Power captures power. Money is a form of power, but there are many forms and the powerful tend to try to grab more power no matter the situation.

Perforated galvanized plumbers strapping. While most of my equipment is wall mountable, I used exactly this sort of thing for all the power supplies.

Likely similar to whatever you’re planning to use with the plastic strap, but more metal is more betterer

Warning: don’t invent weapons of mass destruction if you’re a crybaby.

Beos shall never be forgotten!

I’m not opposed to intellectual property because there’s an argument for providing a limited time monopoly to the creators of works to provide incentive to make works public. Without any such incentive, it’s entirely possible that the monetization structures for different works change, for example locking content behind restrictive systems that don’t allow for personal use at all.

The key is “limited time”. If you can’t make your money back in 15 years, then maybe it’s time to make a new thing? The idea that someone should own a thing you made after you’re dead is stupid – how exactly will that promote you to create new works? If you’re dead, your creating days are over except for creating plant food out of your bones and organs.

I put my money where my mouth is, and the legal page of the graysonian ethic specifically lists that the book is put into the public domain or license after Creative Commons CC0 license after 15 years from the date of first publishing.

On a lark I went to check out if animesuki was still up. I used to use that all the time back in the day.

Nope, dead since 2019.

RIP

Literally speaking anytime that you print something in PLA and don’t burn it it’s sequestering carbon, but that’s not exactly impressive.

Imaging software is a godsend for that sort of thing. I ended up using BartPE for something like that, and it worked great – it has a free imaging program on it. You only need a removable drive large enough for all your files since it’ll compress everything.

I have a feeling you’d end up with a bunch of big drives with small volumes on them if it did work.

Warning you, I’ve had issues with RAID combining SSD and HDD. Basically I was on an older dell server and I wanted to do mirroring and the bios straight up refused to do it because it didn’t want to mix ssds and hdds.

Is it bad that I saw a new domain name and was like “ooh, a new instance to federate with!”?

Thank God PC gaming has been shockingly good in this respect.

Sorta feels like you’d be walking around looking like you’re shirtless and got some terrible surgery where they cut you from pelvis to neck.

Unfortunately, we see a lot of people end up having the AI reflect back at them the things they say and think that’s justification for something.

It’s an example of an anthropomorphic fallacy – it can form sentences like a human so they think it’s like a human even though it’s clearly just a very sophisticated math equation intended to form things that look like responses to you.

You guys ever rent a game console back in the day?

Man, that was top tier – You’d get to play games way better than your current console had and it all came in this fancy case… I played through most of Megaman Legends with my brother in one life in one weekend because we didn’t have a memory card!

We need neurologists and psychologists and and philosophers, even if we can talk to each other.

The idea that AI will make computer skills unnecessary is naive and dangerous. At some point someone somewhere needs to do something.

I’ve bought a few dozen of these things, shame to see them go.

Something I talk a lot about is the fact that people mistake “facebook” or “youtube” or “tiktok” for “technology”.

Apps designed for the mass market are designed to be easy to use by anyone. To be good with technology is to actually have something of a deeper understanding.

For example (in no particular order):

• Picking parts to build a PC

• Building a PC from parts

• Installling and configuring an operating system including finding and loading all the drivers required

• Describing problems that occur accurately

• Find or Create solutions to problems that occur

• Explaining what you did to solve the problem

• Understanding the underlying systems and why/how they actually work

• Determining what tools you’ll need to do a thing using technology

• Using tools you’ve selected to do a thing using technology

• Programming (General)

• Programming (Games)

• Programming (Hardware level stuff)

• Programming (Web applications/websites)

• Programming (Lower level networking stuff)

• Making technology do stuff it wasn’t originally intended to do

• Using a command-line

• Running a server

• Adapting to new systems

• Learning about new technologies and seeing the potential without being told

Someone who can do several of the above, at any level of competence, that person is probably good with technology. Most people can’t.

It’s going to be really bad in the future because society will need technicians and programmers and competent tech writers and visionaries, but it isn’t going to need people who are really good at watching youtube videos.

My little brother and I played pokemon on no$gmb back when red and blue were still considered new.

One day he started a character he named ASSWORM. Then the time came to pick his first pokemon, and he picked a Squirtle.

So the text on the screen said “ASSWORM received a SQUIRTLE!” which made me laugh so hard I still laugh at it because some part of me will always be a 14 year old boy.

https://youtu.be/2D-WRCGcJbs

This video does a good job of showing and talking about some potential issues with using an enclosure.

I’ve been self-hosting a wide variety of things including nextcloud (which is one open source project I advocate everyone look at, especially on a web domain so they can access it from anywhere)

Go linux for hosting your open source projects. Just do it. I’m not saying that because windows is inherently worse than linux, but because everything out there is documented as if you’re hosting off of linux. In fact, you should really consider using Ubuntu-server, because most things have documentation specifically for ubuntu.

Going with windows server as mostly just s hyper-v box with your linux installations inside, that might be worthwhile.

If your IP address appears static, then you can probably just directly configure dns through the web interface of your domain provider. There’s a great script out there for doing dynamic dns using different providers such as godaddy, that could be some insurance to make sure you don’t end up with a non-working social media network.

One thing you should consider is running one virtual host as your reverse proxy that redirects different subdomains to the different individual servers running your services. The reverse proxy server running something like nginx would then deal with all your subdomains, and if you work on say your nextcloud and need to reboot it won’t take all your services down at once because your reverse proxy continues to function for all your other services.