Ehh it’s one thing to say you will vote with the rabid racists that are being legitimised by the mainstream mid cycle between elections. It’s another to vote that way at the ballot box.

Plus a significant proportion can intend to vote for the red headed freak all they want. It’s a bit more difficult when they have to remember the verbal instructions from the electoral worker, make it to a booth and remember how to write to manifest that desire.

Honestly, it’s the Sky News, Channel Nine, Facebook crowd that will buoy PHON up. The same people who will decry that the left have gone to far because trans people exist, who waffle on about death taxes as though they will have a big enough estate to be affected one way or another, and who talk about having to be economically responsible and living within our needs as a country while ignoring the Billions in corporate welfare and tax cuts for the rich. Fucking Idiots in other words, and yet their vote carries as much weight as mine or yours, its kinda disgusting really.

A 3 question civics test before you can vote would destroy whole blocs of voters in Australia. Just get them to identify how a progressive income tax works, which country is the biggest greenhouse gas emitter in the OECD, and which parts of the Miranda Rights apply to them, boom PHON gets a dozen votes across the whole country.

I bounced pretty hard off Free ad and ended up using OnShape. I don’t feel great about it though.

I imagine there are Caddy GUIs, I just don’t find them necessary. The last service I added was the work of 20 seconds to add, I did it while waiting for the Docker pull to complete. I’m not sure a GUI would make that significantly faster/easier. But your mileage may vary. Especially in the initial setup phase.

I have generally been happy with Proxmox to increase the versatility of my setup. It’s so liberating to be able to spin up a simple VM and test something out before commiting to changes. I also have a small old machine that just chugs away with a VM for hosting a couple of containers and only gets updated every few months so its not like it’s only useful for ephemeral stuff.

OPNSense, I use the Asus router it replaced in AP mode, but I do want to ditch that. Strongly considering sitting a couple of Unifi APs up in the field cavity (renter so no drilling holes for me). I have 2 cat6 lines I was able to get run from the garage to the living room (some numpty thought the connection box for the internet should be in the middle of the wall in the lounge room so have to have the cables) so I can get up there, cut and terminate one of the lines and add a switch with POE.

Honestly OPNSense has been fun, but I barely scratch a quarter of its capability. I could and probably should just use the Asus router as a router.

Oh don’t get me wrong I barely scratch the surface of what Authentik can do… It stuck for me because I could ignore the complexity and it was functional with what I know. Especially how easy it has been to onboard users and add new services, especially with regards to SSO(I initially used it just as Auth to replace HTTP Basic).

I will definitely look at kanidm though. I haven’t made a change to the core operation of my setup in a year or so, might be time to give in to the itch.

I found Authentik was the one that stuck for me, Authelia was always a bit brittle. Using Caddy due to a mix of Docker and LXC containers making Traefik seem like a bit too much trouble. I used to use NPM but that was a bit of a pain to get working at one stage and Caddy was the interim solution that hung on. I miss being able to manage reverse proxy via GUI. But for how often I need to map new services 5 lines in a config file to use the wildcard I already have is really no stress.

I haven’t dug any deeper but Proxmox keeps killing my router VM due to OOM at the moment which is a bit of a pain and every time I think I have it sorted it crops back up, only been doing it since the update from V8 to V9. I’m almost at the point where I just scrap Proxmox and run OPNSense bare metal, but it always seems like such a waste to have an N300 box with 16GB of ram and 1 tb SSD driving a small network, 20ish devices and a dozen or so VMs and containerised services doesn’t really stress that hardware.

I initially started virtualising to get around periodic resets of the i226 network cards on my router box. Was kinda wild that virtualising and using Virtio was so much more stable and consequently faster than running on bare metal. Wonder if that’s changed since then.

Never mind. Gotta go be a productive member of society, have a good day.

Are you OK?

Just being honest, I would go to town in that bad boy. Hell I’d probably only put clothes on to get all dolled up and had out to experience how different it is picking up women on easy mode.

Neat, well some respect for you. If you and I swapped bodies I would get stuck playing with all the fun bits on and in your body forever. Well done not letting it distract you.

So do you take a photo and think “I should post that.” Or take photos with the intent of posting? Is your camera roll full of skin pics?

What inspired you to stop by and say HI!?

Fantastic, not really sure where I’m going with this. Just trying to avoid being a lecherous pervert… So uh… Hi

So… Ahh… You’re a Doctor, medical or academic? What’s your field?

Hi

OK, cool. I hope everything goes well for you with the project.

