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AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower by IanTwenty in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Paolo Nutini's song 'Iron Sky' samples this same speech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky_%28song%29?wprov=sfla1

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Photo management - storing friends' photos (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Figured I'd ask here as thought self-hosters would care most about looking after their photos.

What do you do with friends' photos you'd like to keep hold of? Maybe there's a pic on a chat app or they've sent you a link to an album on google photos.

Would you just throw into your own pile of photos or do you carefully adjust metadata to indicate who took them? Just use dirs to separate them from your own? Interested in any and all thoughts.

IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee) by IanTwenty in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Never had this with ZigBee, one hub lots of different devices. Had to switch hub to USB2 at beginning to reduce interference but after that smooth sailing.

Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer by IanTwenty in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

'Last year, we asked the public for their views on smart products in a series of workshops. People shared concerns that products collect too much personal information, and said that they feel powerless to control how their data is used and shared'

Thank you to these people!

Abandoned village on the island of Hirta, Scotland by IanTwenty in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

https://www.lostsongsofstkilda.com/

Syncthing alternatives by IanTwenty in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

..could it be your phone's storage is failing then?

Fedora suspend wakes up immediately by IanTwenty in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The logs should indicate the device/app that prevents suspend, run 'journalctl -r' after it happens.There are ways to disable devices from preventing suspend but we need to know what's causing it first.

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BBC: St Michael's Hospital fire 'started in solar panels' (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I saw the smoke yesterday about 5pm. The 'We the Curious' fire of 3 years ago was also solar panels: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/curious-fire-everything-know-major-6931554

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Pillager Outpost - how to stop pillagers spawning? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I killed them all once and even dunked lava on the top yet still they spawn. Do you have to remove the entire structure to 'beat' them? Thx

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YouGov WECA Mayor Poll (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/52069-combined-authority-mayoral-elections-2025-where-does-voting-intention-stand

Ideal Business Stack? by IanTwenty in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I don't see anyone talking about the human side so I'll ask - what is the appetite for change? I can see you yourself are motivated and that's great. How do you feel the attitude is with the others there? Migrating a company that's been working analogue for decades sounds like a big change programme regardless of the tech choices you ultimately make. This sounds like process change as well as technology change and that requires using another set of skills to wrangle the people.

I would advise to pick a small area first that's causing the most pain but also very amenable to common tech most people are already familiar with and is only a small change to existing processes. Get an early visible success.

The photo management might be a good start as we all are used to these apps on our phones and the tech is mature and easy to find in FOSS.

Everyone loves Immich though it has some big warnings on its github page about its own maturity. Maybe something simpler: just file/photo synching and a shared gallery? It can always be upgraded in future. Syncthing is solid, some kind of NAS and one of the older/mature galleries running on top. Get your backup process nailed down and run a real recovery process before too many photos are at stake.

Anyway it sounds exciting and kudos to you for looking to FOSS. Good luck!

*Permanently Deleted* by IanTwenty in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

There is some distribution of effort/expertise at least:

When an individual researcher or an organization discovers a new bug in some product, a CVE program partner — there are currently a few hundred across 40 countries — is asked to assess the vulnerability report and assign a unique CVE identifier for the flaw if and as necessary.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/homeland_security_funding_for_cve/

How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs? by IanTwenty in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

I'll mention this as no one has yet but you can be your own CA. Tools like mkcert make it easy

https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

This is potentially more hassle (than using public DNS) as you have to get your CA certs onto every device. However it may be suitable depending on the situation.

The Tech to Build the Holodeck [Gaussian Splatting] by IanTwenty in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Maybe this method could one day be used with open street map

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255 return code from command substitution of wait builtin but why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the code below we wait for a background process three times. In the first paragraph we get the expected 0 return code from the wait. In the second paragraph the only change is wrapping the wait in a command substitution which instead gives a 255 return code. In the third paragraph the only change is wrapping the wait in a subshell which gives a 127 return code. Why is this?

sleep 1 &
wait $!
echo $?                     # prints "0"

sleep 1 &
a=$(wait $!)                # <---- only difference is cmd substitution
echo $?                      # prints "255"

sleep 1 &
(wait $! &>/dev/null)       # <---- only difference is subshell
echo $?                     # prints "127"

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

EDIT: updated to include the subshell final example also, which gives a clue

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How was Storm Darragh for you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some gusts of 45mph in Horfield and Fulton according to https://martynhicks.uk/weather/data.php so I think we escaped the worst in the city. A few things blew around but no damage near us.

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Photo management at the cmdline - recommendations? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Can anyone recommend a tool to manage photos at the cmdline? I just want to move photos into dirs based on their metadata (YYYY/DD), occasionally fix up metadata (adjust dates), rename photo filenames to match a template and/or query my photos for certain things. It doesn't need to be a gallery or image touch-up tool, I have other things for that.

I'm aware of exiftool and ImageMagick, perhaps they can do the job but they seem quite low level, really need to build scripts around them - I'd like something that operates at a slightly higher level so I don't have to do too much scripting.

A quick search turned up chee (GPLv3) which can:

search photos using a simple query language
manage named queries (called collections)
copy/symlink images into a custom folder structure

...but it's not had an update in a few years (maybe it's feature complete tho!) Any other suggestions? Thanks.

Looking for games with strong female leads for my daughter (even just to watch as I play). Came across this link, but they're a bit age-inappropriate. Any suggestions from the community? by IanTwenty in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

A Short Hike. Lead character is called Claire. No combat, no death, no resets. Just exploring, puzzles and story.

Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter by IanTwenty in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

UK government has been taken over by WhatsApp and Twitter - our official inquiries have to beg for access to WhatsApp to see what's going on in gov. Love to see them switch - they could have more control of data retention and promote innovation.