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apexalphaon Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr

TIL the *arr stack has windows ports!

No idea. But any software that autodownloads from untrusted sources should NOT be run in an environment with information available.

My *arr runs in a Linux container on a VM, suggest you do the same.

apexalphaon California is building a $400M shield for Yosemite's most dangerous highway

“There’s not anything like this in the world,” said Corey Casey, Caltrans’ project manager for the shed.

Is there a word for the phenomenon that Americans will just always claim something they do is the worlds best / biggest / most unique until essentially proven otherwise.

How would anyone come to the conclusion that this is a new thing unique to California?

apexalphaon What I self-host

My *arr stack is so rock solid and hands-off that the only downside is that I get 'inactivity' warnings from certain websites that the *arr stack uses to get 'stuff' done because they don't count API access as activity.

apexalphaon What I self-host

Just looked up Clan since I'm a big fan of Nix but currently run my cluster with k3s, which indeed has some overhead.

It seems however that Clan is one of those classic projects where the website and the docs assume that everyone already knows what it is and how it works and goes straight to the benefits of doing it this (whatever 'this' is) way.

After reading both the site, docs and guides I am now scouring Reddit and YouTube for an actual explanation of whatever the hell it is and how it works.

apexalphaon Passkeys are not a trap

I think my use case covers >99% of all organisations.

apexalphaon Passkeys are not a trap

What's the unique id leaking issue?

I mean you're logging in to some software, surely they need some info from you?

apexalphaon Passkeys are not a trap

I introduced Passkeys in my company.

Every single IT person thought it would be an extreme mess, too complicated for regular users. In my company we work on the (gas) grid so lot's of blue collar types.

We went there, gave the pilot group a Yubikey and said: This is like the company pass you already have. Without the company pass you cannot enter any buildings. Without the Passkey you cannot enter a computer or app.

If you lose it report to the same people (service desk).

The response has been EXTREMELY POSITIVE. People fucking LOVE getting rid of passwords, password requirements and taking off their gloves to enter it every time.

We are now rolling it out to everyone and next year when we stop our silly "phishing game" contract we will actually save money while reducing a massive cyber security risk for our company: (voice) phishing.

apexalphaon Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones

Give France $30 billion and launch a few orbits full of LEO.

We don't need to cover the globe like SpaceX, just Ukraine and from there North-Westward into Russia.

Imagine Britain in the fucking Blitz where Roosevelt starts to buy oil from Nazi Germany and JP Morgan cuts off the Telegraph somehow.

Crazy times.

apexalphaon NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees

I would've said no, confidently but I googled it just now and think many people do consider it middle east.

So now I don't know anymore.

apexalphaon NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees

Yes we hold Western democracies to a higher standard than random Islamic dictatorships.

Islamic countries being dictatorships doesn't excuse you.

apexalphaon NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees

How is Cyprus in the Middle East? It's either Greece, Turkish or both depending on who you ask.

apexalphaon NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees

A few more election cycles and they will be a 'democracy' like Lebanon or Egypt.

apexalphaon NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees

"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say."

apexalphaon Mistral Large 4

Proprietary competition, yes.

apexalphaon Mistral Large 4

I think a big part of that is the Chinese publishing the solution for everywhere hurdle in the road they've encountered in the form of a paper.

Deepseek essentially releases instruction manuals in paper form.

apexalphaon Mistral Large 4

Excited to hear this!

I barely use anything outside of cheap Chinese models on OpenRouter anymore. They are simply (more than) good enough for most of the things I do.

This model looks reasonably cheap. Though not deepseek levels.

Going to test it with Hermes, wondering where it will land in term of capability.

Bon chance, Mistral!

apexalphaon Europe's new robotics unicorn: Germany's RobCo hits $1B valuation

You can’t opt out from it

This is the part that makes it universal.

apexalphaon US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban

"It is in Europe’s best interest to work with the United States as we pursue multiple pathways to boost the supply of refined products and lower costs for consumers," one of the sources, a US official, told Reuters.

It is currently in Europe's best interest to force this clown to back down in Iran.

I will happily take €5 per liter (not gallon) for a month just to annoy Trump in the slightest.

apexalphaon America.gov

Weird it never doubts when I ask about other "partisan" issues like the Reichstag fire or the attack on Pearl Harbor or so.

apexalphaon US Forces Exit Iraq

This seems like weird timing to this amateur seeing how they're at war with Iran and Iraq was recently used to stage attacks against Saudi oil infrastructure.

apexalphaon US Forces Exit Iraq

Don't worry they also make films celebrating the passion behind the killings like American Sniper

apexalphaon Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

Toyota sells more cars per year than the US manufactures combined.

(Though there is some overlap as Toyota also builds in the US)

apexalphaon California is chasing wealth that has feet

As a rather economic left European person I think this:

Last week California certified a Billionaire Wealth Tax for the November ballot: a 5 percent one-time levy on the state’s billionaires, paid out over five years, to raise about $20 billion a year for health care, food aid, and schools after federal cuts

Is just flat out crazy.

To pretend that politicians who are in a perpetual political battle for short-term survival will somehow use this weapon of mass financing responsibly and only once it comically absurd.

This will open Pandoras box.

apexalphaon California is chasing wealth that has feet

Just allow natural persons to defer these taxes until after death. Then when the house goes for sale you just subtract the taxes from the inheritance.

apexalphaon What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

For fossil fuels the cost in in the fuel, usually.

apexalphaon What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

Probably cheaper? Renewables have a big upfront Capex usually financed.

apexalphaon What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

Acquiring a lot of cheap land can still be expensive if it takes you a lot of time to process everything.

Plus the people selling it to you will simply play you off each other since you're publicly committed to buying it. Like with that train they're building.

apexalphaon What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

It seems like it would be more effective to simply put all the solar panels in a field, and construct a cheap shade over the entire canal no?

Not if you already own the canal but would have to buy or rent the fields.

apexalphaon US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'

How can a opt-out ever be considered censorship?

apexalphaon M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review

If I had 0 privacy concerns I could just use deepseek directly in the cloud but the whole point is to not put your data on someone else's computer.