dan
@dan@upvote.au
Aussie living in the USA. https://d.sb/
- Comment on Docker setup for debian 13 trixie Ansible Playbook 1 day ago:
Hmm, it’s missing the Docker repo. Check in
/etc/apt/sources.list.dand see if there’s even a file for it. - Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 days ago:
Just net send everyone a message saying that if they have issues, they need to reboot.
(is net send still a thing?)
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 2 days ago:
They’re probably trying to write it in a way that non-Rust-developers can understand.
- Comment on Docker setup for debian 13 trixie Ansible Playbook 2 days ago:
I’d connect vis SSH and manually inspect the files that it’s supposed to be creating. Does
apt updateshow any errors? - Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 days ago:
Companies that build large LLMs have already said that this is becoming a problem. They’re running out of high-quality human-written content to train their models.
Google paid Reddit to get access to their data to train their models, which is probably why their AI can be a bit dumb at times (and of course, the users that actually contributed the content don’t get any of that money)
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 days ago:
It sounds like you can just log out and back in to fix it? For a local system, the article says it only occurs for “First time user logon after a cumulative update was applied.”
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 4 days ago:
The top comments don’t look too bad now… Maybe they’re ranked differently or something
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 4 days ago:
TIL there’s a name for this
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 4 days ago:
I’m a fan of BunnyCDN - somehow they’re one of the fastest while also being one of the cheapest, and they’re based in Europe (Slovenia). KeyCDN is good too.
www.cdnperf.com is useful for comparing performance. They don’t list every CDN though.
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 4 days ago:
Companies like OVH have good DDoS protection too.
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 4 days ago:
there really isn’t much in the way of an alternative
Bunny.net covers some of the use cases, like DNS and CDN. I think they just rolled out a WAF too.
There’s also the “traditional” providers like AWS, Akamai, etc.
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 5 days ago:
The actual issue is that they should be canarying changes. Push them to a small percentage of servers, and ensure nothing bad happens before pushing them more broadly. At my workplace, configs are tested on one server, then an entire rack, then an entire cluster, before fully rolling out. The rollout process watches the core logs for things like elevated HTTP 5xx errors.
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 5 days ago:
Did you read the article? It wasn’t taken down by the number of bots, but by the number of columns:
In this specific instance, the Bot Management system has a limit on the number of machine learning features that can be used at runtime. Currently that limit is set to 200, well above our current use of ~60 features. Again, the limit exists because for performance reasons we preallocate memory for the features.
When the bad file with more than 200 features was propagated to our servers, this limit was hit — resulting in the system panicking.
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 5 days ago:
When are people going to realise that routing a huge chunk of the internet through one private company is a bad idea? The entire point of the internet is that it’s a decentralized network of networks.
- Comment on Epstein’s brother Mark asking Steve Bannon if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba” - or Bill Clinton to the rest of us. 1 week ago:
Are they all from the same sender? I wonder if they just have Outlook configured to set the importance to high for every email.
- Comment on Epstein’s brother Mark asking Steve Bannon if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba” - or Bill Clinton to the rest of us. 1 week ago:
Importance: High
- Comment on Nextcloud Help: Unable to access from phone 1 week ago:
Try install a web server like Nginx. I think the Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian, so
sudo apt install nginxshould work. Then hit the Pi’s address (no port number needed) and it should show a default page. - Comment on Nextcloud Help: Unable to access from phone 1 week ago:
Phones sometimes will ignore your local DNS (if any) and still use whatever the vendor hardcoded.
For what it’s worth, this is mostly for security reasons - they’re using DNS-over-HTTPS so that the DNS requests are encrypted.
- Comment on Nextcloud Help: Unable to access from phone 1 week ago:
If you’re using the app on the phones, try the website instead?
Is it just Nextcloud having issues? Can you access other services on the Pi from the phones?
- Comment on podman quadlets on lxc 2 weeks ago:
Your
psoutput doesn’t show systemd as running. The only output is the grep command itself. - Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 2 weeks ago:
If you want to play files over SMB, you can just open the SMB file in the file explorer and double click it. I don’t understand how mpv is easier for that use case.
- Comment on I'm coming for you 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t familiar with the YouTuber since this was the only video of his I’ve ever seen. It came up in my recommendations one day.
- Comment on I'm coming for you 2 weeks ago:
I remember watching a long YouTube video about someone trying to find the origin of this picture, but I can’t find it any more.
- Comment on natural environment conditions 2 weeks ago:
this is a quality post.
- Comment on UK's rival to the Tim Tam can no longer be called chocolate 2 weeks ago:
I’ll have to try them the next time I’m in Australia.
- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 2 weeks ago:
I always use wireless charging, and have a silicone plug in my phone’s USB port to stop dirt getting in there. Very similar to these: a.co/d/aFWuSI3
In the rare case that I need to plug something into it, the port is completely clean.
- Comment on UK's rival to the Tim Tam can no longer be called chocolate 3 weeks ago:
The Aldi ones in the USA have the catchy name of “Aussie-style chocolate coated wafer cookies”
…which somehow isn’t as bad as the name of the Trader Joe’s ones: “Aussie-style chocolate creme sandwich cookies coated in chocolate”
They’re both manufactured in the Netherlands.
- Comment on UK's rival to the Tim Tam can no longer be called chocolate 3 weeks ago:
You can find them at World Market, but like most of the food at World Market, it’s overpriced. Some Target and Walmart stores have Tim Tams, or at least the ones where I am in Northern California. There’s a Fijian grocery store near me that has a bunch of Aussie things too.
My wife and I usually just bring some back with us when we visit Australia. We’re both Australian so we try to go back every so often to see friends and family.
- Comment on UK's rival to the Tim Tam can no longer be called chocolate 3 weeks ago:
Penguins are horrible. Not worth the calories.
I live in the USA now, and Trader Joe’s and Aldi both have store brand imitation Tim Tams here. Those are better than Penguins too.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but there’s Linux features that use TPM too, although you probably don’t need them in a home environment.