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  • How many companies need such a scale, but are not able to provide it inhouse for less money?

    Everyone wants to be Netflix, but 99% of companies don't even need close to that amount of scalability. I'd argue, a significant part of projects could be run on a raspberry pi, if they'd be engineered properly.

  • Does anybody actually use trunk based development in their company?
  • If cloning a repo is an issue, you're using CI wrong. --shallow has it's purpose.

    Anyway, in my project a complete CI run including local integration tests takes about an hour. We could cut that down by running things in parallel, but we never bothered to add more runners.

    I would say, if your tests hold you back, you might want to reconsider testing. Staged testing is an option, or just reevaluate whether you really need all those test cases. Many integration tests are not really testing that much, because 95% of them overlap.

  • MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced!
  • Because Ryan wrote it like this 10 years ago and nobody bothered to rewrite it in C.

    Back then, I'd guess most developers were relatively fluent in assembly, so if there's only a small change to make, they'd just change the assembly and move on.

  • FAA bill would force the agency to craft 'real world' rules for airplane evacuations
  • What I'm wondering is, how many deaths are attributable to slow evacuation? Usually, you only hear about the great catastrophies where the entire plan crashes into a mountain and evacuation was never an option.

    But how many accidents cause a situation where quick emergency evacuations are actually needed? I have absolutely no intuition about that.

  • German court upholds AfD 'suspected' extremist status
  • Because the hurdles for being banned are intentionally very very high.

    Oh, and the authority in question (Verfassungsschutz) had a head who's a bona fide Nazi. So the agency to protect the constitution from (right wing) extremists was led by a right wing extremist.

  • lemmy stop silencing SA survivors rule
  • Tell me, exactly, how I am not meant? I'm a man, men are portrayed as universally dangerous. How am I not implied here?

    Thinking I'm not meant is wishful thinking. And it's extremely interesting, that suddenly I'm portrayed by you as a bad guy, because I say "hey, I'm not a bad guy, why do you call me that?". I explicitly mentioned the very real predators. But you ignored that.

    And thinking like yours is exactly why there's so much hate. I don't subscribe to the party line, that men have to shut up and just have to accept that they are all potentially vile beasts, and thus I have to be one of the vile beasts. Don't you see that? Do you really don't see what you're doing here? You're creating the us vs them chasm. You're alienating people because you're just now actively accusing me of being a bad guy. And yes, it's about me, because I'm a man and this meme is about men. I'm in it. Just like you are.

  • lemmy stop silencing SA survivors rule
  • And you think that's helpful?

    We're not talking about an enslaved group here, but women. Yes, disadvantaged in many areas, but far from being universally inferior in every aspect. If I'm punching up, you know, who I hit? Several women. Hell, my chancellor has been a woman for literally the majority of my life.

    Again, what does this achieve? Hostility of those who don't want to be put on the same level as rapists. Instead of blaming the very real predators for their very real crimes, they're blaming every man for being a man. That's not punching up.

  • lemmy stop silencing SA survivors rule
  • I think you fundamentally don't understand my point and choose to be insulting instead.

    Flip the meme to any other group. Jews and Muslims, for example. Would you say, it's okay for either side to imply, they'd rather be with a dangerous animal than with the human? Do you think, it's okay to say, since some Muslims historically are rabid antisemites, you'd rather be with a bear? Would you then say, every Muslim should just accept that, and if he complains, he's one of the bad guys anyway?

    And look at what you did here. Instead of actually engaging with my argument, literally called yourself "fucking awesome" and called me out for being.... Yeah, what exactly? One of "them"? You don't even know who. Yeah, the baddies, probably. Why would any of the good guys be somewhat concerned, if his entire gender is framed as being dangerous?

    You're incredibly naive.

  • lemmy stop silencing SA survivors rule
  • So discrimination is okay if it hits the right people?

    Again, an entire group is set out to be predators for no fault of their own.

