dan
@dan@upvote.au
Aussie living in the USA. https://d.sb/
- Comment on Pizza styles 2 days ago:
THE CHEESE IS UNDER THE SAUCE
- Comment on The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere 2 days ago:
Rewriting existing systems is one of the riskiest things a company can do. Those old COBOL codebases likely contain 50 years of bug fixes for every possible edge case. It’d take a long time to rewrite everything and ensure feature parity, and there’s usually not a significant business reason to rewrite it (after all, a successful end result is just that the system behaves exactly the same as the old one).
- Comment on Where are you running your wireguard endpoint? 3 days ago:
Both of those documents agree with me? RedHat are using the terms “client” and “server” to make it easier for people to understand, but they explicitly say that all hosts are “peers”.
Note that all hosts that participate in a WireGuard VPN are peers. This documentation uses the terms client to describe hosts that establish a connection and server to describe the host with the fixed hostname or IP address that the clients connect to and, optionally, route all traffic through this server.
- Comment on Where are you running your wireguard endpoint? 3 days ago:
There’s no such thing as a client or server with Wireguard. All systems with Wireguard installed are “nodes”.
- Comment on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached 1 week ago:
I know of at least one FAANG company that uses a self-hosted, self-contained Mattermost instance, totally separate to all their infra, for communication in major outages when all their internal tools are down.
- Comment on Self-hosting with an old laptop 1 week ago:
You’ll need to use a VPN that supports port forwarding. You could use a cheap VPS instead.
- Comment on Self-hosting with an old laptop 1 week ago:
Where I live in California, electricity can be over US$0.60/kWh during peak summer time. Thankfully I have solar panels that offset most of the cost. I’m from Australia which also has high electricity prices.
- Comment on Self-hosting with an old laptop 1 week ago:
Should I run the server over a VPN
Do you mean for you to access it remotely, or do you mean to expose it publicly via the VPN (so that you can have publicly-exposed services while hiding your home IP)?
- Comment on How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant 1 week ago:
Thanks - I forgot about that.
- Comment on How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant 1 week ago:
The hostname will be encrypted eventually (ESNI) but you’re right that the IP address is visible.
- Comment on How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant 1 week ago:
- It encrypts your internet traffic in transit
Note that most sites use TLS these days, so your data is already encrypted in transit.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
Yeah this doesn’t make sense. Docked bars have worked fine since Windows 95. You could have the task bar on any side, and apps would handle it fine. You could have multiple docked bars too, as some third-party apps used to be dockable. For example, Winamp has a view that was a short bar stretching the entire width of the screen, stuck to the top of the screen. The windowing system handled it fine.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
Yes! I’m not sure about it changing when you connect monitors (since I’m usually using desktop PCs), but you can have a different setup per monitor.
I have three monitors at work. My main monitor is configured to show all open apps in the taskbar, while the secondary monitors only show the apps opened on those monitors. You can totally change any of the configuration though… the layout, the position, the settings, or even just not have a taskbar on some monitors.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 2 weeks ago:
It’s what I’ve experienced at FAANG companies. MitM isn’t used and would break certificate pinning on sites (including internal tools) that use both certificate pinning and HSTS.
- Comment on wtf facebook 2 weeks ago:
There’s automated filters (both manually-created and AI) but bad actors find ways around them.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 2 weeks ago:
Larger companies that monitor for corporate passwords being entered on third-party sites usually use a browser extension that’s force-installed using Chrome Enterprise.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 2 weeks ago:
Hong Kong to Los Angeles is around 70ms latency (140ms round trip) so I’m not too surprised.
- Comment on wtf facebook 2 weeks ago:
Click the three dots button and select the option to report it. Those reports are actually monitored.
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
I’ll try it out! I totally forgot it exists.
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
I was using LibreOffice Calc on my work PC with a Threadripper CPU, and somehow it still chugs at times. Scrolling was very laggy at times. I ended up using Google Sheets instead, which is way more responsive for me. If it was for personal use, I’d probably try IronCalc
- Comment on Stack Overflow Rolls Out Native Ads in Q&A Feeds for Funding Boost 3 weeks ago:
It’s not uncommon on sites where a high proportion of the userbase uses an adblocker, as making ads look like and render using the same code as organic content makes them harder to block.
- Comment on My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 3 weeks ago:
Wow, this is very useful!!
- Comment on My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 3 weeks ago:
a program that runs as root
Does it have to run as root? It’s common to run Docker in rootless mode in production environments.
- Comment on My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 3 weeks ago:
You might be interested in StirlingPDF too.
- Comment on This whole community lately be like 3 weeks ago:
I’m out of the loop lol why is there so much corn in here today?
- Comment on Actual theft 3 weeks ago:
I think most of us are like that
Tech-savvy Lemmy users (and their friends) are a small portion of the population though. Plenty of people pay for cable TV, IPTV, or a similar service, as well as VOD platforms like Netflix.
- Comment on Actual theft 3 weeks ago:
Best Buy has been one of the best places to buy PC components like GPUs from (as long as they’re in stock), since they don’t mark up prices above the manufacturer’s pricing, and they price match with Microcenter in case Microcenter’s price is lower.
- Comment on Reddit files legal challenge against social media ban for under-16s 3 weeks ago:
Maybe I shouldn’t have included that in my comment, but my point about trying to ban kids from doing stuff being ineffective still stands.
- Comment on Reddit files legal challenge against social media ban for under-16s 3 weeks ago:
even if 10% of kids get around the ban somehow, the fact that 90% don’t removes a huge part of the social in social network
The kids that get around the ban will spread that knowledge to others. That’s what happened when I went to school, and I don’t think it’s any different today.
- Comment on Reddit files legal challenge against social media ban for under-16s 3 weeks ago:
Parents should be doing a better parenting, rather than relying on the state to do it for them.