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This2ShallPass

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  • A Christmas Carol

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  • I don't think Christmas was as much about gift giving in Dickens time. I think it was more a time that your family gets to be together. He even alludes to this with Bob Crachit's daughter having to slave away at work and only getting to see family on Christmas. They don't really do gifts in the story, they just have a small meal together. It isn't until Scrooge changes his mindset that gifts start being much of a thing in the story.

    Dickens was always focused on the poverty and suffering of the industrial age. I think he would object to our sense today of Christmas being so focused on gifts and not on time with family and friends

  • A Christmas Carol

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  • I have read it many times and I agree that the story is about a dream/nightmare Ebeneezer has on Christmas Eve. I always saw the story as an old rich man had who does not have much longer to live reflects on his life. He decides he still has time to try and change with what little time he has left.

    I think it really could have been framed many ways. Many people reflect on their lives on New Year's Eve or their birthdays. I think Dickens just decided to choose Christmas for his story.

    EDIT: In short, man nearing end of life has existential crisis in dream.

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  • Many people get diarrhea when they take antibiotics for long durations. Additionally, the dry weight of human feces is about 25-50 percent gut bacteria.

  • Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops

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  • Why did they need to tear it apart to discover the advantage was government funding? It this just a click bait headline?

  • Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions

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  • It is possible that any developer could just say "none" even if the extension does collect data? If it has to be manually disclosed, this won't stop malicious actors. Only trustworthy extension developers would disclose this.

  • Friends with babies

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  • Things can be fun and difficult. Just ask any athlete. It can be fun but requires work and practice.

  • Cuddly gerbils

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  • What testosterone really does is when your status is being challenged, testosterone makes you do whatever you need to do to maintain status. You can have an economic game where people get status by making generous offers and give people testosterone and they become more generous in the game. In other words, if you shot up a whole bunch of Buddhist monks with testosterone, they would run amok doing random acts of kindness all over the place.

    Testosterone doesn't make you aggressive

  • Devils Panties 09/25/2025

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  • I think it WAS a problem in older models. Caused me to get rid of my 2004 Forester. That being said, I still managed to get around 180,000 miles on it before it was an issue.

  • Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?

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  • Just discovered TinyAuth and it is fantastic. I am replacing Authentik with it because it has what I want but is much faster, smaller, and simpler. Also, the license is FOSS.

  • "It's a trap!"

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  • To shreds you say?

  • House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias

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  • Pi-hole client filtering without DHCP?

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  • You don't need DHCP, you can just use DNS and then set up different blocking groups based on the device.

    The problem with this solution is that is it opt in. You would need to change all the wifi settings on each device separately to point to Pi-Hole as the DNS. This is something that could easily be disabled as a 12 year old would probably be able to figure out how to change the settings on their mobile devices or computer with a Google search.

  • Jellyfin over the internet

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  • I don't host my media outside my local network but, if I did, I would use my go to method of SWAG with Authentik. This is what I have done for my other self-hosted items.

  • Why Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and ported it to Linux

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  • TIL. Looks like I will be installing Nushell. This is neat. Especially how everything returns the final value.

  • fake keepass repo on github

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  • I don't know of any comprehensive source but there are a few basic things you that I do.

    1. Ensure sudo is on the system so that root account is not used.
    2. Get a secure browser that with add ons to protect against malicious sites (https everywhere, JavaScript blockers, etc...)
    3. Download software from trusted repositories and verify with GPG keys or hashes. Be wary on installing anything using a shell script with super user access.
    4. Use keys instead of passwords for ssh if you are going to use ssh.
    5. Password tools like Vaultwarden and KeePass can help secure passwords.
    6. You can encrypt your hard drive with LUKS before you install Linux with many distros.
    7. Flatpak (Docker as well) can allow you to run applications with limited access to your system much like phone apps on Android. This can be more secure but comes with larger app sizes and limits what you can do with the app sometimes (e.g. browsers not being able to upload files because they don't have full filesystem access)
    8. If you want a firewall on your workstation (not needed much anymore with hardware firewalls from routers), UFW makes it easy
    9. If you want to check for viruses use ClamAV (ClamTK for a GUI app).

  • What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server?

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  • A raspberry pi 4 or 5 and some fast USB 3 hard drives.

  • What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?

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  • PyLoad isn't a container I run 24/7 because the use cases are a bit limited. Basically, if I have a large list of files that I want to pass to my NAS (perhaps a list from something like DownThemAll) that won't complete in a short sitting, I will pass that list to PyLoad so it can just run the background.

    I once downloaded about 2,000 or so office files and tools like this have let me do that automatically.

  • What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?

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  • Exactly, since KasmVNC can run GUI programs in the browser and the Linux server.io base image is just Debian, it was trivial to just run it with Emacs instead. I much prefer Emacs over VS Code because of Org Mode. While VS Code works well in a browser. It isn't what I wanted.

    Here is where I have posted my Emacs Dockerfile. It might be a little out of date. Emacs Docker

    EDIT: The Dockerfile also installs the fonts I like for Emacs along with git and hunspell.

    EDIT: You could also probably achieve something similar with a Docker container run ning Apache Guacamole.

  • What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?

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