Set up a job to write the file names of everything in your file system to a text file and make sure that text file gets backed up. I did that on my Unraid server for years in lieu of fully backing up the whole array.

I don’t think that’s why most voted for him. I think it was the other things.

Pay your Nazis, people! Yeesh!

I’m sure this is a big, professional, intelligence operation, but I still can’t help but think it’s just a LAN party.

For a guy that’s always crowing about making deals, he sure seems unhappy about people making deals.

I heard about a Chinese rpg that did something similar. The conversations were wide open, and instead of clicking through limited dialog choices, you had to type your responses. You get some guidance on what the purpose of the conversation is, but that’s it. Like: “cheer this person up!”

I think it’s a cute idea but ultimately too unpredictable using the current generation of LLMs.

IMO AI is better used as a game design tool than something running live in game. I remember running around so many open world games where it was obvious you had left the area you were meant to be in. Suddenly there’s few monsters, no quests or NPCs, and the least thought given to foliage and landscape decisions. BORING. I feel like that’s a great use of AI - create a non-critical landscape players can continue to explore, even if they won’t make any progress on the main quest/story lines.

A game studio isn’t going to pay designers to create rich experiences in unnecessary parts of the world, but they should be willing to pay designer to review a region like that and get it into the game.

They should rename it Orangeland.

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?

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.

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).

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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.

I’m just using Unraid for the server, after many iterations (PhotonOS, VMware, baremetal Windows Server, …). After many OSes, partial and complete hardware replacements, and general problems, I gave up trying to manage the base server too much. Backups are generally good enough if hardware fails or I break something.

The other side of this is that I’ve moved to having very, very little config on the server itself. Virtually everything of value is in a docker container with a single (admittedly way too large) docker compose file that describes all the services.

I think this is the ideal way for how I use a home server. Your mileage might vary, but I’ve learned the hard way that it’s really hard to maintain a server over the very long term and not also marry yourself to the specific hardware and OS configuration.

I do backups with a Raspberry Pi with a 1TB SD card and leave it on all the time. The power draw is very small and I think reasonable for the value of offsite backups.

My personal experience with WOL (or anything related to power state of computers) is that it’s not reliable enough for something offsite. If you can set something up that’s stable, awesome, but if your backup server is down and you need to travel to it, that suuuucks.

And one clown, as the old joke goes.

My in laws have a second home in the US and have been faithfully going back and forth pretty regularly to maintain it.

Now we’re finally getting to the point where they’re uncertain about going and talking about selling it.

I think there’s a lot of people coming a bit late to the party. I don’t think we’ve stabilized those numbers yet.