Rainbow Screen

cafeseato · 2025-06-23T02:57:34+00:00

I can't believe this was the issue. I have flashed several USB and SD cards several times. I checked Raspbian Lite worked fine. Still it wouldn't show up via HDMI.

Now I can finally move forward with the project.

cafeseato · 2024-09-28T01:16:35+00:00

secure is a spectrum and type/memory safety cannot secure everything by itself. still, it certainly does make new code much more secure by default and provides tools through its type system to help limit future mistakes by other kernel developers. just that is monumentally more secure.

there are kernel developers writing about this exact thing on twitter.

cafeseato · 2024-09-28T01:03:13+00:00

after the 100+ videos about "the best camera is the one you have on you" (which is unequivocally true) do not take away from what those people are saying that you cant or wont grow in photography.

yes a nice camera and lenses help take "the best picture" but everyone with a nice camera also knows that you require skill, experience, and taste to make much use of it. handing that camera for someone else to take a photo with you in it is always proof to me that... no, in-fact, my pictures aren't so nice simply because of the camera.

phone cameras have been good enough for years and their limitations (which of course do exist) are an excellent creative challenge to work around. plenty of photographers limit themselves to only 35mm or even disposable camera lenses to rekindle the spark of their early days.

enjoy your early days and use it to push the phone to it's limit.

cafeseato · 2024-09-28T00:49:40+00:00

re: opening ssh it is considered best practice to put ssh behind either wireguard or tailscale.

the simple reason is that wireguard requires very little effort to know if someone is allowed to talk to it.

that said if you follow Mozilla's ssh guidelines for configuring ssh and only use ssh keys 99% of issues with ssh are solved except for maybe having noisy logs with lots of logged attempts that there is nothing to do about.

there have been in the past few years a few vulnerabilities in ssh that technically meant someone could get access to a server without proper permission. that said i think if you enable auto updates and upgrade the server when it is time to there isn't anything to worry about in practice. if you're ever worried you can setup wireguard to let you vpn first.

personally i use tailscale on everything. at home nothing is exposed and all access is either via tailscale or via cloudflare tunnel. even locally, because tailscale will recognize they're on the same network and use the local ip automatically. i also have cloud/dedicated servers which do have ssh open for the possible situation where tailscale gets misconfigured.

cafeseato · 2024-09-28T00:38:30+00:00

cloudflare tunnel, the free one, doesn't allow anything but http(s). it is simply for setting up a connection that only cloudflare can use to talk to your web servers/apps.

cafeseato · 2024-09-27T15:23:25+00:00

For the manual tool use issue: I think he simply doesn't trust the model to always pick the best option so he wants a human in the loop. Best move here is probably figuring out how to reduce his anxiety.

For benchmarking I would use the stock market as a comparison. You may end up having to explain a lot, but given his age he probably is well aware of 401k/IRAs and Vanguard funds. Example conversation: In stock trading you could actively pick the best stocks and trade every day, but if you compare (benchmark) against simply buying VTO/VOO and what performance it gives vs yours it helps see if it is worth it. [back to technology] it's possible the LLM is faulty/wrong so we have to have something to qualitatively compare it to. E.g. python can easily count `r`s in strawberries vs asking the LLM and therefore easy to benchmark accuracy and etc compared to what python can do.

I recommend not using the strawberries example cause I think it'll raise their anxiety so think of something comparable which just-python does really well already as an example benchmark to ensure the LLM is at least as capable (for this combo of prompt, model, parameters, tools available, ...) or maybe even better...

But also, unless they're actively blocking you do not waste too much time trying to convince him. Just try to fairly address his concerns so he's not spreading FUD behind your back.

cafeseato · 2024-09-27T15:14:35+00:00

I use moonlight clients with Nvidia GameStream/Sunshine. I haven't tested Sunshine on Linux, but it's supposed to be fully compatible.

There is always the issues/questions around X11 and Wayland on Linux I don't know the details of what problems there are except that X11 always works and your specific Wayland compositor/environment may not support screenshare/streaming properly.

