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CompactFlax

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  • Jellyfin critical security update - This is not a joke

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  • Young.

    The original ticket is 2019. That’s 7 years ago.

    Technically there's no real problem here.

    It responds to and serves content to unauthenticated requests. That’s sorta table stakes if you’re creating an authenticated web service and providing guides to set it up with a reverse proxy.

  • Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements

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  • Well, that’s a lot more sensible but still rather fat. Good reminder not to install Ubuntu then.

  • Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements

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  • I’m not up on the flavours of Ubuntu, but I assume the LTS version is more server oriented and what in the name of whatever you hold holy is there that needs 6 GB to boot an OS? Have they ported bash to electron?

  • You after wiping your ass for the 27th time and still see shit

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  • Backflow preventers are a thing. I’d never considered it for a bidet but it makes sense.

  • Jellyfin critical security update - This is not a joke

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  • That’s never made sense to me; why build an authn frontend instead of just clicking your user if the security is just an illusion anyways. “Use a VPN” is fine for a mainframe, but an active project in 2026 should aspire to be better.

    Edit: or make note of that on their several pages with reverse proxy configuration.

    Examples dating back over six years https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

  • 72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes

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  • 30% happened during the “great inflation”. I’m no economist but that’s a new term for me.

    What are the causes of inflation for these periods? World wars saw a spike in GDP, didn’t they? Is it because the production output was destroyed or sold to insolvent countries?

  • What are some TrueNAS alternatives?

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  • Not for zfs. I mount zfs on proxmox. Why I don’t just run samba on proxmox, I’m not sure. There is some fuckery with permissions to make it work in a container and permissions are unnecessary for my use case.

    But you don’t really need a ui for zfs. I ran it for 10 years on TrueNAS and only used it for initial setup.

  • What are some TrueNAS alternatives?

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  • Currently running proxmox and using cockpit to present smb, which is all that I was doing with TrueNAS. Gotta set up a few pieces manually but not really a hassle.

  • Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

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  • Same, but Gemini was the best of the lot about six months ago and it’s where I go these days for brain dead searching.

    I’ll give Claude a go next week. I do try to avoid them, but sometimes I have a question that just isn’t keyword search-able.

  • Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

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  • To be fair haven’t tried that one. Gemini started bringing in unrelated, previous shit to a recent conversation, which is the first time I’ve experienced that.

  • Some folks say lawns are bad. So what is the better option?

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  • Less grass.

    I have kids and dogs. Native plants don’t work - they can’t handle the traffic, the poop, and they don’t cover the mud.

    But I don’t need to fertilize it. I certainly don’t spray. I don’t need to water. I mow it, but it’s mechanical. And I plant native perennials around it.

  • Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

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  • This morning

    Yeah, they have “memories” but they make Donnie look nearly competent

  • Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

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  • It’s confusing to me. When I use chat boxes they inevitably “forget” the first thing I told it by the second or third response.

    How are people having conversations with them? It’s like talking to a 5 year old that’s ingested Wikipedia.

  • ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight

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  • Following the improvements agreed today, these devices will now be limited to two per passenger, and passengers will be prohibited from recharging them during flights. Importantly, crew will however be able to continue to carry and use these power banks in line with the operational requirements of the aircraft. The new specifications will address emerging risks and become effective on 27 March 2026.

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    Is it true that the education system is crap in America?

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  • They spend a ton of money but they don’t get much in return.

    My suspicion is that they spend a lot of money on non academic endeavours like football and marching band. Heres a current example of a school district spending $21m on a sports complex.. Search “Texas High School Football” on your favourite engine.

    Attempts are made to solve the problem with standardised testing, which is incentivised, which simply leads to teaching to the test.

  • What are your thoughts on the Macbook Neo?

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  • I think the 8GB RAM may be a decision made in light of the ram shortage. However, no matter how good OS X is with RAM, a simple workload is going to be bouncing off the limits constantly and i think that will be a frustration factor. Too many electron and webapps.

    The local storage is pretty light too, but I think that’s manageable for a couple years. Apple is pretty bad about sucking up storage though; my phone has about 25% or 32GB used by iOS and system data.

    I think it’s a perfectly serviceable device for technology averse (seniors) but probably not great for high school or university kids. Is it worth the extra money for 16GB RAM and a MacBook Air? Probably.

  • Why Sora Failed: $15M/day inference cost vs. $2.1M lifetime revenue

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  • The antithesis of tech!

  • CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' says unnamed gaming PC company

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  • No chipsets from that era that handle 96GB are going to be affordable to run - unless you’ve got excess solar or something.

  • Why Sora Failed: $15M/day inference cost vs. $2.1M lifetime revenue

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  • Sora is ridiculously bad but ChatGPT is in a similar income < spending with no clear path out. “But optimizations bro” it’s been a few years and they just want to spend more money. “But apple has models that run on iPhone” and they’re really dogshit.