I’m still on 10.11. I guess is best to do a few intermediate upgrades just in case? Though an user ok the forum said it had no issues upgrading directly from 10.11

I have my own unproved theory that the increase in problems with focus and attention spam of children are not from screens, tik tok, or infinite scroll. They are from advertisements, a format deliberately crafted to be short, intense and to mess with your brain so you buy.

Advertisements in media have been growing over the years and becoming more hypnotic and intense also.

I have like 30 different services running on the same machine.

That’s why you want to use some container solution, I use docker for simplicity.

Also raspberry pi is not great for self hosting. Any cheap x64 machine will be much more powerful for the same price, and have less compatibility issues.

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Example of California hydro generation

Both are needed for a healthy power structure.

Wind, solar even with batteries have low innertia (actually no innertia at all by themselves). If you want to resist turbulences on the power network without free innertia resistance by turbines (nuclear, gas, hydro), you need expensive equipment to generate that innertia other ways, and it can get quite expensive.

Hydro would be great but it’s highly seasonal.

Try to find a forest where I can go live like an animal. Let’s see if I can even make it 6 months.

This is a good idea. Knowing that nvidia bought huggingface, I’m sure that they will start banning and/or paywalling more models there sooner than later.

disengage

A country where the alt right is on the rise.

A country where everything is better than 30 years ago I would assume the alt right would have probably not growth that much.

Housing cost increase, for instance, is happening in all Europe, which is one of the places of the world where the alt right is skyrocketing their electoral results.

For instance Germany, where latest elections have shown a worrying rise of AfD has this chart of house prices.

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The graph shows a blimp down in 2024, but in recent data the prices are already rising again in 2026.

Also my country is not a neighborhood, it’s a 50 million people place, and one of the biggest countries of the EU who might fall to an alt right government as soon as 2027. And live being much better in other countries is not something people who vote here take into consideration, they value how their own lives have been getting better or worse. Saying that “spme other country in the world” is going better have zero relevance when talking about alt right rising in specific countries.

Google have been years seeing how far they can push linux GPL.

At this rate android will end up being closed source.

I don’t think we can objectively say everything is better.

Some things are better, but some are worse. The overall I agree is better but there are some harsh realities that are real, not product or any information warfare.

Housing prices are just much higher. The amount of years needed to work to pay off a house are just much more than it used to.

Salaries are, overall, lower when you account for inflation. Same amount of working hours let you consume less food, fuel, energy and amenities compared to a few decades ago.

On a personal note, even my salary has been increasing below inflation rate. I used to be able to apply for social aid, and I’m no longer able to because they say my income is over the limit. I’m earning less and still got excluded from social programs.

There are many things better. We have more freedoms, more knowledge, we are healthier. There are many great things now compared to before. But it is objectively true that some matters, mostly economical ones, have gone worse for the average worker.

For most countries where the alt right is rising, and specially among alt right voters, “immigration” is among the first perceived problems in the polls.

Most people I’ve talk that vote alt right don’t really care about the rest of the agenda of the party they vote, they are even against it, but they vote alt right because they perceive immigration as a severe issue.

So, for the people who vote for those parties, that’s the main reason they are doing it.

Now, why they perceive immigration as such a threat as to vote for something they don’t even like? That’s a much more complex issue, that I think it has a lot to do with the fall in socioeconomic progress many countries are living right now.

5 years the last one.

The hardware, including battery, worked great. But it has been lacking updates for some years and I’m worried about vulnerabilities. LineageOS was also not available for this phone.

I bought a phone with 7 years updates and my initial intention is keeping it for 7 years. More if an stable and secure version of LineageOS is available down the line.

I remember cleverbot back in the day, and thinking that was peak.

DOS making file extensions a fundamental part of their filesystem just to hide them by default in windows is some good irony.

I’m a little paranoid, so this is my security set up.

SSH, blocked at firewall level, only allowing specific local IP to access port 22. Also authentication is done by key, with password disabled.

Most services are local only and I access them through wireguard VPN when I’m outside my home.

For services that need a domain name and be public facing, I use a reverse proxy, with the following protections:

• Very restrictive geoIP block, only my country can access.
• Restrictive rate limiting.
• Crodwsec, with community lists, a pluging for open lists, community rules and my own very restrictive set of rules for banning attackers. (For instance as soon as the requested path contains “.env” that’s an instant ban, no second chances).
• Monitoring through grafana.
• Some complex services that need a valid tls handshake but I only want to use them myself have a setup when they are technically open to the net, to get let’s encrypt, but the server rejects every IP request but mine.

Recently I also reduced some noise, surface attack, deleting the A register from my second level domain and using an obscured target for the CNAME records. I also want to delete the www subdomain as it gets a lot of uneeded noise.

To each their own.

I don’t use labels as I find them limiting for my true self.

But I respect people who use them, and respect their will to be used on them when they ask for it, as long as they respect me trying to avoid labels, which is usually the case, I’ve never had issues with anyone in the community because I refused to label my gender identity, for instance, as soon as I explain it with my little gender essay they have all understood it.

Life on other planets? Seems likely.

Life on earth started pretty soon once the conditions were met.

Intelligent life (humanlike), maybe not. Most probably not. Out of millions of species through billions of years only humans have evolved to have this kind of thinking machine during a relatively short period of time.

I don’t have a gender (I lost it somewhere, sorry), and I still call myself feminist.

I think feminism is something more related to the fight against a type of oppression rather than an identity thing.

You have anything online you will be hammered by bots trying to get through. That’s the sad reality of the world we live on. It has been like that forever. I get hundreds of bot malicious scans on my server each day.

All that’s left is to secure everything as hard as you can so they cannot break through.