Zikeji
@Zikeji@programming.dev
Nice. Software developer, gamer, occasionally 3d printing, coffee lover.
- Comment on Where did this mic come from and how to make it go away? [Android] 3 days ago:
Have you rebooted the phone recently?
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 5 days ago:
Yeah this is news to me. Apparently I’m supposed to give French people shit? Sounds like a hassle.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
What does it mean the US is shoes on? In my entire life the only family I know of that did that was a hoarding family with layers of filth on their floor.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 2 weeks ago:
Damn that’s new since I was messed with this. They even have MQTT! Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll have to switch over lol.
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 2 weeks ago:
I had a similar experience. I’d clock in from the mobile app while walking into the office, this way I could more efficiently make my morning rounds by starting from the entrance instead of going to the onsite terminal.
They pulled me in, showed me security footage alongside the time clock timestamp showing me clock in a full what, 15 seconds before I enter the building? Said I was stealing time and wrote me up. Put it “on the record”. And required I use the physical terminal to clock in unless make an oncall visit to the datacenter.
My daily routine changed from finishing the daily rounds efficiently in under 10 minutes to clocking in, going to the break room, getting a coffee, sitting down at my desk for half an hour catching up on work email and whatnot, then finally getting to the morning rounds, but I’d be extra thorough with the checks, so it’d take about half an hour instead of 10 minutes. Gotta be extra careful right?
For context that was the time I worked IT and morning rounds was checking each device in the building that wasn’t employee equipment, so the TVs with their signage, clock in terminals, printers, etc. I’d come in at the rear entrance and could hit each checklist item without backtracking before finishing up at my office.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 2 weeks ago:
I don’t consider that similar.
My current workflow I use the Sleep as Android app, I click “Start sleep tracking” and the lights go off (+ other stuff). When the app wakes me up the lights come on. The app has support for Tasker’s plugin system, which makes it easily possible. I could use Automate, another proprietary app, but prefer Tasker thanks to the support I received from the dev (in fact I’ve received good support from both Sleep and Tasker).
If I was to switch to a physical setup that required an NFC tag, I’d probably still use Tasker to initiate sleep tracking in Sleep as Android.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 2 weeks ago:
HO? DJ you mean HA or something else I’m unfamiliar with? I didn’t see any option in the companion app or when creating and automation to trigger based on an Android intent.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 2 weeks ago:
Take it a step further with Tasker and your sleep taking app. Lights go off when I start sleep tracking, lights come on with alarm.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You’re describing a sense of nostalgia. And no, I don’t consider it immature.
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 4 weeks ago:
Like usual with us humans and our fickle minds, YMMV.
There are many factors that can impact this, though I would clarify - you aren’t losing memories, they’re there, just harder to access. You aren’t losing your sense of self, it’s evolving - who you are as a person is constantly changing.
For me personally, as someone with aphantasia I’ve never really been in touch with my memories in the first place. I’ve been very much a “in the moment” person - despite that my past experiences do define me, even if I don’t know why.
- Comment on Warning: Stripe Asks For ID Verification 5 weeks ago:
The US government does not force us to use a KYC (ID verification / know your customer) provider, at least - not a basic web hosting provider. That could change whenever though, and I’m not sure if Racknerd has any special circumstances.
As for why would a company do this - to prevent fraud and abuse. If a customer signs up and uses a stolen credit card, who do you think is on the hook for that loss? Not the victim, not the bank - us.
Why would they use a stolen card if they’ll just end up getting their services cancelled one might ask - abuse. They’ll setup servers, create phishing pages, and immediately start sending out spam emails. Or distribute malware, or host illegal content, etc.
This creates more work for us and negatively impacts the reputation of our network, and harms our legitimate customers.
So yeah, if something so much as looks out of place on their order / information (such as using a VPN to place the order) we will usually start a ID verification. We’ll usually suspend them to lock them out while we wait on their response, or in extreme cases - immediately cancel and refund.
- Comment on Warning: Stripe Asks For ID Verification 5 weeks ago:
I work for a hosting provider, not Racknerd though so I can’t speak to their processes. Main difference is that while we use Stripe, we don’t use their ID verification service (and no customers have reported that Stripe has forced them to do so).
The post title is misleading. Yes, Stripe has an ID verification service, but Stripe isn’t what is requiring your ID. Racknerd is using Stripe’s ID verification feature against your payment because of some flag or policy on their end.
Why take my money, charge for a year of service, and then send me a link to verify myself?
This is standard operating procedure and happens in pretty much every industry that accepts online payments. Some flag, policy, etc. was indicated they need to take addition steps to verify you.
The biggest issue here is with Stripe asking me to verify my identity, even though I’m not using their service. Yes, they might be legal, but their intrusive behavior in collecting people’s information is unreasonable and should not be tolerated.
I’ll reiterate that Stripe did not arbitrarily force that on you, Racknerd did.
