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- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 16 minutes ago:
Thanks for pointing this out! I probably would have missed this, since I didn’t expect such a change for a patch release.
Their documentation mentions:
For jellyfin to know which reverse proxy is trusted, the IP, Hostname or Subnet has to be set in the Known Proxies (under Admin Dashboard -> Networking) setting.
Does this really mean, that the only way to configure this is through the web UI? This is kind of a problem when deploying it, since without the reverse proxy I can’t reach the Jellyfin server. Is there no way of doing this outside the web UI, via a config file or something?
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 1 day ago:
I’m not sure why you think manufactuers of SoCs - which aren’t used by Google directly - provide drivers to Google. They don’t, because there is no point in doing that. This is not how the Android eco-system works or the business of selling those SoCs for that matter. SoC manufactuers sell their SoCs to companies who want to build Android phones (or they build their own like Samsung). With those SoCs they provide a BSP (board support package) that includes all the bits needed to bring up a system running on that partricular SoC. Google has pretty much nothing to do with this, except that Google recommends a certain Linux kernel version (with a bunch of Android-specific patches) for a given Android version, which SoC makers often (but not always) use as the base for their customized kernels.
It is not like Google provides the operating system including all device specific drivers to the device manufacturers. They don’t care about that at all. They provide AOSP (which is open source, so anyone can get that) as well as their proprietary stuff like Google Play etc. That’s pretty much it.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 1 day ago:
You are talking about phones made by Google. I am talking about ALL the phones using Android and how difficult or sometimes impossible it is to use anything but Android.
That’s not what you were saying. You were explicitly talking about Google. Also, implying it is Google’s fault that other manufacturers don’t let you install other operating systems easily is pretty bizarre. If you want to complain about that, at least complain about the right companies. Those are usually the phone manufacturers and/or the SoC manufacturers. The SoC manufacturers often times are particularily problematic, since they often do not publish open source drivers at all or in a very limited fashion.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 1 day ago:
No, unlock as in: You can install whatever operating system you want. No need for “jailbreaking” on Google phones. They officially support unlocking the bootloader (and re-locking it later as well!). There are many things not to like about Google, but how they handle their phones when it comes to openness is certainly not one of them. Pretty much all other phone vendors are much worse than that (except for maybe a few small ones like Fairphone).
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 2 days ago:
How about not letting Google have exclusive rights to the drivers for all the phone hardware?
What exactly do you mean by that? Google is one of the few companies that let you easily unlock their phones so you can do whatever you want with them.
- Comment on World Backup Day 5 days ago:
It on April 1st, but nobody takes it seriously.
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- Comment on Looking for a good RSS Reader 2 weeks ago:
I like Miniflux.
- Comment on Open Source Github Repositories in Danger of being Deleted 4 weeks ago:
It won’t get wikis or issues though.
You can easily mirror Github wikis as well. You just need to add
.wiki.gitto the repo URL. That way you can clone the wiki just like any other Git repo. - Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, Bonzi Buddy!
- Comment on Intel Becomes Potential Takeover Target Of Broadcom, TSMC: Reports 1 month ago:
There is also AMD and they are doing pretty well. I wouldn’t write off x86 just yet.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 1 month ago:
It is, but Signal and Matrix aren’t really all that similar. Matrix’s privacy is pretty atrocious. It stores tons of meta data about users all over the place. That’s the exact opposite of what Signal does.
- Comment on Intel Becomes Potential Takeover Target Of Broadcom, TSMC: Reports 1 month ago:
Ugh, Broadcom buying Intel would be terrible.
- Comment on Homelab upgrade - "Modern" alternatives to NFS, SSHFS? 1 month ago:
Sure, if you have exactly one client that can access the server and you can ensure physical security of the actual network, I suppose it is fine. Still, those are some severe limitations and show how limited the ancient NFS protocol is, even in version 4.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 month ago:
You need sampling at twice the frequency as a minimum to extract a time domain signal into the frequency domain. It says nothing about “perfect” especially when you’re listening in the time domain.
Yes it does. You can use a higher frequency, but that does not change anything except increase the maxiumum frequency possible. Even with perfect ears and the best equipment, there is no audible (and mathematical) difference to be had.
Everyone who claims otherwise should watch Monty’s explainer videos. I know they are quite old at this point, but everything he explains is still perfectly valid. If that does not convince you, nothing will.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 month ago:
It turns out that dynamic range is limited by the audio sampling rate and the human ear can easily detect a far greater range CD audio supports.
Dynamic range isn’t limited by the sampling rate. It is limited by the resolution, which is 16 bits for the audio CD. With that resolution you get a dynamic range of 96 dB when not using any dithering and even more than that when using dithering. Even with “only” 96 dB that dynamic range is so vast, that there is no practical use of a higher resolution when it comes to playback. I know that the human ear is supposed to be able to handle 130 dB or even more of dynamic range. The thing is, you can only experience such a dynamic range once, afterwards you are deaf. So not much point in such a dynamic range there.
There are good reasons to use a higher resolution when recording and mixing audio, but for playback and storage of the finished audio 16 bits of resolution is just fine.
- Comment on Homelab upgrade - "Modern" alternatives to NFS, SSHFS? 1 month ago:
NFS is bulletproof.
For it to be bulletproof, it would help if it came with security built in. Kerberos is a complex mess.
- Comment on Homelab upgrade - "Modern" alternatives to NFS, SSHFS? 1 month ago:
If someone compromises the host system you are in trouble.
Not only the host. You have to trust every client to behave, as @forbiddenlake already mentioned, NFS relies on IDs that clients can easily fake to pretend they are someone else. Without rolling out all the Kerberos stuff, there really is no security when it comes to NFS.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 1 month ago:
archival strength USB NVME drive,
Does such a thing exist? Ordinary flash storage is pretty ad at keeping its content when powered off for a long time, due to how flash memory works. I’d be curious about such drives.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 1 month ago:
Thanks, I think the risk here is that there may not be hardware to read it.
M-Disc DVDs are readable by ordinary DVD drives. So you could simply put a USB DVD drive alongside those backup M-Discs on the shelf.
- Comment on No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard 2 months ago:
Missed opportunity there, not being able to select all the other available USB-PD voltages. Not every circuit runs on 3.3 or 5 V.
- Comment on AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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(?) 5 months 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(?) 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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…