baduhai
@baduhai@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on how to start with self-hosting? 2 weeks ago:
So, it might not sound like much, but 4gb of ram is plenty enough to do quite a bit with self hosting.
If you want to self host, and use it as an opportunity to learn, I recommend you install Debian, and get your hands dirty. If just want to self host without much of a headache, yunohost seems cool, but I’ve never used it, so I can’t recommend it.
- Comment on Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine 2 weeks ago:
I do find it odd how a proprietary paid search engine seems to get such a large amount of praise within privacy communities when there are fundamental challenges in making a paid search engine actually private.
I think it’s because of the incentives of a paid search engine. I don’t pay for kagi myself, but I think the idea is that if you’re paying for the product, they don’t have much of an incentive to monetise your data, only to use it for legitimate uses.
Whether or not that is true is a gold question, though.
- Comment on What external services do you use for your selfhosting setup? 2 weeks ago:
Around 350~400 GB. I compress and encrypt before sending to backblaze.
- Comment on What external services do you use for your selfhosting setup? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t store much on backblaze, so I don’t think I’ve ever spent over 2USD there in a month. As for Cloudflare, I’m able to stay in the free tier.
- Comment on What external services do you use for your selfhosting setup? 2 weeks ago:
For my homelab:
- Backblaze B2 (Backup storage)
- Cloudflare (DNS)
- Tailscale (VPN)
- Oracle Cloud (VPS)
For things that I host externally (i.e. not part of my homelab):
- Oracle Cloud (VPS)
- Tailscale (VPN)
- Cloudflare (DNS)
- Cloudflare R2 (Object storage)
- Backblaze B2 (Backup storage)
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 3 weeks ago:
It’s clickbait.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Introducing Member Perks: Full-Text Newsletter RSS, Custom Icon Colors
Ah, that explains it. I get the want and the need to monetise your product, but taking free features away to make them paid? Not the way to go, imo.
- Comment on Cybercrooks use Raspberry Pi to steal ATM cash 1 month ago:
Cybercrooks
I fuckin love these dumbass names they give to hackers.
- Comment on tailscale friendly app dashboard 1 month ago:
If you have a domain, you could setup split brain dns.
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 1 month ago:
Replit was pretty useful before vibe coding. How the mighty have fallen.
- Comment on Babies from three people's DNA prevents heriditary disease 1 month ago:
So the egg is from person A, the nucleus from person B, and I’m guessing the sperm would be person C?
- Comment on Millions of websites to get 'game-changing' AI bot blocker 2 months ago:
Proof of work seems to be working pretty well for many websites.
- Comment on Hastags killed 2 months ago:
And?
- Comment on The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition 2 months ago:
Lots I disagree with in this article, but i agree with the message.
On another note, I found this section very funny:
Disgraced cryptocurrency swindler Sam Bankman-Fried, for example, once told an interviewer the following, thereby helpfully outing himself as an idiot.
“I would never read a book…I’m very skeptical of books. I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that. I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.”
Extend his prison sentence.
- Comment on Federated 3D print files (Manyfold) 2 months ago:
Not sure why I’m wildly speculating when all this is surely documented somewhere lol
But speculating without reading documentation is so fun! I love doing that, then reading the docs and realising how wrong and backwards my ideas were.
- Comment on Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp 2 months ago:
Communicate securely with WhatsApp? That’s an oxymoron.
- Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging. 2 months ago:
I do wonder, are seeing more hate, more fear and less freedom because there is more hate, more fear and less freedom, or are we seeing these things because they are now no longer deleted, and there is the same amount of it?
Either way there is no fix for facebook and other facebook owned platforms. Get rid of this shit.
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 3 months ago:
I’m just surprised they weren’t before.
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 3 months ago:
“Young Chinese women have small fingers,” the article reads, “and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said.”
Fucking what? Who are these supply chain experts? Did you pull them out of your ass?
This reads like AI. I’ve lost any speck of respect I still had for NYT.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 3 months ago:
I don’t follow
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 3 months ago:
Msys2 was not created for devops, I just happen to be a devops engineer who uses it. Their websites describes it as:
MSYS2 is a collection of tools and libraries providing you with an easy-to-use environment for building, installing and running native Windows software.
Because it makes software building, packaging and distributing as simple aand standardised as it is on Linux, it means they effectively have a very good CLI on their hands. On my work laptop, I now use WezTerm with fish shell and helix editor for my workflow, and live in the terminal. Would this be possible to do without msys2 or wsl? Yes, but it would be a huge pain.
- Comment on The silent force behind online echo chambers? Your Google search 3 months ago:
I was in the same boat as you, except that I came to the conclusion it was worth paying for. Then perplexity came out, and that decision was a little harder to justify, but I stuck with kagi.
Then my ISP gave me a year of perplexity pro along with my internet speed upgrade. As much as I hate AI tools being everywhere, some of them are good, and Perplexity pro is one of them. Now that I’ve tried it, I think it’s worth it to the point that I’d pay for it even if my ISP didn’t give me the subscription.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 3 months ago:
I could never figure out how to set it up a sort from the one with Git.
That’s because the one provided with git is a nerfed version of msys2. If you install msys2 as a standalone thing from their website, you get everything you need for a functional CLI on windows. Most importantly, you get a real package manager and decently populated repositories.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 3 months ago:
I’ve recently started using windows again for work, after not touching it for like 15 years, msys2 makes it tolerable.
I’m a devops engineer, and my company won’t allow me to use WSL. Go figure.
- Comment on Disappointed in Plebbit : I Really Believed in the Vision, But It Was All Just Talk 4 months ago:
The closest I’ve seen to true decetralisation is nostr, all other protocols either died or were just concepts. Activitypub is a good middle ground between true decentralisation and centralised services.
- Comment on 4 fundamental forces 4 months ago:
Gravity should be the derpy looking one.
- Comment on "You Wouldn’t Steal a Car”... But Would You Pirate a Font? 4 months ago:
I would pirate a car, if I could do it as easily as I (allegedly) pirate movies.
- Comment on Introducing Lab Rax: A 3D Printable & Modular 10" Rack System - The DIY Life 4 months ago:
Seems pretty good. I recently 3d printed a little 10in mini rack for myself, but I went with Chris Borge’s Rackfinity. I feel like the threaded rods give it a lot of strength, which makes me a lot more comfortable hanging my hardware I’m the rack.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 4 months ago:
According to Plexus, all the apps above, excluding google watch, work with microg.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 4 months ago:
His name is Felix, PewDiePie is just his yt handle.