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Regarding the human.json project
I have a blog at https://klingele.dev that is written by a human for humans. The only AI on the site is the theme and that’s because I can’t code CSS for anything.
I also use a helper tool to help publish the postings but it’s not AI just straightforward programming.
The site is a static site, no fancy pants JavaScript.
You are a unicorn. I can’t play from the Apple Music app when something is already playing on the iPhone without losing the song position and needing to select whatever it was I was listening to again.
I do full house AirPlay to just HomePod Mini’s. 2 in a stereo pair, 2 that are solo in their respective rooms. 4 total.
If I AirPlay from Finamp (Jellyfin audio player) it’s a bit of a crapshoot: the music starts after a brief delay and a few seconds into the song. Sometimes one of the HomePods decides to add a layer of static.
iOS 26 is still a beta, and I can’t be convinced otherwise.
Brief thoughts:
I use ProxMox and PBS personally and with clients. Clients have local PBS, that PBS then connects over a VPN to my PBS and syncs the delta every night. (Hint hint: make a small PC and send it to @marcoarment padding it with electronics you don’t need and he can store it next to the water in his closet.
I run PBS with ZFS based data stores and I’m able to use a mirrored config doing so, currently using two 4Tb disks. Since it is only two disks if both fail I’m hosed but if one fails and I catch it fast enough it’s easy to replace. I don’t actually need the 4Tb of space, between my backups and my client backups PBS is still saying it will take a year at the current rate to fill up the disk, and that’s presuming I don’t clean up old backups after 6 months.
As for replacing the Synology the Unifi gear works well, if you want something with more options TrueNAS Scale is another choice.
You installed a Unifi DMP right?
Why not use WireGuard in the Unifi itself so it’s one VPN connection that you can turn on/off at will to link to the whole network there?
I do this in my setup to my home lab remotely, and the only headache is if the public IP changes or if I was behind a CGNAT, which is something Tailscale can handle to my understanding.
If you are behind a CGNAT another option is doing the inverse: have the WireGuard in the datacenter reach to a WireGuard box you have on the outside. That’s how I handled my VPS connection in that I had the VPS just always online and my pFsense router at the time made the connection back to the VPS, which allowed me to move my router from physical site to physical site without any interruption aside from the literal downtime in moving it.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115991705165860760
There is legal precedent for this. A circuit court had determined that biometrics are a thing you have, akin to a urine sample, whereas a password is something you know and would need a warrant for.
Obviously abusing the letter of the law is wrong. That said, I want to remind everyone to look up how to trigger requiring a password/passcode on your device in the event you are stopped or going through a checkpoint.
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@caseyliss
Thanks Casey for being the voice of reason!
Another thought: GNUStep was a port (I think) of the NextSTEP framework using Objective-C and today right now I can grab a Linux distro that can run the OG Chess program that still lives on in macOS.
Marco, no. No. Not Android. Ugh. No. They’d be better off trying to run on Solaris. Google is the devil and are locking down Android to the detriment of the ecosystem.
Also @siracusa on ChromeOS you can enable the Linux terminal now and get access to some parts of the underlying system. It’s not a full Linux experience, but if I remember right you can containerize applications.
Instead we would do research. The same level of research we do for making choices on cars. Deep dives into "What processor, what chipset, what Wifi card?" etc.
Anyways. Loved hearing about different possibilities, some of which I would have loved to have tried (SunOS/Solaris) when I was teen but I didn't know or couldn't afford it.
Brief aside: I did try loading Illumos on my Framework 13, no dice because it's kernel isn't suited for newer hardware. Kind of a shame that Solaris and derivatives will likely fade quietly into the night.
I think in an alternate timeline where Apple didn't exist any longer, BSD/*nix OS's would have had a different outcome. I want to believe it would have been better, for sure.
I will also say: Linux is good right now. Yes, you need to pay attention to hardware choices. Yes, not every program is 1-to-1 with it's counterparts. But even for power users that do lots of coding, it works well. I have access to Firefox, Google Chrome (not just Chromium), VS Code, Discord, etc etc.
So to say it has a lot of the same issues is IMO incorrect because people such as ourselves wouldn't just grab a system off the shelf and then hope Linux works. 1/2
Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and real-world performance can last for decades
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/goodbye-to-the-idea-that-solar-panels-die-after-25-years-a-new-study-says-the-warranty-does-not-mark-the-end-and-real-world-performance-can-last-for-decades/26007/
Read original research paper here https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/el/d4el00040d
Solar panels are usually sold with 25 to 30 years of performance promises. But what happens after that, when the warranty language is long gone and you are
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