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@ clif @lemmy.world

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Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.

  • A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth

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  • That's where you draw the line?

    (Also, say hi to your chickens for me)

  • Looking for a printer. Whats your opinion?

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  • Like other posts - brother, laser.

    My ancient HP laserjet died a few months back so I picked up a brother. It amazed me that I just plugged it in (Linux) and it worked. No hplip, no cups config, just worked.

    Even more impressive, I tried the network/wifi print out of curiosity and it also just worked... Nothing special, Debian 13 auto discovered it on the network and added it to my printer list.

    I had the HP for over 15 years and it was always a bitch to get working with Linux. Hoping this brother lasts at least as long.

  • Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers

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  • Your comment made me realize these could be a great digital attack vector. I assume they have wifi? And I doubt security was top of mind in the software development...

  • AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

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  • My company is pushing LLM code assistants REALLY hard (like, you WILL use it but we're supposedly not flagging you for termination if you don't... yet). My experience is the same as yours - unit tests are one of the places where it actually seems to do pretty good. It's definitely not 100%, but in general it's not bad and does seem to save some time in this particular area.

    That said, I did just remove a test that it created that verified that IMPORTED_CONSTANT is equal to localUnitTestConstantWithSameHardcodedValueAsImportedConstant. It passed ; )

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  • My exact answer as well. Saved me some typing - thanks :)

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    How does Onlyfans models earn thousands and in some cases millions per month, meanwhile a lot of opensource developers earn less than 1000$ per month?

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  • What if we mash them together? Streaming nude live FOSS coding with subscription fees and tips.

    Only downside is that no one wants to see me do that so there's not much of a market...

  • Trump promises to endorse Jake Paul for office before the pair enjoy a YMCA dance together

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  • I was positive this was going to be the onion.

    ... I really wish this was the onion.

  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

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  • Aha, the separate breaker box is the part I wasn't thinking about. I'll need to do some thinking on how I could make that work for me. Thank you for the info.

  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

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  • Out of curiosity, how do you have that setup (at a high level)?

    I've got a bluetti system for emergency power (12kWh, 6kW AC output) but I need to plug things directly into it. It'd be nice to feed it directly to my house wiring but ... selectively. That is, I wouldn't want to power the HVAC but it would be nice to not have to shuffle the fridge/freezer plugs from the wall to the inverter.

    Dedicated circuit(s) with a manual switch from mains to inverter, I'm guessing? But then we get into all the extras required to do that safely and avoid back feeding the grid.

    Granted, they have systems/setups specifically for whole house power but I don't want to feed the whole house, just the important circuits/appliances.

  • Currently own a TP-Link XE75, but thinking of switching to a GL.iNet GL-MT6000 Flint 2

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  • The ad blocker was from the package manager built into OpenWRT. I think tailscale was too but I'm not 100% sure since it's been awhile.

    Though, I just did a search and the first result from the OpenWRT docs shows the install from the package manager so that's most likely how I did it : https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/tailscale/start

    So, yes, very simple.

  • Currently own a TP-Link XE75, but thinking of switching to a GL.iNet GL-MT6000 Flint 2

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  • I got the gl-mt6000/flint2 about 6 months ago. I'm definitely not a network expert but I unboxed it, powered it up, and immediately flashed OpenWRT. No problems.

    The only slightly technical things I've done with it are to install a router level ad/tracking blocker when my RPi2 pihole stopped being reliable and install the tailscale client on it with exit node enabled. Everything works fine.

    I use tailscale to get to my LAN (even though the desktop is also running tailscale) for many reasons (self hosting) but the main reason is my home server is disk level LUKS encrypted. The router restarts autonomously after a power outage so I use it to get to the server via tailscale+Dropbear to remote unlock the server disk after a power outage.

    I've had zero complaints and would recommend.

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  • Ouch. I mean, you're not wrong... But still.

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  • I approve.

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    Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News

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  • It took three years but we've almost rooted it all out.

    There's still one ancient product that will (theoretically) decommission in mid 2028. It makes enough money to cover the Oracle licensing but isn't worth reworking to migrate.

    Knowing how decom goes, I'm sure it'll still be running in 2035 with that one last client who "can't move to the newer, better, easier project because... Reasons (I don't wanna)"

  • What's your self-hosting success of the week?

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  • Reinstalled Dropbear for remote LUKS unlock after a SSD failure.

    SSD failure was two weeks ago or I'd say rebuilding the server from backups and further polishing my Ansible playbook.

  • Using VPS for remote access of my server - some questions

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  • Second for Pangolin.

    They have a cloud hosted free tier you can try but it's time/ transfer limited. If you like it, you can self host on your VPS with no subscription since it's all FOSS software.

    Also, thank you for addressing the native app vs Pangolin auth layer challenge. I've been wrestling with that myself.

  • What's Gutenberg, epub files, and old books written in 1900's?

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  • Also, if you want to be a good citizen and not block others from checking out ebooks, I hear there are things you can do. Things like using Calibre+obok (or DeDRM, depending on device) to rip them from the reader device and remove the DRM. Then you can return the ebook to the library so others can use it, while being able to read it at your leisure.

    I wouldn't know, of course, but it seems like the polite thing to do.

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • "the 1900s"

    : /

  • Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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  • I recently picked up a 2024 model moto g power 5g. The main reason is that I needed the cheapest smart phone I could find locally to test a new provider (phreeli) before committing. That, and to serve as a ready backup if one of ours dies. $115 at a big box store.

    It's... fine. Even after debloating I get about half the battery life of my galaxy s20 which is now 5 years old. I haven't been able to figure out what's eating it, or maybe it just has a smaller battery... I should check that.