Syncthing or unison might be what you want

Your system will appeal to the intersection between people who like gambling and people who like donating to charities.

Even among them, I don’t see why anyone would prefer putting 100$ in your web3 thingie instead of just donating 50$, gambling with 45$, and buying a beer with the 5$ they would lose to you… well, there are a lot of stupid peculiar people (especially among crypto bros), so you might actually be ok.

About the implementation, the 50% to charities should be transferred automatically… what’s the point of a smart contract if people must trust you to “check the total donations and create a donation on The Giving Block”?

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IDK about the US, but where I live gambling is regulated very strictly: make sure to double check with a lawyer before getting into trouble.

I don’t see the ethics implications of sharing that? What would happen if you did disclose your discoveries/techniques?

I don’t know much about LLMs, but doesn’t removing these safeguards just make the model as a whole less useful?

I fear it was nothing that entertaining: it was just my “normal” dark panel at the top of the screen and a second “default” white one at the bottom (this last one partially covered the windows I had open). I didn’t try triggering notifications or otherwise causing some kind of mayhem.

I’m just messing around with testing/configuring different desktop environment/window managers and I’m looking for a quick way to preview them (running the new session as my user would be fine too - I just thought it would be simpler as a different user)

Wow, that’s so neat!

On my machine it opens a fullscreen plasma spash and then it shows the new session intermixed/overlayed with my current one instead of in a new window… basically, it’s a mess :D

If I may abuse your patience:

• what distro/plasma version are you running? (here it’s opensuse slowroll w/ plasma 6.1.4)
• what happens if you just run startplasma-wayland from a terminal as your user? (I see the plasma splash screen and then I’m back to my old session)

Read this, delete this post and try again.

Java have had very bad press lately (since the log4j fiasco I guess? maybe since before).

IDK why people blame Java for any issues with any library/project written in it… it’s as dumb as blaming C/C++ for all the windows fuckups, and nobody blames php for the various cpanel vulnerabilities or python for all the shit people write in it.

Best of luck to you!

I’m trying to understand Git, but it’s a giant conceptual leap.

Git is not that different from svn (I mean, the biggest hurdle is going from a shared folder to any version control system)… I’d say the main difference is that branches live in a different namespace than files (ie. you don’t have trunk/src/whatever but just src/whatever in the main branch). On top of that there’s that commit and push are two different things (and the same with fetch and checkout) and that merges are way easier than in svn (where you had to merge stuff manually).

If you create a repo locally and clone it twice in two different directories, you can easily simulate what would happen when you and a coworker collaborate via a centralized repo (say, github) - do a few experiments and you’ll see it’s not as complicated as it seems (I’d recommend using the CLI instead of some GUI client: it’s way easier to figure things out without the overhead of learning to differentiate between git concepts and how the GUI tries to help).

Does it still? Looks like the bubble is about to explode

Personally, I always regarded UUID as one of those overcomplicated and frankly unneded “enterprisey” standards (similar to SOAP and XSD, XSLT and various other XML techonologies). After reading this article my opinion didn’t change.

Also… do they even know what “version” means? That they choose that word over “type” or any other alternative says it all.

UUID Version 7 (v7) is generated from a timestamp and random data.

Use v7 if you’re using the ID in a context where you want to be able to sort. For example, consider using v7 if you are using UUIDs as database keys.

Please, do NOT rely on that and just add to your tables a field with the actual timestamp.

Not sure I’m getting the issue here (what does “join table” mean in the scope of JSON/XML?), but… doesn’t how you lay out your data in JSON/XML file have zero impact in your application’s queries? You won’t be querying the JSON - you’ll be loading data from it into memory and query the memory.

I last used it a good while ago (like, 10yrs?), so you’ll have to verify how what I am about to say applies to current versions (it probably does).

Jasper is an old-school, enterprisey tool similar to Crystal Reports that attempts to give you a WYSIWYG editor for building your reports.

All in all, I’d say that it might be good if you have a reporting department full of people that only do reports and you don’t want to train as programmers. If the ones doing the reports are gonna be actual programmers, they’ll be much better off generating html/latex/whatever and converting that to pdf.

https://awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/personal-dashboards.html :)

Good catch on my megabit vs megabyte blunder!

One of the most exciting additions to the Raspberry Pi 5 feature set is the single-lane PCI Express 2.0 interface.

IIUC PCIe2.0x1 means 0.5GB/s, which is slower than USB 2 (I’m talking USB 2 specs - no idea how USB actually performs in PIs). I can’t wait for people to buy that NVME hat and mount WD Blacks on that :) READ BELOW

One thing you can try doing before throwing away the router (which is probably the exact same one your neighbor use) is checking the channel situation in your condo with an app like WiFiAnalyzer and also try moving the router around (some spots are better than others - and hi up is usually better)

That said, ISP routers are often terrible.

In your shoes, I’d put the money in a proper case (eg. fractal node 304/804) rather than an USB enclosure (no, you don’t need hot-swap for a home server): besides the performance issues of USB (which may or may not be an actual issue depending on what you plan to do with the NAS), having a single box makes everything simpler.

For components to fill up the case, you can look at second-hand computers on ebay.

As for the OS, if you are not familiar with linux you may want to look at truenas scale (which is linux).

If you never built a PC, you’ll have to do a lot of research not to buy incompatible components… otherwise you could rely on a friend/shop or stick to sinology and similar.

Well… if one must believe their own logo, (see https://sata-io.org/) “SATA” shoud actually be expanded to “Serial ATA” :)

Acronyms of acronyms may not be super-common, but they do exist: eg. Cisco has a network protocol they call “PVST”, which means “Per-VLAN Spanning Tree”, where “VLAN” is “Virtual Local Area Network” (or “Virtual LAN”; LAN is another of those acronyms that is mostly regarded as being its own word).

In open source, there’s a long tradition of recursive acronyms: eg. “Linux” means “Linux is not Unix”, which you can’t be expanded (in finite time) according to your rule :)

I love you bot, but… PCIe is just “PCI express”, NAS nowadays means more “home server” than network-attached storage, and no one even ever knew what SATA is supposed to expand to.

There are acronyms that are shortened versions of meaningful names and then there are acronyms that are actual meaningful names for which some meaningless (and quickly forgotten) expansion happens to exist.