SquaredCircle csm10495 • 1 month ago • 100%

Finally got around to making a botchmania ending. Enjoy!

Asklemmy csm10495 • 2 months ago • 95%

For example, I opt out of all emails from a website. A year later they make a new newsletter and auto subscribe all to it. I login, hit unsubscribe, then report as spam in my email client. I figure auto adding me is more/less spamming me. Do y'all agree?

Electric Vehicles csm10495 • 2 months ago • 81%

driveelectric.gov

At one point I thought that if the Government was giving money for EV chargers, they would be either at-cost or free to use. One of the first built was at a Flying J truck stop in Ohio. I looked on plug share and found one in Hubbard, OH and it's 67c per kwh (https://www.plugshare.com/location/582660). The average cost of electricity in that area is less than 15c per kwh. At that kind of price, gas could be a cheaper option. Why does the government subsidize in a way where already wealthy companies get public money to build chargers, and make a ton more money off the rest of us? (This is not a political statement at all. I just don't understand why public money goes to make certain private folks more wealthy. I figure I must be missing something). Thanks for your thoughts!

Sync for Lemmy csm10495 • 3 months ago • 100%

Anyone having a new issue where swiping from the left to go back to the thread list from a thread doesn't load properly and instead shows a black screen for a second or so. Screen recording: https://imgur.com/a/bvzkyfu All animations in the settings are enabled.

So I was using a wood sealer (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AQTX3XU) on my newly built catio. Unfortunately I didn't notice how much I had sprayed on the adjacent window. Now I have cloudy/foggy windows (https://imgur.com/a/TKD9wim). I've tried cleaning them with:- - - - - water via the hose directly on the window.. very little progress - windex.. very little progress - dish soap followed by host.. very little progress - vinegar.. very little progress Any ideas for what might get this stuff off easily?---

ShowerThoughts csm10495 • 5 months ago • 100%

I wouldn't be as worried about them going out of business and me being stuck with half broken car software.

Security csm10495 • 6 months ago • 100%

Anyone here use fidelity (https://www.fidelity.com/)? I had to call to get something done with my account and thought it was weird that they have you (more/less) T9 dial your password into the system, though its not real T9 in that (for example) one press of 2 would mean either a,A,b,B,c,C,2. They say for special characters just give a * sign. Any thoughts on if that is safe on their part? It seems weird to me since they either need the password in plaintext on their end or I guess the hash of the T9 version of the password which would be less secure anyways because of: all one case and only one type of 'special character'. And yes: before you ask this was 100% the actual fidelity phone number: +1 800-343-3548 In their defense they did ask for other verification information once I got a person, but still felt really weird. Any thoughts on the security of this mechanism?

sh.itjust.works Main Community csm10495 • 7 months ago • 100%

Hey folks, Is it possible to have a [mlmym](https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym) endpoint for sh.itjust.works? Maybe old.sh.itjust.works? I know the lemmy ui has come a decent ways.. but sometimes I just want to look at it like old reddit. lemmy.world has one: https://old.lemmy.world/ If not: no big deal. if so: would be cool.

Mechanical Keyboards csm10495 • 7 months ago • 96%

It's a sad day: My previous mechanical keyboard more/less died. Multiple keys just stopped working and even upon replacing them with new switches: still dead. So anyways I'm looking for a keyboard with some specific features: Anyone know of one that is: - full size (extra macro keys would be a bonus!) - rgb backlit - has at least one usb port on it (so it has a builtin hub of sorts) Super bonus if it also has a type c passthrough port. - user-swapable cherry-mx compatible switches. (bonus if it comes with browns) - bonus points if it can run open-source firmware - bonus points if it has a volume spinner-thing I know its asking a bunch, but hey if someone has seen one of these, or has ideas: let me know. Budget: idk, but I'd be willing to pay probably $200 ish if it was a perfect match and seemed legit. Thanks in advance

