No - the rabid AI hate here is... ridiculous. This only feeds it.
I hate python. Just hate it. Should I require that everyone posting indicates what language they use so that I can properly hate on the python projects?
Besides - how are you defining "AI"? Used to help? Writes the entire thing? Used for auto-complete? Should we really be gatekeeping like this? In 10 years it'll become rare to find anything not using AI anyway. The rabid AI haters will always be around though.
Unless you have a specific need there is no reason. So long as the domain resolves then you're probably good. I use AWS so I can easily update the IP since I have a dynamic IP address. Some may use Cloudflare because it's necessary to use other services or because there's a 'free' option or something? I'm really not sure - I'm not familiar with Cloudflare but I see lots of people using their low-end free services for things.
The tutorials I’d been looking at were showing them overriding the DNS servers at the domain registrar with servers from Cloudflare or elsewhere. Is that just because there may not be an automated way to update the IP dynamically with the domain registrar, but there is for Cloudflare?
Probably because those tutorials are using Cloudflare for DNS services. I actually use Amazon AWS Route53 for my domain (purchased through 123cheapdomains (yes - really)) and I update it through the AWS APIs with a small script.
I was curious what distro you folks might recommend for this purpose.
This is a bit like going to an automotive forum and asking "what's the best car to buy". You're going to get a lot of "I'm running
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If I have to manage it entirely by command line, it will take 10 times longer for me to do anything I want to do, and I’d really prefer a GUI.
Then use a GUI. The extra memory used is trivial and your system will be way over-powered for a reverse proxy to a home network anyway. In Linux land there's really no such thing as a "server distro" and a "desktop distro" for the most part. I use Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora as servers. They can all have desktops on them too.
You may find, however, that as you manage more than one system it becomes tiresome/tedious to have to use RDP for remote administration and may start learning the CLI over time. Especially since it's often a lot easier to give somebody a list of commands to run on a forum than to say "open your network manager, which is different on Gnome from KDE, click the button that says...".
I need something that can sit there without updating until I tell it to
Are you going to update frequently? You want to be sure you're keeping security patches up-to-date. Auto-patching can be very good unless you have the discipline to keep up with it.
I need a domain for that, and a lot of tutorials just skip on past this step in the domain configuration screens where you “enter your DNS servers” as though I know why I’d need other DNS servers,
You've got a bit of reading on how DNS works. But basically there are "root DNS servers" that everybody knows by IP address that then know about other DNS servers by IP and forward traffic to them to resolve names. When you register a domain you are asking one of those DNS providers to resolve your hostname to your IP address. You can see this a bit by running dig +trace some.host.name and it will show the requests made. Your DNS servers would be the ones where you register your domain.
BUT your IP address may change. So you generally need a way to update it if it does. There are providers like dyndns.org and others (search for dynamic domain service or something) that will give you a sub-domain for free/cheap and tools to auto-update it. Something like "mysite.dyndns.org".
You know - I hear your frustration. We've spent a lot of our lives learning and perfecting a craft that can now be done by anybody willing to pay an LLM to do it for them. I get it. It's a it disheartening to see your hard-earned skill commoditized like that. But it's not the only skill we've learned. The technical knowledge and experience we built up over that time is invaluable as well and can't be replaced with an LLM. Calculators didn't stop mathematicians from existing either.
But the world is different now. This genie is not going back in the bottle no matter how much we whine or say "but AI still makes mistakes!" Lashing out at those who use AI as either "not real programmers" or for "vibe coding" isn't going to help either. Nobody said you had to debug this dudes code. You bitched of your own free will. You didn't help, you were just mean.
Most of them let you literally execute line by line at point of error
I mean - I do know how to use a debugger. I have used them. I just find them largely unnecessary most of the time. And sometimes they're a truly pain in the ass (ever put a stop point in a loop that iterates over hundreds of items?).
Your implication is that I am less effective, and I am not. I've used debuggers, they can be very helpful. But a log of prints gives you a timeline of events compared to a debugger's more "point in time" view. They're complementary and I find the logs are typically more than enough for me.
Don't be shitty. This could be how people get into coding now - figuring out why something like this doesn't work. They asked for help understanding what's going on which is a good place to start.
There's a language that is extremely portable - go. It's compiled though and would need a bit more development environment than a script. But it would be able to run on just about any Linux, Windows, MacOS easily.
But also - not all AI models are created equal. Your free ones may not be great at a script of this level of complexity.
Or perhaps it's just a small percentage of developers who actually like it and that's why Lisp/Scheme/etc. have been relegated to academia while the rest of the world uses languages that don't descend into parenthesis hell?
I feel like rewriting a GPL thing based on the GPL version should require the GPL licence. After all, you've built something on top of GPL code which means it's also GPL right?
No. Not even a little. It's a copyright, not a patent.
64G. But CPU inference is painfully slow.