meyotch
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- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 6 days ago:
No you don’t know that. You are repeating a trope without substance. Sure there’s probably huge waste at the pentagon but that’s not on the chopping block here.
- Comment on Google is on the Wrong Side of History. 1 week ago:
You might need to pause and think a bit more. Corporations are competing for money. There isn’t just one big pile of money somewhere.
- Comment on Are Dating Apps Getting Worse? 1 week ago:
Probably not great ever, but Plenty of Fish yielded some decent prospects when it was nothing more than a web based classified ad. But those days are long gone.
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 1 week ago:
Find one named Iain and radicalize him! So it would be the Butler Iain Jihad.
- Comment on Are Dating Apps Getting Worse? 1 week ago:
Can they get worse?
- Comment on Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness? 1 week ago:
Can’t speak to the effectiveness of the baldness cure, but the model in the stock photo has cured ED, I am sure.
- Comment on Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America 1 week ago:
When you go to report an issue, and select “Name is wrong”, the send button never activates, whereas “something else” will.
So this is a bit of capitulation that seems to be hard coded and they just don’t want to hear about it.
- Comment on Consistent Jailbreaks in GPT-4, o1, and o3 - General Analysis 1 week ago:
My own research has made a similar finding. When I am taking the piss and being a random jerk to a chatbot, the bot much more frequently violates their own terms of service. Introducing non-sequitur topics after a few rounds really seems to ‘confuse’ them.
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 1 week ago:
This is prophetic and yet as clear as day to anyone who has actually had to rely on their own code for anything.
I have lately focused all of my tech learning efforts and home lab experiments on cloud-less approaches. Sure the cloud is a good idea for scalable high traffic websites, but it sure also seems to enable police state surveillance and extreme vendor lock-in.
It’s really just a focus on fundamentals. But all those cool virtualization technologies that enable ‘cloud’ are super handy in a local system too. Rolling back container snapshots on specific services while leaving the general system unimpacted is useful anywhere.
But it is all on hardware I control. Apropos of the article, the pendulum will swing back toward more focus on local infrastructure. Cloud won’t go away, but more people are realizing that it also means someone else owns your data/your business.
- Comment on Keep them guessing 1 week ago:
Elsevier and Nature Group are for-profit. That is the problem. Once profit is involved, morals and ideals go out the window
- Comment on son, happy birthday 2 weeks ago:
Yeah looks like a diatom skeleton. And the scale is quite wrong
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
It’s probably partly generational. I mean the old guard got pensions and we get wtevs.
People who aren’t in leadership often have no idea how to judge actual merit anyway. Especially among engineers who often develop very myopic views informed by their tech specialties. I am often gob-smacked by the incredibly stupid ideas otherwise brilliant engineers have about how the world works.
So sadly folks like your brother are probably feeling validated for their racist feelings right now.
- Comment on Prioritizing de-clouding efforts 2 weeks ago:
Good call out on the smart values. That’s on the priority list for my monitoring scheme now too.
- Comment on Prioritizing de-clouding efforts 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the tip on measuring temp of the ram, too. I will incorporate that into my monitoring scheme.
The mini pc I have has a good case design with a fan that blows across the ram, cpu and ssd. So I think it has good cooling, but I will definitely confirm with some monitoring.
- Comment on Prioritizing de-clouding efforts 2 weeks ago:
Oh boy, can of worms just opened. Awesome insight. I do have an ecosystem of servers already and i have a pi zero 2 set aside to develop as a dedicated system watchdog for the whole shebang. I have multiple wifi networks segregated for testing and personal use. Use both built in wifi for the network connection and a wifi adapter to scan my sub networks.
So great insight and it helps some things click into place.
- Comment on Prioritizing de-clouding efforts 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, a solid suggestion.
I have explored that direction and would 100% agree for most home setups. I specifically need HA running in an unsupervised environment, so Add-ons are not on the table anyway. The containerized version works well for me so far and it’s consistent with my overall services scheme. I am developing an integration and there’s a whole other story to my setup that includes different networks and test servers for customer simulations using fresh installs of HASS OS and the like.
- Comment on Prioritizing de-clouding efforts 2 weeks ago:
I have a fine backup strategy and I don’t really want to go into it here. I am considering my ecosystem of services at this point.
I am skeptical that this will overload my i/o if I build it slowly and allocate the resources properly. It may be the rate-limiting factor in some very occasional situations, but never a real over-load situation. Most of these services only sit and listen on their respective ports most of the time. Only a few do intense processing and even then only on upload of new files or when streaming.
