baller_w

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Travel. Ignore him. I’ve had the pleasure visiting 7 countries, 5 non English native. Top of the list are Italy, Sweden, Czech Republic, England, Ireland, Canada (Montreal). I’d travel more if I had more money and time to. It’s been one of the most impactful things on me as a human.

  The US has no national language by design. We’re a melting pot; a country of immigrants. That is our greatest strength. Taking the often humble, mixing it, mutating it, and making it our own.

  I don’t speak any other languages, but I try. Only on very rare occasions was language a barrier. I understand I’m a guest in other people’s countries so I mind my p’s & q’s. You’re representing your country, so be kind. Approach other cultures with genuine curiosity. At least learn basic phrases like hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and anything else you can manage, but you don’t need to fluent.

  IMO, US born tourist are the worst. Loud, entitled, obnoxious, ignorant. They expect everywhere to be just perfect for them and how they like to live, like it’s Disney World. Those people won’t get a whole lot out of travel and just make us look worse than we already do on the international stage. Oh and the “influencers”… In Venice, they were like locusts.

  I’ve also traveled all over the US and it can be beautiful, but you live here; you’ll get much more of a perspective shift going somewhere completely different. Also, by comparison of other countries, the US is pretty mid. Traveling help you see the US for what it is, not for what we’re told it is.

  Definitely go with your instinct here. Foster that curiosity. I promise it will pay dividends you can’t imagine now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your self-hosting success of the week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I migrated openaw from docker running on my raspberry pi to an old nuc I had lying around. Backed it with mainly models off of OpenRouter or my local Ollama instance. For very difficult tasks it uses anthropic. Added it to my GitHub repo and implemented Plane for task management. Added a subagent for coding and have it work on touch up or research tasks I don’t have personal time to do. Made an sdlc document that it follows so I can review all of its work. Added a cron so it checks for work every hour. It ran out of tasks in five days. Work quality: C+, but it’s a hell of a lot better than having nothing.

  It helped research and implement SilverBullet for personal notes management in one shot.

  I also migrated all of my services’ DNS resolution to CloudFlare so I get automatic TLS handoff and set up nginx with deny rules so any app I don’t want exposed don’t get proxied.

  This weekend I’m resurrecting my HomeAssistant build.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The law does not require photo ID uploadsor facial recognition, with users instead simply self-reporting their age, setting AB 1043 apart from similar laws passed in Texas and Utah that require “commercially reasonable” verification methods, such as government-issued ID checks. Seems toothless. Good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been putting a lot of thought into this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Removing my gross socks after a long day on my feet. The dressier the socks, the better the feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Elder millennial here.

  …that just about sums it up. Well done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And The Music Man just announced this will be a monthly service to make stonk go up.

  “The market will bear the cost”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good night sweet prince⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the same model

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Faraday bag all electronic items; phone, smartwatch; hell, I’d even bag my car keys. Cover your face, especially the eye area. Make your voice heard, but don’t be a data point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Benn Jordan did a great video on this: youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo