Mister_Snuggles

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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
I'm very happy with Restic backing up to BackBlaze B2. I have a "config file", which is really just a shell script to set up the environment (repository location, etc), run the desired backups, and execute the appropriate pru
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
Does anyone have an up-to-date comparison of Borg vs Restic? Or a compelling reason to switch from Restic to Borg? I've previously used Borg, but the inability to use anything other than local files or ssh as a backend became a proble
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
ORMs could offer a unique advantage by allowing the user to describe an append-only table and generating the required triggers (or the appropriate CREATE TABLE options). They'd also be able to include helpers to make working with the
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
This could be enforced in the schema via triggers and/or security permissions. Cooperation from the client is not required. EDIT: Oracle has append-only tables, and can also use "blockchain" to verify integrity. See the IM
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
> Python code used by Excel runs on the Microsoft Cloud with enterprise-level security as a compliant Microsoft 365 connected experience, just like OneDrive. The Python code runs in its own hypervisor isolated container using Azure Conta
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
Thank you - this looks like exactly what I was hoping for!
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
I've literally added Pandas to some of my projects just so I could use a DataFrame to print a nicely formatted table instead of writing code like this. Surely there's a library out there to do this job, it seems like such a common
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
Alberta just announced that this is happening starting in the fall: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-classroom-cel...
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
> life improvements like, in order to clear some registers all one need to do is write 1 instead of the whole =& ~(REG | 0x8) (or something like that, it’s been a while since I write embedded C) This is a really interesting feature s
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
> Ban all the SQL control characters in usernames/passwords and 400 any request that contains them. Hash and base64 both the username and password so they get converted to something where SQL injections are impossible because of the
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
I’ve got some Sengled E1C-NB7 plugs that I really like. The form factor is nice, they work perfectly with Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant, and they’ve got a power button on the device itself. I want to buy more and they don’t seem to be avai
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
This is actually really interesting! We run a lot of containerized stuff too, but in AWS EKS. For us, access to the container host isn't really a thing, and I'm not even sure if it's possible to be honest. The container hos
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
My favourite (ab)use of `make` is as a batch runner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441602 This (ab)use of `make` runs multiple times a day, every day, and works perfectly every time. The inspiration of this was an
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
It seems like the real problem is that you've got a ton of drift between your Prod and Dev environments. How old is your Prod compared to your Dev? Since you're running something in a container, you should be able to upgrade the
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
I use an ultrasonic sensor and ESPHome to monitor the water level in my sump pit. Depending on what you want out of your septic tank monitoring, this may be a useful option.
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
I must have only ever encountered it in "bookkeeper mode". That abstraction is likely what threw me off!
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
> if you're trying to understand a piece of software like Quickbooks and are not coming from an accounting background Unfortunately, QuickBooks won't help you understand accounting. It's not a true double-entry accounting
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
The act of "posting" a transaction updates the ledger to reflect the current balance. Think of the ledger as "Current state" and the transactions as "how we got there".
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
> Don't store the account data. Instead store the transactions. Compute the accounts from that. The table "Transactions" should have the fields: Date, Amount, SourceAccount, TargetAccount, Description. This is a bad design
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
It was at the time, it may not be now.
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
I honestly find it weird when I hear about companies like Facebook and Synology using it. Facebook could easily work around failures, they've surely got every part of their infrastructure easily replaceable, and probably automated at s
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
At work, this all happened on a commercial Linux distribution which we do pay for. As far as I recall, their support was unable to resolve the issue, hence rebuilding all those VMs. I’m not on the server team, so I don’t know many details,
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
Anecdotally, this is untrue. Personally, BTRFS is the only filesystem that has ever caused me any data loss or downtime. I was using a single disk, so it should have been the perfect path. At some point the filesystem got into a state whe
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
Wal-Mart tried it here in Canada for a bit, but it didn't last long at all.
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
I've never used NetBSD, but this announcement is rekindling my desire to install it on my old PowerBook G4.
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
Why do you consider it a waste of time?
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
I'm torn on this. On one hand, I'd love to see intersections react to traffic in real-time to optimize traffic flow. On the other hand, I have an "intelligent" intersection near my house and the cycle that the lights fol
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Researchers propose fourth traffic signal light for self-driving car future(popsci.com)
2 points by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago|2 comments
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
The FreeBSD answer to containers is jails, but I'm not sure how the capabilities of jails maps to the functionality provided by cgroups.
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
I recently discovered that the Files app on iOS/iPadOS can connect to SMB servers, so my solution is to just use the NAS that I've already got. Windows, MacOS, and Linux can also connect to SMB just fine and I'd be shocked i

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