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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The only problem with RSS is that it doesn’t work for many many news sources as well as niche interests.

    The RSS feeds on most of my country’s news sources are literally a headline with a link to their website. Plus the ones that it does work for break multiple times per year (at least on feeder) so being able to actually fetch the article is a toss up. Right now even with freshly added feeds, 9 out of 10 are “cannot fetch full article”.

    I find most people’s blogs rather boring and uninspired or extremely longwinded. I much prefer the kind of organic conversations from forums. Algorithms point me to the 4-5 pieces of content from people that I find interesting. I don’t often subscribe to them because their other content is not as interesting.

    With RSS feeds I would have to manually search through hundreds of articles and blog posts just to find 3 that I might actually be interested in. For example the less niche Phoronix has like 20 articles per day that are essentially fluff article padding updates like “video acceleration improvements merged for Mesa 25”. Like I don’t care at all. But the LACT Intel support addition I would be interested in 10 articles down.



  • Interesting thoughts in this thread.

    I simply switched to having an unencrypted boot partition with the automount key on a flash drive. After it boots the server, just remove the whole boot partition. Physical separation is much much more powerful for smash and grabs, petty seizures, and evil maid than TPMs.

    The flash drive is stored securely when I am in the area. Flash drive can go in the machine if I am away for a while or have something critical.

    I go a step further and have password-only data drive description so I have to ssh in to set up the data drives again, but the principle would be the same.




  • In the *arr suite, bazarr has a plugin called Subgen which you can add and you can set it to generate subtitles on your entire library if you want, or only missing subtitles. The sync is spot on compared to 90% of what Opensubtitles delivers. I sometimes re-gen them with this plugin just because opensubtitles is so constantly out of sync (e.g. highly rated subtitles 4 lines will be at breakneck pace and the next 10 will be super slow and then everything is 3 seconds off)

    It isn’t in-player but it works. The downside is it is a larger model and takes ~20 minutes to generate a movie length of subtitles.






  • Lol docker is literally the easiest and most user-friendly server program administration method… It is literally one user-readable configuration file and everything is automatic.

    Vm’s are more complicated and have you even tried managing many services on bare metal with conflicting libraries, database versions, etc…? That is truly arcane arts of programming scripts.


  • I am not talking about federated git repos. You are right, that is a huge undertaking with many issues to overcome.

    I am simply talking about dev’s willingness to work only within X Y or Z website’s ecosystem even if another project they want to contribute to exists on another ecosystem (for example KiCAD which exists on their own gitlab instance and needs a separate account or gadgetbridge on Codeberg). It is enough to stop many people from contributing.


  • I really don’t understand it.

    It is 5 minutes to create an account and you can even use the same SSH key everywhere technically.

    Then just put a bit config per website and it literally requires nearly 0 additional work ever. You can commit to all the different places practically simultaneously.

    I guess you have to go to different websites for issues and I don’t know if codeberg specifically has CI/CD tools, but I don’t get why devs refuse to work on things outside github.




  • I really miss Microsoft AD configuration GUI.

    Wait, no, that sort of group you have to make through Entra, formerly Azure admin center, wait no they actually wanted a SharePoint site for the group, wait no you can’t do that through entra even though you can see the groups, you have to do that through O365 admin center, wait no you can only make a SharePoint aaand teams group there, you have to click more -> SharePoint admin center and then create a new group there, but not the default, you have to click “show more group types”, but where can you modify the members of this group? Oh you can just go back to O365 admin center to do that. Now you want to make some small access changes to the force-created email for the group? Oh well you have to go to Exchange admin center for that. Wait, not Outlook admin center? No they are named different things just to make it easy.

    Now someone who made an event involving the group is on holiday so I have to remove it, I can do that from exchange admin center right? Well actually the easiest way to do that is to log into Exchange from a power shell terminal through the GUI pop-up and terminal commands. But wait, the search for the event actually doesn’t work there ever, even with the exact name? I guess I will give myself rights to the calendar, reboot Outlook, go to the calendar, remove the event, go back to the terminal, remove my rights to the calendar, restart outlook.

    Actually, I don’t miss Microsoft sysadmin tools.



  • Yes but as a somewhat layperson (electronics engineer and light firmware design, and some hobby sysadmin stuff), I can learn systemd’s “language” in 30 minutes and most attributes are so self evident that you can puzzle them together without learning the language at all.

    That Shepherd mess I would have no idea what to change to make a small tweak without spending hours and hours learning it because it is written extremely cryptically in comparison.

    It’s the difference between modifying a config with human readable names and having to go into the source code to change heavily abbreviated variables that require a lot of background knowledge to even read.