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  1. Comment on Inline image support in ~tildes

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    Please no. Going to immediately clutter discussions/be used for memes regardless of intention. I think I'd be ok with a show/hide link to view a linked image inline but really do not want images...

    Please no.

    Going to immediately clutter discussions/be used for memes regardless of intention. I think I'd be ok with a show/hide link to view a linked image inline but really do not want images displayed inline by default.

    36 votes

  2. Comment on New gaming PCs - price sanity check and recommendations? in ~games

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    When comparing GPUs nothing can compete with actual benchmarks of the games you play but some time you just need a single number for performance to directionally compare price to performance in a...

    When comparing GPUs nothing can compete with actual benchmarks of the games you play but some time you just need a single number for performance to directionally compare price to performance in a table. If you search for any GPU + UL the first result will a page with the time spy synthetic benchmark score. Can be useful to compare two gpus that don't have the same games benchmarked or identity if it's worth investigating too spend a little more or less to get a better bang for the buck.

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  3. Comment on Advice Needed: Simple and Reliable notifications in ~comp

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    Kinda goes against requirement #7 but if you by chance are already hosting Home Assistant some place it's simple enough to setup web hooks that can trigger notifications in the companion app on...

    Kinda goes against requirement #7 but if you by chance are already hosting Home Assistant some place it's simple enough to setup web hooks that can trigger notifications in the companion app on your phone. Not sure on iOS but android app has a history of notifications under setting>Companion app>Notification history.

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  4. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I created a web portal request system that extends my YTmusic time shifting application I shared here previously. The program lets users search youtube music and request them PIC1 PIC2. The...

    I created a web portal request system that extends my YTmusic time shifting application I shared here previously.

    The program lets users search youtube music and request them PIC1 PIC2. The program then checks my library and any pending requests for duplicates and if not found it adds them to a work queue. When the tape dub server kicks off the worker it has these requests already on the work list and gathers the music albums for the requested tracks. I have this all linked to my plex library to build up a music collection again.

    I have the code and dockerfile hosted on my git lab here if anyone wants to mess around with it. Will require the tapebub server running as well to operate.

    First time using picocss and was verry happy with it. I've been looking for a basic light weight framework to replace bootstrap for small web programs. Just enough to get stuff on the screen looking 1/2 way decent on desktop and mobile wtihout bogging me down on learning the ins and outs of a frame work.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Over fifteen million passwords were temporarily inaccessible in Chrome's password manager in ~tech

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    I havent looked at KeePass since like 2012. Used it for small buisness password sharing on a network share back then. I'll keep it in mind if vault warden dosent work out. As Rudism stated it...

    I havent looked at KeePass since like 2012. Used it for small buisness password sharing on a network share back then. I'll keep it in mind if vault warden dosent work out. As Rudism stated it seems like the client devices do keep a local copy.

  6. Comment on Over fifteen million passwords were temporarily inaccessible in Chrome's password manager in ~tech

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    Been meaning to set up a self hosted password manager for more than a few years now and this news reminded me. I didn't like most of the options when I first started looking but I found...

    Been meaning to set up a self hosted password manager for more than a few years now and this news reminded me. I didn't like most of the options when I first started looking but I found Vaultwarden after searching today (Bitwarden server reimplemented in rust without the MS SQL requirement). There is a docker container that is simple enough to setup up and it and seems to work decently well. Just moved all my passwords over from Chrome and will have to see how it works after a few weeks. Looks like it stores everything with SQL lite so existing server file backups should keep the password vaults safe.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Co-op game recommendations in ~games

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    My friends and I played a lot of Ror2 as well. Might check out a few of the new character mods to sequese a little more out of the game. Gives atleast a couple of play sessions more. Additionally...

    My friends and I played a lot of Ror2 as well. Might check out a few of the new character mods to sequese a little more out of the game. Gives atleast a couple of play sessions more.

    Additionally the same group has been been using Plate Up! as our defacto game to play. Silly coop restaurant game but with rogue like elements in how modifyers or equipment is distributed. Also not sure anyone has mentioned it but Steam next fest is on and has several co-op games. This site has a list of co-op games with demos to mess around. No cost commitment so you can try some things that you might not normally pickup. Shell runner looks neat but had 3 online last night so didn't try it. We ended up playing several rounds of SWORN. It played very much like hadies or ember nights which night be another recommendation for another rogue like beat-em-up.

