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dan

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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

  • Hey, I'm new to GitHub!

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  • Even if it's just 10% of millennials, that still feels higher than both the older and younger generations. I'm in my 30s and a lot of people I went to school with can at least do basic things on the computer, since we had computer classes in primary (elementary) school and high school.

  • Hey, I'm new to GitHub!

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  • I saw a tweet that said something like "It's amazing that somehow we were only able to produce a single generation that knows how to properly use computers" and now it lives rent-free in my head.

  • Oopsi Woopsi

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  • It's funny but a obvious fake. There's no such thing as "permanently" closing a Github issue.

  • dotnet developer

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  • .NET Core doesn't exist any more. It's just .NET now. I think that changed around the release of .NET 5?

    The classic version is mostly legacy at this point too.

  • PiKVM Build and Deploy

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  • Wouldn't it have been cheaper to get a motherboard with IPMI/BMC? Last I looked, the prebuilt PiKVMs were quite expensive.

  • Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)

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  • Vine was basically TikTok with shorter videos. I feel like it was a bit ahead of its time - phone cameras weren't as good when it launched, and a lot of people didn't have enough data to watch a feed full of videos.

  • what's the difference?

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  • There are many other places where DVCS repositories can be hosted

    I mean... Everyone that's cloned the repo has a full copy of it. You could clone it directly off someone else if you wanted to.

  • The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking powered by Plex, Jellyfin, Adguard Home and Docker.

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  • AdGuard Home supports DNS over HTTPS and uses it by default (via Quad9). This encrypts your DNS requests and ensures your ISP can't collect the queries or modify the responses. Some ISPs build an advertising profile for you based on the sites you visit, even if you use third-party DNS like Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 or Google's 8.8.8.8. Using encrypted DNS prevents them from doing this.

    You can use DNS over HTTPS with PiHole but it's a lot of manual work to set it up. With AdGuard Home, you just enter the DNS server URL in the web UI, and that's it.

  • Mullvad and Tailscale Announce Partnership

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  • You need it for file sharing apps like BitTorrent or Soulseek, if you don't want to be seen as a leech, and/or you want to use private trackers where you need to maintain a good ratio. :)

  • This should be a pinned post as it really captures the essence of my experience so far.

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  • My interpretation of "cloud provided media storage" in the context of self-hosting is something like seaweedfs.

  • This should be a pinned post as it really captures the essence of my experience so far.

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  • No one else uses the term "cloud" like that

    Broadly, "the cloud" is just someone else's computer. VPSes still fall into that definition. A lot of VPS providers describe themselves as "cloud" now too (eg one of the main hosts I use, HostHatch, describes themselves that way on their site).

    If a single AWS EC2 or Lightsail server (which is essentially just a VPS in one region) is considered to be "in the cloud", why not a much cheaper, more powerful server with a different provider?

  • This should be a pinned post as it really captures the essence of my experience so far.

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  • It could be their own cloud. I refer to my VPSes as "the cloud" even though that's still self-hosting. My "cloud storage" would just be a 10TB storage VPS I've got.

  • This should be a pinned post as it really captures the essence of my experience so far.

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  • DNS hijacking

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  • On modern versions of Windows (and probably other OSes), you can configure it to use DNS over HTTPS with a service like Quad9 or Cloudflare, which will fix this.

    To do this across all your devices, even those that don't support DoH, install AdGuard Home on a home server or Raspberry Pi or your PC if it's always on. ISPs can't intercept DoH requests. Then configure your router to set the DNS server to your AdGuard Home server.