CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Starlink rival ‘Project Kuiper’ rebrands to Amazon Leo 23 hours ago:
It’s not really that hard.
- Comment on Cold room floor help 1 day ago:
Just be careful opening it. If there’s a blockage downstream of this clean out, you’ll see symptoms of the blockage somewhere else, and the pipe will therefore be full from the blockage right to the symptomatic drain. Hopefully it’s a floor drain, but it could be a lot of water with some possible pressure behind it so really think the situation through before cracking it open, and have a plan.
- Comment on Cold room floor help 1 day ago:
It’ll save your ass from a big bill if your kids flush something they shouldn’t vs calling a plumber.
- Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 3 days ago:
Liability.
- Comment on What types of cleaning products do you *really* need to clean the bathroom? 3 days ago:
I’m not convinced you need specific toilet bowl cleaner if you clean it regularly; a lot of them are really strong chemicals that are unnecessary, but it does depend on your situation and the water you’ve got etc. Loose stools may need more attention.
A bit of all purpose cleaner really is all you need imo. But a it hard water you’ll need to up it to something containing a (preferably buffered) acid to remove soap scum and hard water deposits.
Vinegar has its place but I find it almost universally disappointing when cleaning. In particular, it’s not got any surfactants or ability to bind to dirt or grease.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 3 days ago:
I expose homeasssistant via nginx. I run snort and I can assure you I am constantly getting hits. I haven’t tuned it much, so I’m sure there’s false positives in there but I’m equally sure there’s false negatives.
If you can’t figure out how to set up docker, set up a reverse proxy, check and configure TLS, you definitely aren’t ready for self hosting. It’s a highly technical exercise and one bad move will make your Internet connection part of a botnet. (Arguably, you don’t even need to be self hosting for that, but there’s no point in making it easy).
I believe it’s never been easier to set up a home server. I set up Tailscale in between sips of coffee one day and my mind (as an almost-grizzled sysadmin) was blown. My non technical family members can set up a VPN in 10 minutes. It’s a terrible security practice, but there’s pipe-to-bash scripts everywhere now that get things set up and running in minutes. You want Homeassistant container on proxmox? Burn the proxmox image to a usb, boot and install, then run this command. Boom. Homeassistant in a container. Let’s do pihole - another script and we’re done.
It’s ludicrously easy to get going compared to even 10 years ago.
Yes, when you want to change a setting, or configure it for local use, it’s more complicated. But that’s the way it’s always been, and that’s how I learn - follow the cookbook, and then realize you need to change this piece, which requires understanding that piece, and there you go.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 3 days ago:
Part of the world is the outside, without external stimulus of music or a screen.
I can consume all those things without music playing steadily in my ears, and I would venture to say I prefer to enjoy arts, history, geography, literature, science, philosophy, film, games etc. without steady noise being pumped into my skull. Sometimes I do it while conversing with another person or several people.
At other times, I can listen to music. But I don’t complain that life has lost its lustre because my phone can’t play my music!
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 4 days ago:
That’s not what I said
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 4 days ago:
It’s also one of the last bastions of hard work paying off.
Except private equity is increasingly getting involved.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 days ago:
That’s, erm, life m8.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 4 days ago:
I just saw that tinder is testinf ai to match profiles.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 4 days ago:
Thanks. Will check it out.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 days ago:
If listening to birds chirping and wind blowing through trees while you’re out for a walk is “no stimuli” you have a problem.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 4 days ago:
Good way of putting it. How many people have three devices they can use for storing passkeys? I don’t and I’m a nerd.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 4 days ago:
Yeah this is my situation. My personal computer is really infrequently used and as such I’m already in a dangerous situation when it comes to sign-in risk detection kicking off and asking for further authn proofs. I’ve had my phone die (and come to life when its replacement arrived) and that was a harrowing situation because all the MFA is stored there. Passkeys seem to make it worse, unless I subscribe to a sync service, which I need to infallibly trust (and I’m iffy on that; 1Password has a good security model and all that but passkeys are a different level of trust).
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 4 days ago:
You create unique accounts for every team member so that access can appropriately be logged.
Or you implement a PAM tool that logs access and vaults the password and rotates it after use.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 4 days ago:
They’re device-bound certificate based authentication with some shiny bits.
Or they’re portable-via-certain-services certificate based authentication with some shiny bits.
Either way they’re new and try explaining that the user needs a new one for every device (or needs a new app to carry them around in) and that if the device dies, or the app dies, they lose it all. I have quite a few people in my life who can’t wrap their heads around using a password manager.
Personally, I find them irritating. My chosen password manager on iPhone doesn’t support them, so I need to have the iOS password vault turned on (yes, this is a dark pattern Apple has created to try to increase adoption of their password vault) to use them. Adoption needs to be much higher, interoperability needs to be better, and they need to put back the hint for which vault to use (which was removed early on to keep Microsoft and google from forcing chrome/edge vaults, but has the actual effect that chrome/edge tend to win the race over other options and means that the passkey prompt might be for a different app than the one that you prefer, leading to further user confusion)
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 4 days ago:
That’s an IAM no-no.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 days ago:
Don’t tell this guy about the times before the ubiquity of iPods and later phones.
OP, might I suggest a “music” detox? Spend a month without the need for headphone delivered dopamine.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 days ago:
I’m running my tractor or lawnmower
Speed running hearing loss. Typically, people crank the audio levels to hear it over the equipment. Get some work-rated hearing protection muffs and wear the earbuds inside that.
However I’d argue that hearing protection combined with additional noise is a good way to lose situational awareness.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 days ago:
This resonates with me. If I’m listening to music, I want to do it with intention. Pop music is made to be background noise in an already noisy environment. Just sit down and listen for a change. The whole album.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 4 days ago:
The people who can’t tell the difference are the ones who use it without intending it to be a joke. 4chan “jokes” leak into the real world now, without being jokes.
- Comment on Data centers in Silicon Valley stand empty, awaiting power 4 days ago:
How many unemployed people do you know in the trade? You can’t learn it overnight. Existing projects are underway, and the equipment needs to be built.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 4 days ago:
Yup.
- Comment on And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair. 5 days ago:
Parts?
Anyhow, they have a 10 year lifetime. You can’t repair it.
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 6 days ago:
Globally, there’s going to be continued need for your skills.
Locally, it may vary.
Look globally. And good luck with finding your path. I have done the unemployment track and it is unpleasant.
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 1 week ago:
They’re still in the online space but they’re not pick up artists, they’re tinder profile experts or whatever they call themselves.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms PCs boot into BitLocker recovery after the latest Windows updates 1 week ago:
Incompetence like over the last 3-4 years firing most of the very senior engineering staff and mandating RTO for the rest? Yeah.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms PCs boot into BitLocker recovery after the latest Windows updates 1 week ago:
So how’s the vibe coding going, Microsoft?
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 1 week ago:
Unpopular opinion: cats are an invasive species and shouldn’t be subject to different regulations than dogs.
Keep them on a leash if you care about them.