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curbstickle

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  • Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

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  • There is no value in telling people to stop fighting.

    Let's see what was written.

    TLDR; It fucks up accessibility for blind people (amongst others).

    Its also pretty futile imo. AI is reading billions of words from books and posts. A handful of users obfuscating their posts is not going to do anything.

    I don't believe I saw "stop fighting" in those sentences.

    I did see "this fucks things up for many people, and this has little to no impact on ai scraping."

    You have a very different interpretation of those sentences from me. I'd also point out the root of the issue has nothing to do with llm's, and everything to do with capitalism.

    Maybe try fighting the cause of the problem rather than the most recent means of exploitation?

  • Observability

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  • They played a good bit fast and loose with their claims some time back (even pulling a few things after an "oopsie - decimal point in the wrong spot!" type issue), and I kind of wrote them off after that. I'll have to check in on them again.

  • Observability

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  • Prometheus and Grafana are my typical recommendation there, with the podman exporter. Prometheus for time series data, Grafana to visualize and alert.

    One thing I think many folks get wrong is thinking about Grafana (or any other dashboard) as the way to watch for problems, but that requires you to look at them. They should be thought of as a way to evaluate for conditions that there was a problem, then create an alert based on the indicators. This way you can address it before it becomes a problem, or at a minimum be aware that conditions are leading toward a problematic state.

    If its repeatable and managed with a container restart or something, you can automate that from the alert, and never have to look again.

    If its something you can't control (for example, availability of a 3rd party service), you can use it as a way to be notified of the status change. I have a custom exporter I wrote for work to keep track of some services that result in a bunch of posts to Teams by people asking if its working for them. So I have an automation that posts to Teams when a service has a problem so my IT guy doesn't need to respond to all of them individually.

    So I'd recommend focusing on good alerts and automations over beautiful dashboards first (though dashboards can be a lot of fun to make!)

  • Observability

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  • It seems to me like you don't really want historic metrics.

    Youre not looking for an observability platform, more a resource monitor like btop. Whether its btop.or one of the other variations of top, there are a lot of them with heavy customization options.

    I'd recommend starting there to figure out what you want/need.

  • Observability

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  • Depends on what youre trying to track, but prom can track whatever you want and grafana can display it. You may also want log monitoring as well, which you can also feed in - grafana is just display.

    The metrics you want to look at are the big question though.

  • Dying of prosperity, 14TB HDD left unused

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  • I'd be more worried about not using it, personally.

    That said, storing videos isn't the only use. I have a... fairly large NAS, and it has photos/videos I've taken (including the raws for some of my dslr photos), its the storage for my VMs, where my backups are stored (really a different NAS but appropriate for the discussion here) which are then backed up elsewhere as well, local git repos, etc, etc.

    Is streaming all you do? If so, no, you don't need it.

    But if you do anything else, its a good place to store that data.

  • Attorney General Todd Blanche says the DOJ may take states’ voter roll fight to Supreme Court

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  • I think we've passed a few of those lines already.

    Deploying the National Guard, withholding grants for unrelated nonsense, voter data, and pretty much anything related to ICE.

    I'll believe it when I see it.

  • MAGA Diehard Turns on Trump After ICE Shatters ‘Storybook Romance’

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  • Ahah, a person of culture!

  • MAGA Diehard Turns on Trump After ICE Shatters ‘Storybook Romance’

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  • was such a fucking [dipshit | jackass | asshole | incompetent | fool | asswipe]

    There are so many fun words to use!

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    TIL that 4 out of 5 toddler foods are ultraprocessed. Nearly half fail to meet nutrition standards

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  • You cant change my mind that more (not all) people could attempt to be better, they just dont.

    I wouldn't try to - I agree.

    I would also say many don't have any interest in being better, which is why they don't even make the attempt.

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    TIL that 4 out of 5 toddler foods are ultraprocessed. Nearly half fail to meet nutrition standards

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  • I would agree that far too many take the "easy" path of just buying premade foods, but I take issue with the last comment:

    I dont remember this being difficult, even poor and working full time. Its all about the parents' priorities.

    "Poor" can often mean more than one full time job for a single person. The framing you're putting on this suggests that any parent has this kind of time, and it just isn't true. Its also especially worth mentioning that a person's income can change wildly at any time - someone doing well enough to be the stay at home parent while the other works could suddenly become a single parent. A single parent that would need to work multiple jobs just to afford to keep living in their home.

    And I say this as a parent lucky enough to work from home, and my partner being able to dedicate full time to parenting before going back to part time work.

    Yes, we made all of their food at home. Even baking the bread they eat during the week. Not everyone is lucky enough to make that happen, especially now.

  • Kentucky governor says he has no info on Mitch McConnell’s health as he rips Congress

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  • To your side note, the DSA does advocate for an end to capitalism.

    Capitalism is a system designed by the owning class to exploit the rest of us for their own profit. We must replace it with democratic socialism, a system where ordinary people have a real voice in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and society.

    https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/what-is-democratic-socialism/

    Edit: Just to mention, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) is what formed the DSA, and the DSOC was a split from the Socialist Party of America (SPA) due to the the SPA being "obsessively anticommunist" (in quotes but the exact quote may be a little different, I'd have to look it up to check).

  • U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son arrested, faces charges of sexual exploitation of minor

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  • You may want to keep on reading. There's more.

  • Sourcing replacement rack ears for UPS?

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  • However everything I’m finding is listed as intended for switches/routers

    They reuse the same casing.

    You can check the pattern, but those ears should mount just fine on it.

  • "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

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  • The problem in there is corporations. AI is just the means of the dickery, not the cause.

    I would also go further and say the root cause is capitalism, and that someone being able to eat or be housed should not be based on whether or not their art has met the criteria for corporate purchase. But I digress.

  • Rating shows on Jellyfin and syncing this a long with watch history to Anilist?

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  • Expanded rest API, an MCP, and the webhook options and integrations are significantly expanded.

  • NetworkManager Adopts Policy For AI Coding Assistants

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  • AI/LLM coding assistance is permitted but the author must understand/review the patch and take responsibility -- including that the contribution is LGPLv2.1+ compatible. The NetworkManager policy also will not allow AI assistance in communication for the upstreaming/review of said patches.

  • Self-Host Weekly (7 August 2026)

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  • Actually given that, if you have a weekly with AI as part of it, tagging [AIT] will allow people to filter it out.

    Its pretty ancillary to the newsletter itself so its not really required, but just to mention... if it were tagged, any low effort comments like "slop" or similar would then be removed. I don't really see that on your posts in general though, so more a thought for later should it become a problem.

  • $1 billion of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'on the shelves awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages — memory shortages reportedly put a wrinkle in Apple's launch plans

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  • Its not really accurate.

    There are 3 sites, the primary r&d all happens in Cupertino, but the second largest r&d is out of Herzliya, Israel, and the third largest is back in California at San Diego.

    The architecture is licensed from ARM, so UK there, and production is by TSMC, mostly Taiwain and expanding into Arizona.

    As I understand it, the facility in Israel is responsible for architecture design related to components like camera sensor architecture, WiFi, etc. Apple bought Israeli companies to do this.