Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • That’s mostly correct. If we want to be super technical, I’m not “logging in” to my router, just using it as a Tailscale network bridge to gain LAN access so I can SSH from my phone to my server. But, in general, yeah.

    I currently don’t allow any direct access to my server from the internet. The only way to access it is Tailscale. I have Tailscale installed on both my desktop (always on) and my router (also, always on). The reason I installed it on the router is because my desktop is also full disk encrypted. So, if there’s a power outage then both the server and desktop will reboot and both will be waiting for LUKS unlock, rendering my desktop useless as a Tailscale jump point.

    Since the router boots automatically then it will always start back up and allow Tailscale access after an outage and therefore I can use it to access my LAN and SSH to the server to enter the password.

    Basically the same setup you’ve got with the RPi - having a node that comes online automatically after a power outage, automatically starts Tailscale, and allows LAN access. You use an RPi, I use my router. (I briefly did the exact same thing as you, with an RPi, until I found I could install it on the router : )


  • I used Mint for about a decade. When I upgraded the drives on my desktop RAID from 2TB to 14TB the newest version only recognized 999GB. After some troubleshooting I begrudgingly tried Ubuntu, same thing. I figured Debian would be the same since that’s Grandma but I tried anyway. It worked perfect so I’ve been on Debian for a few years now and haven’t noticed any big differences so here I’ll stay.

    Love me some Debian










  • The one I work at went “all in” about a month ago. I started noticing a dramatic increase in garbage/nonsensical code at the end of last week. I didn’t make the connection between the two until Tuesday.

    I’ve got a manager that usually listens and they asked me to try it and take notes because they know I’ll tell them the truth. … I’ve got a lot of examples prepped for our next meeting.

    The hard part is definitively blaming LLMs because I don’t have time to track down every single commit and analyze it for LLM usage but there’s 100% a correlation.




  • Like other posts - brother, laser.

    My ancient HP laserjet died a few months back so I picked up a brother. It amazed me that I just plugged it in (Linux) and it worked. No hplip, no cups config, just worked.

    Even more impressive, I tried the network/wifi print out of curiosity and it also just worked… Nothing special, Debian 13 auto discovered it on the network and added it to my printer list.

    I had the HP for over 15 years and it was always a bitch to get working with Linux. Hoping this brother lasts at least as long.





  • My company is pushing LLM code assistants REALLY hard (like, you WILL use it but we’re supposedly not flagging you for termination if you don’t… yet). My experience is the same as yours - unit tests are one of the places where it actually seems to do pretty good. It’s definitely not 100%, but in general it’s not bad and does seem to save some time in this particular area.

    That said, I did just remove a test that it created that verified that IMPORTED_CONSTANT is equal to localUnitTestConstantWithSameHardcodedValueAsImportedConstant. It passed ; )