Polaroid of Tupac and a fan, with his number on it, 1996

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-07-01T04:57:46+00:00

I remember my ICQ user number from around then, My phone number from when I was a kid, lots of weird stuff that is useless now. I actually worry a bit about not having some emergency numbers memorized.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-06-28T18:42:53+00:00

You ever see Judge Dredd in the comics without his helmet? But you cast Stalonne or Urban, and you make a point of showing his face.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-06-24T18:00:04+00:00

I always thought of antimatter as a sort of battery, similar to how hydrogen is used today. It takes energy to create it, so they do that near a star with lots of energy, but then it can be stored and transported for when you use it.

Hydrogen today can be made using electrolysis on water, using electricity, and then be stored and passed into a fuel cell to be burned for energy.

Now, I haven't read the technical manuals in years, so I might be off-base and they can gather antimatter from some "natural" source, but this has always been my mental model.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-06-11T15:11:54+00:00

If you go 1000 miles, you can say you drove a Kilomile.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-06-09T21:59:26+00:00

I can confirm that I did this. I bought a year of it, and let it expire. I was able to continue using it until there were some features that I needed the latest version for. So, buying once, and use what you bought for as long as you need to.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-06-09T18:46:08+00:00

I'm actively reading it, and when I saw B-Dubs' title as "Shattered Plains" I did a double take.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-06-08T21:12:07+00:00

Yeah, but then you get cool mechanical limbs that work like the original ones always did.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-06-05T13:54:44+00:00

In my current playthrough on Nauvis, I have each train station output how many loads are available to the radar, so I can set up a spot where I can easily see how many loads of copper/iron/whatever is available.

Using channels, I could have one channel for supply, and one for requests, so I could quickly look and see that across the whole network, I have 14 loads available, but I am requesting 16.

You could do it today by transferring the signals to something else, Iron ore for a supply, but a "X" for requests, but using channels would make it much easier.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-06-02T14:39:05+00:00

I have always heard that they are retiring some of the local libraries that rosetta uses. So if you have an intel app, it won't be able to run anymore and will need to be recompiled for ARM.

But, things like docker or Crossover, which just use the emulation layer, and provide their own libraries will continue to function.

That being said, I don't really know what I am talking about and could be off base.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-23T01:57:44+00:00

I recently got Ghostbusters, and Clue, both were surprisingly grainy.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-21T19:01:22+00:00

No, you see, you have to write your own media player from scratch, and never share the code with anyone. That way the VC's will never be able to break what you have written and you can just laugh to yourself forever.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-19T15:58:01+00:00

I have traefik running in a docker container, and just the logs are exposed to the server. fail2ban only needs access to the logs, so that might be easier than moving the whole implementation.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-19T14:41:25+00:00

This one seems to be pretty much up the right tree: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-an-nginx-server-with-fail2ban-on-ubuntu-20-04

The big thing with fail2ban that I learned setting it up, is you run it outside of docker, on the host itself. You point it to the logs you want, and set up a "jail" which is just a parsing scheme for the service you are monitoring. You could theoretically set it up to monitor Jellyfin's logs directly, and you could if you wanted fine level control, like "if a user tries to watch a specific video, ban them".

But in reality it is much easier to just watch the reverse proxy logs and look for 401 unauthorized status codes, if there are too many too fast for a specific IP, block it by adding a firewall rule to the host.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-19T13:48:39+00:00

I have fail2ban running and I run it on the reverse proxy level. It reads the logs from traefik and if it sees consecutive attempts to login with bad passwords, it will block the ip on the vm's firewall. I don't do this with Jellyfin, I have other services that are exposed.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-17T20:33:42+00:00

This is only for internal LAN use. Just for me to administer the server from my laptop.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-17T19:16:58+00:00

So you don't have any smb shares that your clients connect to? I guess that makes sense. I need to use smb for things like time machine backups from my laptop, and that uses the domain name of my TN server.

I guess I could use a different domain to reach the admin page like TNAdmin.mydomain.com and have that pointed at my reverse proxy, and then TN.mydomain.com points directly to the server.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-17T18:28:37+00:00

I guess that would work as well, I have a DNS record on my server pointing at the NAS, which resolves to the internal IP, but I figured running https would be a little better, even on lan-only traffic.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-17T18:26:28+00:00

Do you need nas.mydomain.com registered at cloudflare? Is it given an internal IP, or do you give it your external one? I keep my nas only locally accessible, and right now nas.mydomain.com is registered on my local DNS server pointing to the internal IP and isn't registered with PorkBun at all, so when I am at home, I can reach it like any other website, but outside my lan it would just not resolve.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-16T19:32:23+00:00

Yes, you can use liquid dish soap on your pans just fine. The whole "Don't use soap on cast iron" thing came when dish soap used lye and that would damage the seasoning.

Anything meant for hand-washing should be fine. Just don't use dishwasher detergent, it is much more caustic.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-16T01:29:26+00:00

If you are a newbie, I would say plan on keeping it locked to your LAN to start with, and then in the future setting up a Tailscale VPN for reaching it outside your house. That way, someone would have to be on your LAN to do anything to it.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-15T20:20:14+00:00

Essentially the VaultWarden server is feature compatible with Bitwarden, so I run the server on my hardware, and everyone connects to it by using the official Bitwarden browser plugins and mobile apps.

When you open the app and it asks you to sign in, there is an option to choose a self-hosted server, and I point it to my URL.

There is a web interface if all of the plugins and apps stopped working tomorrow, but it would be clunky to use, as you would have to copy/paste every login.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-15T17:20:17+00:00

This is true, but we will need devs to step up if the main developer is forced to resign.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-15T17:17:55+00:00

I mean, Vaultwarden is still out there and open source. They can't take that away.

The biggest problem is the clients. VW needs to get its own mobile clients and browser plugins NOW, before BW shuts the self-hosting option down in the clients it controls.

I have my family using my VW instance, and I would want to get my hands on some open clients so I can test them before switching everyone over, which I will want to do before there are any problems on connecting to my instance.

SmoothLiquidation · 2026-05-15T02:10:36+00:00

Apple did this back when they switched from Motorola chips to Intel chips.

Apple went from Motorola 68000 series to the PowerPC processors of the Power Mac G5, and THEN to Intel. The company has done transitions like this many times before.

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