Captcha’s are the same as ads. We develop a way around them, and they build a better captcha, ad infinitum. Realistically, use a VPN which is less crowded by people, and you’ll have less of a problem.

You’re making just enough to cover the cost of the new GPU when they break due to being used as a heat source. 👍

https://qu.ax/VSrfL.jpg

Yeah, granted it’s a niche situation.

I think I’ve found a medium, though. I ended up setting Portainer agent on my VPS, and I’ve disallowed connections to everyone on that port but my IP via ufw; ufw allow from x.x.x.0/24 to any port 9001. I would still prefer to do it via SSH to hide behind the protocol and identity keys, but this will have to do. It doesn’t seem like the Portainer devs even care about an issue like this, which is pretty fucked up because by default all docker systems exposed to the internet (unless you know what you’re doing) are vulnerable to Kinsing.

Well, first of all, using a computer network to do illegal shit is always illegal, no matter where you are in the world. Almost all sovereign countries have laws against this, offering reciprocity. So it really depends on what you’re doing with your VPN. No company out there is going to attempt to shelter you from the consequences of your own actions.

The difference is when the actions you’re doing aren’t considered illegal. The FBI has no right to go to a foreign company and demand your information over piracy in countries where that’s not a crime. But child porn? Participating in botnets/hacking/cyber-crimes? Yeah, they’re going to roll over you so quickly you won’t even know what happened. Doesn’t matter who you go with.

PGP keys gain trust the longer they’re used. But the likely-hood that they’ve been compromised also increases with time. I wouldn’t say they get “less secure” with time. Also, you can very easily create a new identity under the same PGP key, and revoke a previous identity. Additionally, you can certify other’s keys by signing it with your own, increasing the WOT (web of trust) with the key–asserting that the key does in fact belong to the correct person.

The keys are a bit more dynamic than you’re giving them credit for.

There’s also F/OSS which has been designed to alleviate some of the usability issues with PGP keys, mainly Keybase.

JBOD is nice, but if you’re interested in backups, check out an actual NAS. They’re very much worth the expense.

When I htop, I don’t see anything to hint me to what is causing the heating.

Bad cooling. If nothing presents itself as the obvious answer, then you have to go with what’s left.

Check your thermal paste. Is your cooler seated properly? Do you have sufficient/unrestricted air flow if you have air heating. If you have liquid cooling, do you have enough fluid to make a loop?

The lingering feeling of instability. This is my second install of OpenSUSE, after I messed up something leading to my computer having some files which it wanted to update, but using urls which didn’t exist. After this, I’ve been feeling a bit insecure and afraid of doing something that ruins my installation. I know there’s the saying that Linux ‘just works’, but I’ve never messed up a Windows installation…

IMO this is a right of passage. Sure, windows babies you to the point where you can’t really mess much up, but that doesn’t mean its impossible to mess up. I’ve also borked Windows installs just by using them over long periods of time. You bork linux a few times and learn what not to do.

1. You really don’t need to explicitly set all these misc headers. Caddy takes care of 99% of them by default regardless, and for the most part they’re really not doing much for you considering these are self-hosted services.
2. br is mostly inferior to zstd.

Your API endpoint doesn’t exist, so something isn’t configured correctly here;

❯ xhs https://bookmarks.laniecarmelo.tech/api/v1/auth
HTTP/2.0 404 Not Found
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000
content-encoding: gzip
content-security-policy: default-src 'self' https: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; img-src https: data:; font-src 'self' https: data:; frame-src 'self' https:; object-src 'none'
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:31:59 GMT
etag: "55v7hh2i2t1fq"
referrer-policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
server: Caddy
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-powered-by: Next.js
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block

Check the docker config and ensure that 2 webservers aren’t being spawned here. One for the front end reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:3009 and an additional one for the API server on a different port.

You should operate under the assumption that all VPN providers will eventually make that list. There’s no VPN provider out there that will function better than one you setup yourself on a VPS. Find one with a good and stable connection speed and you shouldn’t have any issues. Generally they’re really inexpensive, too.

VPN providers have a lot of customers, so when a service gets a connection hundreds of times a minute from a single IP, they either know they’re being attacked in some way or people are using a VPN to access their services. Generally its not a big deal until they start IP banning. If it’s just you and your devices on a single VPN, it’s much much more difficult to tell and likely won’t be blocked for arbitrary reasons.

In your BIOS, ensure that you have compatibility mode enabled for USB devices. Sometimes it’s called legacy mode. If not, your PC could refuse to boot from some devices. Sounds like what’s happening here at least. Usually if this mode is disabled the USB device won’t show, but its worth a shot.

GDU: http://i.xno.dev/u/WWyrND.png

Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, Cyprus, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Singapore, and Sweden. They all spit in the eye of DMCA.

VPS in any of these countries, or just find a provider that doesn’t care about torrenting. If you go the VPS option, run your own VPN and just look for a VPS that allows considerable traffic. A quick example, Ultahost (Netherlands) offers a VPS with unlimited bandwidth for $7/mo if you pay for 3 years in advance. Like sure, now you’re paying to torrent, but I would rather pay $7/mo to protect myself with a VPN that I control vs worrying about port forwarding and getting DMCA’s in the mail. 🤷‍♂️ I guess it depends on how much skin you want in the game.

Power query/pivot, 365 integration, stat/finance functions, forecasting models, VBA, etc.

Mainly because I use Excel for work. I don’t want to hack together a solution in the middle of my workflow with Python and other FOSS tools. I need it to just work. And Excel just works.

As a result, America’s average tariff level is now higher than at any time since the 1940s.

🤔 I wonder what else happened during this same time period. 🤔 I wonder…

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Servo and Ladybird are both nowhere near close to daily drivable

I mean, that’s why you haven’t been hearing of them. I consider myself “hip” with the FOSS scene and this is the very first time I’ve ever even heard of Servo… So it is what it is. Once they release a stable client (hell, even a usable one), if they’re worth their salt, then they’ll be used. If they release soon they can ride the wave of people fleeing Firefox.

I absolutely love Libre/FOSS, but I don’t always have time to fuck around learning new ways to skin a cat. I’ll almost always recommend proprietary solutions if that’s what you’re used to. It just makes sense. 🤷‍♂️

Always use the tool that’s best for the job, and sometimes that’s hot steaming piles of closed source shit.

I feel that I was very clear. If you can’t derive the meaning of something despite being led directly to the end of the puzzle, then there’s nothing I’m gonna be able to do for you. Search your feelings, Luke.

Ahh yes. The ol’ “we downloaded it because it was BAD lol” move. Classic. /s

It amazes me that you don’t see how stupid what you just said was. It’s entirely possible to have a good game where people don’t want to support the developer/platform that it’s been released for. It’s totally fine. You can have two things at once. You can admit they make some good games. That doesn’t lessen the argument that they’re fuckin’ evil.