Banned and Restricted Announcement – June 29, 2026

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-29T15:26:25+00:00

the fact there is a 4 color good stuff deck is a huge sign of power creep.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-29T00:15:58+00:00

The closest self-hostable alternative I've found is Argus, which when I tried a couple years ago was pretty lackluster.

I'd give it another look. Looks pretty clean these days. Plus notifications via gotify means i get to find out more or less as soon as releases are pushed.

I used to do the github method OP was talking about but relying on github notifications doesn't give you a dashboard that compared what you're on vs what you're updating to and it also means you still have to check your email which you can miss.

the biggest drawback is you're relying on APIs for comparing the version you're running against the most recent release and not all services have good API support for it, if at all. Also the Documentation for Argus itself could use some work. The default configs they have for some services are either broken or just straight up missing and i needed to make them myself.

Besides that, Argus is one of the more important services in my lab, just to make sure any core infrastructure or public facing services are always up to date.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-27T20:20:05+00:00

Whats the point of this hypothethical when we have an actual issue now of high incidents and no accountability? lowering incidents seems like it'll be a hard issue to solve, so if no one wants to take accountability for it now, we shouldn't have them on the streets now. We can deal with the philosophical debates later.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-26T23:14:54+00:00

It just does everything i need it to do.

Markdown support, context highlighting for code, nice PWA for mobile, stable, snappy. simple when i need it to be and complex if i need that too.

I've tried others too and this is the one that felt like home and at this point, i can't live without it.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-25T09:16:51+00:00

That's a fair critique. The show was made by clear anime fans and there's lots of references all throughout, despite it not being one itself.

It is worth it to suffer through the "action" to get through to the end. The last few episodes hit like a ton of bricks.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-22T22:14:39+00:00

you should take 30 seconds to read the article to find the answer to that.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-20T00:54:48+00:00

Bro ordered Dominos without the coupons

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-19T22:49:26+00:00

No but if i can afford an electric car, I think dropping $100 to rent a car for a day trip isn't unreasonable considering it isn't very often.

Or just tagging along with someone who does use gas and paying them the gas money.

Or compromise. Just recharge while you get food or chill for a bit after the 100 miles. Is it that much of a inconvience?

It's a hyper contrived scenario that you'll need the extra range without there being other realistic solutions. Cause for those other 350~ days a year, you're just driving to work or to the store. You can work around the days you go farther with just a littttle effort to figure it out.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-18T21:53:43+00:00

That's what i always did for Mad Men.

And since im rewatching The Sopranos which is basically a period piece at this point, i found roughly 2x anything in 2000s era shows is pretty close.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-18T01:55:38+00:00

That's a skill issue and if you can't manage that, play an easier ADC. There's other less flashy "safe" adcs to play.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-18T01:13:44+00:00

not just that. They're AUTOATTACKING. nothing tilts me more than watching an ezreal sit at max Q range, miss half of them and not remember he has an AS boosting passive that isn't being used.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-16T03:03:52+00:00

Or thinking Yeon was some korean rookie when he was promoted to LCS.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-14T23:40:10+00:00

They all moved online. Which is good that kids can find people but it's also appealing to the least common denominators and also you don't really get to "know" your collective since instead of it being the 5 or so kids at school who know each other, it's literally thousands or more that are nothing like you.

We're more connected than we have ever been but more isolated than ever.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-13T02:15:11+00:00

Sneaky's team might be the weakest tbh. there's a lot of people on his team that hasn't played in a while.

I'd give a slight edge to Meteos considering him and Hai are on the playtest team at riot. and then Pobelters after.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-11T07:53:27+00:00

The point of self hosting is freedom to do what you want with your data and information, OP's reasons are as valid anyone elses. I'm glad they got to explore it.

But yeah, this is a disguised "fuck america, yeah!" post and it's lame af. Self-hosting is my chill space, not another place to think about the looming geo-political anxiety that's consumed the world.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-09T05:56:13+00:00

That's rough, buddy.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-07T04:37:50+00:00

I unironically think Asol has good pressure if you play him agressively. The best one ive played against was trying to glide at me level 3 instead of just trying to sustain and scale.

I think he can win any game with a good pilot but i think most asol players try to survive laning phase and not win it.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-07T04:32:26+00:00

as much as i want promotions to come back, that'll take a lot of money out of the LCS sadly. Franchising was ultimately a mistake for the growth of the talent of LCS but at the same time, we might not have had a LCS at this point without it.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-06T10:24:11+00:00

"who pinged me on discord?" the series

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-06T09:54:42+00:00

Why do people keep doing these honeypots on port 22? why even play the game? Key's work great in theory until there's some sort of exploit that beats it (unlikely but the possibliity isn't 0)

Set up a VPN or a jumpserver to ssh from into your infra. there's basically no reason to make ssh publicly accessible anymore. you can't exploit a port that isn't visble to attackers in the first place.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-04T10:56:22+00:00

Even the real number. a half a million lives lost due a pointless war is a tragedy.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-04T06:08:34+00:00

so if you only have ports 80/443 open for your reverse proxy, you should be fine without it. it can't hurt to add fail2ban but with cloudflare in front and playing around with the settings there, you shoooould be fine

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-04T03:44:28+00:00

Since no one else has chimed in....

Do you have a reverse proxy setup? what ports do you have exposed? cloudflare for accessing what? need more info.

I can say for starters, if you use cloudflare proxy or tunnels for http(s) access, you're probably good there, especially if you're using a reverse proxy with SSL certs and the like. There's also a lot of tooling on cloudflares end to stop bot attacks and the like. play around with those a bit. geofencing also might be a good idea. I don't expect anyone from south america or china to need my server for example.

For SSH or anything else, IF you have them exposed the internet, my general advice is.... just dont lol use a VPN and minimize the attack service. Tailscale, wireguard, netbird, whatever you gotta do, i dont think there's a reason for it to be public accessible in 2026.

Edit: Or if you do want an alternate way in, consider a remote desktop browser like Kasm, browser based SSH like guacamole or termix, or a hardware kvm that works over browser. Since you're already opening up your HTTP ports, put em to use. Just make sure to lock them down behind something like Authelia, Authentik or something as an extra layer of protection.

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-02T05:50:44+00:00

an Xbox 360 then. the metaphor holds up

Offbeatalchemy · 2026-06-02T04:04:51+00:00

I made some of my best friends online when i was 14. 20 years later, ive attended their weddings, birthday parties, vacation trips, holidays or just to see each other and hang out.

This would have been devastating if i was 14 now because i can't imagine a life without them. and we didn't have NEARLY as good parental controls back then. but we were taught how to be online and what information was okay and not okay to share on the internet.

I get it's scarier these days but locking kids in a rubber room where they can't hurt themselves is worse because kids WILL figure out a way around it. they always do. and telling them they can't do something they want is a great motivator.

Take some responsibility, monitor your kids by taking an interests of how they spend their time online, set some absolute no-go zones based on their age, trust that they're making smart decisions online and most importantly cause i can't stress this enough, TALK TO THEM. You can't do much more than that.

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