Mark Gjøl

Coder, photographer, grump. Average Home theater nut.

Been at programming professionally since 2007, currently trying to get to keep doing it rather than getting stuck in meetings. Once was Java, dabbled in Android (Floating Image notable mention), now focused on C# and Azure. Clean, maintainable code and doing the right things right is my jazz (or techno or metal).

Posts in Danish if only relevant to Denmark, English if relevant generally.

Don’t be rude, follow basic netiquette.

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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • @AutoMod I dag lærte jeg… At hvis man på en Grohe vandhane ikke får sat gummipakningen på efter man har afkalket den, så fungerer den fint når man bruger den, men får den ekstra feature, at den i al hemmelighed sprøjter alt til under vasken.

    Mage til idiotisk design skal man lede længe efter, og jeg kan kun antage at det er gjort så de kan spare 5 øre per vandhane ved ikke at lukke rigtigt for enden (så det kun er pakningen der står for at der ikke løber vand “tilbage” ud under vasken).




  • @AutoMod Jeg kan rapportere, at jeg i gang med bog 15 i The Wandering Inn-serien som lydbog. Jeg tror oprindeligt jeg valgte serien fordi den fik gode anmeldelser (altid en god grund) og hver bog var omkring 50 timer - så virkeligt meget valuta for pengene!

    Kort sagt er det en episk saga om en pige i tyverne, der pludseligt står i en RPG (rollespil) verden med mennesker, gnolls (en slags intelligent ulv), drakes (nedstammer fra drager) og en masse andre racer. Der er meget world building, og man følger efterhånden en masse forskellige karakterer hvis skæbner rundt omkring i verden på den ene eller anden måde rører hinanden, hvor end perifert.

    Den er spændende og sjov - og man skal have rigtigt god tålmodighed, forfatteren tager sig rigtigt god tid.


  • @AA5B So we got the best locks we could get from the supplier, which supposedly are hard to pick, cannot be picked and cannot be copied without a key card (not sure how that works). Our doors and windows are enforced. We had one person comment that he rarely saw houses that were this secure (but then he wasn’t a security guy, just a buildings guy). On top of that we have cameras, an alarm system and fog canons.

    It would be convenient to have a smart lock, and I would love to be able to detect if doors are locked or open (Having this as a read-only thing would be perfect), but being a software guy I don’t trust the lock to not be hacked or simply malfunction. The alarm system (ADC) is already obviously made by amateurs, but seems to get the job done…

    Overkill? Definitely! But my wife worked in insurance and is super coloured by the stories she’s heard.


  • @Sxan @Cyber I don’t like smart locks because I don’t trust them. I’m afraid someone is able to hack them. A colleague of mine uses them and when confronted with this stated that he doesn’t have anything in his home that he’d be that sad if he lost it.

    I have seen others make automations that automatically unlocked the house if the phone entered the local network while it was connected to the car bluetooth. While that’s convenient I don’t want to automate security. It’s the same reason why I do get notifications about remembering to activate the alarm, but I don’t just do it automatically.





  • @DaKoTa @AutoMod Jeg bruger Signal. Jeg er særligt glad for dem fordi de går uforbeholdent ind for sikkerhed i kommunikationen. Tidligere var det et krav at du gav dit nummer ud, men nu kan du bruge et alias. Du skal dog stadigvæk bruge dit nummer til at registrere dig, men du kan chatte med folk uden at de får det.

    Ud over det er det ganske velfungerende. Der er tekst, lyd og videochat. Bemærk, at din telefon fungerer som den centrale hub. Når du skifter telefon skal du lave backup til den nye, ellers starter du forfra (dog med samme nummer og kontakter osv - men uden historik).