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New comment by domh in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

domh — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:09:23 +0000

This is not me saying security doesn't matter (because it does) but having everything not publicly accessible and only accessible over Tailscale or Wireguard makes me slightly happier.

New comment by domh in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

domh — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:16:23 +0000

I expect future summers to be drier and future winters to be wetter. Our gardens are going to look very different. Already I see more people (myself included) rewilding their gardens. I've had a lot more wildlife as a result, but may be due to hotter weather as well.

In the park behind my house a large Goat Willow tree has just mostly toppled over. Completely dry summer, then a week of rain has caused the tree to just collapse.

New comment by domh in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

domh — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:16:05 +0000

Yeah this is my primary use case for using PayPal. I use it on e-commerce sites for first purchase or if it's unlikely I'm going to buy anything from the same site again.

New comment by domh in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

domh — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:03:15 +0000

I pay £6 per month for a sim only contract, which gives me 4GB of data. In the USA I feel like I was paying closer to $40-50 for a google fi sim? Which admittedly did have better roaming. Now I just get an e-sim for travel and it works out to be £3ish per day

New comment by domh in "Dolly Parton Has Died"

domh — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:59:29 +0000

BBC Radio 2 tribute just happened:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00309f7

New comment by domh in "Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?"

domh — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:07:32 +0000

Let me address each one in turn:

- esbuild - this is normally for TS compilation, which Node can run natively now by stripping types: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/typescript.html#type-stri...

- jest/vitest: Node has a test runner: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/test.html

- dotenv: Node can read .env files: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/cli.html#--env-filefile

Performance, maybe you're right - but if you're doing any IO, I doubt the runtime is really the bottleneck.

New comment by domh in "Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?"

domh — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:04:06 +0000

Same thing can be said about Streams in Node.js as well. They had a working streams implementation before the Web Streams API was in browsers (iirc). So implementing the standard now means removing what's already there, or breaking a lot of existing code.

Which leads to confusing things like the fact that there are two streams APIs in Node now:

Streams: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/stream.html

Web Streams: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/webstreams.html

And they have to support going back and forth between the two: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/webstreams.html#nodejs-st...

It's exactly the same story for crypto as well. Node created it's own standard, Web standards emerged, Node has to support both:

https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/crypto.html

https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/webcrypto.html

Fwiw I think it's good they're not removing the legacy code, but they should probably do a big cleanup major release and lean into the modern standards and remove the old stuff. But there's obviously push back in doing so... and probably stuff you can do in the old modules that you can't do in the new and vice versa.

New comment by domh in "Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?"

domh — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:57:28 +0000

That's a fair criticism... they move slower but mostly because they were the first. They would have to build a new Server and Request/Response primitives from scratch, or deprecate what they already have, or somehow shoehorn the existing types into the new ones.

They do seem to have just merged in support for Web Workers though, which I've been following for a while: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/43583

So I don't think they're opposed to standardising, but it's trickier when you have some past cruft built up. Lets not forget that the fetch() standard was built for browsers, and is a bit of a stretch to make it work on servers at all. You have to diverge from the fetch spec to even make it make sense in a server environment (with things like Cookies handling off the top of my head).

New comment by domh in "Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?"

domh — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:19:08 +0000

What's wrong with just using Node? It's stable, has a good (and growing) standard library and has enough backing to be self sustaining.

edit: There's also nub which is built on top of Node.js and removes some rough/legacy edges: https://github.com/nubjs/nub

New comment by domh in "Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards"

domh — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:40:53 +0000

Yeah I'm going to wait for lidl to do them, that's the plan anyway. Anything you can buy now is ~£600 (ecoflow is the brand I've seen). Hoping some others take the plunge first to provide some guidance.

Wish plugin batteries were part of it.

New comment by domh in "Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards"

domh — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:12:37 +0000

This is going to be made legal in the UK on the 27th August. Max 800w inspired by Germany. I'll definitely get some panels and see how they go.

New comment by domh in "The session you cannot take with you"

domh — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:12:26 +0000

Does there need to be an open standard or file format for context? Open models should align on the same format for portability? Could be sqlite based so it can be queried by other programs?

New comment by domh in "More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle"

domh — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:59:00 +0000

+1 to this. KOReader acts like an always-on "app" opened from the regular kindle launcher. I believe there may be a way to make it auto start on boot, but it doesn't replace the base OS.

New comment by domh in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

domh — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:08:49 +0000

It says Stanley Robotics in the article: https://www.stanley-robotics.com/

Edit: seems like they got bought out in 2024 by HL Robotics: https://en.hlrobotics.co.kr/

New comment by domh in "Telegram Serverless"

domh — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:23:48 +0000

WhatsApp does appear to have some "business" account/API type stuff which I assume is scriptable. But I don't believe it's got a free tier for personal use (although I haven't personally looked).

It is always preferable to use WhatsApp to contact a business than calling up.

New comment by domh in "Telegram Serverless"

domh — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:35:11 +0000

This is cool. I wish Signal had a bot API like telegram's.

New comment by domh in "Immich 3.0"

domh — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:57:55 +0000

I'm in the same boat, and have been meaning to try immich but slightly worried about migration effort. Should I import fresh into Immich or setup my existing photoprism as an external library? I think the former is probably correct, but the latter might be easier?

Anyone have experience with this? I haven't done much modification or album creation in photoprism, so am happy to start from scratch on that front.

New comment by domh in "What's wrong with EU age verification? (Nothing)"

domh — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:10:01 +0000

This only happens in the UK in clubs that have a history of violence or drug use (often leading to harms and death) and is a condition of a license. This is nowhere near the universal experience here for showing IDs for entry.

New comment by domh in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

domh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:12:58 +0000

Apologies for the youtube shorts link, but Liz Kendall was on LBC yesterday talking about VPNs:

https://youtube.com/shorts/WvHl3G6KojI

I believe they're "doing research" into it, which basically means they don't understand how any of it works.

New comment by domh in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

domh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:54:13 +0000

Huh, it works just fine in the UK. Wonder if they have different builds (or completely different apps) for different regions. Or maybe it's the GrapheneOS compatibility layer that makes it work? Not sure.