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Comment on Slow social media in ~tech
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Comment on Is OpenWRT worthwhile at home? in ~comp
shrike Link ParentBittorrent specifically has a habit of filling up the buffers on consumer routers. It makes a ton of connections to different places in a short period of time. And consumer stuff is usually not...Bittorrent specifically has a habit of filling up the buffers on consumer routers. It makes a ton of connections to different places in a short period of time. And consumer stuff is usually not very good at cleaning up routing tables etc. and they're running on minimal resources.
If you're a hobbyist and like to tinker with networking stuff Unifi is a very good choice, it has a pretty UI and very good integration with mobile applications etc.
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Comment on Is OpenWRT worthwhile at home? in ~comp
shrike LinkI have Adult Money, so I just went with Ubiquiti stuff. UDM Pro and a PoE rack switch I found used along with two PoE wifi access points. Completely overpowered, but also rock solid every for...I have Adult Money, so I just went with Ubiquiti stuff.
UDM Pro and a PoE rack switch I found used along with two PoE wifi access points. Completely overpowered, but also rock solid every for years now.
With consumer grade stuff the way I do stuff had a habit of filling up a buffer somewhere resulting in weird issues that went away with a power cycle.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
shrike Link ParentI don't have the cash either, that's why I'm building a tool to get the deals :D 30€+ for a 4k disc is way too much, but for 10-14€ it's definitely doable for movies I know I'll be rewatching 10...I don't have the cash either, that's why I'm building a tool to get the deals :D
30€+ for a 4k disc is way too much, but for 10-14€ it's definitely doable for movies I know I'll be rewatching 10 years from now.
For "normal" Blu-rays I can easily get them for under 10€ regularly by having a list of the ones I need/want and buying a few on sale.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
shrike LinkI've been moving back to physical media for the stuff I know I want to rewatch in 10 years. Movies and TV-shows just keep jumping from provider to provider on streaming and some just completely...I've been moving back to physical media for the stuff I know I want to rewatch in 10 years. Movies and TV-shows just keep jumping from provider to provider on streaming and some just completely disappear because of corporate bullshit.
There is a local site that sells Blurays and 4k Blurays and has pretty good sales at times, BUT their site is a horseshit mismash of slow-ass javascript and infuriating to browse as they don't give proper filtering options.
So a few days ago I started Claude Code and created a system that uses Python+Playwright to browse through both categories, grab the links to the movie product pages and store the prices to a local sqlite database.
Next up is adding a watchlist + price tracking for each so I can hop on the sales when they happen.
This is my first personal project I might actually release to public use if I can get it polished enough and can be arsed to add some kind of user accounts. ...or just store the watchlist in the URL so that no accounts are needed... 🤔
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Comment on Does anyone have a digg invite code I can get ? in ~tech
shrike Link ParentLiterally a good 80% of /r/SideProject projects are peoople making tools for finding out the best subreddits to advertise your side project on =)Literally a good 80% of /r/SideProject projects are peoople making tools for finding out the best subreddits to advertise your side project on =)
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Comment on Do you share your location with your friends? in ~tech
shrike LinkI don't mind. I know the location of my spouse, my kids, mom and one sister (other siblings + dad are on Android so...) I practically never use it though, mostly when I want to call them for...I don't mind.
I know the location of my spouse, my kids, mom and one sister (other siblings + dad are on Android so...)
I practically never use it though, mostly when I want to call them for chitchat, I can check if they're home so I know not to bother them if they're somewhere else. That's about it.
Sometimes when they're coming to visit, I see how far they are so I can get the coffee ready in time :)
I'd be fine with a boolean "is X at home" location info, but that's not an option with Apple's ecosystem, so we're doing this now.
(Nokia had this like 30 years ago btw, but it was a shit implementation and even shittier marketing and died)
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Comment on Which other sites do you visit? in ~tech
shrike Link ParentHarmon Quest had the perfect mix of actual play, comedy and the animated bits was the perfect spice on top.Harmon Quest had the perfect mix of actual play, comedy and the animated bits was the perfect spice on top.
