Oooo this might be the path I take to finally get off IPv4. Cheers. I’ve already set up reverse proxies, but finally updating to 1999 technology seems like a good plan.

I didn’t mean to give the impression I thought the food/coffee/magazine I offer solves the root of a problem. Merely that it’s a thing I can do to solve an immediate need.

The root of the problem won’t be solved by donations to either an individual or a charity. The root of the problem, imo, is political and requires a change in politics. I think we agree on this point.

I hear you. But 10 people donating £5 a day also pays for a shelter to hire a motel room no?

I’m also not judging people on the street, well I probably have some internal biases to work through (more likely to ask a woman than a man, that sorta thing) but I don’t consciously care much about the “what” they are. Also, those internal biases would present themselves no matter what I offered. A service that measured their biases would be better able to give equally than I would as an individual.

Here are the problems I, personally, have with cash donations:

Firstly, I don’t carry it, but adding one more coffee to the one I’m buying anyway is no issue.

Secondly, it doesn’t support panhandling as a career, shitty career choice probably a minority. So minor that if you want to argue that “The rate of professional panhandlers is zero (it isn’t) and this point is invalid” I won’t push back

Thirdly, it doesn’t get to the root of the issue, I’m not judging if they’re on the street for mental health, addiction, ex-convicts, bad luck, whatever, as in no-one deserves to live in the streets barring their own personal choice. But, I think solving the issue is beyond an instance of a donation. I also agree that charities don’t get to the root of the issue either, but I do think they’re better equipped than individuals. Individuals working with these services experience greater success than if they were to go it alone.

Not telling you you’re wrong, just trying to justify my decisions (maybe to myself).

Take this for the uninformed opinion it is.

But, does panhandling ever lead to someone getting off the street? I thought of panhandling as pure survival resources.

I am unable to provide shelter, I could donate to one of the charities dedicated to temporary shelter to provide that. Arguably a better donation than panhandling, as those charities offer pathways off the street.

Jobs, permanent shelter, etc aren’t achieved via panhandling, but through other means (local charities, what not).

But, food/water/entertainment I can provide, like right now. So on my way into the fast food place/shop I’ll offer to grab something.

I pretty much never have cash. So, if I’m buying a ‘to go’ lunch/coffee I’ll offer to get them something.

+1

I’m running a media/back up server for 4 households on a single n100 mini pc and a couple USB drives. It’s a “good enough”, low cost, high wife acceptance factor entry point into self-hosting. It’ll happily age into a firewall if I want to build a better box later on.

It’s revealing what I do/don’t need vs what I want. It’s teaching me what people use, what they don’t and where I might want to go in the future.

If I could go again I’d probably get a n100 2Bay Ugreen thing. Then it’d age into a local back up and I wouldn’t have to deal with USB drives.

I wonder why Greene king want to tax profits? It’s because they don’t make any.

Nope, you chose to expand beyond what you can handle. Tax the wealth, if you can’t afford to run your pubs give them back to the people and pay less tax that way.

I dunno, the second silent generation? Born into hard times, don’t know any better. Defined by their fiscally conservative ways and “none of my business” outlook?

They haven’t been too silent though, and more power to 'em. The un-silent generation? Seems a bit disrespectful to riff off of their great/grandparents though.

Maybe. Their generation starts 1946 so I thought they were the product. One way or the other they are involved in a baby boom.

They’re just place holders until the generation gets a shared experience to refer to. Millennials saw the millennium. Boomers were products of the baby boom but they also saw their economy boom. Gen X are missing, their letter was fitting.

My prediction is one of them will become gen algorithm, as they never knew a time when their media wasn’t decided for them. Maybe, gen android, few of them know how to use a file system after Chromebooks became ubiquitous. Or they’ll be the second greatest generation due to ww3. This stuff is entirely unpredictable.

I must have been having more basic problems than you. I found LLMs to present the most common solution, and generally the most common way of setting it up is the “right-way”, At least for a beginner. Then I’d quiz it on what docker compose environments do, what “ports: ####:####” meant, how I could route one container through another. All very basic stuff. Challenge: ask gpt

what does "ports:

-####:####" mean in a docker compose?

