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NeoNachtwaechter

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NeoNachtwaechter ,

Even when the driver is fully responsible, the assistance software must work properly in all situations. And it must be tested fully.

In case the software makes severe mistakes surprisingly, normal drivers maybe don't have a chance to regain control. Normal drivers are not like educated test drivers.

Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

I recently learned about Home Assistant here on Lemmy. It looks like a replacement for Google Home, etc. However, it requires an entire hardware installation. Proprietary products just use a simple app to manage and control devices, so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement? The...

NeoNachtwaechter ,

The idea of Home Assistant is not to be a replacement for anything. It rather connects all things. It is a smart home control center, or hub.

Compare it to a Homematic, or maybe Aquara hub, etc. but still more feature rich and expandable with many more protocols and device categories.

Proprietary single switches etc. use only their own protocol.

Google Home is limited to a few protocols.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

I can tell your political affiliation by looking out of my window: If the clouds are moving to the left...

/s

NeoNachtwaechter ,

So, it would block the exit of that car wash because it's playing dead and sulking?

Then you need to ask some random people to help you push it away to the side, and everyone gets a good laugh ...😅

NeoNachtwaechter ,

You'd rather reimburse the car wash company for two hours of that unusable place?

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Still more correct to not call it "work" but "slavery" in that country.

What to be aware of before opening port 25 on a postfix Raspberry Pi?

I have a raspberry pi running postfix. I Realised unless I open port 25 I absolutely cannot receive emails (I have 587 open and can send but not receive them). However I heard there are scaries online which someone could potentially send emails from your server without consent. I believe as well my ISP doesn't block port 25. Is...

NeoNachtwaechter ,

It's time to learn the difference between a domain and a dynamic IP.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

IMHO a RasPi is just not reliable enough. Your internet connection is just not reliable enough.
You are going to lose some of your incoming mail and NOT notice it, unless you have somebody who hosts a secondary MX for your domain.

Chances are also that it's not powerful enough when some of these automated attacks come knocking.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

I have built mine this way, reusing a very old 'normal' tower case:

Take a CPU with limited TDP, like 35W or 65W. Use a passive CPU cooler. Use a semi-passive power supply that is too strong for the actual need, so it's going to stay in it's passive state all the time - they are cheaper than the real passive ones.

Then use 1 really large fan (25 or 30 cm) that goes at the side of the tower case. It turns very slow because of it's size, so it is nearly inaudible. No other fans.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Would you think i3 is enough?

Spend an hour or two at https://www.cpubenchmark.net/

NeoNachtwaechter ,

OK. Then you have to think very differently.

Decide on the case first, and it's going to dictate most of your further decisions.

For example, you cannot use a simple passive CPU cooler in a standard case without any fans, because they need some reasonable air flow all the time. I would guess you need heat pipes instead, and coolers on the outside - but I have no actual experience in that area.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Come on, you have been able to pay the price of that Mercedes in the first place.

These 2500 are not going to hurt.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

in any weather condition

LOL. Weather is probably the smallest of the problems they have solved.

German car makers have a habit of actually testing all their models in all weather conditions, routinely, around the globe.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

They may do so. I have no mercy for them.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Would you use zfs and raid-z when there is only 1 file on your disk?

Would you build 4 ticket counters when your concert hall has only 1 seat? Would you build a 4 lane highway when there is only 1 car in your country?

:-)

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Ok :-)

Then you probably shouldn't optimize it for the use of many files (which is the default, of course).

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Now, that I think of it: we haven't had our 2-3 weekly battery revolutions yet, and now it's Friday already. I mean, what is wrong with all you battery researchers?

NeoNachtwaechter ,

electricity-based heat?

The most expensive heat, so probably not feasable.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

It's the same. It's not because of some losses somewhere on the way. Electricity is simply by far the most expensive form of energy.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

arguing that it’s not real consent if the only alternative is shelling out yet another monthly subscription fee

Very true, and hopefully many other verdicts will follow, like "It’s not real consent if....this or that.

