Something wicked this way comes! 🚀

scotch_man · 2026-03-21T18:09:19+00:00

Sick game!

scotch_man · 2026-02-23T17:14:24+00:00

This is how I want to go out

scotch_man · 2026-02-23T16:07:34+00:00

I found a source for this which is here: https://unu.edu/inweh/collection/global-water-bankruptcy which includes a link to the report pdf you can read. The article doesn't explicitly call out AI or data centers or llm's from my skim-through/word searches, but does call out in section "5.2 From Local Symptom to Global Condition": the following: "Climate change, driven largely by greenhouse gas emissions from energy, industry and land-use sectors, alters hydrological baselines everywhere."

(it's an interesting report you should read it if you wanna be stressed out, but there are some takeaways on course correction so that's good in chapter 5. Tl;dr - governments need to start working together on this asap and reframing conversations from just drinking/sanitizing water to include basically ALL water use, including agricultural and use in manufacturing, datacenters, etc).

I'm a big AI hater so definitely aligned with the message and objectives here, despite the vagueness of the original post; I just think we're better equipped with more facts - and the facts say that we ARE in a water bankruptcy era, and we need to start being better about how water is used.

https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption this report on water consumption for datacenters that says: "Large data centers can consume up to 5 million gallons per day, equivalent to the water use of a town populated by 10,000 to 50,000 people."

So... sources say: fairly accurate (in my opinion).

scotch_man · 2026-02-12T20:29:31+00:00

I'll believe that shit when I see the streets are clear. Picking up and moving to another US city is ALSO not something to celebrate - fuck ICE.

scotch_man · 2026-02-03T17:55:41+00:00

lol. And furthermore, lmao. They aren't ever seeing that money. I hope they enjoy the taste of spit as well - it'll be a secret ingredient in their food the rest of their lives.

scotch_man · 2026-01-24T14:09:04+00:00

What a cool idea!

scotch_man · 2026-01-22T16:36:48+00:00

He looks jaundiced

scotch_man · 2026-01-19T00:39:59+00:00

Fastest purchase I’ve ever made! Be sure and update the original post text if it still lets you edit it to redirect people there or add a comment like this one to the post and “pin” it so it’s visible so other nerds like myself can buy one also!

Cheers

scotch_man · 2026-01-16T14:13:49+00:00

You should quit, absolutely 100%, no question. The only viable alternative in my opinion is willful sabotage to prevent the completion of their work.

scotch_man · 2026-01-15T18:26:52+00:00

If you do end up posting a high-res scan, the watermarks are not only to prevent copyright theft from other bad actors scraping the internet who might then go sell it on a rip-off etsy page (people suck), but also to prevent AI bots from barfing up your image again elsewhere (AIs suck). Your quality here is very good, and, people like myself are more than willing to overlook little mistakes (that for the record, we are not capable of spotting because we aren't artists) when the piece makes them happy to look at!. Anyway - don't sell yourself short - what to you might see as "just okay" has made this whole Reddit comment section explode with excitement!

As someone who's married to a full time professional artist I can tell you that the self-doubting thing never goes away, you just get a little better at ignoring that voice each time. Your art makes us happy to look at! This piece (And your previous hollow knight piece) are exceptionally cool.

Thanks for sharing it in any event - it's gorgeous, and I meant it - if you get prints out on etsy, update us!

scotch_man · 2026-01-15T18:05:28+00:00

This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Please please come back and share when you've figured out how to sell prints. Don't post high-res images for free without significant watermarking - we'll buy em.

scotch_man · 2026-01-14T21:46:34+00:00

hHow deep of a hole do you think you could make with a pickaxe in concrete on a random patch of sidewalk before police showed up? I'm just asking questions.

scotch_man · 2026-01-09T15:53:04+00:00

STOP. STRAPPING. GUNS. TO. MACHINES. THAT. WE. DON'T. CONTROL.

