Shadow
@Shadow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Monitoring network devices 4 days ago:
Observium is an easy starting point for network gear, without going down the Zabbix rabbit hole.
Personally I just roll Victoriametrics and Grafana.
- Comment on Be aware that buying electrical items from Ali Express might not be too clever. 1 week ago:
Oddly this doesn’t deter me at all, but I don’t buy mains connected components off aliexpress.
- Comment on Rich people know their cosmetic surgery is obvious and uncanny, but that's the point; it's a way of signalling that you belong in a certain income bracket and that you're part of the 1% 1 week ago:
That’s called plastic surgery, rather than cosmetic. Cosmetic is specifically to improve your appearance. Plastics include a lot of reconstructive work.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“hey Joe, have you ever considered selling your property?”
- Comment on Project resource management? Gantt charts, timelines, etc 3 weeks ago:
www.redmine.org maybe
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 weeks ago:
I may be biased, but lemmy.ca is pretty great
- Comment on Wait, that game is still playable online? 5 weeks ago:
Subspace, also known as Continuum later in its life.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Oh man I thought that was the needle, not a toothpick. Suddenly this makes sense.
The toothpick is to provide spacing for the button, then you pull it out as you wrap the thread around underneath it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Flying into a thunderstorm isn’t forbidden, it’s just not a good idea and generally avoided. Planes are designed to take a lightning strike without issue, I’ve been on a plane that was struck.
- Comment on How do we avoid the next airport disaster like Newark? An expert says 6G could be the solution 1 month ago:
Wireless is not the answer. Multiple redundant fiber paths are. This isn’t rocket science.
- Comment on WTF why my filament exploded? 1 month ago:
Was it left open + maybe in a humid area? Brittle usually means wet filament.
- Comment on Ideal Business Stack? 2 months ago:
You could do something like nextcloud to solve a lot of issues, but I’d still hesitate to recommend on-prem hardware and managing hardware yourself. It really comes down to the business tolerance for outages though, maybe the computers being down for a day or two doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Ideal Business Stack? 2 months ago:
Are you providing a support contract long term? Are you backed by multiple people in case you’re away and their business is down?
I’d strongly suggest deferring to a local business IT services company, unless you’re an active partner in the business. They should find a company they are comfortable with and trust, then use the products they recommend and are comfortable with.
- Comment on The fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS. 2 months ago:
The iss speed is relative to earth. The earth speed is probably relative to the sun. There’s no common frame of reference between the two numbers.
- Comment on I don’t know what to do with this coworker. 2 months ago:
Escalate to your manager. She’s not performing her duties, and if she’s not capable anymore then her duties need to reflect that.
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 2 months ago:
Tldr: we like money. We think people will pay for it, so we’re charging.
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 2 months ago:
No lawyer / accountant is going to sign off on that. It would get flagged as fraud during due diligence and lower the price due to the risks of lawsuits and fines
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 3 months ago:
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 3 months ago:
Yes, it’s not worth them fucking around with various pii / gdpr fines. As someone who has worked with pii, we always took deletion requests seriously.
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 3 months ago:
Well I’m glad I downloaded all my genome data and deleted it a few months ago. It was easy to do, there’s no way excuse not to.
- Comment on Disposing of failed HDDs 3 months ago:
Salt water.
- Comment on I'm looking to buy something like a reverse wheelbarrow, what do I call that? 3 months ago:
Check Costco. They sell carts like that since people use them for their grocery runs.
- Comment on Reddit tracking upvotes for mod actions 3 months ago:
Oh look, another spike in lemmy registrations.
- Comment on Is Severance the new Lost? 3 months ago:
No, From is the new Lost. It’s so good though, I highly recommend it.
- Comment on When fighter jets are scrambled to intercept a plane for security reasons, what can they actually do? 3 months ago:
They didn’t. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522
Happens in small planes too www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65814758
- Comment on When fighter jets are scrambled to intercept a plane for security reasons, what can they actually do? 3 months ago:
Shoot it down, or just get it’s attention. A lot of the time there’s a radio fuckup. If some guy cruising in his Cessna sees a fighter pull up along side, he’s definitely switching to 121.5.
Otherwise be there to shoot it down quicker if it looks like it might be taking an aggressive action.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 3 months ago:
Usb c has 24 pins. A typical barrel / stereo style jack has 2 - 4. The connector would have to be absolutely huge to carry the number of wires.
Power plugs are similar problems. You can’t risk the pins crossing over each other and shorting out. You don’t care about that on your headphones due to the low voltages. Wall plugs need to be fully isolated and safe.
- Comment on MapQuest Lets You Name The Gulf of Mexico Whatever You Want 3 months ago:
TIL MapQuest is still around.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 3 months ago:
I think there’s a lot of grunt work artists than you might be aware of. My last job was at a video game studio and it was kinda eyeopening the amount of generic story boarding / art work they would send over to Eastern Europe / Asia to be done for cheap.
The visible side of the industry (what you’re talking about) yeah I agree, but AI is slowly going to pick away at the lower skill levels until only experts are really useful. How does a junior become an expert in that world?
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 3 months ago:
how will it change the average person’s life in 1 - 3 years?
To be blunt, it’ll probably make them worry about losing their job. AI can’t do everything and it does a lot of stuff pretty shitty, but so do a lot of people.
