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 Are there any FOSS NAS servers for a Marvell arm SOC? 1 week ago:
Do you know exactly which SoC it uses?
It’s probably a 32-bit ARM processor. Most NAS-focused operating systems have removed support for these, if they even supported them at all. OpenMediaVault recently removed support for 32-bit ARM and only support 64-bit now: www.openmediavault.org/?p=4002.
Having said that, some OSes still support them. You should be able to get Debian running if it’s an ARMv7 CPU or newer. Debian did support older ones, but they’re being phased out and no longer build an installer for them.
- Comment on Missed call 2 weeks ago:
Older people do this a lot. Either their full name, or “Lastname residence”
The scary thing these days is that someone needs just a few samples of your voice to be able to clone it using AI. I suspect that scammers will do that, if they’re not already doing it. We’re going to get to a point where we can’t trust people are who they say they are.
- Comment on Nice to hear, even if it's false hope 2 weeks ago:
Whoever wrote this message definitely knew what they were doing.
- Comment on Missed call 2 weeks ago:
Some mobile networks have spam protection that’s enabled automatically.
You could also have a “clean” number, especially if you don’t use your phone number anywhere haven’t answered a spam call before, and nobody used it before you (or the previous user was a long time ago).
Spam callers can’t robodial literally every number, so they rely on lists of phone numbers that are known to be good/active, for example if they’ve answered a spam call before, if the number has been in a data leak, etc.
- Comment on Nothing is funnier than The Onion taking over Infowars and making rainbow merchandise. 4 weeks ago:
They really are turning the frogs gay
- Comment on Wack 1 month ago:
We still call them weeds. It’s called a whipper snipper because it snips weeds by whipping them.
- Comment on About to lose my shit 1 month ago:
I have the opposite problem. It tells me to return the item to the bagging area even though I didn’t remove anything. I end up throwing my keys or shopping bag or something into the bagging area to make it happy
- Comment on Wack 1 month ago:
We call it a “whipper snipper” in Australia lol
- Comment on The Real Ned Flanders 1 month ago:
I want more of these thanks.
- Comment on I'm literally just vibing 1 month ago:
I still don’t understand the three month discounts lol. Seems like a bunch of insurance plans have it. With my insurance, you can either get one month, or three months’ worth for the exact same price as one month, so I’m not sure why anyone would ever get refills monthly.
I’m very thankful that my employers covers almost all the cost of my (and my wife’s) insurance. My wife is self-employed so it’d be pretty expensive if she needed to get her own health insurance.
- Comment on I'm literally just vibing 1 month ago:
Wow, nice! Keep it up.
- Comment on I'm literally just vibing 1 month ago:
Ah that sucks. I didn’t know that. My wife uses Zepbound and thankfully our insurance covers it so it’s only $10/month.
We’re Aussies living in the USA, and GLP-1 meds aren’t covered by Australia’s public health care system yet, so right now it’s actually cheaper in the USA than in Australia. In Australia, medications covered by the public health care system (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) are a maximum of $S25 for most people, and $7.70 for low-income families.
- Comment on I'm literally just vibing 1 month ago:
I want to give myself glp1 drugs, but i didn’t want to pay $1000 for a dose, so i want to buy it overseas. Illegal.
I’m not sure of the efficacy of the pills vs the injections, but in the USA you can get Wegovy pills for $149/month now, which AFAIK is roughly the same price as other countries.
- Comment on no mirrors here 1 month ago:
please sir may I have a few more pixels?
- Comment on False Fronts 1 month ago:
In suburban areas of the US and Canada, mixed use buildings are generally not allowed.
Mixed use meaning retail space one the ground level with apartments/ condos above.
Really? I’ve seen plenty of “luxury” apartment buildings with an overpriced fancy grocery store on the bottom floor.
- Comment on Do they allow it? 2 months ago:
- Comment on 463 games, probably only played 1/10th of them 2 months ago:
I miss playable demos, where you could play part of a game to see if you like it. I played so many shareware games and demo CDs when I was young.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I once worked in a team that had both an Aaron and an Erin, and it was confusing for the Americans since they pronounce both names very similarly (in Australia we pronounce them differently). I think Aaron ended up being referred to as “A A Ron”
- Comment on Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue 2 months ago:
This is why I’m glad my TV has some inputs on the side. When wall mounting it, I ran HDMI cables for all the inputs on the back, to avoid having to go back there again.
- Comment on relatable 2 months ago:
If you’ve been in bed for 45 minutes and haven’t been able to fall asleep, you should get up and do something boring/uninteresting until you get tired. If you stay in bed, you’ll associate being in bed with not sleeping, and it’ll just get worse.
If it happens a lot, it’s worth considering CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia) and getting a sleep study done (to see if you have sleep apnea).
- Comment on Is this accurate, Canadians? 2 months ago:
I’m not your buddy, friend
- Comment on Quality TV 2 months ago:
You shouldn’t wrap potatoes in foil when baking them. It makes them soggy. If you want to keep them warm then wrap them in foil after cooking.
- Comment on I'm sorry it has to be like this 2 months ago:
Those are some real late 2000s hinges on l the laptop in the photo.
- Comment on Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me. 2 months ago:
Yes! All the wheels turn! It’s nice.
- Comment on Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me. 2 months ago:
I don’t understand why so many American shopping carts have back wheels that don’t turn. It’s weird. All four wheels turn on Australian shopping carts (or “trolleys” as we call them) so you have full 360 degree motion.
- Comment on Worst day of the year 2 months ago:
I occasionally work on some dare/time libraries we use at work, so I’m going to add this meme to the code base.
- Comment on Worst day of the year 2 months ago:
And if the other country is in the opposite hemisphere, they’re adjusting the clock the other way. Daylight saving just started in California, but it ends next month in Victoria, Australia. The two states are either 17, 18, or 19 hours different depending on the time of year.
- Comment on MemeID: 421856901 2 months ago:
Out of all the shitposts in the world, this is certainly one of them.
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 2 months ago:
Mediawiki does have a WYSIWYG editor, but it’s a separate extension: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor
The benefit of Mediawiki is that anyone that’s edited Wikipedia before will know how to use it. It’s a pretty heavy piece of software though, and the learning curve is relatively high if you’ve never hosted it before.
I used Dokuwiki at my previous job, maybe 15 years ago. It worked well. It doesn’t need a database as it stores all wiki pages as plain text files on disk. I don’t know if it has a WYSIWYG editor though. I’ve never used it on a public-facing site so I’m not sure how authentication works (at my previous job, we hooked it up to Active Directory for auth).
BookStack and wiki.js are two newer ones that have good reviews, but I don’t have any experience with them.
- Comment on The duality of search engines 3 months ago:
They have a free trial account that lets you do 100 searches. It’s worth trying out at least.