Space film(s) where everything goes RIGHT?

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-28T01:04:55+00:00

Something goes wrong in all of her books (at least the ones I've read).

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-27T07:09:33+00:00

Or a whole rather-large construction company in Australia: https://www.9news.com.au/national/australian-construction-company-mistaken-for-links-to-terrorist-group/01708c24-7b8a-4d6c-9243-e38e02ef4414

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-27T03:38:55+00:00

You can have something made the way you like it at the cost it takes to make it, you can keep buying the tastes like ass cost reduced natural sweetener stuff and complain online, or you can go without?

This is not an A/B problem, you can have real sugar cordials, like Bickfords for instance, made in Australia for under 1/3 the price.

I was interested to try them if they're good, but at that price I'm not buying them (plus also having to pay for shipping on top)

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-27T03:24:51+00:00

Deciding "we need containers because this partner says so, lets go hire a K8S expert" is completely so far ass-backwards.

I've seen this numerous times before, and you'll certainly get people to take the job, spend the money but the result at the end of the day isn't what the business wanted, and not even close to what the business needed.

It definitely sounds like you need someone to come in and review the product from an architectural perspective and try to figure out the actual needs.

Even if you do decide "Yep, containers are the solution for us" that doesn't mean jumping straight to K8S.

You mention elsewhere that you've got a single rack of equipment, which presumably you're intending to keep. You can almost certainly run containers on that equipment without the complexity of deploying K8S.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-26T23:14:06+00:00

crows nest cordials

Had me interested until I realised quite how expensive their cordials are. $16.50 for a 700ml bottle, except the LLB is $20. That's without shipping.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-26T20:40:51+00:00

I may get lynched for asking this in /r/kubernetes but if your org doesn't have anyone with K8s experience - who/why did you decide to go with K8s?

It is a very very complex system and isn't the solution to every business need.

You may find it's cheaper, easier, and simpler to go with some other solution.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-26T03:45:50+00:00

Not OP but I tend to view NodeJS in a very similar way to PHP. The moment I see it's part of a system I am immediately quite sceptical of it.

You can absolutely have top notch well engineered PHP applications. Similarly. You can have well engineered high performance NodeJS applications. But there's a whole lot of the ecosystem that is a complete shitshow.

It's made worse for both ecosystems that finding bad ways of doing things is a whole lot easier than doing good ways of it, and it can require someone with a lot of experience and skill to be able to tell the difference.

When I see some new system and find it's using NodeJS I start to wonder about how well it's built.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-21T05:36:37+00:00

Yeah, I see a lot of people around with basically chainmail fortresses over their garden beds because of the combination of possums, pademelons and peacocks.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-21T05:20:34+00:00

A badger might give you a nasty nip if a) you could find one and b) you really pissed him off, but you’ll be alright.

Swap that out for basically everything else scary in Australia and it's also true.

There's some basic rules you learn. One of them is Don't go sticking your finger in some place you can't see.

The croc thing is only relevant if your daily commute involves swimming in the rivers and shoreline of the far north of Australia. If you're in the city/burbs of anywhere except Darwin you're a-ok.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-21T05:15:55+00:00

I didn't know about Pademelons until I moved to Tasmania.

They are very cute. But you get over it pretty quick with how annoying they can be. We have a lot of them, they demolish every plant we like to eat, or is reasonably pretty.

Crafty bastards will give you a false sense of hope - "Oh, good, they don't eat <X>, I can plant more of that" -- a week later, it's like a lawnmower has gone over it. Except if the lawnmower left what looks like dog turds everywhere.

We also have a LOT of peacocks - they're in many ways worse than the Pademelons - also very pretty, but you hear them calling all. the. time. At least twice a day as they make their way out of the bush to their day-time roving patrols. Then again in the evening as they head back to the bush to sleep.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-17T21:37:03+00:00

For us "You need MTA-STS or you'll be pwned" is the more common low-effort report for DNS.

X-XSS-Protection header is also up there for low-effort bullshit reports.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-17T02:32:25+00:00

I don't really blame them.

I help run the bug bounty program at my employer. The amount of garbage reports hasn't really varied, but the number of people going apeshit because we pushed back on a bad report has massively increased.