    I'm portrayed as a predator, because some idiots are, and I'm supposed to view that to reflect myself, because some other people are also treated badly? That doesn't make sense. This is purely parroting the party line, chastising oneself what an evil counterrevolutionary one is.

    No positive, but tons of new hostility. Awesome. That'll take humanity in the right direction!

  • lemmy stop silencing SA survivors rule
  • It's clearly ragebait, but let's be real here: the amount of accusations against men in general is astounding. Not the real, actual cases, but the implication that by virtue of being male I'm immediately accused of being a predator. And that's just shitty.

    I can understand that a lot of men feel very attacked by that, because a whole lot of men just try to be good people. This kind of ragebait is harmful, because it will definitely turn a bunch of men hostile towards anything feminism, since in their view, they can only lose. And that's incredibly bad.

  • Gotta use all those brain cells
  • Basically an extended IQ test, back then this was done at the local university, probably by some psychologist.

    I'm not entirely sure in how far these tests have changed over time and how different they are from adult IQ tests. I definitely remember a longer interview with someone, which isn't part of a regular test, I think.

  • Gotta use all those brain cells
  • No, I was actually in a class specifically for gifted children.

    However, this was over 20 years ago and back then, this was a relatively new concept in my region. That meant the class had to be padded with "regulars" and the special treatment we got, was rather limited. Looking back, it seemed like they dropped the idea almost completely after 9th grade or so.

    And even today I'm pretty sure there's no comprehensive testing going on. So a ton of smart children get labelled as having ADHD or just as delinquents if they're from a "bad" background.

    Funny thing is, Germany actually did have a three tiered school system for decades, where after elementary the children were separated by "performance", but since this country is laughably bad at creating equal opportunities, this de facto became a class filter. Parents are academics? Off to the Gymnasium with you! Parents are poor/migrants? Well, Hauptschule will have to do. Good luck at being underemployed for life.

  • 54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances
  • Nope, you're simply wildly exaggerating the effects of the dosage you're actually getting.

    That's like saying water causes cancer, because everyone with cancer drank water at some point.

    You are not getting the minimum doses needed to get from a water bottle. And again, if you're getting headaches from a water bottle, that's your imagination. Period.

  • Gotta use all those brain cells
  • I'd say the real world doesn't reward being actually gifted.

    School rewards obedience and memorization. If you're aggressively mediocre, but sufficiently agreeable and willing/able to memorize a bunch of bullshit, chances are, you'll get pretty good grades. I know several people with very good grades who are simply not very intelligent.

    Universities also reward memorization. If you're good at learning facts and writing bullshit like the prof wants to read it, chances are, you'll get good grades in at least some areas (business, psychology , medicine, and as a CS graduate, even CS to a frighteningly high degree).

    If you're gifted (like I'm actually certified to be, whatever that means), you're often bored at school, you won't learn because you don't really need to, and you don't really want to play ball with all the bullshit. You can see through it, and especially for teenagers, that's extremely frustrating.

    In the "real world" being gifted isn't really a huge benefit either. I'm good at what I'm doing and what's the result? I'm now de facto managing other people at doing what I'm good at. I can't complain, cushy job, very good pay. But a literal monkey could do 70% of my tasks. I'm inside a corporate cage, that I realistically can't escape from.

    And I think that's where many of the "gifted, but neither genius nor psychopath" people are at. Overqualified for what they're doing, but caught in a system where they can't really excel in the ways they could.

  • Cheap, but reliable SSDs?

    I want to upgrade some of my older machines with some new, high(er) capacity SSDs (SATA and nvme). I don't need super high speeds, just something in the TB range in terms of storage.

    Problem is, there's so much garbage out there, I can't really tell, which SSD is inexpensive and reliable and which is just utter garbage.

    I thought about buying new, but last gen Samsung/WD SSDs.

    Intenso and Fanxiang both seem to have been around for a few years, but reviews seem to be mixed.

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    Nixos compiles Firefox out of nowhere?

