InternetOfStuff

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by InternetOfStuff 6y ago
I'd love to, but IME it's unstable with more than a handful of participants and doesn't offer stuff I need, such as breakout rooms. Unfortunately, Jitsi isn't a viable solution at this point except for 1 on 1.
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by InternetOfStuff 6y ago
SEEKING WORK | Germany or remote | DevOps strategy and (as a hobby) implememtation I'm a senior DevOps person. My mission is to enable teams to work together better, faster, more enjoyably. I firmly believe that engineering is what hap
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by InternetOfStuff 6y ago
> ECC is not officially supported on Ryzen. If it works on your particular board/BIOS, great, but it's not officially validated or tested The Asus Pro X570 ACE (or similar name) explicitly offers ECC support though, not just un
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by InternetOfStuff 6y ago
Breakout rooms, for instance? Better video quality? Dual-screen mode? Or simply the superior video and audio quality compared to Meet. I wish I could move away from Zoom, but I've yet to find something similarly useable for my use case
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by InternetOfStuff 6y ago
Let me point out: to me, auto-updating isn't even the crucial issue (I use unattended-upgrades as well, so whatever). Yes, functionality and workflows around installation and updates are still insufficient for many use cases, but that
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by InternetOfStuff 6y ago
Chromium silently moved to a snap package some weeks ago. Annoying but harmless: it's start time has multiplied. Workflow-breaking: Chromium now can't see my NFS mounts anymore. It's not just about having a pretty home direct
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by InternetOfStuff 6y ago
> This quote is the best part of the article: > > "You’d never hear anyone say, 'We help mechanical engineers be agile. That would be silly. And I mean that in the worst possible sense of the word". This quote is sil
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by InternetOfStuff 6y ago
Heh, interesting, didn't know that. I was just trying to pick a random example.
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by InternetOfStuff 6y ago
> meaning that they are not updated with security fixes in any systematic manner. Interestingly, that exact thing was always my worry about Snap (or Flatpack) as well. Sure, big-name software such as Spotify will keep their Snap package
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by InternetOfStuff 6y ago
This is a remarkably clueless article. It's clearly written by someone not familiar with the demands of embedded systems. Also, Pis have a not-so-stellar track record as far as reliability, which is why I wouldn't want to use them
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by InternetOfStuff 6y ago
So they do :-D It's getting long in the tooth by Google standards I suppose. Who knows when they'll axe it. I think it's strictly 1:1 (which, I gather, Facetime isn't?). It has good video quality, but what I like most ab
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by InternetOfStuff 6y ago
> Facetime has the best audio/video quality of any conferencing software I've used by a mile. Out of curiosity: can you compare it to Google Duo? Because it has the best quality and stability of any 1:1 product I've ever t
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
Last I tried it, it didn't work on Firefox, and was somewhat unstable. Too bad, really. Loom seemed nice.
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
> Now I find that I rely more and more on brands to decide which things I buy, because I simply cannot trust user reviews in most of the cases. The other day I came across something interesting: two comments, for two different but relate
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
ISTR my Dell USB-C dock can do that (but check for yourself, I might misremember). No idea how well it works with Macs though.
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
> Except recouping the CO2-expenditure of the concrete piston will take a long time. When the idea was described to me it was proposed to carve the piston out of sheer rock (obviously requiring fitting geology).
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
I don't think I subvocalise, I read way faster than I can speak. There's certainly ideas flowing through my mind as I read, but not sounds. It feels like a mixture between words, thoughts and emotions, not a stream of (silently) s
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
Anecdata: I have an Asus ACE mainboard and use ECC RAM with it. Works as advertised.
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
> You can opt out of recaptcha by just boycotting the website which uses it. Ah, I was waiting for somebody to make this argument, which I find somewhat disingenuous given how widespread reCaptcha's use is. With sites I don't
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
> False comparison. Google users are voluntary. Not entirely. I can choose not to use Gmail or similar services. I can opt out of Google ads+tracking only because I'm technically adept enough. I can't (realistically) opt out of
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
>I don't think a single compile cycle per half day Hm... I read this quite differently than you do. Not compile cycles, but actual test-driven product iterations. Do you have more solid sources than I do? https://intensem
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
Speaking as an aeronautical engineer, I disagree. > Engineering systems requires an engineering process and discipline, and agile is just not up to the rigor. Agile just means closing as many feedback feedback loops as you can as early a
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
> Maybe I am wrong in my understanding No, not at all. Just maybe a little... narrow? > observations from testing or using is fed back quite quickly so that fixes can be included in the next sprint. Quite quickly, yes. The next sprint
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
> All that can be changed as well but at some point it gets complicated! Not everything has to be changed, that's just a strawman. But not every detail has to be nailed down at the beginning either. The idea behind Agile is to reduc
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
> However, I still think waterfall is the only approach when trying to design a hardware product. Electronics require pretty specific requirements up front before you design and order boards, obviously mechanical tooling can be even more
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
> And Pulse Audio was started by Pottering but he quickly moved on Which is pretty much what I blame him for. He has a history of starting ambitious (maybe overly so) projects, doing all the fun stuff until it kinda sorta works, and then
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
Thank you for making me aware.
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
I wish the idea that DevOps was a role or activity would die.
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
If like buttons will be disallowed for privacy reasons, shouldn't the same also apply to Google captcha? That would be a relief.
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by InternetOfStuff 7y ago
SEEKING WORK: Embedded/IoT development, development process consulting, product quality consulting Location: Munich, Germany Remote: preferred I'm an experienced (>10 years) software engineer with management experience. I have

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