folekaule

@folekaule@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse for teens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First: you’ve done good, raising a kid that asks for your permission first.

  Second: realize that this comes from peer pressure, them wanting a space away from parental supervision. If you truly want to make your kids savvy about the Internet, you need to assume they will eventually encounter seedy places, run into assholes, and be exposed to things like bullying.

  Have a conversation: you will encounter these things. Your friends may be into them. But they can have bad effects and here is how you avoid it and how to deal if it happens to you. Talk about keeping private information private.

  Be open and non-judgemental. You want them to feel safe coming to you for advice.

  Be truthful and stay credible. Keep up with what’s out there, but don’t just buy into the latest Tiktok scare.

  Talk to your kids about stuff they found that was cool or scary.

  Embarrass them by using memes incorrectly.

  Setting up a mastodon instance may be cool at first, but their friends are going to think it’s lame with the supervision. You could still do it for a number of other reasons, but it won’t prepare them for the ugly Internet.

  Source: me, a parent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rawr⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always download the backup 2fa codes. This is when you need them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pedestrians Walking on Right or Left?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Growing up in Norway, where roads are narrow, days are short, and snow piles up above a second grader’s head, we were taught to use sidewalks, when they are available, or walk on the left (we drive on the right). I think it’s supposed to make it easier to see oncoming traffic and get out of the way.

  More importantly, though, was to wear reflective clothing. As a driver: please for the love of God don’t go running in a black track suit along a dark country road early in the morning. You’re not a fucking ninja. Wear something reflective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things are getting really crazy.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The request has been submitted to uservoice and has 265,567 votes, so it will probably be any time now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s ELI5, but this is a common misconception and will lead you astray. They do not have the same level of isolation, and they have very different purposes.

  For example, containers are disposable cattle. You don’t backup containers. You backup volumes and configuration, but not containers.

  Containers share the kernel with the host, so your container needs to be compatible with the host (though most dependencies are packaged with images).

  For self hosting maybe the difference doesn’t matter much, but there is a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try to come across friendly without sounding condescending.

  First, empathize (I know those things can be tricky, it took me a minute the first time), then offer to help without judgement (I have some experience with these, would you like me to try?), then back off if they say no.

  If they refuse help, you’ve done what you can, end of story. Don’t be pushy.

  Key point here is to be nice about it. Don’t call them out or make them feel dumb. Don’t judge. You don’t know why they’re not getting it, and next time maybe it is you who is “dumb”.

  Also, don’t expect everyone to share your intellect (it’s obvious to you) or curiosity (you want to know how it works). Most people just want their problem fixed and move on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secrets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  See if a light weight kubernetes installation is for you. Secrets are first class citizens in k8s. You can make maintain secrets in a number of different ways, but they are exposed to containers the same way. They can become files or environment variables, whether you need.

  I recommend looking at k3s to run on your Pi and see if that works for you. You can add vault software on top of that later without changing your containers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least terrible domain registrars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have one of my domains on Cloudflare and was thinking of moving the rest of them there. What makes it harder to move name servers away from Cloudflare than other places?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. This is not medical advice
  2. Ask your doctor
  3. Talk to the airline. They can at least tell you if they carry peanuts on their flights. And you should inform them if you go, to make sure the crew knows
  4. On overnight flights they often serve one or two full meals. I don’t recall being served peanuts on one, but it’s possible some of their meal options include nuts
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't states in the US come up with their own health insurance program? So people can pay into it prolly less then what they pay now and the state put the money in a bank and use the interest for⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The percentage varies, but the federal government funds more than half.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would a UTF-8 MySQL backup contain invalid UTF-8 characters?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Unicode standard allows, but recommends against, adding a BOM for utf8 files. Utf8 does not need them.

  I’ve only seen Microsoft tools adding that, and it breaks some parsers.

  Please don’t add BOM to utf8 files unless for some reason you need them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would a UTF-8 MySQL backup contain invalid UTF-8 characters?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Character encoding and type coercion errors are so common. But a lot of bugs also come from programs trying to do “the right thing”. Like in OP’s case: they are just trying to import some data and maybe the data was never even intended to be interpreted as utf8, but the tool they are using to remove the commands wants to treat it that way. Sometimes the safest thing to do is to just assume data is binary until you care otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would a UTF-8 MySQL backup contain invalid UTF-8 characters?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if this helps you, but for anyone working with utf8 and MySQL, it’s worth reading up on the details of their Unicode support. Especially the part where it says that ‘utf8’ is an alias for ‘utf8mb3’, which may not be compatible with what other systems consider to be ‘utf8’. If you aren’t careful with this you will have problems, especially with high code points, like emoji.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I thought it was an easy question ...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, in Unicode land…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This needs to go viral and be posted in reviews for every monitor with this “feature”. Heck, make a convenient warning icon indicating “adware” for such reviews so I can scroll past them faster.

  No way I’m risking buying a TV or monitor from LG after seeing this. It would go right back in the box to be returned.