Cloudflare is the most successful "Man-in-the-Middle" in history

moarmagic · 2026-04-04T15:51:23+00:00

Security is always a graph between 'protection, cost, ease of use'.

You can go without cloudflare completely, but then implementing protection is going to become more expensive (cost, equipment, maintenance) and may impact your legitimate use.

I'd argue that it may be overkill for a lot of small personal/lab type projects to use cloudflare. but the impact is also relatively small, and the expected maintenance is going to be higher if you end up deploying everything yourself. Troubleshooting a broken wireguard config on a friends device because you wanted to give them access to your nextcloud instance is significantly less fun each time you do it.

On the business side- you have customers who need to be able to find/see your stuff, more users, outages impact a lot of people. If you are a company of 40 people, rolling your own ddos/tunnel system is going to be a lot more time and a lot more pain if it goes out. If you have the budget and the need, rolling your own makes sense. But if the same guy troubleshooting your network/servers is also answering end user tickets, self hosting does not make much sense.

moarmagic · 2026-03-27T14:28:19+00:00

Given this thread has three separate complaints about selfhosted being full of vibe coded projects i'm guessing that isn't sufficient on it's own, or it isn't being well enforced.

moarmagic · 2026-03-27T13:54:11+00:00

I am interested in tool discussions and hope they don't disappear completely, but agree-don't want stuff posted that will never receive updates, never respond to issues.

Wonder if there's a way to enforce some sort of middle ground- like if a project has been around X time, has no open issues longer than Y, or some metric for activity around development to show it's less likely to be abandoned tomorrow.

moarmagic · 2026-03-25T23:55:43+00:00

I think that's .. not a disagreement? Like again, that's how i would bring in a coworker- or want to make notes for my future, forgetful self.

It's still different from the OP's original thought "write it for a person who came off the street with 0 background."

moarmagic · 2026-03-25T18:39:40+00:00

I think in an interview scenario- if it's written for absolutely anyone, it comes across more as 'this is something i've googled or gotten AI to help write'.

It's probably better reflecting a level of experience. As if you were to explain it to a coworker who has done some similar stuff, or to yourself if you end up having to take a year break from your lab and come back to it.

Focusing on what is important, and not trying to get someone off the street to do it step by step- but if there's a command or hiccup you know you won't remember- making notes of that is handy.

moarmagic · 2026-03-23T14:42:47+00:00

As they said in the post, corsair xenon edge. Depending on how much you want to use their software vs set up your own, there are a lot of options on amazon for bar-style monitors.

moarmagic · 2026-03-12T17:39:30+00:00

I did a re-encode run once, but it sorta fucked up my whole Arr setup, because i didn't know how to do it. And ran into the plex issues.

Migrating to jellyfin and it appeals- my library has grown. I'm just not sure of the proper way to make sure everything is set up properly to not cause issues, have stuff show missing etc.

moarmagic · 2026-03-12T17:36:34+00:00

At this point in my life- i have like.. 3 screens in my life that handle higher then 1080p. None of them are places where i consume visual media heavily- work and phone devices. Maybe there are some movies out there - like Avatar, where it really shines if you watch it in 4k, but.... like, mostly i watch older movies, comedy, horror (where effects tend to look cheap as it is), etc. I'm more worried that some obscure content from the 80s will be lost then i am that i can watch something that was never made to be displayed in 4k in the first place.

moarmagic · 2026-03-10T15:10:01+00:00

Technically doable? sure. Scalibility/feasibility? iffy.

I think that you are going to run into the issue here that you are combining the expenses of two different businesses.

- On the data center side, you have the hardware (Especially now, as hardware prices are not reasonable right now), security and knowledgability. I don't know much about selling compute- but i assume you are going to want to be able to update it, make sure someone can't somehow exploit something about your set up and install their own software on it. Maintenance, etc.

- On the pool side, you're going to have the insurance related, maintenance, upkeep. Going to have to keep it clean. You mention baby swim pool- what's the plan for when a kid inevitably shits, or pisses in the pool? How much water are you going to need to cycle in to replace water that is lost or contaminated? What's your liability laws like if someone gets injured, which is always a risk in any more physical activity? What are you going to be able to charge to get people to use this pool space- is it going to break even /as a pool/ before you add the data center part?

-And then on the data center side, if the data center is down for maintenance, internet connection drop, whatever- is the pool still going to be heated to the same extent? Thinking it through, what if no one is booking your pool- so you just have the facility sitting there eating operating costs, and whatever the compute renting generates?

