nicholasjarnold

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by nicholasjarnold 2mo ago
> I don't really have anything to hide While I understand your position, I cannot help myself from posting this response with the hope that more people will consider their own "I have nothing to hide" positions. See https
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by nicholasjarnold 2mo ago
Thanks for the reminder. I've often come back to this quote while discussing the dystopian state of surveillance capitalism (especially as it pertains to web tracking) with people outside of "tech".
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by nicholasjarnold 2mo ago
Cathartic to read this! Just had a very similar experience with a Subaru from the same generation as yours. While that particular issue isn't solvable, I am open to any advice on coding tools that might allow one to unlock other settin
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by nicholasjarnold 8mo ago
Fastmail provides an easy way to migrate [0]. I setup a label in my Fastmail account that will tag all mail coming in from Gmail. Then you go through that list at your leisure and make the requisite contact with the people or services email
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by nicholasjarnold 9mo ago
Postgres supports the Foreign Data Wrapper concept from SQL/MED. If you configure this you can do joins across instances, even! https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/postgres-fdw.html
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by nicholasjarnold 1y ago
So if they are using information people freely share to social media sites as the seeds for their investigatory and enforcement actions it follows that there is a simple trick people can employ or minimize their effectiveness. https:/
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by nicholasjarnold 1y ago
They do, but some seem to be gradually removing functionality (like check deposit via scan + upload) in favor of using their amazingly convenient (/s) app.
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by nicholasjarnold 1y ago
Admittedly, that part was a bit tongue in cheek. Rather, I wish that is "what one does now", as I think we might live in a somewhat nicer world rather than one driven by whatever has been happening as many of us get sucked into
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by nicholasjarnold 1y ago
> Judge me if you must, but the only reason I recently bought a Pixel was because of the intention on sticking GrapheneOS on it the second I got it out of the box. The only judgement is a positive one. I thought this is what one does now
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by nicholasjarnold 1y ago
AMD 6700XT owner here (12Gb VRAM) - Can confirm. Once I figured out my local ROCm setup Ollama was able to run with GPU acceleration no problem. Connecting an OpenWebUI docker instance to my local Ollama server is as easy as a docker run co
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by nicholasjarnold 1y ago
"Flood the zone" => The specific strategy put forth and now enacted by the current US admin in order to overwhelm the media's ability to cover issues and therefore by extension the ability for the public at large to keep t
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by nicholasjarnold 1y ago
I concur. I own a System 76 laptop, and it runs PopOS. It's been stable for years (taking the regular updates). They make a variety of hardware products ranging from portable/lightweight laptop to beefy engineering workstation. (
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by nicholasjarnold 1y ago
Networking perms seem to be required on initial startup of the app. I just installed the apk on a GrapheneOS endpoint (old Pixel 7 Pro) without the Google Play Services installed. The app requires network access to contact Hugging Face and
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by nicholasjarnold 1y ago
> "We were being bullied on our own property." Solution - Refuse to purchase property subject to an HOA. I realize this might not be a tenable solution for some people, and I find that to be a very unfortunate situation. We sho
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Just adding a $0.02 here - I placed an order for the free/gifted-with-subscription Kagi shirt and received it about a month later. Worn twice so far. Largest complaint? It shrank quite a bit in the dryer on medium heat. The search engi
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Same. Kagi has been a breath of fresh air after suffering years of enshittification with other search engines whom are much more interested in your clickstream than providing you with quality results. Good job Kagi et al!
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Exactly. The results of the US Presidential Election in 2024 show us that slightly more than 1 in 5 Americans cast a ballot in favor of Donald Trump. assumptions: The publicly-available vote count numbers are correct and the US has a total
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Agree with your Shelly-behind-the-switch model. My one hesitation going all-in with them has been perhaps reaching an eventual state of "too much 2.4Ghz WiFi traffic on a narrow IoT-specific WiFi network", but I suppose that'
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
> Pedants (which let's face it, most of us are) will often describe what is done in practice as "RESTful" rather than "REST" just to acknowledge that they are not implementing Fielding's definition of REST.
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Gotcha. Yeah, I mean all of these platforms are certainly juicy targets for room 641A [0] shenanigans. I just wondered if there had been some public leaks or something which we might not all be aware of yet. [0] - https://en.wiki
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
I was assuming that it's a loss-leader sort of business strategy at play before reading your comment. Do you care to share any insights/references to support this claim?
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
> When most money exists in digital form in a database somewhere, over time, the concept of real paper money gets that assumption of wrong doing. It's already happening, and it probably just depends on the teller you get. I have no
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
I run Planka in an LXC container on Proxmox, but this looks useful (despite being 'beta') for anyone who just wants an absolutely no frills local-first GUI for simple task management. The README mentions that "Trello wasn&#x2
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
tl;dr No barn doors were actually locked. A series of protocol changes are suggested to specifically address listeria bacteria in food processing plants. Also, conjecture: Closing a barn door would likely not solve any actual food safety is
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Full agree. My wife is a physical therapist (DPT, Northwestern) and the owner of a PT practice. I say this with some (very limited) authority, repeating things she has said to me: 1) Absolutely seek the advice of a good PT. It's not li
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
When you say "SF is pushing a microservices architecture for e-commerce hard", I wonder if you mean they attempt to rope customers into buying into the Mulesoft ecosystem (most of which, btw, is old versions of Spring on old JVM u
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
This is so nostalgic. Many of the engineers at a company I worked for over a decade ago used this one day when our little startup was visited by some Important People. We were so 1337. Haha! Good times. Good Friday post. Thanks.
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
Can confirm. The Coral inference accelerator is quite performant with very low power draw. Once I figured out some passthrough and config issues I was able to run Frigate in an LXC container on Proxmox using Coral USB for inference. It&#x27
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
The article seemed to highlight the inconsistencies or errors in the plugin review process which puts undue burden on developers trying to add value to the ecosystem. It was not about the differences in Manifest v2/3 and the issues wit
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by nicholasjarnold 2y ago
While I agree with your sentiment regarding implementing complex bespoke logic, I think there are likely measurable gains when an experienced engineer is operating outside of their current comfort zone. Allow me an anecdote - I was recently

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