I need a repo that should not be publicly findable with explore. Does this mean the repo necessarily must be private? When it’s private, I cannot simply give an URL to friends to browse. IIUC, they must create an account, tell me their username, then I must add their username as a collaborator. That’s way overkill.

I just want to give out an URL that will reach the content when visited. It should not be discoverable by the general public but we are not talking state secrets. It must be hassle-free for read-only access. When browsing to a private repo (when logged out), it gives a 404 error.

update: A hack comes to mind: I could create a 2nd account on the same server, make that account a collaborator, then share the password to that acct with friends.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/54045255

I have adopted the habit of ignoring red lights.

Rationale: If cars did not exist, cyclists would never have to stop. Every time I must stop at a traffic signal it is to cator for motorists who are mostly a self-serving detriment to public health and safety. #FuckCars.

I used to obey all the traffic rules but after coming to the realisation that much of my time is wasted and my journey is downgraded so copious lazy people can exploit a luxury (some demographics aside). Fuck that. I now run red lights like crazy.

Now I must consider that Tesla may fuck up my lifestyle because Tesla is a moving point of unchecked uncontrolled surveillance. Theoretically, Tesla could be grabbing the faces of cyclists. It could offer to report cyclists who run reds. It could sell that info to law enforcement. Am I overthinking this or is this a problem to watch out for?

OTOH, I am somewhat looking forward to a day when I can spot when a car is self-driving and (if I can ever gain confidence that they won’t mistake me for a tumbleweed) I would happily take liberties -- to cut-off the car and force it to slow down and give way. I hope that tactic can go from dream world to real world.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/54045255

I have adopted the habit of ignoring red lights.

Rationale: If cars did not exist, cyclists would never have to stop. Every time I must stop at a traffic signal it is to cator for motorists who are mostly a self-serving detriment to public health and safety. #FuckCars.

I used to obey all the traffic rules but after coming to the realisation that much of my time is wasted and my journey is downgraded so copious lazy people can exploit a luxury (some demographics aside). Fuck that. I now run red lights like crazy.

Now I must consider that Tesla may fuck up my lifestyle because Tesla is a moving point of unchecked uncontrolled surveillance. Theoretically, Tesla could be grabbing the faces of cyclists. It could offer to report cyclists who run reds. It could sell that info to law enforcement. Am I overthinking this or is this a problem to watch out for?

OTOH, I am somewhat looking forward to a day when I can spot when a car is self-driving and (if I can ever gain confidence that they won’t mistake me for a tumbleweed) I would happily take liberties -- to cut-off the car and force it to slow down and give way. I hope that tactic can go from dream world to real world.

I just bought a 2nd-hand CubieTruck which apparently has a cubieboard 3. The cubieboard.org website is a shit-show of dead links. There are some docs but all the drivers and software are dead links. No Android or Debian images. It’s also a shit-show over at archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20171105012836/http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubieboard/android/v2.0_A20_android_source.tar.gz

There is a tree of directories here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20180225200418/http://dl.cubieboard.org/

but 404 errors on all files. In principle, softwareheritage.org should have the software. But it doesn’t because (I suspect) s/w heritage fixates on github and probably needed someone to manually request that they keep software outside of Microsoft’s walled garden.

I don’t suppose anyone has cubieboard 3 files.. but in the very least I hope this post will serve to warn ppl to avoid cubieboard.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/53671520

I asked a library system to furnish their whole catalog of books, music, and movies in an open format (JSON, XML, or CSV). They refused, saying that the database is extremely large, composed of several hundred thousand bibliographic records that reference over 2 million documents. They say the database is highly dynamic and it would be obsolete by the time they export the data and likely not useful to more than one person.

So they have opted to limit everyone to using their web-based search. Is my request unreasonable? Or their response?

I’m trying to get a basic idea of the size we are talking about. I’m guessing 100,000 bibliographic records would consume roughly 100mb uncompressed (guessing an avg. record would not exceed 1k). And since text compresses very well, a zipped JSON would be what, ~10mb per 100k records? I believe a zip file of 900,000 bibliographies would be ~65mb.

The library did not give precise figures but I would like to work out what level of crazy my request is. Do any libraries in the world export a dataset of 100s of 1000s of book and media titles? Because if it’s done /somewhere/, it would give a clue about the reasonableness of my request.

