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selykg commented on Spammers are better at SPF, DKIM, and DMARC than everyone else toad.social/@grumpybozo/1... · Posted by u/pabs3

seer · 5 months ago

As long as you're not breaking the law / hurting people, does the struggle really matter? The best way I've been able to make people listen to me is by just presenting them with options and results.

If you do it this hacky way - we run this risk and this bad thing can happen etc. After a few times they see the consequence of their decisions people start paying attention to you. Do it a few more and now the company will have an "institutional knowledge" that you are usually right, and even if the manager leave, you still end up like the go-to guy on how to ship.

And sometimes the marketing people might end up being correct! I've once actually battled to "do the correct thing" (way back in the day it was a ruby on rails modeling I think) and the product owner was like - just do it this hacky way I don't care ... I did it the hacky way and you know what - it was the right call - we never changed it again and the business knowledge we got from it was actually valuable.

selykg · 5 months ago

In the end, for me personally, I give people respect for their roles and the benefit of the doubt that they're in the position for the right reasons. But when I don't get that kind of thing in return then it just pisses me off. What I realized along the way is that I don't want to be in charge of things like this, it's simply not for me, at the very least it isn't on that team. Maybe that will change with the right people but the whole thing soured me on management in general and I will avoid it like the plague.

I'm pretty bitter about it all still, but it's a combination of a lot of things beyond this particular bit I shared. All I can say is I'm glad I am no longer in that role, it was slowly killing me.

selykg commented on Spammers are better at SPF, DKIM, and DMARC than everyone else toad.social/@grumpybozo/1... · Posted by u/pabs3

stef25 · 5 months ago

Marketing decides on DKIM and SPF ?

selykg · 5 months ago

The problem I personally ran into as a one person IT department was that the VP of marketing had more power over me, as a manager, and that meant more to my supervisor (the CEO) than me fighting to do things as correctly as possible. I was seen as a roadblock or speed bump. So, they may not decide on DKIM and SPF, but if marketing isn’t happy then their negativity could cause push back that forces changes that may technically not be good for the company.

I’ve abandoned that role and have gone back to an IC role and I’m much happier for it.

selykg commented on Achieving Great Privacy with Safari matanabudy.com/achieving-... · Posted by u/matanabudy

lapcat · 5 months ago

> having a unique fingerprint is bad, as it allows tracking of you by fingerprinting, without the need for cookies.

Correct.

FWIW (disclaimer: I'm the developer of StopTheMadness Pro, mentioned in the article) I just ran two tests in Mac Safari, with StopTheMadness Pro enabled and disabled, and the results were exactly the same each time: "at least 18.06 bits of identifying information". Alas, that's a unique fingerprint, but apparently my extension doesn't make anything worse. If you look at the detailed results, the identifiers are things like User-Agent, screen size, time zone, and language.

selykg · 5 months ago

StopTheMadness is my favorite extension. So awesome thanks for making it!

selykg commented on Calibre 8.0 calibre-ebook.com/whats-n... · Posted by u/thawawaycold

diggan · 5 months ago

Gave Books a quick try, hardest part was probably how to send files from Linux to iOS, but thanks to ifuse it ended up being pretty easy, by (ab)using Chrome's download directory. Still haven't found a way of importing them into Books automatically, but better than nothing I suppose.

In case others are in the same situation, I ended up doing something like this:

    idevicepair pair
    mkdir ~/iphone
    ifuse --documents com.google.chrome.ios ~/iphone
    cd ~/iphone
    cp /home/user/books/*.epub .
    cd ~
    fusermount -u ~/iphone

Then use Files app on the phone, navigate to the Chrome documents folder and click on the .epub file and after ~5 seconds or so it opens up in Books, and after that it's accessible via Books directly.

selykg · 5 months ago

I usually just have mine in the Safari downloads folder. Then use Files to open them.

If you’re on Linux, using iCloud to add files there should be easy enough as well. Then I just added them as I needed them. I’m on a Mac though so it’s a bit easier.

Sounds like you found a solution though.

selykg commented on Calibre 8.0 calibre-ebook.com/whats-n... · Posted by u/thawawaycold

diggan · 5 months ago

> Have you tried the built-in Books app on iOS?