Android csm10495 • 8 months ago • 100%

Hey folks, Does anyone know of an app (FOSS or otherwise) that has a built-in REST-server to get current device info? I'd like to be able to hit the API from within my local network to get info including: - Free space vs used space - Battery percentage Why? I have an old Android device that sits in the closet as a Syncthing node. It does some other random stuff too. I don't really want to have to get up and look at it to find out certain information. I already have a VNC server running on it. I even have a (sketchy) SSH server on it that I currently call `df -h` on to programmatically get free space info. The SSH server has some weirdness where it seems to stop working after some time, among other oddities. Also it can't get battery level afaict. I imagine this is possible using ADB, but I don't really want to have to always leave the device in wireless ADB mode or manually put it in that mode each time; unless that is easier than I think. Thanks!

TIFU csm10495 • 8 months ago • 100%

Obligatory: this was yesterday (1/20/24) In the US 1/20/24 was the last day to buy stamps at the old postage rate. The flat rate for postcards was 51 cents and was going up to 53 cents the next day. They have a concept called forever stamps for regular letters and a similar thing for postcards. If you buy them today at today's price, you can use them at any time in the future regardless of price increases. So if you'll mail letters or postcards, they're a good deal and future investment. So anyways we ran to the post office at 4pm. The office was closed except for the self service machine. We need about 90 postcard stamps so I figured I'd get 100 to have some extras for the future. I was so excited to see postcard stamps for 51 cents. I took a picture: https://i.imgur.com/M997Nfg.jpeg So we bought 100, which happened to be the most we can buy at once. At that point the machine began printing 100 individual 51 cents stamps. Now you may have noticed the issue: it wasn't 100 postcard stamps, but rather 100 stamps each saying 51 cents of value. It took a long time as each stamp was printed one by one, but I got to stand there sad as I didn't get my forever postcard stamps. Now to mail my postcards, I'll need to buy 2 cents of postage each (or more when it goes up again). I'll be more careful next time. Tldr: I bought 51 cent stamps instead of postcard stamps for 51 cents. Edit: commented with an update after a few days.

An electrician 'fixed' an issue by making this hole in a basement cinder block wall. .. how do I put that box back in or fix the wall or something? Inside the box are two capped (hot) wires. The pipe seems to be copper. Doesn't bend or anything. It can't (at least easily) be pushed back in. I had wanted to use cement paste.. but like what do I do about the box? I guess I could paste everything except the metal pipe but geez: then i still have this sketchy box hanging out. Images: https://imgur.io/a/yBh2QBD (posted from mobile and don't think the images went through) Any ideas?

Android csm10495 • 11 months ago • 88%

Does anyone know of a way to archive all messages in Android/Google Messages maybe older than a certain timeframe? I have 100s of old conversations spanning back several years. I finally decided it would be nice to archive (not delete) ones that aren't relevant at the moment. The only way I figured to do this is swipe each conversation one by one. Is there a faster way to just do it all in one swoop? Edit: I wrote a quick script to do it via manipulating the Google Messages webui: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/4646349 Worked for me!

3DPrinting csm10495 • 1 year ago • 100%

Hey folks, Anyone have the gcode to do bed leveling and then emit the info back for the octoprint bed level visualizer? I have an Elegoo Neptune 3 Plus. I tried the bilevel one on the GitHub page but it seems to make my printer get stuck at home after running. Edit: it almost seems like when it finishes it just gets stuck in the center with the extruder heat still on. Usually I have to reboot the printer to get it up again. Sort of like it wants me to go check the z offset.

SquaredCircle csm10495 • 1 year ago • 83%

Hey folks, I'm going to pause the bot at this time. The community didn't quite take off at this point, so for now I'm going to recommend using [!SquaredCircle@kbin.social](https://kbin.social/m/SquaredCircle). I don't have the time to put in the love needed to grow it at this point. If another member or mod wants to be added and give it love, let me know. For now I'm limiting posts to mods only.

