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I mean, twitter sucked when it first launched, too. Doesn't mean it won't get better.

Not sure why everyone is so hellbent on FOSS software to be in its most usable and polished state on launch but will buy prereleased and/or beta games and put in 10,000 hours into half finished games without batting an eye. The double standard for FOSS developers is insane to me.

So, you're going to get two schools of thought on this, and one of them is wrong. Horrendously wrong. For perspective, I was a certified CEHv7, so take that for what its worth.

There's a saying in security circles "security through obscurity isn't security," which is a saying from the 1850s and people continually attempt to apply the logic to today's standards and it's--frankly stupid--but just plain silly. It generally means that if you hide the key to your house under the floor mat, there's no point to having the lock, because it doesn't lend you any real security and that if you release the schematics to security protocols and/or devices (like locks), it makes them less secure. And in this specific context, it makes sense and is an accurate statement. Lots of people will make the argument that F/OSS is more secure because it's openly available and many will make the argument that it's less secure. But each argument is moot because it deals with software development and not your private data. lol.

When you apply the same logic to technology and private data it breaks down tremendously. This is the information age. With a persons phone number I can very likely find their home address or their general location. Registered cell phones will forever carry with them the city in which they were activated. So if I have your phone number, and know your name is John Smith, I can look up your number and see where it was activated. It'll tell me "Dallas, Texas" and now I'm not just looking for John Smith, I'm looking for John Smith in Dallas, Texas. With successive breakdowns like this I will eventually find your home address or at the very least your neighborhood.

The supposition made by Signal (and anyone who defends this model) is that generally anyone with your private number is supposed to have it and even if they do, there's not much they can do with it. But that's so incredibly wrong it's not even funny in 2025.

I've seen a great number of people in this thread post things like "privacy isn't anonymity and anonymity isn't security," which frankly I find gobstopping hilarious from a community that will break their neck to suggest everyone run VPNs to protect their online identity as a way to protect yourself from fingerprinting and ad tracking.

It frankly amazes me. Protecting your data, including your phone number is the same as protecting your home address and your private data through redirection from a VPN. I don't think many in this community would argue against using a VPN. But why they feel you should shotgun your phone number all over the internet is fucking stupid, IMO, or that you should only use a secure messaging protocol to speak to people you know, and not people you don't know. It's all just so...stupid.

They'll then continue to say that you should only use Signal to talk to people you know because "that's what its for!" as if protecting yourself via encryption from compete fucking strangers has no value all of a sudden. lol

You have to be very careful in this community because there are a significant number of armchair experts which simply parrot the things that they've read from others ad-nauseam without actually thinking about the basis of what they're saying.

OK. That's my rant. I'm ready for your downvote.

To put this into perspective for you, if your NAS sits at idle for 90% of the time (probably true) and an older CPU is 50w (kinda high, but maybe) and a newer CPU is 15w, over an entire year it will save you around 305.76 kWh. Average price per kWh in the USA is 12.89¢. So over a year a new CPU can reasonably save you around $39.41. So it's not nothing, but it's nothing crazy, but lower idle wattage = lower temp = components last longer, which is the real savings.

If an older CPU is only gonna last you 5 years, when a new might last 10, you're going to save almost $400 in energy and generally a CPU today is going to be cheaper than a CPU in 10 years (probably^tm.

I quickly got pissed at synology and QNAP and just started making my own shit.

It sucks, because I really like Synology's ecosystem--but I don't buy vendor lock-in devices. Luckly we have arc that lets you use SynologyOS on bare metal. If you get get it working with your hardware it's badass.

Why they don't sell home server licenses for SynologyOS is beyond my understanding. It's a really nice little OS and is specifically designed for NAS.

I've tried TrueNAS, Rockstor, Openfiler (iSCSI), EasyNAS, and a few others and TrueNAS is easily the favorite. Running it alongside Proxmox is ideal if your server is beefy enough.

I'd like to keep using borg+vorta, but unfortunately no native windows support just yet.

Borg keeps my cluster running, but the fact that I can't use it on desktop makes me sad.

It does, however ever dollar of tariff revenue goes to the federal government. So it still increases revenue. Especially when essentials are tariff'd. Generally you can't avoid Chinese imports.

gPing: https://github.com/orf/gping

It's great!

SOPA.

Haha okay awesome.

Choose an online University, and register as a student. Don't sign up for any classes. Totally free (maybe an application fee depending on the university you choose), and generally they give you an email when you are approved as a student.

...did....did you try running an executable on a remote seedbox, headlessly?

This is mind-blowing to me. I've been using them for several months now and not had a single issue yet. I feel like a dick suggesting them as a provider when people are having issues with them, but I've not had a single one.

This is a ping graph over an hour directly connected to my VPS with them: https://x0.at/daqx.png

The connection speed isn't stellar by any means, certainly well below the advertised--but they're shared VPS, so that's really to be expected. My uptime is 38 days since I last restarted my server because of a DDoS. The benchmarks were underwhelming, but considering I'm paying like, $2-3/mo for them, I'm okay with it. I even use this server to as a reverse_proxy for Jellyfin and it works just fine, no issues whatsoever. Transferred over 260GB in the past few days alone streaming HD content.

I'm looking hard for flaws but they're no better, but no worse than any provider I've ever had. 🤷‍♂️

I honestly can’t think of promises that would require more money.

There are quite literally dozens. Bringing manufacturing back to the US, eliminating income tax, eliminating tax on overtime/per diem, cut "energy prices" in half in 12 months (max of 18 months), end the Russia/Ukraine war, make in vitro fert free, end birthright citizenship, cut corporate tax rate from 21% to 15%, eliminate tax on social security, car loan interest tax deductible... The list goes on. All of this will cost quite literally trillions of dollars and none of that has anything even tangentially related to his trillion dollar plan for mass deportations.

We're looking at the largest increase in federal spending in the history of the United States here. More than any war ever. You have to pay for it somehow.

Oh well that's just sexy. Never knew ssh config recognized Include.

This is the way. Even if you have a lot, it's not hard to pull up a list of options;

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❯ cat ~/.ssh/config | grep 'Host ' | awk '{print $2}'

  

Or you can make it interactive;

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❯ ssh $(cat ~/.ssh/config | grep 'Host ' | awk '{print $2}' | fzf)

  

ez pz

He's working very hard to meet his campaign promises. They were too grandeur. The government needs a massive increase in revenue to be able to meet the promises he's made. If you sit down and think about it, this is the easiest way for the federal government to increase revenue without directly increasing taxes. Then he does wild deportations to distract everyone from what he's doing.

All to keep the top 1%'s share of total adjusted gross income to share of total income paid at 26.3% and 45.8%. Crazy to me that the top 1% of earners cry so hard about contributing a proportional amount in taxes.

In your experience, what is the best way to go about this?

RSS feeds are static files with formatted XML list items. When a feed is updated to include a new XML list item, the reader application notifies users who are subscribed that there's been a change. There are actually no moving parts to RSS feeds, which is what makes them so popular. RSS feed applications simply loads an XML feed and counts the number of XML objects. When the application checks again, if there are new objects, then the feed has been updated and you get your little notification.

That's it. It's a static file (like HTML), and it works like magic. You don't need any software or libraries to create an RSS feed over and above being able to serve static XML.

So unless you're updating your feed several times per day, I would just do it by hand. Maybe write a little helper script to scratch out the formatted XML based on input.

Do I have to make them myself by hand and put them in an /rss/ directory in the root of my blog?

You can, but it's really not necessary. If you check around github you can find a ton of projects that help you create RSS feeds.

This is the entire point behind NixOS.