They put fuses on every single cell, another one between both halves of the setup, and monitor everything using a BMS. I wont claim that this thing is as safe as a commercially available product but treating this as if it where outrageously dangerous is misrepresenting things as well.

I would not recommend it. Session is a signal fork that deliberately removes forward secrecy from the protocol and uses weaker keys. The removal of forward security means that if your private key is ever exposed all your past messages could be decrypted.

Satire is dead this was 10 years ago…

Playing poker when you are all knowing and all powerful seems like cheating to me.

We can’t even have a beer judging competition without some techbros and their enablers trying to ram some AI slop down our collective throats. I started to despise the enablers more than the actual AI plonkers. It is painfully obvious that these slop generators don’t work but they still decide to give AI companies access to their users and their data.

I use Kopia to do encrypted incremental backups of my user directory.

This should work. Add a file /home/username/.config/systemd/user/my_cool_service.service with this content:

[Unit]
Description=My cool service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/home/username/my_cool_script.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Now add the script /home/username/my_cool_script.sh.

#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello from my cool script."

Enable and run the service.

$ chmod +x /home/username/my_cool_script.sh
$ systemctl --user daemon-reload
$ systemctl --user enable my_cool_service.service
# Optional:
$ systemctl --user start my_cool_service.service 
$ journalctl -e --user-unit=my_cool_service # You should see the echoed string from the script.

The service should now run every time the user username logs in.

People are dissatisfied with 5e and instead of trying one of the thousands of other rpgs out there they pick 4e of all things? The mind boggles…

ME3 not quite sticking the landing is an understatement. I mostly remember the awful unskippable dream sequences, Shepard suddenly becoming utterly incompetent whenever that mall-ninja cerberus assassin pops up in a cinematic, and to top it of the nonsensical red-green-blue ending. I tried to replaying it last year but couldn’t get any further than the second mission because I just got annoyed.

Enderal and its not even close. It shows a world that is in a deep decline and an apocalypse that is all but inevitable but manages to still feel hopeful in a way. Throughout the game there is this theme of how even if everything might fade at some point your interpersonal actions are still meaningful. The Rhalata sidequest alone easily outmatches most games that where published by “real” game studios and the main story just seals the deal.

Honestly, I would go with a managed Nextcloud solution like Hetzner Storage Share or another reputable provider. No hassle of updating and securing the server, no data stored at Google or Microsoft, and easy to administrate by people who aren’t expert system administrators in case you are no longer available. I also went with that route for my personal instance because it was actually cheaper than hosting it myself on a VPS.

I don’t need to be a three star Michelin chef to realize that the plate of shit I have just been served is in fact a plate of shit. Similarly, I also don’t need to be a game developer to see that the buggy mess of a game gearbox just released is not worth my time.

As for the listenbrainz/last.fm that is kind of a solution, but it takes a very long time to train up your profile to actually be useful.

This isn’t a huge issue, listenbrainz supports importing your spotify history.

There no need to choose on over the other. I host all my podman containers in a Proxmox VM.

You can connect navidrome and many other music players to listenbrainz.org. Like Spotify it creates an end of the year report and it also does recommendations like the weekly spotify playlist.

Pretty cool as a learning exercise. As a follow up scenario maybe try moving this infrastructure to another cloud provider because AWS deleted your account without warning or try a multi-cloud deployment.

The second you allow slop generator use into your code base the quality takes a nosedive. People claim to review their slop but I have seen it often enough, all they are doing is hitting accept all without even reading half of the generated code. This isn’t “just a tool” this is technical debt as a service.

Also Hackernews is ridiculous den of techbros, libertarians, AI maximalists and temporarily embarrassed founders who think they stand to gain the most from hyping up slop generators. Trusting them with anything related to AI is like asking the CEO of Microsoft if you should use Windows or Linux.

I love it as well it makes everything way easier. You can even run containers with it if you install quadlet. I just recreated most of my homelab containers using it.

Regarding Lets Encrypt your server doesn’t need to be accessible from the internet if you use the DNS-01 challenge. Caddy with the caddy-dns plugin for your provider can do that automatically for you.

Either use the sftp command, it also supports the -J option, or use SSH tunneling. For example here I bind the homelab port 4533 to my local port 8080.

$ ssh -L 8080:vpn-homelab-ip:4533 user@vps-ip
(user@vps) $

I can now open a new shell and run:

$ curl http://localhost:8080/
<a href="/app/">Found</a>.

You could also do it this way:

$ ssh -L 8080:localhost:4533 user@vpn-homelab-ip -J user@vps-ip
(user@homelab) $