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Dave

@ Dave @lemmy.nz

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  • Open-source archaeology

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  • Is it stealing if that's why it's there?

    Especially if you put a link in a comment for attribution.

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  • Am not sure I get the analogy. Most people don't like politicians and I'm pretty sure politicians are only pretending to like their constituents.

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  • Come work on IT projects in government. There's a contractor stand-down period for like 3 weeks over Christmas so even if you work there's almost no one around (yes the government said they would cut down on use of contractors, they said a lot of things).

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  • You might not get the public holidays at the same as others but you're still entitled to them taken in lieu!

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  • Haha here the legal minimum is 4 weeks plus 12 more paid public holidays on top.

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  • In New Zealand if you have an office job there's a decent chance you're not even allowed to work for at least a week, often two, sometimes three over the Christmas/New Year period.

    The days between Christmas and 2 January are not even considered working days when calculating working days in contracts.

  • What's the difference between banned and banned from community

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  • Yip. Mods are different to admins, who run the instance. Admins can ban you from an instance which means you can't participate in any communities on their instance.

    If your own instance admins ban you, that's the kind of ban that will stop you being able to log in to your account.

  • What's the difference between banned and banned from community

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  • Communities, generally, are user created and run by the user that created it and any others they appoint as mods. Banned from community just means the mods don't want you to participate in their community.

    You can still participate in any other communities.

  • Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

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  • MariaDB is a drop in replacement for MySQL. If it needs a MySQL database, you can safely use MariaDB instead.

    If you are building a new application, use Postgres. If you are running an existing application and it needs MySQL, use MariaDB.

  • Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy

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  • Well if you do, contribute it to home assistant and I'll install it 😆, it's actually a little surprising conversions aren't supported natively but I guess there is a lot to cover and they will get there eventually.

  • Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy

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  • Home assistant has an automation event that lets you set the conversation result, but you've already passed my ability haha so I can't tell you how to pull the result in from an external service.

    It may well be worth building it as a home assistant integration rather than just custom sentence triggered automations.

  • Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy

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  • Worth noting you need both the speaker part and the server part. Home assistant sells both as out of the box ready to go but you do need both parts.

    It's also worth noting it's a Preview Edition, as in not yet consumer ready.

    It works but you will find quirks, and will find things it can't do that you'd expect it to, and things it can do that others can't.

    It's also very customisable, if you're a bit technical (honestly you don't need to be that technical these days, it has come a long way).

  • Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy

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  • Do you have a plan? I have a Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition and it's great but I don't think it can do unit conversions without connecting it to an LLM. Timers work locally.

    I guess if it's an equation you could add automation to pick up on the phrase and reply with the conversion, but that would need each unit to be manually done and wouldn't work for things like currency conversion that needs live data.

    Also arbitrary things would be challenging, like converting tablespoons of butter into grams or grams of rice into cups.

  • Payment

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  • For the record, yes there are people that do this. They get banned so have to make a new account every time they want to be a dick.

  • a different approach to what a launcher can be

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  • I have use Pie launcher before which has a similar idea.

    In the end I settled on KISS, setting apps to launch with swipes in the four cardinal directions in addition to the whole KISS common/search/favourites setup.

  • Minesweeper game in 100 lines of pure JavaScript

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  • Couldn't most people here could do it in one? The code is in the post and newlines can be removed like in minified javascript.

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    When both say “I love privacy”

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  • The thing is, it's not true about any E2E encryption where all parts of the codebase are controlled by the company.

    It could be as simple as updating their website to send your password to them in plain text while logging in, now the encryption is useless as they would have your password.

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    What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website?

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  • As someone with a public facing website, there are significant volumes of scraping still happening. But largely this appears to come out of South East Asia and South America and they take steps to hide who they are so it's not clear who is doing it or why, but like you say it doesn't appear to be OpenAI, Google, etc.

    It doesn't appear to be web search indexing, the scraping is aggressive and the volume will bring down a Lemmy server no matter how powerful the hardware.

  • Password managers...

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  • What's your solution to this problem for the rest of your digital life?