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Comment on Which other sites do you visit? in ~tech
shrike Link ParentI paid for just Game Changer when they had their "buy now before the price goes up" -sale. Since then I've discovered: Make Some Noise, Gastronauts, Smartypants and Um Actually - and still haven't...I paid for just Game Changer when they had their "buy now before the price goes up" -sale.
Since then I've discovered: Make Some Noise, Gastronauts, Smartypants and Um Actually - and still haven't caught up on those.
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Comment on Curate your own newspaper with RSS in ~tech
shrike Link ParentOoh! That's perfect. Especially all LLM-themed subs are complete cesspools if you follow them "live", getting some delay on them might be a good solution. I had to pare down my front page really...Ooh! That's perfect. Especially all LLM-themed subs are complete cesspools if you follow them "live", getting some delay on them might be a good solution.
I had to pare down my front page really heavily just because I had some low-quality ones in there that were really easy just to pass over when reading on my browser, but when they were front and center they got annoying.
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Comment on Curate your own newspaper with RSS in ~tech
shrike Link ParentI don't think many systems support it. Newsblur does though, I still pay for it because it's the one I moved to when Google Reader died and I want to support it :) ...and now that I logged in, it...I don't think many systems support it.
Newsblur does though, I still pay for it because it's the one I moved to when Google Reader died and I want to support it :)
...and now that I logged in, it seems there are some rarely updating feeds I haven't transferred to FreshRSS yet =)
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Comment on How to educate a parent on the internet? in ~tech
shrike Link ParentSemi-related to this. I just found Rustdesk a while ago A proper free remote desktop system, I use Tailscale+Rustdesk to remote home when I need to. The same system would be perfect to remotely...Semi-related to this. I just found Rustdesk a while ago
A proper free remote desktop system, I use Tailscale+Rustdesk to remote home when I need to. The same system would be perfect to remotely debug (grand)parents computers.
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Comment on Curate your own newspaper with RSS in ~tech
shrike Link ParentRSS has some pretty decent options for caching too eTags etc Rachel even has a project measuring readers that are (mis)behaving: https://rachelbythebay.com/frb/ and the site blocks the bad ones...RSS has some pretty decent options for caching too eTags etc
Rachel even has a project measuring readers that are (mis)behaving: https://rachelbythebay.com/frb/ and the site blocks the bad ones pretty quickly.
There's no need to fetch the RSS feed every 60 seconds when it changes like once a week. You use last-modified and an etag and manage the response properly.
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Comment on Curate your own newspaper with RSS in ~tech
shrike Link ParentMy usage ended when they killed even opengraph previews of tweets at the same time they killed the API "to prevent bots" Which, in fact, didn't prevent any bots, just a bunch of cool and silly...My usage ended when they killed even opengraph previews of tweets at the same time they killed the API "to prevent bots"
Which, in fact, didn't prevent any bots, just a bunch of cool and silly bots that posted automated content like the price of beer at a bar or random quotes. And my bot that translated Twitter URLs on IRC to an actual preview.
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Comment on Curate your own newspaper with RSS in ~tech
shrike (edited )Link ParentIt never came up on my searches, but I'll check it out. It being a Go application is a massive plus for me :) And it seems it has special handling for some sites too. EDIT: Ooh and Postgresql for...It never came up on my searches, but I'll check it out. It being a Go application is a massive plus for me :)
And it seems it has special handling for some sites too.
EDIT: Ooh and Postgresql for a backend. I might be in love =)
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Comment on Curate your own newspaper with RSS in ~tech
shrike Link ParentIt seems like all of the major self-hosted RSS readers are based on some 20 year old php codebase - which brings its own issues :D ...I don't need to write my own. I don't need to write my own. I...It seems like all of the major self-hosted RSS readers are based on some 20 year old php codebase - which brings its own issues :D
...I don't need to write my own. I don't need to write my own. I don't need to write my own...