Mildly Interesting csm10495 • 1 year ago • 91%

imgur.com

Also in an order that confused me.

Selfhosted csm10495 • 1 year ago • 98%

Say you have a script or something that gets run in cron/task scheduler and it needs a password.. say to ssh to a raspberry pi elsewhere in your house. How do you save that password in a way that automation can access it? Some ideas: - Plaintext file. Not a fan because its sitting unencrypted on the box somewhere. - Environment variable. Not a fan because its still unencrypted somewhere to someone on the box (albeit likely the same user or an admin). - A secrets manager. If I use something locally like hashicorp vault or infisical, I can get to a point where a cli/api call gets the password. Though in this case I still need a vault password/secret to get my password. So I fall back to needing one of the above to get this to work. If the secrets manager is easily available, the secret to get into the secrets manager is available as well leading to a feeling of security by obscurity. If someone breaks into my system via SSH/etc. then they can get the passwords either way. .. How do people normally do this? I'm not sure I actually get anything out of a secrets manager if its local and I have the disk itself encrypted before login. What actually makes sense at a personal/home scale? (Edit: I know using SSH key probably is better for getting to the raspberry pi, but still the question is the same idea).

Linus Tech Tips (Unofficial) csm10495 • 1 year ago • 100%

code is "hireddit" from WAN. Apparently will be up for a few hours.

Mildly Infuriating csm10495 • 1 year ago • 98%

.. its a website run by the US Government. Why does it have such large downtimes in this day and age?

Unpopular Opinion csm10495 • 1 year ago • 79%

Warning: This is a rant. I don't really know how to describe it but the content isn't quite where reddit had been for me. Also the comments are kind of weird at times, like they type of person here doesn't quite seem as 'normal' as what I'm used to from reddit. There's a lot more open source and privacy focused people and conversations. A lot of people seem to hate on big tech and big companies in a sort of toxic-ish feeling way to me (not to say the other relationship isn't toxic.. just saying). Random conversations go into: "omg your privacy is lost cause you used a Google service." Then we have the 'if we don't defederate with Meta the world ends' conversations. I personally would like to see what Meta does in the fediverse.. maybe it will make it more normalized..idk. Then the: "if your app isn't open source its awful and terrible for the world" people. Like that stuff is all fine, but it just isn't quite my cup of tea. These things remind me of that one person in my comp sci classes in college who I just couldn't stand talking to. He would try to make you feel like an idiot by trying to sound all self righteous and smart. (Honestly he would fail and would generally look like a dingus). The bulk of the content that gets comments seem to be mostly meme atm. At least on all (7/10 of the current top for me are memes). I like my memes, but would like some more breadth/depth. Like I hope Lemmy continues to grow and hope it gets better, but it leaves me missing reddit at the moment. In a perfect world I wish reddit corp wasn't such assholes and this whole thing didn't happen the way it did. I'm completely skipping the UI and stuff not being as familiar and the various outages/bugs/etc since that's to be expected with something at this stage. Please don't hate me :) Just sharing my unpopular opinion. Though I genuinely wonder if others feel the same way. /Rant

techsupport csm10495 • 1 year ago • 100%

Go to %TEMP% and clean it out. I personally deleted everything older than 5 days. I have no idea why but this fixed an issue for me where it could take up to 3 minutes to get to the desktop after typing my password. I somehow had like 100s of gigs of garbage in there. Funny enough doing a system cleanup does not clear out this directory! The issue corresponded with an event in the Windows Event Viewer that looked like: ``` The winlogon notification subscriber <Profiles> is taking long time to handle the notification event (Logon). ``` And another that looked like: ``` The winlogon notification subscriber <Profiles> took 125 second(s) to handle the notification event (Logon). ``` (of course with a varying number of seconds depending on the boot) Anyways, I'm not asking anyone for tech support in this case, but figure it may help someone else out.

