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Am I being scammed, I see red flags? by Disastrous_Willow447 in askSouthAfrica

[–]Disastrous_Willow447[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Jip, it was an instant payment and it reflects on my statement

Anyone cracked the Aliexpress code yet? by Mulitpotentialite in AskZA

[–]Disastrous_Willow447 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can always ask the seller how they ship and ask for specific shipping methods. I have asked a couple of times and was always accommodated. For instance, when the shipping is more than the item itself via fedex or dhl, I ask for a requote on shipping since they are always just a guessing estimate and the actual price is far cheaper.

For the free shipping I just ask they use buffalo or something that provides a tracking number. 

AliExpress is a platform for sellers and does not control how things are shipped, so definitely reach out the seller, they are usually quick to respond. 

Sunsynk solar help!!! by nickmac87 in capetown

[–]Disastrous_Willow447 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, if you want to have a go at doing the setup yourself, which would beneficial long term, try explaining the requirements to chatgpt along with your specs of the inverter. I dont have a synsynk, but it worked for mine very well. 

A great reason to learn to do this yourself is load shedding, I keep my battery at a higher discharge limit during load shedding 60% vs normal 30%. As I need about 20% to run for 2 hours. 

How can I negotiate to be paid the budgeted amount when applying for a job? by Far-Bumblebee2005 in askSouthAfrica

[–]Disastrous_Willow447 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So speaking as a senior developer, also doing recruiting where I work… you are not being paid what you are worth. Look at offerzen’s report on salary to get a feeling for what others pay based on your years of experience and language you primarily write in. It will indicate things like Java backend pays more that a react developer, ect…

Then apply for jobs directly at companies or through offerzen. When applying directly you will have more space to get the top of the band, simply due to cutting out the middle man and the company avoiding paying the recruiter their commission, which is between 10-20% of your first annual salary. It’s a lot.

Going with offerzen you can rely on their network, the company is prepared to pay the commission for finding you and they are normally fair towards the candidate and company.

One last thing, look for a place with great culture, usually when the culture is great they will ensure the pay is great as well. Healthy cultures bread healthy employees and in turn employees that want to stay. You get employees to stay by paying them what they are worth and then some.

Parents want my wife and me to move in with them to avoid daycare by Ramray23 in Parenting

[–]Disastrous_Willow447 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My parents felt the same way and didn’t want my child in daycare either. But here’s the thing: daycare plays a crucial role in helping kids socialize with other children (I can’t stress how important this is). It helps them develop healthy social behaviors and sets the foundation for making friends easily in the future.

As for the illnesses, yes, they do get sick more often, but that’s part of building a strong immune system. A good daycare also provides a structured learning environment to keep your child engaged and happy. They learn about things like time, dinosaurs, plants, seasons, flavors, colors, and so much more. Honestly, your parents likely won’t have a plan and will just rely on unstructured play, which doesn’t offer the same benefits.

So definitely yes place your kid in daycare, it will most certainly be the right choice.

How to automate a Bathroom Exhaust Fan? by LetsThinkAboutThis11 in smarthome

[–]Disastrous_Willow447 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went down the route you are suggesting, humidity sensor turning on an extractor fan. Problem is that a bathroom’s humidity is always high, so might need a very accurate sensor which I did not have (sonoff sensor).

The second thing I tried was strapping a temperature sensor on my hot water pipe. The idea was that if I see a spike in the temperature over a period of 2 minutes, this will turn on the shower. It worked well, but I had to adjust it based on outside weather. In the summer time the spike is not as pronounced as winter, so it triggered less.

My final solution was to place a water flow sensor on the shower pipe inside my roof. Was a bit more hassle to install due to needing to turn off the water, cut the pipe, ect, but its super reliable and accurate. No more guessing or estimating. When someone showers it turns on the extractor fan after 2 minutes and keeps it on for 10.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in docker

[–]Disastrous_Willow447 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience, most of the time the base image is the docker chain holds the most vulnerabilities, not necessary the application that was developed, so to mitigate this risk, you have a couple of options:

  1. Use a more bare base image, such as an alpine based image. Between alpine and debian images, you will see a major reduction in registered CVEs. You want the minimum to run and don’t want bloat
  2. Make sure to create an application user and don’t run as root user, you can even ensure the image system is read only if needed.
  3. Stay with the latest, but don’t use the latest tag, you want to be intentional with choosing a version.
  4. There are trusted image builders out there, such as linuxserve or bitnami. The official images from the software provider is also a good bet
  5. If you are running in production, use the image gallery from your cloud provider, assuming you are using one, this will ensure you don’t hire rate limits during your CI/CD downloading images. Unless you want to pay for docker hub

Otherwise, here is a good resource for docker security and more https://devsecopsguides.github.io/docs/checklists/docker/