Tablaste

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Web app where you can Create 3D models from images (shapen.com)
I've been playing an MMO that you can only play via rest API calls: Artifacts in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Tablaste@linux.community 19 points 1 week ago

Lots of comments here saying it feels like work. And yet all the simulator games exist? People literally build rigs on their living room to play Truck Simulator games.

I don't work with rest apis enough and looks great. My only concern is that like everything I do, I end up building a UI and automation. Which might be the point!

Post promoting lemm.ee hits 67,000 views and 1000 upvotes in 3 hours. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] Tablaste@linux.community 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"excessive promotion", right.

You're doing great work.

Good luck out there in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] Tablaste@linux.community 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I went back to school in my early 30s.

I have a coworker who went back in his 40s and is changing careers (from tech lead to management). And another who is nearing 50s who just wanted that piece of paper. (IT guy who wanted a fine arts degree)

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Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation (dri.es)
 

I tested 12 LLMs — 10 running locally and 2 cloud-based — to assess their accuracy in generating alt-text for images.

I have 10,000 photos on my website. About 9,000 have no alt-text. I'm not proud of that, and it has bothered me for a long time.

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EXTREME SERVER SIDE RENDERING (www.scd31.com)
 

Before we get into extreme server side rendering (XSSR), we have to talk about normal server side rendering (SSR). This comes in two flavours, which I'm calling old-school and new-school.

Old-school SSR involves having a server which uses some logic to create the HTML of the web page on-the-fly. For example, you might hit /users/39, and it might give you the details of user 39. These details might be from a database, or they might come from somewhere else. The important part is there's no corresponding 39.html on the disk. The HTML is created dynamically by the back-end server. On the front-end side, there's no JavaScript or other logic required to render the page. As a result, once the page is loaded, there's no ability for it to be dynamic.

New-school SSR is similar to old-school SSR, but it does involve a bit of front-end JavaScript logic.

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How Are Images REALLY Stored? (cefboud.com)
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Microsoft to remove the Location History feature in Windows (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] Tablaste@linux.community 4 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure they assumed if you bought their service, you have the competency to properly set it up.

And I proved them wrong.

I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] Tablaste@linux.community 3 points 1 month ago

Ah not to discount devops, I mean that in a good way.

Devops made me lazy in that for the past decade, I focus on just everything inside the code base.

I literally push code into a magic black box that then triggers a rube goldberg of events. Servers get instanced. Configs just get magically set up. It's beautiful. Just years of smart people who make it so easy that I never have to think about it.

Since I can't pay my devops team to come to my house, I get to figure it all out!

I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] Tablaste@linux.community 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I shared it because, out there, there is a junior engineer experiencing severe imposter syndrome. And here I am, someone who has successfully delivered applications with millions of users and advanced to leadership roles within the tech industry, who overlook basic security principles.

We all make mistakes!

I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] Tablaste@linux.community 11 points 1 month ago

Haha I'm pretty sure my little server was just part of the "let's test our dumb script to see if it works. Oh wow it did what a moron!"

Lessons learned.

I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] Tablaste@linux.community 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The latter. It was autogenerated by the VPS hosting service and I didn't think about it.

I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] Tablaste@linux.community 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You're not wrong! Devops made me lazy

I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] Tablaste@linux.community 3 points 1 month ago

Now that you mentioned it, it didn't! I recall even docker Linux setups would yell at me.

I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] Tablaste@linux.community 73 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (47 children)

I published it to the internet and the next day, I couldn't ssh into the server anymore with my user account and something was off.

Tried root + password, also failed.

Immediately facepalmed because the password was the generic 8 characters and there was no fail2ban to stop guessing.

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I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user... (linux.community)
 

Background: 15 years of experience in software and apparently spoiled because it was already set up correctly.

Been practicing doing my own servers, published a test site and 24 hours later, root was compromised.

Rolled back to the backup before I made it public and now I have a security checklist.

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Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS [CSS Working Group Wiki] (wiki.csswg.org)
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Creating a Generative Artwork with Three.js (tympanus.net)
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Google offers buyouts to employees not ‘deeply committed’ (www.sfchronicle.com)
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Is there a counter like this but for Fediverse projects? (linux.community)
 

I was interested in building something like this.

Federation woes in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] Tablaste@linux.community 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey, I did the same thing recently! Set it up on my own server, and after a week, I'm starting to see new accounts being added to my explore feed. But there's no user count.

It's an annoying experience and I'm not fully sure how to resolve it yet, nor have I dung into it.

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Things people get wrong about Electron (felixrieseberg.com)
 

As an open source project, our website never had to "convince people" to use Electron, so I never took the time to actually explain why I'm betting on web technologies to build user interfaces or why I prefer bundling a rendering engine.

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