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ticoombs··on What I Self-Host
Docker containers are fine. I've moved between 5 NAS' over the years and docker has enabled it to be seemless.

rsync data directories. docker compose up. Done.

On the consumer or even prosumer nas products which have a semi-locked down system (ie Truenas/qnap/Synology). Technically you have root but as soon as you update the OS all/most of the changes end up being broken. Yes you could probably do something and deal with it. But personally I've spent too long babysitting it on the first and second nas that I no longer care.

ticoombs··on GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
While you're doing that check out Immich - https://immich.app

One of the best solutions I've ever used for photos, backups, enrichment, etc

ticoombs··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
They have killed old.reddit now. It forces you (or at least me) to login. Same with regular Reddit. Most threads I get an authwall after the top comment.

(Im now entirely on HN and Lemmy)

ticoombs··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Can confirm. Also use glider which seems to double encode. I have to open the comment in Firefox/browser and then click on the link
ticoombs··on DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
> does it make a difference

Probably not.

But Opencode-Go is a great solution for those who don't want to pay DeepSeek directly (or can't due to reasons)

Selfish referral code: https://opencode.ai/go?ref=R1AJZT4VBX

ticoombs··on GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents
Opencode Go subscription has served me well.
ticoombs··on The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion
Alpha codes don't allow replies. As such if you need to reply it has to be from a number
ticoombs··on Voxtype – Push-to-Talk Voice-to-Text for Linux and macOS
Been using this with Omarchy and have not been disappointed
ticoombs··on Instagram's URL Blackhole
I have blocked medium.com because of that. Same as the SEO spam dev.to.

It's actually interesting how often I end up seeing the uBlock 'blocked' page because of it. And how blind I end up being to the serp domains.

I of course can click the bypass button on a case by case basis.

ticoombs··on Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
Ditto. No issues at all that my friends did not experience as well. (Long download/patching times).
ticoombs··on NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut
Do you have any acticles or references about this? That would be great research (pun intended) to find out
ticoombs··on Backing up Spotify
They have marked the repo as noindex (or GitHub is forcing a noindex header).

Its returning a noindex flag so every serp is correctly doing what the repo has been asked.

That is... except for brave! I checked on my searx instance and it still showed up in brave's results

ticoombs··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
I migrated to forgejo a few years ago and never looked back. While there are some edge cases and known issues. All of my actions "just worked".
ticoombs··on Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received
https://web.archive.org/web/20251103183803/https://guestbook...

Was hugged to death for me.

ticoombs··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
Yes. Nearly every game is compatible. Checkout protondb.com and check the games you play.

Anything that has a kernel level anti check (Valorant) will always be a resounding No. But besides from that, everything is pretty damn nice.

ticoombs··on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
Checkout https://github.com/meeb/tubesync
ticoombs··on Pass: Unix Password Manager
I solve this by Syncthing running on all clients. Very rarely do I ever have a problem with conflicts. Only if I add a new pass while my phone is offline and then make another edit on my computer would there be an issue. I think it only happened once, and that was because I did it on purpose to see what happened.

Turns out syncthing creates a .conflict file and then I tell keepassxc to do a merge on the two files and then we are back to normal.

ticoombs··on iPhone Air
(side note) And the folding phone will be a "Apple First".

I wonder if they still still have a stupid camera notch on the device. They is no point (to me) have a thin phone even you end up having a 5mm notch the size of your phone

ticoombs··on Turning Claude Code into my best design partner
I used to joke about prompt engineering. But by jiminy it is a thing now. I swear sometimes I waste a good 10-20minutes writing up a good prompt and initial plan just so that claudecode can systematically implement something.

My usage is nearly the same as OP. Plan plan plan save as a file and then new context and let it rip.

That's the one thing I'd love, a good cli (currently using charm and cc) which allows me to have an implementation model, a plan model and (possibly) a model per sub agent. Mainly so I can save money by using local models for implementation and online for plans or generation or even swapping back. Charm has been the closest I've used so far allowing me to swap back and forth and not lose context. But the parallel sub-agent feature is probably one of the best things claudecode has.

(Yes I'm aware of CCR, but could never get it to use more than the default model so :shrug:)

ticoombs··on Save the web freely – wallabag: a self hostable application for saving web pages
A great self host alternative to pocket
ticoombs··on You might not need WebSockets
I always try and push back on those beliefs, about reasonings why they believe it will be faster or more efficient than some other solution.

I've found , if you could type cast those people, they would be a tech architect who only uses "web scale" items. (Relevant link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GpOfwbFRcs )

ticoombs··on Railroad Tycoon II
If your willing to try /r/homelab and /r/selfhost have great wikis and are good enough entry points to start you on your way.

There is a lot you can do with a rPi and an 8TB HDD!

ticoombs··on AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched
> 500w is only for... 128/196 chips. The 16 core fast sku has a 320W TDP.

When you think about it. 180W more for 7x threads is amazing

ticoombs··on PostgreSQL 17
I use this for my Lemmy instance & lemmy-ansible and it's been great! No longer having to support upgrade scripts and write a complete upgrade process[1] for people to follow has made my life a lot easier! Amazing product

- [1] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/blob/main/UPGRADIN...

ticoombs··on U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction
Anna's Archive has a complete repository on how they have it setup.

https://software.annas-archive.se/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...

ticoombs··on Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
It also proxies images, which I think is the actual reason (sic). So there is no way from a network point of view to disallow pornographic material on public access terminals. Though, I have not recently looked at how the other search engines do it.

As a long time DDG user, the image filter isn't perfect and occasionally I'll see NSFW images even when I have safe search on.

ticoombs··on Seoul authorities find Shein products contain high levels of toxic chemicals
> In the latest round, they selected eight products sold by Shein, including children's shoes, leather bags and a belt and found several to contain high amounts of phthalates – chemicals used to soften plastics. One pair of shoes contained 428 times the permitted levels of phthalates – the highest observed so far during the Seoul inspections – and three bags had amounts as high as 153 times the limit, the city government said.

That's not great.

>So far, Seoul authorities have said they have inspected 93 products and found that almost half of them contained toxic substances. These items include children's watches and coloring pencils.

Shien's now on the blacklist as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't want anything like that around kids...

ticoombs··on What contributing to Open-source is, and what it isn't
UI is honestly what a lot of open source projects need work on. The fact you took the time, made mocks and contributed to the documentation is amazing!

People forget that there are more items to maintaining a product than writing code.

ticoombs··on President Speaking: Spoofing Alerts in 4G LTE Networks (2019) [pdf]
HA!

In a serious note, this will most likely never be patched. SS7 vulnerabilities have been know for even longer but the sheer effort needed to collaborate between every single company, manufacturer and policy makers make it a non starter.

Also having the possibility of making it so all old phones no longer get these messages could also be an accessibility problem that gets whomever tries to run with it kicked out of office.

With current climates being 3/4 years max in office with the possibility the next person will scrap whatever you do... makes it a hard problem to solve.

ticoombs··on Safely open apps on your Mac
Are you also on F-Droid?
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