Buckshot

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[–] Buckshot 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, this is a pretty nothing story. Seems like it is just trying to generate outrage. I wonder if all this could be solved by the government simply buying 650 residences in London and assigning them to sitting MPs while covering all the bills and maintainancne on those properties but it would probably be much more expensive

[–] Buckshot 6 points 1 year ago

I'm running Jellyfin on 6th gen i3 and quicksync works fine.

[–] Buckshot 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I exclusively use CLI, it's not ego at all, I simply find typing what I want to be quicker than clicking buttons. I've written a bunch of aliases to automate my common workflows.

When I need to help a colleague who's made a mess of something, I can easily give them the command to fix it rather than finding the right options in their GUI of choice and it's often because of some broken abstraction in the GUI they got into the mess in the first place.

[–] Buckshot 18 points 1 year ago

It would quickly get very annoying because one of those essential cookies is remembering that you rejected the rest.

The law doesn't actually mention cookies at all. Its about tracking users, they need your explicit consent to track you or to share data about you with third parties. Cookies are the primary way of doing this but there are others and they need your consent too.

[–] Buckshot 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You've never worked in finance then. All our systems at work do nothing but move large amounts of txt files around.

That said, many of our clients still don't support utf-8 so its all ascii and non-latin alphabets are screwed. They can't even handle characters 128-255 so even stuff like £ is unsupported.

[–] Buckshot 1 points 1 year ago

Last I looked Photoprism didn't support multiple users with different libraries at all, never mind encryption. There's an open ticket to support it. Immich has multi user support but not encryption.

I don't believe you're going to find a solution that has all the features of these and encrytion. The AI features such as object and face detection, as well as metadata extraction all run server side so the server needs access to the photo. Zero trust would require that everything runs on the client exclusively in which case the server is really just encrypted backup. I don't know of anything that works like that.

Nextcloud can be configured with end to end encryption but I don't know how other features work with that enabled.

[–] Buckshot 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A client paid us for a bespoke platform for managing invoice payments. Probably 20 man years sunk into it, they wanted to sell it to their customers but no one wanted it. They've just given up trying and axed it.

[–] Buckshot 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And remember not all currencies are 2dp so get a list and use the appropriate exponent.

I had to update our currency database this week because there's new currencies. It's almost as bad as timezones.

[–] Buckshot 10 points 1 year ago

I thought colo was your hardware in someone else's data center.

For me though a VPS is still self hosting because you own your applications data and have control over it.

You're less beholden to the whims of a company to change the software or cut you off. With appropriate backups you should be able to move to a new cloud provider fairly easily.

[–] Buckshot 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hate that the member prices don't show the unit rates. I prefer to buy in bulk where it works out cheaper for some things and it's impossible now without taking a calculator.

[–] Buckshot 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah I've been dropping not very subtle hints. We're only a small company, about 25 people. We don't have any dedicated database admins at all.

It's on the list I think but we don't have the people to spare to get it done.

[–] Buckshot 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We use SQL Server at work and I really don't get why. It's so expensive. We're hosting it on AWS as well. I can't remember the numbers but it's several times more than a similarly specced postgres and we're only using Standard edition.

I don't think we're really using any features that would stop us moving over, it's really just inertia and in-house knowledge.

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