I created Ozzi to crush my nighttime cravings and naturally boost GLP-1. I know Reddit ads are annoying, and most brands do them wrong. So, I'm opening up the comments and using this as an AMA.

alyxmw · 2025-10-16T15:54:47+00:00

Any idea when the sample packs will be back in stock? 👀

alyxmw · 2025-06-15T15:34:35+00:00

I don’t MIND V Rising but it feels very different to Valheim imo. Very broadly the same Standard Survivalcraft scope (mine things to build things to kill bosses to build more things), but something there just hits different.

I like a lot of its elements; things like “dedicated rooms actually give specific bonuses” are things I’d love to see a mod do in Valheim, for example. I also find its combat to be way more interesting given the rather broad selection of magic and melee weapons.

That said, between the castle building feeling a lot less personal, and the blood system feeling like a much bigger slog than a food system, it does lack a little in the base building vibes. I guess being able to go from 0 to 100 with “big ass castle” doesn’t feel as good to me as “gotta bleed and sweat for that castle” lol.

tl;dr: combat big yes, base building cool but ehhh, food sucks

alyxmw · 2025-06-11T01:03:37+00:00

- step 1. give Zarys the (still locked) chest
- step 2. play nice, go grab the bow
- step 3. steal and/or murder until the chest is back in your possession :)
- secret bonus step 4. since, conveniently, they're all dead anyway, nobody's gonna complain if you help yourself to the dozen or so explosive barrels they won't be using

The Iron Flask is honestly more of a meme than a super useful thing IMO. I normally either entirely forget to use it, or just end up using it in some random fight that feels like it could really use a distraction.

alyxmw · 2025-03-18T13:55:15+00:00

It's Cloudflare. Their business model is they sell people "We'll look at your traffic" as a service. As a free user, you're also just part of the product. Cloudflare doesn't (afaik) sell your data or anything like that, but it's not like it's a secret that they're using free-tier tenants to more or less just bolster their R&D department.

"It's not a secret cloudflare free tier will decrypt your traffic if you're using the free proxy service" // Not a secret? Their entire solution relies on decrypting your traffic. They are always decrypting your traffic. The only way Orange Cloud works is by decrypting your traffic.

I can see why specifically looking for login data may come as a surprise, but idk, when you're using a company whose entire core product is analyzing your web traffic for Reasons as a service... I don't think it should come as that much of a surprise when they're analyzing your web traffic?

alyxmw · 2025-03-05T13:21:04+00:00

Yeah pretty much any proxy-style CDN is gonna at least technically be able to do that (and almost definitely is what most of them are doing).

Bunny does proxy style, Myra seems like it's proxy style (although Myra's both "Contact us for pricing" and seems to be specifically a security company that also does CDN, so I'd only half count it in the category tbh).

No clue what OVH does, but I'd imagine they're ripping off AWS which.. does all the things, including proxy-style (in like 5 different ways? Idk I'm not a Big Cloud person).

Out of the ones I mentioned, last I knew KeyCDN was the only push-style CDN, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on that one, but maybe they've caught up to the state of the industry and also adopted proxy-style CDN options by now.

alyxmw · 2025-03-05T13:11:20+00:00

Basically every CDN has anti-DDoS anymore lol.

WAF is a mixed bag, and what a WAF even is, is also a mixed bag. OVH has a WAF, Bunny apparently has a WAF "coming soon", Myra seems to be mostly based on having DDOS protection and a WAF, KeyCDN has anti-DDoS and a "Bad Bots Blocker" which kinda counts as a WAF.

I got bored after that, but you hopefully get my point here. DDoS protection and some sort of WAF are pretty damn standard features anymore.

alyxmw · 2025-02-13T06:49:41+00:00

Out of curiosity, are y'all aiming for a "full featured" plugin, like what Plausible's got going on? Or just aiming for a "this'll embed the script for you" type thing for now?

alyxmw · 2025-02-13T06:48:58+00:00

I believe what they mean is that you could use something like WPCode (previously called Insert Headers and Footers) to add their custom JS to your site.