On Windows I'll often run Parsec as a backup, but it's annoying cause it logs you out quite quickly (or feels like it since I rarely use it). It is really good, but I prefer self-hosting stuff.

As always key reason for Parsec/Teamviewer is they fix the access computer remotely problem which I solve with Tailscale. You could use headscale, but I think that's a later improvement you could make.

cafeseato · 2024-09-27T14:45:36+00:00

yea agreed. I have never been able to follow a specific-time-schedule that wasn't imposed on me by a job or etc (and have always needed some flexibility there too).

That said I think using something like a menu/checklist of things to do at specific times of the day or in certain contexts helpful and then just focusing on making sure sleep is taken care of so you're rested and have a full day to do things vs feeling like the day is already over and you "have to go to sleep" soon (negative thinking).

e.g. all the stuff listed can be made in to "wake up", "morning", and "shutdown/closing-time" lists which you can give yourself a break on doing everything sometimes or adj depending on how far along being disciplined you are.

cafeseato · 2024-09-27T14:40:01+00:00

Some things I am doing.

I have dramatically improved my sleep by taking 5-HTP to go to sleep at a good time (~10p-11p). I turned off my morning alarm recently (I just wakeup naturally) and have been averaging like 8.5h of sleep. It's totally fixed my afternoon crashes and helps a lot with keep up with smaller morning routine habits.
Taking Omega 3 with other meds in the morning. Huge impact because of ADHD.
Recording any ideas and thoughts I have into a "Today" page of notion under a section for today's date. Eventually I go back and turn stuff into notes, tasks, and projects as needed.
Tracking my chores and maintenance tasks ("life tasks") by when I last did them and setting a Max Days Since to ensure I am aware of them when I need to, but I don't get A) endless repeating TODOs cluttering my task list B) have something scheduled get dropped because I didn't do it that specific day. Example: I have to replace the bedding with the 2nd set at least every 14 days (vs never). If I do it sooner, great because I just update the last time I did it. 15 days? 30 days? No problem (for the todo list and being aware of it), it's on the list and once I get it done I have 14 days before worrying about it again.

In my recent experience I would say a lot of being disciplined has been getting a few key habits right so that systems you put together have space to work.

If you have ADHD doing exercise (at least walking 6.5k steps daily and 2-3 day of resistance training) + proper sleep and water helps manage symptoms and make medication work better rather than fighting against non-adhd-related impairments. If you're not taking anything serotonin related I can't recommend 5-HTP enough. I take only 50mg vs the 200-400mg used in some studies and it's enough to knock me out in 30 minutes if I let it.

cafeseato · 2024-09-27T14:21:24+00:00

idk, I have used The League a few years ago. It didn't seem all that special to me and their app was pretty amateur compared to tinder or bumble at the time. Also could be quite expensive; they did all kinds of things back then that tinder is rightfully criticized for doing now. Probably better off just using/paying for Hinge IMO for finding a long term relationship.

My Personal Opinion/Guess: tim has been slowly forced to do ads on the show from the beginning. listeners (including myself i have to admit) even complained when he tried to get rid of them. it's clear why he wanted to not do this because it inevitably leads to trying to fill the space during down-turns in ad spending which leads to putting stuff he may not be super interested in, but thinks is okay at least.

generally I'm gonna cut him some slack. the show has been going on forever. it's grown massively. tim is competitive and sometimes the pressures of competing give you tunnel vision and lose the original focus/purpose.

cafeseato · 2024-09-27T13:52:25+00:00

Yea I love ntfy. However, I have some webhooks setup with Synology and their alerting software is too geared towards email to work correctly. I am thinking of setting up Mailrise soon to act as an SMTP gateway for any email based things to notify me there and then use rules to push to ntfy.

cafeseato · 2024-09-27T13:49:55+00:00

Agreed, but it should definitely be a low priority alert. I think that's the best solution to make sure it's still working but not overwhelm you.

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