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  8. Comment on DeGoogling 2024: Replacing Photos, Gmail, and Search in ~tech

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    I've been super happy with filerun as a replacement for Google Drive and picture storage. I use it with PhotoSync on Android to auto upload images. It's compatible with the next cloud desktop app...

    I've been super happy with filerun as a replacement for Google Drive and picture storage. I use it with PhotoSync on Android to auto upload images. It's compatible with the next cloud desktop app for syncing files to my PCs. Set up my parents on it as well to fix overflowing iCloud accounts causing iOS stability issues. Previously used it for sharing raspberry pi disk images for some clients as a dirty way to distribute software updates so it can handle uploading and downloading large files thru the web UI. It also integrates with YOURLS for self hosted short links when sharing files.

    I set it up in a docker container behind another container running nginx with let's encrypt for SSL and to have it on a sub domain.

    I had previously used own cloud and then next cloud but found them to be bloated, and a massive pain to manage/maintain. Might be worth the squeeze if you want all those features but I wanted something simple, fast, and didn't require constant attention to work.

    I had attempted to use sea file in the past and did enjoy it (seemed 1/2 between file run and next cloud in feature/complexity) but ran into docker ipv6 issues on unraid a while back that resulted in me dumping it.

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  9. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Cleaned it up a little to be some what legible and made it public on my repo here.

    Cleaned it up a little to be some what legible and made it public on my repo here.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Anyone remember pandora time shifting from way back? For a while I had been thinking of building a modern version for Youtube Music. The idea was to record tracks that I had listened to and save...

    Anyone remember pandora time shifting from way back? For a while I had been thinking of building a modern version for Youtube Music. The idea was to record tracks that I had listened to and save them to my library incase the platform, license holders, or whatever else decides to revoke access. More recently I found the ytmusicapi repo that gives a python API access for both user playback but also tools for navigating playlists, albums, and artists without needing to scrape pages. This combined with yt-dlp I grab my playback history every 30 minutes and check for new tracks. If something new is found it dumps them into a data base work list and kicks off downloading the respective albums from those tracks. It also grabs the album art and saves into Artist/album folders. Just added embedding metadata into the files using music-tag rather than just relying on the folder structure to improve file IDing with my player. I wrapped it in a basic python docker container and runs on my Unraid server.

    7 votes

  11. Comment on Campaign to stop publishers destroying games in ~games

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    Video by Ross Scott on his plans to leverage Ubisoft's shutdown of the video game "The Crew (2014)" to institute change in the video game industry. The website https://www.stopkillinggames.com/...

    Video by Ross Scott on his plans to leverage Ubisoft's shutdown of the video game "The Crew (2014)" to institute change in the video game industry.

    The website https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ was created that walks people thru the actions that can be taken broken down by country/region.

    7 votes

  13. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Made my own internet TV channel to act as a analogue for syndicated television without the ads. I wanted a station showing a rotation of shows that I could throw on whenever that I normally...

    Made my own internet TV channel to act as a analogue for syndicated television without the ads. I wanted a station showing a rotation of shows that I could throw on whenever that I normally wouldn't put on and watch. Styled it after adult swim with short schedules with bumper music and a quick moment of Zen before an episode starts.

    I have a copy of OBS running in a docker container with folders mapped to my plex library for media. I wrote an OBS script in LUA that selects a random line from a text file that contains a path and metadata to an episode. Script also selects a random song, moment of Zen video, updates the schedule text and managed the scene transitions. More recently I updated the LUA to send a get request using curl to a simple single file php script that both keeps and presents a running log of played episodes that are stored in mariadb.

    The stream is sent to an OwnCast server (also running in docker) so that the show can be sent in multiple bit rates for web viewing and is in a compatible format for google casting. Owncast doesn't have casting support built in but is simple enough to add with cast.js in the custom JavaScript section of OwnCast. All of that behind an nginx reverse proxy mostly for cleaner subdomains and a way to password protect the stream.

    6 votes