Can’t crossfade, developers won’t add the features the server doesn’t support it. I get a random crashes at least once a session. Search sucks because I don’t feel like wiring up elastic. Doesn’t stream large lists, browse to P? With 5000 artists and 20K tracks? Forever.

The beta is a little smoother but doesn’t address any of my issues with it.

Symphonium is 100 times better, never crashes, solves lists/streaming by downloading the lists and handling them locally.

I was wondering how long before they dropped that other shoe.

I bought Plexpass when it was $70. Got my money out of it. The centralized login, ssl, caching and proxy are probably worth paying something for.

That said, I’ve mostly walked away from them over privacy concerns and an utter refusal to add community-requested features while removing actively used features.

I just want my AHK stuff to work again. They’re dragging us kicking and screeming into un-avoidable security that breaks software that noone is up for fixing.

First off, thank you for all your work.

Why this hasn’t happened yet

You set the bar pretty high for improvement.

The vacuums are expensive. The work requires multiple top-tier skill sets, and the people with those skill sets don’t generally have enough time to contribute to something this heavy

Somebody could just fork you and clone everything you’re doing, but it’s not like any users would chase someone else versus you when you’re the only one getting actual work done.

It’s also kind of poking the bear for these vacuum companies skirting along by selling user data.

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but I’d argue voting third party outside of swing states

absolutely, and i’m a fan of this, let’s get congress full of third, as long as it’s not libretarian third :)

know progressive policies get people excited. They’re not interested in being progressive. They’re only interested in maintaining the status quo and if stepping on you is necessary to do that, they’ll happily do it. Some of them will make a somber face on

All fine and dandy, but voting 3rd without the 3rd being actually viable is just voting 1st for the other side.

s are 2 extremes of this same pro-late stage capitalist status quo system so expecting anything to change by vacillating between them is an unrealistic non-starter.

I don’t disagree, but voting for a 3rd in a tw- party race will also be a useless non-starter.

The republicans have a strong enough, brainwashed base that will vote for them come hell or high water. Around 35% of people who will vote are seriously engaged on their side and will do whatever they need to vote for them. That’s a pretty strong hurdle to overcome

The democrats also have a contingent of Better Blue than Red and will vote for them no matter what.

The largest party next in line would be the Green party, and honestly, they’re barely trying. I mean the head of the party has investments in Fossil Fuel companies supporting fracking. AOC rightfully critisized them for a lack of organiztional development. It’s just this mess of funding going in and our for visibility and the dilution of the “not republican” vote.

So voting for a third party, at best, lets the republicans continue their destruction of the country and sends a message to the democrats that we’re tired of their crap, which has happened twice now with zero changes.

If you want us to vote for 3rd party, you need to deliver us a 3rd party with enough leadership to campaign and win it.

hmm, so the US citizens trying to get the Democrats to stop aligning with the Republicans should just stop because they’re indistinguishable. Got it.

The idea is you use the sysinternals to scrape the file handles as the app opens. It’ll log it and you can go back to the log and look. You just have to add the application as a filtered application.

If it’s opening them from anywhere in the disk, that’ll show up.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

Start process explorer, start the app, look and see what files it has open.

You can also try opening the EXE as a zip file.

If the assets are compiled into the EXE, there’s a chance that if you put assets in an identical structure outside of the EXE, it’ll let you override them.

i’ve been feeding my dog chicken thighs after her last hungerstrike. She recognizes the difference in between my knifework on sausage/veggies and chicken.

My cats tell me when it’s dinner time, not the other way around :)

There have been 209 versions of that site

https://web.archive.org/web/20250331043558/https://www.isitdns.com/

it predated AI, but likely seems to have had some AI cleanup.

If it was truly just vibecoded, the comments would usually be on every element.

I just did the same f’ing thing and came here to write your comment!

well done.

Dev: My app’s getting a 400 hitting the server. Your firewall changes broke it.

Me: You’re getting to the server, it’s giving you back a malformed request error. Most likely it’s a problem in your client.

Dev: it worked fine until you made that change in QA.

Me: Your server is in production.

After that, I just get too busy to look at it for a while… They figure it out eventually.

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Where’s my fucking food hooman?

with their banging hits

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 and 

 pspspspsp my ass, sure rub my belly FAFO motherfucker. 

Everything you expose is fine until somebody finds a zero day.

Everything these days is being built from a ton of publically maintained packages. All it takes is for one of those packages to fall into the wrong hands and get updated which happens all the time.

If you’re going to expose web yourself, use anubus and fail2ban

Put everything that doesn’t absolutely need to be public open behind a VPN.

Keep all of your software updated, constant vigilance.

When I started with it, I looked through references all over and just felt f’ing lost, and I do this kind of stuff all the time. I am intimately familiar with AWS and Azure, but setting K8S up is just very different than the normal stuff we’re used to. I’m big on installing a package and screwing with it until it works, but this doesn’t work like that.

At the risk of being criticized here, and I’m very sorry if you’re strongly opposed to AI, consider asking ChatGPT or Copilot to guide you through setting up Kubernetes step by step. Out of desperation, I figured I’d give AI a shot, and for the most part, it was really great at teaching it to me.

Ask it to give you the different options for setting up Kubernetes on your home lab (there are numerous ways to do this). You can save a lot of steps by using something like Rancher (k3s), which is a simplified version, but I prefer starting with the official kubeadm first. It’s harder, but it gives you a better feel for what’s happening, and it’s more capable and closer to what you’d experience when crafting a production deployment.

Indicate your level of experience in the next prompt and specify which systems you’re familiar with so it can tailor training to your existing knowledge and play to your strengths. Ask it to make a lesson plan first, and then pick what items you want it to walk you through. If anything feels weird or you have questions, stop it and ask away. You’re working on something from scratch, so there’s little to lose if it gets something wrong, but honestly, teaching technical things with tons of documentation available is probably the best use of LLMs that has ever existed.

If you decide against AI, focus your research on Docker cli, Kubeadm installation (the control plane/controller) and creating/joining nodes, persistent storeage and networking, K8S Namespace, then pod deployment. Complicated parts that might hang you up are getting logs from PODS that die on startup, and getting interactive prompts in a cluster are a little different than Docker (have to specify namespace)

For persistent storage, you then have numerous options. For a homelab, I like Longhorn; it’s a RAID-like system that stores data blocks across the nodes, and it easily backs up to S3 if you want it to.

For homelab learning and testing, I just crapped out a Proxmox and started 3 VMs, setup kubeadm on the control plane and then joined two nodes, then spent I an hour getting NTFY to run in it for the first time, I really should have done a python hello world, NTFY is fiddly. But, it’s super fun to stop a VM and watch the app come back up like nothing happened.

Once you get a base system up, whatever you choose, do check out https://www.ansibleforkubernetes.com/

Jeff Geerling did a bang-up job on the book, and it supports his cause. It just doesn’t go into the detail you need to get started with k8s.