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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

I learned Python after I already knew C, and I will forever be grateful for that.

I took an Operating Systems class in undergrad whose first assignment was to implement a simple web server in C, and it was fine. Later, I took the same prof's grad-level class and had to do basically the same assignment again, and all I could think was "wow, this is incredibly tedious: this whole thing would be literally two lines of Python." Python absolutely ruined my patience for writing C (or at least, for writing C socket code that has to manually juggle IPv4 and v6 struct addrinfos and whatnot).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Ha, you haven't lived [in Hell] until you've tried to maintain a Jython build, with Python package dependencies (not just Java ones), in a production environment, in the 2020s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

In America, the way it's supposed to work is that your parents aren't supposed to need your financial support.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I read that in Boss Nass's voice.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Phone: rings
Me: "better pause Youtube so that I can answer without noise in the background"
Youtube: plays ad with even louder audio
Me:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Which one of those do I pick if I actually want to be logged in and have Youtube keep track of my watch history, automatically synchronized between devices?

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13254852

Theres none so blind as those who don't want to see.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The Adventures of Captain Proton from Star Trek: Voyager!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

IIRC the movie from Home Alone 2 was the sequel: Angels with Even Filthier Souls.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's kind of like the piccolo thing in Star Trek the next generation with picard.

I highly doubt the resemblance was coincidental.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Last I checked, Sceptre TVs are price-competitive with other brands, if not even cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (4 children)

LOL, imagine thinking that TVs are actually subsidized and that the spyware isn't just extra pure profit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Alternatively, Hawking proved that he was unpopular and nobody wanted to go to his party.

 

(Title shamelessly stolen from this comment in the crossposted [email protected] thread.)

 

So I just bought my kids a digital piano for Christmas and I'm looking for free beginner sheet music -- not even pirated stuff, just free-as-in-freedom (Creative Commons, Public Domain, etc.) stuff -- and I run across OpenScore. It claims that it "aims to digitize and liberate all public domain sheet music" and that "the OpenScore editions will be released into the Public Domain using Creative Commons Zero, allowing unlimited copying, adapting and sharing. The sky is the limit, without having to pay a penny."

But then you click on one of the links to go to the actual sheet music, and it takes you to musescore.com, which won't actually let you download anything without creating an account (which is 100% NOT "liberated," whether you have to pay money or not). What in the bait-and-switch fraud is this shit?!

At this point, I want to download every single goddamn Creative Commons or Public Domain piece of music MuseScore has, just as a matter of principle. But how?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/13854229

A mum had to take action to prove not every road in Wales has a 20mph speed limit after an insurance firm voided her son's insurance policy.

Welsh television presenter Jess Davies explained that her younger brother saw his car insurance voided as a result of the vehicle's black box recording his speed and seemingly deciding he was constantly exceeding the speed limit. It meant their mother had to take some unusual steps to show the firm that not every road in Wales now had a 20mph speed limit.

 

I'm just getting into home automation, so I don't really know what I'm doing. I care a lot about supporting open standards (which is partly why I never bothered with it until now that Matter is coming out), but I also very much like the idea of having everything I own running Open Source firmware instead of whatever potentially untrustworthy stuff it comes with.

So anyway, I got some TP-Link Kasa smart plugs (KP125MP2), but have since been doing some more research and found that some folks don't think there's actually much, if any, advantage to Matter devices compared to older wi-fi devices that've been flashed with Tasmota or ESPHome. So now I've also got some Sonoff S31 smart plugs and a USB to serial adapter to flash them with, and I'm wondering which set of things I should actually keep.

I kinda feel like I need to try installing and using them to know which I prefer, but I'd also feel bad about returning stuff after it's got provisioning info stored on it (or worse, flashed firmware). So maybe I can decide based on advice y'all give me instead?

 

...and more importantly, where is that setting stored so I can turn it on for all of them?

I realize this varies according to OS, so I'm specifically asking about my Turnkey Nextcloud and Turnkey Mediaserver containers, which are based on Debian Linux. It's perhaps worth noting that my Turnkey Syncthing container, which uses the same base OS, does register its hostname with my DHCP server. I've gone digging around in /etc/ etc. in each of the containers, but so far I haven't found any configuration differences that would explain the difference in behavior. (Also, if it matters, my DHCP server is the one included with OpenWRT and running on my router.)

By the way, I'm aware that the best answer might be "you have an X/Y problem and you really ought to use static IPs and/or setup a reverse proxy," but I haven't gotten to that point yet. Besides, I still want to satisfy my curiosity about DHCP and hostnames regardless.

EDIT: to be clear, this post is about LXC containers running directly in Proxmox, NOT Docker.

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