JustEnoughDucks

@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recipes, Meal Planning, and Shopping List⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also mealie supports SSO with OIDC so authelia/authentik can cover it and there is no need for separate accounts.

  Also being a PWA on mobile instead of another electron app means that authentication in front of it doesn’t break anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh I hate excel. It can’t do the most basic search and replace things reliably in all cases. I have moved literally all data analysis besides the absolute basic “count” and “sum” operations to python in spyder. 200x faster, repeatable, and has never once failed a basic operation like a search and replace. Not to mention the localization issues and the fact that it will fuck things up completely if you install a new printer because Microsoft decided the printer has priority of your document and spreadsheet layouts over choosing a default.

  I had some evaluation board software that whenever the value dipped below -1, would place the comma completely randomly in the floating point number.

  Excel almost had a heart attack when I asked it to search and replace ”-1” with “-1,” and it found all of the cases just fine, but decides to ignore the replace and not place a comma at all. If I tried to convert them to a number, it freaked out and placed the decimal place also randomly, different than the input. And of course trying to do in-place operations on a column for export is just painful.

  Hell, in notepad++ I could just regex the digit range that was preceded by a ”-1” and get everything replaced using a few brackets.

  Not to mention how terrible the graphs work in comparison and how bad they look with the default options 😅. But hey, you can automatically put in a drop shadow or frame it in a useless way.

  There are some people who can work very efficiently and do some crazy things in excel (like the excel doom) but unless you have literally been using it daily for many years and actively looking for ways to speed up, then it is just as easy or easier to do things in an actual data processing program like matlab, octave, python, or R (And I am not a coder) and you can literally copy paste a file name for the next full dataset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes,

  www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/…/ECS07/ www.amazon.com/…/B0D8BCWHPT

  www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003335714128.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who has to interface professionally with solidworks and everyone at my company on the mechanical side uses solidworks, it is also slow as fuck when the part or assembly gets a bit complicated. Just opening it takes a few minutes. If we have to open solidworks and an assembly from scratch during a meeting, that is 10 minutes gone.

  Definitely has 10x as many QoL and productvity features and much better TNP solutions and heuristics built over decades, plus very useful plugins, but speed and stability are not its strong points 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud (PHP) vs OpenCloud (Rust)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Syncthing also even has basic version control, just no “web file browsing” interface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Note: before tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to see the stats on that. A lot of times people who are in the industry or know someone in it see their wages and others’ wages going up and say “wages went up with inflation” where the starting wage or the wage normalized to seniority level actually hasn’t changed much at all. For example, in engineering like electriical (outside of silicon valley in the US which has its own economical wage ecosystem) has had entry level positions that have gone up around 20% since the 2008 while inflation has gone up almost 50% since 2008 and productivity has skyrocketed with CAD advancements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Note: before tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the difference is that wages have not significantly gone up since then apart from minimum wage in a few states. That is the difference. People are literally poorer because of the massively increased wealth inequality coming from employers shoving down wages while making yearly record profits…

  If peoples’ purchasing power is more or less the same, factoring in inflation to game prices would result in a ton of people simply not being able to buy “luxury goods” like video games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What steps do you take to secure your server and your selfhosted services?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dropping instead of blocking might technically be better because it wastes a bit more bot time and they see it as “it doesn’t exist” rather than an obsticle to try exploits on. Not sure if that is true though.

  For me:

  • ssh server only with keys

  • absolutely no ssh forwarding, only available to local network via firewall rules

  • docker socket proxy for everything that needs socket access

  • drop non-used ports, limit IPs for local-only services (e.g. paperless)

  • crowdsec on traefik for the rest (sadly it blocks my VPN IPs also)

  • Authelia over everything that doesn’t break the native apps (jellyfin and home assistant are the two that it breaks so far, and HA was very intermittent so I made a separate authelia rule and mobile DNS entry for slightly reduced rules)

  • proper umask rules on all docker directories (or as much as possible)

  • main drive FDE with a separate boot drive with FDE keyfile on a dongle that is removed except for updates and booting to make snatch-and-grabs useless and compromising bootloader impractical

  • full disk encryption with passworded data drives, so even if a smash and grab happens when I leave the dongle in, the sensitive data is still encrypted and the keys aren’t in memory (makes a startup script with a password needed, so no automated startups for me)

  For more info, I followed a lot of stuff on: github.com/…/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity from renewable sources reaches 47% [in EU] in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is regulation’s fault. Companies will increase prices even when costs go down because they can only see green.

