Decided I’d upgrade to a slightly better VPS package, now with 8GB ram and two whole CPU cores. I prefer to have most things running on my home server so the VPS mainly handles being a reverse proxy and wireguard server and Matrix because i want those to be up even if my home server goes down.

I will never understand how people can support israel like they do. Its not like with MAGA where they’re just basing it on spite to “own the libs” or whatever, these people are, after being presented with evidence of an ongoing genocide, not only denying it, but justifying it in some cases… I just dont see what context makes that work for them.

And like okay maybe you’re just (willfully) ignorant or whatever about it, but like even still calling other people “shameful” or objecting to people who are protesting a genocide, I just don’t see how you can think you’re on the right side of history given that situation. Even if the Genocide wasn’t real, lets say its like WAY over blown (which its not), why would you be against people peacefully protesting? Why would you use the term “shameful” instead of “misguided”.

I don’t want to come off sounding conspiratorial, but it really seems like propaganda is being heavily pushed by some really odd folks. Like other than I guess wanting to be able to do shows in Israel, what is Draiman gaining out of this, and who is this aimed at? Like is him making a statement like that really going to change minds of his fans or make them suddenly care about something they didn’t already? I just don’t get it.

https://consequence.net/2025/07/david-draiman-tom-morello-shameful-support-kneecap/

My solution to LLM services free tier limitations is to just have a dozen google shell accounts I keep sign in. This is pretty much the only thing I “use” google for these days.

I use LLMs not because they are good tools, but because I am extremely lazy.

#cats #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMastodon

Just some random pictures of Cake, because i feel like it

#NowPlaying #music Track: Who’ll Stand with Us Artist: Dropkick Murphys

And if you have some nuanced opinion about anything even slightly controversial, gods help you in trying to share that with anyone who even moderately disagree.

The social media corps have trained us well, they know it’s more profitable to have everyone arguing, even if they agree on 99% of things, keeping that 1% at the front and center is what keeps their ad revenue flowing and stonk prices going up.

The “social” media corporations have managed to water down any sort of potential discussions or actions that might harm their bottom line into just an “agree”/like/share and “disagree” by engaging in comments with people who’s opinions you will never change.

We’ve been seeing the writing on the wall for a lot of this stuff for years, but for the vast majority of people, they just dont notice until it directly affects them or whatever subgroup of people they associate with, and by that point its generally too late.

Someone was telling me about how walmart is selling data specifically regarding womens healthcare and reproductive rights, and I pointed out that, yeah thats why it’s important to care about what companies do with your data, but the real problem isnt that walmart is suddenly deciding to betray women, its that they have a financial incentive to sell any and all data they can possibly collect about people.

It’s not that I think the issue they highlighted isn’t a serious one, Its just that the underlying issue has been there for years and will only get worse. It doen’t JUST affect that one group, its only that because this person is part of that group they are suddenly more concerned about it.

Its discouraging to me how often people are unwilling to not just hear a differing opinion, but won’t even tolerate someone valuing something differently from them. IE: The only thing that matters to some people is X, anyone who thinks Y is more important then X isn’t worth engaging with.

I see this constantly when i point out how the root cause of most things is actually capitalism.

I’ve reached the watching log files this morning and finding new bot useragents to block level of sysadminning

Generative AI wouldnt be such a “threat” if capitalism didn’t already ruin the idea of just doing things for a passion instead of profit, but instead of realizing this most people just endlessly debate about how it is or isnt “stealing”….

As if we didn’t already learn this lesson 2 decades ago #COPYINGISNOTTHEFT

There are other problems with LLMs, but to get mad at them for “stealing” is hypocritical and ignores the actual root of the problem which is that capitalism is ruining Art and everything else by making it only about how much profit you can derive from it.

#CAPITALISMRUINSEVERYTHING

A friend sent this to me and its pretty wild how this sounds both insane and very much could be true, we are living in a horrible timeline.

Really the only reason I stopped using minimal window managers like i3 and wmaker was just to make use of all this extra ram i find myself having these days.

It used to be neat seeing how much stuff i could squeeze into less than a gig of ram, but I think after the 1GB mark all the extra memory has somewhat diminishing returns.

I’m not even really that big on themes i just want “dark” and the issue was causing it to be “light” or “dark with icons you can’t see”, and somehow replaced the KDE logo in the menu with the Gnome Foot which honestly made me think it was some kind of elaborate prank.

I reinstalled the OS on my laptop the other day, mainly because an update to qt6 kept breaking themes completely no matter what i did and reinstalling was easier than figuring out the themeing issue.

There where other minor issues too, like it asking me to input my encrpytion passphrase twice on every boot, but the last straw was the themes.

Sometimes it’s just easier to start over instead of figuring out why things are broken.

One very real first world problem i struggle with is always thinking of one more project to tackle before i go back to playing video games.

I have to do some things involving a debian server (re)install, but I also want to play the game i bought last week, and these 2 things are equal amounts of “entertaining” in my mind. I also am constantly second guessing if i should re-organize my files, the answer to that is always “yes, but how”

I suppose maybe im the only person who still prefers good ole #MidnightCommander to other file managers but TIL mc has absolutely terrible handling extracting 7z files which has been my prefered backup format for the past could of years.

Something to do with extfs and the extraction command needing to run on each file rather then the archive as a whole.. I dont really understand it but the end result is that archives with lots of small files like .log or .jpgs will just slow to a crawl.

So i guess I’m going to switch back to Tarballs. My reason for using 7z originally was based on how it worked from command line. Its not like I can’t just manually extract the files, but if I’m using MC then i kind of expect a certain type of behavior.

Ah well

HedgeDoc is now up at hd.ugh.im.

PrivateBin is now up and can be accessed on either privbin.gravitywell.xyz or pb.ugh.im. This is running on an alternate server at the moment but it will be moved to the main one.

LibRed is setup, it seems to need frequent restarting and updating though.

I’m planning to put together some basic screencasts as I deploy various services. I’ll probably work on something with a general overview of gravitywell and how things are setup first.

OpenSpeedTest has been running for a while but I realized I didn’t have links up for it.

I tried to get Invidious working but it wasn’t playing videos so i took it down until i feel like messing with it again.

Piped is now setup on both GravityWell and Ugh.im

A quick shout out to Libredirect which I plan to impliment as many services for as i can.

#SelfHosting