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Cake day: September 17th, 2024

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  • 3 minutes test.

    Pro:

    • Seems to work. I can hear sound and it seems to be where I left off.
    • Downloading offline book seem to work which is a huge plus compared to the official app although I wish someone was considerate with space and built the option to store only X hours. I really only need to store enough for my next commute.
    • Looks clean, but to be honest that’s not a very important factor since I mostly only use the app to press play.

    Cons:

    • Library doesnt distinguish already read books and new books.
    • Can’t group books by author and series.
    • I don’t like the scroll down on the playing screen that switch to a chapter screen but scrolling up doesn’t do the opposite. Seems like poor UX. 1) scrolling down is not a usual action to change screen. 2) Opposite action should have opposite result.

    Edit: ah ok got it. It does work but not with the same sensitivity, you can scroll down but you need to flick up, most likely because you got screwed by the list of chapters which is most likely also scrollable (my list isn’t long enough to require scroll so I can’t test that). Anyway, I stand by my previous note: “opposite actions” and flick up is not the opposite of scroll down.

    Promising beginning though.


  • Yup, for a solo project that you don’t want to share I would even argue that a forge is close to pointless.

    Any ssh remote will work as a backup, you can run the ci/cd task on your own computer just fine (very likely faster even), you obviously don’t need to send PR and request code review to yourself and if a TODO.md isn’t enough to keep track of tasks there’s a billions lightweight task/note tracker.

    I use github because I’m a lazy and it works fine as a backup but I don’t need 99% of the features for my pet projects.



  • I doubt you need more than a notepad app. It’s what I used the last two times I had to move between countries and it was more than enough for me and customs. I simply wrote down important stuff as I put them in numbered boxes.

    Spreadsheet are overkill, a note app is easy to access on your phone at all time and can be easily shared with someone.

    Here’s a sample of what I ended up with:

    • 15 - camera stands / shoemaking tools / notepads / trophies / guitar cable / weaved basket X2 / cooler bag / curtain rings X 3 /

    • 25 - Nespresso coffee machine, Italian coffee maker, plates & dishes, kitchen utensils.
    • 26 - casserole, dishes, plates, kitchen stuff
    • 27 - casserole, cups
    • 28 - wedding dress, photos, various cat stuff, photo bag




  • NATO doesn’t need Germany to approve anything for something to be a NATO operation.

    The operation was conceived by french/UK and was handed over to NATO as a condition for Italian participation.

    Here:

    NATO’s North Atlantic Council (NAC) in Brussels, Belgium exercised overall political direction of OUP, while Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium, carried out NAC decisions with military implementations through Joint Force Command (JFC) Naples.

    Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard was the overall operational commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Unified Protector. Under his leadership, NATO Maritime Command Naples directed naval operations in support of OUP. Although NATO’s Air Command Headquarters for Southern Europe, in Izmir, Turkey (AC Izmir) managed air operations, the air campaign itself was conducted from NATO’s Combined Air Operations Centre Poggio Renatico in Italy. For this reason, major elements of AC Izmir were moved during the course of the OUP.

    Italian Vice Admiral Rinaldo Veri from NATO Maritime Command Naples led the maritime arms embargo, while Rear Admiral Filippo Maria Foffi served as the Task Force Commander at sea.

    I’m not a secret.

    https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_71652.htm



  • I’m mostly pro NATO but that is litteraly the worst single argument possible anyone ever made. Here’s a one word answer that totally shred its credibility: Lybia.

    It’s only for defense until we decide to invade a country… but anyway, the real strength of NATO as a weapon is political influence. It allows the US to impose their security objectives to all the other members, and currently their main competitor is China and that was transcribed into NATO’s official strategy in 2022 with the stated objective to expend into the Indian and Pacific ocean specifically to counter them.

    Can’t really expect them to like it.



  • That reminds me of work. I’m old, young me has been through the mistakes and the pain of wanting to control and self-host everything.

    Now I manage a team of young idealists who have not yet been burned sufficiently hard by reality and I feel like I spend half of my time denying them permission to add new self-hosted services to our stack.

    Just last month a young padawan was pissed at the spent on an external auth service and had been pushing hard for a self hosted OSS solution which he was convinced he could handle by himself (which was most likely true, from a purely technical standpoint).

    Since he wouldn’t let it go, I “punished” him by having him spend one day in excel and powerpoint to prepare a cost benefit analysis to present to the architecture review board, including server cost, backups, redundancy, security, monitoring, pen-testing, auditing, his time and all the bells and whistles we needed to be compliant with all the ISO-x we have to be. (we’re in a banking related field).

    Our estimated internal cost ended up about 6x the one of the SASS solutions and still wasn’t as reliable.

    Most people don’t understand the amount of effort it requires to run a secure & reliable system and if I had a dollar for everytime I heard it’s as simple as “docker run”, I could retire early.



  • Can’t answer your question but I got a refurb corporate m715 for 60 bucks, I haven’t bothered upgrading the 8Gb ram^* and it runs a full dockerized arr stack, vpn and jellyfin without any issue. I don’t reencode and I don’t use 4k media, so I can’t talk about that either.

    But if you’re looking for cheap that works, it’s not a bad little machine.

    ^* The system actually run on 6Gb since 2 are reserved for video and by the time I realized that everything has been up and running fine for a while, so I didn’t even bother rebooting in the bios to change it, I just added a bigger swap 🙄