thejml

@thejml@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I run it in a container on Kubernetes. Definitely recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  More than a PDP-11, but I would recommend against both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how a “first computer” stats break down when some people (me) were born before laptops and tablets. (Also now I feel old…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Is Having a Mental Health Crisis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, we did train it with data from the internet and books and history and everything else we could throw at it… This is like Leeloo in The Fifth Element learning all of the language and discovering “War”. If it really was AGI, theres no way you could be forced to consume all of that and come away “fine”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Amazon Pay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, it’s mostly the returns process that I feel make Amazon a better place for “direct from china” stuff. I do a lot of electronics hobby work and I can buy the same part from Amazon, Ali Express, or direct from fly by night companies in China. The latter two are generally cheaper, but the quality tends to be more questionable at times and I can’t really “return it for my money back” like Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But I heard it was so fast!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oechslegrad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even better with a frozen margarita.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Copilot keeps finishing my code for me in near real time… it completely disrupts my train of thought and my productivity dropped tremendously. I finally disabled it.

  I LIKE writing code, stop trying to take the stuff away that I WANT to do and instead take away the stuff I HATE doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People using Cloudflare, are you still happy with it? Would you consider any self-hosted alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’ve done public DNS zone hosting and you can use let’s encrypt for certs and such, but

  • What about caches? I basically use to reduce load and network traffic reduction before it gets to me so I don’t have to run my own varnish cache and get regional caching to reduce repeat cross country calls for people on the other coasts.
  • What do you use for DDOS protection?

  Basically, cloudflare us free, and i get all that. If I find another place better, I’m open to jumping ship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI would help to account for the memory footprint of Prometheus monitoring… but no. Not yet (I’ve used it for 7+ yrs at this point).

  However theres also the NASA “Project Prometheus” which also predates this, more closely matches the name, but sadly also doesn’t have AI: found here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just waiting for Musk to get his robots to learn how to feed off biomass and complete his transition to Ted Faro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA's H100 GPU Takes Data Centers to Space⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes a lot of fossil fuels to push things to LEO let alone higher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich camera lens info⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty neat, what adapter is that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I was thinking… they didn’t get rid of gravity. Also, who pees on the wall, even without a coating it’s going to splash at least a little.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone has to rip it in the first place.

  I prefer to rip my own, as well as CD’s and DVD’s I already own. I also do a lot with retro hardware that doesn’t always have a USB port.

  BluRays are also fairly decent for offline, offsite backups, though writable media is getting expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everytime I hear the name “Game Bar” all I can think of is this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are way more positive about the future than I.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pepperidge Farm remembers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does Nokia still make a solid feature phone?

  My biggest use case for a smartphone is MFA for work, so if I can convince them to give me a yubikey instead, I’d be interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You could probably make it up. You know they’re not really reading it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Managing memes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The hero we need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “8 year olds, dude.” - Walter Sobchak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t know why they even list the birth year. It explicitly states “8 Year Olds”, we can do the math.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QUACK QUACK QUACK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe they say it’s only for the pregnant mothers taking it causing autism to their unborn babies.

  This perfectly fits into all MAGA’s Project 2025 tenants:

  • Women don’t matter and Women’s healthcare should be reduced and their bodies controlled
  • Don’t care about babies that have been born, just the unborn ones
  • Blame things without any evidence to enforce solutions that profit the companies who pay into the administration and people who have been appointed there.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WACK.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just make sure you have a decent current in it so you don’t breed mosquitoes and It’s all good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitOps for docker compose stacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Currently, I have a 3 node Proxmox cluster with 6 kube nodes on it (3 masters, 3 workers). Lets me do things like migrate services off of a host so I can take it out, do upgrades/maintenance, and put it back without hearing about downtime from the family/friends.

  For storage, I’ve got a Synology NAS with NFS setup and then the pods are configured to use that for their storage if they need it (So, Jellyfin, Immich, etc). I do regular backups of the NAS with rsync. So, if that goes down, I can restore or standup a new NAS with NFS and it’ll be back to normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitOps for docker compose stacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If feel like, for me at least, GitOps for containers is peace of mind. I run a small Kubernetes cluster as my home lab, and all the configs are in git. If need be, I know (because i tested it) if something happens to the cluster and I lose it all, I can spin up a new cluster and apply the configs from git and be back up and running. Because I do deployments directly from git, I know that everything in git is up to date and versioned so i can roll back.

  I previously ran a set of docker containers with compose and then swarm, and I always worried something wouldn’t be recoverable. Adding GitOps here reduced my “What If?” Quotient tremendously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and more attend Trump's UK state banquet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, I feel like its gone from “these companies are disgusting kissing up to the orange one” to “if they don’t go, they’re risking being on the receiving end of a massive company ending lawsuit/cancel war from the right and his Orangeness.”

  Both are disappointing and I’d rather go elsewhere, but the second is far more dystopian and probably more reflective of the current state of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dint do calls often at all, so a flip/dumb phone doesn’t appeal to me much. However, i have been very tempted to upgrade my existing smart watch to one with LTE connectivity and skip the smart phone completely.

  The Apple watch, for instance, with LTE can do maps/directions, calls, texts, etc., without needing a smartphone near by. It would be much less to carry, less distractions, and way more convenient.

  The bug thing it can’t currently do, however, is MFA for my job. It can do Authy and many others, but the one we require doesn’t work, I’ve tried many times, so I’m stuck carrying a smartphone around if I want to remain employed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backing up easily⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use an rsync job to do it. Rsync by default uses the files metadata to determine if the file has changed or not and updates based on that. You can opt to use checksums instead if you’d rather. IIRC, you can do it with a Synology task, or just do it yourself on the command line. Ive got a Jenkins setup to run it so i can gather the logs and not have to remember the command all the time (and i use it for other periodic jobs as well), but its pretty straightforward on its own.