  Sadly, a ton of countries in the EU have very bad regulations on energy companies.

  Hell, here in Belgium you pretty much have to get a 3rd party smart meter because energy companies literally try to scam you.

  During the start of the Russian war with the gas crisis there. Our old energy company, Mega, tried to charge us >3000€ extra because “increased costs that weren’t factored into our monthly bill”.

  They lied and said that we used 99.9% of our total energy from November to December (oh just happens to be the most expensive period) that year. They literally said we used not even enough gas for a single hot shower the entire rest of the year.

  When we proved to them with our smart meter records that they were straight up lying to us, they said “ooopsie poopsie, we have no way of knowing how much you use per month, it’s not our fault” and still made us pay 1000€ for the increased costs from October to december even though we just caught them red handed in an illegal scam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  HealthyPi will be a too option too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then the question is: what is being smart or dumb? If acting dumb in 90% of life while having the capability of being smart isn’t “being dumb” then what is?

  If someone who has the capability of being 50/100 intelligent and is always acting 50/100, I would argue they are smarter than someone capable of 80/100 intelligence but acts 20/100 intelligence for 90% of their life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the moon too far for your data? IBM's Red Hat is teaming up with Axiom Space to send a data center into space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s done for smaller parts with peltiers nowadays. Not that efficient, but there are few options. If you sink it to a large enough surface, it will radiate away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CryptPad.org, the end to end encrypted collaboration suite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair though. The experience of google and Microsoft online word/spreadsheets/etc… also sucks ass on a smartphone. Much better, sure, but doing spreadsheets or writing a paper on a phone is a bad experience in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to branch out from PLA. Should I try ABS or TPU?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is better in every way except easy printability and water absorption.

  Stronger, UV resistant, more watertight, much more heat resistant, more resistant to creep at room temp, less brittle, can print clear, and doesn’t have a bad warping problem or need and enclosure like printing ABS.

  It is essentially just PLA but better and a bit harder to print. I completely switched over to PLA because I found good settings for FormFutura recycled PET (more stringy than petg)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL: photon is an awesome opinionated web client for Lemmy to help users discover the fediverse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what feddit.nl uses as an alternative UI. It seems to me pretty much the UI of new reddit vs the default which is more the old UI of reddit. Also images don’t load well on photon. If you click into them, they are often the thumbnail just blown up instead of the full res version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is very cool, I have never met someone who had success with open hardware. Can I ask what the company is?

  Any tips for doing crowd funding if I decide to put my stuff on the market? I feel like crowd funding has died off a lot in comparison with 10 years ago since most campaigns either don’t reach the goal, don’t deliver the product (or a very basis version), or were scams to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep track of vulnerabilities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a fantastic idea. Wtf how is this not commonplace? Or am I just way behind 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Open-source hardware is almost non-existant compared to software. There is a reason for it.

  I am an electronics engineer who makes open source hardware as a hobby.

  Hardware is extremely different from software. It requires substantial monetary investment.

  My company last year did a dirt-cheap lowest-possible-budget prototype design and run of 10 for someone funding themselves independently. It cost 8000€ for the design and that one prototype run, and an extremely simple design at that (electronically, medical-spec mechanically).

  Software you buy a system and you can develop and develop and iterate and test 1000 times and develop multiple projects on that single machine. If you sell 0 units, sure you are out a computer and a ton of personal time. Sucks, but you won’t lose your house.

  If you do electronics + mechanical development, every time you iterate on the electronics, that will be 200€-1000€ please, plus test equipment. If you make a small mistake equivalent to a wrong pointer that is another 1000 down the drain.

