I'm not really sure what you're getting at. The blockchain is a good mechanism to maintain a source of truth that is inspectable and verifiable by anyone. It would only serve to certify that official counts can't be tampered with in certain ways.
But it doesn't replace the whole democratic voting process. It doesn't protect against coercive voting, for instance.
My point originally was that blockchain can be of use to us, but tech bros ruined its rep. Same with AI. I've been waiting for routers with ai-powered (really, just machine learning) firewalls that can adapt rules to environments. But instead of that, everyone is obsessed with generative stuff that isnt very good.
I initially set it up because both sonarr and radarr were making their own api calls to indexers and I would get some "daily max exceeded" for certain sites. The idea was that if one host made the calls instead of 2, I wouldn't get rate limited as much.
Now I only have my nzb and pb indexers, the first has no such limits because I pay for it, and the second is only used as a second priority, so I don't really hit limits anymore.
If you have a bunch of arr services, this is useful. But I only have the two, so I don't think it's much work to set indexers up individually.
Edit: this ^^ is my suggestion. Add the indexers manually.
Yeah. I have a dell r430 sitting unused and a supermicro xeon-d board, both have a BMC.
It's really nice to have, but server stuff is expensive and power hungry.
Plus, I've shifted my way of looking at the setup where I'd rather it just default to starting back up properly. Even if I have a failed disk, if I'm away there's nothing incan do about it until I'm physically back.
I'm almost 30yrs in it/devops/infosec and I'm no longer interested in owning an excavator just because I can.
Incus, all services running in lxc. Ansible and templates to run startup stuff for new containers (ssh keys, etc). My docker setup is primitive, I regressed down to individual containers for each with docker compose. It's so trivial to restore last night's lxc backup that k3s/k8s doesn't really help me. In fact, i've been simplifying everything to suit my use case, including hardware.
sonarr
radarr
bazarr
prowlarr (I'm close to getting rid of this)
transmission
sabnzbd
kavita for comics only
calibre Web automated (CWA)
frigate NVR
navidrome
immich
openwisp to manage 2x openwrt access points
homeassistant
technitium DNS x2
uptimekuma monitoring x2
ntfy for push notifications
ansible
jellyfin
radicale
syncthing
Wireguard
wanderer for GPS track mgmt on "big screen". I track my GPS trails and drives as a hobby. I'd love a self-hosted comaps web client, but I can't really find one. :(
Plus lots of transient trials that come and go with interest. Rotating 7 day/4 week/3 months
backups by NFS with pruning, includes snapshots, but I set expires on these.
This is running on 2x minipcs with 48GB ram each, but they are way overkill. I just received a mini itx i5 board, which will house all of the containers, save VPN and 1x DNS, which I will run on an SBC.
So I'm going down from 2x servers + 1 NFS nas to one 1u server for everything plus one SBC so I can reboot it.
Websites are complicated. Easy, secure, cheap: pick two. There is no such thing as a universally easy, secure and cheap solution, or else we would always be using it.
Assuming you want secure and easy, I would suggest you pay someone who knows what they're doing.
I'm not really sure what you're getting at. The blockchain is a good mechanism to maintain a source of truth that is inspectable and verifiable by anyone. It would only serve to certify that official counts can't be tampered with in certain ways.
But it doesn't replace the whole democratic voting process. It doesn't protect against coercive voting, for instance.
My point originally was that blockchain can be of use to us, but tech bros ruined its rep. Same with AI. I've been waiting for routers with ai-powered (really, just machine learning) firewalls that can adapt rules to environments. But instead of that, everyone is obsessed with generative stuff that isnt very good.