probable_possum

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get the resentment. In the end it is a hobby. You can have fun building everything from scratch. And you can have fun, using pre configured services.

  What counts is that you get away from big corp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is just another turn of the enshittification downward-spiral. There have been steps before this and there will be more to come.

  You can decide if you need the platform and look for alternatives - but where to? Content creators want the range and the monetization of yt. Classic lock-in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use them for wifi because they make them really easy to configure and manage. But the management interface stays locked in a vlan without access to the internets. Because I don’t trust their cloud affinity.

  This also disqualifies their routers and firewalls for me. How can I trust a device which tries to phone home? So that area is covered by opnsense on a device with a sufficient amount of Ethernet ports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hit f2 or del or whatever the screen tells you during boot to enter the UEFI menu (or hold shift while clicking restart in w11 or w10 to reboot into uefi). Search for an option to change the buttons behaviour to right ctrl instead of cockpit.

  I don’t own an ai Thinkpad, sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s worth taking a look in the BIOS/ UEFI setup - maybe the key can be remapped there? Once in there was a setting which defined the default F-key behaviour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe the new Syncthing-Fork v2.0.14 on F-Droid?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Verbose? What happened?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Linux kernel is just a program⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you read the article the headline starts to make sense. I wouldn’t have read it based on the headline. Thankfully you read it nevertheless and praised it. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I hated these warts.

  All the effort that goes into protecting content and almost none works for a longer period of time.

  But it always affects the rightful user (if it gets in the way). Looking at you HDCP, you are the reason for the few seconds delay before the HDMI connection is made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been hinking about infrastructure as code tools. Skimmed the very surface of opentofu, looked at the list of alternatives.

  I’m in need of something that is both, deployment automation and (implicit) documentation of the thing that I call “the zoo”. Namely:

  • network definition
  • machine definitions (VMs, containers) and their configuration
  • inventory: keeping track of third party resources

  Now I think about which tool would be the right one for the job while I’m still not 100% sure what the job is. I don’t like added complexity, it is quite possible this could become a dead end for me, if I spend more time wrangling the tool than I gain in the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  determine how DDG will use AI in the future?

  In this regard it makes perfect sense. I guess it was just me who asked for the general population answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  90%? Could be selection bias. I think, the result would be a different one if users would have been asked to in the Google AI tab.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built a Spotify to Navidrome playlist Exporter. Meet Navispot 😅⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  HLS

  Probably a better fit: HTTP_Live_Streaming

  Disambiguation page also suggests Vatican state Maybe…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SK hynix to spend $13 billion on the world's largest HBM memory assembly plant amid the worst shortage on record — South Korea facility to handle packaging and testing for AI memory campus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They keep records since the early 1900s I heard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  7 was good. 10s was okish.
  11 and its forced online - account? No, thanks.

  Its 10 LTSC for now. Laptop runs KDE just fine, it’s the lesser pain right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Web browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups – Smoking on a Bike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the TL; DR. This was helpful.

  I didn’t want to click that link and I’m happy that I didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice. What’s the use case?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Moot point!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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…