    Basically the title. I have Nixos running on a server that runs completely headless and while playing around today, I noticed that the rebuild takes longer than expected and apparently that's because firefox gets compiled.

    Now, I don't have any GUI installed, and even if I had, I don't see a reason to compile FF from source.

    My packages are just Jellyfin, Samba, Gitea, Nextcloud, virt-manager. None of these should depend on FF.

    5
    QEMU VM hangs at "booting from disk" at 100% CPU usage

    I have a QCOW2 image (Homeassistant VM), that I ran for several months without problems.

    A few days ago, I reinstalled the VM host,so I copied the image to a backup drive and now wanted to start a VM from this image.

    However, it always end up hanging at "booting from hard disk" and takes up 100% load on one core.

    On the VM host, I imported the image like this: ```

    copied from HAOS wiki

    sudo virt-install --name hass --description "Home Assistant OS" --os-variant=generic --ram=2048 --vcpus=2 --disk /var/vm/hass.qcow2,bus=sata --import --graphics none ```

    To ensure that my host wasn't broken, I tried the same image on another machine, that I know can run VMs (virtual machine manager, using the GUI), but same result. One core at 100% and no change at all.

    I even let it run over night, but it was still at this point.

    One machine runs NixOS, the other Debian 12.

    What could cause this? There are no errors in journalctl or /var/log/qemu.

    6
    Tips/Resources/Guidance for becoming an okayish lead?

    I'm currently a senior developer, but relatively new in the role of a "lead". In my current project, I'm having a kind of co-lead and we have two devs working in our team. So a rather small enterprise.

    Now my boss told me, that going forward, I will probably be leading larger and more complex projects (possible rather soon).

    Since I'm constantly doubting myself, I would really like to learn more about how to be an effective/likeable lead. I've had too many "leads" who were just dogshit, professionally and as a person. I don't want to be that (at least the professional part).

    So, I guess my question is: what helped you? Books, articles, just random hints or strategies? I'll take everything.

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    Wie informiert ihr euch über lokale Ereignisse?

    Ich lebe in einer größeren Stadt, in der es aber de facto nur zwei Lokalzeitungen gibt, die beide auf mehreren Ebenen verwerflich sind und dann auch noch journalistisch ausgesprochen fragwürdig.

    Leider sind genauso diese beiden aber auch die einzige Quelle für "echte" lokale Nachrichten. Gefühlt bekomme ich kaum etwas von meiner eigenen Stadt mit - und das ist eigentlich ziemlich schade.

    Deswegen mal die Frage an euch: beißt ihr in den sauren Apfel und kauft die Zeitung? Ist die Lage bei euch besser?

    10
    Are there any localized Fediverse Apps?

    In Germany there's an app called "Jodel", which is essentially like a localized reddit/lemmy. That means, you only see posts from people near you (the default is something like 10km, I think).

    This is of course awesome for localized events, Craigslist style posts, or just discussions about local stuff.

    I wondered, despite creating local communities on Lemmy or tags for your city, is there anything like it on the fediverse?

    9
    How to set NIC for WoL?

    I have an HAOS-VM running on a machine attached to my router via cable, and another (wifi attached) machine that I want to WoL from HA.

    Apparently, my router does not forward WoL packets from wired ethernet to wifi, so I just plugged in a usb-wifi dongle and connected HAOS via the dongle - wifi works, no problem.

    WoL in general also works, I can wake the machine up from my MacBook without a problem. I can also use the very same dongle on a Debian desktop to send WoL packets.

    However, doing it from HA fails. My configuration.yaml looks like this:

    ``` wake_on_lan: switch:

    • platform: wake_on_lan name: wake_<machine> mac: <mac>

    ```

    I tried deactivating the KVM brigde, so that the VM really only connects via wifi, but no changes here either.

    There are no errors in any logs, so it doesn't look like it's failing per se.

    To me it looks almost like the packet is send to nirvana, but there's no way to configure the network interface in the WoL platform either.