This dark pattern has started to spread everywhere already.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

fifty

I can hear PayPal giggling

NeoNachtwaechter ,

If there is still one option, is not it still an option? It is out of choices, but not out of options, right?

That's a little bit like saying "Only your head stays here, all the rest is totally free to stay or go or whatever you like"

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Those people who never signed up for any of their services yet are still being tracked across websites via those social sharing buttons and the like

It is plain illegal what META is doing there. They just haven't been dragged to court so far.

But with these buttons, the websites which includes them are offenders, too.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

if I could pay a privacy fee to Alphabet and not be logged and data-mined, I’d do that.

It's called Google Workspace and it's decently nice.

But you are deluding yourself if you think that your data will not be "mined" there.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Beware the high voltage! :)

Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....

NeoNachtwaechter ,

"but some are more equal than others"
-- George Orwell

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Same as Siri when she was new :)

NeoNachtwaechter ,

What a bullshit show

NeoNachtwaechter ,

to deliver several million tons of cargo

This is repeated a few times in the story. It made me think about two things:

  1. They are producing endless amounts of CO2. Here, on this planet.

  2. He is trying to secure the profit of that space cargo company.

Best resources to learn more about networking

I have been exploring the world of home servers/self-hosting for a little over a year now, and feel like I have at a decent understanding of a lot of things that go into this. The one thing I am not remotely comfortable with yet is networking. It's like a foreign language to me....

NeoNachtwaechter ,

First the basics: the book "Computer Networks" by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

If you have read and understood it all, continue with https://www.openwrt.org/

NeoNachtwaechter ,

This is so terribly inhuman. Makes me want to vomit.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

There isn't much room for such considerations when you are lying in the trench.

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

NeoNachtwaechter ,

My TV set is like a dumb monitor: HDMI in, colorful image out, basta.

Not even audio. And of course it does not get any internet connection. And I don't feed it any caviar.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Replacing a working excel "solution" with access is like replacing an old rickety hammer with a bigger old rickety hammer.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Access is an enterprise class solution

Don't mix it up with Acetone

NeoNachtwaechter ,

No federal deepfake law exists

Does it need a deepfake law??

"Federal" tells us that this has happened in the US and A.

So, don't you Usamericans have any basic human rights that tell everybody that this is illegal right from start?

NeoNachtwaechter ,

LOL one more of these guys who think the world inside Usa's borders is the bigger part, and the outside part is negligible.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

I know a turkish jewellery dealer, and his gold is the most pure that has ever existed in the whole world. I know for sure that it's true, because he has been saying so all the time!

NeoNachtwaechter ,

AI is creating fake XY, and that is problems, problems, problems everywhere...

During the last decades, IT guys and scientists have always dreamed about using AI for good things. But now AI has become so much better at creating fake things than good things :-(

NeoNachtwaechter ,

I don't dare to ask why your truth has been naked before...

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Have any AI companies tried using this technique I wonder?

Yes, I have read that they want to do something like that. Stamp all images that their AI has created.

But of course it won't be hard to remove the stamp, if you want to.

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

We all know that these accusations are true.

So much so that I need to ask: is it really illegal to do all these things?

NeoNachtwaechter ,

I’ve wondered that in the past

Well, now you have your answers here in all detail, but it seems you didn't read them.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Because I asked a different question than you asked. How old are you?

NeoNachtwaechter ,

This is the way.

Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems

After self hosting several services for a few users, with SSO, backups, hardware issues etc, I really appreciate how good the IT was in my old company. Everything was connected, smooth, slick and you could tell it was secure. I had very few issues and when I did, they were quickly solved. Doing this all at scale for thousands of...

NeoNachtwaechter ,

My advice for this company: fire 2/3 of all IT staff (including managers). Then tell the remaining ones to cut off unneccessary things and do it better in the future.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

So, good journalism is dead? This article is a perfect example for it.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Because democracy needs journalism.

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