I did a sewage treatment plant tour in my high school biology class. At the end of the second stage filtration, the worker pointed at how it discharges into the ocean.

“So at this point, the water has been treated enough that it’s safe to drink”

We all scrunched our faces at that. Then he added

“But I wouldn’t”

Is that before or after Kupiansk?

Aches and pains. New medications they’re on. How things were so much easier when they were younger.

The same conversation that happens everywhere when the people have been around for a while.

This is a good compromise. When I was tight on backup space, I just had a “backup” script that ran nightly and wrote all the media file names to a text file and pushed that to my backup.

It would mean tons of redownloading if my storage array failed, but it was preferable to spending hundreds of dollars I didn’t have on new hardware.

Holy shit, this has every cert I’ve ever generated or renewed since 2015.

Share your memories, receive a studio-quality custom song with vocals in minutes.

This is the high level pitch and is exactly why this product misses the point.

Creating a song or art or playlist for someone requires time. It’s the personal effort that makes it valuable. Spending a minute filling out a form before an algorithm generates a song is neither thoughtful, personal, nor meaningful.

A hand written card is better than a typed letter is better than an email is better than an emoji. GiftSong is the emoji.

If someone sent me this I would be insulted and wouldn’t even listen to the end once. I would never spent my money or time trying to be a user of something like this.

Well that was fun! I’m confident this project isn’t malicious. It’s for sure coded using AI, and I think that’s what triggered a smear campaign. This removed Reddit post looks like there is just a downvote brigade out to get the project because the author admitted to using AI.

The only network traffic it’s made when I monitored it was local. Certainly nothing went to Asia.

I think it tries to solve a neat problem. There’s so many features packed in that it’s obviously vibe coded. That’s probably a huge turn off for AI detractors. If you don’t care about that, I think you’re safe to give it a try.

Ok, so I ran the repo through an LLM to look for any suspicious requests, and it came back clean.

But it’s hella suspicious that the repo owner edited away the issue and closed it without a response.

It’s also hella suspicious that the user that reported that issue created their account yesterday.

I think I need to go the nuclear option: pop a gummy and monitor the network traffic of the container and see what it’s doing.

Ohh that’s suspicious. I’m going to kill mine for now and take a look later tonight. I’ll report back if I find anything interesting!

I think the author literally released it like 2 days ago which is why there’s no issues or prs yet.

I installed it yesterday and have only fiddled around a little bit. I like that it pointed out a bunch of health issues with my Lidarr library and have been stuck on a side quest dealing with those.

If you want to explore it and see if anything seems malicious to you, I’d focus on code making requests, and review the sub-dependencies to see if any look sus. It should live entirely in your network and shouldn’t be making any external requests outside your server apart from the connections you set up (like last.fm).

Could you have a setting turned on that auto jumps to your last saved page as stored by some server?

On mine, when wifi is on and I wake up the Kobo, it’ll show a dialog asking if I want to jump to my last reading spot (even though it’s the same page I was on when I turned it off). If I say yes, it inevitably jumps back several pages.

My guess is that it has some interval for syncing reading progress that’s not fast enough and when it tries to sync when the Kobo wakes back up, the current page number is too old.

I’ve been getting by by just disabling wifi unless I need to sync new books. What you’re describing sounds a lot like what I see if I click Yes on the dialog. Makes me wonder if yours is configured to automatically do whatever my dialog asks me to do…

Check out calibre-web-automated. It’s a fork of calibre-web that has some stronger auto tagging and Kobo support.

I just switched over to Booklore and think it’s a bit better.

One thing I didn’t like about the calibre-web-X apps is they don’t seem to update any book metadata on the kobo if you’ve already synced the book. So if you go and fix a typo in a title or cover art or whatever, you can’t get that update to sync to the kobo without going pretty nuclear.

Kobo Libra 2 is the shit.

Slighter larger screen than the flagship Kindle. Does NOT have the power button in an annoying place on the edge where you can accidentally turn it off while reading.

It had a comparable store ecosystem to Amazon, but also makes it easy to side load books or even replace it with your self hosted book library.

