I have to bounce around between languages so much I don’t really think I’m fluent in anything anymore. I may not be a bad programmer, but some of my programming is bad.

Just fork peeler from 4.2, rename it to “Skininator 4000” and set up a BuyMeACoffee button.

It worse when you and your team spend months on something and then management pivots, uses it in ways it was never intended, and then complains when there has to be another project to “fix” it.

My self-hosted stuff is intranet only apart from the VPN I used to access remotely. My blog is a Hugo site currently hosted on GitHub.

Certainly! Let me ignore half the details in your prompt and suggest a course of action for v2 of this package even though you said it was version 15.

I’m sorry that isn’t working for you. Here are the troubleshooting steps for a Samsung convection oven that went out of production in 2018.

You are correct, your question did not involve baking tips, here’s that same course of action from v2 of this software package.

Unix epoch time. It has a cool name and I get to pretend its a Star Date.

I love the idea that they’re at two adjacent tables, each one staring at the other wondering why they hate them.

In the rare occasions that my wife needs to use my phone, I need to type my (12 digit) pincode out on a number pad and read it back to her to be sure I get it right. I can type it flawlessly a dozen times a day but if I try to recite it, I screw up the order.

If the docs I have to write are long enough I will include a small diatribe about a ancient pop-culture hill I’m still willing to die on, just to see if anyone notices.

That looks like the media endpoint in action, all right.

I don’t think Lemmy supports media fields in comments (though I’ve only skimmed the API, I could be wrong) just on posts. I usually use Postimages for hosting images for comments.

Be sure to use the image upload field too

The earliest I can think of (from personal experience) is 4GL languages; the early low-code platforms that first started to get traction in the early 80s. They wouldn’t have replaced programmers but some thought/hoped they would usher in an age of “low skill” programmers that companies could get away with paying minimum wage to.

The thing that made me laugh when I saw the article that OP mentions is that it was coming from AWS.

In my testing AWS’s Titan AI is the least useful for figuring out how to do things in AWS. It’s so terrible that Amazon just announced they’re using Claude for Alexa’s upcoming “AI” features.

Yeah, I’m hoping to get at why. Drop-shipped disposables took over Juul’s market in the US and then grew it by about 600%. It was so dramatic (in a business sense) that it’s caused ripples in US and UK trade policy, and I just assumed that blitz was happening everywhere.

Out of curiosity, what do you think Berlin’s secret is in this regard? Like do people naturally not litter e-waste, or are there easier recycling options, import restrictions, or enforced litter laws?

Noise may be something to look for when you’re shopping, depending on where your server lives. I have 1 Iron Wolf drive in my NAS (that is in my living room), and it is way louder than the combined noise of 3 WD Reds next to it.

As for failures, Backblaze publishes quarterly failure reports that I always brush up on before looking for a new drive.

Its nice to see what my own version of hell is going to be like.

I was the first kid in middle school to have a portable dual tape deck stereo and was suddenly much more popular.

I don’t know if I was actually a GNR fan or if I just heard Appetite for Destruction so many times that I assumed I was a fan.

But in the mean time EC2 hasn’t gotten a meaningful feature that’s not to accelerate training or inference since GP3, and people folks are backing away from serverless-first designs because cost-control and other features we’ve been screaming for for several years aren’t being addressed.

Edit to add: on the EC2 side I forgot we got Gravaton3 processors like 18 months ago. That was appreciated for sure.

The majority of our household stuff is on a Synology DS920+ (x86). I installed Docker and Portainer on it and then run most of my local services (Immich, Invidious, Alexandrite (the Lemmy frontend), Miniflux, Dokuwiki, and Heimdall) using the Portainer UI.

I’m still running Plex as a manually installed Syno package, because I haven’t taken the time to figure out hardware trans-coding for other setups.

The 920 also manages cameras (via Surveillance Station), all off site backups (we all backup workstations to the 920 and it backs up online), handles private DNS and the reverse proxy for Docker, and hosts my personal VPN. I’m currently in the process of swapping the 4+ year old drives with new ones what will up my capacity (using SHR) from 12TB to 30 (with redundancy).

Good to know. Thanks for the breakdown.

Our nearest Pizza Hut delivers via Doordash whether you order direct or through DD, but if you order direct its 30% cheaper. I’m not sure who’s eating the markup.

I recognized the name AU10TIX, because I half-joked on Lemmy about a potential mass doxxing of Xitter’s most vile users back in September when they announced the partnership. I assumed they’d be a target for ransomware/hackers, not that they’d just leave their admin creds out in the open.

Clearly that’s what blu-tack is for.

“Secure that SSD in a bay and get the faceplate off my butterfly, you monster!” -Buster

I’m taking note of that that combo feather teaser / ball track / butterfly toy. I think my big orange boy would lose his mind over that.

I can sort of see the appeal, but its not for me. If anything is ever going to rename files for me its going to be a script that I’ve either written or at least read top to bottom. Not a blackbox inference engine, and especially not one based on an LLM.

Yeah, the headline sort of reads like Ars is daring Google to remove the flag.

But they specifically said in their blog post that it has “privacy you can trust.” Just imagine all the trust you have in Microsoft plus all the trust you have in the accuracy of AI and rest easy. Plus the AI runs locally so they can trust you to pay the power bill.

Don’t think about how much money they could make with their business customers, based on telemetry alone.

The Brennan monorail rides again!

Some of this technology may sound a bit “over-ambitious,” but keep in mind the project was inspired by a fully functional self-balancing monorail that mechanical engineer Louis Brennan designed and demonstrated back in the early 1900s.

Are we taking bets on how long it will be before Google Search ends up on killedbygoogle,com?

When I was running a site, I had special rules in my firewall to look for things that said they were googlebot but which didn’t come from one of googles published public IPs.

I mentioned this in another thread, but I do worry that google is eventually going infect the APIs that metasearch engines like DDG, Kagi, searchxng, etc depend on.

In my experience, a lot of the sysadmins who run high traffic sites will treat all bots as scrapers that have to be blocked or slowed to a crawl. Then they make special allowances for googlebot, bing/msnbot, and a few others. That means there is a massive uphill climb (beyond the technical one) to making a new search engine from scratch. With Google and MS both betting the farm on LLMs I fear we’re going to lose access to two of the most valuable web reverse indexes out there.

When you stop looking for bugs you can honestly say you haven’t found any. That’s how how the pandemic ended.

If I had 25 surprise desktops I imagine I’d discover a long dormant need for a Beowulf cluster.

I can’t decide who’s more likely to buy this (if it were new): current me out of nostalgia for a pretty good OS, or 1995 me went to Incredible Universe on release day to buy Windows 95.

Time for all the maintainers of datetime libraries to unionize and give a collective nope.

I’m curious about that too. Something is twisting weights for 57 fairly strongly in the model but I’m not show what. Maybe its been trained on a bunch of old Heinz 57 varieties marketing.

If you discount the pop-culture numbers (for us 7, 42, and 69) its the number most often chosen by people if you ask them for a random number between 1 and 100. It just seems the most random one to choose for a lot of people. Veritasium just did a video about it.

37 is well represented. Proof that we’ve taught AI some of our own weird biases.