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by sirius87 5y ago
Host OS level config setting up /etc/avahi/hosts with Ansible
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by sirius87 5y ago
Interesting choices. My smaller, more humble, totally local homelab uses InfluxDB v2 + Telegraf for observability and alerting. Plain old multicast-DNS with Avahi for, somewhat clunky, convention-based service discovery. Ansible for deployi
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by sirius87 5y ago
For rsync tasks that require scheduling and need to ensure only a single instance executes, I personally prefer creating a systemd service (type=oneshot) and have that run under a systemd timer (set OnBootSec, OnUnitActiveSec) https:/
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by sirius87 5y ago
It's unfortunate that after those changes, the Mozilla team did not take criticism in public forums very seriously and brushed it off as noise. I personally stopped using Firefox after some of those "architectural" changes st
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by sirius87 5y ago
Please manufacture at commercial scale. Consumers like me would be greatly indebted : )
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by sirius87 5y ago
You're likely right. Some stable power feeder does need to exist, but could it skip the chemical energy storage parts? The charge-discharge cycles needlessly put a lifespan on that component when I'd like to have it left on 24x7.
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by sirius87 5y ago
I set up an old phone to run a torrent client (qbittorrent). It was a Debian 8 chroot [1] that I could ssh into. In the end, it really wasn't worth the hassle. Networking ports would go unresponsive when the mobile CPU on the phone wou
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by sirius87 5y ago
For mobile, if you ask me, the only sane cross-platform strategy is what Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile [1] intends to do: portable business logic, and leave the UI aspects to each platform, keeping them native. Both Android and iOS have been
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by sirius87 5y ago
I believe this is about websites that provide streaming site link to audio file conversion services. There are some apps on Google Play store that do this as well. Internally I presume they all use ytdl
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by sirius87 5y ago
Any random apps promising "vouchers" or "coupon codes" installed on your phone? Do you have an Android device? https://blog.zimperium.com/flytrap-android-malware-compromis... EDIT: I hope you get your ac
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by sirius87 5y ago
Just a hunch, but did you have Facebook installed on an Android device? There's a nasty malware going around infecting older versions of Android (that don't receive security updates). It takes over your Facebook account, posts mal
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by sirius87 5y ago
I can see why Chromium-based browsers such as Vivaldi (non-opensource) are increasingly baking in features of popular extensions into the browser (ad-blocker, dark mode). First, there's the risk of Chrome Web Store simply not being ava
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by sirius87 5y ago
> The Internet is littered with complaints about dell PCs failing after warranty, and how recalls are covered up on them frequently. Not to divert from the topic, but I sometimes wonder how companies on Twitter have their staff monitor t
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by sirius87 5y ago
I'm happy with Vivadi, even if its "closed source". https://vivaldi.com/privacy/browser/ EDIT: Fixed link
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by sirius87 5y ago
A lot of developers dunk on Google for Chrome pushing people to sign in to their Google account for sync. For elderly non-tech folks like my Dad's close friend, signing into Chrome Profile/Sync (whatever it's now called) is l
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by sirius87 5y ago
Each year for my nephew's birthday, I set up a web page with a guestbook for people we know to leave messages for him. I'm "tripod.com guestbook CGI scripts" years old. Each year I intend to write a tiny script that acce
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by sirius87 5y ago
> Early screen exposure to addictive digital content actually reduces the chance that your kid will become a genius with deep understanding of the underlying tech While I agree with this, I'm also skeptical about people trying to ca
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by sirius87 5y ago
Again, you're focusing on data consistency, whereas I'm not really concerned about a bunch of cloned throwaway OSS git repositories or npm modules or MP3 files being corrupt over time. These are old WD Passport spinning hard-disks
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by sirius87 5y ago
Two standard external USB disks of different ages, connected to a powered USB hub attached to a ROC-Raspberry Pi. The older one is the "live" one that serves all data requests. The newer disk is usually attached to the hub, but it
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by sirius87 5y ago
For a homelab use-case, I backed out of creating a ZFS mirrored storage pool for network storage. It wasn't that the steps were too complicated or that ZFS let me down as such. Just that RAID in general and ZFS put my files in a blackb
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by sirius87 5y ago
Did not know. Thanks for sharing this. This looks mighty useful.
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by sirius87 5y ago
Switched from Chrome to Firefox around 2017 then to closed-source Chromium-based Vivaldi and haven't looked back since. Whatever architectural changes Firefox made around '17-19 broke the browser for me. Tabs would randomly go dea
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by sirius87 5y ago
Congrats on the launch! I experienced ordering medicines over Whatsapp for the first time from the local store in Mumbai a few weeks ago. Discussing order items and them checking drawers was a PITA, so I just called them to get it done. The
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by sirius87 5y ago
I wonder if this is a short-term strategy to force commercial property rents further down, and re-enter when they hit a feasible low. In India, GAP apparently uses their retail stores in an omnichannel strategy to "warehouse" prod
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by sirius87 5y ago
Gmail now displays a splash/loading screen that reads "Google Workspace". Confused the heck out of me because I have a personal account with Google One for extra storage space, and a Google Workspace account for a managed dom
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by sirius87 5y ago
I'm on an Ubuntu based system, so an apt-get Post-Invoke hook would do the job for me [1]. I haven't bothered though. I just manually run a bash script that appends my !important changes to the end of the file. But apparently ther
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by sirius87 5y ago
Same. Huge fan of Opera 12, I was active in their community sites and reported bugs when possible. I'm glad to see them all coming back. I'm skeptical of trusting Vivaldi Sync with my passwords, so that's turned off, but I us
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by sirius87 5y ago
Thanks. Yes, that does seem to be the case. I found this old design doc [1] and discussion. Nifty feature for IoT to have more responsive alerts. [1] https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/4355#issuecomment
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by sirius87 5y ago
Hmmm. Grafana Live looks interesting. Does this mean Grafana now hosts and serves timeseries data [1], like InfluxDB? Or is this only temporal, only for events, alerts, etc? [1] https://grafana.com/tutorials/stream-metr
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by sirius87 5y ago
> PM has a deep engineering understanding Amen. I've worked at a startup where the barrier to entry for a PM role was either low (in my perception) or they were allowed to get better at their job as the project progressed. Features

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