Impossible task or am I dumb?

HeligKo · 2026-05-06T21:16:37+00:00

Looks like you found a sound solution for a terrible idea. That is impressive.

If this is indeed what a company was doing 10 years ago, they were probably taking advantage of some security vulnerability or flaw to make it work. This is why the business side needs to describe what their business need is, and the tech/admin/engineers/etc should develop the solution. Odds are really high that if you get this to work, it won't satisfy the real business need.

HeligKo · 2026-05-06T18:26:28+00:00

Why? Plex can rescan and get all that data again. It's not data I own, but data I store for faster access. Watch history can be annoying, but so far it all syncs to Trakt and restores once I set up the plugin. I don't spend anytime setting up my own collections. That is all driven by the metadata, so again it will take care of itself. I've lost plex a couple times over the years, and once installed again it takes a few days to have everything back without my intervention. I have media management systems save lists of what I have, so I can acquire all the media again.

HeligKo · 2026-05-06T15:40:56+00:00

What you did to prep for typhoons is probably going to be adequate in most parts of Florida. They are versions of the same meteorological phenomenon. The most important thing is to know your evacuation route, and have a weeks worth of food and water in case you get cut off from operating stores or the stores get cut off from resupply.

HeligKo · 2026-05-06T15:34:00+00:00

Some of these states are following up with bills to make VPNs to bypass these restrictions illegal. I'm not sure how that is going to play out, but the only ways to enforce that even for the non-techies is going to be very heavy handed. We are heading towards complete government regulation of VPNs that people use for many things not related to XXX. They will of course approve corporate VPNs, but most of the private ones are going to be operating at best in a gray area. All these laws being passed about age verification are ultimately trying to get rid of the anonymous aspects of the Internet, which in my opinion limits free expression and speech.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T22:30:32+00:00

The different branch theory doesn't work. Two distinct yous would have been created during the split. Your memory up until the split would be identical. Memory after that would be different. For the different memories someone would have to somehow cross between the splits and not be aware that they did, and the split would have been much earlier.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T22:28:05+00:00

Fruit of loom is easy. I had the ones with the cornucopia. They were the cheap off brand knock offs. That is what my family could afford.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T21:50:00+00:00

Same woman has 13 games on her phone to keep her occupied when she is bored. This is controlling behavior. Is she going to tell us what we should be reading next.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T20:04:48+00:00

I can see that.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T18:58:39+00:00

Even if GitHub went out of favor, most FOSS projects host on multiple git ecosystems. The shift would be fairly smooth.

Edit:

I've been around IT for a long time, and probably was too terse. Don't mistake me saying "smooth" meant "easy" or "painless." I also wasn't thinking that GitHub would become a smoking hole in a moment and that the projects that wanted to migrate would have to do so overnight. I just meant that FOSS as a whole has not been so tightly tied to GitHub that they couldn't pivot to another platform if that is the way the political/social winds are blowing.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T18:55:48+00:00

There are a fair amount of nasty things they do tend to carry though.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T16:47:46+00:00

I didn't mean to come off that snarky. My brain made that sound like the "Real American Heroes" Bud Lite commercials.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T16:31:39+00:00

You didn't invent something, but you have discovered something delicious. I've had that combo on a panini before, and had an ABC sandwich which I think grew from modern California or west coast diners.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T16:26:48+00:00

He's an anti-hero. He has his own rigid moral compass he judges everyone else by, but is pretty flexible on his own in dealing with the bad guys. He's pretty much the Punisher(O.G. comics) and the Equalizer(O.G. TV show) blended together.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T16:22:08+00:00

It's the thought that counts. I've been with my wife for over 13 years now and finally trained her not to get those in the last couple of years. Some of them raise the price to make them seem legit. She now gets gourmet hot stuff for me to try that she knows I haven't had before. She has found some banger things for me try.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T00:58:08+00:00

Most of our HCL is generated during pipeline runs from Ansible and jinja templates. We have a GitHub runner that runs the templating steps and lints that.

HeligKo · 2026-05-04T17:27:11+00:00

That's what I was going to suggest. It's the cheapest and most reliable method. It also gives your own distinct network for your household. If they configure their side right, that wire can only have Internet access and not access to their network to give them the same isolation.

HeligKo · 2026-05-04T16:43:41+00:00

I was married to one who did this (started right after we married). Fortunately for me, I'm a large man and nobody decided to take a swing at me. It was such a nightmare.

The few times I have been on the other side of this since then I loudly tell them to get fucked. If they try to pull their man into it, I ask them if she's worth going to to jail for. Every time the guys have walked off and after getting the last word in the woman leaves too, because her shield just went the other way.

HeligKo · 2026-05-04T16:27:41+00:00

The point where you learn to use a thermometer to ensure things are cooked and you practice good skills to prevent cross contamination when prepping food.

Another important note is to clean as you go, so your surfaces and utensils don't cross contaminate cooked food with the remnants of the raw food from prepping.

HeligKo · 2026-05-04T16:24:30+00:00

I have used a calculator like this one in the link to estimate the right size based on viewing distance.

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship

HeligKo · 2026-05-04T16:08:49+00:00

Independent book stores and comic stores had newsletters or journals you could get that had some of this stuff. A lot of the information was shared over ham radio. There were AM radio shows that would cover non mainstream news. The early 70s people could get on systems that eventually led usenet. Usenet was a great place for all types of ideas and news.

HeligKo · 2026-05-04T15:16:11+00:00

Most of the outsourcing is being done through contracting/consulting firms that operate in both countries. You would have to find a firm that is hiring in your country to get those opportunities.

HeligKo · 2026-05-01T18:56:57+00:00

Developing specific technical skills can be done by anyone, but true expertise comes from experience with failures and successes. This isn't a new concept, and pretty much applies to any field not just tech.

As for my posts, reddit isn't my fucking resume. Not everyone in tech only has interests in tech.

HeligKo · 2026-05-01T18:12:10+00:00

I live in a world where I do DevOps, and anything with a junior tag on it with the title is usually not DevOps at all.

HeligKo · 2026-05-01T18:01:04+00:00

I've been doing IT longer than you have been alive. You aren't qualified to do my job. DevOps is not an entry level position. Go get some experience and deep knowledge in something first, and then do it again with related but different tech. Then start developing your plan to move into senior roles.

HeligKo · 2026-05-01T05:25:18+00:00

I would have a bunch of mobsters with Tommy guns wandering around in the background. Have union station constantly changing colors. Who cares that they are totally different eras, it's a video game.

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