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- Comment on Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree? 1 day ago:
If it’s a larger corporation, then you might get fired later no matter what, if it comes out. HR policy might require it.
If it’s a smaller corporation, it probably isn’t necessary.
I wouldn’t chance it.
- Comment on Prusa Debuts TPU Filament Designed to Fix the Hassles of Printing with Flexibles 3 days ago:
This sounds like a different formulation to make a more reliable TPU for industrial or commercial applications that need more consistency.
Bambu made a slightly stiffer TPU to feed better into their AMS.
Sounds like both are useful for different things.
- Comment on The Engine of our dreams exists. It's Clean, Powerful, Supercharged and 2 Stroke 6 days ago:
I’m curious if this actually ends up being significantly lighter though.
I doubt it’ll end up replacing a conventional two stroke motorcycle, as it’s far more complex. But I could see it used in aircraft.
- Comment on Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is 6 days ago:
GNU isn’t entirely infinite though. After unpacking GNU is Not Unix 10^45 times, you actually find out what the final G is for.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
I have Plex running alongside Jellyfin.
When transcoding video, Plex uses an extra 5 watts of power. Jellyfin uses an extra 55 watts.
Jellyfin also has security holes for accessing videos via URL without being authenticated.
I don’t feel like Jellyfin is ready for being exposed to the internet.
- Comment on Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors 1 week ago:
It’s off by default, but it allows you to turn it on in the advanced settings. Seems like a good compromise, especially since it lets you whitelist clients.
If you were using the router as a secondary network, like for IoT or homelab, it would kind of make sense to allow SSH or other logins from WAN, as long as the WAN was also your network and not the open internet.
- Comment on Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors 1 week ago:
Took a while to find a list of router models, I doubt this is an exclusive list, but at least bleeping computer has a list at all.
The threat monitoring firm reports that the attacks combine brute-forcing login credentials, bypassing authentication, and exploiting older vulnerabilities to compromise ASUS routers, including the RT-AC3100, RT-AC3200, and RT-AX55 models.
- Comment on Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors 1 week ago:
Kinda tricky to tell what exactly I’m supposed to check.
I run an ASUS RT-AX86S
To check if the settings have been compromised:
Log into the router under 192.168.1.1 Advanced Settings/Administration
System tab
Service section
Enable SSH should be set to OFF - Comment on What's your recommendation for a small NAS? 1 week ago:
I had a 212j for about 10 years before I got a 720+.
The j series are so underpowered the dashboard took literal minutes to load.
The + series is extremely energy efficient, but still powerful. I was running a Plex server along with a Terraria server on it and had no hiccups.
Now they were designed nearly a decade apart, but still. The + series is the way to go, don’t get anything else if you go with Synology.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 week ago:
Oh damn, I had no idea that’s why a lot of movies had OCR issues with my subtitles. I knew the information, and I had this problem, but I never put it together to realize that it had to be OCRd.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 week ago:
Piracy has none of these problems.
Once again, playing by the rules is a worse experience.
- Comment on How do you document your Homelab? 2 weeks ago:
There’s no such thing as too simple to document. If you spent time learning how to install it, you’ll need to relearn it if you want to make any changes in the future. If you don’t leave at least some notes as to why you make some decisions, you’ll have to redo your work.
It’s also good to make notes on every configuration setting. That forces you to understand why the settings are the way they are. If you have a -f in a docker config and you don’t have any understanding of why that’s there, you might not know if it’s a development flag for getting things set up, or if it’s a critical part of your environment.
It is especially important if any of those parts are exposed to the public Internet. You might have a config set to allow unauthenticated connections and not know it.
- Comment on Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze? 2 weeks ago:
As someone who lives solidly in corn maze country, this is a well used joke whenever the topic of corn mazes comes up. Which means I hear it about twice a week throughout the fall.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 3 weeks ago:
That only works after the video is out and has usage statistics.
This could theoretically start to identify those moments before the video is public.
- Comment on Scientists caution against charging electric vehicles at home overnight 3 weeks ago:
That’s how I read the article, yes.
It’s a little confusing, because they seem to also be speculating on how power generation and load will be in the future as well as people’s charging habits.
- Comment on Scientists caution against charging electric vehicles at home overnight 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure you’re talking about the same thing the paper is about. The overall load is lower, but the mix of power types is different.
Specifically, in California, there’s a HUGE difference in power generation types overnight than during the day. There’s excess capacity until the sun goes down due to solar. If you look ahead to everyone driving EVs, and then assume that everyone charges at night, then the power problem is completely different than what it is today.
- Comment on Scientists caution against charging electric vehicles at home overnight 3 weeks ago:
You’re missing that the researchers recommend charging during daytime business hours, which means people who use EVs to drive to work would need public or workplace provided chargers to accommodate this.
Setting a timer to charge around noon wouldn’t help if you’re parked at your job with no chargers nearby.
- Comment on Scientists caution against charging electric vehicles at home overnight 3 weeks ago:
Basically they want people to charge during the daytime when solar power is available, instead of in the evening when the grid is strained by higher demand and lack of renewable energy.
EVs have timers in them to prevent them from charging during peak demand or high electric cost hours. My power company charges triple rates from 2pm-7pm weekdays. We just have the EV timer set to not charge during that window.
- Comment on Real society commentary has shifted from stand up comedians to horror movies. 3 weeks ago:
All folk tales were social commentary. It’s been that way since the first stories were told around a fire.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 4 weeks ago:
No, this is exactly why it shouldn’t be allowed. This isn’t akin to playing a video of home movies because this is a fake video of the victim. This is complete fiction and people thinking it’s the same thing is what makes it wrong.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 4 weeks ago:
Your emotions don’t always line up with “what you know” this is why evidence rules exist in court. Humans don’t work that way. This is why there can be mistrials if specific kinds of evidence is revealed to the jury that shouldn’t have been shown.
Digital reenactments shouldn’t be allowed, even with disclaimers to the court. It is fiction and has no place here.
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 4 weeks ago:
I think we’d all enjoy a fresh take on SDV. There’s probably a ton he’d like to change, but can’t without having to rework the whole thing.
He did a fantastic job making the game what it is by adding slowly to the game, but it’s certainly pretty disjointed and limited in a lot of ways.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 4 weeks ago:
This isn’t a message from the victim. This is a message from his sister using his image as a way to increase the impact of her statement in court.
This is a bad thing, this is manipulating the court with a false and confusing message.
- Comment on What is this specific kind of sheet called? 4 weeks ago:
Tried to steal a sheet and it escalated badly.
- Comment on Request for desired features on a self hosted ereader app. 4 weeks ago:
There is an API that you can call to sync Kobo e-readers with calibre.
jccpalmer.com/…/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibre…
It just depends on if this would work with your current thoughts on how your app works.
- Comment on Request for desired features on a self hosted ereader app. 4 weeks ago:
I would be interested in something that can sync with Calibre-Web
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Then yes.
- Comment on What's on my Home Server 2025 – NixOS Edition - YouTube 5 weeks ago:
Kinda cool how the configs work, but it feels like you need to rely a little too much on having premade configs available for the things you want to do.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 teases new creatures and co-op among the coral 1 month ago:
This is a game I’m not going to preorder, but watch for a few months until the bugs are worked out, then when it’s 20% off I’ll play the shit out of it!
- Comment on Don't make it "like Google" 1 month ago:
What? There’s so many limitations on how you can move and manage files! You can’t even copy directories! That was a basic command in the 80’s.
Sure it has a UI, which makes some things easier, but there were fewer limitations in the 80’s on what you could and couldn’t do.