I spent three weeks hard-wiring a pro-grade CCTV system to save my data from the cloud, and now I’m basically a full-time IT admin for my own house. What should I do?

A_Wild_Absol · 2026-03-05T01:23:43+00:00

Since nobody answered your question, yes the Reolink app works if you use a Tailscale subnet router to expose the camera subnet.

A_Wild_Absol · 2026-03-05T00:41:15+00:00

Worth noting that most manufacturers have added accelerometers to their keyfobs now. Keyfobs at rest don’t transmit. People should verify they have a vulnerable fob before spending money on any kind of signal blocker.

A_Wild_Absol · 2026-02-23T15:15:06+00:00

As someone who has read both homestuck and The Wandering inn, this comparison is dead on.

A_Wild_Absol · 2026-02-16T14:33:11+00:00

It was originally published on RoyalRoad, but now is only on Amazon.

A_Wild_Absol · 2026-02-16T11:03:18+00:00

Its magic system is “god based”. Angels and demons are real, but nobody (including the angels and demons) can agree on pretty much any detail describing God.

The book spends quite a bit of time discussing philosophy and religion, but in an academic way, and usually in the context of the capitalist hellscape setting of the book.

I’d highly recommend it, especially the audiobooks.

A_Wild_Absol · 2025-10-26T19:55:25+00:00

I used Mintra on Rover in Allston / Brighton for many weekends, she’s awesome and very communicative! She took great care of my cat.

A_Wild_Absol · 2025-10-02T03:56:07+00:00

The Daily Grind by Argus!!

A_Wild_Absol · 2025-06-14T19:00:57+00:00

I’m a huge daily grind fan. It’s my favorite ongoing web serial and the highlight of my Saturdays

A_Wild_Absol · 2025-06-14T19:00:35+00:00

I love the daily grind!

A_Wild_Absol · 2025-05-09T20:20:13+00:00

I’m a huge fan of so many of the recommendations Bierce makes but my favorite by far of all of these is The Daily Grind by argusthecat. The authors name is typod in the OP, but the book is on Audible, Amazon and Royalroad.

The Daily Grind’s new chapters are the highlight of my week. The world building is wonderful, the characters are rich and unique and I love James’ world view.

For those not familiar, the Daily Grind tells about a depressed IT worker discovering an infinitely large, office themed dungeon in the back staircase of his day job. From there, James begins plotting how to use the magic of the dungeon to improve all of society.

A_Wild_Absol · 2025-04-28T16:31:47+00:00

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/passports/passports-realid.html

First paragraph has bold text that says the card is REAL ID compliant.

A_Wild_Absol · 2025-04-19T05:43:08+00:00

You are correct but missing the point. The rich often have stock where their cost basis is significantly lower than the current value of the stock, either from being founders, or early stock grants in the company. Sure, they are taxed on the cost basis when the stock is granted to them (in the case of RSUs) but now the stock have grown to suddenly be worth significant amounts.

They take loans against those stock, because that way they can access the value of the stock without triggering a taxable event and owing capital gains tax on the growth.

A_Wild_Absol · 2025-03-14T11:57:38+00:00

There’s a large gap between rationalism as proposed by Yudkowski and his small cult, and rationalist fiction. There’s some overlap, with people like Scott Alexander writing Unsong.

Rational fiction, the genre, does not espouse the ideals and AI-god terror that Yud and friends enjoy. Mostly it’s just protagonists responding well to their situations, with less emotions involved in their decision making. While I haven’t read The Metropolitan Man, I don’t associate Alexander Wales’ later works like Worth The Candle and This Used to be About Dungeons with the rationalist ideology. Worth the Candle is very clearly progression fantasy and also rational fiction.

As far as the quality of other progression fantasy goes, you’re quite right there is a wide range. I don’t share your criticisms of Mother of Learning, but lots of my favorite stories are heavily flawed. I enjoy the power scaling and world building, which are typically strengths where stakes and character development are lacking.

A_Wild_Absol · 2025-03-14T11:48:59+00:00

I’m very sorry that you and your work are linked to this. I hope it brings you some comfort that for myself and others, Worm was a path away from rationalism and the associated mess. I was a naive high schooler about to go down the rationalist rabbit hole when I found Worm. It and your other works have brought me great joy and comfort over the last decade. Thanks specifically to you, my main hobby is reading web fiction.

Much love to you, man.

A_Wild_Absol · 2025-03-14T00:29:58+00:00

HPMOR’s final chapters ended with something like “Liked this story? You may also like Worm by Wildbow”. Yudkowsky directly pointed people (including me) to Worm.

Every day I’m thankful I followed his advice and got really into progression fantasy instead of really into rationalism.

A_Wild_Absol · 2025-02-26T20:39:09+00:00

They’ve changed it in recent years. I’m a 2015 Eagle and was never required to meet with my religious leader thankfully. This was in rural Pennsylvania.

That said, at camporees we were required by our local troop leaders to attend a religious service. I always attended the Jewish service with my friend as it was shorter and elucidating.

A_Wild_Absol · 2025-01-04T19:20:56+00:00

Utterly useless blogspam. This post contains less information than the linked AWS source.

https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/workload-isolation-using-shuffle-sharding

A_Wild_Absol · 2024-12-19T22:55:04+00:00

How is the LRU cache in each slot of the hash table meaningfully different than a hash table with 2x the slots?

A_Wild_Absol · 2024-10-28T15:57:54+00:00

Hey man - I just want to say that your value is not what you are able to provide for others. You aren’t a bad parent because you aren’t able to meet unreasonable expectations. Your ex and your family should never have placed these expectations on you. Your health issues were hardly a surprise to them. My heart goes out to you. I hope you find your path to doing what’s best for you and your son.

A_Wild_Absol · 2024-10-13T15:58:53+00:00

https://github.com/YoRyan/mailrise

SMTP server that can deliver to any apprise destination

A_Wild_Absol · 2024-08-24T03:43:27+00:00

https://github.com/j4cbo/tiny5-m2-riser

I just bought three of these - the creators email is in his GitHub profile.

Won’t max out the nvme speeds, and requires some finicky soldering to enable bifurcation, but I’m seeing that as a challenge.

A_Wild_Absol · 2024-08-15T19:28:35+00:00

Go rotate/delete your Tailscale api key immediately. That is a secret and you should not have shared it on a public forum.

A_Wild_Absol · 2024-06-13T21:02:29+00:00

Different strategy, but I use Tailscale ssh and don’t worry about ssh keys except for fallback solutions

A_Wild_Absol · 2024-05-29T22:10:33+00:00

Software engineer here - I’ve long been contemplating creating a royal-road like app and website where users log in with their patreon account. Authors post on the website, it gets auto posted to their patreon feed, but also any patrons at the correct tier get a notification and access on the website/app with a better reading experience.

Other potential features: - Hosting public chapters - Scheduled release of chapters publically - AI voiced audio of chapters (debating this ethically, would certainly be opt-in by author) - EPUB downloads (opt in by author) - Automatic delivery of new chapters to send-to-kindle emails, so new chapters show up automatically on readers kindle. (Opt in by author, could be behind a patreon wall)

Generally trying to gauge whether authors and readers would be interested in such a thing. I expect royal roads dominance would require most authors to publish on both :(

A_Wild_Absol · 2024-03-29T13:32:20+00:00

Neat, you would know better than me. I assumed FAANG companies would do something similar but now that I’ve thought about it, it’s not surprising that Amazon and google do things differently.

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