danielquinn
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 16 minutes ago:
Yeah this was a deal-breaker for me too.
- Comment on Downing Street ‘exploring plan for digital ID cards’ 3 days ago:
It’s almost as if the people making these decisions have never heard of compromised devices. Either that, or they’re happy to have someone steal all your data and don’t care.
- Comment on how to set up a remote managed node for mom 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Tailscale is surprisingly simple.
# systemctl start tailscale # tailscale up
- Comment on A “victim blaming” row has broken out on social media, after a cyclist uploaded footage of what he described as the “closest pass I’ve ever seen” 2 weeks ago:
If a cyclist is going to take the lane (and we have every right to) it’s very dangerous to leave any room for drivers to pass because they inevitably try this sort of shit.
Ride out into the middle of the lane. Make them recognise you as someone taking the lane. They’ll still want to kill you for daring to be a cyclist, but they won’t want to damage their car.
- Comment on Co-op votes to boycott Israel 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, this has really turned me around on them. The Co-op is far less convenient than the alternatives for us, but news like this is enough to get me to commit to going as often as possible.
- Comment on Levi McClain: Klingon Music Theory is Weird 3 weeks ago:
I love this so much. Thank you!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I had the same reaction until I read this.
TL;DR: it’s 10-50x more efficient at cleaning the air and actually generates both electricity and fertiliser.
Yes, it would be better to just get rid of all the cars generating the pollution in the first place and putting in some more trees, but there are clear advantages to this.
- Comment on UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News 1 month ago:
- Comment on UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News 1 month ago:
Well shit. What good is pasta without parmesan? And no feta? Gouda? How is life worth living without good cheese?
- Comment on Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence? 1 month ago:
In Star Trek: Insurrection, the Enterprise protected the Baku from the So’na, though if I remember right, there was some debate as to whether the prime directive applied as the Baku weren’t native to the planet.
- Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use? 2 months ago:
I’m quite happy with EuroDNS. They even include free email housing if you want it.
- Comment on How do you like to transfer large files between friends across the internet? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 2 months ago:
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 2 months ago:
I am a strong supporter of the EU, and won’t sign this. This country is too xenophobic, fractious, reactionary, and delusionally self-important to let them back into the union when it’s still reeling from the damage the UK caused just a few years ago.
If the UK is serious about rejoining, it will first have to stop treating EU membership like a glorified trade agreement and stepping stone to national power and influence. The EU needs community members and partners, not self-aggrandising parasites.
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 2 months ago:
…let alone the rest of the EU. They’d be crazy to accept a UK petition for membership right now.
- Comment on YouTuber travels to the filming location of Veridian III and shows what's left of Soren's rocket launcher and Kirk's burial site. 3 months ago:
I couldn’t watch it. I tried, but that dude is too annoying.
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 4 months ago:
Neat trick! I’ve enabled it on my phone now, though it does say that it’s probably better to use a guest user for such situations… I don’t know how to do that either.
Still, this is additionally handy when I want to let my kid briefly use my phone.
This may all be moot though, if the state requires you to install a government app with invasive permissions just for this situation. Yet another reason to give up driving!
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 4 months ago:
Just we need, an excuse for a cop to take your unlocked phone away to his car to do whatever he likes with it.
- Comment on Solar powered server rack 5 months ago:
You might be interested in this project where someone has hooked up a low-power system to Mastodon and is tooting through it stories about the experience. The project author may also be worth contacting.
- Comment on Post your bandwidth usage 5 months ago:
What exactly are you self-hosting that’s gobbling up that much data? I’ve been self-hosting my website for decades and haven’t used that much over all that time let alone in one month.
Most of my bandwidth consumption is from torrents and downloading Steam games.
- Comment on Junk food ad ban legislation progresses to curb childhood obesity 5 months ago:
Where are kids seeing ads these days? Is this just for people who watch tv rather than streaming, or would this include any sort of product placement you see in streamed shows? Honestly, it’d probably be a lot more effective (and better for adults too!) if we just taxed the shit out of junk food.
- Comment on TIL Connor Trinneer & Dominic Keating have a podcast called "The D-Con Chamber". Here they are interviewing Nana Visitor on her new book! 6 months ago:
Nevermind I went back over and found it. It was Marina Sirtis at 20:35.
- Comment on TIL Connor Trinneer & Dominic Keating have a podcast called "The D-Con Chamber". Here they are interviewing Nana Visitor on her new book! 6 months ago:
At one point in the interview, Visitor says something about an acres who refused to be interviewed because she didn’t want Visitor to make money off of her. I didn’t catch the name though. Who was it?
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 6 months ago:
Each Pi 4 has 8GB of RAM. With six devices, that’s 48GB to play with. More than enough for my needs.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 6 months ago:
Actually, as a web guy, I find the ARM architecture to be more than sufficient. Most of the stuff I build is memory heavy and CPU light, so the Pi is great for this stuff.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 6 months ago:
They’re fanless and low-power, which was the primary draw to going this route. I run a Kubernetes cluster on them, including a few personal websites (Nginx+Python+Django), PostgreSQL, Sonarr, Calibre, SSH (occasionally) and every once in a while, an OpenArena server :-)
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 6 months ago:
- Comment on Disease spread in dog poo could be 'disaster' for cows 6 months ago:
Cambridge checking in. It must be payback for the cows leaving their shit all over the walking path.
- Comment on Scientists dismayed as UK ministers clear way for gene editing of crops - but not animals 7 months ago:
This will make rejoining the EU much more difficult.
- Comment on ChartDB - open-source database diagram visualization tool 7 months ago:
So my first impression is that the requirement to copy-paste that elaborate SQL to get the schema is clever but not sufficiently intuitive. Rather than saying “Run this query and paste the output”, you say “Run this script in your database” and print out a bunch of text that is not a query at all but a one-liner Bash script that relies on the existence of
pbcopy– something that (a) doesn’t exist on many default installs (b) is a red flag for something that’s meant to be self-hosted (why am I talking to a pasteboard?), and © is totally unnecessary anyway.Instead, you could just say: “Run this query and paste the result in this box” and print out the raw SQL. Leave it up to the user to figure out how they want to run it.
Alternatively you can also do something like: “Run this on your machine and copy/paste the output”:
$ curl 'https://app.chartdb.io/superquery.sql' | psql --user USERNAME --host HOSTNAME DBNAMEIn the case of the cloud service, it’s also not clear if the data is being stored on the server or client side in
LocalStorage. I would think that the latter would be preferable.