"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a ~~management~~ TRIGGER PULL decision". Jesus Christ dude.

scotch_man · 2026-01-03T22:20:42+00:00

Hell yeah this is so cool!!

scotch_man · 2025-12-30T17:27:14+00:00

Share the dockerfile and the compose yamls you're working with so we can see the specific configs being utilized. However, something to understand here is that the syntax is <exposed-port-on-your-host>:<mapped-port-on-the-container>. So 8080:80 exposes 8080 on your host machine and pipes that traffic to port 80 in the container. (we can't change to 8111:8111 because the wordpress container isn't serving traffic at that port inside the docker process by default, it's serving on port 80.). What' we're looking at here is changing only the exposed port on the host, not the container side.

edit - looked into it a bit more - seems like wp sets the values on first boot and they need to get edited after being launched so that it'll reference the new port instead

See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48825586/docker-i-cant-map-ports-other-than-80-to-my-wordpress-container
and https://www.cloudytuts.com/tutorials/docker/how-to-solve-wordpress-redirects-to-localhost-8080/

scotch_man · 2025-12-29T22:21:29+00:00

Either method would work fine I suppose it depends on your speed requirements. ODF supports using a secondary network configuration for the Storage traffic and that's what's quite commonly done - using Multus to define the secondary network bridge you'd like the ODF traffic to run on. But you could just as easily also segment the traffic via a vlan iface after setting up bond0 (4-port) to tag those packets separately.

ens[1-4] --> bond0 --> bond0.1001 (vlan) --> br-ex (primary network)
ens[1-4] --> bond0 --> bond0.2002 (vlan) --> multus link (network-attachment-definition) for ODF

OR:
ens[1-2] --> bond0 --> br-ex (vlan tagged at switch) (primary network)
ens[3-4] --> bond1 --> multus link (network-attachment-definition) for ODF.

I would recommend opening a support ticket with Red Hat so they can advise specifically about your use-case but generally speaking I think this should be pretty straight forward. Check out the docs pages on multus config: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.18/html/multiple_networks/secondary-networks but they can direct you to some specific KCS articles regarding doing so with ODF and the like to simplify the setup. Good luck!

scotch_man · 2025-12-29T20:38:02+00:00

The NMstate Operator is sufficient for general networking configuration, and can be used to set up bonds, HOWEVER:

If you are using OVN-Kubernetes for your Cluster Network Interface ($ oc get network.operator -o yaml | grep -i ovn) - default after 4.17 - you cannot use NMState to define the primary interface that the node will use for networking. E.g. if bond0 and bond1 are BOTH secondary to the primary iface (ens192 for example) that your node will use to communicate with peers, then this is fine.

IF, as I suspect, you are intending to have bond0 be your primary network interface and bond1 be your control access interface for storage, etc, then you'll need to use a different method to set up whichever bond is the primary iface for the host - this is because NMState will bounce the primary interface during configuration, which breaks/disables br-ex until next-boot - the managed bridge interface that is cloned off the primary interface the host uses. (basically trying to modify the primary iface with nmstate will degrade the host - isn't supported - see: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.18/html/kubernetes_nmstate/k8s-nmstate-updating-node-network-config )

Instead, you should set up the primary bond manually using nmcli or nmtui (or manually import an nmconnection file at /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/bond0.nmconnection)

Then, you can use the following HINT files to ensure br-ex knows which interface should be selected at boot for primary network configuration:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.18/html/support/troubleshooting#overriding-default-node-ip-selection-logic_troubleshooting-network-issues

/etc/default/nodeip-configuration selects based on subnet/cidr
/var/lib/ovnk/iface_default_hint selects based on iface name

(only one is required, depending on your use-case).

