Nwallins
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Nwallins
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5d ago
As a slight apology for my last post in this subforum, here is an attempt at explaining my current technical project: Homelab
I started by wanting DNS-level adblocking, like pihole, at home. At one point, I was running AdGuardHome on a low-power, fanless AMD box. The intent was (and reamains) to put the adblocking at the network level, not the device level, so that iphones etc could browse peacefully at home without per-device setup.
I have done a bunch of homelab stuff before, but that was many moves ago. Now I have the same AMD box, like 3 DVDs stacked together (5w idle), with a similar intel box but much more powerful, also fanless, along with an Asus laptop with a broken screen that sits next to my TV and acts like a media box.
They all run Arch linux, so I have a 3 host architecture, and they all run Incus, the successor to LXC/LXD, for "system containers". Not an incus cluster, which brings its own set of headaches. I successfully transferred my Google Fiber stuff to an openwrt incus container, acting as my gateway, on my primary box. Basically switching my Google Nest Pro egg thing from gateway mode to bridge mode. The openwrt container runs dnsmasq for local query caching, and I have an extensive, complicated, layered dnsmasq setup on each Arch host plus Incus on each host runs its own dsnmasq to resolve container names. It was a huge PITA to get working properly but now every host has lighting fast DNS responses no matter what is going on upstream.
Aside from "system containers", there is a also a need for "application containers", and podman is preferred over docker for this.
My real project is the automation of this 3 host homelab network. I use ruby and rake (ruby's make, Rakefile) to manage everything. It's quite sophisticated yet brutally simple. Ongoing, happy to share deets.
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This is going to be a very strange post possibly infected by LLMs. YHBW
I feel like I am sitting on two huge ideas, and I can't get Claude to push me off of them, despite my best efforts. Please bear with me, but Claude, given his understanding of my goals, really wants me to file a patent, for number 1. This relates to storage devices losing power without losing data. Separately, both Sonnet and Opus feel that I have a novel hypothesis in linguistics that I should investigate further or publish. You have no idea how desperately I want to share the details of both of these, or Claude's output directly. But I'm struggling with the meta, the overall strategy.
I think I will file a patent with Claude's help, at the grand cost of roughly one hundred freedom tickets. Claude also told me not to share this idea with anyone, and definitely not Gemini or ChatGPT (kidding). But at this point, I feel like can only "trust" Gemini or ChatGPT not to file ahead me, except that is patently silly, of course.
For my linguistic insight, this is just natural curiosity paired with a digging instinct and pattern matching nature; Anglosphere, involving terms like "what" and "where". I would be much more comfortable sharing this here, possibly using Claude's output.
This is very open ended, and I will try to respond over the next week. I am hesitant to provide too many details at this point. WDYT?
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9d ago
I think a 1 hr grace period is sufficient for typos and regrets. After that, lithography
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As a somewhat reformed Angry Internet Atheist, this is certainly the most interesting and palatable form of Christianity I've encountered.
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My favorite type of American critic: the carpetbagger
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I've been chided by you yet wholeheartedly defend your regime as mod, FTR. Well done. Amadan too, begrudgingly. And more than I can name.
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This is not exactly the same as: I am clued in, turned on, and working hard. I imagine there was a week to respond "Yes", but it's different when asked for details on a short deadline. It sends a different signal.
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I'm referring to Putin's statements after the disaster at Hostomel and the decimation of the armor columns rolling towards Kiev in the first few days of the war.
Here is a video analysis of the SMO in that regard:
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Very interesting, but Russia seems much weaker now than in 2022. Heavily sanctioned, big stagflation, and fielding laughable armor deployments and infantry tactics. Quads, donkeys, motorcycles, and "camels". We've been assured that the 3 day Special Military Operation is still going according to plan. They've evacuated Syria, Wagner is a shadow of its former self, and are they still conscripting and fielding prisoners or is that well too running dry?
If Russia was going to roll into Poland, what do you think that force composition looks like?
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I was hoping the American Grand Strategy in Ukraine was to bleed Russia dry, at the expense of Ukraine. I think it has basically worked, as beyond WMD, I think Russia has very little in their arsenal to threaten the West with. I am surprised, however, by the turn of events where Trump accuses Ukraine of having started the Russian invasion. My hope remains that Trump is playing 4D chess with Putin, softening him up for a triumphant blow, but my hope wavers. It seems clear that Ukraine would be a much more likely and loyal ally than Russia could ever be.
In my view, here are the American interests in the region:
- A greatly weakened Russia
- Ukrainian mineral rights
- Opposing invasions and annexations
- Additional and stronger allies and spheres of influence
American fears:
- WMD in the wrong hands (Russian collapse, or scared Putin)
- Emboldened Russia
- China / Taiwan
The Biden strategy seemed pretty reasonable if tepid in light of these points. I'm not sure what Trump would think of the above.
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Oh shit, you're veqq from /r/CredibleDefense Doing the Lord's work over there. That Tooze article was interesting for good and bad reasons. I discounted most of what he had to say after the bizarre opening paragraph. The repeated, unsupported claims of "MAGA is bullshit" seemed literally sophomoric, along with the multiple retreats to "racism!".
His analysis of the scary dilemmas presented by Vance was insightful, but I think he was wrong to downplay the now-unavoidable concerns about immigration across all Western nations which have opened the floodgates.
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6mo ago
I have zero knowledge, evidence, or stake in the sex pest claim. Just wanted to point out the logical inconsistency that I saw in your claim.
That is, having the knowledge of "male feminist" would (indeed) give very little indication of "sex pest", even if it is true that the vast majority of sex pests turn out to be male feminists.
Thus, the fact of very little indication, which we both agree on, weighs very little on the OP's claim.
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Men do, women are, so men naturally assume that when you ask them this, you're asking them to apply the woman's label. Unless you're a man predisposed to Gayness (which forms part of the problem with Gays, from the average man's perspective), that is inaccurate, insulting, and outright dangerous.
I think there is something interesting here but I can't figure out any of this. Can you clarify?
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don't think there is any reason to believe that being a "male feminist" says much at all about how likely any particular man is to be a sex pest.
Sure, but the vast, vast majority of muslims are not terrorists, yet most terrorists who fly airplanes into buildings are muslim. Most male feminists are not sex pests, but many sex pests turn out, ironically, to be male feminists. There may be some kind of cluster that is worth examining.
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9mo ago
May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.
Is this not a straightforward call for violence? I find this manner of speaking despicable in public, and I'd want an apology if I was her target.
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Taboo the word hate, sheesh. I'm with the Count, here. The word is inappropriate for the feelings being expressed; hyperbolic and histrionic, as expected from one side of the divide.
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9mo ago
We know that "just be nice" with the treasury doesn't work in the long run. Our economists are less susceptible to flim flam than our social scientists and culture warriors.
Thank you. I agree, but .... gah
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