In the future, I recommend avoiding services that require Stripe for payment verification. Though it seems impossible to distinguish between the transactions that requires it and those don’t.
This isn’t useful advice. Racknerd forced the verification on you, not Stripe. I would recommend reviewing the terms of service and going from there. The hosting provider I work for explicitly mentions in the ToS that we may require ID verification. You can use nomenclature like that to a avoid a service, though Racknerd doesn’t mention it in theirs so YMMV. Research and accounts from other customers can be used as well.
If the intent is to avoid ID verification, I would recommend ensuring the data you provide is accurate and up to date but there really isn’t much you can do outside of that. You can thank fraudsters and abusers for ruining that for you.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 1 month ago:
An AIO or air cooler aren’t as impactful as the environment in my experience. Throw your computer in the corner of a room and that AIO ain’t gonna help.
If you do go AIO, make sure you do it right.
Either case, good airflow design does wonders - air cooled or AIO.
- Comment on IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market 1 month ago:
I was looking at building a new PC but I can’t stomach paying 5x the price for RAM. I’ll just have to wait it out. Though if the price of components other than RAM lower I might consider buying up parts, I’ll just have to watch.
- Comment on This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers 1 month ago:
I new product he helped release. So the former.
- Comment on This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers 1 month ago:
My former coworker left to work at Flock in their R&D department and every time I see Flock popup I check his LinkedIn to see if he’s still there and hyup. I didn’t take him for the type, but I mean as recently as a month ago he was praising them.
- Comment on Education is important. 2 months ago:
I was wondering why it was extra cold today. Makes sense now, thanks!
- Comment on A secret cord 2 months ago:
I know if I were to setup the V2L feature on my car to power my home it would look like this (the manual way). But there would be a physical interlock that prevents mains power from being on while this is plugged in.
- Comment on The most invasive cookie/tracker option is listed as “Platinum” while the most privacy-respecting option is merely “Silver” 2 months ago:
Cookie consent dialogs can fuck off and die in general. Always using dark patterns to try and trick you into choosing the worst option.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 2 months ago:
Just block them and move on.
- Comment on This is a GREAT idea 3 months ago:
This is “OCDA”. This guy actually did this to a company we were considering partnering with, which is how I found out about him.
Turns out, no surprise, he does no fact checking and can harass companies who did nothing wrong. He’s been sued and is in the process of being sued again.
There are a whole slew of other issues with his approach as well… Shitty all around.
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 3 months ago:
The drama here isn’t solely over the use of AI. In fact, your last comment any brainlessly using AI is closer to the cause of this drama. The project lead is pushing untested code straight to main, and the fact it was AI generated was an addendum/insult to injury.
- Comment on What's your test for people? 4 months ago:
I have a clip from my dashcam floating around somewhere of me stopping, jumping out of my car, then hauling ass to catch someone’s runaway cart moments before it hit a parked car. Honestly one of my proudest moments.
On the opposite end, I once left a cart (on a curb) and it haunted me. To be fair, it was absolutely storming outside and I was chilled to the bone and just wanted to warm up…
- Comment on Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds files lawsuit against ousted founders for allegedly downloading over 170,000 confidential files 5 months ago:
I’m going to wait on the outcome of these lawsuits and the discovery process before I lean one way or the other.
- Comment on Belkin is killing off parts of the Wemo Line 7 months ago:
I went with the open source one. Slightly more expensive, but has I wanted to I could have bought all the parts and assembled it myself, compiled the firmware, etc.
- Comment on Belkin is killing off parts of the Wemo Line 7 months ago:
If a device relies on any kind of external service to initially set up or function thereafter, do not buy. Regardless of brand.
This is what I strive for. When I was looking for a wall charger for my EV I was shocked at how there was only one option that wasn’t “cloud” based. And those aren’t cheap.
- Comment on Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' 7 months ago:
In my opinion, that’s not on Steam to support their client on a long past EOL operating system. Not withstanding the added development workload and costs, there is also significantly more risk associated with supporting an OS that isn’t receiving security patches.
Not to mention the modder’s example Windows fucking 98. Steam still supports Windows 7, which was released in 2009. Your 6 year old PC will be fine.
- Comment on call of the void 7 months ago:
This reply is more of a light hearted nitpick and not replying to the substance of your comment but…
For example, when I say “this apple is red”, anyone reading this can easily visualize a red apple because of your experience seeing a apple.
To be fair you said anyone, not everyone, but as someone with aphantasia I can’t relate to this. I can’t visualize an apple.
- Comment on Jump Ship Demo is Live! 8 months ago:
It has Platinum in ProtonDB for now. Definitely appears to be playable on Linux.
- Comment on And I was just about to register :/ 8 months ago:
If I have to use an ad blocker to make a site remotely usable (and you have to to make it usable), then I don’t even want to give them traffic.