Skip Navigation
Jump
What medication/pill tracking app do you recommend?
  • This isn't open source (but free if I recall correctly- I think I have a paid version but I installed it years ago): Recurlog will absolutely fit the bill for medications or other recurring tasks that repeat based on last-done date or due date (with or without automatic rollover = will reschedule for next day if one is missed).

    You can set reminders at a specific time, and easily log directly from the reminder notification. You can log multiple times each day if you like, and add notes to the logged entry.

    You can either set a "simple" recurring task without extra data, or optionally add data fields for text, numbers, Yes/No buttons or a time duration.

    Manual backup to file. Unfortunately no encryption or visualizations.

    I use it to log medications, reminders for physical exercises, cutting the dog's nails, when the dog is due to come in heat and how long it lasted, monthly hair dye and products and results etc.

    I know it's old (last updated in 2018), but it's phenomenal. I've been thinking of making a similar app with more features as a hobby project, but I also have a 10 mo baby so 🤷🏻‍♀️

    2
  • Jump
    Sweden’s leader turns to the military for help as gang violence escalates
  • Yes, agreed, some of it is probably just bluster to seem like they're doing something.

    However, even if we agree that more police resources are necessary, I don't know how we should get more of competent, educated police in the short term unless we involve military (who do have some education at least). The last thing I want is for us to rapidly employ new "police" (ordningsvakter) with only weeks or a few months of training - that's how we get additional problems with US-style police violence on top of the gang violence problems...

    2
  • Jump
    Sweden’s leader turns to the military for help as gang violence escalates
  • I agree that the current government is implementing exactly 0 long-term strategies to help deal with the root cause of the problems, like strengthening and financing social services and welfare, healthcare and mental healthcare, schools and social programs, decriminalizing some drugs etc, to curb influx of underage criminals into the gangs and remove some of the economical incentives. The opposition is coming out with good suggestion after good suggestion, and the right-wing (by Swedish standards) government has basically just slashed welfare across the board in practice. They are going for only the hard-on-crime approach, which as far as I know has no real scientific proof of long-term efficacy unless paired with social/community interventions.

    However, I think many swedes agree that the police need more resources - particularly people watching possible targets of future bombings and just more eyes on the gangs. We have one of the lowest number of police per capita in Europe, slightly higher than the rest of the Nordic countries tbf, but with much bigger problems with organized crime and violence.

    I'm also horrified at this general societal development, but I can see the merit of involving some of the military in more eyes-on-the-ground kinds of operations for a few years until we have more of a grip on the gang situation. I prefer that to visitation zones, harsher punishments and more generalized surveillance of non-suspects being allowed.

    But maybe I'm just naïve to the implications.

    11
  • Jump
    SVT efterlyser härmed rikspolischef Anders Thornberg
  • Japp, håller med. Han kanske är skitbra på sitt jobb, men jag tror inte svenska folket överlag har den uppfattningen med tanke på hur han hanterade Mats Löfving-fallet och nu våldsvågen. Tror han skulle ha nytta av att vara mer öppen om både sig själv och polisens arbete och utmaningar.

    6
  • Jump
    SVT efterlyser härmed rikspolischef Anders Thornberg
  • Det är inte lag på att vara tillgänglig för media. Samtidigt kan jag tycka att är man högt uppsatt inom en myndighet så ingår det på något sätt i arbetsuppgifterna att faktiskt vara kommunikatör utåt.

    4
  • Jump
    Is Firefox browser's password manager safe? If not, Are there any other free safe alternatives?
  • I pay for Bitwarden premium and the big thing for me is the ability to use it for 2FA/TOTP right from the browser extension (for sites where I feel convenience mostly trumps hardened security). It's glorious that Bitwarden autofills username and password, and then auto-copies the current 2FA code to your clipboard so you can just paste it immediately, instead of needing to pull up your phone and authenticator app to fetch a code, or check your email/texts for a code.

    17
  • Jump
    What does the 🛞 emoji mean on Lemmy?
  • I also use Connect. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, I think it has to do with the emoji collection on the device rather than a specific app. Screenshot of emoji with modern car wheel in Connect app

    1
  • Jump
    NodeJS vs Go
  • As someone else already said, don't overthink the language choice aspect in general. If you learn almost any imperative language with C-like syntax (Go, JS/TS, C#, Java etc), picking up another one in the same "family" to a usable degree will be a very minor hiccup done within a very short time (hours). Sure, there are quirks and special syntax and different collections of built-in features for each one, but as a developer you will likely switch between several anyway and need to look up syntax from time to time - you know that something can be done, but the details how are a bit fuzzy.

    For instance, I code mostly in C# and JS/TS, but we have legacy applications written in VB.NET so I often google VB syntax for things that I know how to write in C#. I also occasionally code in C, have dabbled in Fortran, Python and PHP and I'm sure I'm forgetting one or two. SQL and LINQ syntax too of course. What you learn on your developer journey is that something can be done, but remembering the specific implementation in a specific language might be a job better suited for your search engine. That said, of course it's good to start with one language that you know pretty well, but it seems like you're already there with Python.

