dan
@dan@upvote.au
Aussie living in the USA. https://d.sb/
- Comment on It's not time for your point release yet. 5 days ago:
A few basic steps can keep Arch just as stable as anything else.
“stable” in this case means “doesn’t change often”. Is that actually doable with Arch?
- Comment on It's not time for your point release yet. 5 days ago:
Debian testing is usually good enough. Packages have to be in unstable for ~10 days with no major bugs to migrate to testing.
Of course, you can run unstable if you really want to live on the edge.
- Comment on Swapping out red meat and creamy pasta sauce could significantly cut household emissions, Australian research finds 5 days ago:
Building houses that are properly insulated would help far more since people would have to use heating and cooling much less often, yet that doesn’t seem to be a thing that builders are actually doing. I’m living in California in a house built in the 1960s and it’s better insulated than an Aussie house built in the 2010s.
In any case, updating food packaging to include an environmental score isn’t a bad idea. Hopefully it’d work out better than the health score, which is still entirely voluntary and doesn’t always make sense.
- Comment on Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I think they’re pretty different cases.
Amazon’s one was essentially a side project for them, likely fully funded in-house.
In this case, it was their entire product. They received funding from investors purely for the AI functionality that didn’t actually exist or work. They spent all the investor money and had essentially nothing to show for it.
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 2 weeks ago:
At least there’s some competitors now, which could be used as drop-in replacements if Let’s Encrypt were to disappear.
- Comment on Can you afford to live in your postcode? Here's what the data says 2 weeks ago:
This is sad to read, but I just wanted to say that I love the graphics in the article. They’ve presented the information in a nice way.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 2 weeks ago:
They already factored in some amount of tariffs into the US price. It’s not really that it’s cheaper in Japan, but rather it’s more expensive in the USA. It’s cheaper in Australia too, for example.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 2 weeks ago:
Maybe! I’m sure there’s loopholes of some sort.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 2 weeks ago:
This is going to be a rare case where a piece of consumer electronics is going to be quite a bit cheaper in Australia compared to the USA. Usually stuff costs more in Australia.
The Switch is currently US$450 and will probably go up with tariffs. Meanwhile, it’s listed as AU$700 in Australia, which is AU$630 before tax (all advertised prices include tax), which is US$385.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 2 weeks ago:
Do you not like trading the truth?
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely. The console is manufactured in Vietnam, which now has a 46% tariff.
- Comment on Moving from Cloudflare tunnels for media streaming, first plan didn't work out due to double NAT 3 weeks ago:
There’s no reason your media server needs to be directly exposed to the public internet. Use Tailscale. Get everyone that uses it to sign up for a Tailscale account, and add them all to your Tailnet.
Tailscale will perform better than any tunnel because it’s a direct connection between the two peers - it’s not relaying through an intermediary server like a Cloudflare tunnel would.
- Comment on Based on a true story 3 weeks ago:
But for there to be used cars, there needs to be new cars… How do the people that buy new cars pay for them?
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 3 weeks ago:
I loved the explosion sound, and the “oh no” when you click the undo button. I have the Windows versions of KidPix on CD somewhere.
- Comment on DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see any mention of torrents in the article?
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, there’ll be some overhead if you’re running Wireguard on a router. Hitting your router’s public IP won’t go out to the internet though - the router will recognize that it’s its IP.
It’s common to run Wireguard on every computer/phone/tablet/etc rather than just on the router, since this takes advantage of its peer-to-peer nature. Tailscale makes it a lot easier to configure it this way though - it’s a bit of work for vanilla Wireguard.
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 3 weeks ago:
My point is that since the VPN uses a different subnet, it’s fine to keep it connected even at home. It’ll only use the VPN if you access the server’s VPN IP, not its regular IP.
In any case, Tailscale and Wireguard are peer-to-peer, so the connection over the VPN is still directly to the server and there’s no real disadvantage of using the VPN IP on your local network.
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, this. Plus if you leave it connected, you can use the VPN IPs while at home instead of having to use a different IP when at home vs when out (or deal with split horizon DNS)
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 3 weeks ago:
Headscale is a replacement for the coordination servers, which are only used to distribute configs and help nodes find each other. It won’t change client-side behaviour.
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 3 weeks ago:
I did this and it still seems to randomly disconnect.
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 3 weeks ago:
If you have a separate subnet for it, then why do you only want it to be connected when you’re not on home wifi? You can just leave it connected all the time since it won’t interfere with accessing anything outside that subnet.
That’s assuming you’re not routing all your traffic through it.
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 3 weeks ago:
conditional Auto-Connect. If not on home wifi, connect to the tunnel.
You don’t need this with Tailscale since it uses a separate IP range for the tunnel.
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah my wife and I are both on Android, and I haven’t been able to figure out why it does that.
The Android client is open-source so maybe someone could figure it out. github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 3 weeks ago:
Is it just you that uses it, or do friends and family use it too?
The best way to secure it is to use a VPN like Tailscale, which avoids having to expose it to the public internet.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 3 weeks ago:
That and email protocols are outdated and aren’t too secure. For example:
- Neither SMTP nor IMAP have no way to use two factor authentication.
- Spam blocking is so hard because SMTP was not designed with it in mind.
- SMTP has no way to do end-to-end encryption which is why you need to layer things like GPG on top.
IMAP has a modern replacement in JMAP, but it’s not widespread. SMTP is practically impossible to replace since it’s how email servers communicate with each other.
The “solution” has been for companies to make their own proprietary protocols and apps, for example the Gmail and Outlook apps combined with a Gmail or Microsoft 365 account respectively.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 3 weeks ago:
I self-host my email and use a VPS for it. I don’t trust my home server to be reliable enough, and the VPS providers have nicer equipment (modern AMD EPYC CPUs, enterprise SSDs, etc). I use a separate VPS just for my emails - it’s the one thing I want to ensure is secure, so I didn’t want any other random software (that could potentially have security issues) running on it…
I also use an outbound SMTP relay to avoid having to deal with IP reputation. SMTP2Go has a free plan for sending <1000 emails per month.
- Comment on From RSS to Bookmark Manager – how would you integrate? 3 weeks ago:
You could probably use Hoarder and tag the links with “read later”.
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this is the part I don’t understand. Does the remote not have onboard storage?
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 3 weeks ago:
At work, the IT security team had to block Logitech Options because they added some sort of AI functionality to it without adding a killswitch for enterprise customers…
iTerm added AI stuff but at least they added a killswitch (a setting in a plist file I think) to force it to be disabled.
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 3 weeks ago:
Nvidia has been open-sourcing their drivers, but it’s been taking forever.
It’s been taking forever because they’re moving a lot of code into the firmware to keep it closed source. It’s essentially a brand new driver that takes advantage of newer firmware. That’s one of the reasons the open-source driver only works with Turing (2000 series) and newer cards - they don’t want to spend the time updating older firmware to handle the open-source driver.