I’ll give a couple use cases in case anyone is wondering how direct DB access would be useful.

Use case 1:

1. fetch a list of titles of interest, e.g. award-winners (books, scripts, actors, musicians, directors, etc), or a list of banned books, because if it’s banned somewhere maybe it piques your curiosity
2. search the library’s DB for matches against a list

If the list is more than ~15 or so items, you’re fucked because library query forms rarely accept a list as input. And as soon as you need to specify other criteria like works in English with a date range, the chance of a web form doing the job becomes increasing unlikely.

Use case 2: Suppose you are boycotting something or want to avoid something or someone (e.g. you want to avoid Tom Hanks because he is a sell-out with no sense of brand protection, who will act in any garbage film if it pays enough)

1. fetch a list of titles you want to avoid (e.g. if you boycott Disney, get a list of Disney titles; or get a list of movies Tom Hanks was in)
2. search the library’s DB for whatever you are looking for, but exclude matches against a list

Or you have a looooonng list of movies you have already seen or books you have read. Obviously you might want to exclude them from your queries.

Use case 3: The library has an extremely limited sense of genres. A conversation went like this:

Me: “Where is the EDM section? Where is the ambient and trip-hop section?” Librarian: “what’s that?” Me: Electronic music. Librarian: those would be under “rock”. Me: What about world music, like Ravi Shankar (classical Indian)? Librarian: check jazz

Fuck me. No wonder the rock and jazz sections are so huge and there’s little else. Picking through it would be unsurmountable and the web DB likely has the same sloppy genre problem. I suspect what has happened is young ppl just don’t do libraries much and they probably use Spotify or similar online surveillance system for music. In fact I rarely even see people browsing the music these days. So the library organisation just did not keep up genres and no one noticed because they are online. So again, like use case 1 it would be useful to find the intersection between a list of titles of interest and the library DB.

I have to wonder if the /real/ problem is that the library thinks I would be the sole user of the exported DB. I can understand resistence to doing a significant amount of work for just one person. But I would expect many people to have search needs that these GUI webforms cannot handle, no? And from there it would be the subset of those people who know SQL.

I asked a library system to furnish their whole catalog of books, music, and movies in an open format (JSON, XML, or CSV). They refused, saying that the database is extremely large, composed of several hundred thousand bibliographic records that reference over 2 million documents. They say the database is highly dynamic and it would be obsolete by the time they export the data and likely not useful to more than one person.

So they have opted to limit everyone to using their web-based search. Is my request unreasonable? Or their response?

I’m trying to get a basic idea of the size we are talking about. I’m guessing 100,000 bibliographic records would consume roughly 100mb uncompressed (guessing an avg. record would not exceed 1k). And since text compresses very well, a zipped JSON would be what, ~10mb per 100k records? I believe a zip file of 900,000 bibliographies would be ~65mb.

The library did not give precise figures but I would like to work out what level of crazy my request is. Do any libraries in the world export a dataset of 100s of 1000s of book and media titles? Because if it’s done /somewhere/, it would give a clue about the reasonableness of my request.

I’ll give a couple use cases in case anyone is wondering how direct DB access would be useful.

Use case 1:

1. fetch a list of titles of interest, e.g. award-winners (books, scripts, actors, musicians, directors, etc), or a list of banned books, because if it’s banned somewhere maybe it piques your curiosity
2. search the library’s DB for matches against a list

If the list is more than ~15 or so items, you’re fucked because library query forms rarely accept a list as input. And as soon as you need to specify other criteria like works in English with a date range, the chance of a web form doing the job becomes increasing unlikely.

Use case 2: Suppose you are boycotting something or want to avoid something or someone (e.g. you want to avoid Tom Hanks because he is a sell-out with no sense of brand protection, who will act in any garbage film if it pays enough)

1. fetch a list of titles you want to avoid (e.g. if you boycott Disney, get a list of Disney titles; or get a list of movies Tom Hanks was in)
2. search the library’s DB for whatever you are looking for, but exclude matches against a list

Or you have a looooonng list of movies you have already seen or books you have read. Obviously you might want to exclude them from your queries.

