schizo

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Yeah, I noticed that.

It's on my to-do list for next week since I should have time to sort that out/file a bug if it's something that's not a configuration error.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Uh, don't do that if you expect your mail to be delivered.

Multiple PTRs, depending on how the DNS service is set up, may be returned in round-robin fashion, and if you return a PTR that doesn't match what your HELO claims you are, then congrats on your mail being likely tossed in the trash.

Pick the most accurate name (that is, match your HELO domain), and only set one PTR.

(Useless fact of the day: multiple A records behave the same way and you can use that as a poverty-spec version of a load balancer.)

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

sports streaming subscriptions

Use an antenna

I'm not a sports fan, but this is like the 3rd time in the last week I've seen someone say they only have something for sports but also have OTA tv.

...can you not watch sports OTA anymore or something?

Like, back in the 1900s when I was a kid, everything was broadcast and you could pretty much always just turn on the tv at the appropriate time on the appropriate network and get your baseball/basketball/hockey/soccer/football/etc game.

people’s literal existence are now being political and sensitive

Insert always has been meme here.

The major difference between the 1920s or 30s or 40s or 50s or 60s or etc. and now is simply which people's existence is being pushed as a political issue and that we've ceded control of the media to giant corporations who have an overriding incentive to make nobody mad ever because if they don't, they'll lose advertiser money because you can't do anything without half the population disliking you.

That, and we have allowed fascists to control the discussion for decades, rather than stomping them like they rightfully deserve.

Twitch is very much in the wrong here, but let's not pretend that telling people they're not allowed to talk about one minority group or another is somehow new.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

sudo smartctl -a /dev/yourssd

You're looking for the Media_Wearout_Indicator which is a percentage starting at 100% and going to 0%, with 0% being no more spare sectors available and thus "failed". A very important note here, though, is that a 0% drive isn't going to always result in data loss.

Unless you have the shittiest SSD I've ever heard of or seen, it'll almost certainly just go read-only and all your data will be there, you just won't be able to write more data to the drive.

Also you'll probably be interested in the Total_LBAs_Written variable, which is (usually) going to be converted to gigabytes and will tell you how much data has been written to the drive.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I had a similar issue (different media types but) where Jellyfin would not, for any bleeping reason, update the metadata to reflect changes in the media.

After an annoying amount of fiddling I just yanked the library in it's entirety (as in, it was deleted) and then re-added it and on the new-library-scan everything updated.

Annoying, and maybe not entirely viable depending on how your library is structured - I have ~6 libraries for different things, so it wasn't that big of an issue - but it did resolve it.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

thought more than 2%

What confuses me is a survey earlier this year was 2.32%, so why the actual regression?

I'd have expected it to go up with more time to sell steam decks and whatnot, not regress by 15%.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 12 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Hell, maybe not since 1997!

Office 2000 was peak office: it had the definitive version of Clippit, and every actually useful feature you'll probably ever need to type and edit any sort of document.

...I will say, though, that Excel has improved for the weirdos that want 100,000 row spreadsheets since then, but I mean, that's a small group of people who need serious help.

This has nothing to do with anything, but whatever.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 1 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

As a FunFact(TM), you're more likely to have the SSD controller die than the flash wear out at this point.

Even really cheap SSDs will do hundreds and hundreds of TB written these days, and on a normal consumer workload we're talking years and years and years and years of expected lifespan.

Even the cheap SSDs in my home server have been fine: they're pushing 5 years on this specific build, and about 200 TBW on the drives and they're still claiming 90% life left.

At that rate, I'll be dead well before those drives fail, lol.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Iran’s allies, called the “Axis of Resistance” by Tehran

Nothing bad has happened when a group of military belligerents have called themselves the Axis, right?

Hell I almost got snagged by one recently, and a goodly portion of my last job was dealing with phishing sites all day.

They've gotten good with making things look like a proper email from a business that would be sending that kind of email, and if you're distracted and expecting something you can have at least a moment of 'oh this is probably legitimate'.

The giveaway was, hilariously, a case of using 'please kindly' and 'needful' which uh, aren't something this particular company would have actually used as phraseology in an email, so saved by scammers not realizing that americans at least don't actually use those two phrases in conversation.

I just uh, wrote a bash script that does it.

It dumps databases as needed, and then makes a single tarball of each service. Or a couple depending on what needs doing to ensure a full backup of the data.

Once all the services are backed up, I just push all the data to a S3 bucket, but you could use rclone or whatever instead.

It's not some fancy cool toy kids these days love like any of the dozens of other backup options, but I'm a fan of simple and well, a couple of tarballs in a S3 bucket is about as simple as it gets since restoring doesn't require any tools or configuration or anything: just snag the tarballs you need, unarchive them, done.

I also use a couple of tools for monitoring the progress and a separate script that can do a full restore to make sure shit works, but that's mostly just doing what you did to make and upload the tarballs backwards.

 

Made this mostly because I've found putting RSS feeds into Lemmy useful since my doom-scrolling has reduced to just Lemmy and figured I'm probably not the only person that'd find this useful.

