tburkhol @ tburkhol @lemmy.world

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I didn't think I was. I got sucked in by sensors to monitor indoor temp, humidity, air quality... A smart switch to turn lights on and off when I'm not home. Now I'm thinking of how to turn the HVAC fan off when IAQ is good and temperature is comfortable. I'm not ready to have the house turn lights on when I enter a room or start the oven when I get within a mile of the end of my commute, but it's been growing, one $30 gadget at a time with no subscriptions and no data leaving my LAN.

If you're going to have any non-linux clients, samba will be an order of magnitude easier. MacOS handles nfs pretty well, but Windows just wants SMB

This story is interesting as criticism of GOP, not support for FBI.

Have whatever opinion of FBI you want: when the people who have made the Thin Blue Line a core piece of their personality suddenly find some police that they'd like to do away with a whole band of high-profile police, then it reveals that the thin blue line shit was just code for something else.

Not to mention the constitutional confusion. Declining the winner of the EC would either leave the country without a President, where maybe duties fall to the Speaker of the House, or let the House pick someone. Does the US even have a mechanism for calling an early election to get a replacement vote?

Still, I expect pundits to bring it up as a mechanism to satisfy SCOTUS. They have a lot of air time and blog space to fill before the election (nevermind the inauguration), and baiting the MAGA crowd with a Democratic Jan 6 insurrection will certainly drive engagement.

It will be beautiful irony if Congress declines to certify Trump's election come Jan 6, 2025.

But let's hope it doesn't come to that.

+1 porkbun. $1.60 for a .top whois privacy. 2FA with security key. Even let me host my own nameserver, so I can have separate internal and external views.

I recently set up DNSSEC on my home domain, and I have been shocked to learn that none of my financial institutions use it. Going back through my logs, the only external host that even tries is api.weather.gov, and only for the CNAME pointing to a CDN host.

Ditto. Started 20 years ago with one service I wanted. Complicated it a little more every time some new use case or interesting trinket came up, and now it's the most complicated network in the neighborhood. Weekend projects once a year add up.

If you have the resources, experiment with new services on a completely different server than everything else. The testing-production model exists for a reason: backups are good, but restoring everything is a pain in the ass.

I also like to keep a text editor open and paste everything I'm doing, as I do it, into that window. Clean it up a little, and you've got documentation for when you eventually have to change/fix it.

I used to have this with homeassistant and zwavejs. Every time I'd pull a new homeassistant, the zwave integration would fail, because it required a newer version of zwavejs. Taught me to build the chain of services into one docker-compose, so they'd all update together. That's become one of the rationales for me to use docker: got a chain of dependent processes? wrap them in a docker so you're working with (probably) the same dependencies as the devs.

My other rationale is just portability, and docker is just one of many solutions there. In my little home environment, where servers are either retired desktops or gee-that-seems-cool SBCs, it's nice to be able to easily move stuff independent of architecture or OS.

There's a quote from 1908's Wind in the Willows: Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing–absolutely nothing–half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Fill in your own hobby, and it reads just as well.

Criticizing a President/candidate for things he hasn't done is pretty ineffective, because the easy answer is, "the other party is blocking him." Most of your criticisms require a five minute conversation to articulate your position, because they're actually hard policy questions, and don't fit into a TV soundbite: they're a whole other category than "He's too old," or "He's sexually assaulted 18 women."

Everybody hates politicians. Super easy to criticize any particular politician, and not likely to generate much angry feedback.

Trump is a fucking goldmine of material. The sheer diversity of his bullshit means that no one topic stays relevant for very long.

Biden, though? You've got age and Israel, and Israel has way too much other stuff associated to bring up in mixed company. The reason people harp so much on Biden's age is because there's nothing else they can talk about.

True, but we always tie tax cuts to the President who signed them, and congress has the option, next year, to make the 2017 tax cuts permanent. If you read TFA, much of their analysis concerns the cumulative effect of Bush and Trump tax cuts, and it's really just their call to action that specifically addresses the Trump cuts.

On the login page, if your existing password is less than 10 characters, the password-validation script will not let you log in.

$10/month is one drink in the pub on one Friday night out of four. It's not even a movie ticket.

European electricity rates are closer to $0.30, and I agree that 100W 24/7 is a cost worth being aware of. I think we're seeing in this thread that it's pretty easy to find a system with standard PC parts from the past decade that idles in the 50W range, like OP, even with a couple of HDDs, and $50/year (US), even $150/year (EU), electricity cost to keep an old desktop out of a landfill maybe doesn't seem so bad.

I mean, one should think hard whether their home lab really needs a second full system running for failover, or whether they really need a separate desktop-based system just for NAS. And maybe don't convert your old gaming rig and its GPU to a home server. Or the quad-Xeon server that work is 'just giving away,' even if it would be cool to have a $50,000 computer running in the basement.

5W vs 50W is an annual difference of 400 kWh. Or 150 kG CO2e, if that's your metric. Either way, it's not a huge cost for most people capable of running a 24/7 home lab.

If you start thinking about the costs - either cash or ghg - of creating an RPi or other dedicated low power server; the energy to run HDDs, at 5-10W each, or other accessories, well, the picture gets pretty complicated. Power is one aspect, and it's really easy to measure objectively, but that also makes it easy to fetishize.

Haven't noticed any issues, but I'm not intentionally using mDNS. dhcpd tells all the clients where the nameserver is and issues ddns updates to bind, so I haven't needed any of the zero-config stuff. I did disable avahi on a linux server, but that was more because it was too chatty than caused any actual problems. I wouldn't think there would be any more issues between mDNS and a fake domain than between mDNS and a real, big-boy domain on the same network.

I recently moved my internal network to a public domain. [random letters].top was $1.60 at porkbun, and now I can do DNSSEC and letsencrypt. I added a pre-hook to LE's renew that briefly opens the firewall for their challenges, but now I'm going to have to look at the DNS challenge.

Almost everything I do references just hostname, with dns-search supplied by dhcp, so there was surprisingly little configuration to change when I switched domains.

acetic acid is almost as volatile as water, and the atmosphere contains a lot less of it. If you evaporate vinegar, you're likely to lose about as much - maybe more - of the acid than the water. So, evaporation is probably not a good way to concentrate vinegar.

I think about the Vision like I think about a new Gucci bag or a new set of Air Jordans. There's a small, but very visible, community that is super into that product, probably for reasons not related to its actual functionality. The difference is that there's a lot of overlap between Apple fans and broader technology enthusiast groups, where we're more isolated from the Gucci and Jordan communities. There are lots of brand-based fan groups who will happily accept branded merch or content, but not interpret that as 'advertising.'

The rest of the world tolerates spyware and especially ads if they feel like the product is worth the intrusion. There's a reason Meta doesn't have a logo watermark foating in the corner of Quest view field. There's a reason VR is still very niche, almost entirely limited to gaming.

Maybe Vision's AR experience will change that. Maybe viewing your entire life through a video camera with overlaid graphics has real-world value beyond privacy in co-working spaces. I doubt that value is $3000 and think Vision is more like Apple's Newton than Apple's iPhone.