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techcode commented on My Homelab Setup   bryananthonio.com/blog/my... · Posted by u/photon_collider
linsomniac · 9 days ago
>Because all of my services share the same IP address, my password manager has trouble distinguishing which login to use for each one.

In Bitwarden they allow you to configure the matching algorithm, and switching from the default to "starts with" is what I do when I find that it is matching the wrong entries. So for this case just make sure that the URL for the service includes the port number and switch all items that are matching to "starts with". Though it does pop up a big scary "you probably didn't mean to do this" warning when you switch to "starts with"; would be nice to be able to turn that off.

techcode · 9 days ago
Setup AdGuard-Home for both blocking ads and internal/split DNS, plus Caddy or another reverse proxy and buy (or recycle/reuse) a domain name so you can get SSL certificates through LetsEncrypt.

You don't need to have any real/public DNS records on that domain, just own the domain so LetsEncrypt can verify and give you SSL certificate(s).

You setup local DNS rewrites in AdGuard - and point all the services/subdomains to your home servers IP, Caddy (or similar) on that server points it to the correct port/container.

With TailScale or similar - you can also configure that all TailScale clients use your AdGuard as DNS - so this can work even outside your home.

Thats how I have e.g.: https://portainer.myhome.tophttps://jellyfin.myhome.top ...etc...

techcode commented on Never buy a .online domain   0xsid.com/blog/online-tld... · Posted by u/ssiddharth
pil0u · 20 days ago
One conclusion is:

> Not adding the domain to Google Search Console immediately.

I don't understand. What is Google Search Console, and should I add all my domains there right now?

techcode · 20 days ago
Can't answer if you should add them or not...

But if you do - you would get some notifications from Google about that website/domain.

I've only ever seen emails of the "There's an increase in 4xx/5xx errors on site/page(s)"

techcode commented on Gentoo on Codeberg   gentoo.org/news/2026/02/1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
h4kunamata · a month ago
So it begins.....

Steam proved gaming doesn't depend on Windows, Linux can do it too.

Countries in Europe feed-up with Windows moving to Linux

LibreOffice is eating Microsoft 365 lunch

Microsoft buying GitHub caused a mass-exodus, its AI push is causing another mass-exodus.

Big open-source project moving away from GitHub, we only need a big player to make the move, followers will come.

techcode · a month ago
Countries in Europe realized that if USA sanctions International Criminal Court judge - that judge suddenly loses access to their email/calendar/docs/etc because Microsoft/Google/etc have to comply.

For the rest - yes.

techcode commented on Gentoo on Codeberg   gentoo.org/news/2026/02/1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
bjackman · a month ago
You can't "stack" MRs in Gitlab though right? So if you're merging a complex feature you just have one huge mega commit?
techcode · a month ago
What do you mean by "stack" MRs?

Just like with plain git - in GitLab you can merge a branch that has multiple separate commits in it. And you can also merge (e.g. topical/feature) branches into one branch - and then merge that "combined" branch into main/master.

Though most teams/project prefer you don't stretch that route to the extreme - simply because it's PITA to maintain/sync several branches for a long period of time, resolving merge conflicts between branches that have been separate for a long time isn't fun, and people don't like to review huge diffs.

techcode commented on Gentoo on Codeberg   gentoo.org/news/2026/02/1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
nine_k · a month ago
The amount of inference required for semantic grouping is small enough to run locally. It can even be zero if semantic tagging is done manually by authors, reviewers, and just readers.
techcode · a month ago
Where did "AI for inference" and "semantic tagging" come from in this discussion? Typically for code repositories - AIs/LLMs are doing reviews/tests/etc, not sure what/where semantic tagging fits? Even do be done manually by humans.

And besides that - have you tried/tested "the amount of inference required for semantic grouping is small enough to run locally."?

While you can definitely run local inference on GPUs [even ~6 years old GPUs and it would not be slow]. Using normal CPUs it's pretty annoyingly slow (and takes up 100% of all CPU cores). Supposedly unified memory (Strix Halo and such) make it faster than ordinary CPU - but it's still (much) slower than GPU.

I don't have Strix Halo or that type of unified memory Mac to test that specifically, so that part is an inference I got from an LLM, and what the Internet/benchmarks are saying.

techcode commented on Gentoo on Codeberg   gentoo.org/news/2026/02/1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
bsimpson · a month ago
That's effectively what I do. I have my dev branch, and then I make separate branches for each PR with just the commit in it. Works well enough so long as the commits are independent, but it's still a pain in the ass to manage.
techcode · a month ago
Perhaps I'm missing something... If your commits are not all independent - I don't see how could they ever be pulled/merged independently?
techcode commented on Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?    · Posted by u/speedylight
techcode · 2 months ago
TL;DR: school/tests/exams don't allow phones.

