Mikina, mikina@programming.dev

I highly recommend looking into Matrix Ansible Deploy, has an amazing documentation and actually works robustly. It will make the whole process of hosting it way easier, I only needed to change like 5 config values, give Ansible the SSH key for my server, and then basically run “just setup-all” from a Ansible docker.

That’s actually an impressive setup! I’ve been mostly gaming on desktop Bazzite, but usually just connect through Sunlight/Moonlight from a laptop in bed. Never really considered a proxmox setup.

I might look into it, that sounds pretty useful. Already have an old desktop I sometimes use as a server, with older GPU and some RAM, so it would make for a great test environment for this kind of things.

It’s extremely easy, the Matrix ansible deploy project is very simple to use (with at least basic tech literacy), is very well documented and as far as I’ve seen in the past few years of using it do deploy and update my Matrix instance - it’s also very robust. I haven’t seen it fail a single time, which tends to be a problem with larger Docker/Ansible projects.

I’m paying 7$ a month for a cheap server on Hetzner, you also need a domain name, and the whole setup took like an hour.

How is your Qubes experience, if you don’t mind me asking? I always loved the idea, especially since some of my work are different cybersecurity/pentesting projects, where both the separation of trust/data and the ability to quickly run templated environments per project sound super useful, but I never really got around doing it.

Do you daily drive it? I’m also pretty much a gamer, and while I could imagine it on my work laptop, I’m not sure if it’s feasible when gaming is one of my main focuses on PC. I can kind of imagine that a virtualization-based OS would be terrible for gaming.

Ah, TIL. Though I can’t really come up with much that would scale well to the modern world where technologies are involved. But that might be only because I’m not thinking local enough, since that’s what matters.

However, I’m sure there’s an anarchist zine about exactly that.

Is it even possible? I mean, you need to share the chat, and probably have it publicly joinable.

Keeping feds out is basically impossible. Sharing the group only in person could work a bit, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they had undercover agents at any major gatherings.

“Dario Amodei’s 19000 word essay”?

More like, " Dario’s ass model’s”, am i right :D

You’re right, I did realize that it’s a pretty offtopic and no value comment a short while after posting, but too late to go edit it out.

Thanks for the video, Down the Rabitt Hole videos about EVE Online are my absolute favorites, so this will be a good watch.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/terry-davis

Haven’t heard about this piece of internet lore. It’s really tragic, and I shudder to think how differently would it go if he had access to ChatGPT.

Or rather, probably not much different, but there are already several cases of people nudged to the exactly same path solely thanks to AI, that they wouldn’t have probably ended up on so quickly. It sucks.

The companies are wastly overestimating how much I care about seeing their slop content.

The hatered for forced logins, age verification or prompts like these has been slowly curing my internet addiction. I’m not signing up or accepting your bullshit.

The fact that WinRar is very probably currently more proffitable than OpenAI by several order of magnitudes is my favorite funfact.

I’m not really looking for a new phone, but for an OS to put onto my old PinePhone. It shouldn’t matter that they are no longer made, no?

As far as I know, which isn’t a lot tbh, the hardware is ok, but most of the issues were on OS level, not being mature enough.

I have a few years old Pinephone in a drawer I never really got around to using, because back then the state of phone Linux easn’t really usable. Failed calls, issues with battery life and the like.

Does anyone knows if it got better?

I recommend transfering to Cloudfare, since they have guaranteed wholesale price (no added fees, and only what the tld owner and ICANN asks), so they should be cheapest (since anything less is selling at a loss for the registrar, at least ifI understand right).

Namecheap has started overcharging me like 20+$ on a renewal compared to CF. So, transfering after a first year (which is where registrars like Namecheap take a loss and give you a discount) is probably the cheapest way how to go about it.

As far as I know, Cloudfare is the only registrar that offers you wholesale price, as in the price asked by the tld owners. So, you a registrar can’t go lower, because that’s what they pay for it.

But, a lot of registrars will give you first year at a heavy discount (so, at a loss), just so they can ramp up the price to wholesale + a lot extra. I got my domain for like 5$, and they then asked for 40$ for renewal, while wholesale is around 25$.

So, I just transfered to Cloudfare for the renewal. Tbh I don’t remember if it was the first or second year, and what are the transfer rules, but I think it should be possible to just buy a first year at heavy discount with i.e Namecheap or something, and immediately transfer to Cloudfare for the first renewal at wholesale price.

AI has been a pretty good help for writing.

Asking it for help to flesh out your unique story idea, unexpected plot twists or in general help with figuring out where to take your story/game mechanics/dm campaign, and then making sure to avoid anything it suggests as the most boring and obvious solution has been a great help with inspiration.

Rock Band maybe? We’ve been mostly playing that, made for a great highschool party.

Oh, nice. A sync with ProtonDrive, that looks promising.

I don’t trust myself enough to backup my passwords on something self-hosted, but ProtonDrive might actually be reasonable. I’ll look into it, thanks! And I sure don’t want to use stuff like GDrive or OneDrive.

I’ve switched to Ecosia from Kagi because they started spending my money on AI instead of making the search engine better, and I stumbled upon an option to something like “Chat with Ecosia AI. You can try asking it how to be energy neutral. Note that by interacting with this chat you agree to the ChatGPT privacy policy”

It’s baffling how out of touch that sentence is, lol. “Energy neutral” and “ChatGPT” in one sentence is so bizzare.

Damn, it has been years since I last played Guitar Hero. We even had a full blown rack with stage lights above our TV in my parent’s house.