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dan

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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Coding since 1998.
.NET Foundation member. C# fan
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Be honest, do you still use reddit?

I used to check the front page at least once every day, and occassionally check specific subreddits. Now I don’t look at reddit unless theres some drama, like mods getting purged, then I’d go there and enjoy the drama. Occasionally there will be questions that only reddit has the answer to so I have to reluctantly use it. I...

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I’m mostly just using it for subreddits that don’t have an equivalent Lemmy community yet.

What's the point of buying new phones every years?

Other than your carrier give it for free or cheap, I don’t really see the reason why should you buy new phone. I’ve been using Redmi Note 9 for past 3 years and recently got my had on Poco F5. I don’t see the point of my ‘upgrade’. I sold it and come back to my Note 9. Gaming? Most of them are p2w or microtransaction...

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I don’t understand it either. The only reason I upgraded from my Galaxy S10 was because the USB port no longer worked. I could still charge it via wireless charging, but it was annoying not being able to plug it into my car to use Google Maps. If the USB port didn’t break, I’d probably still be using the old S10.

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It’s what Elon is missing from the code of Tesla’s self driving mode

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<span style="color:#323232;">if (goingToMalfunction) {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  dont();
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>
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My wife (in her 30s) got shingles and doctors / people at the pharmacy said the same thing. “only people over 50 get that!”

She was in a lot of pain. 0/10 would not recommend getting shingles.

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Given the prices of these VPSes, you could get two or three with different providers and have a warm standby in case of any issues.

RackNerd is legit though - a real company with a physical office. I’ve had some VPSes with them in the past, and only got rid of them because I wanted to consolidate a few things.

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Get a Yubikey that supports Webauthn and FIDO2. It’s the future of two-factor authentication on the web. At work we use the YubiKey 5C Nano, but I think the entire Yubikey 5 series supports Webauthn.

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any $5 VPS provider will do.

A cheap <$20/year VPS is sufficient to host Vaultwarden. No need to spend several times that. My Vaultwarden installation is only using 120MB RAM, so a 1GB RAM VPS would be more than sufficient. Take a look at RackNerd, HostHatch, GreenCloudVPS, and the other top providers on LowEndTalk. RackNerd’s latest sale has a VPS plan with 1GB RAM and 14GB SSD storage for $11.38/year: lowendtalk.com/…/boom-boom-4th-of-july-deals-come…, but I’d personally go with the 4GB RAM and 75GB disk for $47.88/year, since self-hosting is addictive and you’ll find plenty of other stuff you want to host.

(I’m not affiliated with any of these companies)

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because of a layer of protection

What does this mean? It’s very vague :D

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I have a cronjob that just does docker pull/stop/rm/run without checking the error codes

Ah, you like living on the edge 😛

I don’t trust automated Docker updates… There can be breaking changes between versions. I don’t want my Docker containers to automatically break themselves :D

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Yeah I’m confused about that too. I drink ice water all the time when it’s hot… But I live in an area with a mild climate, where 27C (80F) is considered hot.

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A lot of people only have debit cards in Australia, and consumer protection is a lot stronger than the USA. Most credit cards in Australia have an annual fee, and the only rewards are usually frequent flyer points, so they’re nowhere near as common as in the USA.

I’m Aussie but I’ve been living in the USA for 10 years. American credit cards are something else. So many good cards with no annual fee, great perks (like extended warranty), and great rewards (like cash back, or points that are worth way more than in Australia).

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Debit cards can be run as credit

Does it cost the merchant more?

In Australia, debit cards are dual-network, and credit transactions cost far more than debit transactions. Debit uses a local system called EFTPOS that has low fees, whereas credit uses the card issuer’s network (Mastercard, Visa, etc) and they take a far larger percentage.

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Good content will still be surfaced on its own

Not if you don’t do basic SEO at least… Things like ensuring that pages have:

  • Good title tags, with the most important parts (post topic) at the start of the title
  • Meta tags - description, keywords, canonical URL, etc
  • Open Graph tags - for when links are shared on social media sites
  • been optimized to load quickly - Google prioritises faster sites above slower ones

Plus the site should have a robots.txt and sitemap XML that’s been submitted to Google Webmaster Tools.

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Like, if a web crawler sees a Beehaw post, and then seees Lemmy.ml’s mirrored page of that same post, could it just show up as two different results? Could it work against the SEO in that it gets marked as “duplicate” or “spam” content in some way?

The ideal solution is that the page has a canonical tag, telling search engines what the main URL for the content is: ahrefs.com/blog/canonical-tags/. I don’t know if Lemmy already does this, nor do I know how well canonical tags work cross-domain as I’ve only ever used them for content on the same domain.

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Yeah it’s changed focus a few times. They focused on music for a while, then pivoted to entertainment news. Surprisingly they still have around 100 employees.

Some years ago they “lost” a lot of data during a data center migration. MySpace was the go-to place for small indie bands in the mid to late 2000s, so a lot of music that was only available on MySpace is totally lost now. People didn’t get a chance to archive it, since MySpace didn’t announce it beforehand.

I say “lost” because my opinion is that it was expensive for them to keep storing all that data and so they just deleted it all and made up an excuse.

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Time to bring back StumbleUpon and del.icio.us

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HERE maps is pretty good… It’s one of the only major competitors to Google Maps. I’ve used their APIs in the past.

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Google Maps is best-in-class IMO. Some other services come close but aren’t quite as good.

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As far as I know, a Threads site is coming. It only just launched so not everything is ready yet :)

Thanks to dust I deleted a 70 gig file on my drive

Dust is a rewrite of du (in rust obviously) that visualizes your directory tree and what percentage each file takes up. But it only prints as many files fit in your terminal height, so you see only the largest files. It’s been a better experience that du, which isn’t always easy to navigate to find big files (or atleast...

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Try dua. It’s like ncdu but uses multiple threads so it’s a lot faster., especially on SSDs.

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Do you mean products like their VPN? They really need the revenue to try and become more independent from Google. Right now something like 90% of their income comes from a deal with Google to make Google the default search engine.

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Don't use wifi for any cameras that are used for security purposes, as an attacker can just use a wifi jammer to block it from the network. Get a good PoE camera instead.

I usually recommend the Dahua T5442T-ZE (https://a.co/d/gj2WclN) as a good outdoor camera with very good night time performance. There's several in-depth reviews on IPCamTalk (I'd recommend reading their quick start wiki too).

You can save money with Reolink, but their cameras are lower quality and horrible at night. Dahua and Hikvision are the #1 and #2 camera manufacturers in the world.

Regardless of which brand you get, ensure you put the cameras on a separate VLAN with no internet access. This is for security reasons.

You'll also need a NVR to record footage - either a hardware NVR from the same manufacturer, or software like Blue Iris or Frigate.

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