There’s alternate firmwares (kind of - more like plugins) if you want custom readers with more capabilities than stock.

Physical buttons for turning pages (but you can still use the touch screen if you want).

I stopped winging it after all too often ending up with both a fridge full of rotting produce and yet also nothing to eat. Turns out grocery shopping needs some strategy that I can’t do without help.

AnyList has been an awesome tool for me. It’s got all my recipes, a meal plan building to sketch out the next week, and builds a shopping list so I can only buy the things I will for sure cook with.

It’s also made me realize I’m not about to buy fresh herbs or green onions when they’re only going to be used as a bit of garnish for one dish.

I think you have a few moving pieces you’re going to grapple with. It’s going to be scary. It’s supposed to be scary.

I think the biggest thing everyone needs to keep front of mind is that speed is relative. Yes, your car is rocketing along at 100. But the other traffic is going 105. 100 is fast compared to something that’s not moving, but the other cars are going relatively quite slow to you. Try to keep that in mind if you feel a knee jerk reaction to react.

Figure out how you sit in the car before you do anything else. You might fiddle with it a bit, but in general, you should be sitting in a way that makes you as comfortable as possible before you even start the engine. I don’t mean comfortable as in your back doesn’t hurt - I mean you have a high level of confidence that you can see in every direction you reasonably should be able to. Is the seat still too low? Get a pillow to boost you up. My wife and mom both do this because they’re too short to properly see out of regular cars.

Blind spots? Figure those out before you move the car, too. Sit in the driver’s seat and adjust your mirrors the way you want them. Now either get a friend to stand outside the car and move around, or if you’re alone just drop a few things on the ground around your car. Sit in the driver’s seat and look where you see those things. Can’t see them? What about if you do a shoulder check? Still no? Is it critical that you have clear line of sight to that exact spot? Probably not, but use your judgment.

If you’re still getting comfortable driving, stay the fuck out of downtown, major highways, and busy parking lots. Don’t do that to yourself. You should practice for months and build the muscle memory of “normal” driving before diving into high stress driving scenarios.

Struggling to determine distances, or whether there’s enough time to make a left turn before that oncoming car hits you? That’s sadly something you just need to develop yourself with practice. It took me months and months and months to get competent. A rule of thumb: if you see a car coming at you and you’re not sure if you can turn in time, don’t. Instead, starting counting seconds from when you would have turned. Making a left turn takes a couple of seconds. If you’re counting past 10 seconds and that oncoming car still hasn’t passed you, that gives you a good sense of how much cushion there is.

I’d also really, really recommend the show Canada’s Worst Driver. It’s a semi-documentary/game show that has shitty drivers go through driving boot camp. It’s full of driving tips, great explanations of how a lot of the physics around driving tasks works, and the entertainment value of dumbasses ignoring what they were told and crashing into styrofoam walls. I really believe that there’s a lot of content in that series that would help any driver, regardless of experience.

Good luck!

This is the golden answer.

Anything that strays from the defaults (especially in windows) risks getting reset during a major automatic update, and now you’re getting support calls because “the internet doesn’t work right anymore”.

I think the general question you always need to ask when buying something “nonessential” is: will I use this enough to justify the cost?”

Whether that’s a MacBook or a car or a gaming console or even a $0.99 app.

Just be honest with yourself. I once bought a MacBook Pro because I decided I was going to develop iPhone apps. I never learned Objective C. I barely used the laptop at all. It was a waste of money, plus stressing over the guilt of never using it.

Flip side: you only live once. Don’t trap yourself in a mindset that you always need to save every penny and never enjoy yourself with small things.

Everyone exists somewhere in the spectrum between saving and spending. Figure out where you live on that spectrum and make your purchasing decisions accordingly.

It bugs me that snow blower sounds as lame as leaf blower when it’s actually 10x more awesome.

Marinate in it.

It sucks and it’s good for you.

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Oh I love this. This is like Taylor Swift Ticketmaster level interest. Can’t wait to see what people start finding over the next days.