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Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

no guy has ever dropped the line “you don’t know what I’ve been through”

I had this moment years ago when I realised 95% of root tweaks I was using were available non-rooted anyway. The other 5% I learnt to live without and now struggle to remember what they even were.

Not sure what kind of apps you are into that know when you’re taking a shit but my banking apps have notification permissions and that is about it (camera when needed but yank it straight after). Most bank and broker websites are limited compared to the app. I have 8 finance related apps and it was constant musical chairs with which one will break after an update requiring hours of workaround research, if one is even available. Any version of Interactive Broker straight up refused to work on rooted device. You may personally be OK with giving up that functionality on your phone but not everyone is in the same boat as you.

Great description of a problem I noticed with most LLM generated code of any decent complexity. It will look fantastic at first but you will be truly up shit creek by the time you realise it didn’t generate a paddle.

Until the day it doesn’t, I was one of those people excommunicated by Oracle out of the blue and that is the last I ever heard from them (seriously, I tried to find out why at least)

I assume no encryption is safe from three letter gangs, at this point I’m only concerned with keeping grubby corporate fingers at bay.

I wasn’t exactly homeless thankfully but lost my account through addresslessness and it took almost 18 months of relying on other people’s bank accounts before I was able to become independent. It becomes a ridiculous catch-22 very quickly, where you can’t get an account because you don’t have documents and you can’t get documents because you don’t have an account.

On the off chance anyone uses BorgBase for off-site backups, I would like to shamelessly plug a Prometheus exporter I wrote for monitoring your account. It exports name, available/total space and last modified time for all repos in your account.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Languages are meant to be fluid evolving constructs anyway.

also Linux: what will it bork this time?

I have a Contabo VPS that costs less than $5 a month and allows for 30TB of bandwidth. The only love letters I received for seeding were basically emails telling me for informational purposes and no further action will be taken (they don’t give a shit basically). Way more functional and cheaper than a vanilla seedbox but obviously requires more work on your part to set up.

Children absorb language like a spknge because they are forced to by necessity. Moved to a Spanish speaking country and in three years I could run linguistic circles around any three year old. (half joke but you get the point hopefully)

I definitely learnt (more than) a few things from your write up, thank you sir!

It is complete overkill for most home server tasks but I would look to run something like this for next 10 years at least so I can see it making sense if you cost it out like that.

Depends on your personal use case of course but for comparison I have a (relatively) piddly Intel N305 processor mini PC with 16GB of memory and currently run a 25-30 container load, including Plex and a torrent server. My setup currently idles at around 20% CPU and 25% memory utilisation, so I can quite confidently say the linked N5 ought to give more than enough headroom to handle a typical homelab/self hosted load.

Death death to the IDF

Put first episode on max priority + download sequentially. Go make a cup of tea. First episode is ready to stream. Do same to second episode before you start watching the first and Robert is your father’s brother (Bob’s your uncle).

Setting a random SSH port and limiting it to 3/min saw failed login attempts fall by 99% and jailed IPs fall to 0.

My impression in general is that the business press is more open, more free, often more critical, less constrained by external power and external influences - Chomsky

I got the same impression when I used to watch televised business news.