towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Google has a "search tools" drop down menu (on mobile it's at the end of the list of images/shopping/news etc).
It's default set to "all results". I believe changing it to "verbatim" is closer to the older (some would say "dumber", I would say "more predictable") behaviour

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

If a God were to appear and demonstrate all kinds of supernatural activity and capability, I think I'd have to renounce my atheism.

I would also renounce my atheism and become fully anti-theism.
The god is clearly not benevolent, not kind, not caring. The god can go fuck themselves.

Trumps track record over the past decades cannot be forgiven

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

Why do we even have that lever?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

No.
I tried a smart watch for a week or so, and hated wearing it.
Hadn't worn a watch in 20 years, and it felt very strange

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

I'm always nervous about fintech companies. Maybe it's time to get over that and give curve pay a spin.
The cashback seems nice, considering a lot of shops I use are on there.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Not if you use wildcard dns records.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup, true.

But contactless via a phone can have no limit.
Adding a debit card to phone case means the upper limit is £100. Which is actually fine, and is the limit I have normally set for phone contactless. But I can instantly remove that limit via my banking app.

And the phone needs to be unlocked to make a payment.
Do if I lose my phone anyone can charge £100 to the debit card.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

Servers: one. No need to make the log a distributed system, CT itself is a distributed system.

The uptime target is 99%3 over three months, which allows for nearly 22h of downtime. That’s more than three motherboard failures per month.

CPU and memory: whatever, as long as it’s ECC memory. Four cores and 2 GB will do.

Bandwidth: 2 – 3 Gbps outbound.
Storage:
3 – 5 TB of usable redundant filesystem space on SSD or.
3 – 5 TB of S3-compatible object storage, and 200 GB of cache on SSD.
People: at least two. The Google policy requires two contacts, and generally who wants to carry a pager alone.

Seems beyond you typical homelab self hoster, except for the countries that have 5gbps symmetric home broadband.
If anyone can sneak 2-3gbps outbound pass their employer, I imagine the rest is trivial.
Altho... "At least 2 [people]" isn't the typical self hosting

Edit:
Tried to fix the copy/paste.

Also will add:

https://crt.sh/
Has a list of all certificates issued.
If you are using LE for every subdomain of your homelab (including internal), maybe think about a wildcard cert?
One of those "obscurity isn't security", but why advertise your endpoints? Also increases privacy (IE not advertising porn(dot)example(dot)com)

[–] towerful@programming.dev 39 points 1 day ago (18 children)

This... Except for contactless payment.
I used graphene for a month. It was lovely. Even things like banking apps worked.
I don't care about absolute privacy, but I do care about controlling my privacy. Grapheme gave me that.

I had only 1 issue.
Contactless payment.
It's extremely convenient to me, from public transport to groceries. I just bop my phone.

The fact that Google has that locked down surely violates some EU laws. But I'm sure they wave away the laws because of "financial security" or some other bullshit.
As if bank card NFC/contactless doesn't suffer exactly the same issues.
I looked into some "graphene contactless payment" type systems or workarounds, and I couldn't find anything that would fill the gap.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Everything else. Or anything else, if you select a single quark (presuming we don't split a quark).

If everything is moving away from us, then everything is moving away from everything else.
It's just that some things are moving away from us faster than they are moving away from other things

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Everything else.

Galactocentrism was established in 1925, which realised that our solar system is not near the center of the Milky Way. So, we are moving relative to the center of our galaxy.

In 1929, evidence was found that everything else is moving away from us. So we are moving relative to everything else.

In 1931, the Big Bang theory started superceding Galactocentrism, which was an acentrist model of the universe (where there is no center).

[–] towerful@programming.dev 15 points 2 days ago

If I was responsible for the safety and wellbeing of a flying tube with 200 people in it, I would absolutely be pissed about not being able to get a proper rest.

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