WaLLy3K 

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Herds a kid, cats and my workplace. Posts on security, privacy, repair, gaming, technology, media and nonsense. And remember, you're pretty good ​ 

Deals with #ISP operations and training 💻
Also maintains a popular decentralised #PiHole blocklist collection 

Strong views on #Security #Privacy #RightToRepair #OPSEC #Enshittification
Interests in #Cats #Apple #DataHoarding #SelfHosted #Linux #Bash #OpenSource

🌐​https://firebog.net/about
:github:https://github.com/WaLLy3K
📍Australia, somewhere south of the NSW border.

I am asking people once again to stop describing #AI using human words and attributes.

AI doesn’t answer—it extrudes plausible output that happens to be right.
AI doesn’t hallucinate—it extrudes plausible output that happens to be wrong.
AI doesn’t have agency—it extrudes plausible output that is consumed by a computer program.
AI doesn’t think—it extrudes plausible output that is fed back into itself for another round.
AI doesn’t create—it extrudes a mixture of its training data.

Remember: the robot is not a person.

PS: I changed “regurgitates” to “extrudes” because it’s less biological and more mechanistic.

PPS: Yes I know “AI” is a misnomer, but it’s what people call these things these days. IMO “LLM” is insufficient to describe GenAI because it excludes diffusion models.

@decryption welcome back. I missed your Sizzle takes. They have a certain, I don't know what... a realistic cynicism of "cmon are y'all serious?"

Honestly, I never really got into the "Docker all the things" mentality. I saw the appeal, but CLI management isn't convenient when you're having to troubleshoot and only have access to your phone, and various web managers (like Portainer) frustrated me because they're more geared towards DevOps than the homelab crowd.

I've been meaning to consolidate a bunch of services into a VM and thought I'd revisit the state of my LAN affairs. Turns out, someone's recently released a gorgeous open source Docker management interface, and I'm really digging it: https://dockhand.pro

Dockhand - Modern Docker Management

A powerful, intuitive Docker platform for everyone. Real-time container management, Compose stacks, Git deployments, and SSO - all free.

Dockhand

I've removed RPiList's Phishing.txt list from The Firebog's tick lists due to a high amount of false positives.

It's not enough to mark them as a cross, but it's enough to cause a headache for people wanting an absolutely hassle-free set of blocklists for their #pihole

I appreciate @GLenk for taking the time to report an issue with a @GrapheneOS domain being unnecessarily blocked. 🙂

I've crossed out https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/lists/ads-and-tracking-extended.txt on The Firebog as the list is no longer updated. #pihole
Zerodot1 coinblockerlists · Issue #215 · WaLLy3K/wally3k.github.io

Hello This link is dead https://zerodot1.gitlab.io/CoinBlockerLists/hosts_browser

GitHub

Zerodot1's CoinBlockerList has been removed from The Firebog's lists entirely due to the maintainer no longer providing updates.

I'm waiting to hear back from the maintainer as to whether I can mirror the most recent copy, unticked, for those interested. #pihole

A few updates for the Firebog #pihole blocklist today as I go through my open issues! 🙂

CyberHost.uk Malware Domains has been added as a tick list.

DigitalSide Threat-Intel has been crossed due to poor quality control, mistakenly blocking a number of useful websites on several occasions.

Added jarelllama's Scam Blocklist as a non tick list.

I'm also aware of an issue with ZeroDot1's CoinBlockerLists, which I'm looking into since the whole repo has gone private. 

For those of you using the non-ticked #pihole lists on Firebog, I've just crossed out jdlingyu's ad-wars due to the list maintainer being inactive. jnn-pa.googleapis.com is blocked, causing YouTube to stop buffering after 1 minute.

Kiddo is trying really hard to play MGS3 on Normal difficulty after flying through MGS2 on Very Easy (despite my objections)

It's actually a lot harder when you've got far more decisions to make in the jungle. Or against a madman that wants to see the world burn...