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midasz··on An odd discovery on Spotify
As a father of a young child, Spotify's algo's are completely useless to me. If their ML is so smart it should be able to determine that Row row row your boat doesn't mix well with Anthrax. Wish I'd be able to toggle 'don't recommend kids music' somewhere.
midasz··on HBO Max pulls nearly 200 ‘Sesame Street’ episodes
> Jackett

Prowlarr is the new cool kid in town

midasz··on Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?
When my kid was born I wanted to have a day off with her every week, so I just asked for 36 hours so I could work 4x9. I was so used to working 40 hours I thought the jump to 32 would be too much. How wrong I was haha.. 4x9 with a kid is not doable unless your partner can also be flexible. Asked to go down to 32 hours, was asked if I could hold on for a month since a new engineer was joining and said OK.

The cut in salary is 100% worth it to spend a day with my daughter. I feel happier.

midasz··on Facebook Gave Police Teenager's DMs in Abortion Prosecution
Sorry but are you really saying 'easily' and 'given birth' after eachother? Have you ever witnessed a birth? And how do you know it would have gone on to live a completely normal life? What kind of disney movie do you live in?
midasz··on Spain bans setting the AC below 27 degrees Celsius
Probably because you didn't grow up with Celcius. Celcius makes sense because it's based on water, 0 is freezing and 100 is boiling. What's Fahrenheit based on? Anything we use in our daily lives?
midasz··on PiBox: a tiny personal server for self-hosting
Everything I run on my home server is through docker (compose). The data directories are mounted via NFS on my NAS - that data gets backed up to Amazon Glacier (in case my house burns down or something) + an external HDD plugged into the NAS.

This already solves a lot of issues imo. If something goes down it's not the end of the world. If the machine dies all I have to do is mount the NFS shares and run the compose files.

midasz··on Gitea 1.17.0 is released – includes package registry support
Ah sorry, Drone CI (https://www.drone.io/) in order to run automated tests / builds from repo's in gitea. Gitea does not require it but even in my homelab setup I like to auto build / test the stuff I commit.
midasz··on Gitea 1.17.0 is released – includes package registry support
Also running OneDev. Looks pretty, is fast, not having to setup Drone is a big plus. Loving it.
midasz··on Assassin’s Creed Liberation delisted, unplayable even to owners starting Sept 1
Primal? Maybe it just wasn't for you but that's one of my favorites. There are so few stone-age games around and Primal was just great.
midasz··on TikTok confirms it is using Oracle infrastructure in the US
It really doesn't matter where you're from, my country will spy on you and your country on me. Then they just exchange info. Loophole. Tada.
midasz··on New EU rules on car speed limiters coming into force
Are there so many unmapped roads in the US? Or are there arbitrary variants of limits?

I use Waze in NL and so far, for every road it knows the limit.

midasz··on New EU rules on car speed limiters coming into force
I prefer to quickly get past someone so that even faster traffic can also proceed. It's more dangerous to keep 2 lanes occupied while a line of cars is pushing behind you. It's a fact that some cars will go fast, better to let them pass. Obviously still being safe while speeding... If someone in the right lane is going 95km/hr, I'm willing to speed up to around 105-108km/hr - it's perfectly safe.

The reasons other cars want to go fast/exceed the limit is not really something I worry about. What if they're going to the hospital? What if they're undercover cops getting to a scene? What if they just want to get to work fast? I don't care. I care about my safety, so better get out of their way safely. If I notice someone coming up behind me with 120km/hr in a 100km/hr zone, I am 100% speeding up so I can move out of their way. If I don't, all that's going to happen is them having to brake hard, causing other behind them to brake out of instinct... It's the fault of the person speeding of course, but people at fault aren't the only ones getting hurt by their actions.

