That’s my data, I don’t know you!

The adoption of IPv6 on some segments of the Internet has lessened the crisis around IPv4 availability.

I use Ansible on WSL to run Powershell scripts on Windows using VSCode. I’m surprised it works as well as it does.

For 99% of people an online password manager like Bitwarden or LastPass is going to significantly help them manage passwords securely despite the risks associated with cloud services. Most people can’t handle self hosting Bitwarden or syncing a Keepass database by themselves. Without an easy to access and easy to use online option people will revert to significantly riskier methods like password reuse or using some sort of repeatable/guessable pattern.

For the 1% of people who want more security there are options like Vaultwarden or Keepass. Even then it’s not uncommon to make mistakes and lose data/access or leave some sort of vulnerability exposed. The attack surface is a lot smaller than a public service though which is beneficial.

Exactly. Explaining to a computer what a photo of a dog looks like is super hard. Every rule you can come up with has exceptions or edge cases. But if you show it millions of dog pictures and millions of not-dog pictures it can do a pretty decent job of figuring it out when given a new image it hasn’t seen before.

No, the pi zero is not going to be capable of running a Lemmy instance. I wouldn’t recommend running it on a Pi at all unless you plan to store files on an SSD. I currently run my very tiny instance with just two users on a vpc with two CPU cores and 4gb of RAM but I still occasionally have performance issues.

Are you sure you’re not already a programmer?

This is slightly different than a time loop, but check out Coherence.

Right now I export it periodically to an encrypted flash drive but I know that isn’t sufficient. I run Vaultwarden and back up all my docker volumes hourly and replicate to S3 nightly.

Theoretically I should be able to recover but I need some off those passwords to do so. Ideally local caching or one of my exports should be sufficient but I haven’t had time to actually test this.

The questions on AskReddit always seemed slightly horny.

What you’re describing is broader in scope but has a lot in common with Kenshi.

Geocaching is great! I haven’t done it actively in a while but occasionally I’ll find a cache that someone else must have found and not understood what they had uncovered. I try to find the cache online and then rehide it.

I took the same course about ten years ago. The networking fundamentals I learned in that class are skills I use regularly but the Cisco-specific stuff I forgot almost immediately. I work on Cisco equipment every so often at work, but I manage by reading the documentation and using some Google-fu.

Mostly you need to know the basics. Can you look at an IP and subnet mask and figure out what IPs are in that range? A lot of junior engineers I work with struggle with these concepts and it makes it very difficult to troubleshoot problems.

For self hosting your home network should probably be simpler unless you want a real lab for learning Enterprise gear. I self host everything in Docker and Docker networking adds additional complexity, particularly if you use VLANs too. I wanted to set up wake-on-lan so I could remotely power on a server and it would have been a real struggle without knowing some networking basics to figure out how those packets would travel across those networks.

My advice is to really focus on learning the networking basics, you’ll use those everywhere. Don’t get too hung up on memorizing iOS commands or things like configuring BGP routing unless you’re planning to get certs or become a networking engineer.

Kangaroo. I’m sure they’d thrive and be a pain in the ass but they look cool.

I have a mating pair of foxes that live right next to my house in a small unmaintained area. I spot them pretty regularly in the early morning and it’s kind of a fun treat. They nab a lot of bunnies from my yard.

Bloodborne is when the Souls games finally clicked for me. Damn is it brutal though.

When I served in the King’s African Rifles, the local Zambezi tribesman called human flesh “long pig.”

Never much cared for it.

Oh so you think you’re too cool for that? You’ve never looked at a jar and thought “I wonder what that would feel like in my ass?”

It will sometimes wipe your static IP configuration and switch it to DHCP which could theoretically fix something, but I’ve only ever seen this break things instead.

Thank you! I was looking into running this a week or two ago when I was doing some maintenance but I gave up and shelved the project for later due to the complexity. My Lemmy instance is running in AWS and I’m going to have to put some work into my network setup on both ends to be able to connect to a computer with a GPU at home.

I’m glad the community is working to resolve some of these issues. Hopefully some of this will get easier and more cost-effective.