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- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 days ago:
Because at the moment we don’t have a “hostile” job market yet - as written in the article, the market is only rapidly cooling down. As the market before was massively undersaturated it just means that people currently have less choices - but they still have their share of opportunities. But tbh, pure anecdotal, it pretty much reflects what I hear from graduates atm. The market for newly graduated has cooled down definitely, unless they have a ITsec background or have a fair share of experience already.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 days ago:
Nope,same story here,just not as extreme: heise.de/…/Wirtschaftsinstitut-IT-Fachkraefte-sin…
- Comment on Guess I'll just die 4 days ago:
I just leave that here:
- Comment on Famous VPN company Mullvald says it will no longer use OpenVPN 6 days ago:
Yeah, to be honest, WG out of the box is really nice for tunneling and static IP road warriors. For larger deployments it’s a bit of a PIA without DHCP.
Sadly.
But things like Netbird make it a bit easier.
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 1 week ago:
From what I understand,yes, but she said “they showed us a guy they beat to pulp, he said he is sorry. But the guy wore a ski mask when he robbed my aunt. How should we know if it was him or if that was just some homeless person?”
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 1 week ago:
I know someone whose family founded a small retail chain (with like 5 shops or something, each operated by another relative) in an east European country shortly after the fall of the iron wall that is, well, pretty much associated with mafia-like structures.
According to her after the initial mayhem they did have a group establish themselves that was more “mafia” like. Think black suits,old Mercedes Benz cars,etc. They actually had a “emergency number” they were supposed to call and where someone picked up 24/7. And according to her someone actually came - unlike the police back then (who also wanted money). They responded fairly fast - and to them it seemed like they actually at least tried to find perpetrators. But they were never quite sure if some of the people who robbed them were actually sent by these groups themselves to prove how much the shops needed protection. Over the times things got more extreme and the “group” only wanted money to protect people from themselves - possibly because drugs got involved and the “thugs” got younger. But at least then the police stepped up their game and did more.
- Comment on DNS server 1 week ago:
Just saw that my way of doing this isn’t actually needed anymore, there is an integration now:
- Comment on The AUKUS Submarine Deal is Dead. The US can’t provide the submarines. The UK can neither make up for the shortfall nor co-develop such a submarine in a reasonable timeframe 1 week ago:
To be honest, at least then the navy would know exactly what they are fighting against.
- Comment on DNS server 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, absolutely - nevertheless it can inspire that reaction - which is a shame, because it’s indeed fairly easy.
- Comment on DNS server 2 weeks ago:
I absolutely second Technitium as well. That thing is rock solid, can be used for basically everything, has blocking with a multitude of options and does provide a nice graphical GUI.
I have it running in a dual DNS setup (main server+a Zimablade nowadays) and that shit just works - it’s the container that has caused the least amount of problems in the last 3 years.
The API is fairly handy and quite easy - I have it integrated into HomeAssistant so I have a “Disable DNS Blocking” button in my “Network control” tab in the app.
The only downside is the fact that initially it can be quite overwhelming, especially if you are not an DNS guru and just did the step from AdGuard/PiHole - but soon you realise that you actually only need a few fields for basic operations.
- Comment on Router suggestions for a complete noob 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. It basically can only do guest and non guest, sadly. There used to be a hack allowing proper VLANs,but that’s long gone.
- Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. For an “eingetragener Verein”. For a Vereinsgründung of a non registered association two members are enough. So if you want to be a Klugscheißerle, read your BGB first. Micdrop
- Comment on Slicer software for a Linux system? 2 weeks ago:
I use Orca,but within a Linuxserver.io container. Which has the advantage that you can use it from a tablet,etc. as well.
- Comment on Zabbix in selfhosted env 3 weeks ago:
I am using it and tbh didn’t have too many issues with it. It runs as a LXC on my Proxmox server.
With that it’s a fairly comfortable setup - it does have API access on the proxmox node and therefore automatically discovers all LXCs,even the ones you add after the installation.
For other machines I use a fairly easy bash script to download the agent 2 and then overwrite the config file with the right parameters,but that’s just me being lazy - it’s not that much work doing it by hand as well.
And for everything else there is always SNMP which is fairly well supported and there are tons of templates nowadays.
Tbh, I had Prometheus/Grafana before and found it to be much more complicated, especially when you need active and passive nodes.
- Comment on Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3 weeks ago:
The thing is: 3D printing problems are often more manufacturer agnostic than you think - especially for new users.Especially for troubleshooting the broader approach is worth it - it’s better a new user gets some help and support from someone with a similar setup but different manufacturer but no or no timely support by a small or almost empty community. Sadly Lemmy atm isn’t that big.
- Comment on Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I got mine before it got as bad…
- Comment on Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3 weeks ago:
The issue with that is the fact that we already barely have enough users for the existing 3d printing communities.
Splitting it up more will not help but only generate empty communities with barely any content and traffic.
- Comment on Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3 weeks ago:
Tbh, the Bambu Lab service is as awful.