Then tell me it doesn’t spit out something a hobbiest could understand, immediately start applying, and is generally correct? Beginners, still verify what gpt spits out.

By the time I wanted to do non-standard stuff I was better equipped with the fundamentals of hobbiest deployment and how to coax an LLM into doing what I needed. It won’t write an Nginx config for you, or an ACL file, but with the documentation and an LLM you could teach yourself to write one.

Goes without saying I’d take the output of the LLM to Google for verification, then back to the LLM for a hobbiest’s explaination, back to Google for verification… Also, all details are place holders: don’t give it your email, api-keys, domains, nothing. Learn to scrub your input there and it’ll be a habit here is a bonus too.

Properly made software has great documentation and logs. If you know how to access those logs and read documentation (both skills in themselves)… Not to mention not all software is “properly made” some of it is bare bones and just works™. Works it do, absolutely not a criticisms for FOSS projects, I love your stuff keep making it, and I’ll keep finding ways to teach myself to use it.

For all its flaws. Low level tech support, rubber duck, command explainer is something LLMs do really well. Kept my early mistakes off the web and got me where I needed to be most times.

Me too. It was a statement about society in general.

Sad state of affairs that people can’t assume others know water companies don’t have anything to do with oil drilling and explorationg licenses. The company we keep hey?

Ban the hosepipes, but don’t stop contruction of new oil? What a joke.

For the same reason republicans won’t: They’re on the list, their friends are on the list and their donors are on the list.

I read your comment. I can also see the rain outside. Just as proof you read my link with the results on whether it’s raining outside. Are Labour(24%) currently ahead or behind Reform(26%)? (Yougov - July poll). I, personally, find that concerning. You do you though.

That’s some Trumpian shit right there.

Now you’re getting it. Did you read my comment? I said it was extreme and unethical. Labour have proved they will do it, just not to handle Reform. Pick something in the gulf between the options. Tackle wealth inequality - huge range of options - declare them terrorists.

It’s like you’ve completely ignored the government’s actions.

Or, it’s like I’ve gone outside to check whether it’s raining.

Both my claims: (Reform haven’t been handled, wealth inequality hasn’t been tackled) are evidence based. To argue with me you’re going to need some polling data that Reform have been relegated to irrelevance and you’ll need data that wealth inequality has significantly decreased to the point potential Reform voters aren’t worried about their last cookie. Without both of those you’re just getting soaking wet telling me it’s sunny.

How can you suggest haven’t paid attention to the government’s actions given I referenced their actions in every one of my comments?

In fact, I do need a half step. Legend, thank you.

How would you say they aren’t tackling Reform?

… by Reform not being tackled? I thought it was self evident? How can I say that it’s raining outside? By looking at the rain outside.

I gave one example of how they could tackle Reform. But, taking inspiration from their latest actions, they could declare Reform a terrorist group and lock them up. An extreme solution to be sure, unethical too, but it isn’t above Labour to do so. Pick somewhere in the massive spectrum in-between.

You don’t need to defend Labour here. They’ll throw you under the bus to protect the wealthy too.

The meme explained:

In my opinion our Labour government are not doing anything about a real threat to our country (ReformUK). They are doing things against an imagined threat to our country (over policing protests). I could have picked any imagined threat really, disabled people maybe, but the protest thing is recent.

To add, instead of harassing its citizens, labour could instead tackle wealth inequality. It’s hard to argue that the immigrants are taking their only cookie when reform voters have a bunch of cookies, it’s easy for voters to have a bunch of cookies when you stop the ultra-wealthy hoarding them all.

Tackling real threats, Vs distracting people with imagined ones.

We’ll let them though. Labour government right now:

https://imgflip.com/i/9zrdbh

Excuse me, peasant crontab enjoyer here, but what?! I could write a (mostly) declarative system without having to learn Nix?! I should probably be learning systemd anyway, it’s looking more and more like the present, let alone the future.

I run a bunch of remote reverse proxies that are functionally identical, but for having a different Cloudflare key and calling for a different static IP

Could I write the entire config to a self hosted Git > pull that repo > change those two variables and have a running machine?

Remote updates have been kicking my ass, I either can’t wrap my head around Screen or it isn’t fit for my need. Being able to pull the new config from Git over Tailscale and then run it would be game changing for me.