r0ertel

@r0ertel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For those too lazy to click through to the article and don’t know what an Ai Pin is;

  The Humane Ai Pin is a wearable, internet-connected AI device designed to offer a phone-free way to interact with an AI assistant from anywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the same policy with public toilets. If you flush at the start to verify that it’s working and flush at the end then it’s double the flushes. That’s why I only flush at the start. All my coworkers complain, but they’re not concerned with the environment like me! So wasteful!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the only reason I keep a windows VM around. Windows is getting so naggy though. Every time I boot it up, it wants me to update it, install virus scanner and ser up my user on microsoft vs local.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Obsessively. I’ve been driving German autos since college, including BMW’s and most BMW owners are jerks. The only exception is when I hung out with the local BMW club one summer. They drive crazy fast, but are some of the most courteous drivers on the road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Nothing is Exposed, Am I Safe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was hacked years ago. I was hosting a test instance of a phpbb for a local club. Work blocked SSH, so I opened up telnet. They either got in from telnet or a php flaw and installed password sniffers and replaced some tools (ps, top) with tools that would hide the sniffer service they installed.

  After that, I changed my model. My time lab is for learning and having fun. I’m going to make mistakes and leave something exposed or vulnerable and hackers are going to get in. Under this new model, I need to be able to restore the system easily after a breach. I have a local backup and a remote backup and I have build scripts (ansible) so that I can restore the system if I need to. I’ve had to do this twice. Once from my own mistake and one from hardware failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backing up IaC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I have spent way more time troubleshooting a pipeline than it saves. I like the idea of automation but laziness prevails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backing up IaC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For my own curiosity, how do you perform a build? Is it all done in pipelines, kicked off on change? Do you execute the whole infra build each time you release an update?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backing up IaC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have said, a traditional off site backup will work. How do you plan to perform a restore, though? If you need the self hosted source repo, it won’t be available until the infrastructure is stood to creating another circular dependency.

  I’m still in the early stages of exploring this, too. My solution is to run a local filesystem git clone of the “main” repo and execute it with a Taskfile that builds a docker image from which it can execute the ansible infrastructure build. It is somewhat manual but I have performed a full rebuild a few times after some Big Mistakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Testing vs Prod⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After breaking “prod” many times, I have a Dev (local machine), Test (small VM) and Prod (big VM). My test is just less RAM and space and I need to spin down certain K8s things to spin up others, but it’s a close mirror of Prod, just less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak to the quality outlook, but from what I understand about enshittification, it typically requires a self-serving entity like a corporation whose interests are not in alignment with its customers/consumers/userbase. In some of Mr. Doctrow’s writings, he indicates that federating cans be a “circuit breaker” for enshittification.

  In a well federated platform, when one node begins to act counter to its users, the users can easily move nodes/instances. This is one of the reasons why there needed to be a law to allow phone number portability. Email is similar, but only if you own your own domain. Look for Cory Doctrow’s writings on BlueSky for more examples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t describe it correctly. I see people approaching the roundabout with their left signal on, leave it on until they take the 3rd exit. I’ll also see approaching with their eight signal on and take the 1st exit. The intersection used to be a standard perpendicular intersection with traffic lights.

  It sounds as if you’re saying to signal left on approach indicating a merge, then signal right to indicate an exit from the circle. I can’t say that I’ve ever seen that in action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell me more about the roundabouts and exiting. Are there left exits from a roundabout? Don’t they all circulate anticlockwise (when viewed from above)?

  There’s a new roundabout in my town and nobody knows how to signal. I see people enter with left signal flashing and then they’ll take the 3rd exit (out of 4 total). I’ve always entered without a signal, then exit right with a signal.

  Also, I’ve seen many people go around backwards. That’s a fun surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone knows your location⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out the overlay filesystem. I’m using it for one pi and have had the same SD card for years. I don’t know if it’ll work for pinole, but may get you thinking in a new direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the feedback. I plan to do some reading on NFSv4 domain mapping this weekend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a pretty good read and explains that it’s not a supply issue.

  pluralistic.net/2024/10/24/i-dream-of-gini/

  A paradox: in 1970, everyday Americans found it relatively easy to afford a house, and the average American house cost 5.9x the average American income. In 2024, Americans find it nearly impossible to afford a house, and the average American house costs…5.9x the average American income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, easy solution: don’t open outlook.

  Most of the time that I’m in the office, my laptop is closed anyways, you know, for collaboration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t doubt that. I just wanted to pretend for a moment that the thing they’re taking from us would result in the one thing that they seem to fear the most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With all the employees back in the office, they’ll have plenty of time to hang around the water cooler and discuss all the ways to unionize. Leaving the company is great as an individual, it sends a message. Unionizing helps to restore the balance of power vs rights and is exactly what Amazon doesn’t want. This (IMHO) is how you “F them hard”. Additionally, it’d send a message to the other companies who want to flex on the people who make the company work.