It's pulling 6 RSS feeds that provide free games for Steam, Gog, Epic, and Humble.

Nothing shockingly world-changing, but hey, free games.

!freegames@forum.uncomfortable.business

 

I've been meaning to turn a good portion of the back yard into a garden for food and food-related plants (herbs) since I moved in..... 4 years ago.

So, really plan on doing it over the winter for next year so I can plant in the spring.

I'm mostly planning "easy" plants: Zuchinni, squashes, onions, carrots, potatoes, broccoli, peas, maybe cucumbers etc.

The question, though, is what's the best way to like, do a raised bed?

Google has helpfully offered up what looks like a non-stop barrage of AI generated nonsense, but I'm figuring some sort of cement blocks for the corners and some un-treated boring white pine (or whatever's cheapest at the local lumber yard) wood for the sides.

The questions are, I guess, is what exactly is the correct thing to buy to fill these since I'm planning on making something like 4 or 5 large raised beds and like, what extremely obvious things am I overlooking that'll result in this being less success and more of a typical my-project-failed?

 

So I'm looking for a laptop, but before you downvote and move on, I've got a twist: I'm looking for a laptop with Linux support that's going to intentionally be console-only and rely on TUIs to make a lower-distraction device.

I was looking at older Thinkpads with 4:3 screens and the good keyboard before Lenovo went all chicklet with them, but I'm kinda concluding they're both way too expensive AND way too old to be a reasonable choice at this point.

A X220 or T40-whatever would be great and be the perfect aesthetic, but they're expensive, hard to find parts for, and using enough crusty old shit that this becomes yet another delve into retro computing and not one into practical, useful computing which is the goal here.

So, anyone have any recommendations of any devices in the last decade that have a reasonable keyboard, screen, use modern enough components that you can source new drives and RAM and batteries and such, and preferably aren't coated in a coating that's going to turn to sticky goo?

Thin(ner) and light(er) would be nice, but probably not a dealbreaker if the rest of the pieces align. This will be almost entirely used at a table for writing and such.

 

So not entirely music related, but my don't-use-reddit policy and this looking like the closest not entirely dead community has led me to post sooo...

I have an audio question about recording levels. I'm doing voice-over stuff for some really bad Youtube videos I'd like to make and it never sounds remotely good.

I get that the recording volume should be just the green side of clipping, but how do you take a track, and then add it to other tracks and balance the whole thing to not sound like ass?

It always seems that it's either too loud or too quiet and I'm baffled as to how to tweak the mix correctly so that things sound right.

 

Basically, the court said that algorithmically selected content doesn't qualify for Section 230 protections, which could be a massive impact to every social media platform out there that has any sort of algorithm selecting content, which, well, is all of them.

Definitely something that's going to be interesting watching play out.

 

I have a question for the hive mind: what is the point of this, exactly?

I mean, I understand the attempt to gain access, and I understand why 2fa codes can be valuable to attempt to phish but that's like, not the thing here.

They just spam dozens to hundreds of these (I'm showing over 400 in my inbox right now) but like, even if I WANTED to give these codes to the attacker, I have no damn clue who the dude in China that's doing this is.

I'm confused as to what they hope to gain by trying over and over and over every couple of hours because it feels like there's no upside to whomever is running this bot, but I probably have missed a memo on some TTP around this, heh.

 

So I've got a home server that's having issues with services flapping and I'm trying to figure out what toolchain would be actually useful for telling me why it's happening, and not just when it happened.

Using UptimeKuma, and it's happy enough to tell me that it couldn't connect or a 503 happened or whatever, but that's kinda useless because the service is essentially immediately working by the time I get the notice.

What tooling would be a little more detailed in to the why, so I can determine the fault and fix it?

I'm not sure if it's the ISP, something in my networking configuration, something on the home server, a bad cable, or whatever because I see nothing in logs related to the application or the underlying host that would indicate anything even happened.

It's also not EVERY service on the server at once, but rather just one or two while the other pile doesn't alert.

In sort: it's annoying and I'm not really making headway for something that can do a better job at root-cause-ing what's going on.

 

Just got an email thanking me for being a 5-node/free user, but Portainer isn't free and I need to stop being a cheap-ass and pay them because blah blah economic times enshittification blah blah blah.

I've moved off them a while ago, but figured I'd see if they emailed EVERYONE about this?

A good time to ditch them if you haven't, I suppose.

 

I'm wanting to add a bunch of energy monitoring stuff so I can both track costs, and maybe implement automation to turn stuff on and off based on power costs and timing.

I'm using some TPlink based plugs right now which are like, fine, but I'm wanting to add something like 6 to 10 more monitoring devices/relays.

Anyone have experience with a bunch of shelly devices and if there's any weird behavior I should be aware of?

Assume I have good enough wifi to handle adding another 10 devices to it, but beyond that any gotchas?

 

Saw an older post asking about ArcaOS and BBS stuff, and since I actually just did a rebuild of mine doing exactly that on newer hardware, figured I'd write about all the stupid shit I had to deal with and how to configure the OS in a blog and post it here if anyone is interested.

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