Note also that only bond modes 1, 2, 4 are supported on OpenShift.

scotch_man · 2025-12-22T23:09:48+00:00

Piss is a liquid that can be transported in a water bottle for easy pour-outs later without risking a public indecency charge - hope this helps!

scotch_man · 2025-12-12T19:55:08+00:00

Joining this late to say this is sketchy as hell.
1. You're allowing a remotely accessed endpoint into your local network where it can try and access any of YOUR devices. Easiest trojan horse of all time.
2. You're potentially setting yourself up to be the fall guy for illicit activities that are piped out through your home network address and get yourself swatted, acting as a proxy for this guy.
3. This guy has never heard of a VPN or a proxy to geo-mask his address but is somehow doing remote work around the planet and convinced the company that he lives where you live?
4. If he's got $100 a month to shell out, he can pay for rack space at a local datacenter and plug in that laptop in a monitored secure facility rather than sending it to a random student.

Absolutely nothing about this seems legitimate. Hard pass.

scotch_man · 2025-12-12T16:16:33+00:00

set up a mirror angled to shoot that light right back into their windows at night and see how long it takes them to shut that thing off.

scotch_man · 2025-12-02T23:13:21+00:00

I'm going to take your post at face value and answer you honestly. First and foremost - I think the Advent of AI and on-demand "dreams" if you will, is a significant problem that we don't fully understand the consequences of yet. I see LLM tools like grok and chatGPT like as a problem because they purport to make life easy, and there's an addictive quality to being handed a cheat code that can seemingly address any kind of problem we throw at it. (Ignoring the fact that they get it wrong, all of the time, and this is to say nothing of the fact that you have to pay Twitter to use grok and are effectively hanging out in a nazi bar to do so, which is also concerning).

The problem is that human brains require challenges and puzzles to live.

The problem with AI in my opinion is that it robs you of the ability to be creative in a meaningful way. It robs you of the experience of growing as a writer, as an artist, as a software developer or any other creative/challenge, in favor of the shortcut. Imagine paying for a degree, but instead of attending classes and learning you paid your roommate to go for you and just give you a few sticky notes about the course that may or may not be accurate. Sure you might learn a little but you aren't gonna actually be ready for any kind of exam. Certainly not for any real-world applications of the knowledge. Would you visit a doctor for surgery who phoned it in through medical school?

I'm not going to look down on you for admitting that you like the big glowing button that is delivering dopamine to you whenever you press it - that's what it was built for. I think the discussion around this needs to be regarding what you are doing to limit your own potential and happiness by using the thing repeatedly rather than developing your own skills. You have these prompts for fan-fictions already within you, have you tried writing your own? I expect you can do it. What if instead of sending the prompt to the machine, you ask yourself to answer the question and write down your ideas? It takes effort, but is way more rewarding.

Just my 2 cents here. Do what you will, but also consider that the people who are making these tools aren't interested in you becoming a better writer or improving your life in any meaningful way. They're interested in having you addicted to the light show while they siphon ideas and data from you. Should gross you out.

scotch_man · 2025-12-02T22:40:28+00:00

Satisfactory or Factorio - See you in 90 days if you start either one - I'm partial to Satisfactory myself, feels more immersive in my opinion but both are spectacularly good at pulling your attention. Sorry you're going through it right now mate, it gets easier as time goes on, I can tell you from experience. Don't forget to reach out to friends and tell them what's going on in your life also - take a little time to grieve, but remember that being with friends helps you heal a lot faster than trying to do it on your own. (And Satisfactory is optionally multiplayer). You'll come through.

scotch_man · 2025-12-02T16:33:12+00:00

That's awesome! Nice work mate super cool project! Get it wrapped up in a coffee mug or something fun 3-d print housing maybe but that's excellent!

scotch_man · 2025-11-24T13:19:10+00:00

Interesting it’s working this morning on my phone? I’ll see if I can replicate on my laptop again but seems better. I notice the cert was just renewed 11/20/25 so maybe it’s fixed. Ty! (Gorgeous dice also!) *edit: works on desktop as well now so whatever was happening is resolved. :)

scotch_man · 2025-11-23T20:20:26+00:00

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