Dr. Hax

In the immortal words of Socrates: I drank what? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B7YEeIdZBGc

nostr:nprofile1qqstzvalc4a76cwrj82w372nhyrv0utsn3pcmyw8t7md4au5f82h38gpzemhxue69uhhsmtj9e6hxetwdaehgu3wdaexwqgewaehxw309aek2mnyd96zumn0wdnxcctjv5hxxmmdqyxhwumn8ghj77tpvf6jumt958j70e Do you set an alarm clock to wake up at a particular time every day?

Unsolicited feedback about nostr:nprofile1qqsv8tj2mrsx4ywzqpr466w2jpzq6m25meef60g7ttavl0dku4x5djcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshsm8a2y8 Her jerky is good and she has good support after the sale. Story time. A while back I bought some jerky from her, mainly to support a fellow midwesterner who is actually making things. My Nostr DMs never received, but I placed an order by email and that worked fine. When it arrived, I wanted to share it with the household, but someone here has food alergies and an ingredient was "soy sauce". Uh oh. Does it have BHT, disodium EDTA, MSG? No idea. But I hit up beejay and had an answer within minutes. None of that junk was in there. Just real food. So we all got to enjoy the snack. I'm usually very cost concious, so I go for the least expensive option at the grocery store, which is a fraction of the cost of handmade jerky. But if you want the high end stuff, try beejay. She's the real deal.

Yesterday I spun up a Nextcloud instance that will be a shared resource for multiple communities that I am a part of. 1. Reverse proxy rules updated by Ansible 2. VM created by terraform 3. Nextcloud/postgres/nginx/TLS certs set up by Ansible After I edited a few text files, it took a bit over 10 minutes to between nothing, and fully working #Nextcloud server. #SelfHosting is great!

OK. So someone explain it to me like I'm 5. The big tech companies have been holding the US stock market up for years now. They are all heavily investing in AI and their value is based on expectations of huge breakthroughs which will enrich the lives for everyone. Some people say it's all hype, hopes snd dreams and when people figure that out everything comes crashing down. That's easy to understand. But what if these rich dudes like Zuckerburg and Altman and the others are right? They make a machine that can do things better and faster than humans. No need to keep paying the workers anymore. Great. Mission accomplished. How do they turn a profit at that point? If people are out of work, who is going to buy the output of the AI? Other rich dudes who already have their own AI? Governments? Is so, where do they get the money? We all know printing it isn't going to work, and if it's just going to taxes and then backto the companies, I don't understand the point. Where is the money supposed to come from? It just doesn't make sense to me. Give me the straight dope here. Teach me something.

"People being amazed that AI can code is like people being amazed a chimp can ride a unicycle." Via https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@grumpygamer/115641941299143850

ProtonMail and Tutanota are designed for people who can’t or don’t want to manage their own encryption, keys, and secure setups. They’re convenience-first services with "security wrappers," not power-user systems. You, on the other hand, already run: Real IMAP/SMTP with TLS Real GPG end-to-end encryption Your own trust model Your own keyring Your own MUAs or TUIs That is actual security — and far more flexible, transparent, and interoperable. Why these services feel restrictive to someone like you They hide the cryptography from the user. Their customers are non-technical folks who will never run gpg --decrypt or manage subkeys. So they lock everything behind their own proprietary, app-bound encryption layers. They intentionally break standard email protocols. IMAP, SMTP, POP → disabled or forced through a proprietary bridge. Because normal mail protocols can't natively support their "encrypt everything automatically" model. They trade power for simplicity. You gain nothing if you already know how to run modern Linux, GPG, S/MIME, etc. They make you dependent on their ecosystem. No custom clients, no TUI, no neomutt, no aerc, no msmtp, no mbsync. That’s a massive downgrade for a real power user. So yes — for someone like you: Regular IMAP/SMTP + TLS + GPG beats ProtonMail and Tutanota in every possible way: Open protocols Full client choice Interoperability Real cryptographic control Auditability Automation Scriptability And most importantly: no vendor lock-in or "Bridge" nonsense

You load 16 tons, what do ya get?

This is the knife I use to open up packages I didn't think it'd work well, but its been great

The bifold door kept falling and injuring a housemate. The broken part (foreground of photo) is probably from 1962, when the house was built. It doesn't have a part number. We don't know the manufacturer. Even if we did, we don't know if the company is even still around, let alone selling replacement parts. So I modeled a replacement and printed it. About 90 minutes later (one print), and the door is fixed. Tolerances were off, but redrilling the vertical hole fixed that and I fixed the model to match what worked in practice. #3Dprinting #DIY

I'd like to introduce you to Gabber. You probably won't like it. 😅 "On the far end of the Techno spectrum, past the mainstream and niche-trendy, and deep into the hardest, darkest alley of the genre lies Gabber. This music is only for the hardest of hardcore Techno fans and not recommended for the faint-of-anything. Born in the late 80’s out of an ultra-industrial form of Belgian New Beat techno, Gabber found a home in Rotterdam, whose gritty fans embraced it as an opposition anthem to the more pretentious house scene in Amsterdam. Gabber music is characterized by highly distorted bass drum samples, scathing synths, and relentless percussion. It’s been called the ‘death metal’ of electronic music and has such a zealous following that there are apparently dating sites dedicated solely to those whose ears are tuned for Gabber’s smashing sounds." https://di.fm/gabber

Sometimes I can't figure out how to use a command and I need the man to tell me what to do. #unix geeks will understand what I'm talking about here.