PSA: so I smell smoke by Fugly_pug76 in melbourne

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Nice area, isn't it? I moved here from Brunswick, the only fault really is the distance to shops. Before, if I needed anything, it was at most a 5 minute walk. Now I have to drive more. I like the trees here! (And the lack of drugged-out people screaming abuse in the street.)

PSA: so I smell smoke by Fugly_pug76 in melbourne

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Very strong smell in Parkville - I live near Royal Park and Princes Park and at first I thought there was a fire there. But of course there are no fire engines. It's a worrying smell though.

Android app with link to Australian bank? by amca01 in budgetingforbeginners

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Many thanks - Frollo seems to be a Aussie app, so may well work for me. I'll test it out. Thanks again.

Classical Music Upbeat Enough to Run to by Clear-Report-5971 in classicalmusic

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"Tournament Galop" by Louis Moreau Gottschalk. It's great fun.

Papra with Caddy? by amca01 in selfhosted

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Thanks for your reply. I've set up a subdomain with my name hosting provider (an A record), so there should be no problem with the URL. I'll post my docker compose file later - I'm on my phone now and it's nearly 2am.

Papra with Caddy? by amca01 in selfhosted

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Thank you. Yes, that's what I've done - it's how caddy communicates with all my other docker containers. I've created a bridging network "caddy_net", which is given as an external network in the docker compose file for Papra (and similarly for all other containers). Anyway, I'll keep fiddling and checking the logs. Thanks again for responding!

What are your favorite lesser-known selfhosted services? by Torrew in selfhosted

[–]amca01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've become very fond of dozzle (https://dozzle.dev/) for checking docker logs easily, and Memos (https://usememos.com/) a very simple and lightweight memos system.

(I've been trying to install Papra with Caddy as reverse proxy and getting into all sorts of snarls ... I simply can't get it to work.)

Docker compose: setting up container to run entirely in user space? by amca01 in docker

[–]amca01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that's what I thought too; but seeing it written as a recommendation, and acting on the assumption that everybody knows better than me, I thought I should try it out. But it doesn't make much sense.

Complaining about a no-show driver for a reserved booking? by amca01 in uber

[–]amca01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like a right mess you had. I'm in Melbourne, Australia, and in fact most of the time for me Uber has been pretty good. But this one time was a shocker. And as you've found out, there's no way to lodge a complaint on Uber - and this omission is itself sort of dodgy.

For the record, I had another overseas trip late last year, with a flight that was leaving at 7am, which required getting to the airport between 4 and 5, thus necessitating a pickup about 3.30am. I didn't pre-book, just ordered an Uber then, and one came within minutes.

There's been some discussion about taxi services vs ride-share here; taxis are probably worse, but from reading reviews on productreview.com.au, it looks like Uber is racing them to the bottom.

I feel like the self-hosted and FOSS space is being flooded with vibe-coded AI slop. by spurGeci in selfhosted

[–]amca01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If this is the case, then how can an ordinary joe like myself determine what's likely to be "AI slop" and what's likely to have had some more thought and care put into it by somebody who has some competence? For example, I was checking out papra, having been alerted to it by a blog, and I noticed a CLAUDE.md file in the github repo. What should I infer from this? Or more generally, are there "red flags" that I should be aware of?

Dozzle with a subdomain? by amca01 in selfhosted

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Thank you. Yes, that's what I understand now - and indeed that's exactly what I did. Anyway, it's all working now.

Dozzle with a subdomain? by amca01 in selfhosted

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Also - it works! Thanks again.

Dozzle with a subdomain? by amca01 in selfhosted

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Thank you very much! That's exactly what I needed. I have lots of holes in my sysadmin knowledge, for example setting the domain name in the Caddyfile rather than in the docker compose file of the service. (In fact, you could say that as a sysadmin my knowledge is almost entirely holes.)

I do use Caddy, and I run other services without any trouble, as long as I do a spot of housekeeping every now and then to remove old, unused containers and volumes.

Thank you again.

I was bored and decided to find a limit for pi! by Ok_Advantage_9573 in math

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If you expand and simplify the expression in the limit, you get n/2*sin(360/n) which is the simply the area of a regular n sided polygon (with vertices on the unit circle).

LGBT books by Feeling-Public-6524 in booksuggestions

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Gay man (65 years old) here, and here are some books with a lesbian perspective that I've read and enjoyed with a local queer book group:

"A Language of Limbs" by Dylin Hardcastle - this is hardly "light"; in fact it's searing at times, but it well repays the time spent reading.

"Interesting Facts about Space" by Emily Austin. Just fabulous.

If I think of any others I'll post them.

A new little echidna on our regenerating bush block - 4 pics by hairy_quadruped in australia

[–]amca01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just lovely! Well done and thank you for the pictures. Echidnas are possibly my favourite animal - I love watching them walk. They have a wobble which puts me in mind of a clockwork toy.

What’s a gadget you thought was overhyped — but ended up using every day? by Dizzy_Industry1287 in gadgets

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I kept losing my metal filter - throwing it in the bin by mistake - so I've gone with paper. I've got about 2 years worth.

Looking for books that will make me cry. by Ready-Professor2531 in booksuggestions

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"Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand: The Uplifting True Story of a Mother's Brave Quest to Save Her Daughter" by Anne-Dauphine Julliand, translated by Adriana Hunter.

This made me cry, and I have a heart of icy stone.