dan
@dan@upvote.au
Aussie living in the USA. https://d.sb/
- Comment on MemeID: 421856901 4 hours ago:
Out of all the shitposts in the world, this is certainly one of them.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 2 days ago:
The Teslas that are made in China are noticeably higher quality than the ones made in the USA. Fewer panel gaps and better fit and finish.
The only reason Teslas are decent quality is because the majority of them are made in China. Over 50% of Teslas are made in China, using over 90% local (Chinese) parts.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 2 days ago:
No one will pay much for it because it’s about to need a $15,000 battery,
That’s pretty rare though. Less than 5% of EVs need a battery replacement after 10 years (including those with defective batteries), and modern EV batteries should last at least 20 years, after which they’re still estimated to have around 65-70% capacity.
- Comment on U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material 4 days ago:
What if the drafts were created using AI too?
Code is often in a source control system of some sort, which tracks changes to the code (who changed it and when it was changed). I don’t think that could prove that a human wrote it, though.
I think in cases like this, the author could prove they created the code/story/art/whatever by having a deep understanding of the material. That’s how Michael Jackson defended against lawsuits saying he copied someone else’s song - he described his songwriting process and could hum/beatbox every instrument in the track.
- Comment on WhatsApp will now show ads. 4 days ago:
I like scaled sort. It sorts posts by popularity relative to the size of the community, so that the feed is a mixture of both popular communities and small ones. It also seems more likely to include newer posts (eg I saw this post in my scaled feed).
- Comment on Kitchen smells really weird when I turn on my oven. Should I be worried? 4 days ago:
They’re still good to have (unless you have no gas appliances at all), but any good smoke alarm will also have carbon monoxide detection built in.
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 6 days ago:
Mediawiki does have a WYSIWYG editor, but it’s a separate extension: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor
The benefit of Mediawiki is that anyone that’s edited Wikipedia before will know how to use it. It’s a pretty heavy piece of software though, and the learning curve is relatively high if you’ve never hosted it before.
I used Dokuwiki at my previous job, maybe 15 years ago. It worked well. It doesn’t need a database as it stores all wiki pages as plain text files on disk. I don’t know if it has a WYSIWYG editor though. I’ve never used it on a public-facing site so I’m not sure how authentication works (at my previous job, we hooked it up to Active Directory for auth).
BookStack and wiki.js are two newer ones that have good reviews, but I don’t have any experience with them.
- Comment on Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World 1 week ago:
It wasn’t a dox attempt though. The blog just collected information that was already publicly available on other sites.
- Comment on Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World 1 week ago:
In this case, their CAPTCHA page intentionally included code to DDoS a particular blog.
- Comment on Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World 1 week ago:
This is understandable, but at the same time, none of the anti-paywall lists are as good as archive.today. They actually have paid accounts at a bunch of paywalled sites, and use them when scraping.
- Comment on Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says 2 weeks ago:
Discord doesn’t get as many clicks compared to the larger companies.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think 2008 really had a significant effect in Australia. I don’t remember hearing much about it.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 2 weeks ago:
I think people don’t realise that if AI fails, it’s pretty much guaranteed to collapse the US economy.
- Comment on HelixNotes - a local-first markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0) 2 weeks ago:
How does this differ from every other distribution method, though? You can just as easily do something malicious with an Appimage or Debian/rpm package.
- Comment on Help Wanted: Accessing a Service With the Same FQDN Inside and Outside Local Network 2 weeks ago:
If you want to share something with just some people, they can create a Tailscale account and you can share it with them that way.
For public access, accessing it using a domain that uses your public IP should work. Most routers let you do that (“hairpin NAT”). Although to be honest, most of my public facing things are on a VPS rather than on my home server. More reliable and a higher quality internet connection for a fairly cheap price per month.
- Comment on Unifi Protect - Wife Approval Factor? +HA integration 2 weeks ago:
third party cameras won’t support detection unless you also add a Unifi AI Port.
Does Unifi not support ONVIF events? Seems like a pretty major missing feature if so.
- Comment on HelixNotes - a local-first markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0) 2 weeks ago:
Are there security issues specific to Flatpak? I would have thought it’d be more secure than Appimage, since it’s sandboxed.
