CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on “Art of the Deal” 17 hours ago:
The 1 year chart puts it in perspective. DJIA 1 year chart
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 1 day ago:
In both scenarios the profit margin is removed, or the customers are bearing the significant increase in cost. Hence the recession - the stock market plummets or inflation goes up. Or both.
- Comment on How to easily add a backup internet connection to your home office - and why you should, A failover internet connection is a good idea if you work from home - and it's not complicated to set up. 2 days ago:
When my employer reimburses me fully, I will pay for two connections. But they don’t, even though they (could) save a ton of money by closing the office.
- Comment on If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man? 2 days ago:
Look at the boxes outside the back of the restaurant.
Any decent restaurant will be cooking a fair bit of their food, even if they’re using Restaurant Supply’s fried chicken mix.
Applebee’s potato skins you probably can’t get directly because it’s probably only available to franchisees. But with some digging you might be able to buy a skid of the generic stuff from the manufacturer.
Once, I got a box of frozen microwaveable dessert. We ate so much… every day… it was a big box.
- Comment on Hey techies! Trying to find an entry level job in IT, please rip apart my resume 🙏 1 week ago:
Missed opportunity to put letterkenny, Ontario.
Good luck in the search. Don’t let them push you around too much.
- Comment on Hey techies! Trying to find an entry level job in IT, please rip apart my resume 🙏 1 week ago:
Did you post your number…?
When applying to jobs, try to cram in some keywords from the posting that you have some knowledge of. Don’t completely fake it, but if it can get you past the HR screen to an interview, you’ve got time to learn a little about it.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Several years ago I inadvertently (because I didn’t realize who they were) got in a twitter argument with someone who I seem to recall as the creator of electron about how it was fucking embarrassing how bad electron apps are. At the time I kinda felt bad because he seemed like a decent guy and I let loose but I wonder what the carbon footprint of his little side project is…
I don’t know who at Microsoft had such a hard-on for electron back then, but it seems to have spread and it’s still nowhere close to the good old windows GUI for resource usage.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
It uses a fucking inordinate amount of resources to accomplish its task, mostly.
- Comment on I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud | Jeff Geerling 1 week ago:
It’s all just to analyze the use of the options
…with the eventual intent of selling a subscription for the valuable features.
Buy a top of the line Bosch dishwasher for only $200. And pay $15.00 for the rest of its life to be able to use anything more than the “eco-quick” wash which doesn’t clean anything because it only has one wash and one rinse cycle.
- Comment on Do I really need a firewall for my server? 1 week ago:
What sort of isp supplied residential equipment doesn’t block inbound connections? Pedantically, you’re correct.
- Comment on Do I really need a firewall for my server? 1 week ago:
You have a firewall. It’s in your router, and it is what makes it so that you have to VPN into the server. Otherwise the server would be accessible. NAT is, effectively, a firewall.
Should you add another layer, perhaps an IPS or deny-listing? Maybe it’s a good idea.
- Comment on A Trump H-1B crackdown could hit Big Tech hard, with Amazon suffering most. 1 week ago:
Not just salary - H1B are also good at following orders, because if they lose their job, they will get deported.
- Comment on Privacy — why should I care 1 week ago:
2 is almost as bad as the all or nothing approach. I argue that while Apple is not trustworthy, they are not incentivized to collect every piece of information about you that they can. Conversely, android is an operating system created by an advertising company specifically to ensure an ongoing corner on their market. Asking the average person to use a DeGoogled OS is akin to telling them to switch to OpenBSD on their desktop.
- Comment on How would I set up local DNS or DNS rewrite 3 weeks ago:
Well yes, it is one hop, because you’ve got the router doing TLS termination. Inside your network you point to the server that has the TLS certs. Outside of the network you do port forwarding, or use a tunnel with cloudflare agents.
Why is the router involved at all? It’s all local traffic. The external traffic comes through the cloud flare tunnel, right? Maybe I’m not understanding the architecture you’ve got.
- Comment on How would I set up local DNS or DNS rewrite 3 weeks ago:
It’s possible but it’s an extra pain in the butt.
Internally, have you tried pointing the DNS directly to the ngnix server, not the router? There’s no reason to have that extra hop (I don’t think).
- Comment on How would I set up local DNS or DNS rewrite 3 weeks ago:
If you are establishing a TLS connection to a server, the server will need a certificate. It sounds like you’re trying to have two instances of a reverse proxy - one on the server, and one on the router. It may be my ignorance of the particulars, but my immediate thought is that you should select one point in the network to do reverse proxying.
- Comment on Canada suspends imports from biggest US pork processing plant 4 weeks ago:
This can only be a good thing. I read that series on Arstechnica about the Boar’s Head listeria contamination. “Heavy meat buildup on walls”
- Comment on Barn-shaped home produces almost twice as much energy as it needs 4 weeks ago:
This is great, because it shows the possibilities. Water source heat pumps make air source look like a toy, and those in turn make conventional heat sources look prehistoric.
However, it is not uncommon in more seasonal climates for the average solar production to exceed the average energy consumption across the year, while the reality is that summer is characterized by overproduction and winter requires consistent top-ups from the grid. Adding a small wind turbine is a challenge from a charge controller perspective (you can’t just plug into an EG4) but it can really address those short, cloudy days with high consumption.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 5 weeks ago:
What brand are those power strips? Last time I went shopping for power strips, they were all the rage and I could hardly find one WITHOUT that feature. Today, several years later, I can’t find any. Except, perhaps, some Chinese ones without safety approvals. I need one for my tv.
