bugs were still there. To be fair, it was a “pay once” game. With MTX, of course.
For the latter, people started by paying $300+ for “alpha access” and more recently $100 for the same thing. And it’s clearly 2-4 years away from being remotely ready for release. Those people are paying to do QA. And it will be pay-per-month on release, as if it was 2010.
If your FOMO overrides your other faculties, and you’re willing to put up with all of that, then fine. You do you. 👍🏻
Me? I’m done playing these financial games with video games. Until a game is released/GA, it’s vapourware and non-existent. But again: you do you.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 1 month ago:
It’s true that people on the internet can be dicks. Even more so technical people (and that’s not limited to online: those online dicks are usually IRL dicks when taking technical stuff). But that’s a hurdle, not a barrier.
There’s little anyone here can do to help OP, as they (if I understand it correctly) have already irreparably nuked their hardware. The current problem is significantly different and harder than the original problem. Asking randos on this community is unlikely to yield results. Hence the focus on variations of “Now… what did we learn? 🤨”
I’m not trying to help, as I’m not familiar enough with SAS nor the current problem. The same is likely true of others here.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 1 month ago:
Can you really blame anyone who turns to AI, because that garbage at least sounds like it tries to help you?
A comfortable lie is still a lie. Everything that comes out of an LLM is a lie until proven otherwise. (“Lie” is a bit misleading, though, as they don’t have agency or intent: they’re a variation of your phone keyboard’s next-word text prediction algorithm. With added flattery and confidence.)
There’s a reason experienced people stress hard to others about not using them as shortcuts to your own knowledge. This is the outcome.
Another way to look at it is “trust, but verify”. If you’re intent on relying on probabilistic text as an answer, instead of bothering to learn, then take what it’s given you and verify what that does before doing it. You could learn to be an effective sloperator with just that common sense.
But if you’re going to give an LLM root/admin access to a production environment, then expect to be laughed at, because you had plenty of opportunities to not destroy something and actively chose not to use them.
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 1 month ago:
The same Anna’s Archive that allows free anonymous downloads that are throttled to the speed of a 1990-era modem unless you pay?
Yes, I’m sure preservation and social good is their goal. Definitely not about making money.
- Comment on Coursera and Udemy enter a merger agreement valued at around $2.5B | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Remember when everyone used to say that competition breeds innovation? 😖
Turns out that’s nowhere near as
shareholder-friendlyprofitable as consolidation, monopoly and micro-iteration.Looking forward to all public US companies being a subsidiary of the Amazon-Walmart-Disney mega-conglomerate in 20 years or so…
- Comment on Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy 1 month ago:
I certainly see the appeal of being able to make it avoid certain areas. Sounds better than arranging furniture or using those little battery-powered outposts to repel the Roomba (can’t remember what they’re called).
But, for me, I don’t see that outweighing the risks of cloud dependencies (and the inevitable expiration date).
Even assuming a solid internet connection, reliable cloud service and perfect software updates, you may still only get a year or two out of it before they decide to yank it or make it a subscription service. The last decade or so of shitty manufacturer behaviour has permanently jaded me, I think… 😅
- Comment on Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy 1 month ago:
Interesting to hear the feedback, thanks.
- Comment on Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy 1 month ago:
I’ve had a dumb Roomba (560? 650?) for years. The worst they can do is stop making replacement batteries and brushes available, and there’s plenty of third-party alternatives.
Who buys a smart device when a dumb one is available and does the job just as well. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry 2 months ago:
Saw the YT video for this a while back (~15 mins) and thought it mostly a nostalgic throwback to the stuff we saw or hoped for in the 80s and 90s. If “how can we charge rent for this?” hadn’t come along and destroyed innovation, anyway.
It seems more like a proof of concept, as it just fills soapy water up past the seal line, shows progress and wildlife scenes on screen (which will definitely be used to advertise at you eventually), sprays your face and other bits above the water line, drains, and then blow dries you. You’d still need to scrub, and wash your back, butt, etc.
I was kind of hoping for one of those sonic/pulsing water/jet-wash/scrubbing shower things you see in SF. This isn’t it.
But it is great that some companies are still innovating. It’s been a while.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
You can still use tailscale and reverse proxy to allow remote streaming
I used to use Plex and when I discovered there was paid remote streaming function - that goes through their servers - my reactions were “Haha, no”* and checking whether my existing WireGuard setup would do it instead.
Whaddya know, remote streaming using Plex and PlexAmp at no cost.
*Not because I begrudge them recouping costs, but because it’s designed that way to justify charging for it, gives them whatever information they want from my viewing, and it’s not self-hosting if there’s any third party cloud/account component to it.