Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Big news: I’ve joined @tailscale as a Customer Support Engineer!

As a homelabber and self-hoster, I fell in love with Tailscale for how effortlessly it makes private networking just work. Now I get to be part of the team building the new internet—one that’s secure by default, peer-to-peer, and built around people, not infrastructure.

I’m beyond excited to be part of this team.

#tailscale #job #opensource #zerotrust #selfhosting #homelab

Lots of momentum in my life right now. I got laid off from my job at the end of February, and I just accepted a very cool new job!

Details to follow. All I can say is that it will be a very exciting new chapter in my career!

@panic I badly want these IR codes on a Flipper, for reasons...

@domi It really feels like Cloudflare shouldn't have issued a cert for this...

@imnotafeline @androiddreams this bot has been broken since Dec. 9. It just posts polls and fails to generate any images.

@andrewmelder @dansup

I think a robust solution is, as you say, to default to a large flagship instance when first running a fediverse app to ease onboarding.

But there also needs to be better account portability. Once you join a big instance and learn the lay of the land, you might want to move to another smaller instance, but if you do so, you might keep all of your followers, but none of your content will come with you.

Fix that, and users can choose their preferred instance on-demand.

So the guy who calls himself "Kekius Maximus" and has a Pepe the Frog avatar threw a Nazi salute at a far-right anti-immigrant rally, and the ADL is calling for people to "give him the benefit of a doubt" and consider it an "awkward moment".

Neo-Nazi groups had no trouble understanding what his gesture meant...

@YurkshireLad I love the fediverse, and recommend it to plenty of people, but I accept that it isn't a replacement for most people.

I get along here because it's a really tech savvy place, but that's not something that attracts everyone.

I'm nostalgic for the early years of social networking, but those days are long behind us...

@YurkshireLad Honestly, there's nothing wrong with returning to email, instant messaging, and niche forums. I know that sounds old fashioned, but people were social on the Internet well before the advent of social networking.

It's probably healthier too. Social networks made socializing worse, just as dating apps made dating worse. Sometimes we need to ask what exactly we're getting from these tech companies other than the illusion of convenience.

People need to drop Facebook right now. They should have done it a long time ago, but now is better than later.

I keep hearing the excuse that leaving Facebook is too hard because your friends and family are there. That's the problem!

You may not fall for disinformation, but your presence gives others a reason to be there. Don't be a part of the problem. Don't be a part of the reason that others stick around and absorb disinfo.

Get out now, and find another way to stay in touch.

https://theonion.com/trump-executed-1850257714/

Mind you, I know enough about compression to know what I was buying when I invested in this solution, but a significant consumer of LTO tapes are video producers and other media professionals, and they are never going to get the capacities advertised front and center because they are based on an absurd assumption that probably only applies to enterprise use cases.

If you're backing up audio, video, or photos, you're going to have to assume native capacity. If there was some magical way to compress h264/h265 video down 2.5:1, people would be using it.

I can't imagine what the LTO Consortium thinks people would be backing up if they need the kinds of capacities supported by modern LTO tapes.

Just print the native capacity, and let me worry about compression. They print "45TB*" on the front of their 18TB LTO-9 tapes, and that feels like a scam.

I've been embracing LTO tapes as a personal long-term backup solution, and so far I'm very impressed by the cost efficiency for a very large amount of data storage. $0.004/GB is phenomenal.

But these "compressed" storage capacities are wild. "Assuming 2.5:1 compression"? That's a hell of an assumption. I guess if I were backing up 6.25TB of text or code or something I could pull that off on a 2.5TB tape, but c'mon now, it's just SLDC (LZS) compression. It isn't magic...

Nobody shit or pissed on the floor of the Capitol building this time around. Turns out that's a partisan behavior.

Sony just casually reveals that they track every button you press on your PS5: https://kotaku.com/ps5-unplug-turn-off-welcome-hub-sony-design-resume-1851733029