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  • Prop 50: Californians pass redistricting measure that helps Democrats flip up to five House seats

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  • The messaging on 50 has been great IMHO. Basically, "this is an affront to democracy, but Texas did it first and if we take the moral high ground we're screwed."

  • Art & writing

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  • Having lived without a dishwasher for many years, I'm never complaining about loading/unloading the dishwasher. From starting the kettle to finishing a pour over is more than enough time to unload.

    And never again having to schlep clothes to the laundromat because we have laundry in our home? Likewise, I'm not going to complain. The only reason laundry takes real effort is when we opt to use the clothesline instead of the dryer.

    Not everyone has a dishwasher, washing machine, and clothes dryer, so I absolutely recognize that I'm very fortunate here. And the crazy thing is, these devices aren't even particularly expensive, especially since they can be had used --- I think a big reason folks don't have them is the installation+room required. Which probably says something about landlords and the general cost per area of housing.

  • Do you think school uniforms are a form of authoritarianism?

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  • Americans had "unity" after 9/11

    Uh, no we didn't. Source: am American, lived through that period.

    Yes we had a brief period of unity (and solidarity with NYC) following 9/11, but as soon as the American War Machine woke up, my country was intensely divided.

  • Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work

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  • When the son of the deposed King of Nigeria emails you directly asking for help, you help. His father ran the freaking country, okay?

  • Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

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  • I used Photoprism years ago, so my knowledge is probably pretty outdated.

    My experience of Photoprism was that mobile was not tightly integrated. At the time I used Syncthing to sync photos --- it worked ok for me, but I wasn't going to set it up on my partner's phone, for example.

    Immich Just Works on both mobile and desktop. Multi user is great, sharing is great, and the local ML and face detection work remarkably well.

    Whatever works for you is the best of course! Immich fits the bill for me, and it was very much worth it for me to "buy" it.

  • YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice

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  • That's how I start my refried beans. After pressure cooker add oil (lots...), salt, and a little vinegar. Sauteed onions, cumin, chili powder also good.

    I think it's way better than any vegetarian refried beans that you get in a can. Probably because they have more salt and oil...

  • PC Master Race

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  • Flagship Nvidia is around $10k. Easy to spend at least another $5k on the rest of the computer+setup (monitors, peripherasls...).

  • a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction

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  • Alt text from memory: #4: Boston

    Edit: it's actually Prank #11: Boston. I was close.

  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings

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  • There's a joke about whitespace here somewhere, I just know it.

  • Apps and tricks for moving to MacOS ?

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  • xscreensaver of course! Note that this is not an option on Windows---jwz hates Microsoft, and any xscreensaver port to Windows is against his wishes.

    I use yabai and sketchybar for a tiling WM feel. It's nowhere as nice as my preferred i3, but it's ok. Unfortunately it often breaks with major OS updates, so I'm sure to hold back updating my system until yabai is working.

    IIRC sshfs will work on macOS but it's more work to install. Worth it if allowed by your IT policies and your work can benefit from it.

    Vim, tmux, and the usual *NIX stuff you might want.

    The coreutils are not the GNU coreutils you typically find on a Linux system, so you may find a few differences. I believe sed is slightly different, and the flags for ls must be before the filename arguments, but I've found it's mostly silly stuff like that (I used zsh before using macOS, so no problem there).

  • Internal domain and reverse proxy

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  • Regarding DNS servers, what router do you have? Some routers have simple enough DNS capabilities --- I have a MikroTik, and have it set up with DNS entries for internal services (including wildcard). Publicly accessible services just use my registrar's DNS (namecheap --- no complaints).

  • You're so poor...

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  • Oracle Free tier, amd64. Only use it because it's free---limited bandwidth, but given I have slow upload at home it's never really been a bottleneck. Hate to admit it given it's Oracle, but I've been completely happy with it.

    If I switch to a paid VPS I will probably go with racknerd (suggestions welcome though if you have thoughts).

  • You're so poor...

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  • Especially after adding in all the power draw of the automation requires...

    What exactly is the incremental power draw for automation? My network gear and server (a little nuc) are sunk power costs as I self host other services.

    Idling, my home uses around 100W with the fridge off. One 10W light is an additional 10% of my power budget, and I have a lot more than one light in my house. I also pay about $0.40/kWh.

  • You're so poor...

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  • I can be a bit neurotic about turning off lights when I leave a room, so Home Assistant was a nice way to free up brain space for me. A few motion sensors here and there + some simple automations, and the lights mostly handle themselves. Zigbee sensors and Zigbee or Matter-over-WiFi bulbs, so everything is local. A free VPS+WireGuard setup means I can access them remotely should I need to, with TailScale as a backup.

    Cloud failures mean I can't access remotely, but local control is unaffected---if my smart devices stop working it's almost certainly my fault :)

  • the TB lion

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  • Bed Rule

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  • You're thinking of an "educated bed."

  • Average New Car Prices Rise Above $50,000 for the First Time Ever

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  • Adjusted for inflation, or better yet something like median salary, would probably be more meaningful.

    Seems this will preferentially screw folks in low cost of living areas. If you're in a HCOL/VHCOL area and making ends meet, then a new car is probably affordable. If you're making ends meet in a LCOL area, then this is likely a huge expense.

  • Don't rely on Alexa to wake you up...

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  • Matter is also local---provisioning can be a PITA but once done I've been pretty happy with even the cheap Matter WiFi smart bulbs. Home Assistant supports them very well.

    Cheap bulbs can be a little buggy, which usually means I need to power cycle some of them now and then.

  • Today, enjoy your self-hosted home automation

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  • My lights and motion sensors were obviously unaffected (HomeAssistant). My Emporia Vue2 power monitor would possibly have stopped working, except I flashed it with ESPHome firmware, so it's local only, and of course it was fine. My security cameras (Frigate) were also fine.

    If my smart home devices are going to stop working, it will almost certainly be my fault, thank you very much!