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lemann

@lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Hey 👋 I’m Lemann: mark II

I like tech, bicycles, and nature.

Otherwise known as; @lemann and @lemann

Dancing Parrot wearing sunglasses

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lemann ,

as a dev I absolutely love the free scrolling wheel, and the ability to quickly switch between multiple devices. to top it all off, the mx master has the most reliable and consistent surface tracking I've ever come across on a mouse

lemann ,

Aside from my linux macbook, the steam deck trackpad is one of the best trackpads I've ever used. The "taptic engine" (don't know the generic term) simulated clicks and feedback on the deck's trackpad feel so much more refined compared to the standard tactile button used in the original steam controller. Being able to adjust the click pressure level too is a nice bonus.

I just wish the Deck trackpad was better at ignoring finer movements closer to the click threshold, like a standard trackpad - likely something that could be added with a future update I guess?

lemann ,

Somewhat already exists, called Fediseer

There are a few other instances that subscribe to lemmy.world's censures list on there

lemann ,

I picked up Grayjay so I can actually watch early access videos from creators I follow on Patreon. I honestly love how it seamlessly integrates multiple services around creators. Also supports Nebula, and IMO provides a nicer experience compared to the official app.

Personally I still use NewPipe (Tubular fork) for my daily viewing just because I kind of prefer that UI

lemann ,

I just made both gestures an upvote lol

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

lemann ,

DDG has an experimental wikipedia "AI" that pops up near wikipedia results, but theres a button you have to click manually to generate the summary AFAIK

lemann ,

Good.

My VPS provider also migrated away from VMWare - got an email saying VMs would be down temporarily during the move, and the main website no longer contains any references to the virtualization tech. I miss my /64 IPV6 😭 but i'll happily give that up if it means Broadcom's dumpster fire comes crashing down as big customers pull the plug and migrate

lemann ,

I used to use MQTT, static_status and Healthchecks.io, and have that data passed through to Home Assistant, but it started to get pretty cumbersome as the amount of machines I had grew.

I now use just Zabbix and HealthchecksIO. I did need to spend some time writing new templates for some additional data I wanted to collect (like SMART data for SSDs that provide health metrics in non-standard attributes, and HealthchecksIO so I could see the status of various checks on my zabbix dashboard)

Zabbix also has some additional features I found appealing, like proxies that can continue recording data when the main server is down, and built in encryption. Some checks like open ports/icmp responses etc can be checked using either the local agent, the remote server, or both, which helps quickly diagnose things like firewall config issues.

I did look at some other solutions, but I wanted something integrated to hit the ground running. Mobile apps are very limited, and there is no official one to my knowledge. I use Moobix which I don't believe is FOSS - but I could be wrong there

Try each solution out and see what works best for you!

lemann ,

Some searx instances are going to get hit hard today 😅

lemann ,

By making something private, IMO you're revoking its status as an inherent right, and restricting access to only those who can afford it.

IMO the primary issue with this specifically venture funded stuff is that it'll undercut the competition for as long as possible, and then hike the prices once the competition has ceased to exist. When other recurring sources of funding are available, as it usually is with public services, this kind of thing is much less of an issue

lemann ,

The hospitals in my nearby city have their own BRT which is open to public use, and joined to the city's ticketing system. It shuttles between them and various key locations, and is of course wholly subsidized for the intended users.

Despite being the only BRT here it pretty much goes everywhere it should, skipping the usual traffic, and as a result gets a lot of use.

If the users were limited to the regular transportation I think they would just all drive - while there are a lot of routes here they're not entirely pleasant to use IMO and almost always get stuck in traffic

lemann , (edited )

The !electronics community would be a better fit for this post IMO

That said this looks interesting, and seems really competitively priced when compared to other similar thermal cameras like the Flir One Gen 3. This measures a very wide temperature range too, from -20°C to 400°C within ±2°C, whereas the Gen 3 tops out at 120°C.

The 80x62 resolution is OK for this application IMO, the Gen 3 is similar at 80x60.

I wouldn't go recommending one of these to a "casual" user though, it's very much a development product. Non-casual users could probably 3d print a case and get on just fine with the demo apps IMO, and for those users this would probably worth its weight in gold, given how expensive thermal imaging usually is.

Given how closely its priced to radar presence sensors like the Aqara FP2, and the inclusion of I2C for comms, I think this is going to have some appeal to DIY home automation enthusiasts too, especially if it gets supported by open source projects like ESPHome

Technical docs: https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/Thermal_Camera_HAT

Edit: I should also mention that there are much cheaper options on sites like AliExpress if you just want something cheap to use via usb-c - the advantages this sensor has are heavily dev focused IMO and might not make sense for most users (e.g. documentation, i2c comms, product integration support)

lemann ,

Yepp I agree lol, coverage about him/his companies gets old really fast...

