Putting this up front, I am NOT pro-AI… I’m just lazy and LLMs are very useful if you are lazy.

This is so far one of the best uses for #LLMs i’ve found, having it figure out the mess of issues that come up when attempting to compile random shit I don’t have the time nor desire to troubleshoot myself.

Here is an example, I am checking out Nostr clients and this one called gossip has an AUR package, but it failed in building for some reason and ran into multiple issues some of which i could probably have figured out myself but others I’d have just given up on and probably written off even trying the software. I told GeminiCLI

do the needful to complete the compilation and creating of package for gossip nostr client archlinux package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gossip

So it does what’s needed and solves each issue as it comes up. So far I’m 2 for 2 with fixing AUR packages this way.

I am really digging #Nostr but man, if you though having to pick a host instance on Fedi was complicated, its nothing compared to the clusterfuck of apps and services that you’ll find on Nostr.

If any other users have suggestions on clients to check out, or users to follow I’m all ears. So far I’ve deployed my own relay, setup my own instance of Primal, Nostrudle and Floatilla. I’m using Amethyst on mobile which is my favorite so far.

Today I learned how to backup my entire VPS disk image with dd over ssh. The plan is to then boot it in qemu for testing and breaking things.

sudo dd if=/dev/vda bs=4M conv=noerror,sync | pv | zstd -T0 | ssh gravitas@10.8.0.2 "zstd -d | dd of=/storage/zion_vda.img bs=4M"

Free Speech wins!

https://www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-trial-verdict-rapper-wins-lawsuit-cops-music-videos/

Afroman won a jury verdict Wednesday (March 18) clearing him of wrongdoing in a lawsuit filed by seven Ohio police officers, who claimed the rapper defamed them by releasing music videos that mocked them after a failed raid on his home.

The verdict came in an unusual lawsuit filed by members of an Ohio county sheriff’s department over songs and social media posts by Afroman (Joseph Foreman) that harshly criticized the guns-drawn 2022 raid on his property, which yielded no charges.

successfully migrated from Nginx Proxy Manager to Traefik tonight.

Wish i had done it before i had 50+ services and 30+ subdomains, but better late then never. The main advantage to this over NPM is traefik has better integration with docker and can use labels to setup the subdomains automatically instead of having to manually setup each subdomain in nginx.

The Afroman Trial is going great, his lawyer is making these cops look like complete fools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwNFjm3mWk

Mastodon is 100% the early days of social media all over. Some of you will already be familiar with this story.

My weather station (a very nice Netatmo that has served very well) crapped out after nearly 10 years of excellent service. I asked for recommendations here for a new station that would play nicely with #HomeAssistant, and hopefully, also HomeKit. I received *many* recommendations, with Ecowitt (and the brands it manufactures for) taking the lead.

A connection on here offered me their *unopened* Ecowitt weather station for a very generous price. It arrived yesterday, and I set it up, and it's already doing a great job. Works offline, talks to Home Assistant without any problems. I just need to do a couple of bits of configuration jiggery-pokery and it will pass data to HomeKit.

This is very much how things were when I first joined Twitter in 2007. In spite of attempts at #enshittification of everything, the #fediverse is putting up a good fight.

May your day online be as satisfying as mine was yesterday.

LATER EDIT: I’ve been thinking, and I do realise this good experience isn’t necessarily what happens for everyone. It’s still the case that too many good people don’t find a welcoming place here, especially if they are queer or of color. If this is you, know that I see you, and that I will always try to be welcoming and listening, even if you have things to say that bring me discomfort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37H88vcOSfo

Oh man this Afroman Trial is lit, almost feel bad for the one lady cop, but not really.

dude cmon, take a picture of your ID. it's not a big deal just upload your ID to the computer. bro don't be weird, just take your social security card and tape it to your forehead. what are you, a pedophile? mail a notarized copy of your birth certificate to chipotle headquarters

don't you get it? the only way to make sure children are safe is for you to put your genome sequence in your ad reads on youtube. bro cmon. look. i've mailed you a usb-c blood test. upload the results to www. hitler .com or i'm IP banning you from spotify

#Peertube #Statistics 2026-03-15 13:00 CET
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Help me keep stats and server running! 💻📊 Even a small monthly contribution makes a big difference. Support here: #^https://www.patreon.com/FediverseStatistics 🙏


#Fediverse

I setup a web page with a photo timeline of my former cat Mew. I really miss him, its been 12 days since he’s gone.

https://mewbuttpie.neocities.org

"We care about your privacy!"

Us and our ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR "partners". Hah ha!

Also fuck off!

www.theguardian.com/society/2014...

‘Poor people don’t plan long-t...

Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein Live Nation / Ticketmaster slips the noose again
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/03/13.html?utm_source=sp_ma

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116213891709746761

Trump and his cronies are so stupid they attacked probably the one country in the world that has absolutely no fear of retaliating against the USA.

That doesn't mean I support the regime of the mollah, I'm just stating a geopolitical fact.

#war #iran #epstein #trump

Captain’s Log: Sweetmorn, the 71st day of Chaos, YOLD 3192

Upgraded the GravityWell’s internet connection to full 1Gb/s. Most stuff is already on the VPS with shared 10Gbps, but this should improve things for Jellyfin, Peertube, and various other streaming stuff and large file downloads.

Setup a new VM with working backups of all the services and planning to have a second one setup just for testing and deploying new things. Hopefully it will mean less things breaking in production.

Will be deploying various different “Discord alternatives”, Stoat/Revolt, Flux, etc for folks to check out and test with. Either they will eventually be bridged -or- removed depending on what people think of them and how well the run.

I’m not actually sure if this works but If anyone else wants to try it out and give me feedback feel free.

#Adblock #Tor

Using Tor to Avoid Ads on YouTube

Configure Tor to use only exit nodes from countries with few or no YouTube ads.

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WARNING: Do not try this unless you understand the implications it has for your system wide tor setup. TorBrowser does way more than merely proxy Traffic through Tor, but also prevent #InformationLeakage and block tracking code. This is not a substitute for using the TorBrowser and does not improve your anonymity.

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Tor Configuration

Edit /etc/tor/torrc:

ExitNodes {AL},{MD},{GE},{AM}{VN}
StrictNodes 1

Then restart Tor:

sudo systemctl restart tor

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FoxyProxy Setup

1. Add a new proxy:

Field	Value
Host	127.0.0.1
Port	9050
Type	SOCKS5

2. Set proxy mode to: Proxy by Patterns

3. Add URL patterns and assign them to the proxy above:

Pattern	Purpose
*youtube.com/*	Main site
*youtu.be/*	Short links
*ytimg.com/*	Thumbnails and assets
*googlevideo.com/*	Video stream data

ytimg.com and googlevideo.com are required – without them thumbnails and video playback will fail through the proxy.

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Notes

• StrictNodes 1 forces Tor to only use the listed countries – it will stall rather than fall back
• Ukraine and Romania will handle most traffic; Albania has decent exit node coverage
• If buffering is bad, try capping YouTube quality at 480p

Dear “news” services: GAMBLING PROMOTIONS ARE NOT NEWS. Online “Sales” ARE NOT NEWS!!!

I know @OregonLive is just an automated sync from their RSS,but this is a choice to include “articles” like this in your RSS feed.

I can’t allow this in my feeds, these are poorly disguised ads, its an automatic unfollow at this point.

Proton Mail is great for end-to-end encrypted emails, but as a recent story of an unmasked user highlights, it must comply with Swiss authorities — who may share user data with allies.

Read our newsletter to learn about what it can and can’t protect.

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/proton-mail-is-not-for-anonymity/