I have not, I still consider myself a iOS newbie and tend to avoid the Apple software because of their lack of features and usefulness. But I'll give Books a try, didn't realize it let you read local files, thanks a lot for the recommendation! :)

selykg · 5 months ago

Apple Books is actually pretty good if you have epub. I have used it a fair bit in the past (I now use a Kobo, or physical books primarily). But Apple Books was the best I found on iOS. There were some others that were pretty good but they seem to be unmaintained and/or do some weird things that I didn't particularly like so I went back to Apple Books.

selykg commented on Pixel 9a: The latest A-series phone with Google AI smarts at an unbeatable value blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

OriginalMrPink · 5 months ago

Really considering switching from iPhone this year. Been using iPhones since 3G.

selykg · 5 months ago

Been on an iPhone since the original and mostly until maybe the XS got a new model every other year, since the XS I've been on a 4-5 year cycle, with a 14 Pro to replace my XS.

I also have a Pixel 7 that I use primarily as a home phone stuck on a cheap very few minutes pre-paid plan. I've used it at home on wifi a number of times just to try it out. I think it's... fine? App quality is definitely a negative as I find as a Mac user that some of my favorite developers are better at making iOS apps, or their app is simply not available on Android at all and the alternatives are not nearly as good.

If not for that I probably wouldn't care from a usability perspective, but I still think Apple's focus on privacy and security tend to win out overall. That said, I now carry around a camera with me 90% of the time so I suspect I will be downgrading to a standard iPhone when I upgrade next if the camera carry continues. When I need super pocketable, I use a Ricoh GR, when I need small but great a Fujifilm X100VI, and when I want to go big I have a Sony a7cr full frame camera (still a small camera but FF lenses are much larger than APSC lenses)

selykg commented on 'Dogequest' Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S. 404media.co/dogequest-sit... · Posted by u/nickthegreek

JKCalhoun · 5 months ago

I get the environment angle. In the current timeline though, personally I would be considering all the other EVs that are also good for the environment but don't have the albatross hanging around their ... rearview mirror.

Agree it's a cruel thing to do though. I prefer the "I humped Your Hummer" type site from a decade or so ago. More humorous. Definitely mostly harmless.

selykg · 5 months ago

Do Teslas even have functional rear view mirrors? I thought they did everything with cameras on the dash and only had as much shitty rear view mirror as necessary to not violate the law necessitating there be a rear view mirror.

selykg commented on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022) ericdraken.com/pfsense-de... · Posted by u/udev4096

lordleft · 5 months ago

I've started reading a great deal more. I'm tired of wrangling with my entertainment.

selykg · 5 months ago

I started reading a great deal more at the start of the pandemic. I've kept it going since and it has been a real boon. I also switched back to physical books because I actually own them..

selykg commented on Comet open source remote KVM from GL-iNet gl-inet.com/products/gl-r... · Posted by u/noja

Aurornis · 5 months ago

Has anyone been able to find the open source part?

Is the software open source? The hardware? I’m not seeing anything other than a claim that it’s open source.

selykg · 5 months ago

The product isn’t released yet. I would hazard a guess that the source will come after the device is officially available

selykg commented on Show HN: We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls pilaenergy.com... · Posted by u/coleashman

nikodunk · 6 months ago

Great points! This is meant as whole room backup - so it’ll keep your fridge (and a few other small devices like wifi, etc) running for 2-3 days - a pretty long outage.

It’s basically a huge, 21st century UPS.

It can also do arbitrage and charge when it’s cheap and deploy the power when it’s expensive.

The main problem with a powerwall is it doesn’t work for renters, and costs 20,000+ (and permits, etc) if you do own your home.

A pull-sting generator (gas) is great - and a push-button one is around 1K also btw- but it doesn’t go on automatically if you’re out, and be noisy, can only be started after the hurricane, etc

Finally, local-first is super important to us for outage or otherwise - we integrate with Home Assistant and have public MQTT topics you can directly hook into no matter what happens to Pila the company, as long as your hardware lasts (predicted 10 years).

Idk - that’s where we feel like the position and gap in this market is? But we may be wrong :)

selykg · 6 months ago

I can’t afford something like this but I would absolutely get something similar to this if I could.

My sump pumps are literally one of my biggest home ownership worries.