My browser is set to privacy mode only. Every time I open my browser, it’s fresh and new.

I think my brain would instantly malfunction if I opened my browser to 10 tabs but there’s people out there with 1000+ tabs. How why how? Please don’t answer, I can already feel the anxiety rising…

apk seems to have some tricks in there that aren’t as well known.

I managed to catch in the IRC channel that apk add doc will automatically download any related man pages for packages with any future downloads through apk. That made life a bit more convenient instead of downloading all those packages separately.

My web facing server has just enough packages installed to (kinda securely) host a Caddy and Kiwix docker container to work with my domain name and make a comfortable work environment through SSH. My Pi for my HomeAssistant docker container has less because it’s locked down to just my local network.

I also wrote my own install scripts so reinstalling everything and getting it back to a running state would take about 15 minutes for each device.

And I also wrote my own backup/restore scripts that evolved over 3/4 of a year. I use them often so I have confidence in those scripts.

I personally don’t really care too much. I have multiple ways of dealing with issues for something that’s a hobby to me. Which is why I stick to simplicity.

I’m sure this is a thing for people to worry about when dealing with more complex setups. I just wanna vibe out in my tiny corner of the internet.

On Alpine Linux I update my two Pi servers at 2 in the morning daily. It’s simpler compared to Debian which needs unattended-updates. Just add apk update && apk upgrade to a cron job and you’re good to go.

I only have three docker services which is simple enough to update manually.

I like to keep things as simple as possible for my already chaotic brain.

I’ve read about that and I already have that in my notes as well.

It doesn’t really affect my needs because my ISP blocks incoming on those ports anyways. Also I’m choosing not to use a tunnel at the moment so I’ll be using a higher port anyways.

The last time I asked about it, a few people seemed to agree it was something to do with the firewall settings. That seems most likely since I was able to connect when I disabled my firewall. I’m not a fan of working with iptables. The language for that type of networking is gibberish to me.

I had also tried going from docker compose to rootful podman compose and ran into the same issue. Although I’m trying to work away from podman compose in the future, just taking it in steps.

Thank you for making AI hentai content!

Yeah, I mainly just want to move away to more open projects. When I first started, everyone kept suggesting using Cloudflare. After half a year using their service, I just felt icky the entire time.

In the past couple months I was able to move away and chose to protect myself by learning how to harden my server as well as hiding my server behind multiple layers of obscurity.

With my current setup, the only site traffic I get has only been myself and my custom ssh port only gets hit by bots about 3-10 times a week according to my logs. Only time will tell how effective my layers of obscurity will hold up but so far it seems to satisfy my needs better than I was expecting.

Once I get podman in a state I like, I’ll pretty much be all open sourced and all I’ll have to do for myself is be in maintenance mode unless I care to add a new service. I like to keep things simple so I don’t normally go crazy adding new services anyways.

Thank you for the offer. I still need a bit more more time to experiment and zero in on the issue again. Fortunately my setup is quite simple and the only bottleneck will be Caddy.

I basically run Caddy which redirects to a static generated blog, simple file server page and a Kiwix instance. I’m mostly making a self hosted reference site of materials for Linux and Scripting resources.

One day I may add a Forgeo instance but currently my entire workflow exists around rsync. I’m happy just having my single file scripts hosted as text files and don’t really need the power of git. At least not at the moment.

I’ve been making another attempt to replace Docker with Podman. The issue is I can’t connect to my server through a web browser. I think it’s a firewall issue.

Networking and networking troubleshooting is a bit confusing for me and that’s the least favourite part about self hosting for me. Turns out I actually enjoy writing scripts more and the challenge of writing POSIX scripts especially.

If I can figure it out, I’ll probably write a guide for setting up Podman and Caddy on Alpine Linux since there isn’t a lot of recent information out there from what I found in my searches so far.

the virtues by which you live by aren’t particularly reflective of being masculine or feminine, but good virtues that you are proud of nevertheless.

This sums up the last 10ish minutes from the video quite nicely and it’s something I strongly agree with.

I don’t want my next question to seem dismissive, in the past years I have changed how I talk to and about people, as well as surrounded myself by people who have very relaxed views on labels and categorization. I’ve become a bit out of touch as my mind tries to take in all the worlds events and changing personal experiences. I am asking because I would like some more perspective on something I am not really surrounded by much of anymore.

