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How is it? I’ve been to the Truman one and the Clinton one. It’s interesting to see how they chose to display/address the insanity of the bombing of Hiroshima and the whole impeachment/Monica Lewinsky deal.

If you’re googling for something, adjust the date for results to end in 2022. You may miss out on some answers, but it should be relatively ai-free.

But if those creators enlisted a bunch of other folks to make anime adaptions/extended stories, I bet that would be okay.

I loved Spike in both Buffy and Angel. What a delight.

Like this scene where he blacked out all his windows in his car windows so he can drive it the day time.

It’s really good though. I stopped using Spotify about a year ago and switched to qobuz.

It’s not perfect (no podcasts and their generated “daily” mixes are meh), but the quality is top notch, and you can also buy DRM free music through them.

I hear you, but there’s a material difference between

• if I protest, I could lose my job, family healthcare, and roof over my head
• I don’t want to protest because it’s inconvenient/discomforting.

There’s also a matter of critical mass. We’ve had it drilled in our head that unions are bad precisely to discourage group action. If I protest our use of AI at work, or if I want to raise a complaint against the local government, and I’m alone? That will 100% end with severe personal repercussions. If my team of 5 walk out, that’s harder to fire all of us, but absolutely doable.

If the entire division walks out, then we have some change leverage.

Now scale this out to the ~340M Americans, and you can see the problem.

Also, critical mass affects the area of effect - if utah loses their shit over something, how does that impact New York? Missouri? Answer, not really at all.

So you need something that will get a critical mass of 340M people, across 3.1M sq miles (8M square kilometers). Can that happen? Sure.

Sure it can.

I wish I could upvote this more than once. Without social safety nets, the average American cannot do anything to jeopardize their job without losing health benefits or income - and most folks are living paycheck to paycheck.

If mass firings happen, and people realize they will literally be fucked unless they can force the government to listen, then maybe we’ll see wider scale protests.

That’s everyone with a 401k and/or Roth IRA (unless specifically trying to avoid AI investments instead of index funds. 🫠

“I’m okay with that because one day, if I work hard, I might own an oil company”

– Middle America MAGA Voter

I’ve heard this too. Utter insanity. Quick, dig up and reanimate the corpse of Carter.

“But what if it means two in a row!?!?!!?”

That’s a literal claim from some Republicans.

So it’s more true to reality?

Do the people voting for this shit understand that their kids will also be subject to this bullshit?

Don’t spread these LIES. Just like banning abortion, it’s only a ban for THOSE promiscuous girls, not my darling baby girl. If she ever got into “trouble” she would get an exception.

• Nearly word for word from an in-law

It’s expensive. Sure you can start off with an old laptop, but soon you’ll want external storage to hold more images/media.

Then you’ll realize that if you just got a dedicated mini-pc you could host more containers. Oh! What if you get multiple identical PCs and then you cluster them for HA/zero downtime maintenance?!

Shit, but then you would need more than the little integrated 4 port switch on your Netgear router.

No matter! Switch to a virtualized pfsense, ditch the Netgear router and go for a 12 port switch.

Smash cut to a few years later when you’re spec’ing fiber switches/SFP+ for 10Gbps and Proxmox nodes with an extra 4GB ram so your ceph cluster doesn’t fall over randomly… Wait, why is my electric bill now $400/mo?

I’ve been seriously considering downgrading my homelab, but at this point between the *arr stack and Immich, I’m not sure if I can.

Would you make someone you love a home server?

No. Especially no for a non-technical, remote person.

Troubleshooting my lab in the basement is hard enough without having to try some weird screen share app, or telling the person, “press the blinky light button. NO NOT THAT ONE”.

If you want to share the joys of a home lab, do what I did for my technologically impaired in laws - get a wireguard VPN client on a laptop and walk them through (several times) the process of connecting to the VPN, browsing to your services, logging into the services, doing the thing, then disconnecting from the VPN.

• Show them the process while they take notes on the process.
• Let them follow their own notes with minimal help (except to correct the notes) while they do the process end to end.
• Repeat that last step a few times with zero feedback so they build confidence in the process.
• The next day, have them do it again based exclusively on their notes and memory.
• If you’re still in town, wait a full day and repeat the last step a few days later.

My in-laws are now experts at VPN’ing in and interacting with my services.

At work, I used ssh-signed certificates for Linux server access - those certs are only valid for about 15 minutes.

The whole idea of shorter lifetime certificates is to address if a certificate is compromised. (Especially for client certificates which, iirc, Let’s Encrypt no longer offers).

For a home lab? With no externally accessible services? Short-lived certs aren’t really a big deal. Nobody is going to be hacking your homelab, stealing your private keys, poisoning your internal DNS, and pointing you to a different, malicious service.

For me, I have multiple OIDC compatible systems (Proxmox, Netbox, Synology, Zabbix, Vault, etc).

So keycloak offers a SSO option to make my life easier with a single account to worry about instead of individual ones.

Plus MFA because it’s cool?

This one is bad - unauthenticated user account take over.

If you’re like me and only using it internally on a homelab, the risks are lessened, but if you expose keycloak to by the Internet - boy howdy