Even worse when its stuff like laying off the one of his companies' most profitable business units over a childish disagreement 🤦‍♂️ just to reverse the decision after reporters start spamming his antics everywhere, leading to more spam.

Feel like he likes to see his name in the news or something, very tiring IMO

lemann ,

IMO more accurate presence detection. Common sensors like PIR and cheaper doppler radar types can detect when there's motion, but not if a user is present but not moving in the detection area (e.g. sleeping or sitting). There's also open source projects that can track bluetooth wearables & phones to know who specifically is in a room, but these aren't able to detect people with no devices, say guests and kids.

The preferred approach at the moment is a combination of sensors to cover motion and person detection separately, which comes at a cost, both on your pocket and the time needed to get it working suitably for your needs, or maybe one of the more expensive radar sensors like the FP2 that can detect where in a space is occupied with higher accuracy than more affordable alternatives

The thermal cam is roughly in the same price range as the FP2 - however since it has I2C, something cheap like an ESP8266 can be used to turn it into a WiFi based presence detection sensor. Something like an ESP32 could be used to turn it into a presence detector and wearable tracker, negating the need for another separate sensor entirely.

Something like this would probably be quite close to plug and play for someone DIY focused, and wouldn't have the same problem as radar being able to see through walls to different areas, although this is somewhat solved by surrounding the rear of the sensor in foil with caveats.

I'm interested in how it performs outdoors in rain though, a lot of existing affordable sensors (except PIR) struggle a little in wet conditions, with doppler based ones not detecting anything

lemann ,

shudders thinking about SAO

lemann ,

Freetube, piped, invidious work great on desktop too

lemann ,

If the Humane could recognise speech on-device, and didn't require its own data plan, I'd be reasonably interested, since I don't really like using my phone for structuring my day.

I'd like a wearable that I can brain dump to, quickly check things without needing to unlock my phone, and keep on top of schedule. Sadly for me it looks like I'll need to go the DIY route with an esp32 board and an e-ink display, and drop any kind of stt + tts plans

lemann ,

16 years old? That thermostat has sure had a run, must have been designed pretty well to last this long without some electronic failure.

Assuming it's cloud connected, anyone aware whether it got updates for the newer versions of TLS and root certificates? As an example I'm aware quite a lot of android and similar devices from that era have expired certificates now, and outdated/vulnerable SSL libraries...

Edit: Edit example

lemann ,

The Telemetry collection service does a good job of that already, especially on laptops where it wakes them from sleep, and eats through the battery while idle in a backpack. I've been stung by this many times since Windows 8 - I now unplug then hibernate my last remaining Windows laptop, work-issued.

Also moved as much personal gear as possible over to various Linux distros a while ago, except my PC where some games cannot detect my sim peripherals & freetrack emulation under WINE

lemann ,

Most likely this IMO, with all the driver and executable signing/integrity checks nowadays I doubt they can get away with patching the system files a la Windows XP style.

lemann ,

Boing

When the plugdoor hinge consultant is asked how to spell Boeing

maegul , to Fediverse
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People are actually on BlueSky

There's now a decent measurement of user numbers (https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_total.html) ...

They've got about 1.6M MAUs ...
& 0.8M Weekly unique users & 0.340M Daily.

That's not nothing!

Roughly double mastodon and 60% more than the whole fediverse (by MAUs, see fedidb.org).

Bluesky is quite "international" with large Japanese and Brazilian popltns, and there's real attrition happening IMO.

Still, let the protocol wars begin I suppose?

@fediverse

lemann ,

They don't speak the same language as Lemmy and Mastodon, so can't really federate with anyone else at the moment

lemann ,

The only self hosted NVR software I could find for my parents that has an accompanying phone app doesn't have a Linux version: it's Windows-only and the desktop GUI is required to set it up

I personally use Motion and Home Assistant at home, but I wouldn't set up the same for other non-techies, IMO no point making yourself tech support where it isn't necessary

lemann ,

Yepp I know - my preference leaned towards the server edition as it doesn't include the unnecessary UWP apps installed with Win10/11, and has a much lighter footprint in comparison, resulting in less resource usage overall.

If these were Windows 7 or Windows XP days, a professional edition install would have sufficed for me tbh... but with all the Metro UI and additional telemetry in Windows editions after 8, it doesn't seem worth the hassle.

