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- Comment on Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode 1 day ago:
Doublespeak would be “improves and plusungoodens” or something like that. They wouldn’t allow a negative.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 day ago:
I’m not a capitalist, I don’t care about outages. I can live with Facebook being down for a few days, or my bank not accepting transfers for a day or so. Then again, I grew up with the internet in the 90s and prioritise good software and tools over availability, I guess?
Obviously at my job I have to do what my employer thinks. But if nobody cared I’d definitely do our Gitlab upgrades once a week once they’re out and not in some weird “maintenance window” mandated by SLAs and stakeholders.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 days ago:
most trouble is probably caused in the first few days. Doesn’t matter if it’s 45 or 90 days, it would have to be a few hours to be meaningfully short. Given that automating things like this is annoying sometimes, you’ll be sure people will max out the 45 days…
I’m pretty sure it’s the SSL seller lobby just wanting more money, tbh. Selling snake oil security.
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 4 days ago:
Could you please elaborate or link to further information?
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 4 days ago:
So you think techaro paid them?
- Comment on The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network 4 days ago:
There are also ham-adjacent projects like Meshtastic that I’m not as familiar with.
Why don’t you buy a node and try it out?
- Comment on The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network 4 days ago:
Why don’t you simply build your own network aswell? dn42.net
Packet radio has such a low bandwidth usually. You should get more out of directional Wi-Fi, as in 60GHz point to point connections. One downside: if it rains you’re out of luck. You’d better run cables ;)
- Comment on I highly recommend journalctl-desktop-notification 4 days ago:
This person fucks! 😅
- Comment on **How** should I properly document my homelab? 1 week ago:
Netbox
- Comment on Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement 1 week ago:
You’re awesome. Thanks!
- Comment on Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement 1 week ago:
You can try goaccess.io or plausible.io aswell. Ribbit is very cool though!
- Comment on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels 2 weeks ago:
See, I’m right. 💩
- Comment on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels 2 weeks ago:
Hahhahaha 😄
- Comment on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels 2 weeks ago:
Countless DDNS vendors. You could set up a simple 1€/month ionos.com server and do DDNS yourself or rent DDNS from inwx.de or do.de or something.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 2 weeks ago:
Used Zoneminder for a 20 camera store CCTV setup and can confirm, it’s complicated but powerful. I wouldn’t use it for less than 4 cams.
The alternative I’d use personally is motion-project.github.io though. Doesn’t make much difference.
- Comment on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels 2 weeks ago:
For me it’s reliability and generally scummy business practices.
They protect scammers and sell big data centres solutions that protect from DoS attacks 🤡
- Comment on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels 2 weeks ago:
They’re protecting scammers and other bad actors, their infra is run by junior DevOps “engineers” and every now and then they find another way to fuck half the internet.
They’re part of what’s wrong with USA-centric hosting nowadays.
Others posted good articles and thoughts aswell :)
- Comment on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels 2 weeks ago:
I don’t trust cloudflare, especially not with stuff like zero trust. They’re a terrible company and I think they should fail.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 2 weeks ago:
Certainly not my homelab as my server isn’t booting since a few weeks ago and I didn’t fix it yet…
- Comment on Windows president says platform is "evolving into an agentic OS," gets cooked in the replies — "Straight up, nobody wants this" 3 weeks ago:
You’re the opposite of me. I think all OSes are shit, Linux is just shit in a way I can accept better.
- Comment on Microsoft: Windows Task Manager won’t quit after KB5067036 update 4 weeks ago:
So you went to management and proposed rewriting the app to run on proper web servers, and proper server OS, right?
- Comment on Home maintenance tracker? 1 month ago:
I think Grocy can do this.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 2 months ago:
The classic Windows desktop experience is one of the rare things Microsoft got right imho.
Maybe in Windows 7 and 10, but 8 and 11 were abysmal in that regard. Meanwhile KDE and other Linux DEs, many of them providing *“the classic Windows desktop experience”*™ just keep improving. To the point that they deliver said experience better than Windows ever could.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 2 months ago:
hm, seems to be FOSS, I thought this was one of the many “debloat” scripts with binary blobs. Does it come with EXE files?
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 2 months ago:
nice, even more spyware for my spyware!
- Comment on What is the current state of Matrix? 2 months ago:
If you want a conduwuit sucessor, I’d choose the continuwuity project over tuwunel.
You realise that sounds insane, right?
- Comment on What is the current state of Matrix? 2 months ago:
I recently shut down my server because it’s a high traffic, high risk software. You should have an eye on it, I’d say at least half an hour every week…
- Comment on Migrated my Docker Compose homelab to OpenTofu 3 months ago:
I also use quadlets, but it’s annoying to check for outside conditions. Can you share uour setup so I might learn how to do it properly please? 😊
- Comment on Self Hosted OpenSource Projectmanagement Tool 6 months ago:
Maybe Kanboard? Or Taiga?
- Comment on One-handed games? 8 months ago:
for most games you need two hands though ;)