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  • Yes, it is private by technology:

    GPS and other systems working the same way are passive, similar to receiving a radio signal. You’re receiving the signal of several satellites at the same time and your device calculates your position based on those signals. You’re basically getting “I’m satellite cool boy and at the next beep it’s exactly five past nine” all the time - only with a bit more precision. Your device does rhen the actusl position calculation locally.

    Fun fact! Geo positioning is one off the few things where we need to apply both general and special relativity for real world effects: the effects due to the satellites speed and high distance to earth (and therefore the reduced effect of gravity) cause a significant shift in the speed in which clocks run on those satellites compare to Earth. As we use the exact time to calculate distance and with that position this would cause a huge drift otherwise!






  • Thanks! It’s really interesting to read another background and approach than my own cultural biased one!

    Because this article makes it sound as if Hockett is worldwide standard - but at least in my linguistic studies which are now more than a decade ago he was only a “oh btw this exists as well” side note. Together with Bühler/von Thun and even Wittgensteins philosophical approaches the foundation was “there is no one size fits all in linguistic as it’s a highly contextual science”.

    PS: I want briefly over the 2022 study they referred and that showed the same tendency: this is about english linguistics, not generic one. Something they should have added in the title or first paragraph in my opinion as it’s not an easy distinction for lay people.


  • Traefik and caddy were mentioned, the third in the game is usually nginxproxymanager.

    I’m using both traefik and nginx in two different setups. The nginxproxymanager can be configured via UI natively which makes checking configurations a bit easier.

    Traefik on the other hand is configured easily within the compose itself and you have everything in one place.

    This turned out to be tiresome though if you don’t have a monolithic compose file - that’s actually even hr history why I switched to npm in the first place.

    I don’t have any experience with caddy so can’t provide anecdotal insights there.



  • I really like it already so take this as an alternative, not as improvement:l. I don’t have a good eye for aesthetics anyway don’t his is more about structure.

    Personally I switched from a single dashboard to purpose driven hubs - I can’t imagine a situation where I need my infrastructure and my calendar at the same time regularly for example.

    Another point is context typing: your release checker is quite far away from your appointments and calendar. It looks to me to be sorted by content rather then function (i.e. it’s entertainment so it’s next to YouTube). The same is true for your interaction patterns. There is a lot of visual information which I’m sure you’ll rarely interact with but instead consume. And then there are clearly external links, both bottom left (opencloud, tooling) and top right (external media) in addition to your own self hosted content.

    My suggestion is therefore a process instead of a change: Note down when you consume which features of this awesome dashboard together for a few days. Then restructure the content of the whole dashboard based on your usage patterns - either as a new Monolith or even experimenting with splitting it.

    I even suggest using a different medium then your usage device (if it’s a desktop PC mainly use pen and paper, if it’s your laptop use your phone, if it’s your phone you use this dashboard on then you might have different problems :D)


  • You don’t! At least not in the sense that I’m aware of the JADE thing:

    JADE is nothing that is a strong work proven topic but came from social media to handle narcissistic people as a peer group.

    Your reactions are hostility and rejection based and how I understand you it’s your nerves that you want to preserve.

    For this in a professional work place there are multiple ways to deal with and even all of them at the same time, just from the top of my head:

    • Always go over your manager, make it his problem. “Dispatcher causes work for me by raising false claims/redundant questions - please resolve with their manager”
    • I’d call it business ghosting: answer and questions raised but but don’t go into any depth. “Correct, phone was not working due to no wifi.”
    • Work on yourself to detach your emotional connection: this is the toughest but also the most valuable one. It’s a fucking dispatcher who has his own problems and no other way to handle them then to try to use his environment as catalyst. My personal route is the framing “poor fucker, needs his routine and world to accept himself”. But also “this seems to be the only way he can feel important in front of himself” would work for me. Usually when I take pity with people I can’t get angry anymore about their behaviors.
    • Figure out what the true impact on your work performance is and handle that separately from the emotional connection. It’s absolutely normal to be annoyed and angry by the behavior you’ve described - detachment of impact and emotion can be a way forward.

    Hope this helps a bit!


  • If I understand you correctly: You want to be able to record one computer with another one on a system level (the BIOS-party that comes before any operating system is loaded).

    Although this is not Linux specific: your best bet is a video capture card as you’ve suggested already. Anything else would depend on your bios supporting remote access which is not exactly the same (my server bios for example can expose a website where I then can configure it from within a browser.

    The problem with video capture is that you’d still have two controls: one for the client and one for the host.

    Depending on what your final result should be it could be actually easier and cheaper to just get a stand for a smartphone and record it from there and then crop it precisely.

    You then have to only worry about light reflecting.



  • As I don’t know your parents I can just project from myself: Whoever would be the physically closer one at that precise moment.

    I can’t imagine a situation where this could be a rational decision unless one of you fucked them over in a way I can’t even begin to fathom.

    This is so deep monked brain territory that it really comes down to pure instinct and that is driven by perceived higher chance.

    If the situation is in a way there it’s impossible (for example would have to carry both of you but you’re too heavy) chances would be high that we’d all die together - not because of some heroism bullshit but simply because I know my inner monkey quite well and it’s self preservation instinct vs kin preservation are … Let’s say not in my favor ad an individual :D



  • Oh yeah I - at least in part I wanted to go over the top as reply to the “so boomer” phrasing :)

    But honestly, I think I see where you’re coming from. My concern is that it’s not a change in language but a shift from information to emotion: And there is genuinely something to keep an eye on: Do my news inform me or engage me?

    No matter if Epstein, AI, Ukraine, etc - it’s becoming harder and harder for me to create an opinion on my own because more and more of my information channels tell me how I should feel instead of what’s going on. I’d rather find that out on my own though.

    It’s an interesting thought for me though because I can easily rationalize my opposition against this shift - but it’s also rooted in my emotional reaction to emotion-bait which is … ironic I feel!