    Update

    I kind of got everything to work, albeit in a rather weird way.

    There already is a built-in WoL Service, accessible via the GUI, however, I have to use the Advanced Mode to access it, otherwise it simply doesn't show up. Using that service and the proper broadcast address, I'm now able to wake the target machine via a button. What's a bit concerning to me is that the "advanced mode" toggle seems to be lost after a reboot. I get a warning, that the WoL service couldn't be found, that only resolves after setting the advanced mode off and on again - that's rather stupid.

    10
    3D printer for someone who rarely prints

    I'm thinking about buying a small 3D printer for the odd project once in a while.

    Problem is, I will not use it very often and I don't have much desk space for it to sit around.

    Ideally (and I know this is utopia), I would like a device that I can pull out of a closet, fasten four screws, plug it in and be ready to go.

    Is there something even remotely like that available? Every review I've seen just seems to assume that printers are basically static.

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    Wie kann ich eine andere Instanz via Feddit.de durchsuchen?

    Eigentlich eine ganz einfache Frage: Wie kann ich über die normale Lemmy-Site eine andere Instanz angucken (lokaler Feed von dort)?

    Hintergrund bei mir ist, dass es auf zB programming.dev einen Haufen Communities gibt, die ich hier nicht sehen kann. Wenn ich aber direkt auf programming.dev gehe, kann ich die Communities nicht direkt abonnieren - wahrscheinlich kann ich den Namen einfach kopieren und dann via feddit.de/c/@ darauf zugreifen, aber bequem ist das nicht.

    5
    Dell Optiplex turning into turbine after load

    I have a Dell Optiplex 3060 here, that I used as a backup desktop with Linux, but now I'm trying to use it essentially as a streaming host for games (Fallout, GTA...), unfortunately that means Windows.

    And even less fortunate: Windows seems to think, fan speeds only know one direction: up.

    Essentially, the machine starts nice and reasonably quite, but after some load (e.g. a game), the fans never spin down again. Even if the temps are fine (all cores at &lt;30°C, GPU at 48°C), it keeps running in turbine mode.

    The only "fix" is a sleep or power cycle.

    Since this machine is supposed to run relatively long hours and sit in my room, this is quite annoying and I'm kind of out of ideas.

    Newest BIOS and all the Dell Magic™ are installed.

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    [hardware] Used SAS drives?

    I just browsed eBay a bit and saw that older, used SAS drives can be had pretty cheap - 30€ for 4TB, but of course rather old drives, sometimes 10 years old.

    Now, I wouldn't expect ultra reliable, ultra fast, super cheap drives here. But this offer seems compelling, even buying a spare drive for higher redundancy would still be pretty cheap.

    Question is: am I too optimistic here? Are these drives bound to fail within 3 months?

    6
    A service of some sort to cluster news?

    I'm using Feedly (google reader clone) to keep track of my news. However, there are tons of duplicates (same event/topic different sources).

    I was just thinking about using text summaries + similarity analysis (possible AI driven) to cluster groups of articles. Are there already solutions for that? I could build it myself, but I'm not exactly the best web dev.

    9
    RPi Pico "disconnects" after a few minutes to days

    I'm trying to use an RPi Pico W as a temp/humidity sensor using a DHT20.

    It kind of works - at least sometimes, but I keep "losing" sensors more or less randomly.

    I connected everything up like here (using MicroPython): https://github.com/flrrth/pico-dht20 There are currently 4 sensor-boards, 3 soldered, one on a breadboard.

    The error modes I could observe are:

    1. DHT20 fails to init - sometimes after the first read, sometimes after days. Resetting the machine works sometimes, if not, power cycling usually does the trick

    2. The board just "stops" after about 5min - the serial console just says "device disconnected". Power cycling is the only option.

    My measurement work by having a timer fire every minute, connect to wifi, read from the sensor, and then send an mqtt message (either the values or an error message) and shutdown wifi again.