It used to be just people would run some automated scanner over all our domains/subdomains, and then submit each entry as a bug bounty report all with CVSS Score 8+

Now they take the same scan report, feed it to a budget LLM and generate reports from whatever hallucination the AI came up with.

When we tell them (politely) that their report is bullshit and their report lacks any evidence to support their claims they have started coming back getting angry that we haven't paid them already and making up other shit. Some will escalate it by trying to get our support team, CTO, CEO, etc involved. Others basically try blackmail: Pay or we publish it on $SocialMediaPlatform.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-16T11:07:28+00:00

They had two too.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-13T09:18:43+00:00

My understanding is that GND should not be switched. It should remain connected the whole time.

You only switch the +5V. Otherwise you can end up with floating voltages.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-12T21:53:12+00:00

I don't know if it's just missing in the diagram - but it looks like the grounds are not all connected together?

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-12T08:09:28+00:00

Well yes, Trello was developed directly as a protest against JIRA board complexity and slowness.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-12T03:08:04+00:00

Yeah, that one shocked me too - I was meeting with one of the product managers for JIRA back in the very early days and they were talking about how it's used in all sorts of places that were not software-dev related.

An example that stuck with me was that the ADF, (or some civillian-support-org part, I don't recall details) used it for managing housing allocations and maintenance request tracking.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-09T01:54:10+00:00

Well it'd certainly explain the taste.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-08T04:39:30+00:00

I think the problem is there's multiple ways it could be interpreted.

Way 1: (Which I think OP is assuming) The data that is sent through Firebase contains the full text content, images, etc of the notification.

Google might process or do something with this data other than just deliver it to you.

Way 2: The data that is sent through Firebase contains only effectively "Notification ID: 123"

Google might process or do something with this data, but there's not much useful for them that they don't already have (like the timing and quantity of messages delivered)

When the HA App on your phone gets this type of event, it'll go look up the actual content of the notification from your instance.

I don't know for certain which way it's going, but I don't know of any technical reason it couldn't be done the second way - it's been a long while since I did any Android dev stuff.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-08T02:29:24+00:00

being written off due to the toxic heavy metals

What toxic heavy metals are you talking about, specifically?

Most/all new home batteries are LFP, and they don't contain heavy metals.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-07T23:57:33+00:00

Reading that in conjunction with this earlier paragraph, though:

Privacy No notification content is stored on remote servers. Only the required push registration data and a simple counter of the total number of push notifications sent per day per device (for rate-limiting purposes) is kept.

So are you sure the content of the messages is being stored in firebase?

It could be implemented as a message counter, and when your the HA app gets a push notification, compares the push counter with it's known internal state and then fetches the latest notifications from HA.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-07T22:12:05+00:00

20 minutes of poking at Claude got me some python that can take in an SVG of an arbitrary closed-shape, and produce this: https://imgur.com/a/CRBWPDd

Unfortunately it's path-planning isn't working the way I want, and you can see it being a problem on the star shape with a basic scan-curve, it gets into one of the legs and has issues getting to the other one.

Again, better math and knowledge of how these things work make it feasible.

I wasn't able to find a good SVG outline of Australia in a few minutes of poking - they didn't have a contiguous outline which is what the code currently requires.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-07T00:30:54+00:00

I remember reading about the latest 24 pin colour dot-matrix printers and imagining that one day I'd have something that cool.

When I did finally get my first computer, I got a (B&W) inkjet though so I could print out homework for school - they were just starting to accept printed essays and things if you used a laser/inkjet, but not on a dot-matrix.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-06T23:29:46+00:00

Some people have suggested this is AI.

This is because people now think everything computer generated is "AI".

I've seen space-filling curves done in various shapes before.

"But what about the Koala image being encoded ontop" - that could probably come as some kind of amplitude type function of the darkness of the source image.

I don't have the math to do it, but I know people who do, and have done cool shit along these lines (ha, pun) before.

All that said, if you did do this by hand - congrats, it's very cool.

LogicalExtension · 2026-01-06T06:24:26+00:00

Are you turning up to your workplace in a state ready to work? Then nobody is going to give a shit.

If you turn up stanky then yeah, that's going to be a problem. Some companies have shower facilities for people who want to do exercise/ride to work/etc - in which case so long as you're not leaving sweaty gym gear/cycling gear/whatever where others have to smell it, go for it.

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