The mod that got me into modding still has a special place in my heart. It was the Shockwave mod for C&C Generals. Shockwave absolutely could have been vanilla if EA deigned to finish the Zero Hour expansion. It was just pure polished perfection for that game.

I think that most of the time when people decide that they don’t like decaf, it’s because they got some day old coffee from somewhere that doesn’t move enough decaf to ever make more batches. I like the caffeine in normal, but decaf is great for just the flavor.

I feel like at some point in the next few years Musk and Trump are going to have a falling out, and if Musk loses in that falling out he’ll get slapped with a domestic terrorism or treason charge.

See, I don’t pay for the electric bill to keep my collection of old enterprise equipment running because I need the performance. I keep them running because I have no resistance to the power of blinkenlights.

My local version spat out this:

Of course, let me explain. In 1989, there were significant pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, led primarily by students and other citizens advocating for reforms. The Chinese government, in response, took actions that resulted in a tragic loss of life and a strong suppression of the protests. It’s a complex and sensitive topic in Chinese history. Do you have any specific aspects you’d like to discuss further?

Deepseek R1 is the least censored model that I’ve tried. It does a lot less of the “As an AI assistant, I can’t help with unethical whatever” compared to the corporate approved US ones too.

I think my instance has been growing at about 30 GB a year. I think if you set it up to not rehost the pictures, you can keep the whole thing in the handful of GB range.

So when I ask Let’s Encrypt for a cert, I ask for *.int.teuto.icu instead of specifically jellyfin.int.teuto.icu, that way I can use the same cert for any internally running service. Mostly I use SSL on everything to make browsers complain less. There isn’t much security benefit on a local network. I suppose it makes harder to spoof on an external network, but I don’t think that’s a serious threat for a home net. I used to use home.lan for all of my services, but that has the drawback of redirecting to a search by default on most browsers. I have my tailscale exit node running on my router and it just works with SSL like anything else.

I use a central nginx container to redirect to all my other services using a wildcard let’s encrypt cert for my internal domain from acme.sh and I access it all externally using a tailscale exit node. The only publicly accessible service that I run is my Lemmy instance. That uses a cloudflare tunnel and is isolated in it’s own vlan.

TBH I’m still not really happy having any externally accessible service at all. I know enough about security to know that I don’t know enough to secure against much anything. I’ve been thinking about moving the Lemmy instance to a vps so it can be someone else’s problem if something bad leaks out.

I do this, then after the 5 years I feel like I need to start over from the beginning so I know the story. Then I stop just before the end again.

I think a stupidly bright flashlight is preferable to a laser, but the idea of signalling for help with a light can work. Please don’t use lasers.

I’m a 737 pilot. Reverse thrust is never calculated into landing distance. You use brakes and spoilers, reversers are a bonus. Airplanes are perfectly capable of landing with no thrust, in fact normally in an engine failure you don’t use the working reverser because of the potential of a loss of control from asymmetric reverse thrust.

Assuming worst case scenario, they lost hydraulic systems A and B due to an uncontained engine failure. In that case the landing gear can be lowered with a gravity release and the flaps can be lowered with an electric alternate motor. The right engine clearly is still working on touchdown, you can see the cowl shroud open as the reversers deploy in the video. The problem is that they touched down just short of the end of the runway, probably around 180 knots, with a totally clean plane. I don’t know how they got into that position, but it wasn’t only a bird strike.

You say that, but once someone on the ground was shining a bright ass flashlight, not a laser but just as bright, at us and they were flashing …—… (SOS in Morse). Apparently we were the 4th plane to report it to air traffic control. I’ve never seen that before or since, but at least that time it worked.

I don’t know what happened here, but man does that official speculation make no sense at all. At least I can’t think of any realistic scenario in which a bird strike causes that.

If you want apples to apples, why the hell is Tesla, a company that makes under 2m vehicles, have a market cap of 1.4T while Toyota, a company that makes 10 million vehicles a year, has a market cap of 233B. No matter how you look at it, Toyota has better numbers in every way, but Tesla is a tech company as far as the market is concerned.

I have a dell power edge 730, which was about $200. It’s CPU shrouds perfectly match the GPU intakes so air just flows through both from the server fans. I’ve seen a few 3d printable fan mounts for jury rigging them into a regular tower too.

I picked up a pair of old Tesla P40s. Right now I’m running a Q4 quant of Qwen 2.5 72B that fits in the combined 48GB of VRAM with 12k context. They aren’t as fast as newer consumer cards, but it generates as fast as I can read while costing less than a used 3080.

About 5 years ago FB decided that they wanted to 2FA using my college email instead of the one actually attached to the account. Don’t have my college email any more and I never cared enough to figure out how to fix it.

Proton mail unlimited - prob gonna drop or downgrade when the sub is up, a couple of domains, mullvad, some patrons, and that’s it. Everything else I self host.

I just use an IP address, they always resolve http and I can type 1.1.1.1 faster.

A few jobs back I was working was on a little learjet that had a .75 thirst to weight ratio. Now that was a fun jet. Now I have 54k lbs if thrust in a plane that weighs anywhere from 100-160k lbs.