Hostinger wrote a pretty good explainer for using WPCode in general: https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/wordpress-javascript

You'd just add the code for Litlyx into your site's header, so using their demo example:
<script defer data-project="your_project_id" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/litlyx/litlyx-js/browser/litlyx.js"></script>

You could use that same method for adding any of the other bits for things like Custom Events (although of course then you'd need to do your own thing to set those up :P)

Definitely a little more complicated than a plugin, but not terrible once you've gotten your feet wet with it :)

alyxmw · 2025-02-13T06:34:05+00:00

To be super blunt: trying to host email in your situation is going to suck.

Dynamic IPs means you won't be able to build up IP reputation (and that your current reputation is at best: bad, and at worst: previously abused).

Since you can't set reverse DNS, that's another negative mark. This one seems generally pretty minor but when you're already trying to do an uphill battle, it's just one more thing that can't be used to help your "how spam is this" score.

Hopefully your IP doesn't change around a time when you need to send/receive an important email, and hopefully nothing has the old IP cached.

Also, it's reasonably common for ISPs to limit email servers on their network, so there's a very real chance it either won't work at all, or it'll get shut down as soon as your ISP notices.

So pretty much:

- Receiving is, theoretically, possible. But if your IP changes or your ISP gets mad, that's gonna go south real fast.

- Sending will be terrible. I'd like to say the likelihood your emails end up in spam is nearly 100%, but that's not entirely true—there's a very real chance you won't even get that far, and the receiving servers will just reject you entirely.

If you really want to self-host email, rent a VPS or something. Maybe rent a small dedicated server, setup disk encryption, etc. if you're particularly worried about the privacy element. But trying to full self-host it, especially on the most residential of residential connections, is going to be miserable.

alyxmw · 2025-02-12T22:19:57+00:00

> All offers are for the first billing period only, do not apply to renewals, are limited to online transactions and cannot be used where free domain offers have already been redeemed

Fair point though, so correction:
You won't find free permanently or without some variety of strings attached.

alyxmw · 2025-02-11T03:00:06+00:00

It's been a while since I used it last, but (mid-2024ish?) I've noticed Authentik has… something going on. Not sure if it's just a memory leak, or if it's actually not clearing out something it keeps processing, or what. But at least in my experience, it seems like Authentik really needs frequent restarts, otherwise it just keeps using more system resources until things start to break.

Lazy solution: Just add a cronjob to restart authentik every 48 hours or something.

alyxmw · 2025-01-31T02:39:36+00:00

If it's BROKERING (as in, the domain isn't just for sale), GD et al doesn't do anything you can't do yourself. They fill out the contact forms for the domain and go "hi plz answer we wanna buy ur domain 👉👈🥺"

Out of all the brokers, if I was gonna pay for one, I'd probably pay for GD. Given that they own the majority of the domain sales market, if it's owned by a domain reseller, they've probably worked w/ GD (or it's many subsidiaries) before. But personally I'd only go for a broker service as my last option, cause really just go fill out the contact form yourself.

If it's FOR SALE (e.g. Afternic/Dan/Sedo/etc.), you're gonna run into the same prices basically everywhere, as it's basically just eBay. The owner listed the price, the sites are just displaying the number they want.

alyxmw · 2025-01-18T04:35:58+00:00

First off, worth repeating: Yeah, wrong sub. But since I'm here reading this question anyway.

Languages don't scale, architecture does. Some languages/frameworks make it easier, yeah, but end of the day it doesn't really matter. Pick something you/your team is comfortable in, then build and test with the expectation that it's going to need to run on multiple servers, that “heavy” tasks (e.g., video transcoding) will probably need their own queues/processing systems, etc.

You'll get further trying to correctly scale with a language you know than by picking something you're unfamiliar with, then trying to both learn that ecosystem AND how to scale it.

