gazter

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[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

It also coats the pasta in a protective layer of oil, preventing the sauce from sticking to it.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

In Australian AFL, otherwise known as Aussie Rules, it's pretty common to need to jump high enough that you get another person to launch you. Imagine that from horseback! I'd watch.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

They look amazing! I've always loved the translucent look, never even considered you could dye it yourself. Well done!

You've also inspired me to start calling him 'Mister Chef', best typo ever!

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Don't forget about the inverters.

Low voltage (such as the output from a solar panel) suffers badly from losses over distance. Centralised solar makes up for this by having a large amount of panels close to a central inverter. There is going to be a distance tipping point of cost vs losses, if this is short and you need a lot of inverters, that's going to become a major expense.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't finished setting it up yet, so I can't offer an opinion yet, but the way I've gone is a doorbell with electric lock control- mine does 2 locks, and you can set the 2nd lock to be a doorbell instead. The 'doorbell' output is a contact closure, which I just wired to a standard doorbell chime. Network down means I still have a doorbell.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe they like it like that.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It always tickles me when I come across people with enough comms etiquette to not say "Go" unless they are giving a cue. "I'll wait for you to say G. O. before I do anything"

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago

Truly a great post. Not a video, just a straightforward building blocks approach to teaching a concept- the examples really make it shine.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

I'm sorry you're getting downvoted. People don't like it when you show them there is shades of grey in any argument, they just want to get outraged simply.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Precisely- it's a concept that is ingrained in people to the point where anyone who doesn't understand it is viewed as lacking. However, it's needless.

I don't need to understand IP addressing subnet routing to go to a website. Why should I need to understand a file and folder structure to find an old tax document?

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You use an interesting example- personally, I feel like while files and folders have their place, I prefer they be part of the background and not presented to the user. Take photos, for example. If I'm looking for pictures of my dog, I don't want to go into the 2022 folder, then the August folder, then look through all those files, back out into 2022 then go into the September folder, etc. I just want to type 'dog'. Or pick from a dropdown list of common tags, or anything other than digging through files and folders.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago

Shadow of the Colossus was such a landmark game. The few little changes to the standard video game formula combined together just made for an absolute masterpiece.

 

Pretty wild story. The video drags it out a bit, certainly didn't need to be a two part story but still worth a watch. Dude was trapped in a cold water rapid for twenty four hours!

 

I encountered something I don't quite understand, and I was hoping someone could enlighten me.

I set up Tailscale on my router with subnets, so I could remotely access my home network. This worked great. Then, at home, I was happily browsing the internet on my main PC, and decided to dial into another machine on my network. It couldn't access it at all. Disconnecting Tailscale on my main PC restored lconnectivity.

I don't understand what is happening here- the only thing I can think of is that my internet traffic was being routed through Tailscale, but I don't have an exit node.

TL,DR: home PC sees Internet but not LAN when connected to Tailscale, why and how fix?

 

I've not been playing with my online gaming group for a few months, but when I was, I was playing a sentient gelatinous cube, who's just the happiest and friendliest thing ever. Last night I was able to rejoin, and we managed to pull off a great surprise. The PCs were led into a trap, and suddenly all sorts of oozes and jellies started appearing. The DM did a great description of an ominous, looming gelatinous cube approaching, and one side started to form into a face... Which oozed into a mouth and said.... Which is when I popped into the call and laid on the familiar happy, friendly voice and said a hearty hello and nice to see everyone again! Perfect timing, great build-up, everyone loved it. Such a great theatrical moment.

 

I've got a few projects on the list which will be battery powered. I'm thinking of using 18650s just because of how ubiquitous they are, but I know there's other options out there. Are they worth it?

  • E-ink calendar
  • Solder fume extractor
  • Lora station
  • Portable "trail camera"
  • Home assistant remote controls Etc etc etc
 

My partner is about 20% lighter than me, and wants to get a belay resistor. We've used the first version of the Ohm in the past, and didn't like the hard catch. We've had the Raed Zaed recommended, but it looks like the Ohm II might be better again. I know it's only just been released, but does anyone have experience with both? Which would you recommend?

 

Vague title I know, but I'm enough of a beginner at this to not really know what I need to ask!

I would like to rent a server, that allows me to spin up different services, including things like Windows to use as a remote desktop. Ideally, I would then be able to just migrate this whole setup to my home server.

I thought it would be as easy as renting a scalable VPS, but apparently if you run something like Proxmox on those, you'll get terrible performance?

My understanding is that I'd need to rent a bare metal server, but then my 'scalability' will suffer- I can't just wind up and down the specs as needed, correct?

My user case: For the next several months, I'm on the road, without a proper computer. I may have some work doing some CAD drafting, hence Windows. I'd also like to have some containers to run some dev tools, databases, web hosting. I'd also like to use the same service to start building my future home server environment- nextcloud, *arr, etc. Once I'm back home, I'd like to easily migrate this setup to a local machine, then continue to use the server as my own cloud and public entry point. And further down the line, hosting a gaming server for friends. In terms of location, Sydney would be great.

Will a VPS do this? Or do I need bare metal? Is there a single service that will allow me to do both, with one billing? Or am I doing a Dunning-Kruger?

Thanks in advance for your hints.

 

I'm looking at a permanent install of a Windows machine that runs a few digital signs. I want to achieve remote access and file upload to the Windows box, as well as accessing the internal web server of the displays on the same LAN. This LAN will be attached to a corporate network, but I would prefer if it did not have access to the internet. I'll have to work with the IT department to get this happening, of course, but I'm hoping to go in prepped with potential solutions. Could anyone tell me if these ideas will work, or what I'm missing?

  • VPN tunnel. This would be whichever VPN that their IT supports. Would I be able to simply install the client on the windows box and my machine, and then on my machine connect to the VPN, use TeamViewer in LAN mode for control of the Windows box, and web browser for control of displays? I'm assuming their IT would set up the upstream switch to only pass that VPN connection, so that the Windows box does not see the internet, and I cannot see their internal network.
  • Some kind of IPMI/PiKVM solution- This would be a second computer, attached to the corporate network, but not to the signage LAN. It would just be a KVM for the Windows box. I would then dial into that via its webserver, and control the Windows machine. The control for the displays would be accessed via browser on the Windows machine. I like this solution, as it keeps the networks separate, but I think that uploading files will be a challenge.
  • Or is there a better way?
 

Hi! Hopefully this is a good place to ask. I've been googling around a fair bit, but haven't had much luck- I'm either finding ELI5 type articles, or in depth tutorials on setting up a model to tell the difference between a frog and a dog. I'm not sure if those are relevant to my concept.

I would like to implement a ML algorithm to detect a particular type of defect on a production line. Our current camera system isn't quite up to the task, but gives good, consistent imagery, and I have a good historical dataset. The product moves past the camera, it snaps a single black and white image, then the product moves on. This means that most of my images are more or less the same. These defects are obvious to the human eye.

Could someone please give me, a noob, a bird's eye view of how I would go about using ML to create a model for this? There's so many choices of tools and tutorials that I don't know which would be best suited to this use case.

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