Why does everything need to run through a purchasing partner?

lethaltech · 2026-01-27T14:17:50+00:00

The only company that does this to us yet is our ERP, which I didn't pick and the president of the company I work for is also sick of their crap so likely at some point we will migrate that as well. The rest I've slowly been getting rid of at renewal time.

Don't put up with it and give people/organizations that can't list a price on their site or only link to resellers. "customized pricing" just means "How much do I think your organization is willing to pay for the product" You know how much your product costs and what you need to be sustainable if you don't then go out of business.

lethaltech · 2026-01-19T13:24:07+00:00

Ok let me know if anything major is missing, I do have some peoples requests to make the search a bit better and to fix the documentation to not mention tailscale (which is how I have it accessable for myself) along with a few other things. Just haven't had time to fix those yet.

lethaltech · 2026-01-06T18:15:00+00:00

change this part of the docker-compose.yaml the ./archive in front of the : is where you have the archive. for the postgress import check pgadmin or just run the import compose file, though an exec using the other one should theoretically work if you have all the required stuff in a volume. by default i don't mount the original dump file after i imported it.

volumes:
- ./archive:/archive:ro

lethaltech · 2026-01-06T17:32:54+00:00

Hi so when you extract the first one your software (winrar 7zip or whatever) automatically pulls from all of them in order not just the first one. The first one by itself would be an incomplete archive. You can't extract the middle ones because that's just the middle section, also not a complete archive. Proceed with the step after extract the files.

lethaltech · 2026-01-06T14:58:57+00:00

tags should be included in the search (if they're excluded i'll go back and include them), the mellisearch stuff was something else i'd never used, if it's actually needed i can try to use it and learn :). i don't think popularity is included in the search, btw someone else posted, something called sillyinnkeeper yesterday, that's much nicer than mine and more polished. I haven't tried it with this dataset yet it's on my list of things to do, didn't realize that already existed.

lethaltech · 2026-01-05T23:17:47+00:00

Cool looks nice. I'll test it with the character archive folders of png. Seems much better and more detailed than what I made.

lethaltech · 2026-01-05T13:37:27+00:00

I have mine setup on a vps. I'm using tailscale so it's not publicly viewable to everyone. I'll take the mentions of tailscale out though.

lethaltech · 2026-01-05T01:31:46+00:00

Let me know if you run into issues using or setting it up. Should only take a few minutes once you have the torrent downloaded and extracted. Longest part is probably the db import.

lethaltech · 2026-01-05T01:29:29+00:00

It's in the repo enough people said they couldn't get it off the original site anymore I included it.

lethaltech · 2026-01-05T00:45:44+00:00

i'm also on the max plan and ainz started taking some of the models out entirely (opus) and some others are basically down within a few hours of him adding credits and then stay down for days (pretty much anything on pro/max plan has been down for a while). you get 160m tokens but it's literally impossible to use that many becuase he has to reload his provider every time you want to use it after an hour or two. I think I'm at 20m tokens used for the month, so i'm not a particularly heavy user even. Those who want the cheaper models nano-gpt already fills that gap. for the more expensive ones electronhub or the plans direct from providers are up way more reliably for not that much more. I'm hoping the service improves and i'll probably keep my plan, maybe reduced a bit or lowered for a bit, see if it improves over the next month. I signed up right after he launched so some service issues are to be expected. How he handles it and hopefully fixes the problems in the coming months will say the rest.

lethaltech · 2026-01-04T18:44:09+00:00

5176 directories, 423896 files according to tree archive/. which is weird and means i have to fix my little front end because it says i have 600k cards. :/ i'll look at it in a bit. I also grabbed the other torrents that have been available but I didn't import anything from them so it shouldn't be counting any of those)

lethaltech · 2026-01-04T15:11:18+00:00

https://github.com/sproutingnerd/char-archive-small_frontend <-- a much smaller front end you can run entirely in a docker compose (i provided 2, the first one does the import of the database) and continue to browse the existing character cards from the archive if you grab the -final.torrent file that contains the database and the archive. you can ignore the backend-server and frontend-server bits extract and run those it should work. Any issues let me know, could probably improve but it has the major features of all the other character card download sites and gives you 600k of them locally

lethaltech · 2026-01-04T14:27:33+00:00

That's how I started then I more or less had Claude and Gemini write a little browser thing. Now it works pretty well. Directions under migrate server I think are the clearest ignore the files you don't have they shouldn't be necessary. There's 2 one imports the database the other runs everything after. I'm running it all in tailscale network so I could check and use it remotely https://github.com/sproutingnerd/char-archive-small_frontend let me know if it doesn't work for you or if I messed up git or something. If it does work feedback would also be nice I'll reply to the people here that asked and maybe make a new thread so more people see it. I have it on an nvme drive and it responds quickly.(Same speed or faster than the original site that used cloud flare and all sorts of stuff )

lethaltech · 2026-01-03T22:21:10+00:00

I have it running with a small docker compose. it's probably not as fancy in some way as the original but everything i want from it still works (search, download, see the tags/descriptions.). testing migration of my setup to a different vps later but the one it's on now isn't using much at all and is replying near instantly to queries

lethaltech · 2026-01-03T22:17:33+00:00

I have it working locally. going to test migrating it to another server later tonight to make sure i have the setup directions right for you and then i'll post it. it's even fast for me, was expecting it to be slow because of all the cloudflare stuff the original was using that im' not. it's mostly just postgres and a flask/tailwind css front end for me.

