I went and looked up that headline. It’s predicting solar system decay one billion years after the sun transitions to a white dwarf

installing an app Apple hasn’t signed requires the command line, for example

It doesn’t, but it does make a scary popup, and requires the user to know to go to settings to find the section to override that popup.

Why do I need a slightly smaller, less capable phone to stick on the back of my phone?

It’s good to get comfortable in the command line, including over ssh.

Especially considering ai and documentation along the way?

If I am going to ask AI or Google about something, I just do that to help me find the answer and then apply the answer myself. That way I learn, and can double check the AI isn’t hallucinating, at least on in obvious ways.

As for documentation, I keep a notes folder with detailed notes on manual configuration I’ve done, how and why, and the things I’ve learned along the way. I’ve found it’s both useful to help remember the things I’ve learned, and it is useful to go back to refer to.

One day, in the name of organizing, my mom put all of our game CDs into a a compact container and threw the original boxes away.

Yeah that was a sad day…

free cooling courtesy of the icy death vacuum of space

Cooling in space is actually really hard. The only way to get rid of heat out there is to radiate it away as black body radiation, which is a really really slow process. It’s like wrapping your computer in a really really thick blanket.

The solar power is the only thing space has going for it.

“yeffy”

I think last time I bought one it was a 50 foot one for something like $15-$20.

People are mentioning buying from a spool but I am thinking more going to my local computer store,so there’s a some markup.

The snaky boy is more than $3 these days, at least if you get a long one.

I have bash scripts of the form rsync -av source dest for this. Make it -avz if copying over a network.

I guess you’ve never watched a movie or listened to a song?

Art is a way for people to express themselves, and political opinions are traditionally a big part of that.

They do in fact have like 3 autopilots for this reason

You’ll want a GPU with hardware encoding and decoding for popular codecs. Most GPUs these days do that, even the budget ones, but you do need one.

Minecraft servers want fast single core CPU performance and a decent amount of RAM.

The rest of it could be RAM hungry too.

The pilots absolutely can just fuck around for most of the flight, and even during the critical moments of takeoff and landing, the plane can do a lot of it automatically these days.

Pilots need to actively practice flying without autopilot to keep those skills up in case the autopilot fails.

I hate how people keep emphasizing “the one holdout was male!!!”. The other two men in the jury voted with the women. I get that there’s a lot of theories about how and why gender matters in this case, but the gender of the one holdout is really a meaningless piece of information. If gender had nothing to do with it, there would still be a 50/50 chance of the one holdout being a man.

Shoebody do-bop

Matrix math is just shorthand for “regular algebra” with a lot of variables

I mean at least that’s not on the part of the cup you drink from.

I really liked the “I Expect you to Die” series. Basically VR escape rooms.

I have my Immich instance setup with an nginx proxy for security and ssl, and that’s exposed to the internet. I have a domain for my personal website, so I just put up my Immich instance at a subdomain of that. I can now make public share links I can just copy and paste into a group chat. I haven’t added any other users yet but I’d I wanted to all they’d need to do is login via email/password.

This is an officially supported kind of setup for Immich, so I would consider it secure: https://docs.immich.app/administration/reverse-proxy/

I don’t have all of my homelab services exposed publicly though; I VPN in for those.

General tips for exposing a server to the internet:

• only expose the ports you need for services you intend to be accessible. Use a firewall and/or your router’s port forwarding settings to enable only what you need, with blocking as a default.
• update all software regularly
• only expose programs that are built to be exposed. For example, if you make a Flask website, they will warn you several times not to expose it directly, but to proxy it through something like nginx