dan

@dan@upvote.au

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Git control for novice gamedev?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d recommend learning Git entirely locally first. Git is a distributed version control system, which means that it doesn’t need a server. All of Git’s features are available to you even with just a local repo.

  When you do want to have the repo on a server for your own use, you don’t actually need anything fancy like Gitlab or Gitea. Technically all you need to do is copy the repo from your computer onto the server and set up a Git server on it. That’s it. Git works over SSH, so you’d just add a “remote” that points to the server.

  The best place to start with that is probably the official documentation: git-scm.com/…/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protocols

  The repo on the server is not really any different to the one on your computer. All you’re doing when pushing is synchronizing them - pushing new changes from your local repo into the one on the server.

  Where web UIs have an advantage is that they make it easier to browse the repo, show it to others, have pull requests and CI support.

  I’d highly recommend Forgejo instead of Gitea. The Forgejo site has a list of reasons why, so I don’t go over that in detail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how often do your 3rdparty "refurb" drives last?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you do buy refurbished drives, ideally get manufacturer refurbished ones that come with a manufacturer warranty. If you’re in the USA, ServerPartDeals is a great store for it.

  The thing that sucks at the moment is that refurbished drives cost more than the new ones used to cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which domain registry or specific TLD do you prefer, and why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  legacy tlds (com, net, org) tend to be more affordable

  Verisign are trying their best to make .com and .net less affordable. Their contract with ICANN is on a six year cycle, and it lets them increase the price by up to 7% for the last four years. So far, they’ve always increased it the maximum amount.

  Wholesale price has gone up from $6 in 2000 to $7.85 in 2020 (before this contract structure), to $10.26 now, and they’re increasing it to $10.97 on November 1.

  Having said that, it’s still better than ccTLDs and newTLDs, where the registry can increase it as much as they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone using 6-day certs yet?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense! I didn’t realise it has a UI.

  I’ve got a bunch of snippets in /etc/nginx/snippets/, so for example I just need to add include snippets/proxy.conf to a server block to add most of the configuration needed for a reverse proxy. I’ve been using Nginx for long enough that I just write the rest of the server block by hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone using 6-day certs yet?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just using regular Nginx, which I’ve been using for 20 years. What does Nginx Proxy Manager or npmplus do better?

  I’ve been meaning to try Angie too, which is a fork of Nginx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone using 6-day certs yet?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Caddy is a good piece of software.

  I’ve been using Nginx for 20 years and don’t really have a reason to switch, so I’m still using it. I use certbot, so it’s just one command to create the certificate initially, and then it auto-renews automatically via a systemd timer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paramount+ unskipabble ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Same can be done with Pi-hole. Yes it isn’t ootb, but it is easy to do.

  I’m surprised they don’t use it by default though. People usually use solutions like PiHole and AdGuard Home because they want to configure it via a UI rather than at the command line, so needing to do extra manual command-line steps to get DoH working with PiHole isn’t ideal.

  Pihole is fully for free. AdH seems to be the same for now, but it is a company running it, they want to make money. I would be a bit worried about this.

  AdGuard Home is licensed under GNU GPL. They can’t relicense it unless they get permission from everyone that’s contributed code (and if anyone disagrees, their parts must be deleted or rewritten).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paramount+ unskipabble ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  hdhomerun

  No DRM

  Until ATSC 3.0 is forced on everyone, at least if you’re in the USA :/

  ATSC 3.0 is the next version of the protocol used for over-the-air digital TV in the USA. It uses H.265 instead of MPEG2 which allows for 4K TV at similar bitrates to what 1080p uses today.

  However, it also supports DRM and encryption, and all the major networks are already encrypting their broadcasts. TVs need an internet connection to get the decryption key, and can’t store it in a decrypted format.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNTc5OWrDic

  If you rely on antenna TV, please write to the FCC in opposition of the encryption: blog.lon.tv/…/the-fcc-responds-to-my-atsc-3-encry…

  If you’re not in the USA… Just ignore me lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paramount+ unskipabble ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  AdGuard Home is better than PiHole since it supports DNS over HTTPS out-of-the-box, which prevents your ISP from inspecting and modifying your DNS requests/responses. The ISP can do that even if you’re using a custom DNS server, since regular DNS is unencrypted and unauthenticated.

  By default it uses Quad9 via DoH.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, I am calling on manufacturers to improve their sealing glues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  BBB is mostly just Yelp for boomers.