DeltaTangoLima

@DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're seeing this, I'm in jail.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a fucking travesty what’s happening to him. He shone a light on some pretty sordid shit, shit that was definitely in the public interest to be reported, and he’s been made into the villain.

  Our government should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  increasingly uncomfortable with paying forever

  And paying more and more as time goes on. The thing that shits me the most is the increased prices but decreased range/quality of content. That’s clearly not a business model aimed at customer satisfaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you handle family requests that you disagree with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For my wife, I have a separate library folder, mapped to just her account in Plex. It doesn’t appear in my library at all, so I don’t really care. Even better, I’ve spun up an Overseerr instance for her, so she can just search and auto-add anything she wants for herself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  is ambiguous

  Ah - like a double negative? I didn’t realise I cancelled out my sarcasm with more sarcasm. I need to spend more time on the internet. I’d hate for my sarcasm to be misunderstood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol - the sheer volume of people who completely missed my /s, and didn’t cotton to the fact that I was making a joke about the very subject…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooh! A wiki article! Look at you, educating people with science and stuff.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If presidential immunity is absolute..⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would they agree if Biden used his absolute power to pass a federal law guaranteeing safe access to abortion?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your Servernames!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • Phone: yoda
  • Desktop: bb8
  • Firewall: c3po
  • Switch: macewindu
  • NASes:
    • anakin
    • r2d2
  • Wireless APs:
    • biggs
    • garven
    • poe
    • typho
    • thane
    • wedge (virtual controller)
  • Proxmox nodes:
    • chewy
    • hansolo
    • obiwan
  • Raspberry PIs:
    • bobafett
    • lando
    • jangofett
    • quigon
    • rey
    • finn
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School refusal and the Australian families gripped by blame, shame, and the fear of a lost education⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  is an extremely bad thing for their development

  I strongly recommend you listen to Dr Billy Garvey’s views on screen time and technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School refusal and the Australian families gripped by blame, shame, and the fear of a lost education⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really feel for these parents.

  A big part of the problem is just not enough funding going to education - we have nowhere near enough teachers to go around, which ultimately means lots of kids are missing out on the one-on-one education moments that smaller classes would enable (“Just draw a picture”).

  But also, in my experience, some of the problem is also the attitude schools have towards this, which tells me they’re not trained enough to deal with the variety of mental and social issues kids face nowadays.

  The default setting at my daughter’s school is to talk to me like I’m a parent that needs to be told how to parent, like I’m the one not doing something right. Admittedly, I feel a lot of this attitude probably comes from the school’s principal - he clearly loves the smell of his own farts - but it shits me when they get this haughty, arrogant attitude when talking to you because they’re “educators”, rather than partners (with parents) in teaching our kids how to be humans.

  Kids today are dealing with so much more than what I had to deal with going to school in the 70s and 80s. They have information flying at them from all sorts of sources, and it’s nearly (nearly) impossible to raise a kid today without access to technology and the internet. Otherwise, you’re at risk of creating a social pariah, as they’ll invariable miss out on things.

  These things have changed the mental and social game considerably, and I feel our education system has done a pretty shit job of keeping up with these changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not heaps, although I should probably do more than I do. Generally speaking, on Saturday mornings:

  • Between 2am-4am, Watchtower on all my docker hosts pulls updates containers, and notifies me via Slack
  • For containers I don’t care about, Watchtower auto-updates them as well, at which point I simply check the service is running and purge the old images
  • For mission-critical containers (Pi-hole, Home Assistant, etc), I manually update the containers and verify functionality, before purging old images
  • I then check for updates on my OPNsense firewall, and do a controlled update if required (needs me to jump onto a specific wireless SSID to be able to do so)
  • Finally, my two internet-facing hosts (Nginx reverse proxy and Wireguard VPN server) auto-update their OS and packages using unattended-upgrades, so I test inbound functionality on those

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  What I still want to do is develop some Ansible playbooks to deploy unattended-upgrades across my fleet (~40ish Debian/docker LXCs). I fear I have some tech debt growing on those hosts, but have fallen into the convenient trap of knowing my internet-facing gear is the always up to date, and I can be lazy about the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Believe it or not, a Netgear. Specifically this one. I don’t have any fibre connected gear (yet!) and 180W of PoE+ was more than enough for my few PoE cameras and WAPs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, 100% agree on the client devices. One of my VLANs is for the kids’ devices. I don’t trust their schools’ admin or their shitty BYOD policies, so I just let them access Plex (via Nginx reverse proxy); Pi-hole, and the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It all comes down to what you trust each type of device to do and how you want to handle their traffic.

  I have seven VLANs, with each one’s traffic being treated very specifically. The subnets for each VLAN route to specific interfaces on a virtualised OPNsense firewall, which is where my traffic handling and policy enforcement takes place.

  Also remember VLANs are just plain useful for segregating traffic, particularly broadcast traffic, without having to invest in separate switching/routing for each subnet. Having a single managed switch that limits the broadcast domains for you is as really efficient way to (physically) setup your network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t belong here - it’s definitely a stupid question. Why should anyone care what you think about their facial hair, or any other body choice?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a reverse proxy to put any service behind a login for external access.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use nginx and Authelia for just this. Authelia supports a wide range of identity and MFA providers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A generation of renters are staring down poverty in retirement unless something drastic changes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That too. See? Bleak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A generation of renters are staring down poverty in retirement unless something drastic changes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that was kinda me and my wife. Definitely nothing from any of our parents, plus we both walked away from a couple of shitty marriages with little to show for it.

