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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Uh no, most if not all of the paid indexers are not worth it compared to just waiting for an open invite from a quality one.

    Not even the gold tier quality ones allow paid entry AFAIK. They only allow people who are long time seeders and uploaders with reputation.

    The one thing you might have to pay for is a VPN in case you want to torrent on public indexers, which is often worth it because not everything will end up on private indexers, and you usually have to wait a couple of months before you can join a solid private indexer.


  • I can trip the measly 15 amp breaker by drawing 1.5kW on two servers + turning on an amplifier that is somehow on the same circuit despite being in a different room quite far from where my servers are lol.

    On average though I only draw like 350W. The huge spike only happens if I run a miner/llm on both of my servers or the during the startup spike.

    The 1kW chunk comes from some RTX Quadro 6000s which each eat 250W each when maxxed out.

    EDIT: Want to mention that most machines report their power draw (from mobo) without IPMI, so you can use your favorite stats collector use it to form a rough estimate of kWh total in case you don’t have a proper meter that records usage.



  • The most junk hack I ever did (that somehow worked) was replacing a Tensorflow 1.x library set with the Tensorflow 2.x library set and keeping the original 1.x symlink so that the software using it would think it’s still the 1.x. .so file lol.

    I presume the API had some deprecated fallback for poorly migrated software, which is why it worked without complaints.

    Also bazel is by far the worst build system I have ever used.




  • I don’t want to run a separate database or anything complex, so things like Immich or Photoprism are not an option.

    Why not just use podman and let it handle itself? Unless you’re planning on hosting like maybe several million photos, I doubt you would ever need to manually set up a DB.

    Just download the compose file, add your photo directory paths to it, and let it start and never think about it again until you feel like updating for some new feature months later.


  • If its internal network traffic only, you can just use stalwart and add the DNS records to your network so that stuff can use SMTP.

    Otherwise, (also with stalwart or your preferred software), you will want to use an SMTP relay so that outgoing messages will be delivered without the hassle of getting your domain reputational enough for sent messages not getting junked by the big email providers.

    I’m extra lazy and haven’t set this up, so I just have a public mail server that only receives messages because my outgoing SMTP port is blocked by my ISP.


  • Dunno how well zswap handles at that size, but the point is that is compresses swap into RAM, so it would use a max of 819.2M for a total of 2457.6M of swap space. If you need more, then by all means, use a swap file or partition lol.

    Actually linux easily supports multiple and tiered swap mounts, so you could even go zswap + ssd swap + hdd swap, or a cheapo “burn at your own risk” usb flash swap lol.


  • Saw the title and I already knew IPv6 was still gonna be “not enough adoption” lol.

    The overly aggressive lockdown from NAT is not entirely misplaced though. Windows is already notorious for default hosting an atrocious level of protocols that are anywhere between “I can get your NetNTLMv2 hash for free” to “gg ez RCE as SYSTEM user”.

    Linux and Unix were also not magically protected either, like every FTP server implementation has had several RCE vulns and it was so bad that Linus himself pointed out how easy it was to abuse buffer overflow vulns even after the addition of NX mem protection with return to libc, several years before ASLR finally landed in Linux and Windows.

    Seriously, the early 2000s was the wild west of vulns because everything was still written in C++ so you could just waltz into any binary, find some stack/heap overflow, and you’re on your way to an RCE.

    NAT (and firewall) most definitely did prevent millions of users from getting rekt by a metric ton of malware that operated on the ability to connect to those services.










  • This is verifiably not true because of the amount of devs that use arch and the fact that the arch wiki exists and there’s an entire set of AUR packages for custom bugfix patches on top of bleeding-edge software.

    Debian is too dated with packages if you want to mess with practically anything new, otherwise its okay for something not concerned with new libs. Ubuntu repos are a joke and you will never find all the libs you need without some wacky tacky 3rd party downloads.