What purpose does it mean to you to state you are a man in your second paragraph? If I removed the first four words, everything that follows still makes complete sense to me and relates nicely with the first paragraph.

Personally when I talk about myself, I tend to refer to myself as a “person” in place of calling myself a “man.” When talking about men or women, I would call them “people” unless I want to get more specific for whatever reason. I’m choosing to use the broadest term possible that is broadly inclusive. If I call myself a man, to me there’s the unspoken hierarchy of men being above women which could very subtly affect the conversation. I am not higher than anyone, I am a person, just like everyone else that surrounds me.

By calling myself a person, I am hoping it’s a reflection that I am equal to everyone else and not above a specific group of people. This is simply how I am choosing to deal with the current state of masculinity around the world. It’s something that feels like it’s working for my needs and situation. It has also brought me a lot more peace with myself.

I also tend to believe that language is fluid and ever evolving. I feel less significance behind the definition of words because they don’t always stay the same. This has had the result of me looking to use broad, well known words over very specific words known by certain groups of people. This too has also affected how I currently think and feel about labels and categorization.

I worked in the automation industry for about 6 years. I originally started out as just needing a job, but ended up attempting to get an electrical apprenticeship to gain a transferable skill to move to another country. I ended up leaving both the automation industry and the trades in general for a number of reasons.

In regards to automation, one of those reasons is that I believe automation and a lot of our technology which is made through automation is completely unsustainable. It’s also hard for me to separate the unsustainable nature of automation from capitalism. Automation requires so much extraction from other parts of the world to build and maintain. Not only is there a huge demand for metal to build the automation line itself for robots, fencing/safety, electricity, piping, and other structures related to an automation line, there’s a huge amount of plastic required for everything electronic.

Maintenance is also a huge issue. Things that move tend to wear down and break down over time. Everything eventually needs to be replaced. That’s more metal, plastic, grease, water and whatever else is required to run that line. A constant need to extract materials from one place to another. To me that is just the same as how capitalism works. Exploiting and extracting from one area for a resource and moving it to another area. Profits will be made. Then something will be done with that resource. Then more profit will be made and eventually it’ll end up in a junk yard somewhere.

There’s also a depressing amount of plastic involved. Every electronic requires plastic protection while being shipped because water and moisture don’t play well with electronics. Every cable is coated in plastic because electricity loves metal and there’s metal pretty much everywhere in the automation line. Sensors, electronics, computers, safety. Plastic. In the back of my mind, I can’t help but wonder how much progress will stall when people are unable to extract crude oil for all the plastics required for anything electronic.

My time in automation has made me believe today that we can’t have all the luxuries of modern technology without the “innovative” race to the bottom capitalism is currently trying to achieve. That we only got this technologically advanced because someone wanted to exploit a certain aspect of technology for their own personal gains. Innovations that are built on the ideas of exploitation. Today I can no longer in my mind separate the deep connection between computers, automation, and capitalism.

At this point, I am a bit overwhelmed by what’s happening with everything that I don’t even know what direction we can go from here. In order to resist, we still must use the technology provided by capitalism to organize ourselves. Like a drug, we are dependent and it’s an aspect of technology that fills me with frustration and confusion.

Personally, I do think it would benefit people as a whole to reconnect with nature in a sustainable way. Reconnect with the indigenous peoples from around the world and learn their knowledge of the lands. Learn to ween ourselves off from heavy technology dependence but still find a balance with technology that doesn’t depend so heavily on exploiting materials from outside our living areas. I think if we continue to use the tools provided by capitalism, we will continue to be addicted.

For me, being a man is just being.

What does this mean to you?

To me it sounds like simply existing. Which leads me to the question, why even bother with the use of a label or categorization?

I’m a person who broadly refuses to be labelled because I also want to simply exist without being sold shit.

This is how I want to be consumed

Thank you! I like red because it burns my retinas less

You’re welcome, it’s important to keep your AI well hydrated!

You’re welcome, I always eat my corn from 01110100 01101111 01110000 to bottom too!

It’s the first line of the poem. The only line of the poem. And the title of the poem!

Soft caresses of an infinite scroll

You’re welcome! Beige is beautiful, Beige is profitable!

Now I’m confused. That means I feel something, yay!