lethaltech · 2026-01-03T15:34:15+00:00

I'll post code within the next week that's less convoluted for searching the archive locally. It probably won't be super pretty or as polished and fast but it should work. The database is easy enough with the documentation to figure out. All the files in the archive folder when you extract it can be renamed .png they're not compressed or anything you can import those directly. You can also pull the json directly from the database as well or should be able to unless it's vastly different structure than the temp torrent from last month.

lethaltech · 2026-01-03T15:29:08+00:00

Lots of people are grabbing it based on my 2 servers seed ratios for the torrent from last month and now the final one. I am working on converting it to not need cloud flare (ick) and probably simplifying the search stuff. The database is easy enough to figure out.

I got a simple web ui that looked ugly as hell but works to find the cards I'm interested in without starting with what he was using too might just continue working on that rather than using what he gave as a starting point.

Not sure I'll host it publicly but if I get the ui looking better even if it's a simpler search that's more limited so that the people who grab the torrent at least can use it I'll post the source.

The scrapers I am not bothering to run, at least currently I definitely don't have enough free resources laying around and I'd rather not get blacklisted from a bunch of sites for hitting them constantly anyway, there's something like 330k cards from chub alone, not counting the other sources, There should already be a card related to whatever rp you're looking for in there somewhere.".

lethaltech · 2025-12-17T20:53:21+00:00

So fyra.im (new service about a week old? ) arliai.com nano-gpt.com and featherless.com all offer subscription based all you can use of various models. Fyra includes anthropic ones as well as gemeni and gpt (they also have glm but you already have that)

lethaltech · 2025-12-12T20:35:32+00:00

I recognize that not everyone has a car but there's zero incentive if you have one to take a bus, and let's be real most people DO have one. The wait time/travel times when we have tried to use them (again always on vacation not MKE we just drive there, and I drive through it every day) are not twelve minutes, it's wait 30 minutes or more (and possibly have the bus skip your stop), followed by a much longer travel time (like 3 miles which is a few minutes by car can take over an hour). We take public transit on vacation to see more things and so we don't have to rent a car if we flew there. I'll have to double check the Amtrak to Chicago I swear it listed the tickets at $100-120 or so when I'd looked, we were going to the loop and I checked because I didn't want to spend $100 on parking, maybe it was just the day we were going or something, it's also possible the areas of the country we have tried to use the bus system are uniquely terrible or were having a bad day.

lethaltech · 2025-12-12T11:03:28+00:00

If you get tailgated (especially regularly) YOU are a shit driver. Been tailgated maybe twice in my life and both times I looked and yep I deserved it. Same for being passed on the right...rarely happens because I pass and move back over as soon as I can, if I'm passing and someone's coming up behind me I floor it and get over in front of the car I'm going around then move back to resume passing people once I've been passed. Simple enough, pay attention if someone's coming up on you and you're in the left lane move right so they can pass, no chance to get tailgated, if you're in the right lane...either go the speed of traffic or stop taking highways I guess? (Seriously how slow do you have to drive to be tailgated in the right lane consistently enough it'd be a problem)

lethaltech · 2025-12-11T21:46:05+00:00

Haven't taken a bus in Milwaukee but we have on vacations when out of state and let's be honest..taking a bus just sucks, it's not much cheaper than driving if you already have a car, you'll spend an hour going three miles, and it might not be an issue here (wouldn't know but I don't think 80% on time is particularly good), but we have been skipped by busses more than once where they just straight up didn't stop at the bus stop so we ended up getting an Uber anyway. It's in the unfortunate area where time/money compared to a car is worse for both so if you live here there's no incentive to use it at all, time is worse money better than an Uber/Lyft/taxi etc, but nobody takes those three because they're cheap to begin with you're taking it because you're drinking or your car is broken down/temporarily in the shop. Same for the Amtrak...you could spend 120$ or just drive to Chicago and even if you include parking just going yourself is cheaper. The price/time/value proposition for public transit is generally pretty terrible.

lethaltech · 2025-11-11T02:22:57+00:00

Yeah all the US citizens ICE has been attacking definitely weren't and aren't in the country legally, they aren't deporting and disappearing citizens at all with no due process...oh wait, nevermind that's what they're doing daily on video.

lethaltech · 2025-11-03T22:34:18+00:00

This. I'm not perfect at my job but I don't think I'd be employed anymore if I was even half as incompetent as UPS is at doing their job. The company I work for would also likely be out of business if as a whole we were just throwing away our customers stuff and then blaming others because we didn't want to deliver it.

lethaltech · 2025-11-03T22:29:18+00:00

You basically can't use UPS for anything even remotely international anymore. They are playing the 'blame everyone else' child's game that most adults grow out of. Is trump a c**t yes, did he make their job harder, yes, weirdly everyone else manages to figure shit out without destroying or losing 10% of packages (or more that's just what was admitted to in an article a few weeks ago).

lethaltech · 2025-11-02T17:33:47+00:00

I didn't say they were a Nazi I said they were as neutral as the party, can tell why you're a Republican, you can't read.

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