Hold up. You’ve virtualised Mac OS via WSL? That’s pretty bad ass

I watched a grokbot get confused connect to the wrong vnc console and try to shut down its own little computer.

I’m not worried about AI taking over the planet. I’m worried about it clicking the wrong button with no oversight

+1 for cloudflare tunnels. But if you want to host locally, nginx proxy manager has a very intuitive gui you’ll be able to host your sites on.

Example:

Docker container exposes port 8989 for sonarr. Nginx proxy manager entry will be: Sonarr.mydomain.com > http://192.168.0.50:8888/ There’s a setting to allow ssl for your domain.

In your domain registrar, just put the a record for sonarr.mydomain.com to the local IP of nginx proxy manager, in this case let’s assume it’s the same IP as sonarr.

So now in your house your computer calls the domain, your dns server responds with 192.168.0.50. That’s the IP of your proxy.

Your proxy gets your request. Sees you’re trying to access sonarr, and passes your query along to it.

But like I said, cloudflare tunnels removes ALL of this and even supports google / azure SSO to keep you secure and keep logins convenient.

I was hiring for an entry level position a few months ago. Service desk type work. I either got people who were fabricating their CV to get an interview or insanely over qualified. It took a LONG time to hire the right guy.

At no point did I ever think, gee I wonder if I can get AI to read these CVs or do the interview for me. Christ knows what I would have ended up with.

knockknockknock

Sorry to bother you…

Tonight I spent the time spinning up a silverbullet instance and converting the PDFs to .md files. You’re right, PDFs aren’t searchable and will be a pain as the database grows.

Thanks for sharing :)

The guys on LTT mentioned this during their Linux challenge, but I’ve found it to be true -

Scouring forums for answers to obscure errors used to take hours. Now I just throw it at Gemini, troubleshoot in real time and find the fix.

I’ve even started asking it to give me a PDF of the steps we took and filing them away for future me.

Hello sir, yes hi. I came for an amusing anecdote, but instead I was shown nothing but sadness and pity. I’d like a refund please.

I thought the whole point of this service was to provide internet to places that traditional services couldn’t reach. Meaning they wouldn’t be over populated because those people already have good internet.

Now that I think it through, there’s no way that demographic is generating enough money to make this work.

Whoops?

Yes in zero trust > access controls > applications you can specify a web site and then tell it how you want it protected. In its most basic form you can have it email you a login code, but if you link it to either google or Microsoft you can have users of those services use them allowing you to sso straight through.

You can also specify a wildcard *.mydomain.net and then by default anything that is in your domain will be protected. Means when you’re testing something new you won’t forget to lock it down.

You’re correct about media, I use nginx proxy manager for emby, but everything else goes through the tunnels

As for configuring, the cloudflare LLM bot has been trained on all its documentation so it’s one of the few times a chat bot is genuinely useful.

Cloudflare tunnels is a great way to expose services on your network to the web.

You run a program in your server, it makes a tunnel, then you configure it on the website to visit the internal link in your network, eg

If you’re hosting a web server at home, you could have something like:

www.mydomain.net > http://192.168.1.55:8080/

You can also have cloudflare protect access to that website with email verification, google / Microsoft accounts etc.

It’s a lot to learn, but it’s very handy once you get the hang of it.

Here’s a YouTube video on the basics: https://youtu.be/Q5dG8g4-Sx0?is=J7KvNZoyjsEq33fO

Found the Scotsman

Great. You’ve got a hypothesis. Now work on it this weekend and report to the class on Monday for a practical.

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

That was the kernel I installed,

Thanks for the advice, the tinkering is honestly part of the fun! I’ll try again this weekend :)

I tried mint and Ubuntu - both Debian based though, worth giving Bazzite a whirl. If nothing else it’ll give me something to do for a few hours 😀

I use the standard plug in charger at home. I get 12kw (45 miles) in my 7 hour off peak window. That coupled with free charging at work means I never needed to invest in the £1,000 7kw charger at home.

Everybody’s needs are different - my experience js just one of many. What I’m saying is if you’re reading this and think you need a big expensive charger at home, there are options!

Got myself a VERY affordable refurbished surface laptop 3

Intel graphics, intel chip - damn this will run Linux like a breeze.

Boy was I wrong. Microsoft in their wisdom have some shenanigans going on.

Managed to find a kernel on GitHub, when I installed it broke secure boot (my fault for not fully understanding) and then ended up losing access to the whole system.

Long story short I’m back on windows 11 and researching how not to screw it up.

I realise you didn’t ask for any of this info, but sometimes it’s nice to vent :)

I thought the NHS had a pretty good union, no?

There’s B mode that will aggressively regenerate, but nowhere close to one pedal. Although I’ve found myself using the adaptive cruise control for no pedal drive

https://xkcd.com/979/