Linus Tech Tips (Unofficial) csm10495 • 1 year ago • 100%

www.youtube.com

I can't imagine why someone would watch this instead of looking for the specific video, unless they just need background noise.

You Should Know csm10495 • 1 year ago • 100%

You have a couple days left to buy stamps that can be used to mail letters after the price increase. If you buy 10 forever stamps at 63 cents, you can use one for each letter in the future regardless of future price increases. Stock up! Prices will likely never go down. I bought a few hundred dollars worth to cover holiday cards for the rest of my life. (Edited title since originally I said 6 instead of 7.. thanks for folks correcting me)

Mildly Infuriating csm10495 • 1 year ago • 100%

How do people not use spell check before making signage?

Programmer Humor csm10495 • 1 year ago • 86%

Since everything is about beans right now, I figured we should get in on it.

sh.itjust.works Main Community csm10495 • 1 year ago • 98%

.. is there a better way to report?

196 csm10495 • 1 year ago • 100%

rule

Git csm10495 • 1 year ago • 100%

Hey folks, This is an update to: https://sh.itjust.works/post/580838 On https://github.com/csm10495/commit-ment, I made it to somewhere around 22 million commits. I can't imagine this is not a world record for commits to a single branch. In the middle of the night, I got an email from GitHub support saying:  A few minutes later, I got another email like so:  I've asked them if the two emails are related (and I guess if the first one is some sort of error since there was no personal info in that repo). I've also asked if they can give any information about what triggered the email and if they can give me more info about what it looks look on their side. I've also asked if they can re-enable it so I can give one more commit to say the final results on the readme then (public) archive it. We'll see what they say. Doing a pull is interesting at the moment, it shows: ``` git pull origin master --no-rebase -vvv ERROR: Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub staff due to excessive resource use. Please contact support via https://support.github.com/contact to restore access to this repository. Read about how to decrease the size of your repository: https://docs.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. ``` Similar thing happens if you try to clone: git@github.com:csm10495/commit-ment.git So yeah, I figured this would happen sooner or later. I just hope they can tell me a bit more about what it looks like on their side since managing this repo on my box is a pain, I can't imagine what it could look like on theirs. I'm also curious how pull requests could merge at such a rate given that just doing a pull on my end could take minutes. So many questions! This whole project was really just for curiosity on my end, so anything I can learn/find out is much appreciated on all ends. Anyways, just figured I'd update y'all.

No Stupid Questions csm10495 • 1 year ago • 100%

When pumping gas, most stations around here (California) have a little latch you can push to dispense gas and let go of the handle. .. when you use that latch, does it pump slower? Is it supposed to? I always feel like it does but figure it's a reasonable question for here. Thanks folks!

LinkedinLunatics csm10495 • 1 year ago • 96%

This isn't an ad.. someone posted this. What?

Git csm10495 • 1 year ago • 97%

github.com

I decided to see how many commits GitHub (and git) could take before acting kind of wonky. At ~19 million commits (and counting) to master: it's wonky. The GitHub API has periodic issues merging/creating PRs. (I use PRs since that is more reliable than keeping a local master up to date via pulling at this point). GitHub reports...  infinity commits. Doing a full clone from GitHub Actions is taking around 2 hours. Using: ``` git pull origin master ``` to update my local master hangs for a while before even printing anything. If anyone has seen a public GitHub repo with more commits to its main branch, let me know. If anyone wants to see how slow wonky git acts at this scale, feel free to clone. Edit: Update to this post is: https://sh.itjust.works/post/672069

SquaredCircle csm10495 • 1 year ago • 100%

Lots of fun stuff on the card. I'm most excited for Omega/Ospreay. What are you excited about on the show?

SquaredCircle csm10495 • 1 year ago • 100%

I don't remember seeing Tanahashi wrestle on AEW TV before (besides PPV), so that's cool.

SquaredCircle csm10495 • 1 year ago • 100%

First time ever: MJF is on Rampage. I lost a bet.