Here in NL - Casio FX-82NL is allowed during test/exams for middle/high school, and actually for Radio Amateur/HAM licence exam - they even hand you one of their FX-82NLs.

Other more advanced (graphing, with memory/Python/etc) are also allowed in some places, but they need to be set to exam mode that disables memory/python/etc.

techcode commented on The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/choult
TheAceOfHearts · 2 months ago
Counting large crowds is hard, but the tools continue to improve: we have increasingly advanced drone photography and access to better AI tools to generate more reliable estimates.

If crowd sizes become a significant point of contention it'll become increasingly commonplace for multiple parties to take lots of aerial video and photos that serve as independent verification. You could probably get a pretty accurate estimate of how many people show up to an event by sending drones to take photos every 15 minutes.

In any case, I think the problem you highlight is more focused towards the upper-end, while I was thinking about the lower end of the spectrum. Where some people might be very vocal online, but they're unable to gather more than a dozen or two people for any given protest. If a protest is gathering an unknown number of people that ranges between 100k and 1 million that sounds like a really good problem to have.

Your criticism of inconsistent people estimates are valid, I'm not sure if newspapers have published the set of tools and criteria that they use when generating these estimates, so that's an area where it would be great to see increased transparency.

techcode · 2 months ago
While 100K itself is indeed impressive - the order of magnitude difference between 100K and 1M makes a lot of room for interpretations, rationalizations, spins ...etc.

The "publishing the set of tools and criteria used to generate estimates" is happening, and so far it seems that usually doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter because of course those sources/news that report wildly wrong (be it larger or smaller numbers) are usually (not always, but very commonly) controlled by the governments.

So despite students that organized the biggest protests in Belgrade giving their estimates (based on combo of RSVP and how many people accommodated people from other cities). And those being close to independant research (using drone footage, VR/AR crowd simulations, AI) with loads of posts/videos providing detailed explanations ...

Most "ordinary people" saw (and keep seeing) just the "official version".

techcode commented on The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/choult
lostlogin · 2 months ago
The example of Ukraine is complicated, and that situation has become a nightmare With what followed - though in fairness to the Ukrainians, the west could have done a hell of a lot more, and still could.

The Arab Spring turned into The Arab Winter in a wave of repression. Some good has come out of it but the link you have provided says this:

Although the long-term effects of the Arab Spring have yet to be shown, its short-term consequences varied greatly across the Middle East and North Africa. In Tunisia and Egypt, where the existing regimes were ousted and replaced through a process of free and fair election, the revolutions were considered short-term successes.[337][338][339] This interpretation is, however, problematized by the subsequent political turmoil that emerged in Egypt and the autocracy that has formed in Tunisia. Elsewhere, most notably in the monarchies of Morocco and the Persian Gulf, existing regimes co-opted the Arab Spring movement and managed to maintain order without significant social change.[340][341] In other countries, particularly Syria and Libya, the apparent result of Arab Spring protests was a complete societal collapse.[337]

techcode · 2 months ago
The tring that Ukraine and Arab Spring have in common - is that same folks that managed to bring Milošević down in Serbia (known as Resistance/Otpor), later went on to talk/teach protestors in Ukraine, Egypt ...etc.

Check out #Post Milošević; and #Legacy; sections on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otpor (couldn't figure out how to get deeplinks on mobile).

TL;DR: Besides Ukraine and Egypt, they went to a few more places, in some it worked, in others it didn't. And there were revelations of foreign (e.g. USAID) funding.

techcode commented on The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/choult
TheAceOfHearts · 2 months ago
I think protests are good since it requires you to go outside and interact with other people, it requires a higher level of commitment than the slacktivism of the 2010s that was so prominent in online spaces. Polls are gamed all the time and social media is dominated by bots, but you cannot fake a large crowd in a protest. If a protest is large enough it creates a force that cannot be easily ignored.
techcode · 2 months ago
Of course you can fake a small/large crowd in a protest.

From the top of my head I can think of news reporting both "few (tens of) thousands" vs "hundreds of thousands" (different news reporting different numbers/estimates/etc) in 2025 protests in Serbia/Belgrade, as well as those comparisons of Obama vs Trump inauguration news/photos.

Meanwhile to you as an individual there on the spot - both crowds of say 50K-100K and 1M+ look basically the same = "huge amounts of people in every direction that you look".

u/techcode

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