  The only real upside is that I have a good career with a good income, and we were able to get (back) into the mortgage market as we hit our 40s. Not where we wanted to be, but at least we’re plugging away at it.

  The bit that’s bleak is that, according to our rates notice, our property’s gone up 50% in the 8 years we’ve been here. Wage growth has been nowhere near that over the same period, if at all. So any dreams the next generation (our kids) are having about getting into their own property is getting further and further out of reach.

  I’m resigned to the fact that it’ll probably be a very long time before we’re empty nesters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A generation of renters are staring down poverty in retirement unless something drastic changes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just so damn bleak. I honestly don’t know how my kids are going to rent OR buy in the future. I’d happily see the value of my house decline, if it was because the market became more affordable for the next generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry. It's hard, but we should leave it be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Media studies is not journalism

  This isn’t about journalism. It’s about the fact that news orgs can only succeed if they can pay for themselves or be attached to larger money-making machines. That’s why most mastheads are owned by large media conglomerates, and those that aren’t have to charge subscription fees just to survive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“We cannot support it:” Polestar follows Tesla out of car lobby over Toyota led campaign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sadly this isn’t an option for everyone. Simply put, I work 65km from where I live, and PT just isn’t an option for the locations I work.

  This is not about the consumer - don’t let big business’ shady tricks gull you into believing otherwise. The stark reality is that successive governments haven’t done anywhere near enough to curb industrial pollution or drive emissions reduction.

  Consumers will buy whatever the market offers them. We’re the end result - not the driver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“We cannot support it:” Polestar follows Tesla out of car lobby over Toyota led campaign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, man. Both sides of this argument are so disingenuous.

  The “traditional” car makers are being sooks, because they’ve clearly been asleep at the wheel (hah!) and steadfastly refused to make reasonable progress on emissions reduction.

  On the other hand, the EV car makers stand to make the most money from the new scheme, with much of it arguably coming from a new revenue stream of them being able to sell the first group their emissions credits.

  This is on the Australia government, particularly those fucked-up Libs with their noses firmly planted up big business’ collective arse, for not taking meaningful action much sooner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry. It's hard, but we should leave it be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah - I read through this a couple of times, and I feel the headline is a bit misleading.

  I reckon this problem has been around longer than Facebook. As the second professor put it, news orgs aren’t in the news business - they’re in the attention-grabbing business.

  It’s been many, many years (decades) since I remember my old man sitting down and reading a newspaper front to back, then back to front, on a weekend. He read every inch - news, sports, classifieds, public notices. When those things eventually started shifting to digital - in isolation - newspapers (and magazines) started feeling it.

  Facebook is simply the newest face they can apply to the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry. It's hard, but we should leave it be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  However, I have to disagree with the professors’ basic premise about the Media Bargaining Code taking money from a profitable business to prop up an unprofitable one. First, news should be viewed as a public service, not a business.

  That wasn’t the professor’s point - that was the reporter’s. But if you read on, another professor (of media studies) puts it quite aptly:

  The reason for this was news organisations were never in the news business, Amanda Lotz, a professor of media studies at QUT, said. "They were in the attention-attraction business. "In another era, if you were an advertiser, a newspaper was a great place to be. “But now there are just much better places to be.”

  I honestly can’t recall how long it’s been, but it’s been at least decades since there was a newspaper dedicated to just news. It’s always been all the other stuff piled in - entertainment reading, comics, crosswords, classifieds, public notices, etc - that made a “news” paper worth reading, as well as the news itself.

  This problem is older than Facebook. Facebook is simply the newest face of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci announces retirement after ABC interview walkout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh fuck, this is too funny. My wife and I watched the 4 Corners piece last night, and I said that the dumb cunt will probably be made to fall on his sword for being such an inept tool in the interview.

  For context, the journo was presenting some observations from Rod Sims, the former head of the ACCC. This dickhead’s response was to state that Sims was retired. Which he did… in 2022. Journo’s response was on point, about how that didn’t invalidate Sims’ understanding of consumer law and rights. At which point, Mr Dumfuck Fuckface got up and walked away.

  Funniest shit I’ve seen in a while!

  The sad thing? Because he “voluntarily” retired, I’m fairly certain this incapable moron will still get all his fucking shares and other benefits, as part of his contract.

  Fuck Colesworth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes fishing as a hobby so appealing that people will fish all hours of the day and in nasty weather?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sssshhhh! The setup cost has nothing to do with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your preferred method for backing up several TB of data?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Backblaze don’t have a POP in my country, unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your preferred method for backing up several TB of data?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use rclone, with encryption, to S3. I have close to 3TB of personal data backed up to S3 this way - photos, videos, paperless-ngx (files and database).

  Only readable if you have the passwords configured on my singular backup host (a RasPi), or stored in Bitwarden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I'm ditching these fucking idiots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, I’ll happily admit that F360 is an excellent CAD program. It kinda sets the standard, but the constant shifting of the goal posts for the free personal use license, plus the Hotel California nature of cloud streaming the app, just pisses me off.

  My brother’s using it professionally and he’s quite happy with it. But his business is paying for a full license for him, so he gets all the benefits, and very few of the annoyances. He’s readily admitted that, were that not the case, he’d be looking at FOSS alternatives himself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I'm ditching these fucking idiots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for this - I think I remember reading about Ondsel recently (used to design a toilet roll holder key, so they could replenish toilet paper at FOSDEM?). I’ll give it a look. Cheers!