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@thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
It exists for the outgoing Mac mini. We ran two minis in a 1u, colocated in a DC, for years. They ran Ubuntu server.
Rack mini: www.sonnettech.com/product/
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
For those of us who work in (or love) tech - we (myself included) grossly overestimate how much the general public cares about, or cares to be informed about, this stuff. Heck, even people in tech who know better.
I wish it wasn’t the case but look how long and hard Microsoft moved on Internet Explorer and ActiveX back in the early days of the web.
Google and Chrome is just another bit of history repeating.
As an aside, I’ve been using Zen for about a week and it’s been wonderful. Easy transition from Firefox because it largely is Firefox, so anll my containers, extensions, annd settings carried over. Zen’s workspaces provide exactly the promise I’d hoped “tab groups” brought with Safari (but never worked right). I just wish there was an equivalent to the Hush plug-in on Safari (even after a year of full-timing FF, consent-o-matic is quite poor).
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Sweet. It’s worth it IMO. And definitely fun for either tinkering or just having something solid that works (why not both? ;) ).
We’ve been using monowall - now pfsense since 2008.
I don’t necessarily recommend btw - there are lots of great options out there (like it’s cousin OPNSense and so many more).
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Easy to block that - though not with pihole.
We use another tool at our network edge to block all 53/853 traffic and redirect all port 53 traffic to our internal DNS resolver (works much like pihole).
Then we also block all DoH.
Only two devices have failed using this strategy: Chromecast - which refuses to work if it can’t access googles DNS. And Philips Hue bridges. Both lie and say “internet offline”. Every other device - even some of the questionable ones on a special VLAN for devices we trust work just fine and fall back to the router-specified DNS.
- Comment on FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported 2 months ago:
2 years plus source code and working oss backends or 10 years (and still source code).
2 years will just ensure endless forced upgrade cycles IMO.
- Comment on Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months 4 months ago:
Tell me you have no concept of consequences without telling me you have no concept of consequences.
Also:
There sadly isn’t a viable one at the same level of functionality.
- Comment on “Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers 4 months ago:
Companies should be required by law to release source code, build guides, documentation and service architecture for services or apps that are required by hardware they sold.
While there are bigger fish to fry at the moment, socially speaking, the problem is only going to get worse if legislators don’t step in.
- Comment on Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App 4 months ago:
Building off the other reply - it’s the standard UX/UI design tool these days. Name a popular SaaS tool - their design / product team likely uses Figma.
They were recently in the news after their acquisition by Adobe fell through.
They also recently release a competitor to Google slides/powerpoint.
- Comment on Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab? 4 months ago:
Pros:
- you run a homelab
Cons: -you run a home lab
- Comment on Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced 4 months ago:
Thanks for the reply. Makes sense. I haven’t had any jobs recently that would push us there.
CC is also priced low enough we can sign back up for a month if we need it.
One feature set of CC I’ll miss is the libraries functionality working across all the apps. Someone on the team needs a client asset in any app ? (AE/ID/PS/AI) There it is.
- Comment on Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced 4 months ago:
How so? Genuinely curious what’s missing as someone who tried it on a job, and loved it.
I just sent a job to print yesterday and the printer didn’t bat an eye.
Are we talking specific types of printing? Like booklets or runs with specific imposition needs or something else?
I think ultimately it will depend on what one needs printed. It would easily meet most common printing requirements as far as I can tell.
- Comment on Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced 4 months ago:
I tried Affinity Publisher 2 the other day and it convinced me to pull the plug on Adobe and switch on the Affinity suite. Everything was straightforward and far more intuitive than InDesign ever was (which itself was far better than Quark Xpress before it).
I bought the Affinity Suite, exported all my Creative Cloud libraries (they’re just zip files with a different extension), copied all my Creative Cloud files to our self-hosted Nextcloud and off we went.
I promptly cancelled creative cloud. As I’ve said before, I’ll miss generative fill in photoshop - it was very good.
It’ll also take a while to figure out / learn Fusion as a replacement for AE but having spent a lot of time with Shake in the past, it’ll be fine.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
The Option 121 attack is a concern on networks where you don’t.
Exactly where you’d want a VPN. Cafes, hotels, etc.
- Comment on Cloudflare Alternative 8 months ago:
I’m on iOS and do the same thing.
The WireGuard app has a setting to “connect on demand”. It’s in the individual connections/configurations.
You can then set either included or excluded SSIDs. There’s also an option to always connect when you’re on mobile/cellular data.
I imagine the Android app is similar.
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 9 months ago:
If you’re a safari user (desktop and mobile): oblador.github.io/hush/
- Comment on SR-72: US secret hypersonic jet to allegedly break sound barrier in 2025 | Believed to be a top-secret project of the US Air Force, the SR-72 is touted to reach over 4,000 mph (6,437 kph), making i... 10 months ago:
You can hear Brian Schul tell it himself: youtu.be/8AyHH9G9et0?si=5aes_aeiIT3bIlsX
- Comment on Nextcloud zero day security 10 months ago:
Neat, I’ll have to look it up. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Nextcloud zero day security 10 months ago:
Nextcloud isn’t exposed, only a WireGuard connection allows for remote access to Nextcloud.
The whole family has WireGuard on their laptops and phones.
They love it, because using WireGuard also means they get a by-default ad-free/tracker-free browsing experience.
Yes, this means I can’t share files securely with outsiders. It’s not a huge problem.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 1 year ago:
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 1 year ago:
Thanks for confirming something I thought true. I’ve always been a generous tipper not because I like tipping culture, but because in the absence of an alternative it seems awful to punish the people working hard to scrape together a living by catering to my laziness.