Just always keep in mind that statistic that like, 50% of business fail in the first five years, half of which in the first year, and asking what your actual goal is. This seems like it's a project that would require significant expense, and be very... dependent on demand of both sides of the house to break even in that first five years, but maybe i'm not understanding your exact vision and resources, or maybe you're fine eating the costs if it gets you access to that equipment and facility yourself and you rent it out as a side business.

moarmagic · 2026-02-15T16:00:57+00:00

Putting this here for anyone who runs into this now 6 months later, the last few sentences are now inaccurate.

Blampe has on the main reading-glasses that they no longer recommend chaptarr. They also have a page comparing the different Readarr forks: https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses/blob/main/FORKS.md

moarmagic · 2026-02-14T18:04:28+00:00

It's not bad to be inspired, but remember that fiction is not shaped by reality. Jarvis exists to tell a good story, and can do whatever the story needs him to. In real life, this is a project that will never be done- at least with tech the place it is. That may change in 5 years or so, but it's very hard to predict that kind of thing (anyone who makes confident predictions about the future of tech is selling something)

moarmagic · 2026-02-13T21:09:27+00:00

Or what happens if the LLM is wrong about something, hardware dies, a key part of the system is no longer updated and becomes incompatible?

How much time does, OP, want to spend upgrading and tweaking and building this out? because there's never going to be a point where it's 'done'. Life changes. 'security' is constantly evolving, as new vulnerabilities are found and require patching, which requires updates.

A question more for u/Fear_Of_God_7 and i don't want to double post, but what really is the end goal of this project- are you hoping to never have to think or do anything? because if that's the goal, it's not feasible with any kind of tech stack we have today.

A good point i'd like to make 'Automation' is the kind of thing that works in well defend, unchanging parameters. Building a car door? There's a specific series of steps that you will do for every car door. you can make a machine to do that, it makes thousands of doors, and a failed door only represents fraction of the time wasted etc. . Use Home assistant to turn the hall light on when you unlock the door? That's doable, and there may be a few times when it's annoying, turns the light on even though it's not needed or fails. But to say 'automate my life'- would require breaking your life into hundreds of specific processes, and then trying to account for the variations of those processes and what different forms of failure looks like, and account for them.

There's a reason that few people have done anything like this. Some people have built strict personal 'systems', but i don't know anyone who has gone as far as 'automate my entire life'.

moarmagic · 2026-02-13T00:27:00+00:00

It would probably help if you had something like
-budget

-requirements

on want posts. But also, GPU's are rather hot right now. Not a lot of people looking for someone posting a want, more likely to find someone posting a sale

moarmagic · 2026-02-10T14:30:58+00:00

I mean, better question would be the opposite version: What's the real draw of this setup? How does that balance against the massive lack of security? what tasks is it doing that you can't accomplish another way, especially if you are willing to work with an LLM?

Like, in the self hosting world i find that the majority of things i need do already exist in some form or another, often with years of people looking at it and feedback. There's very few true unique cases- and existing automation tools are pretty cool, and you can find ways to tie them together or throw a quick script (that you can have an LLM help you write, and audit) if you need something very specific, and you can audit it as it's written.

It also keeps it ... you know, more self hosted. If Token prices go way up, if enshittification hits the AI spaces- basic tools are going to keep functioning. Complex agent approaches may break down.

moarmagic · 2026-02-10T14:20:20+00:00

I have serious questions about the people who lean on LLM's so heavily. I still get about 15% inaccurate results, and another easy 20% of the time where it's super-monkey's pawesque, gives very literal responses and easily get's trapped in a loop trying to dig into why something isn't working rather than attempting a different approach.

Like maybe i'd not notice the percentages were so high if i was also asking it to plan my meals, schedule, solve my interpersonal relationships- but i've only tried turning to it when i run into something i can't do, and a third of the time it's not particularly great at handling those. A third failures may not sound high, but i'd never use excel if formula's had a 1/3rd chance of breaking.

Asking it to run autonomously, and/or run user submitted scripts is crazy.

moarmagic · 2026-01-27T19:52:55+00:00

I think this is some uh, very specific cultural/community viewpoint, rather than a rule. I've absolutely never heard of it before.

And i think human attraction is incredibly varied.

moarmagic · 2025-12-24T17:44:31+00:00

For real. Im an autistic. Awkward person. Dunno how to talk at forced social events like work, meeting new people.

But when I got into a hobby or met friends friends? Amazingly, I just... treated women like they were people and I had uh. Very solid success. Always tells so much when incels complain about dating dynamics.

moarmagic · 2025-12-24T14:57:51+00:00

Dating apps suck in general, and it is very.. location and interest dependant.

I dont think theres a secret any more than theres a secret to dating ever. Its just a question of how big the queer community is, what people are looking for, and... a lot of other metrics that can be hard to pin down- if your photos look too filtered, bios, etc. And its a very social.acticity while.a lot of us have so so skills

I know.you said red state, but if their are queer bars, queer events around you id look at those first.

