r0ertel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ELI5: How to put several servers on one external IP?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My mantra is “plan to be hacked”. Whether this is a good backup strategy, a read-only VM, good monitoring or serious firewall rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t make sense to me that I don’t like drinking water. When I lived in the desert, I would drink it all the time, but it’s a habit that I’ve fallen out of. Strangely, I went back to the desert on a trip and immediately resumed drinking water again.

  For me, I don’t like the taste. I can taste the chlorine and fluroride and other stuff in the water. I have an RO system with carbon filter and then I need to have it near freezing. Even then, I need to put stuff in it like berries, cucumber or mint. I don’t drink pop, sports drinks or other stuff like that. I do drink tea and coffee.

  Yeah, my doctor told me that I’m dehydrated, so I’m trying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like somebody needs to spend more time watching documentaries on the mating habits of freshwater fish!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you referring to the AI search results? If so, I’ve fallen into a similar strategy. I’ll search for something, usuaply how to do something then read the AI result. If it’s what I’m looking for, then I’ll click through to the referenced articles. The AI result is usually too vague. Part of my problem is probably bad searching skills on my part. I’ll often find what I’m looking for way down the first page or sometimes the second page of results. The AI cuts through that searching page after page or tells me that I need to change my search terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose that makes perfect sense. A corporation is an accountability sink for owners, board members and executives, so why not also make AI accountable?

  I was thinking more along the lines of the “human in the loop” model for AI where one human is responsible for all the stuff that AI gets wrong despite it physically not being possible to review every line of code an AI produces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking about this the other day and don’t think it would happen any time soon. The people who put the CEO in charge (usually the board members) want someone who will make decisions (that the board has a say in) but also someone to hold accountable for when those decisions don’t realize profits.

  AI is unaccountable in any real sense of the word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console display options⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a VGA connection and, yes, my primary concern is resource usage. I’m running 2-3 VMs on it so that I can easily migrate the VM around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console display options⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had plain old top and it was boring. I did not know how many alternatives there were.

  I’ll also have to check out cmatrix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console display options⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an excellent idea!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually audit open source projects you download?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally, no. On some cases where I’m extending the code or compiling it for some special case that I have, I will read the code. For example, I modified a web project to use LDAP instead of a local user file. In that case, I had to read the code to understand it. In cases where I’m recompiling the code, my pipeline will run some basic vulnerability scans automatically.

  I would not consider either of these a comprehensive audit, but it’s something.

  Additionally, on any of my server deployments, I have firewall rules which would catch “calls to home”. I’ve seen a few apps calling home, getting blocked but no adverse effects. The only one I can remember is Traefik, which I flipped a config value to not do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This smells a little funny, as others have suggested. I read an article a while ago that suggested that we’re not running out of raw materials; we’re thinking about the problem wrong:

  Chachra proposes that we could – we must – treat material as scarce, and that one way to do this is to recognize that energy is not. We can trade energy for material, opting for more energy intensive manufacturing processes that make materials easier to recover when the good reaches its end of life. We can also opt for energy intensive material recovery processes. If we put our focus on designing objects that decompose gracefully back into the material stream, we can build the energy infrastructure to make energy truly abundant and truly clean.

  This is all outlined in the book How Infrastructure Works from Deb Chachra.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read recently that the lidar on many self driving cars can wreck the CCD on most phones. I don’t know how it works, but maybe parking one of the cars by your front door will solve your problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of your favorite prints/models?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The friendly articulated slug!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue does not exist with the version installed from F-Droid. I think the Play Store version is a different build with the feature disabled as a condition of hosting it on the Play Sore.

  The Android app itself still works with the permission, and we released new versions on the external F-Droid store. So the limit is a “purely” Google Play Store-related problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Renovating a converted patio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know the building code for your area or if it would even work with the other stuff in the area, but the idea is to lay at least 2x2’s every 16", put Styrofoam between the 2x2’s, lay plastic or tyvek or some vapor barrier over it all then lay down plywood and carpet on top of that. It’s a lot of work to retrofit this into an existing space, but if you’re starting over, it may be worthwhile.

  I had a townhouse on a concrete slab and in the winter, the cold would transfer through the concrete to the point that when it was below 0F, the water lines running through the concrete would freeze up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a site for making bots for the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably true, but there were still some useful bots that I enjoyed on a regular basis like the metric conversion bot, the invidious link switcher and the remindme bot.

  I think that Lemmy will allow you to use bots only if you declare them as such which should allow users to block or allow to customize their own experiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Renovating a converted patio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In addition to the other advice, if it is reasonable to do so, you would benefit from raising the floor up a bit to add insulation and a vapor barrier. The concrete will draw in the cold and humidity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d take those last 5 bullets. I’ve worked hard to gain salary only to find that it didn’t matter. Every review I’ve ever had was a lie. If I was given a good raise, I was told that it was my hard work. If it was a bad raise, they found one item to give me ‘satisfactory’. A bunch of us shared our salaries over drinks one evening and we all were about the same. That was a big surprise to me.

  Back to the point of the original article, employees talking is bad for employers. Unionization is one way to solve the collective agreement problem, but there are others. When employees (or any group for that matter) organize, they can make things happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear this argument against unionization all the time:

  During those days the only thing a tech union would do would make your life balance better, but at the cost of your salary.

  It feels like fear mongering when there are no data to back it up (this is not a knock against your post, it’s a complaint against the argument against unionization). I only know one person in a union and they have limited anecdotal data that shows that the cost of being in a union is offset by salary gains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.