My personal favourite was them demanding a photo to prove I was not delivered my order fully. Six weeks after it arrived.
The part missing was a 23g replacement part…
Sure…
- Comment on Pharmacies shouldn’t give pill bottles 3 weeks ago:
Moisture was already noted,but also UV light (brown paper bags are far less UV resistant than you think) and oxygenation is an issue. Even bottles aren’t that good, actually. Blisters are actually better, but even a bit more wasteful.
- Comment on Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears 3 weeks ago:
Tbh, it’s not the worst thing when a service does that. There are cases where it is indicated - cartels, CSAM, etc. do not deserve a safe haven. The bad part about the France issue is the fact that the Swiss court system willfully allowed a case that was not per se illegal in Switzerland and had rather controversial legal grounds in France to proceed. This is very similar to the cases where Switzerland simply ignored their own laws under pressure from the US government in terms of bank accounts 15 years earlier.
This is rather concerning and many Swiss legal experts did not share the opinion of Proton that there was nothing Proton could have done.
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 4 weeks ago:
Yeah,big US tech is cancer - but I am fortunate enough to not live in the US and there are enough mid size companies that fall under reasonable laws and governmental oversight (in the good way,not the bad way) that I can choose from. People always seem to think it’s “selfhost or big tech” but there is a shitton of solutions between them.
Mailbox.org, Infomaniak(but I would be cautious on them due to the changing legal framework), posteo,Mullvad,Photoprism,Passbolt,Hetzner Storage Space,Ionos, Deepl, etc. are all a sane middle ground for most people and
I much rather have people do that than fall into the arms of their neighbourhood asshole (and let’s face it,there are a lot of difficult characters in IT). Because first of all it’s people’s lives who are at stake - You can wait for the first creep who will use access to his neighbours photos (Immich,Photoprism,etc.) for some uncanny purposes. Who will use the WiFi&Device passwords saved to get access to someones CCTV system to spy on his neighbours. Etc. Etc. And, and this is as much of an issue,it will only take a few of these people to drive people away from all open source products, right back into BigTech.
Lastly: It’s okay,that you see it that way. But people need to be informed that these are the risks. If you would take those risks (and don’t think from an IT role but from your neighbours perspective here), go for it. I wouldn’t, we can absolutely agree to disagree. And I don’t think many would once someone tells them the truth: “Yeah, BigTech can absolutely access your files and possibly your passwords with enough efforts. If you let Joe over here host your files and passwords he can,but BigTech can’t.” I am not sure how people would decide.
- Comment on I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, happily enough that wouldn’t fly here and is actually considered a felony and surely cost someone tenure.
Not that they won’t try to find ways around it (and surely some do), but if it’s too obvious it lands them in hot water fast.
There was a law professor who lost both his tenure and law licence for it at the other university in the town I studied while I was there.
- Comment on I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them 4 weeks ago:
I know someone who did that with his own book. Why? The publisher fucked him over in terms of pay. He even corrected a mistake in the original one.
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. And I am sure you won’t do anything bad.
But we all know how many that will not be the case. There were countless cases of school IT staff being malicious, of healthcare IT staff being malicious. Do you think that won’t be happening regularly on a small community scale? And that goes both ways: What happens when your neighbour suddenly accuses you of stealing passwords from you?
Don’t get me wrong - I am also providing services to my friends and family. But I absolutely do refuse to do so for any vital or financially debilitating services (which I consider vaultwarden for example). And I am seeing large issues with promoting this model as a solution - which need to be addressed.
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 4 weeks ago:
Lol. So we trust local governments and communities now?
Has anyone ever worked with them IT wise?
I do so in four different EU countries and know people who do in the US and Canada. And…well…there is a reason local governments often went towards the cloud services. Do people think Joe Admin in Bumfucknowhere can operate what basically becomes a MiniDC? And who controls that?
Sorry. Either go “host at home” and only fuck up things for oneself. Or do it properly with a proper DC. Colocate if you want. But that? Lol.
- Comment on Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US 4 weeks ago:
Switzerland never had solid privacy laws - and is known for intelligence service overreach for decades. They had a Stasi like system of “who to imprison” when “the time comes”. They listen to all IP traffic in and out the country - which is concerning in times of traffic pattern analysis. And they are known for their close cooperation with US intelligence services.
Protons (and Threemas) claim of “soo good swiss privacy laws” is nothing more than swiss-washing. And they know it.
- Comment on Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service 4 weeks ago:
Iris2 and Eutselsat OneWeb are currently massively expanding their network - for European coverage first,though, but with the explicit goal to be a Musk alternative.
- Comment on Public vs. Private synched photo management 4 weeks ago:
I am currently open for any software solution, that’s why I came here. I will look at digikam,thx
- Comment on Public vs. Private synched photo management 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that would be ideal,but the issue is that I need a photo management software that exports the metadata and imports it - this is the main issue. Otherwise things would be far easier.
- Comment on Public vs. Private synched photo management 4 weeks ago:
And then?