I used to write a ton of code while caffeinated.

Now I write less, better code since quitting caffeine.

There was a brief period where I was incapable of doing anything at all between the state of high caffeination and no caffeination.

Too green, downtown abq doesn't have nearly that much greenery. Obviously fake simulation.

I'd recommend ddrescue over dd for optical media backups only because if you've got bad blocks it will try them again at a different speed/angle

Since the vast majority of my storage is for digital backups of my media collection, I'm considering getting some white label drives. I've got some old white labels from over 20 years ago that are still kicking (I use them on my DOS machine) so I know they can last quite a while before failing. I suppose a few of those in RAID60 should be more than sufficient to guarantee my storage barring divine acts.

Self-Hoster 🏡

• Fleet: 1 device · 5–10 TB
• Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Learning & experimenting, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions
• My MVPs: freshrss.org, Continuwuity, Caddy, Jellyfin, wordpress.org

I haven't spent a dime on tech services since I started selfhosting, and I spend less than is often implied I will on electricity. Storage on the other hand, I need more of. I've only got a TB free right now, and I desperately need more storage. Planning to build an expandable NAS soonish.

It isn't, like even a little.

I've got a wordpress instance that I've federated into the fediverse and as soon as I did I went from 2-3 spam comments a week to over 50 a week. I've since set up a honeypot and that has dropped to zero. These probably aren't AI agents but they're certainly bots (humans can't see my honeypot unless they're browsing the raw HTML and afict my audience wouldn't do that)

There is absolutely nothing stopping your from spinning up a Masotodon, Lemmy, or any other AP federated platform and unleashing AI agents all across it other than your own conscience.

This is probably a bad take but like, good?

Most of the web is trash nowadays anyway. We should all go back to Gopher and Finger, or other similar modern implementations of the same ideas like Gemini, Spartan, and Titan. Those are small enough to easily roll out over mesh networks that can't be easily governed.

Http is dead. Long live the internet.

Anyone know if the Roku remotes that don't do voice control have microphones? I'll rip it open if they do but like, I really don't wanna do that if I don't need to. I'm unfortunate enough to have a Roku TV and not have a box I can use for streaming so It's set up with my jellyfin. I know they can see what I'm watching, but can they hear me too?

Are you hosting on your own machine or server? If so, you can add some buttons that are hidden such that only bots can see them and ban anything that clicks them.

I'm not sure personally how you'd manage it with html+css with no client side scripting, but my theory is to just move your 'I'm a bot' indicator button way off screen with css, or render it invisible and super small so it's unlikely a human could ever find it.

Already built into gnome in the least intrusive way I can imagine. I've got permission from my admins at my school to log into gnome with my school M$ account and now I have a network drive in my file browser that is just my OneDrive. I don't use it, since I have a nextcloud instance, but it's nice to have it available.

I'm not educated enough to have an opinion that goes beyond what I like to type. I find C style to be the nicest.

As far as I can tell that's not possible on FreeBSD. The vm.swappiness parameter doesn't exist there.