@danielquinn@lemmy.ca

Daniel Quinn

Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

member since 7 Jun 2023 21:49

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I don’t understand. The DDS is old enough to be out of copyright and patents aren’t nearly as long-lived, so what are these people using to restrict your right to it?

on What's a good way to index the web? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
Just get one of these and set everything up in a few browser tabs. Either that or use an OS with workspace support and put the different apps you want on separate workspaces.

In our livingroom, our old laptop runs Arch Linux with GNOME. Jellyfin is on desktop 1, and Firefox is on desktop 2. Firefox runs Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube in separate tabs and switching between all of these is a keyboard shortcut on the above remote. Frankly, it’s simpler than most “smart” TVs I’ve had to work with.

on BRAVIA 4K AE1 Google TV demanding internet in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Or just a cheap laptop.

on BRAVIA 4K AE1 Google TV demanding internet in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Given that sort of description I’d bet that it is DNS actually. If you run a DNS lookup from your LAN for your domain, do you get the external IP or the internal one? You can try this with dig in Linux or nslookup in Windows (I think).

If I’m right and you’re getting the external IP even when querying from your LAN, then what you need is either a separate DNS for your LAN or what they call a “split DNS” whe are a your domain server returns a different value depending on the originating IP.

You can check for this by editing your hosts file. If you add your domain and local IP there and then try to ping that domain on that machine, it should work. If you’ve got a small network, you might even just copy the hosts lines between machines (this is what I do for example).

on My domain is accessible from external networks but not from my internal network. Might anyone know why? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
At my first-ever tech job back in 2000, I was given a little Celeron desktop computer to do my work: mostly writing some ColdFusion and cutting up images in Photoshop. For the most part, the machine worked fine, except whenever I scrolled down on a webpage in Netscape, the box’s PC speaker would start screaming. I tried to ignore it, but I was in a small room with two other nerds and it was getting really annoying.

One day, my frustrated colleague decided it was time to investigate. As part of the process, he noticed that there was very little air coming out of the power supply fan port. “Must be a busted fan and that’s causing an overheating alarm” he declared. We unplugged the box, popped it onto my desk, and opened it up. The internals were pristine. No dust, nothing. The computer was practically brand new after all.

We were just about to crack open the power supply (not recommended, but we were getting desperate) when my colleague noticed that something was wedged inside the fan… it was the biggest (dead, thankfully) cockroach I have ever seen, at least 10cm long. For context, this was in Vancouver, Canada. Those just don’t exist there.

My colleague jammed his screwdriver in there to grind up the cockroach carcass, then plugged the box back in. After a shittone of dessicated cockroach guts spewed out the back, my little computer was operating normally.

As best we could guess, the monster crawled into the fan in Malaysia when as was assembled and somehow got pinned in there, died of starvation, and then stowed away to Canada.

on What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
There’s a nifty project on Mastodon where someone is running an instance entirely on solar (and I think a battery?). They’ve been tinkering with some of the code to do things like optimise images for reduced weight or CPU cost.

The project is called @solaradmin@solarcene.community and the account for the person running it is on a separate instance, presumably so people can message them about problems: @smallsolar@techhub.social.

on A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
The right time to look elsewhere was when Microsoft bought it.

The next best time was when viable alternatives like GitLab and later, Codeberg appeared.

The next best time was when it became clear that they were stealing your code to feed into their sparkly autocomplete and were going to sell it back to you.

The next best time was when they dumped a bunch of vibecoded garbage into the codebase and killed the uptime.

The next best time is now.

You don’t even have to migrate all your stuff. Just start all your new projects on Codeberg, or GitLab, or something self-hosted. Once you get used to the new place, you can migrate your old stuff when you’re ready.

on GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026