dan
@dan@upvote.au
Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Coding since 1998.
Developer at Meta.
.NET Foundation member. C# fan
d.sb
Mastodon: @dan@d.sb
- Comment on This whole community lately be like 4 days ago:
I’m out of the loop lol why is there so much corn in here today?
- Comment on Actual theft 4 days ago:
I think most of us are like that
Tech-savvy Lemmy users (and their friends) are a small portion of the population though. Plenty of people pay for cable TV, IPTV, or a similar service, as well as VOD platforms like Netflix.
- Comment on Actual theft 4 days ago:
Best Buy has been one of the best places to buy PC components like GPUs from (as long as they’re in stock), since they don’t mark up prices above the manufacturer’s pricing, and they price match with Microcenter in case Microcenter’s price is lower.
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 6 days ago:
I’m relaying through an MXRoute account but I’ve used SMTP2Go too and they have a decent free plan with 1000 emails per month.
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 1 week ago:
It doesn’t detect the settings
Autodiscovery needs DNS SRV entries to be added for each domain. The legacy Exchange- and Outlook-specific way was a file at
/autodiscover/autodiscover.xmlbut I don’t know if email clients still use that.I have to ignore the certificate warning
I’m not familiar with Stalwart but you should be able to use Let’s Encrypt certificates.
- Comment on How customer service jobs be 1 week ago:
This reminds me of a restaurant we have in Australia called “Lord of the Fries”.
So far I haven’t been able to find anything as good in the USA.
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 1 week ago:
I self-host my emails, but use an SMTP relay for sending. IMO, the interesting part of self hosting email is the storage
- Comment on When you eat too much oats and sleep 1 week ago:
How do you eat sleep?
- Comment on lemmy.world down... 1 week ago:
Yeah, a Black Friday sale.
They do have some deals always available, but the specs aren’t as good as the Black Friday ones: greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale
RackNerd also have some deals that are always available on their site. .
- Comment on lemmy.world down... 1 week ago:
I’m running mine on a ~$30/year VPS. It’s a small instance (just me) but it federates with all the major instances which means it still does a bunch of work (since it has to handle incoming posts and comments from federated servers).
For a medium-sized instance, I imagine you could get pretty far with a single <$100/month dedicated server from Hetzner or a similar provider.
- Comment on lemmy.world down... 1 week ago:
Some servers have ECC. If you get a cheap one (like a Hetzner auction server), it’s less likely to have ECC. ECC protects against bitflips, but it won’t help if the RAM is starting to die. ECC isn’t magic - it just has an extra 8 bits of parity data per 64 bits of data. It still uses the same type of RAM chips.
- Comment on lemmy.world down... 1 week ago:
If you want to try alternate UIs, you might be interested in trying Photon and Alexandrite.
- Comment on WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN] 1 week ago:
Their deep investigations are so good. I liked their documentary about GPU smuggling in China.
- Comment on Here we go again... 1 week ago:
Still up here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Maybe only some regions are affected.
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 3 weeks ago:
The healthcare system in the US isn’t great, but you do get a decent experience if you have an employer that offers good insurance. My employer pays most of the cost of my health insurance. I pay around $200/month for my wife and I, but that’s pre-tax money, and the plan is great for US standards. $15 for doctor visits and $100 maximum for ER visits.
In Australia we pay a 1.5% tax to fund the public health care system, so for a $60k salary that’s $900/year.
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 3 weeks ago:
An important note missing from this article (but included in others) is that Jeff Atwood, the founder of Stack Overflow, donated $2.5 million to Mastodon. That’s likely what the $1 million came from.
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 3 weeks ago:
Why don’t you like people being paid for their work?
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 3 weeks ago:
us software salaries are insanely high compared to the rest of the world, because the cost of living in SV is insanely high.
I moved from Australia to the San Francisco Bay Area. My starting income was maybe 3x what I was getting paid in Australia, but the cost of living definitely wasn’t 3x higher. Some things (like electronics and food) were cheaper too, at least until inflation and tariffs made everything go up.
- Comment on Epstein’s brother Mark asking Steve Bannon if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba” - or Bill Clinton to the rest of us. 4 weeks ago:
Are they all from the same sender? I wonder if they just have Outlook configured to set the importance to high for every email.
- Comment on Ordinary americans are facing huge electricity bills because of AI Data centers owned by Amazon, Google, Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
make them pay for the cost of adding the additional capacity that they require
Isn’t this what they’re attempting to do, at least partially? Most of the big tech companies are funding development of nuclear power plants.
- Comment on Epstein’s brother Mark asking Steve Bannon if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba” - or Bill Clinton to the rest of us. 4 weeks ago:
Importance: High
- Comment on I'm coming for you 5 weeks ago:
I wasn’t familiar with the YouTuber since this was the only video of his I’ve ever seen. It came up in my recommendations one day.
- Comment on TPU v7, Google's answer to Nvidia's Blackwell is nearly here 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if Google will ever release a new version of the Coral, with some of the newer TPU tech.
(yes, I know Google handed that off to Asus…)
- Comment on I'm coming for you 5 weeks ago:
I remember watching a long YouTube video about someone trying to find the origin of this picture, but I can’t find it any more.
- Comment on natural environment conditions 5 weeks ago:
this is a quality post.
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost 5 weeks ago:
I’m 95% sure the settlement with the publishers would have included a clause requiring the Internet Archive to delete all “infringing” material in their possession.
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost 1 month ago:
I have mixed feelings. I’m glad they survived the lawsuits, and now they can spend their funding on their actual goals rather than it going towards lawyers, but it’s also really sad that they had to delete so much of their archive - over half a million books, and a bunch of recordings from their Great 78 Project (which was archiving 300k+ music albums released between ~1900 and 1950).
- Comment on "I just want to say, once more, for the record, that this whole good/bad system is bullshirt." 1 month ago:
- Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea 1 month ago:
This is a great post that I hadn’t seen before. Thanks for the link!
- Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea 1 month ago:
I feel the same about software development. For personal projects, I’ll often use a technology stack I’m very familiar with, like C# and MySQL on a Debian Linux server. Maybe not the fanciest, but they’re proven, reliable technologies that have been around for a long time, and will likely still be around a long time from now.
New frameworks, libraries, and languages pop up all the time, but some of the ecosystems move way too quickly. I have some Node.js sites I built years ago that I can’t even run any more without major changes.
Relevant: expatsoftware.com/…/happiness-is-a-boring-stack.h…