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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Actually AMDs mobile parts are pretty good at idle power consumption and so are their desktop APUs. Their normal CPUs, which use the chiplet design are rather poor when it comes to idle power consumption. Intel isn’t really any better when compared to the monolithic parts at idle and Intel CPUs have horrible power consumption under load. Their newest CPUs are better when it comes to efficiency than 13th and 14th gen CPU, bus still don’t match or even exceed AMD.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
With spinning turbines, the issue is, that you need to maintain a constant speed of the turbine at all time. That rotation speed directly correlates with the mains frequency. That’s either 50 or 60 Hz depending on where you live. If the load increases by a lot the frequency drops and the turbine speed decreases, when the load decreases, the opposite happens. The people maintaining the grid have to make sure load and supply are in balance to keep the frequency stable and the trubines within their operating parameters.

Compared to that, solar panels have none of these constraints. For one, the output DC voltage not AC, and secondly they don’t mind at all when there is no or very little load. So you can easily simply disconnect solar panels when there is too little demand without any issue. You can’t easily do the same with a power plant with a turbine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
While that is true for power plants with spinning turbines, it isn’t true for solar power. There is no issue at all when you don’t consume all the energy that a solar panel could produce.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

MW/h

There is MW which is a unit of power and then there is MWh which is a unit of energy, but what is MW/h supposed to mean?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JetKVM - a polished take at the nanoKVM(?)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Why? Even 1080p is more than what is usually needed for such a KVM solution. It is not like this is meant for doing remote work on a computer or anything like that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JetKVM - a polished take at the nanoKVM(?)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It lets you remotely control a server as if you were sitting in front of a screen and keyboard directly attached to it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I was really sceptical of the CTOs first response, but this does actually seem to be genuinely good news.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

The head of BitWarden has come out and stated the SDK being required to compile BitWarden was a mistake, however, and if this proves to be true (which I have no reason to doubt) then I see no reason why any of this is an issue.

I don’t see why this should make any difference at all. Sure, I get why he is are saying they are going to fix it - he thinks that this gets them in compliance with the GPLv3. But from a practical point of view there is no difference at all. The software is useless without that SDK part. Even if it does indeed get them in the clear from a legal point of view (which I am not convinced that it actually does), it is still a crappy situation.

I think, it would look way less shady, if they said they are going fully source-available and not pretend that they are keeping the client open source. I would still dislike that, of course. At least that wouldn’t have eroded the trust in them as much as it did for me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Proprietary is a strong word IMO. Here’s the repo, it’s not FOSS, but it is source available.

Yeah, that’s what I meant by “proprietary”. I guess having the source to look at is better than nothing, but it still leaves me uneasy. Their license lets them do anything they want (ignoring that - as it stands - their license is void due to the linkage with GPLv3 code, but they said they want to fix that). I have no idea what their plan is. I don’t think it is in their best interest to go the route they appear to be going. Having truly open source clients seems to be a selling point for quite a few customers. But what do I know…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I really hope that this is actually the case, but I am not very optimistic. This doesn’t seem to be a mistake. They intentionally move functionality of their clients to their proprietary SDK library. The Bitwarden person stated this in the Github issue and you can also check the commit history. Making that library a build-time dependency might actually have been a mistake. That does not change the fact, that the clients are no longer useful without that proprietary library going forward. Core functionality has been move to that lib. I really don’t care if they talk to that library via some protocol or have it linked at build time. I wouldn’t consider this open source, even if that client wrapper that talks to that library technically is still licensed under GPLv3.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe you want to read the comment by kspearrin in that Github issue again. They are clearly moving away from open source. He explicitly states that they are in the process of moving more code to their proprietary “SDK” library.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It is really not just a packaging bug. If you read that comment of the Bitwarden person a little further, you’ll notice that he’s talking about that proprietary “SDK” library that they are integrating with their clients. Even if they manage to not actually link it directly with the client, but rather let the client talk to that library via some protocol - it doesn’t make the situation any better. The client won’t work without their proprietary “SDK”, no matter if they remove the build-time dependency or not.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Perhaps the hard dependency was a mistake, but not them moving more and more code to their proprietary library. It appears that their intent is to make the client mostly a wrapper around their proprietary library, so they can still claim to have an open source GPLv3 piece of software.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks, I haven’t seen that one before, but I’d really prefer an open source application.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

BitWarden already has lots of clients.

Are there? I’d be very much interested to know. I’ve been looking for other clients before, because I didn’t like the sluggishness of the Electron client, but couldn’t find any usable clients at all. There are some projects on Github, none of which seemed to be in a usable state. Perhaps I have been missing something.

This is being blown a bit out of proportion though. All they are saying is the official SDK may have some non-free components going forward. So what? It’s a private company, they can do what they want. Or the community can just fork it and move forward with a free one if they want, but it’s just not going to be in the official BitWarden clients. Hardly news or a big deal.

Nobody said that they can’t do that (although people rightfully questioned that their changes are indeed comatible with the GPLv3). I very much disagree that this isn’t a big deal, though.
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are good harddrives to use with serves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I would advice against using SSDs for storage of media and such. Not only because of their higher price, but also because flash memory cells tend to fade over time, causing read speeds to decrease considerably over time. This is particularily the case for mostly read-only workloads. For each read operation the flash memory cell being read loses a bit of its charge. Eventually the margin for the controller to be able to read the data will be so small, that it takes the controller lots of read operations to figure out the correct data. In the worst case this can lead to the SSD controller being unable to read some data alltogether.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin hardware acceleration docker issues.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
No, tmpfs is explicitly located in virtual memory. Have a look at the kernel documentation for more information about tmpfs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin hardware acceleration docker issues.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It is. It might end up on disk in swap, if you run low on memory (and have some sort of disk-based swap enabled), but usually it is located in RAM.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ethernet switch only partially working⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Try diasbling the second DHCP server altogether. You only need one, since you have a flat network.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ethernet switch only partially working⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Are you sure there is only one DHCP server running?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nginx in LXC/Proxmox...how to Fail2ban?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m exclusively running unprivileged LXC containers and haven’t had any issues regarding the firewall, neither with iptables nor nftables.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nginx in LXC/Proxmox...how to Fail2ban?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
No, it is not like Docker. You can treat an LXC container pretty much like a VM in most instances, including firewall rules. To answer the question, you can use fail2ban just like you had done in your VM.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for Improving Linux Server Security: Beyond User Permissions and Groups?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You could give bubblewrap a try instead. It is quite similar to systemd-nspawn.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s good, I never liked the clunky .home.arpa domain.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many people use NGINX?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

What does it offer that nginx doesnt?

Automatic HTTPS, you don’t have to use certbot or something similar to get/renew certificates. Also, its configuration is really simple and straight forward.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you prefer to selfhost?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

IT-Tools - hands down one of the coolest self hosted tool sets you can use.

Looks similar to Cyberchef. Any reason to use that one over Cyberchef?