That is horrifying but also very impressive soldering.

Can’t speak for OP, but the Vault software itself is fine. It’s their recent change in licensing that has a lot of people upset and looking for alternatives:

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license

That is why today we are announcing that HashiCorp is changing its source code license from Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL 2.0) to the Business Source License (BSL, also known as BUSL) v1.1 on all future releases of HashiCorp products. HashiCorp APIs, SDKs, and almost all other libraries will remain MPL 2.0.

BSL 1.1 is a source-available license that allows copying, modification, redistribution, non-commercial use, and commercial use under specific conditions. With this change we are following a path similar to other companies in recent years.

I think cartographers also used to put fake things on their maps to detect unauthorized copies.

My takeaway from that is that I should start putting canary bugs in my code 😆

Have they actually proven this is a good idea, or is this a “so preoccupied with whether or not they could” scenario?

It’s businesses “throwing AI into stuff”, so I’m going to say it’s a safe bet it’s the latter.

Yep, 100%.

In college, I worked at a call center for one of the worst Banks of America (oops, meant banks in America 😉). Can confirm that, and I dealt with a LOT of angry customers.

This is giving me Black Mirror vibes. Like when that lady’s consciousness got put into a teddy bear, and she only had two ways to express herself:

• Monkey wants a hug
• Monkey loves you

I get that you shouldn’t go off on customer service reps (the reason you’re angry is never their fault), but filtering out the emotion/intonation in your voice is a bridge too far.

If you don’t get any other answers:

I run OpenWRT on my router (x86 hardware), and have Adguard Home and Wireguard installed on it.

AdGuard has its own webUI, and Wireguard peers can be managed through LuCI in OpenWRT. It also supports OpenVPN as well as other VPN types.

So you could run a VM with OpenWRT and get all that.

Does nextcloud deck have recurring tasks yet? I didn’t think it did.

Just checked, and no, it doesn’t appear to.

Back when I had roommates, we used a Kanban board. Trello is the “name brand” you may be familiar with, but there’s lots of self-hostable alternatives:

Nextcloud has Decks if you’re running that. If not, there’s also Wekan, Tagia, Planka, or Vikunja.

Most of my devices I was able to flash it right to it (or TFTP boot the installer and go through the steps via console cable). On x86, you just flash a boot image with dd. The hardest “install” was to a batch of enterprise APs where I had to attach a programming clip to its flash chip and use a Rapberry Pi to burn the image. After that, though, I could update them normally

If you’ve reached this point in your OpenWRT install, turn around. lol. I only kept going because I thought I was bidding $12 on a single Aruba AP-105 and ended up getting a lot of 20 (for $12), so I had to figure out some use for them.

Usage is pretty straightforward through the web UI (LuCI). For some more complex configs, it’s sometimes challenging to figure out the UCI syntax to configure (when I was playing around with B.A.T.M.A.N for example) but otherwise is pretty nice.

I read on OPNSense guide it needs 2gb ram

Good to know, thanks. I haven’t deployed it in years (have been using OpenWRT which will run on a potato). Getting ready to build a new router/firewall myself, but I don’t think the 2 GB is gonna be a problem. Have been debating sticking with OpenWRT or going to OPNSense.

Aside from being a little power hungry, then that should do the job. opnSense or OpenWRT should run really well.

Yeah, it would make a beefy router for sure. Wouldn’t be very power-efficient, but would handle the job well.

Outside of that, you’re most limited by the 512 MB RAM. Adding a larger drive would be an easy/cheap upgrade (though it may be SATA II speeds or possibly SATA I).

If you use OpenWRT for your router OS, you can also install AdGuard and get a bit more use out of it.

If you can add an HBA for better SATA speeds, and have room in the case, it might make a halfway decent NAS (or backup NAS).

I just put a caching layer in front of my /pictrs path. Problem solved.

I use Nginx for that, but some instances use Cloudflare which can be configured similarly.

Oh, then I missed that. I knew they missed the mark with the jump but thought they had closed the distance by that point. Thanks for pointing that out.

I haven’t had a chance to watch the finale yet, so I may go back and start S4 over and watch them all like 10 a hour movie. Will watch for that when I do.

Before I watched the Picard finale, I started back at the first season and watched all the way through. I may do that with Disco. Which sadly means avoiding spoilers for another few weeks.

I know you’re being sarcastic, but that is exactly how I felt for about 15 seconds. 😆

I definitely appreciated it on that level after the moment had time to sink in. Maybe that’s what bugged me so much about it. Watching sci-fi, I suspend a certain amount of disbelief. When something entirely plausible happens, it just hits me off guard.

I’m finally caught up, so I can participate in these now :)

t would be silly if, say, the Breen dreadnought was to show up and simply yoink away the structure with a tractor beam while we’re still in the cold open, and the Lagrange point did not matter for the rest of the episode.

That bugged me so much 😆. I literally yelled at the TV: "Why didn’t you just do that?! Or at least technobabble away why you ‘can’t just’ "

Granted, all the cool stuff that followed wouldn’t have happened, but still.

Burnham uses her xenoanthropology specialization to understand that joining a Breen feast day would be considered a good thing to do. Xenoanthropology was established as Burnham’s scientific focus in the series premiere, “The Vulcan Hello”.

I am really loving the multiple callbacks to Burnham’s xenoanthropology background this season. Given the nature of their mission, it makes sense for that to be a relevant focus.