Hey,

Like the look of the app so far. I will be spinning up a local server when I am not coming off a morning shift, and see if I can get a pass on the WAF.

Just a quick question, being in Australia the bulk of our food metrics are in kilojoules, I have selected this as the default energy measure however there are a few areas where I am still getting calories presented.

For example in the Diary I am getting kcals on both the food and the summary. I imagine you do everything in calories and this just slipped past but wondering if I missed a setting?

Also I had a quick scan and like that the AI integrations are optional but I was unclear if AI was used to code the project, do you have a position on that?

On the whole I am liking what I see so far.

The existence of Billionaires is the most diagnostically relevant symptom of the inevitable terminal nature of capitalism. Capital exists to accumulste in ever more dense focii until it is all owned by the smallest number of people. The way to prevent that is governance, unfortunately governments are susceptible to the power of capital so over time they fail to acts against the interest of capital.

If we had started on “net zero” as soon as the problem of climate change became apparent we would have had a smoother transition, every day we delayed we ensured that it would be a more traumatic process but we let the ultra rich muddy the waters for decades and now it’s going to involve some pain.

If we had gotten ahead of renewables and kicked off our own manufacturing base in the 90s we could have been ahead of the game, instead we let a bunch of rich fucks get away with robbing us blind.

I had a guy the other day tell me it’s a myth that fossil fuels are depleting because they aren’t really fossil’s they are just some mysterious exudate the Earth generates, so we can drill and mine forever as it will never go away, oh and all the changes in the weather are just made up as we sat in shorts and T-shirts with the air conditioner on in Tasmania in the last full week of April.

I can never figure out why people get so up in arms about China when the USA owns a fuck load more Australian land and business. Let’s face it, the US knows they don’t need to use lube or ask permission to fuck us and they are at least as bad as China in almost every respect. The main difference I see is that in China the billionaires are owned by the government, in the USA it’s the other way round.

Yeah, one more drink won’t hurt, we can stop any time, it’s not a problem.

Actually I’m going to go a few steps forward and let coal and forward get used, but remove every tax breakand subsidy from them. The second a Billionaire starts threatening to take their money elsewhere start nationalising for the sake of the workers.

We need to start treating the existence of billionaires as a sign of serious imbalance and imminent failure.

We should absolutely be making our own solar and batteries, a smart government would have included some money in the budget towards kick starting and incentivising that, they could call it Future Made in Australia.

The problem with Nuclear is that it requires multiple decade commitments to be practical, we have an entire wing of politics which actively wants to take retrograde steps to keep us on gas and coal as long as possible, the next time they are in power they will find ways to go slow on nuclear.

You are right that the best time to start is decades ago, but starting it now will result in us making Hinkley Point look like a model of efficiency.

What we need is to develop our grid in distinct achievable packets of work to minimise the Liberal parties opportunities to piss all over modernisation to help their billionaire buddies.

I have had multiple people show me that 7 Spotlight propaganda piece and try to tell me this is why renewables are a scam, then get defensive and rude when I ask which liar they want me to listen to, the Journalist turned fossil fuel PR flack turned “Veteran Journalist” (who works for a company owned by a billionaire), the politician (and member of a climate denial club called Saltbush that counts a certain mining magnate billionaire as a member) that wants us to build out coal and concedes we should probably do nuclear at some stage, the “conservationist” who won’t admit who is funding him and appears to be a compulsive liar.

We need to get rid of coal and gas as quickly as possible, we need to reduce our usage of fossil fuels in the transport sector, and we need to kick start local manufacturing and R&D. Once we have a reasonable level of security we can start building out capacity for the next century, until then I worry we will be debating and procrastinating until the rest of the world overtakes us… Or worse, laps us.

Cool, what’s your prescription professor, we going to buy solely Australian made equipment for all future infrastructure?

Oh wait, we were so beholden to preserving profitability of our extractive indutries that we effectively offshored the lions share of our manufacturing sector. Worst part is we have all the raw materials we need on shore to support modern battery and renewable generation technology, but we let our billionaires piss it all away.

Now we are going to get xenophobic about where we source our infrastructure from?

Let me guess we are going to somehow make nuclear cheaper than renewables, somehow kickstart our own nuclear construction capacity from effectively nil, and then we are going to have a properly “'Straylyan” energy grid.

Yet again I ask, what part of the fossil fuel industry are you employed in and do you feel guilty that you are willing to let your ideology get in the way of pursuing the cheapest most effective way of pushing forward?