I have no less then 4 shells running opencode right now, Working on 4 different projects. Give a command to one, move to the next while it works… Am i “technically” more productive, i guess so, these are projects i would not even dream of attempting myself, IM not interested in learning to code beyond the basic level i already can, i would rather idk, do things…

But at the same time I fucking hate it and I can feel it making me stupider, Literally like a drug, not one that has bad WD, but one you constantly think about doing more of (because i keep having new things i want to try)

At least I’m not paying for any of it. Sure its not literally stealing tokens (though i would if i could), but Im pretty sure I’m violating the ToS of every single provider i use multiple times over.

@MxRemy I can only say in regards to Tor, if you’re only runing a few things it should be fine but each service would need its own tor hostname which is just a long hash string and anything you want to use the services with will have to also support tor and be configured for it, so it’d be a hassle but certainly could be workable.

@MxRemy I use wireguard but you need a connectable endpoint on a VPS for that. Tor could work for some things if latency isnt a big deal. If you can’t afford a VPS then a VPN that offers port forwarding is probably out too but that would be the other alterntative to using CF or one of the other mega-corps. A lot of people like TailScale, I’d consider that too corpo but it does have a decent free option (for now) and a lot of selfhosted things have built in support for it.

@MxRemy CloudFlare Tunnels is probably the easiest way to get around CGNAT. There are a few ways you can get moderately spec’d VPS for free, Oracle and Google has offerings and there is no shortage of corps offering “free trials” to take advantage of.

Now the Android sandboxing model assumes *BOTH* the OS and the hardware are trustworthy. If they aren't, the whole security model collapses.

Let me explain.

The baseband chip runs its own separate firmware that lives outside of Android itself. It usually has direct access to device memory. So a compromised baseband means that memory contents can be read, but it also means that your calls, texts, and data can be intercepted and the Android OS won't even know.

Was recently reminded that there are AI corps trying to sell the idea of AI “actors” as a new thing, it’s not, the 80s called sent a fax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_actor

Riptide service is now online. This is a new custom service that performs meta search across various audio streaming providers and can download the best available quality of albums or even entire discographies, which then gets imported into NaviDrome’s Library.

NaviDrome Sign-Ups are now open. Accounts are the same across GW or Throbbing (just alternative URLs to the same service)

A native Silent Hill 1 PC port based on the decomp project is now fully playable! The project is actively in development and more improvements are coming

https://sh1pc.com

Here’s the BIN game data for those who aren’t clutching pearls over usage of spicy auto-predict to port a 30 year old game:

https://archive.org/download/silent-hill-usa_20260420

Major update: Last week the CPU in our primary media server was replaced and we FINALLY resolved the issue of the system locking up. So as of now the GravityWell JellyFin is officially back up.

In the very long process of troubleshooting this issue down to the very last part we could replace without calling it a “new” computer, all the other services migrated to other systems ( cluster of 3 old laptops i had laying around). Some of these “cloned” services will continue to exist on the throbbing.click domain, and over time I will continue to revive the gravitywell equivalents at a pace that i feel comfortable with.

As for the updates/fixes, we have a new Ryzen 9 9500XT, 16c/32t, and the Operating System has been migrated from ArchlLinux to Debian. While I’m still sticking with arch (cachyOS Specifically), for my personal desktop, I have too many systems to admin at this point Debian is what I know best and its (testing/sid is) a much slower rolling release.

Lastly for now, I’ll probably make a dedicated post about this later but RipTide is a little project i’ve been vibe coding (without paying shit to AI companies) to make downloading music easier. Currently it supports Tidal, Qobuz and BandCamp, with plans for more soon. The main purpose for it is importing to the gravitywell library but I see no reason not to also allow downloading too. It’s not really finished yet, but its mostly functional enough to be worth checking out.

It amuses me how half assed every single corps “anti bot” or “anti fraud” systems work. Like they are so easily triggered for false positives and so not ever triggered when i’m actually scraping massive amounts of content from their services. And then when they do “catch” something they think is unwanted they try to stop it by just blocking the IP address.

I’m doing this shit for entertainment and I have like 300 VPN servers and pretty much unlimited residential proxy access, If i wanted to do harm, or scrape your web service, there is nothing your underpaid and unmotivated IT staff can do to stop me.

I can just Imagine how easy it is for actual criminals wanting to do actual crimes like stealing personal information.

Why don’t any of these corps selling PCs just go back to DDR4. Its literally half the price, CPUs are cheaper too, but both still well stocked and in production.

When DDR4 came out no one gave a shit because DD3 was already “good enough” for most people. RAM was already good enough for the average PC user in the early 00s.

No game requires DDR5 or even noticably would benefit from having DDR5 speeds over DDR5 the difference is not something humans could even notice.

it sucks that by-and-large the only people with the necessary combination of motivation and free time to create and maintain "privacy respecting" software are well-off white libertarian weirdos

I always think of this image when theres a good sale going

Turns out it was the CPU! I wasn’t planning on upgrading to more cores but price wise CPUs aren’t nearly as bad as things are with RAM or GPUs.

So Cthulhu now has a 16c32t Ryzen 9 5900XT to go along with its 64gb of ram.

I’ve sort of settled on using the n0g.xyz domain i registerd for my testing stuff, things I want to messwith and probably break without having to affect the ones in production for GW and other domains.

Kinda leaning toward letting the ugh.im domain expire if i can’t get it moved to porkbun, just not really worth the hassle even if it is a fairly short domain, n0g.xyz is only one more character and aside from akkoma and matrix i dont have anything else running on ugh anymore. It’s probably going to be a huge pain to actually move Matrix tho…ugh (pun intended?)

I wonder what flipped in my brain recently that got me craving lots of DNB tunes, this isnt really normal for me

TIL you can just use “systemd-boot” even for distros that otherwise don’t support systemd.

Why would i want that? because I’m lazy and systemd-boot typically requires the least steps so its what i use if im doing bootstrap installations.

@YoungBlood Do you think they refused because the book was critical of her or because it was not critical enough? I wonder.

Update to the update: nope, NIC eliminated as potential cause…