Readit Newsdomh commented on UK homes install subsidised heat pumps at record level bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/RobinL
I'm definitely coming round on the idea of a heat pump. My house was built in 2002 and still has the original gas boiler that was installed from then. I'm hopeful that I have enough insulation, but I've been told I may have microbore piping which might need to be upgraded. Not done much more research on it than that.
Also apparently my gas boiler has an air brick that's too close to the output for the boiler on the outside of the house, so they'd have to install a bigger flue that goes halfway up the house.
From what I've heard the installation cost (even with £10k subsidy) will still be minimum £5k compared to a new gas boiler of £2.5-3k.
After everything that's happened with the gas prices in the past 3 years, I'm very eager to remove that dependency from my house. Now we just need to decouple the gas prices from the renewable energy prices so we can start to see those lower prices to the home. One can dream.
domh commented on Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server github.com/blackcandy-org... · Posted by u/nateb2022
BTW why bother with TLS over already-encrypted and authenticated Wireguard tunnels? Is this just so that browsers won't complain, or do you have a more complex threat model?
Sorry for late reply, exactly that yeah - so the browser doesn't complain. I'm not worried about the security of HTTP over wireguard or anything like that. And domain names are easier to remember than ports so... http://raspberrypi:8123/ vs homeassistant.raspberrypi.local (or something)
domh commented on New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120 raspberrypi.com/news/16gb... · Posted by u/schappim
Bought a mini pc with N100 and 16GB of ram, SSD included, no need to buy an enclosure, everything setup and ready, just needed to install Linux from a USB stick with the normal procedure.
I might have chosen RPI5 if it had 16GB ram, but I went with x86 and I like it because there are no software issues anymore (redpanda was not working on rpi)
Which one did you go for? I have a raspberry pi 4 with 8gb RAM which is fine for now but may be on the look out for a replacement in the coming years.
domh commented on Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server github.com/blackcandy-org... · Posted by u/nateb2022
Most people will use nginx-proxy [0] or Traefik [1] for front ending home labs with LetsEncrypt certs... Beyond that people will protect them with things like Tailscale [2], Cloudflare Tunnels [3] or even just mTLS [4] for protected access.
Home labbing today has a lot of amazing software and it's hard to keep up!
And as for dashboarding [5] on top of all this there are a lot of options.
Also, for those new to the game who want an easier way to approach take a look at Tipi [6].
[0] https://nginxproxymanager.com/ [1] https://traefik.io/traefik/ [2] https://tailscale.com [3] https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections... [4] https://smallstep.com/blog/build-a-tiny-ca-with-raspberry-pi... [5] https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Dashboard [6] https://runtipi.io/
I use Tailscale for a bunch of self hosted services on a raspberry pi in my house. Port numbers and TLS certs are my current main problems with this setup but it's not annoyed me quite enough yet to do anything about it.
domh commented on Mozilla introduces updates to tab management in Firefox support.mozilla.org/en-US... · Posted by u/sam29681749
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domh commented on Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch blog.hopefullyuseful.com/... · Posted by u/ranebo
> Reminds me how, in USA, it’s the only civilized nation I’ve been to where you must have a prescription to purchase contacts and glasses
Anecdotally this is far from true. Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and the UK for example require a prescription for anything more complicated than reading glasses.
There are plenty of reasons why, mostly summed up by your comment about “whatever magnification you need” - eyeglasses for distance vision are infinitely more complex than “magnification” and if you’re buying anything other than reading glasses without a proper exam and matched lenses, you’re doing yourself harm.
Unless of course you are talking about reading glasses, in which case you’re also wrong, as you can get those for a couple of bucks pretty much anywhere in the US with no prescription.
I'm not sure that's true about the UK and prescription glasses. When I moved back here I packed my glasses up in storage so was going to be without for 6/8 weeks before our stuff arrived. I went onto Glasses Direct[1] and ordered 2 new pairs of glasses for £50 by putting in my prescription details from another country. The glasses themselves are regulated as medical equipment, but you could go on there and buy any prescription you want and nothing will stop you.
domh commented on The semantic web is now widely adopted csvbase.com/blog/13... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Over on lobste.rs, someone cited another article retracing the history of the Semantic Web: https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html
An interesting read in itself, and also points to Cory Doctorow giving seven reasons why the Semantic Web will never work: https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm. They are all good reasons and are unfortunately still valid (although one of his observations towards the end of the text has turned out to be comically wrong, I'll let you read what it is)
Your comment and the two above links point to the same conclusion: again and again, Worse is Better (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better)
Thanks for sharing that Doctorow post, I had not seen that before. While the specific examples are of course dated (hello altavista and Napster), it still rings mostly true.
Is their content really so sensitive that it must be "protected" to such a degree?