    The real challenge is learning the methodology of building applications, philosophy of OOP, patterns and program/application architecture and frameworks. Language choice is very much secondary to those areas of expertise imo.

    Personally though, I am partial to JS/TS as I've used those the longest, they are extremely versatile and frontend development is my favorite area.

    12
  • Jump
    BEM methodology is not about CSS
  • I'm honestly not necessarily a BEM fan as class names become literally huge if you don't rely a bit on nested elements (targeting nested classes is not very BEMmy - but SASS makes it so convenient). But haven't found a naming convention or "framework" that does the job better. BEM also doesn't address how you should organize the style library for maintainability. I just use my own simplified structure based on ITCSS now.

    I just wish that someone could make a methodology or an architecture of building style libraries that felt obvious and was more plug-and-play, I hate that I feel like have to revisit the style library organization and naming convention for each new project to reevaluate if it makes sense for the scope of the project.

    Then again, I work as a fullstack dev in a small team of more backend-focused fullstack devs, so I don't do frontend as often as I'd like and don't really have anyone to discuss these issues with.

    3
  • Jump
    Help needed configuring prowlarr with qBittorrent
  • When you figure out how to set up Caddy, please send me a PM... I've tried and given up, but probably managed to misconfigure or misunderstand something.

    For outside access I use Ngrok so I don't have to bother with router settings. Probably isn't recommended, but it was easy to set up and has worked flawlessly for me for years.

    1
  • Jump
    Help needed configuring prowlarr with qBittorrent
  • If I understand correctly (and I'm not 100% sure I do), localhost in a Docker container lives in it's own little network which is not the host's network.

    The container is its own localhost, which has its own ports (which is why you have to map an internal localhost port to a host PC localhost port for every container you wish to access). This means that Prowlarr in your case, has no idea what localhost:4666 should be since in Prowlarr's localhost universe there exists nothing on that port. To access what the host knows of ports (instead of the container), you have to write the host's address from inside the Prowlarr container.

    I hope that wasn't impossible to follow 😅

    Now that I think about it (haven't tried myself though) you could possibly add the mapping of port 4666:4666 to the Prowlarr Docker compose setup and then use localhost:4666 to access qBittorrent from inside Prowlarr.

    5
  • Jump
    Help needed configuring prowlarr with qBittorrent
  • Try with the local network IP of the host PC/VM instead (192.168.x.x), you have to use that for most applications. Remember that localhost/127.0.0.1 means something different inside a Docker container than it does outside it...

    7
  • Jump
    Lemmy och kommunisterna
  • Håller med skaparen av lemm.ee (min heminstans) om att defederering på instansnivå helst inte är önskvärt utom i sista hand eftersom det skapar åsiktsbubblor. Jag kollar aldrig något annat flöde än mina egna subscribed communities, så har inte sett något alls från Hexbear eller Lemmygrad ändå förutom när jag själv har gått in och kikat pga nyfiken. (Så ja, jag bor ändå i en bubbla...)

    Snart kommer man ju tydligen också kunna defederera från/blocka en Lemmyinstans direkt med sin användare som jag fattar det, och då finns det betydligt mindre värde i att ens heminstans ska ta beslutet om vad som ska vara federerat eller inte tycker jag.

    Med det sagt så håller jag med om generella kritiken gällande Hexbear och Lemmygrad i många communities där. De är ofta märkligt, aggressivt propagandistiska och defensiva när det gäller Kina, Ryssland och Sovjet, och anti-Ukraina. Nu tycker jag kanske inte att väst och Nato och USA och västmedia alltid är helgon som sitter på Sanningen™, men Hexbear/Lemmygrad är som att titta på sin konspirationsteoretiska högerextremistiska farbrors Facebookflöde (eller r/conservative på Reddit) fast i uppochnervända världen. Då är jag politiskt vänster, men jag har väldigt svårt att hålla med om takes i trådarna där.

    5
  • Jump
    UK Nurse Lucy Letby guilty of murdering seven babies at Chester Hospital
  • And try to force them to attend a mediation session with the murderer, actively discourage them from going to the police... Fail to report the baby deaths appropriately to the NHS, fail to do the initial investigation about the first three deaths the executive team had decided on. Fail to present to the board of trustees that the conclusion of two external reviews were that some of the baby deaths should be forensically investigated. Fail to do any investigation. Refuse to reassign the murderer for months while more murders and attempted murders happen, then reassign them into a position where they have access to manipulate the narrative. And additionally order the whistleblowers to cease email communications about the issue...

    I think I missed a few things as well, there's just too many things wrong in this picture.

    16
  • Jump
    UK Nurse Lucy Letby guilty of murdering seven babies at Chester Hospital
  • Yes, it's impossible that they didn't at least entertain the idea that she was guilty with so many incidents and so many people speaking out. And the execs immediate response to that is to... silence the whistleblowers, to maintain the reputation of the hospital. Absolutely repulsive. They come very close to being accessories to the murders, in my opinion.

    39