  Hardware projects, pure material-wise, can cost more than a car to develop (just going through CE and FCC compliance testing can be 2k-10k and you aren’t allowed to sell in the EU without it.

  You need capital to burn. Most people would rather make a down payment on a house than develop open hardware that might never recoup just the material costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry. Companies like Bambu and others are trying to lock down shift their printer business in the style of 2d printer companies. I hope it at least happens very slowly, but the enshittification is happening…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we go back to small phones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell I wish the big phones had SD card slots…

  There are very very few phones that have them anymore. Chinese phones, Sony, fairphone, and Samsung midrange, that is about it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we go back to small phones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I picked the 5ii for similar reasons at the time.

  The problem is it only gets 2 years of support, so I haven’t gotten an update in years. Sony is living in 2010.

  The fingerprint reader slowly stopped working 6 months ago via a prolific software bug that is all over forums for xperias that will never be fixed.

  The battery (even ONLY charging it to 80% using battery care) is horrific and the standby time is shit. It loses 1.5-2% battery per hour not being used at all now. I get maybe 4h SOT browsing (much less with video).

  The default camera app is crap and not even worth using…

  I want to try lineageOS when I get the time to see if it fixes the battery and fingerprint reader, but here in Belgium we really need access to our bank apps because almost everything is done through there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we go back to small phones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If the pixel series had a damn SD card slot it would be the perfect phone for me.

  I just want to sync all of my music and local backups to an SD card via syncthing dammit. I don’t want to have to pay 200€ for them adding a 5€ chip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhhh, tons of people in Europe are on 240V 3 phase power.

  My oven is 3100W and that is just fine. 3 phase consumer induction cooktops can easily go that high or higher.

  Once my 3 phase charging pole is put in, my car will charge at >10000W on a household circuit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but this time deep web forums that are unsearchable/unindexed so that information is lost forever! (Discord, telegram, matrix)actually that might actually be a return to web 1 forums before search engines were giant and all forum seach engines sucked ass 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I add two docker containers via CLI and suddenly I can't ssh into my machine or access any local container.... what happened??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, syncthing for file syncing things between systems like music and I realized I never really used “cloud” storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  duckduckgo.com/?q=robot+vacuum&t=fpas&iax=images&…

  Ah yes, the extremely humanlike robots. 😂

  I think one difference is that men often have no support structures at all, and certainly not with levels of physical or emotional connection. They aren’t just craving sex, they are craving human intimacy and connection where it is very normalized among women to have emotional and physical intimacy among friend support groups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Parks and golf courses are all world of difference lol.

  Parka have tons of trees, different species of geasses big and small, some open areas, playground for kids, small fields for football or something. Open to the public, 3rd spaces for kids and teens, people exercising and running and walking through it.

  Golf courses you have to pay to get in, not open to the public, a monoculture of imported grass, maybe some trees on the edges or between holes, kids and teens are not allowed, uses more space that the community isn’t allowed in, etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT Demonstrates Fully 3D Printed, Active Electronic Components⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, you could do that with any PTC + resistor. That is then a circuit, not an active component.

  For example, if you had a photoresistor and used an LED to turn its resistance from high to low, that doesn’t make the photoresistor an active component.

  Plus in the paper, the small wire + geometry is a prerequisite to do the resistance switch without melting everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I add two docker containers via CLI and suddenly I can't ssh into my machine or access any local container.... what happened??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to physically log into the server (I am not using a VPS) and docker compose -f … down the container in order for it to be solved. After a downgrade of nextcloud it was solved and the next upgrade I did, didn’t experience the same issue. I ended up ditching nextcloud anyway because after an update ~8-12 months ago, the login page has never loaded since, so it can’t be used. I found out I rarely used it anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is literally no good corporate computer manufacturer anymore. Dell, HP, Lenovo, all not good.

  There are decent companies for home laptops: system76, framework, etc…

  But they don’t have the support infrastructure necessary for many corporate IT departments.