Readit NewsDries007 commented on Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address 9to5google.com/2025/12/24... · Posted by u/geox
Oh, finally. I’m one of the first.last@gmail folks, which I assumed would never change when I was 13 years old (hah!). Fast forward a few years, I got married, and am stuck with my old name in the address.
A bit off topic, but changing your name when getting married is so strange to me.
It is not at all common where I live (Belgium), in fact I don't think I personally know a single person who did.
Dries007 commented on How bad can a $2.97 ADC be? excamera.substack.com/p/h... · Posted by u/jamesbowman
Surface grinders generally don’t use CNC, they are a simple machine.
This is a fun playlist of a conversion of a manual machine to CNC:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDlWKv7KIIr9rlCwZ9K43...
Dries007 commented on The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024) den.dev/blog/pihole/... · Posted by u/mpweiher
After having some persistent issues with my previous pi-hole setup, running as an add-on on my Home Assistant rPi 5, I moved to AdGuard Home on dedicated hardware.
I run it on a rPi Zero 2W (15$), with the Waveshare Ethernet / USB HUB BOX (16$). Together with a power brick (5$) and a meh µSD card, it's very affordable. I did add a small heatsink on the CPU and left the lid off the box to improve the temperature situation (it's in a small room that easily gets warm).
Software wise I've opted for DietPi, which works great for this kind of "dedicated device" pi setup. Current up-time is 135 days, with the last reboot being likely due to a power/breaker issue. It's truly become a set and forget thing now. It also runs Tailscale (not as exit node due to USB 2.0 limited bandwidth for Ethernet) and a dynamic DNS refresh script on a timer. It still has some headroom, but I prefer to keep it rock solid and do more fancy stuff on my Home Assistant pi, which gets rebooted/updated more frequently.
I do have the option to set my DNS settings in my router (ISP provided routers don't have that option here typically), so all of my devices follow.
In combination with µBlock Origin and SponsorBlock in my browser, I almost cry every time I see the "raw" internet on other people's devices. The only remaining source of ads is if I watch YT via my TV, so if someone has ideas to make that stop, I'm all ears. (I used to pay for the discontinued Premium Basic, but I refuse to pay double for a bunch of crap "features" I don't want/need.)
Dries007 commented on Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust github.com/astral-sh/ruff... · Posted by u/modinfo
Working on a team in a larger python application, type checkers and linters are such a time saver. It's so nice not to think about how I'd like to format my code any longer. We've made some tweaks to our ruff rules to suit the team's opinion, and now even when I don't _love_ the way it formats a particular part of code, I just move on and get something productive done instead.
And type checking is so great for both preventing bugs (which it does all the time) and self-documenting code. Can't recommend them enough.
It takes out so much frustration too. No more nitpicking about style/... in merge requests, the pre-commit hook will fix it and CI will catch it if you don't.
The more of this you can automate, the more you get to spend on "real work".
Dries007 commented on Six day and IP address certificate options in 2025 letsencrypt.org/2025/01/1... · Posted by u/SGran
To someone like me with hobby-level serving needs, the 90 day certificate life is pretty inconvenient, despite having automation set up. I run a tiny VPS that hosts basic household stuff like e-mail and a few tiny web sites for people, and letsencrypt/certbot automation around certificate renewal is the only thing that I seem to need to regularly babysit and log in to manually run/fix. Everything else just hums along, but I know it's been 90 days because I suddenly can't connect to my E-mail or one of the web virtual hosts went down again. And sure enough, I just need to run certbot renew manually or restart lighttpd or whatever.
For me it's only ever an issue if I stop renewing a domain, which triggers issues somewhere next renewal and now nginx doesn't reload.
Other than that, I've never had to babysit certbot. It's just a systemd timer job.
Dries007 commented on Fluid Simulation Pendant [video] youtube.com/watch?v=jis1M... · Posted by u/marvinborner
The writeup page is also definitely worth taking a look at: https://mitxela.com/projects/fluid-pendant
Dries007 commented on Show HN: I made it easy to create invoices invoicefast.io... · Posted by u/vanyaiam
In Belgium, starting in 2026 B2B invoices must be registered electronically & use a structured format.
Any ideas about potential integrations?
https://finance.belgium.be/en/enterprises/vat/e-invoicing/ma...
Dries007 commented on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force france24.com/en/europe/20... · Posted by u/belter
USB-C is a horrible standard to consolidate on because of all the confusion about various sorts of USB-C cables (with exactly the same physical connectors) and thunderbolt cables.
Similarly, I’m glad Tesla convinced all the other American manufacturers to go with NACS for the American market because the CCS plugs are monstrosities.
CCS is great in Europe. You can plug in your normal 3 phase 400V EVSE and charge at 22kW at home, and twice a year when you need it, you can uncover the little extra flap for 350kW DC charging for on route to your holiday.
USB-C suffers from unclear naming problems sure, but in my experience most of the problems are actually caused by shady marketing pages. If they just clearly marked cables and ports with their capabilities, using the same physical connector would only be a benefit.