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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

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  • There's a lot of other expenses with an employee (like payroll taxes, benefits, retirement plans, health plan if they're in the USA, etc), but you could find a self-employed freelancer for example.

    Or just get an employee anyways because you'll still likely have a positive ROI. A good developer will take your abstract list of vague requirements and produce something useful and maintainable.

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  • At this burn rate, I’ll likely be spending $8,000 month,” he added. “And you know what? I’m not even mad about it. I’m locked in.”

    For that price, why not just hire a developer full-time? For nearly $100k/year, you could find a very good intermediate or senior developer even in Europe or the USA (outside of expensive places like Silicon Valley and New York).

    The job market isn't great for developers at the moment - there's been lots of layoffs over the past few years and not enough new jobs for all the people who were laid off - so you'd absolutely find someone.

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  • I didnt realise that repl.it pivoted to vibe coding. It used to be kinda like jsfiddle or CodePen, where you had a sandbox to write and run web code (HTML, JS/TypeScript/CoffeeScript, and CSS/LESS/Sass).

  • Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds

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  • One of my friends was part of the original NBN trial in Brunswick. I also lived in Brunswick but unfortunately I was a few blocks outside the test area. That was back in 2009 or 2010, and if I remember correctly it was 100Mbps down and 40Mbps up via FTTP.

    15 years later, there's still a lot of people with connections slower than that. My mum's on a 12Mbps plan because she finds higher plans to be too expensive. Meanwhile, the slowest speed I can get from a major ISP in my area in the USA is 300Mbps.

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  • It sure does, but AFAIK it was only available to houses that use fiber (FTTP - fiber to the premises) until recently. My mum could only get 250Mbps max over the coax network before (Aussies refer to it as "HFC" - hybrid fiber and coax).

    They do have a 1000/250 plan but it's ridiculously expensive compared to the "standard" 1000/50 (called "NBN 1000" - NBN is the National Broadband Network)

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  • https://sonic.com/

    I'm actually paying $40/month because I'm on a legacy plan that's $10/month cheaper in exchange for no phone or email support (SMS only) and no free addons like email, web hosting space, eFax, or VPN.

    Sonic has caused the other ISPs to lower their prices here. For example, Comcast Xfinity has 2Gbps for $70/month, although that's not symmetric and only has 250Mbps upload speed. AT&T's fastest plan here is 5Gbps for $155/month.

    There's a few cities throughout the US that have a similar service, or cheap municipal fiber (ran by the city itself). Unfortunately it's not very common though.

  • Securely Expose your Homelab Services with Mutual TLS - YouTube

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  • Oh yeah that's a great point I didn't consider. Thanks.

  • Securely Expose your Homelab Services with Mutual TLS - YouTube

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  • I get that, but a lot of people are already using a VPN to access their self-hosted system.

  • Just a little server

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  • Passmark isn't that useful for measuring transcoding performance, as as far as I know it doesn't benchmark iGPU performance? Transcoding is done nearly entirely on the iGPU.

  • Just a little server

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  • I recently watched a video about Beelink's factory and was surprised as how high-quality their production process is. Great video. https://youtu.be/ohwI3V207Ts (and if you enable captions, it explains what each process is).

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  • Yeah Australia still hasn't quite caught up to the internet speeds some other countries had 15 years ago. It's kinda sad. I'm still sad the original (good) NBN got replaced by the janky NBN that's taken years to fix.

    The other weird thing in Australia is that even the expensive fibre plans are asymmetric. Most countries that have fibre have a 1Gbps symmetric plan (meaning upload and download are both 1Gbps) whereas the 1Gbps NBN plan has a ridiculously low ~50Mbps upload speed.

    I moved from Australia to the USA in 2013. Back then, I had ~9Mbps ADSL2+ in Australia, compared to 600Mbps in the USA. Huge difference. Now I've got 10Gbps symmetric in the USA for $50/month through a local ISP.

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  • I haven't watched the video yet, but it's generally not worth the hassle of setting up mutual TLS if you're already using a peer-to-peer VPN like Tailscale, as the VPN software is already doing mutual authentication.

    Edit: A peer-to-peer VPN (or mesh VPN) is one where two systems that are connected to the VPN can directly communicate with each other, instead of needing to go through a central server as with something like OpenVPN. With Tailscale or Wireguard, the peers need each other's public keys to communicate.

  • Peak UI Design

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  • Are you asking for sanity in this abomination?

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    Building permit building has building permit problems

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  • This post violates rule 3.

  • new Date("wtf")

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  • I've been using JS for a long time, and have worked on some date and time libraries, and only got 12/28. Wow there's a lot of edge cases.

  • Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots

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  • They're likely not intentionally crawling Lemmy. They're probably just crawling all sites they can find.

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  • Won't the bots just switch to using that instead of the heavier JS challenge?

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  • tbh I kinda understand their viewpoint. Not saying I agree with it.

    The Anubis JavaScript program's calculations are the same kind of calculations done by crypto-currency mining programs. A program which does calculations that a user does not want done is a form of malware.

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  • The Anubis site thinks my phone is a bot :/

    tbh I would have just configured a reasonable rate limit in Nginx and left it at that.

    Won't the bots just hammer the API instead now?

  • VMware’s rivals ramp efforts to create alternative stacks

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  • The mentioned products have had major releases recently. Has anything major happened with Proxmox recently?