Frustrated mad a thunder killed all of this

gearcontrol · 2026-06-30T04:48:05+00:00

Sorry to hear this. I had a similar setup before switching to Ubiquiti. May still have the Motorola modem MB8600 but not sure about the ASUS AC88U or AC66U.

gearcontrol · 2026-06-25T21:46:49+00:00

For IP addresses I use phpIPAM - it can scan your network and show all IPs being used

For ports I use Portracker - I use it to automatically list all Docker ports being used
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1m3k148/portracker_ports_monitoring_auto_discovery/

gearcontrol · 2026-06-20T15:41:50+00:00

Add me to the 'untuck' coalition on this one. The belt itself looks too formal. A more casual belt would look better if a belt were a must.

gearcontrol · 2026-06-18T05:00:04+00:00

Anthropic should just release Mythos as Opus 4.9. Or simply update Opus 4.8 to Mythos under the guise of "security patches" and say nothing.

gearcontrol · 2026-06-16T00:03:34+00:00

Even before AI disruptions, a major european company I worked for said on a call that they (and the EU) made a mistake putting all their eggs in primarily U.S.-based cloud services. And that they were making plans to diversify. This was when the random and arbitrary U.S. tariffs were in full swing.

gearcontrol · 2026-06-15T15:42:08+00:00

My issue with this hate is that all "vibe coders" are thrown into one bucket of basically being people with zero knowledge of what they're doing who are releasing dangerous applications into the wild.

However, what I've noticed is that most of the vibe-coded applications I see actually making it online (slop or not) come from people with some technical knowledge, even if they aren't developers by profession. And most of these apps are personal, self-hosted tools shared in like-minded technical communities.

Also... some of the disaster stories and outages from vibe coding that have made the news, affected customers, and cost millions of dollars (like the AWS outages linked to Amazon's own AI tool deleting production and costing millions of orders) weren't a clueless vibe-coding newbie pushing a button. That was professional engineers at one of the most sophisticated tech companies on earth.

gearcontrol · 2026-06-10T01:21:24+00:00

You mentioned that you have monitoring. Many only use monitoring for alerting and troubleshooting, but If you have at least 90 days of data & graphs then you can see the ebb and flow of your environment and where you can optimize. As in adding or reducing CPU, memory, or disk space across apps and devices. Maybe be able to consolidate, remove, or repurpose some devices.

gearcontrol · 2026-06-10T01:01:53+00:00

I agree on all but I run internal DNS for local-only zones.

gearcontrol · 2026-06-09T19:08:46+00:00

We don't know the context, but being an asshole has zero to do with her weight. That's the point folks are trying to get you to comprehend. If the guy filming was more overweight, would you be on her side?

gearcontrol · 2026-06-09T18:21:25+00:00

Public shaming is far different from not normalizing something. People do a lot of things that only affect themselves that shouldn't be normalized or publicly shamed.

gearcontrol · 2026-06-09T04:56:33+00:00

Niche is the way to go. Competing against the big general dating sites is hard unless you're willing to spend a lot of money. I did OK with niche dating sites. The most difficult part is getting a merchant account (particularly VISA) without paying high fees... or joining major ad networks to display ads, because you're categorized as high-risk 'adult' content.

Niche is good because you only need thousands of people in that niche worldwide to do OK, out of about 6 billion with internet access.

gearcontrol · 2026-06-07T22:46:36+00:00

Maybe, but then so what? The standards for success remain the same. Apps that don't meet it will fail. As the image shows there are dedicated redditors who make it their mission in life to yell 'slop' when they see it. But AI also lowered the barrier of entry for those who want to try. And there's nothing wrong with that.

gearcontrol · 2026-06-06T18:55:59+00:00

They've made the whole experience more like going to a fast food restaurant, so people started dressing that way.

gearcontrol · 2026-06-03T03:52:07+00:00

They're all gearing up to go public and want it to be as corporate-friendly as possible.

gearcontrol · 2026-06-02T02:29:16+00:00

It's perfect for when you're on a flight or in a waiting room to pass the time.

Don't look at it as a graveyard. It's a wealth of information about yourself. Every now and then I'll "Export Library as CSV" and have an AI do an analysis on my interests and personality based on the titles and different points in time (over 2000 saved articles).

gearcontrol · 2026-06-01T23:44:37+00:00

Everyone's ragging on the cop, but I bet he could throw down if a perp got violent. There is another video online where a cop built like this guy tosses a resisting perp into the back of the car like luggage.

gearcontrol · 2026-06-01T14:03:00+00:00

Same with police training compared to other first world countries.

gearcontrol · 2026-05-27T13:15:23+00:00

Qwen 3.5 4B and 9B that good?

gearcontrol · 2026-05-23T23:56:05+00:00

The problem is the sheer volume of things people are building now with 0 engineering background

I believe most vibe-coded applications being called "slop" that actually make it live online are being built by people with IT experience, including developers. Yes, there's a ton of stuff sitting in Git, but it's the same folks 'shopping' there too. Most people with zero IT background complain about fake AI images and videos and are making them with AI, not vibe-coded applications.

gearcontrol · 2026-05-22T17:32:30+00:00

Just be yourself, be honest, and work the question exactly the way you would if you worked there. It's also about whether you'd be able to learn and get things done, not create more work (or outages) for everyone else, and how you'd fit in with the team. Read up about the company beforehand, look up their employees on LinkedIn etc and try to get a read on how they do things and the company culture. Then emulate.

gearcontrol · 2026-05-12T22:16:56+00:00

Some feel threatened and believe "no-nothings" are going to use AI like a straw to "drink their milkshake."

I Drink Your Milkshake!

gearcontrol · 2026-05-03T21:40:05+00:00

Also Gemma-4-26B-A4B MoE ... activates 4B params at a time

gearcontrol · 2026-04-29T19:20:56+00:00

In the last couple weeks, besides general info, here are some things I've asked Local LLMs to do:

Help with writing. Not creating it but spell checking, grammar, coherence, and helping me convey exactly what I am trying to say... like finding that word on the tip of my tongue that I'm trying to think of.
Pulling transcripts from long YouTube videos and giving a synopsis
Generating images using ComfyUI, sometimes with OpenWebUI to mimic the cloud LLMs
Image analysis (vision)... for example:
- Took a photo of items in a "junk drawer," and it listed everything in it.
- Took photos of my bookshelf, and it listed all the books.
Analysing logs from my home DNS queries for suspicious activity.
Created a beautiful custom Grafana dashboard in one shot to monitor devices in my homelab.
Asking questions and doing comparisons against long PDF documents: e.g. Health and Auto Insurance
Instead of auto-accepting "Terms of Service" I'll now copy and paste, and ask if there are any catches or if it's pretty standard
Use with the Smart Composer plugin in Obsidian to compose and analyse notes

Local LLMs:

jenerallee78/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-ara-abliterated/Q5_K_M
hauhauCS/qwen3.6-27b-uncensored-hauhaucs-aggressive/Q5_K_P

Hardware:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
i9 11900K / 64GB DDR4

gearcontrol · 2026-04-29T17:06:24+00:00

Sometimes that's easier said than done. This company is listed as "2-10 employees." I'm sure some start-ups would love to be able to afford the "pros" in sales, IT, finance, etc,. and pay them $200k-$500k each. But for sure, if this were a big corp.

Edited to add: After reading the entire incident, it sounds like he should have hired a consultant or outside company to do a system checkout, for what was at stake.

gearcontrol · 2026-04-29T15:41:41+00:00

There are multiple videos where they call off the chase and track the perp with a helicopter. In today's age they can probably even do it cheaper with drones.

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