- Comment on Help Wanted: Accessing a Service With the Same FQDN Inside and Outside Local Network 2 weeks ago:
They already said they’re using Tailscale, so this isn’t needed. They can just use the Tailscale IP everywhere. On LAN it’ll connect over the LAN, and away from home it’ll connect over the internet. It comes with a
.ts.netsubdomains too. - Comment on Help Wanted: Accessing a Service With the Same FQDN Inside and Outside Local Network 2 weeks ago:
Use Unraid’s native Tailscale support. Add each Docker container to the Tailnet. The Tailscale IPs will work both on and off your LAN, as long as you’re connected to Tailscale. Don’t use a subnet router. Tailscale is peer-to-peer, so it’s still going to connect directly over your LAN when possible.
For TLS, you could use the Tailscale built-in
.ts.netsubdomains. Should work out-of-the-box. Otherwise, to use your own domain, f you can’t get access to Namecheap’s API you could run acme-dns instead. - Comment on HelixNotes - a local-first markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0) 2 weeks ago:
Looks like an interesting project!
Could you please consider publishing it to Flathub?
- Comment on What YouTube downloader are the kids using these days? 3 weeks ago:
On Android, I use ytdlnis, which is a wrapper around yt-dlp. You can “share” a video from to YouTube app to ytdlnis and it’ll add it to the download queue.
- Comment on Unifi Protect - Wife Approval Factor? +HA integration 3 weeks ago:
How long do you want to store footage for? With 6 cameras at 8Mbps each, you’d get less than two days of video on a 1TB drive.
The Unifi cameras don’t support ONVIF, so you’re essentially locked into their ecosystem, and it’d be difficult to use them with a different NVR if you ever want to switch. Maybe that’s OK for your use case though.
For the doorbell, I’d use a proper doorbell cam that can use the existing wires for power.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 3 weeks ago:
Why would it need to be different for credit cards vs debit cards though?
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 3 weeks ago:
Their profile implies they want AI to train on it and start showing it to unsuspecting users
Imagine a world, a world in which LLMs trained wiþ content scraped from social media occasionally spit out þorns to unsuspecting users. Imagine…
It’s a beautiful dream.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the info! The only two countries I’m familiar with (in terms of payment processing) are Australia and the US, so I didn’t want to make assumptions about other countries.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 3 weeks ago:
They have far fewer perks, so it’s not as common.
In Australia, most credit cards have an annual fee, and they pretty much all just offer frequent flyer miles. US cards have much better perks: Quite a few offer 2% cashback, cards with points offer more points than Aussie cards, they almost all include extended warranty and rental car coverage, some include mobile phone protection, etc.
Merchants pay the price for these perks, given the high fees to process credit cards. They can make merchants pay a 3% fee, pay 2% cashback to customers on some of their cards, and still make more money from card fees than they would in other countries. Visa and Mastercard used to require merchants in the US to not charge any extra fees for accepting credit cards, but after a big lawsuit, this is no longer the case. Stores are slowly becoming like Aussie stores - charging extra if you pay by card.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 3 weeks ago:
It’ll probably work how it works in Australia. Payment terminals accept both the local network (EFTPOS) as well as Visa, Mastercard, etc. Aussie debit cards are processed via EFTPOS, while international cards use Visa/MC/whatever.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 3 weeks ago:
We’ve had this in Australia since the 90s. All debit cards are dual network: They support both Visa/Mastercard, as well as the local network (called EFTPOS). EFTPOS is noticeably cheaper to process, and the profits stay in Australia rather than going to a US company.
That’s only for debit cards, though. EFTPOS doesn’t support credit cards.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 3 weeks ago:
I see it a lot, too. Reddit’s been around for 20 years, so all the good usernames are already taken.
- Comment on Looking for guidance on modernizing a high-traffic WordPress news site 3 weeks ago:
Since you’re using Hetzner, one option is to get a Hetzner storage box to store the media. 1TB space is $4/month (not sure about EU pricing).
On-disk cache prevents a “thundering herd” problem when you reboot - an in-memory cache would be empty on rebootz whereas an on-disk cache survives a reboot. Linux handles caching files in RAM automatically.