zhala

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by zhala 1y ago
A few years ago I used an RTL-SDR to determine if I had a water leak since my meter is one that broadcasts over 900mhz (iirc). I wrote a small program to parse RTL-AMR output into Prometheus metrics (real life gauges are just like Prometheu
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by zhala 4y ago
We do this regularly in production. We do biweekly container rebuilds, many running alpine and installing version unpinned packages. So far very few (if any) actual issues with that. We do of course do smoketests prior to promoting to produ
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by zhala 4y ago
I've seen these studies before and done some testing of my own and found this to be true to some degree. I've used PMSA003I and BME688 sensors to check for particulate and VOC's. I didn't notice any significant increase
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by zhala 4y ago
Iirc grafana ~v8 had the ability to send pictures of graphs with alerts natively which was pretty nice, seems like v9 doesn't have that built in anymore.
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by zhala 4y ago
We've found that asking them to write a function to average a list of integers. That's filtered out a surprising number of "senior level" applicants.
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by zhala 4y ago
I've had great success using home assistant's built in energy monitor dashboard and a ESP32 based power monitor from CircuitSetup. Home assistant supports exporting metrics via Prometheus which I then graph using grafana for fanci
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by zhala 4y ago
Iirc this has been an issue with Mac os/osx for many years. Seems like a very tricky bug to hunt down, I only encounter it maybe twice a month.
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by zhala 4y ago
You could use something like cloudflare tunnels which wouldn't expose your IP, but would still route the traffic back to you machine.
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by zhala 4y ago
As someone who did IT at a public transit agency for a medium sized city briefly, this is all pretty accurate and similar at most public transit agencies. Even brand new busses are still using old hardware under the hood that requires speci
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by zhala 4y ago
How does this differ from something like Loki + Thanos/Mimir?
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by zhala 4y ago
In AWS you can view your specific emissions under billing > cost & usage reports.
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by zhala 4y ago
> "Anything under 10 minutes is good" for running the CI pipeline (not true anywhere I've been at Google) or "The steps should be 'do a git clone...'" (also not true at Google). Are these both true&#x2F
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by zhala 4y ago
I think most people would be better suited getting micro form factor PC's like the Dell 7050's or Lenovo M920q. Can be had for ~200 on eBay with a 6th or 7th gen i5/i7 and only draw 10-20w in use.