I want to use VoIP to dial into a BBS to play some legend of the red dragon.

What if it was awful?

The QR code offering a virtual tasting blows my mind. Do they send you an airplane bottle? Do they describe the wine as someone else drinks it? Do you have to jack in?

My dryer broke the other day, which turned out to be the heating element. I watched a bunch of videos to try and figure out how to troubleshoot the problem and hopefully address it.

One of the videos, after an intro, claimed to have the solution. Then they proceeded to talk about the temperature control features of the machine and how I should make sure the heat is turned on.

That is the level many of the unix / software development videos out there. Just literally some AI slop or silly person who doesn’t know what they are talking about uploading a quick clip to grow their channel.

We’d much rather spend money on fabulous vacations or boring mortgages.

I should have stopped when they announced they were a highschool student.

They didn’t reveal the actual identity of anyone. They did use cloudflare to approximate a target’s location, and made it slightly fancier by forcing the client to make the request with a push notification.

Companies have used similar approaches for decades. Almost every web interaction with a marketer approximates your location and ties that together with demographics via browser fingerprinting to get a good idea of who you are.

You would probably be able to run it. It will run like crap, but it will likely start. Postgres can run on as little as 8mb of ram, but not well. I’d recommend a box with at least 2gb of ram if you want to spin up multiple containers.

sqlite would probably be a better choice on an aging pi, but I’m sure you have your reasons.

Personally I wouldn’t worry too much about where you mount the volume, I use /storage on my boxes because I is easy to remember and sounds good to me. I also typically make a storage group that I give access to manage the files in the volume vs having my user own everything.

I wouldn’t put it in home just because you are considering sharing with others.

The company name is telling. Metadata is data about data. Data about you. They sell that. That’s their whole business. That should be enough to not want to knowingly feed them more.

You think, “but I don’t use Facebook or insta or threads, so I’m safe”. Not so fast. Companies want to know how effective their ad spending is on meta products, so they integrate the Facebook sdk into their apps.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events

They are just over there sucking up data and selling it for billions. Oh and influencing elections and radicalizing our parents while their code infects apps and websites. The cancer comparison isn’t far off.

Shower thought with no evidence:

Perhaps some big news will come out that distracts us from this soon. It’ll have to be pretty wild to distract us, so buckle up.

Yeah a dozen or so commits updating readme files isn’t exactly compelling stuff. Any of us could do this in five minutes on GitHub.

“But mommy, it isn’t fair!” and a whole lot of money will put this kid back on the fast track.

Veiny

It’s not very sexy, but I just use SFTP and filezilla. Filezilla is available for all the major operating systems, and an ssh server is basically required anyways.