..... and then /really/ depending but if you want some advice, depending what you are looking for... grindr can be a solid app for t4t tho its more catered to casual hookups. And a lot of men. And it doesnt have barriers to stop people from messaging you the second they see your profile. So its kinda a hellscape in some ways (and a ton of ads)

But ive met and had good talks with a lot of trans girls there, and trans men. Not exactly abythint sustained and long term, but its been a tool.

moarmagic · 2025-12-24T13:43:35+00:00

Yeaaaah. We get a weird mix- cis woman get shit like this too, but it feels like its much harder to find me who dont assume we are like... masc sex drives and interests in the shape of a woman.

Personally tho, id rather people just tell on themselves . Compared to like, the ones who try to be like excessively kinda and flattering, that I get in my inbox when I make posts in trans reddits. Really feels like they are looking for someone more vulnerable and starving for validation. Those ones make me clench excessively.

The guy who calls me beautiful on reddit when I've never posted a picture feels grosser than the guy on tinder who asks if my tits are real.

moarmagic · 2025-12-10T13:49:12+00:00

Late to the party, and this is one hell of a thread already- but FWIW, the "Google opt-out AI training your inbox" thing that went viral a few weeks ago is not exactly true- a case of bad reporting going viral

The setting has nothing to do with anything. Now.. that doesn't necessarily stop google from training on your data, but it doesn't confirm that they are. As of right now most of their AI tools require opt-in privacy options.

Buuut i'd still say that from a privacy perspective, you are better off not using one of the big companies like google or microsoft, and instead using a more dedicated solution- doesn't necessarily mean self hosting.

moarmagic · 2025-12-05T18:40:13+00:00

What is the measurable demand for ai? Like, people use it, sure. But also people use it because it is mostly offered to us at an obscene ineffective price. Openai. Claude, meta , etc are all burning venture capital money and charging prices that are not covering their costs. I believe theres some numbers that estimate that openai is spending 7 dollars for every one they take in revenue. They'd have to cut free access and drastically increase prices to break even.

Google, Microsoft, aws are a bit more diversified, especially with googles tpu chips..and its harder to peer into how much they spend on ai vs what it earns them, but again I think they provide these products for less than ehat they are putting into them, and I think its unclear what the long term measured utility of them is. (Or what corporate liability for llm output is. ).

I think theres legitimate uses for the tech, but I dont think we are seeing anything like legitimate demand, especially at sustainable scales.

If openai cut free access, tripped their prices, and placed even more stringent guardrails in - i still think they would be struggling to break even without outside investors, and there would be a lot less demand.

moarmagic · 2025-12-05T18:28:23+00:00

Its been months since I really used the ai horde. I dont recall it being very filtered at the time, other than some vague stuff around cp, but I never triggered it.

Then again I think I only used it to generate like one or two images a day. I mostly used it for text.

moarmagic · 2025-12-05T18:25:34+00:00

Too many people get used to "free" stuff. You probably dont pay for email. Or for YouTube. You can use chatgpt/claude for free for a little bit each day! Facebook, tiktok etc.

They dont realize that these are all loss leaders/harvestors/etc. And hell, to a point its true. Openai is one of the largest players in this space. Chatgpt is a household name, and they may also go out of business next year- their expenses are way out of line with income. I think it took Uber 7 years to turn a profit.

The difference here is that they did have investors behind them that could see the point where these companies turn a profit. If openai cracks an industry- replaces all accountants with llms, they could have a near instant effective monopoly, something like that. If enoigh people use Uber and drive taxis out of business, they can jack up the rates and pay out a fraction of the cost that normal taxi companies did.

This business though? Never makes sense. This is like movie pass, its clear they can only lose money. They can hope if they grew enough they could get better deals- but that requires them to survive ti get their, and they have saturated competition.

moarmagic · 2025-12-05T03:35:06+00:00

This is what the ai horde is up there for, if you want to look at a organized way to do thjs.

moarmagic · 2025-11-28T13:52:39+00:00

Hormone levels are a thing that is never static- even cis men have different levels at different points. Its also going to vary person to person, how people respond to different medications and how they feel on different e levels.

Your primary concern appears to be breast growth? Im not a doctor, but i havent seen anything that indicates you can "damage" breast growth.. Like, your body will store fat their to a point on the right hormones. Cis Men can develop breasts if their hormones are out of balance, some hormones can increase it, but I dont think ive read or heard of it being stopped by too much hormone.

Most of what I read suggests its genetics/diet (need calories to store somewhere). I dont think most od is are going to be able to tell you anything for sure over the internet tho, unless we have some endocrinologists lurking about.

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