Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz?

This one might be it. No idea, it was so long ago. https://media.ccc.de/v/066_Bluetooth_Hacking

Reminds me of the good old times at the same conference a few years back when the Bluetooth panel ended with everyone in the hall involuntarily having a new screensaver on their phone.

The trouble with pictrs is that it sorts pictures into seemingly random folders.

The solution is to not proxy images. Might even be the default by now. That’s a huge resource hog. No idea what pictrs is doing but it’s still taking up a whole lotta space just for my own images.

Canceling all subscriptions would probably make Lemmy use almost no resources.

I run a single user instance and it’s horribly slow. Mostly because I only have HDDs and not enough RAM to compensate. I hope Lemmy 1.0 will increase database performance.

Piefed is supposedly much more performant. But I’m shying away from migrating because I don’t want to lose my post history and uploaded pictures.

This happens every few years. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has the nvidia drivers split into generations for this reason. I think they’re up to G06 by now. Guess they will add G07 now.

TPM or put a keyfile on the boot partition or into the initrd.

My .dockerignore is a link to .gitignore.

I usually make ~/Packages for various binary packages that I can’t add as repos for whatever reason. And ~/Packages/src for stuff I compile myself.

And ~/Games for games.

I just call it ~/Porn.

Yes, that’s the whole point of Linux on a phone. The ability to easily use existing software. The app already has small screens so using it on a phone should be possible without any trouble.

Use Nextcloud’s desktop client? Or the cli client with cron/systemd timers. Or any old webdav client.

Can’t wait for proper Linux phones to be more viable so that we have more control over shit like this.

Yeah, leaving unwanted ports open is a configuration problem. A firewall gives you just the opportunity to fuck up twice.

Well, then he dodged a massive red flag.

As is German tradition.

Hollywood can’t possibly live up to the power of your imagination.

Had a programmer like this when I was still an apprentice. He was so full of himself. Was originally a Java programmer but had to program in PHP because that was what ran on the server. I never found out why he couldn’t just put Java on the server. We had full control.

All his variables were first names. Like $klaus and $grobi. Because he was afraid of clashing with reserved keywords. The thing is, in PHP all variables begin with $ exactly to prevent this issue. So he brought that habit over from Java which was far superior and not such a “Mickey Mouse language”.

I mean, he wasn’t totally wrong, especially back then PHP was awful. But he surrounded every function with <?php and ?> (PHP was designed to be combined with HTML output outside of these tags) and had plenty of whitespace between them and couldn’t fathom why all his html files had huge swaths of whitespace at the start.

His way of preventing SQL injection was to look for SQL keywords in user input and then throwing an error in the log files.