Google has a “search tools” drop down menu (on mobile it’s at the end of the list of images/shopping/news etc).
It’s default set to “all results”. I believe changing it to “verbatim” is closer to the older (some would say “dumber”, I would say “more predictable”) behaviour
No.
I tried a smart watch for a week or so, and hated wearing it.
Hadn’t worn a watch in 20 years, and it felt very strange
I’m always nervous about fintech companies. Maybe it’s time to get over that and give curve pay a spin.
The cashback seems nice, considering a lot of shops I use are on there.
Not if you use wildcard dns records.
Yup, true.
But contactless via a phone can have no limit.
Adding a debit card to phone case means the upper limit is £100. Which is actually fine, and is the limit I have normally set for phone contactless. But I can instantly remove that limit via my banking app.
And the phone needs to be unlocked to make a payment.
Do if I lose my phone anyone can charge £100 to the debit card.
Servers: one. No need to make the log a distributed system, CT itself is a distributed system.
The uptime target is 99%3 over three months, which allows for nearly 22h of downtime. That’s more than three motherboard failures per month.
CPU and memory: whatever, as long as it’s ECC memory. Four cores and 2 GB will do.
Bandwidth: 2 – 3 Gbps outbound.
Storage:
3 – 5 TB of usable redundant filesystem space on SSD or.
3 – 5 TB of S3-compatible object storage, and 200 GB of cache on SSD.
People: at least two. The Google policy requires two contacts, and generally who wants to carry a pager alone.
Seems beyond you typical homelab self hoster, except for the countries that have 5gbps symmetric home broadband.
If anyone can sneak 2-3gbps outbound pass their employer, I imagine the rest is trivial.
Altho… “At least 2 [people]” isn’t the typical self hosting
Edit:
Tried to fix the copy/paste.
Also will add:
https://crt.sh/
Has a list of all certificates issued.
If you are using LE for every subdomain of your homelab (including internal), maybe think about a wildcard cert?
One of those “obscurity isn’t security”, but why advertise your endpoints? Also increases privacy (IE not advertising porn(dot)example(dot)com)
This… Except for contactless payment.
I used graphene for a month. It was lovely. Even things like banking apps worked.
I don’t care about absolute privacy, but I do care about controlling my privacy. Grapheme gave me that.
I had only 1 issue.
Contactless payment.
It’s extremely convenient to me, from public transport to groceries. I just bop my phone.
The fact that Google has that locked down surely violates some EU laws. But I’m sure they wave away the laws because of “financial security” or some other bullshit.
As if bank card NFC/contactless doesn’t suffer exactly the same issues.
I looked into some “graphene contactless payment” type systems or workarounds, and I couldn’t find anything that would fill the gap.
Smaller file size, lower data rate, less computational overhead, no conversion loss.
A 64 bit float requires 64 bits to store.
ASCII representation of a 64 bit float (in the example above) is 21 characters or 168 bits.
Also, if every record is the same then there is a huge overhead for storing the name of each value. Plus the extra spaces, commas and braces.
So, you are at least doubling the file size and data throughput. And there is precision loss when converting float-string-float. Plus the computational overhead of doing those conversions.
Something like sqlite is lightweight, fast and will store the native data types.
It is widely supported, and allows for easy querying of the data.
Also makes it easy for 3rd party programs to interact with the data.
If you are ever thinking of implementing some sort of data storage in files, consider sqlite first.
Yeh, my example was pretty contrived and very surface level.
It grouped things that seemed related at a surface level but weren’t actually related at all. Which makes it a bad example.
And realistically, you would use a timer class that raised events, and passed in an interval class that could be constructed from any appropriate units.
It was more to highlight that types and classes are a fairly easy way to improve the context around variable.
It can also use type checker to show incorrect conversions between minutes and seconds, Polar and Cartesian coords, RGB and HSV, or miles and kilometers. Any number of scenarios where unit conversions aren’t a syntax error.
Yeh, absolutely.
Horses for courses.
I feel like variable or function names that become overly verbose indicate that a specific type or a separate class should be considered.
I see it as a mild code smell.
Something like int intervalSeconds = 5 could maybe have a type that extends an int called seconds. So then you are declaring seconds Interval = 5.
It describes the unit, so the variable name just describes the purpose.
You could even add methods for fromMinutes etc. to reduce a bunch of (obvious) magic numbers elsewhere.
To extend this contrived example further, perhaps there are a couple of intervals. A refresh, a timeout and a sleep interval.
Instead of having.
int sleepIntervalSeconds = 0;
// etc...
You could create an intervals class/object/whatever.
So then you have.
public class Intervals {
public seconds Sleep
public seconds Refresh
public seconds Timeout
}
The class/object defines the context, the type defines the unit, and you get nice variable names describing the purpose.
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So, we should be sending people to prison? Cause that’s what happened to people involved in dieselgate. Along with the affected cars being recalled and the owners compensated.
From the wiki, and I’m simplifying:
VW was handed over to the German government after being offered free-of-charge to Ford in 1948 by the British government (who ran the factory up till then).
In 1946 the produced 1000 cars per month.
In 1949, 2 cars were sold in the US.
In 1952, 12 VWs were sold in Canada.
In 1955 they produced over 1 million Beetles.
So 3 years on life support being ran by the British. Dunno how long being run by the German government before becoming GmbH.
Over what sort of timeframe?
Couple months? Couple years? Couple decades?
And the news cycle can’t keep up or spend appropriate amounts of time/outrage on the things that are criminal, abhorrent and hurting people.
Throw a bunch of stupid shit to the media, let them feast. Sneak around while they are busy and get the truely hurtful stuff into law (or just skip the law part, and do it).
Single issue voters heads explode
So uplink is 500/500.
LAN speed tests at 1000/1000.
WAN is 100/400.
VPN is 8/8.
I’m guessing the VPN is part of your homelab? Or do you mean a generic commercial VPN (like pia or proton)?
How does the domain resolve on the LAN? Is it split horizon (so local ip on the lan, public IP on public DNS)?
Is the homelab on a separate subnet/vlan from the computer you ran the speed test from? Or the same subnet?