Our off shore contractors produce some of the worst code. But it’s impossible to get work done and also be vigilant enough to reject their bad pull requests. So basically you’ll end up looking a code one day that is godawful and think, “this is off shore”. And yep, git blame tells you you’re right.
So, slightly tangential, but I have a failed home automation project this past week.
I have been using an unofficial integration for my mini-splits for a few years. The guy who wrote it likes to disappear for 6 months at a time and it seems like it may be abandoned. It finally stopped working after a home assistant update.
I had bought some ESP based replacement dongles about a year ago and decided to finally use them. Well, not all of the features worked, so I set about writing my own firmware.
That ended up working even less well. I wasted a lot of time and effort trying to get my firmware to work before giving up and just moving to the fork of the original Home Assistant integration for the official dongles.
I hate being beholden to third party stuff like this because I have robust automation setup for my mini-splits and updates can completely break them and be a massive pain to fix.
I’m not sad I tried and failed so much as I’m just sad it didn’t work. I may try again sometime in the future.
If I had to give up either Linux or Nvidia, it’s not even a question. It’s Nvidia, and it’s not even close.
I sold my 3070 and bought a 7800xt just so I could have a smoother experience, and I wasn’t even having issues.
The fucking Okta verify app and its “cannot find trusted route to whatever” error popup that covers the approve button that cannot be dismissed except for just waiting for it to go away. Love that.
Oh! I finally got tired of swiping away the “setup express login” or whatever they call it and set it up. It’s not any fucking faster! In fact, it’s slower! It’s the same process, but now I have to also use my fingerprint at the end. And there’s enough of a lag that I often forget I have to do that so I’m starting at the login screen waiting for the approval to go through.
And, I have to use the thing twice to get on GitHub or the corporate VPN. It is so fucking tedious and stupid.
I prefer Podman. But Docker can run rootless. It does run under root by default, though.
No reason you can’t use NixOS in a VM on Proxmox.
My container host OS is another immutable, uCore, which I run in a VM on Proxmox.
I did this recently. Opendrive is free up to 5 gb and works with rclone. All I’m backing up is the config and data needed to recreate my containerized services. I’ve even had to recreate them from the backup, once.
The N100 is such a little powerhouse and I’m sad they haven’t managed to produce anything better. All of the “upgrades” are either just not enough of an upgrade for the money, it just more power hungry.
I recently started self hosting this one https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
I don’t know if it’s the best or anything, but it works fine for me.
YouTube compresses the shit out of 1080p content. Any video that has a lot of movement will look like trash at 1080p. Even if you’re on a lower resolution monitor, the higher bit rate of higher resolution videos will look better. It’s all very stupid on our end, but I assume it saves them a ton on bandwidth.
That looks very similar to ntfy. I googled “gotify vs ntfy” and found this thread on reddit (ew, I know) https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/shw73e/difference_between_ntfy_and_gotify/
Con: User separation. A user can create “apps” (channels), and will receive messages posted there. Users will not receive messages posted to apps they didn’t create. I haven’t yet found a way to create shared apps, or allow multiple clients to receive notifications for a given message, and I don’t want to share client logins.
Now, this thread is 3 years old, so I don’t know if this is still the case, but this is a deal breaker for me. Several of the topic I have for ntfy are also subscribed by my wife, meaning we both get the notifications. I could just post the same message to two different topics, but that would be lame.
Ntfy, if setup correctly, uses a web socket connection, which reduces the battery usage. I don’t think I ever had it setup without that, so I can’t say how bad it is. But with it, it’s not a drain for me on a Pixel 7.
I thought I replied to this earlier, but it seems like it didn’t take.
Pushover seems nice, but doesn’t seem to be self-hostable. It looks like there is a replacement service in the works called Overpush.
All I can say is that I don’t own any Apple products and never even looked at that section of their documentation. The Android and web clients work flawlessly, except that the Android client doesn’t support markdown.
I use https://ntfy.sh/ for a lot of stuff and I don’t see anyone talk about it. I recently wrote a container to poll RSS feeds and send push notifications via ntfy https://github.com/chunkystyles/rssToNtfy
I have an N100 mini PC running all of my self hosted stuff and it is amazing.
Imperfect commits never existed when you squash.
I’ve been working in Jenkins pipeline for a while now.
Why the fuck is Groovy?
Por que no los dos?
I see you’ve never worked with SOAP services that have half a dozen or more namespaces.
It’s a contracting agency. Not individual contractors. Unfortunately we have lots of rubber stampers on our team who approve code while you’re not looking. And let me be clear, we have on shore who contribute awful code, too.
It’s all a mess.