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 New Year's broadcasts behind paywalls 5 days ago:
I didn’t realise they have unprotected streams 👀
- Comment on New Year's broadcasts behind paywalls 5 days ago:
If you’re not getting 100% full strength signal, it is literally unwatchable.
It depends… Sometimes it’s terrible, while other times even low signal strength is fine. I only get around 65% signal strength and 75% signal quality for one channel (ABC, I think?), and it still works fine with no stuttering.
I use a HDHomeRun TV tuner, so I can place the antenna where I get the best signal, and the HDHomeRun transmits it over my LAN.
- Comment on New Year's broadcasts behind paywalls 5 days ago:
At least NBC is a broadcast station, so you can watch it for free using an antenna. I have an indoor antenna in my garage, connected to a HDHomeRun.
- Comment on Pizza styles 5 days ago:
THE CHEESE IS UNDER THE SAUCE
- Comment on Self-hosting with an old laptop 1 week ago:
You’ll need to use a VPN that supports port forwarding. You could use a cheap VPS instead.
- Comment on Self-hosting with an old laptop 1 week ago:
Where I live in California, electricity can be over US$0.60/kWh during peak summer time. Thankfully I have solar panels that offset most of the cost. I’m from Australia which also has high electricity prices.
- Comment on Self-hosting with an old laptop 1 week ago:
Should I run the server over a VPN
Do you mean for you to access it remotely, or do you mean to expose it publicly via the VPN (so that you can have publicly-exposed services while hiding your home IP)?
- Comment on This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers 2 weeks ago:
you can also do the exact same thing with any other HikVision camera too
Most people that install security cameras don’t directly connect them to the internet like this. A company that’s installing them at scale should be aware of this.
Definitely seems like a configuration issue to not require any at all
Modern Hikvision and Dahua cameras don’t have a default password. They require you to set a strong password during initial setup.
In general, a lot of electronics have moved away from generic default passwords, as many jurisdictions ban them now. Any modern device should either require you to set the password during initial setup, or have a randomly-generated password printed on a sticker under the device.
- Comment on wtf facebook 2 weeks ago:
Click the three dots button and select the option to report it. Those reports are actually monitored.
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
I’ll try it out! I totally forgot it exists.
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
I was using LibreOffice Calc on my work PC with a Threadripper CPU, and somehow it still chugs at times. Scrolling was very laggy at times. I ended up using Google Sheets instead, which is way more responsive for me. If it was for personal use, I’d probably try IronCalc
- Comment on This whole community lately be like 3 weeks ago:
I’m out of the loop lol why is there so much corn in here today?
- Comment on Actual theft 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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... 3 weeks 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... 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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... 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
How do you eat sleep?
- Comment on lemmy.world down... 4 weeks 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... 4 weeks 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... 4 weeks 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... 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks ago:
Their deep investigations are so good. I liked their documentary about GPU smuggling in China.
- Comment on Here we go again... 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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.