I have amac mini specifically to be a mac server, so i can run BlueBubbles for compatibility with people who use iMessage

Yes the harness is what i was talking about.

You can get footguns also from your own cli commands, misunderstanding the documentation, or by copy/pasting from a guide without knowing what you’re doing. But in both those cases it is clearer that it is your responsibility for understanding the context. And eventually that’s how you learn.

A generative, agentic system that does things for you without you needing to understand, and gets it right a lot of the time, but trains the user to enter the sudo password wihout understanding is not the UX I would encourage in an operating system.

Any system like this is going to be limited by the fundamental inability of genAI to be hallucination-free. Being programmed with best practices will help but eventually it will suggest something that will be bad for the user.

It’s going to train new people to blindly type in their admin passwords and risk hosing the system

Thank you, that kind of explanation exactly what i was hoping for!

Me too! I hope they reference “the search for more money!”

What is a DNS sinkhole and how is it related to the content of the article? Didn’t seem to mention DNS

Are the fans quiet too?

I love that you’ve got this explanation because my first reaction was… Hot! Too… Hot!

I really love the vibe of freedns.afraid.org

They also give you 6 months in between needing to log in to your account

From ever-increasing subscription prices to outages and data harvesting: we don’t like what the cloud has come to represent. So we’re redefining what an online service should be: private, optional, and free from lock-in or walled gardens.

That’s why today Nabu Casa is renaming Home Assistant Cloud to more accurately describe what the service actually does, and to better reflect our values. Allow us to introduce:

Home assistant link

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that
may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information
leaks.

For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in
version 6.12.111-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages.

For the detailed security status of linux please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/linux

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

Under the hood there is this thing in there called “systemd” that does a pretty good job making Linux work, and has made some people happy and some other people unhappy.

Before systemd there was something called “init” or maybe “system v” that wasn’t as good at systemd, especially not at restarting things if there was a problem, but it was real fast and less complicated.

This is not part of the Linux kernel though, i have no idea how that works.

Can i be dewey, but with the glasses?

How many 3 initial techdudes are there?

I only know jwz and DHH

Some people plan out their self hosting. I did not.

I started with a free tier VPS i had no idea what to do with. I think i eventually ran irssi on it but i didn’t know how to use irssi so it was just a trial project that didn’t go anywhere.

Then, my mom wanted to record jeopardy and VHS tapes were getting annoying, so we made her a kodi system that could record it off the air.

Ads were getting annoying, so we made a pihole.

It was annoying having files scattered on all the computers and Google drive, so we made a nextcloud.

Et cetera.

Eventually i ended up with a handful of raspberry pis all doing something, spread sheets and network diagrams trying to keep track, and all plugged into various UPSes, and trying to figure out how to use NUT so they could all safely shut down automatically when the UPS is going down.

So no, i did not plan from day one to be struggling with the complexity of NUT, or any of my complicated bullshit self-hosting bullshit. But kind of like the process of evolution through natural selection, the complexity built up through of series of decisions which call made sense at the time for solving some kind of problem.

Idk why but I’m allergic to the phrase “the wife”

Thank you for making this!

Do you keep in touch with the other folks who run cool filehosts? The only other one i know like this is catbox, but it is a similar vibe.

What is the way

More context from the article:

At the turn of the millennium, newspapers relied on classifieds for an average of 30% of their revenues. Martin and his colleagues found that the loss of this revenue led newspaper executives to cut costs largely by shrinking local political news coverage.