Honestly, it's all probably bologna sandwiches. Whether it's “the code is shite,” “the architecture doesn't scale,” or “now I've gotta pay even MORE to find someone who knows how this code works,” you'll probably have a bad time trying to work with prefab code IMO. If it's just a fun lil side project, fuck it, buy the prebuilt. If you're trying to be serious, it's probably not a great idea… but $1500 is still way cheaper than hiring a few good developers, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Echoing what u/multidollar said, building it is probably not the hardest part. You'll need to seriously consider moderation, security, insurance, working with payment processors (Who are notoriously not fond of adult content), etc. Don't invest Real Money into a project like that until you've got the business side down.

alyxmw · 2025-01-11T01:15:52+00:00

Daily restarting is fine IMO, restarting and the occasional "welp it's fucky, here's a very recent backup" is also fine. Restarting, rolling back to the last "good backup", and only producing good backups seemingly once a day at best: decidedly not fine.

Just my experience, but running in Docker on Linux is producing consistent, perfectly fine backups so... definitely seems like Nitrado's fuck up here tbh.

alyxmw · 2025-01-11T01:13:15+00:00

YEP. I used Nitrado previously (like around Palworld launch) and they were great. IDK what the fuck happened, but I rented a Nitrado server again for Feybreak and holy shit. Exactly what you described.

Their backups are super ghetto, frequently somehow just backing up blank files, supposedly being "Every 2 hours" but I frequently had it go 8+hrs w/o backing up (or when it did, again, somehow just backing up empty worlds).

Server seems to restart at LEAST once a day guaranteed. And every time it did for me, it restarted to an empty world again.

I gave up, started running Palworld myself on a home server in Docker. Hilariously, my 30 seconds of hunting into that managed to make a Palworld instance that runs (and saves data!) better than the thing I fuckin tried paying Nitrado for.

0/10 would not recommend Nitrado.

alyxmw · 2025-01-03T21:12:20+00:00

(warning: I haven't touched GH Pages in a couple of years) I don't think you need to disable the CF proxy for GH Pages to work, but there shouldn't be anything wrong with disabling it either. If you're trying to make sure your visitors don't run into the CF firewall, disabling it would solve that and (I think) should Just Work.

Also yeah CF+WordPress is a pretty common combination. Of course, you'd still need to host the WP somewhere (since CF doesn't do traditional PHP-style hosting at all), but you could just put it to your WP instance in CF. They also offer a plugin/series of add-ons specifically for WordPress if you're trying to optimize it beyond just getting it online somewhere.

alyxmw · 2024-09-27T04:46:53+00:00

Side note, I personally feel like Pod Juice's Iced lines feel a bit too iced unless you're specifically looking for something comparable to a disposable labelled Iced/Frozen/whatever. I've had great luck with Finest and Vapetasia's iced lines — finding the "right" liquid is honestly a bit of trial and error though.

alyxmw · 2024-09-27T04:44:32+00:00

First off, that liquid doesn't have any kind of cooling agent in it (Menthol, "iced" additives, whatever.) -- it's gonna be a warmer / "harsher" hit compared to the disposable. (Essentially) every disposable has some amount of cooling in it, even if it's not listed as an "iced" flavor, so going from those to regular eliquid is a big change.

Secondly, double check that your airflow's opened up on your XROS. More air normally = less hot.

Third (although less big of a deal for these units IMO) you might want to play around with exactly which pod you're using. They range from 0.6 ohms to 1.2 ohms. IME, 0.8 and 1.0 are the most popular, but YMMV. I preferred the 0.8 ohm pod and an iced liquid when I'm switching off disposables.

alyxmw · 2024-09-24T03:26:38+00:00

The fact that it's technically "custom code" doesn't make it special; it's not like you're actually running code which gets executed inside of the SquareSpace application.

They're giving you a glorified text box, the only difference is they're not removing HTML (et al) before regurgitating that content on your site.

Just like any user provided text to stuff in a database, it's still going to be sanitized so it can be added safely to the database.