Damnit.
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Comment on Curate your own newspaper with RSS in ~tech
shrike Link ParentI use NetNewsWire as a client to FreshRSS so I get a native experience, it has direct support for FreshRSS (and others). Basically they emulate the Ye Olde Google Reader API. Never used the web ui...I use NetNewsWire as a client to FreshRSS so I get a native experience, it has direct support for FreshRSS (and others). Basically they emulate the Ye Olde Google Reader API. Never used the web ui on mobile browser.
I did do some research and ended up with FreshRSS because it's in active development, at the time I made the jump the closest competitor Tiny Tiny RSS was in a development limbo.
Both support plugins, but what finally won FreshRSS for me was the ability to generate feeds from HTML using XPath or CSS selectors: https://danq.me/2022/09/27/freshrss-xpath/
My current enrichment magic is this project: https://github.com/lepinkainen/feed-forge (It's a vibe coding experiment, works pretty well for me, but there's still definite jank that wouldn't be there if it was artisanally coded =P )
My previous projects for Hacker News and Reddit started to become so similar I combined them to the feed forge project.
For Hacker news it fetches the opengraph preview for the site + tries to keep the comment and vote count on the item updated in the feed for a while. Just looking at the HN titles is kinda useless when trying to decide whether it's worth opening. With a preview + vote + comment count I can make that decision.
For Reddit I first tried to use their API to fetch my personal front page, but it was a complete mess (the code is still there), then I (re-)discovered the custom private front page feed and wrote a parser for that. There's a bunch of special handling for videos, galleries etc trying to open the comments url for each + generate a somewhat intelligent preview for them.
Lobster.rs and Tildes are coming up next, but I'm using my Claude Code quota for other projects so those are on hold =)
All of this is perfectly doable with something like a self-hosted n8n instance - might actually be easier - but I'm a backend coder by heart so drawing boxes feels wrong when I can write the code.
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Comment on Curate your own newspaper with RSS in ~tech
shrike Link ParentPro tip: you can get a private feed of your Reddit front page from the settings. I grab that and do some enrichment magic on it to get all the videos/images/text in it before feeding it to FreshRSS.Pro tip: you can get a private feed of your Reddit front page from the settings.
I grab that and do some enrichment magic on it to get all the videos/images/text in it before feeding it to FreshRSS.
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Comment on Is AI actually useful for anyone here? in ~tech
shrike Link ParentThe quality of the model is a BIG factor here. Our corp-approved Github Copilot with Claude 3.7 is fucking useless. It just invents APIs out of its ass with reckless abandon. On the other hand...The quality of the model is a BIG factor here.
Our corp-approved Github Copilot with Claude 3.7 is fucking useless. It just invents APIs out of its ass with reckless abandon.
On the other hand it's pretty decent at figuring out what went wrong when you give it a stack trace and access to the relevant sources.
It also does a good job at replicating repeating structures, like unit tests. Just write one or two, when you write the third one, it'll look at the name of the function and get the actual body of it right 80-99% of the way.
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Comment on Is AI actually useful for anyone here? in ~tech
shrike Link ParentThe NFT and Blockchain crew have jumped on AI hard They're just producing semi- or fully automated slop to fill the internet in the hopes of making a few ad bucks. There just was a full-ass...There's a lot of places I've seen AI used that disgust me
The NFT and Blockchain crew have jumped on AI hard
They're just producing semi- or fully automated slop to fill the internet in the hopes of making a few ad bucks. There just was a full-ass D&D-themed "news" site where every author was 100% fake down to their profile pictures. Just spewing out 100% hallucinated news about new expansions and content.
At some point people (not me) became comfortable sharing their private things in public.
The most public I've gotten is IRC channels and Discord, but I'm so hardwired to not reveal anything too personal it comes naturally to me.
Friend chats are still small channels on whatsapp/telegram/signal or discord servers with very limited membership.