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Software Terminology in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

I'd say it gets a little different with command line utilities

maybe "utility" is the appropriate term here, but I'd call something like grep a program, not an application (again

"utility" also works).

To be sure, grep is extremely powerful, but its scope is limited.

Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 150 points 3 days ago (20 children)

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Richard P. Feynman

I think the same is true for a lot of folks and self hosting. Sure, having data in our own hands is great, and yes avoiding vendor lock-in is nice. But at the end of the day, it's nice to have computers seem "fun" again.

At least, that's my perspective.

TIL the generic but world famous 'Happy Birthday to You' song was actually copyrighted until 2016 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That's what I heard about Chevy's, too.

What do movies always get wrong about your job/hobby? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hobby 1: Ballroom dancing

No I'm pretty sure Strictly Ballroom is a completely accurate portrayal of ballroom dancing.

Selfhosting on old MSI laptop in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Whatever you decide for your laptop, I'm a proponent of a barebones off-site setup if you're trying for 3-2-1 backup or similar.

I use a raspberry pi 3 with a single HD (ZFS) retaining some number of daily/weekly/monthly snapshots. Daily rsync, everything over WireGuard+VPS (TailScale would work too).

Writing code in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

from stdlib.h import cout

Wait this looks wrong, shit...

Vibebugger in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Anything can use it, but I think by convention it's used for http on a non-privileged port.

3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? in c/[email protected]

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

Same

rsync to a pi 3 with a (single) ZFS drive at family's house. Retain some daily/weekly/monthly snapshots.

I have a (free) VPS with static IPv4 which is how I connect everything.

Both the VPS and the remote site have limited network speed (I think 50Mbps for VPS), so the initial sync was done sneakernet (well..."airplane net"). Nightly rsync is no problem bandwidth-wise, and is mostly just any new videos I've uploaded to my local Immich instance.

Programmers then and now in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It is "backwards" from some other commands

usually you run copy/rsync/link from source to destination, but with tar the destination (tarball) is specified before the source (directory/files).

That, and the flags not needing dashes always just throws me for a loop.

And the icing on the cake is that I don't use tar for tarring that often, so I lose all muscle memory (untaring a tgz or tar.bz2 is frequent enough that I can usually get that right at least...).

My dearest Lemmy, what is the appliance you have the most beef with? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I think some commercial TVs might do what you want.