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Slightly related, in everything I see that allows adding secrets or env vars as code, they seem to prefer a list of objects instead of a key value pair for these. Does anyone know why this is? I know in some cases you can add additional values, but this seems easily solved by dynamically determining what the value is.

I'd much rather write:

    env:
      key: value

instead of

    env:
      - name: key
        value: value

It's all lip service, because the UK Govt wouldn't ask them that. WhatsApp messages are EE2E. They probably already handover all the metadata surrounding those messages.

I ran it temporarily in Docker the other day. It was a 8gb image. I'm unsure why a webui is 8gb.

Grayjay does have SponsorBlock

This article kinda reads like "I didn't need HA, and you probably don't either". HA isn't necessary, but if you want a reliable system that will be online without being woken up at 3am (assuming you even have alerts at that point), you're better off with HA.

Similarly, you don't need Kubernetes, but if you want something that makes developer's life's easier, makes it easy to use a singular API, has many, many integrations and tooling, then you're better off with K8s. Sure, you can go with VMs, but now you have to scale and manage your application on a per VM level instead of per container. You have to think about a lot of cloud specific services, network policies, IAMs, I don't know what else, scaling.

I guess what I'm saying, you always have the option of writing in Assembly, but why would you when you can have a higher level language that abstracts most of it away. Yes, the maintenance burden on the devops/platform team is higher, but it's so much easier for users of the platform to use said platform.

I tried it not long ago. It's nowhere near as polished and good as FairEmail, unfortunately. I didn't last more than a week. There was a lot missing.

I really feel like there should be a tool that wraps Woob[0] finance and provides something similar to Plaid, but self-hosted. There are some great finance apps that could then potentially integrate it to improve automation.

Woob does a great job of providing a good API for automating the web, and sure, not everything works, but it's a good start. Unfortunately, it seems it's not very well known still.

[0] https://woob.tech/

Note that this is a desktop app developed via Tauri.

It would be great to turn this into a hosted service that I can deploy onto a homelab and access everywhere?

Isn't CyberChef[0] also local and without ads, and also open source?

[0] https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

No desktop mode?

Kendrick clearly weighed heavy on his mind.

What's terrible is that some people I know are getting RTO mandate. The problem is, all of their team members are remote workers. No RTO for them, because they were hired far away from the office. So my mates (2 of them) have to go into the office just to talk to their colleagues over Slack.

There is no logic in RTO for most tech workers. I'm glad they're backtracking.

Edit: spelling

Why not share a calendar between the two of you?

As someone who hasn't used VMs (on my machine) in a very long time, but went through the conversion of VB to Virt-Manager, the UX of VB was a lot better. It was easier to understand. I powered through and got used to it after a lot of issues.

I could be mistaken, but from what I'm understanding is that Booking.com books the flights for you, by automating the booking process on Ryanair (and subsequently add their own fees), whereas the likes of SkyScanner show you the information, then direct you to the Ryanair website to book through the airline.

Had a quick look through the readme. Seems like there's quite a bit of improvements that can be done, running it with Firefox's Kiosk mode for example. Perhaps a better option would be to use a custom webview (maybe Tauri?) to have better control over the inputs.

It's a cool start regardless.

[0] https://github.com/carltheperson/earlgreytv

This is a odd assessment. I agree certifications aren't all that, but having people learn them isn't about that. It's more that people don't feel like reinventing the wheel at every company, so they can focus on the real work, like shipping the application they've written. So companies like AWS, Docker etc, write things, abstract things away, so someone else doesn't have to redo the whole thing.

Yes I can host my packages and write tooling around it to make it easy. But JFrog already has all the tooling around it, and it integrates with current tooling. Why would I write the whole thing again?

You don't have to use it. You can use docker save and docker import:

    docker save alpine:3.19 > alpine.tar
    docker load < alpine.tar

But now I have to manage that tar file, have all my systems be aware of where it is, how to access it, etc. Or, I could just not re-invent the wheel and use what docker already has provided.

Password managers are very different. The details get encrypted using a passphrase, and only the encrypted data gets sent to the password manager. You don't have to trust the backend unless the frontend is changed to send non-encrypted data and/or your passphrase.

I've been on the verge of buying one of these for a while, but I think my biggest problem is they don't offer international keyboards. Only US qwerty. It's not a huge problem, but definitely not preferable.

What was your setup? I'm currently going on that journey.

Quick search leads to the EU council directive on VAT Article 132[0], section I and J which says:

    Member States shall exempt the following transactions:

    [...]

    (i) the provision of children's or young people's education, school or university education, vocational training or retraining, including the supply of services and of goods closely related thereto, by bodies governed by public law having such as their aim or by other organisations recognised by the Member State concerned as having similar objects;

    (j) tuition given privately by teachers and covering school or university education;

That wording seems quite clearcut, but then there's a reason I'm not a lawyer.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...

I'm currently in the process of trying to see if Samsung DeX is able to replace my laptop. It is running directly on Termux, as opposed to using something like proot. So far it seems promising, and the biggest thing issue I have is that the Termux-X11 session essentially acts like a VM in that shortcuts are not seemless.

I'd love to know how this compares to that. Or maybe there's a way to make that more seemless. E.g. if apps would be shown as Android apps as far as the launcher is concerned.

Took them way too long.

I recently replaced my broken phone with the S24 Ultra with DeX as one of the main uses-cases. I've read and watched a fair amount on whether it can be a daily driver, unfortunately most of the content was basically made just to create content, and it was geared towards content creators.

I'm planning to test this out over the next few weeks. Can I have it replace my personal laptop? After much research prior to buying, it seems there's a good chance this should be possible with the likes of Termux and Termux-X11.

If everyone has any thoughts or experience around this, I'd love to hear it.

Or if you're in the nextcloud ecosystem, you can use Memories

I'd love to know how you did that initial 24 hour challenge. Maybe a blog post or something? If I were to go about creating a start to an application using ChatGPT, how would I go about it?

No, mise is compatible with asdf plugins, but it is its own implementation. If the plugin uses pyenv (I believe the python plugin does) then it will use that. But otherwise it's not a wrapper. E.g. the asdf golang plugin downloads the files from https://go.dev/dl/. It entirely depends on the plugin itself.

I live and swear by Citymapper[0] for all cities that it supports. No other app I've used has been as good for public transport as Citymapper has been.

I really hope one day one of these city transport organisations either buy it out, push for it, or license their tech.

[0] https://citymapper.com/

I'd link to Bypass Paywall Clean extension, but it seems that's been taken down by GitLab[0] in the past few days. Anyway, you can use archive.is to bypass such paywalls[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40015961

[1] https://archive.is/jM0kI

One thing I like about AdGuard Home is that it supports normal AdGuard's block list, similar to the ones used in browsers. Of course, it ignores the items that it is unable to block (e.g. cosmetic, or third-party etc), but it is nice being able to take the lists I use in uBlock Origin, and just feeding it into AdGuard Home.