However, I’ve noticed that I almost always get food that’s ordered through these services very quickly – although my small sample size is anecdotal at best. But like you, I don’t order through the apps if I can help it.
- Comment on Addressing Changes to pfSense Plus Home+Lab 1 year ago:
OPNSense is for some, like me, not a viable alternative. pfBlockerNG in particular is the killer feature for me that has no equivalent on OPNSense. If it did I’d switch in a heartbeat.
If I have to go without pfBlockerNG, then I’d likely turn to something that had more “configuration as code” options like VyOS.
Still, it’s nice to know that a fork of a fork of m0n0wall can keep the lights on, and do right by users.
- Comment on Addressing Changes to pfSense Plus Home+Lab 1 year ago:
If you backup your config now, you’d be able to apply the config to CE 2.7.x.
While this would limit you to an x86 type device, you wouldn’t be out of options.
I am an owner of an SG-3100 as well (we don’t use it anymore), but that device was what soured me on Netgate after using pfSense on a DIY router at our office for years…
I continued to use pfSense because of the sunk costs involved (time, experience, knowledge). This is likely the turning point.
- Comment on Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare 1 year ago:
Name was different, resume exactly the same. It was probably a scam or the folks applying were scammed in someway. Someone on our team told us stories of scummy “we’ll get you a tech job” services in their country and this “copied resume” phenomenon was par for the course.
- Comment on Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare 1 year ago:
I don’t believe you are in a bubble. My experience matches with your initial assertion. We just recently hired for 3 SRE roles.
Hundreds of applicants in a 24 hour window.
We had people using some kind of LLM tool during interviews, obviously so. Others were sharing the same resume with only slight modifications, and plenty of folks who couldn’t pass the screening call or a very simple tech interview.
We also had wildly unprofessional candidates who were no-shows, or had profane/NSFW desktops or couldn’t even use a terminal - for an SRE role.
So no, you’re not alone. The great candidates get hired, headhunted even.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
Thanks for engaging!
I should comment on my poorly phrased use of “invite only” -> I mean that from the creators’ perspective in case I fumbled that one. IE, I can’t just decide to share on Nebula, I have to be invited (seemingly by the creator personally? Ref: theverge.com/…/nebula-youtube-creator-business-fu…).
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
As a former Nebula subscriber, here’s my hot take: it also has no real community and no chance for exposure to the up-and-comer (IE no way to breakout since it seems invite only?)
I’ve found so many great YouTube channels filled with deep experience and expertise before they “catch on” (and some never “catch on”). The ability to find the small, powerful voice who’s just trying to share knowledge…
I’m not defending YouTube/Alphabet here (as a company they’re no better than any other), I just think Nebula isn’t a great alternative and unless things change, can never be. It’s a walled garden in too many ways (paywall/creator invitations).
In the year I had it I mostly watched the same videos on YouTube. If they were technical enough there was valuable discussion attached to the video; on Nebula that’s not the case and not possible. Even if it was possible I can’t imagine people fragmenting their discussion spaces between YouTube and closed-ecosystem like Nebula.
Don’t even get me started with their (Nebula) inability to build a video queue -> wasting time and space on a poorly thought-out implementation of Autoplay was a terrible decision that further pushed me off the platform.
It’s sad, I really wanted to like it. But I voted with my dollars and left.
- Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? 1 year ago:
Cluster of Pi4 8GBs. Bought pre-pandemic; love the little things.
Nomad, Consul, Gluster, w/ TrueNas-backed NFS for the big files.
They do all sorts of nifty things for us including Nightscout, LanguageTool OSS, monitoring for ubiquiti, Nextdrive, Grafana (which I use for home monitoring - temps/humidity with alerts), Prometheus & Mimir, Postgres, Codeserver.
Basically I use them to schedule dockerized services I want to run or am interested in playing with/learning.
Also I use Rapsberry Pi zero 2 w’s with Shairport-sync (github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync ) as Airplay 2 streaming bridges for audio equipment that isn’t networked or doesn’t support AirPlay 2.
I’m not sure I’d buy a Pi4 today; but they’ve been great so far.
- Comment on EV batteries more reliable than predicted. 1 year ago:
I look forward to the day we can use our “dead” car battery as the battery backup for our home.
64kWh * 0.8 is 51kWh.
Even 40kWh would be a great battery paired to a solar system.
The used car batteries could have great second lives.
- Comment on Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits 1 year ago:
A bit odd that the article doesn’t mention advertising on cable/sat/fiber/traditional(?) media delivery into the home.
The single biggest draw, to me, isn’t that I can watch when I want (that’s second). It’s not having to spend my time watching ads. Life is just better without someone trying to sell me something for 20 minutes out of every hour.
I’m willing to pay for that privilege.
I value my time - or at least the opportunity to spend it how I want when I’m not making someone already rich, even richer.
- Comment on Email server hosting 1 year ago:
As someone who runs a self-hosted mail service in AWS this comment ring true in every way.
One thing that saved us beyond SPF and DKIM was DMARC DNS records and tooling for diagnosing deliverability issues. The tooling isn’t cheap however.
But even then, Microsoft will often blacklist huge ranges of Amazon EIPs and if you’re caught within the scope of that range it’s a slow process to fix.
Also, IP warming is a thing. You need to start slow and at the same time have relatively consistent traffic levels.
Is it worth it, not really no - and I don’t think I’d ever do it again.