I really resist throwing a lot of excess power at a single-user system. It goes against my whole ethos of appropriate and proportional tech.
- Comment on Prioritizing de-clouding efforts 2 weeks ago:
I do have a backup plan. I will use the on-board SSD for the main system and an additional 1Tb HDD for an incremental backup of the entire system with ZFS, all to guard against garden-variety disk corruption. I also take total system copies to keep in a fire safe.
- Comment on Prioritizing de-clouding efforts 2 weeks ago:
Good insights, thank you for the perspective. I will look into that more closely before committing.
- Comment on Prioritizing de-clouding efforts 2 weeks ago:
That’s very relevant. Thanks for the heads-up. I will look into that.
- Comment on Prioritizing de-clouding efforts 2 weeks ago:
That’s surely overkill for my use level. Most of these services are only really listening to the web port most of the time. Yes, some like Immich or Paperless-ngx do some brief intense processing, but I am skeptical that I need nearly that much separation. I am using an AMD Ryzen 7 5825U. I am open to ideas, but I also press hard against over-investing in hardware for a single-person home setup.
- Comment on Prioritizing de-clouding efforts 2 weeks ago:
I would like to hear a bit more about the main differences. I tried immich first on a resource constrained system and it was a real pig naturally. PhotoPrism seems to be less resource intensive, but my new AMD Ryzen 7 mini pc is also a lot more powerful than a pi 4.
Im willing to go either way and this one will probably be near the bottom of the list anyway, so I have time to learn more and perhaps change my mind.
- Comment on Prioritizing de-clouding efforts 2 weeks ago:
My storage needs will never be as huge as some setups. The Jellyfin library will surely be the largest as I am part of a sneakernet pirate enclave (me and my friends swapping media collections as an alternative to torrents).
But the 512gb main drive of my mini PC should be plenty for the foreseeable future. That will be incrementally backed up to another internal HDD. I already snapshot my systems quarterly and keep that drive in a fire safe as a disaster recovery measure.
I may get to the point where I need a NAS, so I will look at True NAS so I can plan for that future need. My digital footprint is relatively small as I do not hoard a lot of video media. So, hooray, something else I can migrate later!
- Comment on Prioritizing de-clouding efforts 2 weeks ago:
You are correct that I will be using it only for internal authentication. I want to get away from my bad habit of reusing passwords on internal services to reduce pwnage if mr robot gets access ;)
Any experience on how authelia interacts with vaultwarden? They seem sympatico but should I install them in tandem? Would that make anything easier?
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
Thank you.
Yes, I agree black and white categories aren’t the ideal way to describe people.
But there comes a time when nuance is used against the compassionate to normalize reprehensible actions. We are in that time now.
It is for these reasons that I cannot stand listening to NPR anymore. The ineffectual hand wringing and disingenuous ’liberal self-reflection’ is tiresome and we are well past the time for thoughtful think-pieces.
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- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
The way it is playing out in my family has led me to have to totally reevaluate my perception of my own father.
He is a generally kind man. He stayed with my mom for two decades as she declined with Parkinson’s. He took good care of her when so many people might have ghosted.
But based on his inability to see the danger here to things he himself values, I can no longer think of him as a good man. He has always valued knowledge and reason yet he swallowed the cat-eating crap out of Ohio in spite of the clear bullshit of it.
He is Mormon and very faithful. So I don’t know what he gets out of this all, except that it has required me to grieve him before his passing.
He is not actually a good person I am afraid, but he is very obedient. Learning that distinction is very painful. He does not possess the moral clarity to know the difference between what is legal/popular and what is right.
I always idolized my dad as a child because he was in so many ways a good father. We will probably never speak again.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Because we like blaming victims. It keeps them easy to victimize if you can convince them it’s their failure.
- Comment on The first cult is the deepest 2 weeks ago:
I’m sticking with “cult”. I just apply it liberally to include the old-money cults like the 31 flavors of Christianity. Cults BITE and you can find at least some of that kind of control in many widespread and socially acceptable groups.
Yes ‘cult’ is pejorative and that’s exactly the meaning I intend to convey when I use it.
- Comment on The first cult is the deepest 2 weeks ago:
The wife-swappin’, land-speculatin’, rootin’-tootin’ rascals we know and love, The Mormons™️!