    My current ideas why it could fail (but I'm not an electronics guy at all):

    • There is some kind of "rogue current" messing with some IC.
    • Some component is broken
    • Maybe the power draw is too low or issuing sleep() messes with the USB-power connection somehow?

    For me the problem is, I don't really know where to look for errors. The software works in principle, the soldering seems to be good enough to sometimes work for days, and looking too deep into the whole electronics side is beyond my capabilities.

    11
    Samba share writable to everyone, even if someone else created the files?

    I have a public SMB share mainly as a media dump. Everyone can read and write, without any auth - as intended. However, if I copy files via SSH (as a regular user, not the samba user), these files are of course owned by that user and thus not writable for the samba user - so I can't touch these files via SMB.

    My config looks like this

    [public] path = /path/to/samba/public guest ok = yes writeable = yes browseable = yes create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 force user = sambapub force group = users

    I can fix the permissions by simply chown/chmod all files, but that's not really a solution.

    11
    [ubuntu 22.04] Firefox keeps forgetting logins

    As the title says, FF seems to selectively forget cookies and thus requires me to constantly re-login.

    I've had the exact same issue on two separate machines both running Ubuntu. My best guess is, that snap is at fault here, but I have no idea, why.

    To reproduce the issue, I just have to perform the arcane ritual of "closing the app" and whoosh, cookies are gone. Plugins and settings persist, no "delete on close" option whatsoever is active. Vanilla Ubuntu shows exactly this behavior.

    13
    Are there any pitfalls to avoid in buying PCIe/m.2 adapters?

    I'm planning on giving an older machine a small upgrade with an SSD, but since that machine does not have an m.2 port, I was thinking about buying the cheapest PCIe adapter I could find. Besides the obvious stuff like ports, PCIe gen and lane count, is there anything I should look out for? Specifically regarding Linux?

    17
    What is this e-paper connector?

    I got my hands on an old e-ink price tag and want to repurpose this display.

    Unfortunately, I can't really figure out, what this type of connector/bus is called. To me it looks like a standard issue ribbon cable.

    There are some "universal" e-paper drivers (for example this one: https://www.ebay.de/itm/353141399922), but I have absolutely no idea, how to find out, if that's the right connector.

    The device is made by Imagotag, if that helps.

    Edit: I added a picture of the panel: https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/42ee4f60-231a-4c42-9a66-6c369134c49c.jpeg

    None of the "markings" returned any results and the QR code couldn't be decoded by my phone.

    6
    What "mindless" games do you play?

    I'm often in longer telephone conferences and like to play relatively uncomplicated, mindless games like 2048 or threes. Both of these are getting pretty boring these days, so I'm looking for new games.

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    Wo kauft ihr eure Hörbücher?

    Ich hatte mir vor Jahren mal ein gutes Polster von Audible-Guthaben angehäuft, was jetzt langsam leer wird und da ich Amazon ungern weiter unterstützen möchte, suche ich einen neuen Anbieter.

    Thalia scheint ein vergleichbares Angebot zu haben, aber zumindest bei oberflächlicher Suche war das Angebot eher mau (Foundation von Asimov existiert zB gar nicht).

    Bookbeat fand ich eigentlich auch interessant (10€ für 25h Material finde ich fair), aber dass die Minuten am Ende des Monats verfallen, finde ich frech.

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    Are those Pico PSUs worth it?

    I have an HP g3 mini and a Dell Optiplex flying around, both similarly specced. The HP has an i5 6500t and 16gb DDR4 RAM, the Dell has 8gb DDR3l, so nothing too different.

    However, the Dell draws around 15W while idle, the HP one 5W.

    The only difference I could think of (and that is in my power to change) is the PSU. The Dell has one of those SFF PSU for up to 180W while the HP has an external 65W power brick with a barrel jack.

    So my question is: Does anyone have experience with one of those Pico PSUs? I guess they should be more efficient? I'm not planning to put anything power hungry into the optiplex.

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