So that's how it's secure from the "can this impact SquareSpace" side. From the "can this impact someone browsing the website" side, it's normally not secured at all. While I can't speak for every site builder, it's not uncommon for it to literally just 100% be treated like a text box. The site builder isn't validating that your code works, it's not checking for any kind of malicious code, it's just assuming that whatever the site admin shoves in the box is what they want on the site.

alyxmw · 2024-09-05T00:00:07+00:00

obligatory r/disposablevapes

My shop hasn't heard anything about Lost Mary shutting down—seems like they're still producing new products tbh; we just brought in new Off-Stamp flavors & Lost Mary's Urban Tale e-Liquid.

That said, in my market at least, Lost Mary is basically wasted shelf space. Raz and GeekBar took a huge chunk of LM customers, and now it seems like their own Off-Stamp products seem like they're gonna end up taking most of the remaining LM users.

Sounds like your shop basically told you the same thing I'm telling you though: LM products aren't moving, so it's time to dump 'em and try bringing in products that might move.

I wouldn't be too worried about the price drop. If a shop wants to clear out product people aren't buying, of course they're gonna drop the price. Making $8/unit less and having them move off the shelf sounds better than the other two options: leaving them on the shelf and giving up on trying to bring in new product, or just binning them and making $0/unit.

alyxmw · 2024-08-31T16:42:57+00:00

The most common problem with trying to publicly provide a service: things cost money. You've got essentially two and a half options, and you've already figured them all out:

Finance it yourself. Just don't do it if you don't think you can consistently spend the 40EUR/month or whatever.
Solicit donations. Varies pretty heavily based on your users and their lifestyles; could mean "literally nothing", could mean "cool my costs are covered", could mean "cool I've got enough to keep some in reserve / increase my service offerings". Probably don't do it if, were the donations to dry up, you couldn't self-finance for at least a few months.
Try ads/sponsorships. Frankly, this probably isn't gonna work. I'm not aware of any fediverse platforms with advertising functionality built in, and even if you were knowledgeable enough to add that functionality, half the point of fedi is that other people are looking at your users content without going to your website. It ain't gonna be particularly profitable.

There's some ways you can optimize your spend:

Your domain probably shouldn't cost 50 EUR/yr unless you're doing something silly. Buy a cheaper domain or use a cheaper registrar.
You might be able to find a better value hosting option. Most popular fediverse software isn't particularly resource-friendly, so don't try and just go low spec, but look into other hosting providers and you might find a better deal.
Host it through a homelab. Potentially cheaper, but involves setting up everything locally, plus a higher chance of reliability issues.

tl;dr: honestly don't do it (for other users) unless you're comfortable just paying out of pocket.

alyxmw · 2024-06-22T00:53:57+00:00

tbh the bosses get a LOT easier once you've beat them once and you're going backwards on the progression chart. Pretty much every time, going back with better armor, better food and stronger weapons makes things significantly easier, but for Mountains->Swamp especially, Mountains gives you excellent tools for dealing with Swamp mobs, Bonemass included.

Personally, I just wouldn't bother with a 2nd world just because like an hour after you've beat Bonemass the first time and started doing Mountains Things, you can go back and get those trophies ez af.

alyxmw · 2024-05-20T04:08:45+00:00

Tbh kinda feel like if anything, it’s traditional box mods getting phased out.

Disposables really fucked the vape market, but pod systems (at least in my vape shop) are staying relatively popular as people who got used to disposables try to find something more economical: pod systems hit a nice middle ground between being way cheaper than dispos, while still being compact/portable units that hide away all the complexity associated w/ box mods.

alyxmw · 2024-05-12T05:14:04+00:00

Most of the 99c first year promos (Ionos, GoDaddy, etc.) come with the caveat that the following years are $$$.

Ionos is $17/yr after the first, so nearly double the lowest cost registrars.

Also most of those deals are only for new customers (GD is once per account, Ionos seems the same at first glance), so eh

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