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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ublock for Firefox. Newpipe for YouTube. Not sure if insidious still works when selfhosted.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 week ago:
Like the question how one would tell a future generation to not go to a dangerous place? Like a nuclear waste dump. Slightly different topic, I know.
Communicating with someone whose language and mindset doesn’t exist yet could be tricky. But math could be possible.:)
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 week ago:
Fair. I agree with your arguments.
But I tried to clarify that I’m making fun of a not yet market-ready product and its exaggerated claims by pointing out that the sun will have died by then and no one cares about your excel sheets anymore. And more practical limitations like missing software and device to read and understand the contents in a much shorter time frame. I exaggerated back if you will. ;)
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 week ago:
I thought it would be hard to reverse engineer the compression algorithms used in JPEG images.
I agree. If easy accessibility for future archeologists was the goal one could maybe use 1 or more monochromatic 2D matrices of scalar values to represent an image. Or just to etch the pixels of image itself in the medium - like in microfiche.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 week ago:
Good luck finding a reading device for it in 100y, let alone 14 billion years. I doubt there will be a human civilization a few thousand years from now. :)
It’s OK to make fun of non-existing/ not yet market ready devices, no?
- Comment on is it normal for smart thermostat to rotate very often for no appearant reason? 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t say silent, it’s very audible when they switch from 6 to 25 °C. But I don’t observe that occasional self regulating behaviour. So I don’t mind.
- Comment on ⇆ bidicalc - a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards 1 week ago:
It appears to be a recreational mathematical toy for the creator to learn things more than it is for others to play with. It’s kind of neat nonetheless.
That’s perfectly fine. :) I just couldn’t find a use use and didn’t want to miss it.
- Comment on ⇆ bidicalc - a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards 1 week ago:
Nice. What’s the use case?
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 3 weeks ago:
Moot point!
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 3 weeks ago:
It’s the “change your password often odyssey” 2.0. If it is safe, it is safe, it doesn’t become unsafe after an arbitrary period of time (if the admin takes care and revokes compromised certs). Or am I missing the point?
- Comment on xkcd #3175: Website Task Flowchart 3 weeks ago:
There is no rule, that you have to follow their workflow. Or is it?
Don’t play their game. Send them a registered letter. Write them what you want, why they have to do it and set a grace period. If they don’t, escalate.
- Comment on xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance 3 weeks ago:
True. But wind sheer in the lower atmosphere could be an issue. Sometimes the moon gets in the way, too.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 5 weeks ago:
Engineer some humans who can survive in zero gravity without peeing out their bone minerals. Humans who can survive hard radiation in space without having their cells crippled from destroyed DNA.
Maybe start with simple organisms. Like algae. :)
- Comment on PdfDing Update: Signatures, dedicated website + docs 1 month ago:
Thanks. I looked into the demo. When would you recommend pdfding over paperless ngx? It looks like easy sharing and annotations are focused. Tagging is a feature which both tools share.
At first I thought it would be a tool like pdf24 (cutting, merging, editing PDFs).
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 1 month ago:
Nope. China vs. Taiwan at the horizon. They really want that island back. It won’t be good for world peace and really bad for last gen litho chips.
China vs. Europe and China vs. US are topics, too. Hopefully limited to economic pressure.
There’s always the second hand market…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I got the feeling that claim (what’s the claim?) and proof could fit into a few sentences. Why 40 minutes of video? That title is way too clickbaity for my liking. And I don’t fear to miss out on essential dishwasher pod info. ;) No thanks.
- Comment on How to start off small with the intent to expand 2 months ago:
I would get some cheap maybe even used X86 hardware to start with. Depending on your backup needs, you might need more than one M2 or SATA port. If you plan to use it as an always on device, I would keep the power consumption in mind. A celeron N could be the way. The cpu processing power is, in my experience, not the limiting factor for a self-hosted environment. Give it lots of RAM, every virtual machine and every running service needs space.
Using arm, like a Raspberry Pi, is not bad if you can find all your Docker images and binaries, compiled for this platform.
There are many possible distributions and software you could use, it really depends on personal preference.
- Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it suddenly stopped spinning? 2 months ago:
It would solve a lot of problems. It could create one or two new ones in the process. 🤔
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 2 months ago:
Interesting.
It was hard for me to tolerate the 50hz flickering. Especially in peripheral vision. Same with fluorescent tubes. Good times (not).
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 2 months ago:
Useless superpowers… :) CRTs must have been fun.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 2 months ago:
Straight answer, I don’t know lol
:)
I tried to find something on the internets. It says something about additional colors and reducing color flickering. 🤷♀️
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 2 months ago:
Yes, I could tell if dlp, whenever my eyes moved.
They fixed the issue by increasing the color changing frequency in led beamers.:)
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 2 months ago:
What’s the 4th color on the wheel used for? White minus white… black, yes. But why?
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 2 months ago:
And then they invented the colour wheel. And the DMD with lots of tiny mirrors. And afterwards they used LEDs and laser diodes…
- Comment on can we now "safely" auto upgrade immich? 2 months ago:
You can never be sure. Regressions do happen.
First evaluate it on your test setup.
— useless hint of the daySome fs can do snapshotting (btrfs, zfs,…). Second best would be a current backup to restore from.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
rsnapshot is a script for the purpose of repeatedly creating deduplicated copies (hardlinks) for one or more files. You can chose how many hourly, daily, weekly,… copies you’d like to keep and it removes outdated copies automatically. It wraps rsync and ssh (public key auth) which need to be configured before.
- Comment on how do I find process that leads to oom? 2 months ago:
- journalctl shows the oom event
- Container limits you can limit container resouce usage
- also you can look at container stats to maybe identify the culprit. Or cyclically write the stdout of ps to a file to identify the memory hungry process.
- Comment on New home server, NixOS vs Proxmox vs Arch 2 months ago:
Debian + Incus :)
- Comment on xkcd #3147: Hiking 2 months ago:
Now, what about escalators? …for the escalating part of the hike.
- Comment on A robot programmed to act like a 7-year-old girl works to combat fear and loneliness in hospitals 2 months ago:
Good times.:)