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otl , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Pi-Hole Pi4 Docker Deployment

Sorry guys I’m out of the loop - could someone explain this?

otl , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Should I move to Docker?

I think learning how to make packages for package managers is also becoming less popular :(

Even learning how to do the simplest thing possible that is easy to package by anybody - something like a tarball or zip - is becoming less popular :(

otl , 6 months ago to technology in More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’

omg that is sssooooo exaggerated like 1000% take that back pls

otl , 6 months ago to technology in More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’

Back in 2005, I never would have thought YouTube would be so popular as it is now. But here we are over 15 years later. Teens probably think Facebook is uncool, and apparently they’re not all on Instagram “almost constantly” the same way as TikTok. Yet there is YouTube, chugging along, hugely popular for young and old.

otl , 6 months ago to technology in Beeper Mini Is Back

Cross-platform clients, yes, but that’s only a (small) part of the way there. For example, Signal is actively hostile to other client implementations just like Apple is with iMessage, unfortunately :(

otl , 6 months ago to technology in Beeper Mini Is Back

I’ve found this feature mostly reliable. Those times where it doesn’t work, or I’m travelling, or don’t have phone reception is kinda annoying. But being able to just use my Mac is fantastic.

otl , 6 months ago to technology in Beeper Mini Is Back

It’s really about interoperability of systems, protocols, services, and clients. Since we’re both using Lemmy I assume we both understand at least a bit about the significance of interoperability.

I think it’s a shame that effort is put in to reverse engineering.

otl , 6 months ago to technology in OpenAI leaders warned of abusive behavior before Sam Altman’s ouster

I don’t think it is clear that everyone wanted to follow to Microsoft: businessinsider.com/openai-employees-did-not-want…

otl , 7 months ago to selfhosted in Forgejo v1.21 is available

Hey no problem :) I totally understand and read through the linked README. FWIW I find the fact that Lemmy is in Rust, pretty… tricky. Getting Lemmy to run on my OpenBSD server started with a couple of crazy segfaults!

otl , 7 months ago to linux in Using an iPad as a second monitor (wired)

Time to turn your laptop into a router! Let’s say you’ve got 2 network interfaces on your laptop, eth0 and wifi0. wifi0 is joined to your university WiFi as normal. Connect your iPad to your laptop via ethernet (with a USB-C adapter).

<span style="color:#323232;">iPad -> usb-c-ethernet -> eth0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">wifi0 -> internet
</span>

Rather than setting up a DHCP server or IPv6 stuff, I’d just configure the wired interfaces manually. Let’s use the network 192.168.69.0/24. Laptop will be 192.168.69.1, iPad will be at 192.168.69.2. On the laptop:

<span style="color:#323232;">ip addr add 192.168.69.1/24 dev eth0
</span>

On your iPad, go to Settings -> Ethernet:

• address: 192.168.69.2
• subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
• router: 192.168.69.1

Curious to see if that works. We haven’t set up DNS or DHCP or done any sysctl for IP forwarding or any nftables.

How can we test if it works? We can set up a TCP listener using nc(1) on the laptop that the iPad’s web browser could hit. On the laptop:

<span style="color:#323232;">nc -l 8080
</span>

On your iPad, open Safari and browse to 192.168.69.1:8080

Curious to see if that all works!

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See also:

• man.openbsd.org/nc
• man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ip.8.html

otl , 7 months ago to technology in Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company

Especially with their sizes: Broadcom has 20,000 employees and VMWare has 38,000.

otl , 7 months ago to technology in Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company

“As part of integration planning, and following an organizational needs assessment, we identified go-forward roles that will be required within the combined company.”

Totally devoid of any humanity. Corporate jargon freaks me out. It shouldn’t, but it really gets to me.

otl , 7 months ago to selfhosted in Build a Thinkcentre or try to fiddle with VMs?

You may be able to run a torrent client on the NAS?

otl , 7 months ago to selfhosted in Forgejo v1.21 is available

I don’t know about other people, but I find these comments noisy. I’d rather just see replies to the post from actual people.

otl , 7 months ago to asklemmy in People have been cleaning their ears with cotton swabs for years. What other tools are being inadvertently used wrong?

whoopsie