Or it gets them into a negative feedback loop since AI hardly ever tries to contradict you.

But yeah. At least they’re opening up to someone/something.

If you’re behind a conventional router they still do NAT afaik.

Per default your IPv6 address should be an internal one if it’s enabled.

Yeah, we managed to recreate that in a lab. Those old OS’s are super vulnerable.

EOL means no more security updates, which means attack vectors don’t get patched.

If you keep using a Windows installation (or any OS for that matter) that isn’t patched regularly you are very likely to be victim to some malicious actor eventually. It’s not manual hacking anymore, it’s bots scraping the whole internet exploiting known vulnerabilities completely automated.

The risk is much lower if you’re in a home network with NAT, where your PCs IP is not publicly reachable, but if you communicate with any webservices you’re still vulnerable.

As example. If you nowadays put a Windows XP machine live on the internet with a public IP, it will be compromised within minutes.

So yeah. Good call switching to Mint, but please don’t use unpatched Windows.

Josh’s articles seem to be bangers most of the time.

Unlike the people he’s writing about, which probably never banged.

I use Hugo for static site generation and it makes the RSS stuff for me.

What kind of affiliation are you talking about?

This is super cool. Well done!

That’s a tough question and I don’t really have am answer.

But if it’s work related I’d look into finding a Windows SysAdmin course somewhere and ask my employer to pay for it, since it helps with your work.

A cheaper alternative would be online courses. I found Udemy quite helpful in that regard.

Another possibility is Microsoft Learn, which offers basic to professional “Learning paths” you can do on your own time. There’s also a SysAdmin certification available if I recall correctly.

Edit, since I just reread your post: Microsoft Learn is almost completely about Azure. So you should really take a look at it.

I don’t necessarily like a few takes in the comments here.

Vibes wise the Obsidian team seems to be great and they don’t seem to have shown any reason why I should distrust them. I love FOSS but gifting others my work doesn’t put food on my table, so in that sense they need to have a lucrative business model which they seem to have established.

I could use SyncThing, Git or other solutions to do synchronisation between my devices but I choose to buy their Sync offer, since I want to support them (they also have EU servers, which need to be GDPR compliant by law afaik).

The closest comparison I could make is NextCloud. NextCloud open sources their software, but they sell convenience. Sure, you could self host it, but paying them to do so for you may be more attractive. In comparison Obsidian is not really complicated to set up or maintain. It’s literally just a MD-editor. So the only convenient thing to sell is synchronisation if you don’t want to put a price tag on the software.

If they open source all their code, some tech wizard will implement a self hosted obsidian sync server with the same convenience as theirs in a day, and the company will lose their revenue stream.

We’ve all been burned by tech bros in one way or another, but I think it’s ok for people to profit off of their IP. And they seem to be doing so with a positive vision. Feel free to let me eat my words if they ever go rogue, but that’s my 2 cents.

The group I referenced had a paid membership. Scale that up and make it digital and you may end up with a gender exclusive social media app.

I get what you mean though, but I feel there’s a bit more nuance than what you imply.

While I certainly agree with you that discrimination based on sex is unacceptable im most contexts, I believe that gender exclusive spaces, unless they hinder people directly, sometimes are a good thing.

My dad is a mental health professional and founded a weekly ‘only-men’ self help group. He found that some things they talked about there wouldn’t have worked with women involved. That group existed for about 5 years or so and helped quite a few struggling men.

So yeah, unless there’s any maliciousness involved, I’d argue that gender exclusiity is not bad in every context.

Yes, I was also very surprised. The userbase is surprisingly small, even though it runs quite well.

But if I wasn’t into IT, I’d probably have run into issues that I wouldn’t be able to fix. Just little things like proper directory permissions, ownership and such.