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  • What things am I a dumbass about?

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  • Weirdly enough I'm an IT guy and can do all of those things, some of them only in a basic way which is why I leave taxes and car maintenance to the professionals.

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  • You may arrive 30 seconds late

    I'd even doubt that. If you take an average and factor in that you might at one time have a crash due to your shitty driving, you'll always arrive infinitely faster.

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  • Exactly. Works for guns as well.

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  • This one can detect voltage with a single lead and also works as a voltage meter if you use two leads: https://www.benning.de/products-en/testing-measuring-and-safety-equipment/test-equipment-voltage-tester/voltage-tester-duspol.html

    It also has an inbuilt motor to distinguish leaking voltage from continuous AC.

    Sorry if I didn't use the correct English terms and that wasn't clear enough.

    In Germany you simply call it a Duspol and every electrician knows what you mean. Didn't research enough into the English description but it seems it's a two pole voltage tester with one pole voltage detection mode.

  • What things am I a dumbass about?

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  • Sure. Also invisible electricity in general. If you can see it it's many times not a good thing.

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  • Oh most people can't drive. Recently read an article 90% of drivers overestimate themselves. I know I'm above average but by far not a good driver. I still try to become better.

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  • Always use a one lead voltage meter tester when working on electricity. Don't trust your breakers. Don't trust light switches.

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  • Don't brake in curves, whether you have a car or bike. Especially in slippery conditions.

  • LibreOffice 24.2.1 Office Suite Is Out with More Than 100 Bug Fixes

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  • Sadly all of our huge customers use MS Office and we have to dogfeed ourselves with the whole MS 365 suite. That's 70€ per month per user down the holes of Microsoft execs.

  • Any good articles on designing applications that can be self-hosted?

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  • Why require keycloak specifically? Maybe I want to use another authentication gateway.

  • Encrypted hard drive asking for password every time

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  • Macs had TPMs before Windows PCs, IIRC.

  • Encrypted hard drive asking for password every time

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  • If you forget both, you upgraded the drive to a paperweight.

    That's why I have a password manager on my phone.

  • Any good articles on designing applications that can be self-hosted?

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  • Ideas what you can do. These are all SHOULD and not MUST requirements, so pick and choose what you can reasonably do in a realistic timeframe without overburdening yourself. Some of these steps can be outsourced to your community.

    You can try to make a twelve factor app but some of their advice is probably not suited for your application. You will end with some 7.5factor app which is fine.

    Follow SemVer and provide detailed instructions for upgrading major versions.

    Use a build system which is easily installable and a language where you don't have to upgrade dependencies every second for security issues (looking at you, npm/nodejs).

    Don't include a webserver which does HTTPS, let the people run their own reverse proxy.

    Test your setup with and provide multiple web server configs for nginx, Apache2, Caddy, Traefik.

    Test your setup with and provide multiple default configs for bare metal (with a dependency manager), Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Kata Containers.

    If you need a DB, include the possibility to migrate from a self contained one instance SQLite to a multi container pgsql/MySQL setup.

    Write database migrations in both directions so people can downgrade on failures.

    Make it possible to configure your system via ENV variables, ENV files and config files. Provide instructions on best practices and sane defaults. Explain these defaults and make clear configuration is optional.

    Make it possible to disable authentication to add Authelia or LDAP through the webserver. Make clear that this is only to be used for external authentication.

    Make it possible to run multiple parallel instances of your software without affecting the database consistency, e.g. for high availability or horizontal scaling.

    Provide a versioned, documented API (does not need to be public) and use it yourself for your frontend. Provide a telemetry endpoint which is human readable and machine readable, so Prometheus or a similar system can scrape it.

  • How do you stay up to date with industry trends?

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  • Nintendo shares drop following Switch 2 delay reports

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  • Basically, stock markets are based on predictions. If it is likely a stock will continue to fall, it is called a drop. You can not know if it's a dip or a drop in advance because rising and falling stocks are always relative to the rest of the environment. So calling it a drop would be not wrong, but an unlikely prediction.

  • Verbotene SA-Parole: CDU-Politiker löscht Nazi-Hashtag — Union-Vizefraktionschef Sepp Müller entschuldigt sich für eine Formulierung auf Facebook. Sie stamme von ChatGPT, sagte er der taz

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  • Im Gegensatz zu dir hat die Journalist:in Medienkompetenz bewiesen und die Plausibilität der Aussage der Politiker:in so überprüft.

  • How do you stay up to date with industry trends?

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  • Aho says you need to do this in your free time?

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