NickBusey

"50 hour work week" Is that a typo?

Yes.

> In 2013, 50,000 people suffered fatal brain injuries; 19 percent of those were due to car crashes. Among persons aged 5 to 24, motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death from fatal TBI (Traumatic brain injury). It’s likely that a good proportion of the 9,500 people might have been saved had they been wearing a helmet in the car.

https://www.treehugger.com/cars/why-all-cars-should-be-hi-vi...

https://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/get_the_facts.html

The data disagree with you.

I'm curious why you think a helmet wouldn't do much in a car crash, seeing as in any car race every driver is wearing a helmet.

I created a Telegram bot for one of my apps, but had to remove Telegram from my phone/computer after their terrible handling of Facebook linking. I made the mistake of linking my Telegram account to my Facebook account, which gave me the wonderful 'feature' of getting a notification any time one of my (due to the linked account being promotional) thousands of friends joined Telegram. These notifications play at any time of the day or night, and there is no way to disable them. Removing the app was my only recourse as a chat app without notifications is pretty useless.

I am the CTO of Grownetics and we are about to open source our stack. https://grownetics.co/

That diagram is anything but “clear”.

Hmm interesting, thanks. That is all GHG emissions though. I wonder if there are numbers around buying produce or meat at the store, how much of the GHG emissions tied to that product are agricultural vs the packaging, transportation, etc.

In other words, how big of a difference does 'buying local' have when buying food? Just wondering aloud, not necessarily asking anyone in particular.

Not plant Barley? Hate to tell you, but when they said 'malting' that means 'malted barley' as in the primary ingredient in beer. We are not going to stop planting that any time soon.

I don't doubt this is true in the least, but do you have a source I could provide to others?

"Driving a wildly painted car is like using my real name on the internet.

Is it uncomfortable?

Yeah. Sometimes it is. Honesty and transparency can be searing. But it’s also real."

https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS can do this easily. Here's a video tutorial for the pi specifically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy6Xfl5b5z4

They have been owned by Equifax for a while now, not sure startup is even an accurate term for CK, let alone why that would matter.

Edit: Ok, they may not be owned by Equifax, but they are 10+ years old with 700 employees and over $500 million in revenue in 2016. I don't know what definition of 'startup' you use, but that doesn't meet my definition.

Or tro tros in west Africa.

You by no means have to give your real information.

I recommend using something like Bitwarden's passphrase generator so all your answers are things like `concise myth bird`.

This way they are A: actually secure, and B: easily pronounceable, so that just saying "a bunch of letters and numbers" to a phone tech shouldn't work as I've heard people complain can happen when using normal passwords (e.g., c9b21s1qzs) for these fields.

Just a note that there are many solutions for automated installation of VPN on home machines. HomelabOS (https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS) is one of them, Algo (https://github.com/trailofbits/algo) is another.

Yea, not sure how this is a feature. I want to prove my loyalty so I'll waste a bunch of what will soon be your money buying you a temporary ring?

I made an engagement ring from a coconut husk in about ten seconds and it did the trick just fine. No need to spend any money really, let alone the "three month's pay" rule of thumb that gets tossed around.

Tried it. While the interface looks 'nicer' at first glance, it fits far less content on the screen. It also had more of an email-y vibe while Zulip has more a chat-y vibe, which I personally prefer.

Beyond that, Zulip is open source and self-hostable, while Twist is not.

Side note, we have a chat about self-hosting set up on Zulip at https://homelabos.zulipchat.com/ with 85 members and growing. It's been great for new users to be able to come in and catch up on old discussions in a way that isn't possible with non-threaded platforms.

For everyone telling them you can turn that feature off, for the Xbox app at least, I assure you that you cannot.

Yup. Been using it as a daily driver for a while now as a 1Password replacement. Does everything I need.

How was it disingenuous? It is not a 'plug' it is a very relevant link. Being disingenuous would be to say "Hey guys, don't mean to plug my website, but here's my basket weaving blog."

It has 2 paragraphs devoted on how to get local advice under "Get to know your climate".

Check out HomelabOS to help install a bunch of services that can be useful to have on a file server. Many of them are mentioned elsewhere in this thread. It currently has over 50 services you can optionally enable.

The idea is you download it, you run `make`, it asks you a few questions, and then you have a working Dockerized deployment configured via Ansible, with versionable configuration.

https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS

Please open source this.

This is great, thanks!

Not sure why you are being down voted, this is a fantastic list of things this country desperately needs to improve upon.

Personally I think the problem with a lot of these kind of Patreon setups is they are generally pitched as "I once wrote some very useful software, and sometimes I maintain it."

While that's great and all, for me at least it doesn't justify why I should send them money every month.

I think the Open Source model needs to evolve, and if these people want monthly income, they should be "showing their work" a lot more. Put out a regular (weekly or more often) YouTube or blog series. Maybe stream your work on Twitch (like I do :) ). Provide some active community involvement. Then I would be far more inclined to donate to someone, rather than having to wonder all the time if I'm paying for them to work on this stuff, or if I'm paying them so they can go on an extra vacation next year for work they completed years ago and have mostly ignored since then.

As someone who also jumped on the Meteor bandwagon, and is now stuck maintaining a project created with it, run away and do not look back.

It is not being maintained by anyone as far as I can tell, more and more packages are breaking by the week it seems like, and the basic 'features' listed 'on the box' of Meteor have never worked.

Save yourself some headache and pick a stack with an active community.

Give a closed source app my bank credentials? No thanks.

Is there a reason the file needs a License when the whole repo already has it?