midasz··on Twitter Ban
This is a Jordan Peterson video, would be great if you could put that in the title so we could avoid it. I'm going to blame you if I get his bullshit recommended to me now.
midasz··on Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed
One of the many reasons to use a redirect extension or something to replace medium with scribe, e.g. https://scribe.rip/ft-product-technology/designing-a-sustain... - compare that experience
midasz··on Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal
Another example is Facepacks for Football Manager, those are in the tens of GBs. Torrents are a great way to share them around.
midasz··on Ask HN: Cheap VPS with 1TB HDD?
Really easy to use changedetection.io to snipe one of these. Did it a few weeks ago, they become available rather often but indeed disappear within a couple of minutes.
midasz··on I quit my Netflix engineer $450k/year job, money wasn't worth the boredom
Worked for me, here's an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220602062723/https://www.busin...
midasz··on The end of Roe will bring about a sea change in the encryption debate
The ability to control a womans body is apparently deemed pretty important though so...
midasz··on Are film critics losing sync with audiences?
I could eat a peach for hours..
midasz··on Ask HN: Anyone highlight text as they read?
Yeah I always tripple click things I read, always have. Drove a coworker of mine nuts because he just hears clickerclickclick all the time. I just do it mindlessly. I think it helps me focus? I tried to abstain from it for the sake of the coworker but it was really hard to focus.

Edit: This is also why I don't read articles on medium. Before I know it I've shared half a sentence or a word to twitter or some shit.

midasz··on NotepadNext: A cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
I love this guy
midasz··on The Personal Security Checklist
Just set this up yesterday for my selfhosted services, it's a pleasure to use!
midasz··on Netflix plans to start charging for password sharing, and customers aren't happy
We're definitely getting to the point where piracy is getting more convenient than paying again. At one point I was paying for Netflix, prime, disney+, and videoland (a Dutch VOD service). There was a show my wife wanted to watch so I check it on the well-marketed "don't steal, get a subscription - everything is available :)" service film.nl. Not available.

I do some googling and it's available on Prime, for $20 a season. Fine. Whatever. Go to checkout but can't pay because I need a US bank account?

Next weekend I spent a bit of time setting up the arrs and life has been great. Open Overseerr on my phone, request a TV show or movie, arrs do their magic, and within ~10-60 minutes I can watch it on any of my devices through Plex. The ecosystem of Overseerr, Sonarr/Radarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr, Plex.. and whatever *downloadclient+vpn) is just super well integrated. This all being a bunch of simple docker-compose files makes it accessible for anyone who has a little bit of technical skills and a free afternoon.

I still have spotify but honestly also thinking of cancelling it, I'm stuck in my bubble anyway. Paying 10 euros a month for the same few albums just isn't worth it.

midasz··on Mapping and Seizing the Oligarchs' Assets
More precise targeting??? With cluster bombs???
midasz··on Some tiny personal programs I've written
Otherwise you've got Bazarr which fits into the whole *arr stack
midasz··on Dutch antitrust authority fines Apple for fifth time
Stereotypical American comment haha, bigger is better. NL really isn't a small player in the EU nor in the global market.
midasz··on Show HN: Spodcast, a Spotify podcast to RSS proxy
I really dislike using Spotify for podcasts since I already have a proper podcast app (Podcast Addict), so some shows I like to follow that have gone spotify-exclusive just completely drop off my radar (e.g. Last Podcast on the Left). This is a great solution. Any chance you'd offer a docker image for easy deployment?
midasz··on Windows 11: Just say no
I've got a Lenovo x1 xtreme and I dual boot Windows 10 + Arch. I haven't used Windows in so long, the last time I tried it was so insanely slow I don't know how people deal with it. Arch with GNOME is super snappy.
midasz··on UsTaxes – open-source tax filing web application
Your government should just offer something like this. In my country I just check the data they collected to make sure it's correct (and until now it always has been) and click 'OK' - taxes done.
midasz··on It doesn't take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate
How often are you writing binary search algorithms hahah, is it like your variant of a doodle?
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