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traches

@ traches @sh.itjust.works

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  • What country are you from and what languages do you speak?

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  • Born & raised in the US, lived in Poland for the past several years. Speak a good bit of polish, enough to navigate most interactions with strangers but not enough for deep conversations with the father-in-law.

  • Thoughts on WebDAV, CardDAV, and CalDAV hosting?

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  • The best endorsement I can give radicale is that I have depended on it for years and almost never think about it. I spun it up and now it just does what I need.

    Edit: autocorrect got me

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • Sure its deeply flawed in a bunch of ways, but it is miles better than nothing

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    I don't understand the purpose of some selfhosting

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  • I have 113k images going back two decades. The screenshot above doesn't include RAW files, with those included I'm around 2 terabytes of total storage.

    • Immich is in fact a photo album, and a damn good one at that.
    • Immich keeps google's grubby paws off my photos. I don't need or want anyone datamining every precious memory I have in order to modify my behavior to their benefit.
    • Immich shares photos between my wife and my phones.
    • Immich ensures that if I lose my phone, my photos aren't lost.
    • Immich lets me easily re edit and re-export RAW files without creating duplicates or losing metadata
    • Immich lets me conveniently share photos with friends and family without requiring them to have an account anywhere.

    Mostly I self-host things when I want data synchronized between multiple devices, or I don't want to lose it in the event I lose the device it was created on.

    Also, like, phone screens are tiny and typing on them is terrible? Why would you want to do everything on your phone?

  • What's a good email provider?

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  • Fastmail has been great for me for years now

  • If money was not an issue, is there a movie, series, or a video game you would fund as a passion project with no intention on making a profit on it?

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  • KSP rewrite from scratch with a custom engine.

    Super stoked about KSA :)

  • What would a General Strike look like in the US?

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  • Just-in-time supply chains mean that a day of lost work fucks things up for a week.

  • What is the origin of your username/nickname?

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  • It’s like 15 years old from back when I used to PVP in EVE online. Vaguely weird to pronounce and towards the middle of the alphabet so I don’t get primaried

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    What to do with a faulty RAID 5 drive before sending to RMA?

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  • If encryption is enabled, don’t worry about it. Otherwise ‘dd if=/dev/zero of=definitely-the-bad-drive-do-not-fuck-this-up bs=4M’

  • FUTO just made a 14hrs long video introduction to Selfhosting! (plus a written version) 💾

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  • Agreed, that should be many tens of pages not one. Also the mobile layout isn’t very good. I think it’s important to remember that normies use their phones for almost everything.

  • "How types make hard problems easy" (or at least reduce cognitive load over time)

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  • Hey cool, I learned something. Thanks!

  • What does your OS do that I should steal?

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  • Grim, slurp, tesseract, and apparently the deepl SDK for Ruby? That was an interesting choice, younger me. 

     bash
        
#! /bin/zsh
# Select an area of the screen, Screenhot, OCR, and translate it to english.

temp_image=$(mktemp --suffix '.png')
grim -g "$(slurp)" "$temp_image"

# DPI of 120 seems to work OK for screenshots.
source_text=$(tesseract "$temp_image" - --dpi 120 -l pol+deu) 

translated_text=$(~/scripts/translate "$source_text")

wl-copy $translated_text

notify-send 'Translation: ' "$translated_text" --expire-time=60000 --category 'translation'

rm $temp_image

    Translate script:

     ruby
        
#! /bin/ruby
require_relative 'deepl_request'

puts Translator::DeeplRequest
       .new(ARGV.join ' ')
       .translation

    This script is a bit hacky and one-off, I wouln't just copy-paste it.

  • "How types make hard problems easy" (or at least reduce cognitive load over time)

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  • This is what I'm talking about:

    Code for copy-pasting:

     typescript
        
type NonEmptyArray<T> = [T, ...T[]];

function neverEmpty<T>(array: T[]): NonEmptyArray<T> | null {  
    if (array.length === 0) return null

    return array
}

  • What does your OS do that I should steal?

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    • super+u shows a wofi menu allowing me to fuzzy find a credential from my password manager and copy its username
    • super+p same thing but for passwords
    • super+o same thing but for TOTP codes
    • super+t allows me to select an area of the screen, take a screenshot, run it through OCR, translate it to English via the deepl API, and then pop up the result as a desktop notification and also copy it to the clipboard. (I’m not fluent in the language of the country I live in)
    • ”lock” and „request” based suspend management, so my backup scripts or other long running jobs can keep the computer from sleeping until they are done.

  • "How types make hard problems easy" (or at least reduce cognitive load over time)

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  • I’ve tried to use that NonEmptyArray type in the past and it was a real pain in the ass getting the type checker to believe that no, for realsies this array is not empty I just checked the length two lines ago. Is there some trick I don’t know or has it gotten smarter about that in recent updates?

  • Which fictional character's death affected you most?

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  • Companion cube

  • What are your Homelab goals for 2025?

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  • Got a 3 year old kid with another on the way. I just need it to be reliable so the kid can watch Sesame Street and the lights keep working.

  • What is the worst website you have ever been on?

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  • Yeah and /wg/ is pretty good so long as you scroll past the fash threads.

    The decent communities give legitimacy to /pol/

  • What is the worst website you have ever been on?

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  • When I was a lot younger and dumber I used to hang out on 4chan. Still can’t unsee shoveldog