Use case 3: The library has an extremely limited sense of genres. A conversation went like this:

Me: “Where is the EDM section? Where is the ambient and trip-hop section?” Librarian: “what’s that?” Me: Electronic music. Librarian: those would be under “rock”. Me: What about world music, like Ravi Shankar (classical Indian)? Librarian: check jazz

Fuck me. No wonder the rock and jazz sections are so huge and there’s little else. Picking through it would be unsurmountable and the web DB likely has the same sloppy genre problem. I suspect what has happened is young ppl just don’t do libraries much and they probably use Spotify or similar online surveillance system for music. In fact I rarely even see people browsing the music these days. So the library organisation just did not keep up genres and no one noticed because they are online. So again, like use case 1 it would be useful to find the intersection between a list of titles of interest and the library DB.

I have to wonder if the /real/ problem is that the library thinks I would be the sole user of the exported DB. I can understand resistence to doing a significant amount of work for just one person. But I would expect many people to have search needs that these GUI webforms cannot handle, no? And from there it would be the subset of those people who know SQL.

Hope no one minds me being slightly off-topic in a relatively inactive group, but it’s the best fitting community I could find for the question.

I plan to build a directional wifi antenna using a can (aka the Pringles can antenna). I am baffled at how costly the connectors are. Why are the prices so high for a connector? Cantenna instructions always say to use an N-type connector. Is that really necessary? Coax cable connectors are a dime a dozen. Would those work?

Or what if I just strip the end of the coax cable to the right length and find a way to skip the connector and secure it to the can.. will that work?

Otherwise it’s ~$12 for the panel mount N connector + $10 for the connector that mates to it + $10 for the RP-SMA connector that attaches to the wi-fi AP. So over $30 for a home built wi-fi antenna. Fuck that.

Fujitsu abandoned their Celvin NAS customers. The proprietary software is over 10 years old. And worse, Fujitsu had an app store to get apps that were not part of the stock stock distro, like a bittorrent app, which are no longer reachable.

The hardware uses a Marvell arm SOC. FreeNAS is x86 only. QNAP has some fairly recent distros that may be compatible. It’s proprietary and perhaps somewhat risky. What are the chances that a QNAP image from 2024 bricks my Fujitsu from 2013?

Is QNAP my only option, or is there a FOSS option? There are at least 15 FOSS NAS platforms:

https://techcult.com/best-free-and-open-source-nas-software/

but I have no idea if any are built for a Marvell arm SOC. Anyone know?

The linked account is very busy.. almost 10,000 repos. Whoever the asshole is behind that attack, it’s the reason the public has lost the ability to create a new account on nixnet.

This matters in particular because Nixnet is the only gitea/forgejo host that has both a clearnet and onion host -- apart from disroot, but disroot’s onion is dysfunctional.

Note that the XMPP support channel is shut down because that was attacked as well.

The stock lemmy web client has had this annoying shitty bug as long as I remember. Not sure how or why ppl have tolerated it for so long.

I started this thread:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/52956979

Then I wanted to cross-post to !IRC@lemmy.cafe. The first defect is that it’s impossible to enter the full address of the target forum. Lemmy forces us to enter only part of the name and choose from a pull-down list. Then from there it’s not even smart enough to prioritise the user’s subscribed forums to the top. So entering “IRC” gives a long list of circle jerking forums, while the more simple match !IRC@lemmy.cafe is pushed off the list.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/52956979

It looks like the most common method to use irssi over tor is to use a transparent proxy to tamper with network libraries, like torsocks or using proxychains4. Those approaches are useless when you also use Irssi with #Bitlbee, because bitlbee runs a local agent obviously becomes unreachable with torsocks in the loop.

So I must use a more complex approach:

$ socat -T9999999 -s TCP4-LISTEN:13999,ignoreeof SOCKS4A:127.0.0.1:libera75jm6of4wxpxt4aynol3xjmbtxgfyjpu34ss4d7r7q2v5zrpyd.onion:6697,socksport=9050,ignoreeof &
$ socat_pid_libera=$!
$ irssi
$ kill ${socat_pid_libera}

Then irssi is configured to point the libera network to 127.0.0.1:13999.

That’s the idea. There is a separate socat process for every IRC host I might reach, which is about a dozen in my case. Apart from ugly tediousness, it works for like 30 min on avg then dies. I believe that’s the nature of Tor. Circuits die and get replaced, and when that happens socat is left with a dead connection for some reason.

Is there a remedy? I there a way to make socat resilient to tor volatility?