MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
- Comment on WFH, paid overtime: What Australian workers really want 1 week ago:
Damn, we’ve let working conditions slip so bad, paid overtime was for a long time a given (thanks unions), now it’s a perk.
The top consideration around finding a role with work-life balance according to this year’s survey was getting time off work in lieu of any additional hours worked.
So normal pay, not just giving it away for free, as has become way too normal for the ‘salaryman’. Tellingly, “paid overtime” is only in the title as clickbait. Also, “fare compensation”, hire an editor SBS, or at least a grammar plugin.
- Comment on The federal government has given an online age verification pilot the green light. Here's what we know about it 2 weeks ago:
Australia, the testing ground for bad privacy invading policy for the five (/thirteen/whatever we’re up to now) eyes. Also run by technical morons (“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia”). ASSAct etc.
- Comment on Is Radicale the way forward? 3 weeks ago:
Radicale has been so good I’d forgotton it existed, carddav and caldav sorted. Unix principle at its best, do one thing well (or microservices for the newbies). Why are you dogwhistling for a closed source marginal replacement for syncthing ?
- Comment on Ideation - What to Run? 3 weeks ago:
I heartily approve, without much help to offer. Points of thought…
-Calibre web server good, mirror Annas Archive best, practically somehow getting everyone’s downloaded books into a community Calibre would rock.
- You’re going to need a bigger NAS (Jaws pun, but seriously, this will be at least / more important than your server, redundancy is king)
- Probably something lighter / easier too maintain than Nextcloud for simple filesharing, Seafile perhaps?
- Honestly, this is the sort of initiative that could drive local Mesh adoption.
- What security are you using, most govs/corps don’t like private internets, how vulnerable are you to CSAM etc.
I’m aware of a fair amount of local sneaker net approaches (HDD swapping etc), which mostly avoids the security issues. I too would love to hear about successful use cases.
- Comment on Cheap, but reliable SSDs? 3 weeks ago:
Yep, as can happen easily if you buy in a batch. Just like ransom (related, no?), non-sequential serial numbers please.
- Comment on Cheap, but reliable SSDs? 3 weeks ago:
If I just happen to get the bad module that craps out after 6 months, the positive reviews are not that helpful.
That’s what RAID(5) is for, if a drive craps out you just shrug and get a new one (or warranty), no data loss. Easy enough to cobble together with a PCIe card and 4ish smaller drives, faster too…
- Comment on Gluetun: The Little VPN Client That Could 3 weeks ago:
God tier VPN solution (if your provider is covered), have two running, one outs in Singapore for *arrs and a localish one for my SearxNG. So much versatility for something so solid…
- Comment on Boredom births creativity 3 weeks ago:
You need to get out more, the internet definitely gets weirder.
- Comment on Hey, let's breed them to make it hurt even more 3 weeks ago:
Could someone remember that capsaicin is more toxic to parasites ? Literally kills worms…
- Comment on Help with music library setup 4 weeks ago:
Look at syncthing, set a directory with your music on your desktop/laptop , sync to phone, profit…
- Comment on NASA 4 weeks ago:
Valid, but I hate your texas analogy.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
Just make inconvenient days holidays, few will complain.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
We do, base 12 comes from 5 fingers and a fist. It was used by traders for the longest time.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
Just make them holidays, everyone works too much anyway, and it’s just getting worse for no reason.
- Comment on brave little bird 4 weeks ago:
Mostly less efficient vultures, but way more magnificent, so they’ve got that going for them.
- Comment on brave little bird 4 weeks ago:
Also, “Never Attribute to Malice That Which Is Adequately Explained by Stupidity/Incompetence”, one form of Hanlon’s razor.
So, Transitively, courage is not malicious?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Boo!
- Comment on Australia will never elect a Donald Trump – and it’s due to one national trait[: our culture of not getting too big for your boots] 1 month ago:
Scotty was absolutely Trump like. I’ll go with at least Abbot held a hose, but neoliberal scum hangs on both.
- Comment on Using Termux on Android for Self Hosting? Yes, really. – The Thin Computer 1 month ago:
seems your link has been Lemmy’d (is that a thing now?)
- Comment on unnoteworthy TOS scene 1 month ago:
Glorious!
- Comment on Huh 1 month ago:
True, but it’s hard to separate, I guess.
- Comment on Huh 1 month ago:
This. They could obviously reset to original performance (what, they don’t have backups?), it’s just more cost-efficient to have crappier answers. Yay, turbo AI enshittification…
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
Auto-phrenologist.
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 2 months ago:
Ye canna change the laws of physics! Acceleration is proportional to force exerted (F=ma) and has nothing to do with the amount of energy stored, which gives you range. You might get a few percent efficiency bonus from lesser acceleration due to losses (so 2-3 extra Km per 100), but you can’t “trade acceleration for range”
- Comment on Backup solutions 2 months ago:
Sure, but the point of an offline backup is to disconnect it when not in use, rendering it immune to ransomware, accidental deletions, lightning strikes etc. Plug in every week or whatever, do your backup, disconnect, sleep easy. I use an external usb hdd caddy (note that one needs a firmware update to work with bigger disks)
- Comment on Public trust in AI is sinking across the board 2 months ago:
Try LanguageTool. Free, has browser plugins, actually made for checking grammar.
This speaks to the kneejerk “shove everything through an AI” instead of doing some proper research, which is probably worse than just grabbing the first search result due to hallucination. No offence intended to @EdibleFriend, just observing that humans do so love to abdicate responsibility when given a chance…
- Comment on Backup solutions 2 months ago:
One backup on site on a different medium
One offline backup.
Backup on a different medium is archaic advice unless you’re willing to fork $$$ out for a tape drive system. DVDs don’t cut it in the era of 20Tb HDDs.
- Comment on LibreY vs SearXNG, which one do you suggest and why? 3 months ago:
I like SearXNG, I pipe it through a gluetun vpn tunnel to mix up my traffic with others. I turn off google and use a !g bang when really necessary. One of the killer features is setting up blacklists for content farms (see config file) which has helped my dev searches immensly, also bye fandom etc.
- Comment on Read You (RSS client) 0.9.12 released with support for FreshRSS & gReader API 3 months ago:
Anything can be a feed with a bit of determination and a little knowhow ;)
- Comment on Article suggests that 1 million ML specialists will be needed in 2027. What do you think of that? 3 months ago:
dummy mode on…