Other than the low chance of you being targeted I would say only expose your services through something like Wireguard. Other than the port being open attackers won’t know what it’s for. Wireguard doesn’t respond if you don’t immediately authenticate.

There’s a little overlap with things like Terraform but it’s not as bad as if they bought the companies that owned Chef or Puppet.

Can’t believe that’s gone through. They took JBoss when they bought RedHat so now it doesn’t have to compete with Websphere and when they bought HashiCorp Openshift doesn’t have to compete with Nomad. At this rate they’ll buy CyberArk and then that’s no more competition with Vault.

Ngrok

Twingate (what I use)

Yup. That was the one. Quite sad, but possibly the native system throttles to improve battery.

Don’t know if it applies here but I saw a video where the native version of Minecraft ran slower than the emulated version… on a Switch!

If OP has a thrift store nearby it’s pretty likely they can get both for under $30.

Not sure if you want to label it as a “captcha alternative”. In most cases I’m sure the captcha is used because they want a real person looking at the page (and the ads on the page). In this case it seems more like a way to keep either bots or people from doing nothing but consuming content (or hacking) without giving back something of value. Either way I really like the idea.

Other ways, in theory, I think you could do this kind of thing are torrent ratios (e.g. hosting one or moreLinux ISOs), general archiving (e.g. you get asked to return a random range of bytes from a file you’re supposed to be backing up), you run a weather station that reports temperature to the National Weather Service. You might think about a more general framework for just verifying if user X has been contributing something of value.

I’ve never heard anyone explicitly say this but I’m sure a lot of people (i.e. management) think that AI is a replacement for static code. If you have a component with constantly changing requirements then it can make sense, but don’t ask an llm to perform a process that’s done every single day in the exact same way. Chief among my AI concerns is the amount of energy it uses. It feels like we could mostly wean off of carbon emitting fuels in 50 years but if energy demand skyrockets will be pushing those dates back by decades.

Deliberate was gone for a little while (available in HuggingFace now) and I think I’ve seen others be taken down too for violating licenses or the author doing shady things to boost stats. Some older models are also really hard to find. Even though they’re low quality by current standards they did seem to have a bit more creativity.

Might be misremember on the subscription thing. Maybe it was v1-v2 of some model was free to download and anything newer was API only. Regardless I think authors are free to pull stuff whenever they choose.

This is actually great because not only does it share the hosting load but models occasionally get pulled from sites so they can be exclusive to some AI subscription service.

I think it could be potentially easier to thwart malicious bots than “honest” bots. I figure a bot that doesn’t care about robots.txt and whatnot would try to gobble up as many pages as it could find. You could easily place links into HTML that aren’t visible to regular users and a “greedy” bot would follow it anyway. From there you could probably have a website within a website that’s being generated by AI on the fly. To keep the bots from running up your bills you probably want it to be mostly static.

This. Sucks we can’t just say shit like it is but it’s just as easy to make it up. I’m not going to verify the claims myself but if OP said it was Vandelay Industries I might make the decision to not do business with them.

It’s a little late now since the accusation has already been made but it’s essentially legal to state verifiable facts without drawing conclusions from those facts. Still, doesn’t mean the company won’t come after you, just that they risk calling attention to the issue. Unfortunately I know of no remedy or repercussions for a company filing a baseless lawsuit.

IANAL BTW.

Damn. I meant to say Dungeons. 🤦

It’s based on Puppeteer which has been around awhile. It’s pretty useful for automating UI tests.

Ditto. Running antix on my netbook and I think icewm had the lowest resource usage of the defaults.

astOS and Arkane Linux too.

I haven’t looked into the built in features in a while but I think comfy needs to have more basic nodes. I’ve picked up workflows with dead nodes and it’s not easy to see what used to be there and fill in the gap. Sometimes it’s something complex like an animation node but I’ve had basic text box nodes go dead.

That was the main inspiration for me. If I do understand their setup, “testing” a change of some kind would require an explicit rollback. If a reboot in that system meant I lost those changes then that’s actually what I’m looking for.

I’m not planning to alter the system daily so, admittedly, this is a bespoke, non-trivial process to handle an uncommon use case. In general I haven’t run into the kind of issues that immutable distros proport to fix. I would say this is moreso an OCD friendly approach to OS management. I’m also hoping this setup will basically force me into using Ansible more and manual tweaks less.

I feel Guix and NixOS are a bit more in a league of their own due to their declarative nature. I’m on the fence if I want to go that far. Again, I’ll admit my knowledge of these systems is based on docs and I’ll probably have much different thoughts getting hands on.

And my goal is to rely on Flatpak and containers but if that was the answer then all the immutable distros out there are about as overbaked as my idea.