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GandalfDG

@ GandalfDG @beehaw.org

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  • Help needed: Selfhosted website only reachable through http, not https

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  • For what it's worth I was able to reach it and was redirected to the https connection no problem. Could be an issue reaching it from within your local network rather than a problem with your server setup directly.

    I use a proxy server as the main entrypoint to my multiple servers/vms at home and had to mess around with the DNS settings on my router as the automatically generated entries were different than what anyone else would see from outside.

  • What do you think should be the official font of Beehaw?

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  • Not sure of the person you're referring to, but I'd give Atkinson Hyperlegible a try :)

  • What do you think should be the official font of Beehaw?

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  • I've started using Atkinson Hyperlegible variants for everything by default. It's designed for legibility and what could be more important for a general-purpose font?

  • Bitwarden Faces Questions After Quiet Leadership and Messaging Changes

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  • All of these rug pulls are exhausting, but it's keeping my motivation alive for migrating to selfhosted alternatives. Unfortunate how much time and expertise is required to do that so the vast majority of users are just along for the ride into total enshittification. Need more development on systems that allow groups of savvy folks to administer services for their communities. Yunohost is decent but not a perfect solution

  • Why aren't more people using Codeberg or something open source

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  • thanks for the info, fortunately with it self hosted I can migrate if/when I have problems, but it's working fine for me for now.

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    how's your week going, Beehaw?

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  • Did well at a casual pinball league night last night, working on a lot of self hosting stuff, and trying to find time to design some posters to put up around town for a socialist U.S. Senate candidate and connect with more like-minded folks in my area.

    Pollen season has started so trying to navigate that while enjoying the weather. Hoping to get out for some exercise this weekend.

  • The Imperial War on Terror comes home

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  • FFS this country is so backward. I'm trying to get out there and get more involved in organizing, but it feels pretty hopeless at times.

  • Why aren't more people using Codeberg or something open source

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  • I host my own gitea instance and have been migrating my code off of github. Trouble is there isn't much traction on federated code forges seemingly, so if I want people to be able to collaborate on my code they'd need to set up an account on my gitea, and I'd have to set up an email server to send the transactional emails to enable that, etc.

    Selfhosting is great, but I don't expect everyone to do it. I think the next step for data sovereignty is making it easier for the folks who are able to set up selfhosting to provide access to their services to members of their communities.

    also, now having a gitea server running it's an LLM scraper bonanza, so I have fail2ban blocking IPs as they come in but that only works on scrapers that identify themselves, and the big ones have so many IPs it's still pretty overwhelming. Perhaps I'll start redirecting them to a tarpit when I have bandwidth to spare 🤔

  • What was the last physical retail store game purchase you've made?

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  • It was probably when I bought my Link Between Worlds 3DS XL. I bought physical cartridges for it, but I think I was getting them on Amazon mostly. When I got the switch my whole collection was digital downloads.

  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 12th

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  • ah that stinks, yeah it's not the most comfortable for long sessions. Might be worth checking out emulation and playing with a control method that works better for you. You'll lose the 3D but you'll still get to enjoy some really solid games.

  • What's growing on, Beehaw?

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  • Haven't really had a garden of my own before so starting small with a little patch I've cleared out and added some compost into. So far I've put in a few beets which I started indoors, and planted some Broccoli seeds. Also planning to clear out an area of grass and replace it with wildflowers. Why mow?

  • Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars

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  • Such a huge fan of what Technology Connections is doing, especially more recently with his "we have the technology to be more efficient already" angle and just under the surface political rage.

    I know my prius isn't as good as an EV for most of the driving I do, but it's way better than any other internal combustion system on the market. When my wife's beater kicks the bucket we're definitely replacing it with an EV and keeping the prius for long hauls.

  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 12th

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  • I took my 3DS XL on vacation because I knew I'd be waiting in lots of lines. Dipped in to Tomodachi Life (3DS), made some more progress in Pokémon Omega Ruby, and had some fun with a bunch of arcadey titles like pac-man championship edition and the 3ds version of Dr. Mario. Also took some 3D photos with the 3DS' camera, which I didn't really give much appreciation to back in the day.

    Back at home and I've gotten back into the Sims 2 which I'm playing on my Steam deck after tinkering around with a custom control scheme for a while.

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  • I'm so tired, man

  • How's your week going, Beehaw?

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  • Pretty good! I turned 30, I went out for various meals and activities with friends and family, my wife and I saw Getdown Services in Boston last night which was an awesome time, and next week I'm taking a week-long vacation.

  • US jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster subsidiary operated monopoly

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  • Just went to a concert last night at a newly acquired livenation venue. All acts gave a rousing "Fuck Livenation," but who knows if anything will really change 😔

  • Sniffing WS2812 (Neopixel) bus?

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  • looking at the schematics of the device I want to monitor more closely, it looks like it's actually using addressable LEDs with a two-wire protocol, which actually makes things even easier because I can just sample on the provided clock edges. I think these are colloquially DotStar rather than NeoPixel devices. For reference I'm designing some mods for a modern pinball machine and it would be useful to know the state of lights on the playfield since I can't hook into the code directly.

  • Sniffing WS2812 (Neopixel) bus?

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  • well, it's more being able to detect long vs. short pulses, as it's not the logic level but the pulse width that encodes the bits.

  • Sniffing WS2812 (Neopixel) bus?

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  • fortunately the RP2040's programmable IO can run at 40x that 3MHz rate, so with a working program I should be able to differentiate short and long pulses and convert them back to bits. My application shouldn't need to know exact colors, rather just detecting certain patterns or an on/off threshold state for a specific light in the chain.

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    Sniffing WS2812 (Neopixel) bus?

  • Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Farenheit

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  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Picked up Dragon Quest Builders I & II in the spring sale to cope with Pokopia FOMO

  • Self-hosting @slrpnk.net
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    Here's what I'm running in my homelab after an upgrade gone wrong

    yuno.jack-case.pro /bookstack/books/homelab/page/software-and-configuration-inventory
  • Self-hosting @slrpnk.net
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    Use some bandwidth to archive US government sites as part of the Archive Team

    social.luca.run /@luca/113950834185678114
  • Creative @beehaw.org
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    Prototyping some bling for my inline skates

    indieweb.social /@GandalfDG/110849598289507171
  • Music @beehaw.org
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    I'm in a powerful downtempo female vocal kind of mood

    music.youtube.com /playlist
  • Chat @beehaw.org
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    I'm feeling overwhelmed by my To Do list. How do you cope?

  • Chat @beehaw.org
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    Whatever happened to federal student loan forgiveness?

  • Chat @beehaw.org
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    do you notice things that most people don't? For example compression artifacts in video/audio, frame rate stutters in games, etc.

  • Self-hosting @slrpnk.net
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    Castopod is a great way to self-host a podcast which interacts with the fediverse

    castopod.org