start making up rationalizations and excuses for behaviour that is utterly narcissistic

Humans are narcissistic and selfish because over the millenia the ones that were selfish outcompeted the ones that weren’t. It’s totally natural to be selfish. Some are just better at hiding it than others.

However there is also a simple social aspect to including yourself in photos. It’s a clear visceral way to say “I was here”. A photo without your face does not have capture the “you” part of that statement. Social interaction is not just an exchanging of ideas, it’s also about building relationships, and for that to happen, the “you” part of the equation is vital.

To be fair I rarely include myself in photos, but for the same reason I am also less integrated into my social circles.

Declarative configuration (like docker compose) is basically “code local, push remote”, and it has a lot of benefits, including improving efficiency because you have a clearer idea of exactly what is set up on the server, to make it easier to debug or make changes.

Contrast this with just sshing in and running a bunch of commands to install something. Then coming back months later and wondering “what files did I touch? what packagea did I install? Hmm dpkg log says I added X but then later I removed it, so was it important?” Etc.

Fair enough, I see what you mean now. This is more of a progress report than a project release. Sorry for the misunderstanding. FWIW I think your project is cool regardless of whether you used AI or not, so great work!

P.S. Out of curiosity I did read a bit of your comment history and I do agree with your comments w.r.t privacy and AI disclosure. It is a tricky problem indeed.

If it’s not made with AI you can use the CBH tag

Have you heard of Tube Archivist?

Edit: ok i see you mentioned it in your Local Smarttube announcement post. Why doesn’t Tube Archivist fit your needs?

I believe you need AI disclosure to post in this sub. Check the sidebar rules.

Just look up firmware rootkits and UEFI rootkits. For example: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/07/researchers-unpack-unkillable-uefi-rootkit-that-survives-os-reinstalls/

Security is a big reason to use VMs. Containers share the kernel with the host. That means that any of the kernel vulnerabilities from this year (like DirtyFrag and CopyFail) could have been used to compromise your host. Once the host is compromised, the only way to be safe is to literally buy a new machine. Seriously. Viruses can bury deep and even infect the motherboard firmware to persist indefinitely.

Kernel vulnerabilities are frequent enough that I find VMs worth it. I still use containers in my VMs though.

Why not put your wiki notes on your admin machine (whatever machine you use to manage the proxmox server)?

If you wrote an article I’d read it! But this is a great starting point nonetheless, thanks

Mind sharing which local AI you used, the harness, etc?

I feel like this is common in crime thrillers or mystery stories. Revealing each person’s perspective like puzzle pieces to the crime. Most recent one I remember that follows a similar structure is the movie Weapons

For those that like the cli, you can use flatpak remote-info --log flathub com.stremio.Stremio to scroll through the list of past versions, and look for the “Commit” id of the version you want, then do:

flatpak update --commit=<commit id> com.stremio.Stremio

Then use flatpak mask to prevent further updates.

Been following this project for a while but did it ever get a formal security audit?

I don’t think he does any programming but he sure is a good businessman. Finding loopholes and manipulating the market is part of business after all

This is the one used by hacker news right?

it’s a good enough signal for most people

No I’m quite against hardware based trackers. At least ones that cannot be modified (for example secure boot is fine if the factory keys can be replaced).

Which is why it’s important that we recognize just how powerful hardware trackers can be, and that the only way to fight this is at the population level. Publicly shame companies that try to introduce this tech, fight for privacy regulation, and don’t buy spyware devices.

Good open source projects often last years or decades

This sounds like a no-true-scottsman argument. Go check github, literally a graveyard of dead open source projects, most made before AI. The harsh reality is that most projects don’t gain much traction, and so the owner moves on.

if you don’t directly write code debugging is hell and all the gains vaporize

Imo this depends on how you use it. I’d agree with you that I bet a lot of vibe coders didn’t take formal classes in CS. So they probably aren’t writing great code. But without AI, they probably wouldn’t have any code at all. So compared to their non-AI non-CS buddies, they will feel “ahead” and might very well be, if they capitalize on their initial success correctly (like using the initial traction to get investers, and then going on to hire an actual engineer to re-write the project). Many start-ups start with an initial throwaway prototype. Not being constrained by “best practices” is great for prototypes.

those who did study and are forced to use it by their boss always describe it as bad

I’d add a caveat that those who are forced to use it, and don’t make personal projects in their free time, describe it as bad. Part of the reason professiomals don’t like it is because they are forced to use it. But when they have a choice to use it, and they actually do, then in my experience a lot of these professionals begradgingly accept that it does speed things up.