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unknown2374 | 3 years ago | on: End the Streaming Struggle with Plex

Slightly off-topic, but I have been interested in setting up Plex (or similar) in my homeserver but never figured out a good workflow or source to add movies/shows to it? Are people generally just torrenting, or are there DRM-free stores that I do not know exist? Or if there is an efficient workflow for ripping blurays?

unknown2374 | 4 years ago | on: Wire is now on F-Droid

they do not need super-user permissions. That would imply that the phone has to be rooted. over-coming certain settings that apply to regular apps? sure. but that's a very android/iOS specific feature-set that is exposed to all app developers.

unknown2374 | 4 years ago | on: Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration

I find it very similar to how understanding of OS and hardware fundamentals can make one a much better software engineer, how infrastructure in the cloud/servers are setup helps make better design decisions.

At least in my experience, my hobby of maintaining my own home server helped out immensely in my path in the industry due to knowing what tools are available when working on multi-faceted software designs.

unknown2374 | 4 years ago | on: Wire is now on F-Droid

That convenience has to be let go when working on operations-critical services. This feature is an absolute necessity in a lot of cases, and of course employees can complain, but not resolving certain issues urgently can mean that an entire hospital's system stays inaccessible overnight, or worse.

unknown2374 | 4 years ago | on: The dawn of post-theory science?

Science does not produce knowledge. Science tries to attach a model for people to reason about what we observe. Its like solving x1 + x2+ ...+ xn= 10, where we dont the extent of what x values can be, or even what operations are being used, all we can observe is the result: 10. Science is saying it could be n=2 and x1 is 3 and x2 is 7.

That isn't knowledge, we as a species can never actually know anything, since that's saying that some things can never be proved wrong, which goes against the philosophy of science.

Fact is the enemy of truth, knowledge the enemy of science.

unknown2374 | 4 years ago | on: I returned my Remarkable2

Reading the review, i cant help but feel that the author was always planning to return the unit. They did not seem to spend much time actually using the tablet and invest in learning how to use it, they just took advantage of the return window, and from tge sounds of it, was always planning to.

unknown2374 | 4 years ago | on: LG is getting out of the mobile phone business

This is the exact same reason I can't go for a OnePlus myself. I would look elsewhere.

edit: even if you flash the phone with open-source ROMs and firmware, the closed-nature of cellphones in general make it nigh impossible to know what hardware backdoors the manufacturers are forced to put in.

unknown2374 | 5 years ago | on: Unironically using Kubernetes for my personal blog

50 lines for configuration of a blog is not what I'd have personally called "simple". Granted GUIs (e.g. AWS console as mentioned in the blog) are not as easy as an config file, the comparison should be against other blog deployment programs, like hugo/jekyll/ghost, not.. the AWS console.

unknown2374 | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI

As mentioned in the other comment, emacs does those things, and so does Vim (with plugins of course).

I moved from sublime to atom to VS code, but eventually settled on Vim because I was able to get the same features (that I used) while getting almost instant response. A feeling that has completely changed how much I enjoy writing any sort of text.

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