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?

I almost wish I hadn’t started using FBReader. It’s ruined me for everything else.

Everytime I try a different reading app it just feels wrong.

You again? What part of the fossil fuel industry do you work in?

Nobody believes EVs are without drawbacks, but your blind hatred of renewables and EVs comes across as more unhinged every time I see your name on a comment. I’ve engaged with you in good faith before and you have shown yourself to be a bad actor. If you can’t figure out why moving away from fossil fuels is a good thing at least shut up and let the rest of the world get on with it.

You keep asserting that, could you provide some sources for that assertion. Everything I am reading says that you need to commit to a major nuclear program and get everything right to approach the cost of renewables. Adding to this the advances are coming thick and fast, across the range of renewables and storage technologies, more efficiencys and cost savings. The only viable way I have heard of to improve the cost efficiencies of Nuclear is to extend the operational life span of the plants, and those efficiencies will only be realised once the extension is made to the service life of the plant (plus let’s be honest the private owners of the plants by that stage will just soak that up as extra profit).

So if we are going to build out these phenomenally expensive projects we are going to need a fair assurance that the funders and then the operators are going to see a return on investment. If renewables keep being cheaper to deploy, if recycling becomes more efficient, if battery storage prices fall. All of this hurts the viability of Nuclear, and will certainly impact the public will to keep throwing vast amounts of money at infrastructure. The other countries who are building out nuclear capacity on accelerated time frames and lower costs, how many of them are operating within a regulatory framework that corresponds with Australia’s? How many of them are adding additional capacity to existing Nuclear, rather than starting from scratch? How many of them are not budgeting for lifecycle and just assuming they will find the money to decomission when they have to, instead of building that cost in during the operational life of the plants?

How do you plan on convincing people like my father-in-law who hasn’t drawn from the grid in more than a year to be cool that his powerbill will be going up for a service he only keeps connected to sell his excess power? That’s where the regressive authoritarian bit came from, you are going to have to shutdown kw scale solar as it will be too much of a danger to the under construction nuclear industry.

You seem really bent out of shape with the whole renewable thing, no technology is entirely benign to the environment, but if we keep on advancing the tech here we are going to continue to see positive change. Plus it seems so much more feasible to recycle a dead solar panel or battery vs the shielding of a reactor.

I want nuclear to be part of an energy mix, but it’s going to be a huge commitment to build out, there will be delays, there will be cost overruns and there will be graft and corruption. You know how Australians are, it will be an excuse to keep propping up coal and gas, and when the first plant doesn’t deliver on the economies and timeframes of, let’s say the eight plant, there will be some shithead who will stoke up a bunch of populist dogwhistles around how Canberra is wasting tax payer money on a white elephant project.

Imagine the nuclear advocates throwing that much money, time and effort behind nuclear only to see it stall out for another quarter century because the momentum faltered.

Cool, you footing the bill? Because the upfront costs of building out enough nuclear to replace just the current coal plants is going to lead to skyrocketing energy costs. But if you can front the billions it would cost nobody is going to stop you. However what is your plan for the next 15+ years it would take to build the fleet of nuclear powerplants? Since you have decided renewables are evil is the plan to ban them from being deployed while we build out nuclear, keep burning coal and gas during that time? Renewables keep getting cheaper to deploy, are you going to institute a world wide ban on further R&D until Australia finishes its nuclear rollout so we don’t have the equation slipping further into imbalance.

Also our power grids are actively degrading under neglect thanks to deregulation and asset sales, you going to renationalise all that so we can rationalise & remediate transmission costs or are we labouring under the misguided hope that we won’t have bad actors trying to profiteer off the lines and poles?

I get it, I wish we had got onboard with nuclear back when the economics would have made it a home run and social anxiety was the biggest blocker, we missed that boat and now the paradigm has shifted.

I fully believe nuclear should have a role in our energy market, but instituting a regressive authoritarian society to make it a reality just doesn’t seem like a smart decision.