Im mid 40s now. For me it was:

25-35, drinking, concerts, bars. Some non-alcohol activities.

[after this time a majority of my friends have had kids and/or been priced out of my city]

35-45, Coffee catchups, work parties, activities like D&D. Traveling to see older friends. Slowly learning how to socialize without alcohol.

It does require more effort the older you get. I can get introverted, making it harder to invest the effort. Having an outgoing wife has really helped me in this regard.

A true anti-anti-fascist. If only there was a simpler name for that, but nothing is coming to mind.

My servers are one NUC clone and a 4*16tb NAS. I have a lot of docker containers running constantly and yet cooling has never really been an issue for me. A larger concern is I would rather not see it, so It’s hidden it under furniture. The fans on the NAS have attracted a layer of dust, and one day I might clean it. Kidding. I wont.

My security team involves a bull dog named Sophie, who has never done more than lick any other being, but I’m banking on burglars not knowing this.

I say it’s like reddit when it was smaller and less obnoxious. If they inquire more, I discuss federation by describing email. I mostly try to sell that people are nicer and you start to know your netisan compatriots. I haven’t been successful in convincing anyone to join as far as I know.

I don’t mind smart products, though I’m not sure what problem is solved by a screen on a fridge. That said, I do hate it when these devices need to rely on the cloud to function, and Ads I can’t tolerate–I usually try to block the DNS address for things that like to spy on me or show me ads.

This sort of stuff damages the Samsung as a brand. It makes me unlikely to consider Samsung for other products like TVs.

I’ll add it to my linked in profile to warn potential coworkers.

I think that’s a pretty good response. More details will probably emerge in the next few days that could change my mind, but for now that gives me a bit of confidence in their platform.

In comparison, a few years ago I was a patient at an IVF clinic in Sydney. I saw some absolutely bonkers security and repeatedly raised it with them. They wouldn’t hear it, and almost expectedly they were hacked and now my sperm count is public information. Their response was delayed and appalling. If my medical records were treated a severely as a streaming platform, I would have been happy.

I was taught to admire Churchill. I stopped admiring him when I started to see a pattern of sacrificing others for his own vanity. Esp in WW1, but also during peacetime too.

However I will never fault him for standing up to the Nazi expansion of Europe. Fuck fascists. Nazis, Christian Nationalists, or otherwise.

I’ve played Ker Nethalas and a little bit of Thousand Year Old Vampire. I enjoyed both of them, but in both cases I found myself using Obsidian and later foundry VTT to manage the game. I imagine for some people the goal might be to move away from a computer, and in which case, my experience may not apply.

My experience was positive, but I would like to explore some other games. Ideally something where the randomisation utilises playing cards rather than charts and dice (which was the case with KN). I know KN has cards you can buy, but for some reason they weren’t appealing to me at the time. Perhaps incomplete or too expensive… I can’t remember.

Maybe there’s more to it, but I really don’t get the last note about Tidal: Essentially, if you use Tidal, you should know the CEO is has a large ego and is a crypto bro.

I’m sure he’s very annoying, but I’m not inviting him to my house for dinner.

I’m a dev and I think my experience is mostly similar to yours. Where AI seems to work well, is when the boundaries of the problem are very well defined. For example : “Take this C++ implementation of the LCS algorithm and convert it to JS”. That would have taken me a few hours at least, but AI appears to have nailed it. However, anything where a large amount of context is needed and it starts to fail fast, and suggest absolutely insane things. I have turned of copilot on my IDE because it slows me down, but I will still ask questions to chatgpt when I have a specific problem I think it can help me with. I also will ask pointed questions when I review other dev’s code, and my expectation is the author can explain why they wrote it.

Thank you for sharing. I loved your June list.

Sorry, I’m struggling with this one. What is a BSF?

I use authentik and like it. The learning curve isn’t that steep so not a lot of wasted investment if you decide to ditch it for something else. No password flow with webauthn is pretty cool.

I tried Kagi because I was excited by the hype and would gladly pay a fee for superior search thats not google. But, my experience wasn’t great:

1. Couldn’t reliably give me local results. E.g., searching for “pizza near me” would render results from a combination of my local city, Sydney and those in Singapore.
2. UI needs some basic improvements. Rules of font spacing for starters.
3. It was slow. like at least 500 ms for me to get a page of results, even though I was pretty sure it was using my closest AWS region.

I hope this doesn’t come off as too negative–I don’t want to be disparaging. Contrarily, I would love to hear your thoughts as a supporter of the platform. It could be that I was using it wrong, or theres some mitigating features that I missed. As I said, I would gladly pay to not be the product.

Like most things, it depends on your jurisdiction and the policies of your ISP. But as a general rule, yes, you should take steps to hide your IP.

Probably a good case example is to look at how many people in your area were sued for torrenting. For example, the rights holders to Dallas Buyer’s Club famously went nuclear on torrenters, so maybe start by searching that. Of course none of this is legal advice.

PIA is pretty reliable in my experience and their three year plan is quite affordable.

I agree. About 10 years ago I had a some unstable dependencies hit in the middle of a major crunch/product release at work. When it was vital I was productive, I was instead trouble shooting my laptop. I moved to mac the next day and was surprised how far the OS had come, and that I could run zsh, nvim etc. Not to mention since apple silicon its rare I need to take a charger with me anywhere.

I still have a linux thinkpad for personal use, and all my personal servers are linux. My heart is linux, but a lot will have to change to take me away from a macbook.

For what its worth, I’ve been using this container for years and have never had any issues https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/

Hahaha. She’s not wrong.

I wonder if this is some play by her to get trump to swoop in and save her.