When I need to log in and fix something now I really wouldn't want to stare at a "please wait, we're upgrading your apps" because some UWP update occured, or have the telemetry service gobble up idle CPU

lemann ,

looks at username

Hallucination checks out /s

lemann ,

This is your stop, you can disembark the maglev! 😁

lemann ,

This may be a better fit in !business instead IMO

lemann ,

Some third party apps allow you to import your Steam OTP, such as Gnome Authenticator

However to obtain it in the first place you need to either use SteamDesktopAuthenticator (GitHub), an android emulator on your PC, or a rooted device to export your key...

lemann ,

Unironically this...

Passkeys don't work on my rooted device - they seemingly set up correctly, but sites like GH claim your device passkey doesn't exist when you try to actually login. When you go to the affected site's account settings to add the device as a passkey again, an error of some kind claims the passkey already exists 🤷‍♂️

Deleting/re-adding has no effect. Using FF with device biometric passkey auth

Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)

A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.

lemann ,

My disappointment when I realised "4k" was only 2160p 😔

lemann ,

Thank you all for your service! Practically every video I watch on YT nowadays has segments already completed

lemann ,

I was curious about this too and had a little look myself, all I can find is that other companies interested in interopability are implementing MLS encryption instead of implementing the Signal protocol in their apps.

Can't find any info on Signal's blog about interest in adopting MLS encryption, or considering interopability with Meta apps that already use (or may use) the Signal protocol... unless I've missed something or been looking in the wrong place

lemann ,

DDG queries can't really be written the same way you'd write one in Google if you're after effective results. It'll take some time to get used to it, tbh I was using DDG alongside Google until I fully switched.

lemann ,

Grammar, I've noticed I get much better results if I word things more directly instead of like a question

lemann ,

The policies at my work are really backwards IMO.

I have full administrative access to our prod hypervisor (including inside the VMs running on it)... but not my own dev machine 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

lemann ,

I would suggest using any cloud storage provider with a third party client, that automatically encrypts your files before uploading them, ensuring the cloud provider does not have any kind of access to your keys.

I personally use gocryptfs then mirror that to B2, but IIRC rclone and some other third party alternatives have built-in pre-upload encryption options that are easier to setup and use

lemann ,

I'm very guilty of this, especially after someone close to me was assaulted by a predatory human being.

I don't think there's any easy way back when self esteem & self comfort are destroyed like that either, and just worsens the "competition" thing.

Fully agree with your last point

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

lemann ,

Honestly I was in the same boat until I got a Fairphone...

And now I'm in the same boat again. Honestly cannot wait until GNU/Linux mobile devices are viable 🙏

lemann ,

Ubuntu -> Mandriva -> Zorin -> Ubuntu -> Debian

Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed (mastodon.social)

For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807

lemann ,

This is very, very tempting lol

Pixelfed

lemann ,

Yepp I agree, especially on that last point, the name choice is a bit unusual for something that is just a third party frontend.

lemann ,

If anyone is interested in mitigation, the only way around this AFAIK is to start with a brand new domain, only use wildcard certs (with DNS validation), and don't bundle multiple renewals into a single cert.

Also, don't enter your domain or related IP address into dns reverse engineering tools (like dnsdumpster), and check certificate transparency logs (https://crt.sh) to see what information related to your cert renewals has been published.

This won't stop automated bots from scanning your ip for domains, but should significantly reduce the amount of bots that discover them

lemann ,

Yepp sorry - what I meant was bundling multiple different root domains, e.g. example.com & example1234567.org in the same cert.

I currently do as you mentioned above, renewing with just one root bundled with its accompanying subdomain wildcard.

lemann ,

Something is wrong with the tagginator in this thread, seems to be creating dupe posts every 1 min?

@db0

lemann ,

May be a better fit in !mildlyinfuriating or similar

lemann ,

Curious about your reasoning, especially as I bought a .dev for myself a while back (via a different registrar)

If it was in regards to the .zip TLD then I guess that is understandable, but .dev seems harmless IMO

lemann ,

Not exactly IMO, as containers themselves can simultaneously access devices and filesystems from the host system natively (such as VAAPI devices used for hardware encoding & decoding) or even the docker socket to control the host system's Docker daemon.

They also can launch directly into a program you specify, bypassing any kind of init system requirement.

OC's suggestion of a chroot jail is the closest explanation I can think of too, if things were to be simplified

lemann ,

I use certbot on only a single one of my oldest projects that has been going for almost a decade.

For everything else I use acme.sh because it works so well and integrates with a ton of DNS providers. The one time I had an issue, it was already fixed in a PR, so I just checked out that fixed version and used it for renewals until it was merged in.

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