plateee

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, how fresh are they? I never liked avocados until I tried them in California, in season. It was like night and day.

  But as others have said, they’re not really “sweet”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus Christ people. Terraform has a plan output option to allow for review prior to an apply. It’s trivial to make a script that’ll throw the json output into something like terraform visual if you don’t like the diff format.

  I’ve fucked up stuff with Terraform, but just once before I switched to a rudimentary script to force a pause, review, and then apply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone else in here said the laws are confusing age verification for identity verification. If anything, I’d be okay with identity verification for banking as an additional check. (Plus my bank already knows what I spend money on)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They mention this in the article. The difference is that since the tire sensor sends out an RF signal, direct line of sight isn’t necessary. You could throw a tracker up on a roof and grab signals from a block over.

  The missing part may be tying that signal to a specific car, but say your car gets pulled over - they could read your tires’ sensor ID and compare it to where they captured it and bam! Now you’re fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Papa Johns is closing 300 locations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC, Mr Papa John has long since left the company and Shaq took over.

  Their pizza still sucks though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if you could run it on a dedicated piece of gear like FlockYou…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks Alot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t kept up, is she still around? I think last I heard Allie and her long time partner split.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But the Canadien stock market is over 33,000!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey buddy, you just need to keep your eye on the button and wait to see how they use the hammer to clear the house - and pray they don’t cross the hog line while holding on to the stone handle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Use Local IP for Services when at Home?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, in that case, I’d probably split my DNS duties. I started with internal resolution by having Pihole do hard coded DNS entries for internal systems, but my current setup seems to be much more resilient.

  I have two PowerDNS servers (main and replica) with recursors to Open DNS internet servers and resolvers for my lab network. It plays very nicely with Terraform or (crucially lately) Kubernetes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Use Local IP for Services when at Home?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you do a subdomain for internal? Using Nginx host base routing to get to the same port would let you have a valid cert for both service.lan.your.fqdn and service.your.fqdn.

  Let’s Encrypt wildcard certs for the *.lan.your.fqdn would simplify things.

  Your DNA server could then resolve the lan fqdns to your internal network and the non-lan to your Internet exposed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, shared storage is a requirement. I’m using a combination of Ceph and NFS at the moment, but I wouldn’t recommend Ceph unless you’ve got a 10gb connection between nodes.

  Here’s a guide to set up high availability with Proxmox: https://kiwicloud.ninja/2024/02/improved-high-availability-ha-for-vms-on-proxmox-ve-pve/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, I have three proxmox nodes that are configured to restart VMs and LXC containers if a host goes offline. There’s a Palo Alto pa-440 for my fw/router and a brocade switch (they were something work gave me for practicing for a network exam).

  The nodes, Palo, brocade, and AT&T modem are all on two UPS 1500va systems along with my wifi ap. Run time in case of power loss is around an hour.

  I’m this close to getting a comprehensive shutdown script working from a raspberry pi that is triggered if there’s power loss (most UPS systems have some capability to trigger scripts on a host that’s connected to the UPS’s console port).

  If I can get that script working, the battery backup will run a PI for several days.

  Back on the redundancy side, I host two PowerDNS systems in the proxmox cluster along with a 3 node/LXC container Vault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is *shower*thoughts, but is there a "snowstorm thoughts" for when you have random nostalgia moments about the past? Particularly about a past snow storm in your childhood, like the SNOW DAYS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you want to know something awful? There might not be snow days anymore. Not because of climate change, but because of COVID.

  Days where school used to be called off could just be “remote learning” days and instead of getting to go play in the snow like we did when we were younger, kids will have to sit and zoom all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here, and I’m not sure what I’ll go to next - the USB port has gotten flakey.

  I want to try a Linux phone, but hardware seems to be made of unobtainium, and the software seems like it’s not quite there yet.

  Part of me is tempted to just get another pixel 7 Pro on swappa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only never go on holiday or see your family ever again, but crucially “you better be loyal/work harder than citizens lest we fire you and your visa expires.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never used it, does it handle docx authorship better than libre?

  Honestly, I’m not even 100% sure they *need* Word or if they’re just being told that by their boss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s $150 for a “perpetual” license - but that’s not including any one drive storage. The Office 365 SaaS (I think now it’s Microsoft 365?) starts at $99/year.

  I know this because I’ve been trying to find a solution for my sister who *absolutely needs* office to get a workable solution for Linux. Supposedly, she has to submit papers/writing as docx and can’t trust LibreOffice not to fuck up formatting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe a controversial take, but I like pihole for blocking only - I have a pair of powerDNS servers set up for my internal name resolution. They recurse to Pihole, but can fall back to internet DNS servers if Pihole isn’t responsive.

  I tried pihole for local resolution and found it to be a fairly large pain to automate. Plus kubes has PDNS hooks for auto-updating DNS entries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just have a hard cut-off for software released after 2022.

  It’s the only way I search for recipes anymore - a date filter from 1/1/1990 - 1/1/2022.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What DDNS providers you guys recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have dyndns. I don’t recommend them, unless a coworker just gave you their lifetime pro account for free.

  Thanks Roody, wherever you are!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh yes daddy credit please⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve gotten dinged for not having *enough* accounts/credit lines.

  My old car payment fell off last month, and I bought a car with cash (not a great car, but it was cheap) - now I’m in the “fair” zone.

  But fuck me for not wanting a shitload of credit cards/loans, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk abbout this one discord⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if you don’t worry about someone impersonating your account you don’t have to reserve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk abbout this one discord⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Come with me back to IRC land. The water’s fine.

  (Technically you should log in to nickserv, but that’s it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Bat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  https://youtu.be/KOOhPfMbuIQ?si=5sZbKGGdVRDAib_r

  You weren’t lying. I’ve never heard of Half Alive before, they’re not bad!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the AI bubble bursts..⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, in addition to the reasons brought up by the other commenters, I’m starting to think that “computers as a service” will start to be a thing.

  Google’s Stadia by all accounts wasn’t horrible, but it was pricey and the selection was subpar.

  But what if Amazon, Azure, and Google start up some post-AI burst equivalent that provides a use case for all that processing power? Sure, the GPUs used by commercial AI aren’t designed for gaming, but Nvidia could see the writing on the wall and start partnering with hyper scalers to create massive racks of gaming GPUs. *And* it would be one step closer to the ultimate goal of removing personal ownership of things! Pay a subscription for a cloud gaming PC or try your luck on building your own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's nothing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have issues with anxiety/panic attacks? Fun fact, panic attacks can manifest physically with nearly identical symptoms to a heart attack!

  (This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get things checked out though)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cams, anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unifi Protect is what runs on the CloudKey/NVR physical device - you don’t need to have it go through to the Internet.

  Remember, for better or worse Ubiquiti is positioning themselves as SMB Enterprise security - some companies won’t want their footage to be accessible outside their network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cams, anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is maybe controversial, but I love the Ubiquiti security stuff. Cameras (interior and exterior) doorbells, etc, it’s all great. Pricey, but you get what you pay for.

  And the data can stay local or be accessible via their services.

  I chose to go local only, grabbed their UNVR and populated it with 4x 2TB drives and it has enough space to handle 7 cameras HD history for about a month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valves first title with a 3 in it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At a minimum if you still have the shirt (I lost mine years ago to a communal laundry room), you could wrap the steam machine with the shirt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valves first title with a 3 in it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  steam machine is a cube

  Or would you say it looks like a box… Maybe an *Orange Box*!?!

  I’m calling it - a limited release where the black shell is orange and it comes bundled with HL3 for free.