Instance block chatgptjailbreak.tech. Another set of problems solved.

I don’t do anything with it, pure set and forget. I probably should, I don’t use XXX at all. NSFW is under a different stack, different gluetun, and different network namespace. As for size, I don’t know but I found this in the FAQ:

What are the system requirements for bitmagnet?

As a rough guide, you should allow around 300MB RAM for BitMagnet, and at least 1GB RAM for the Postgres database. You should allow roughly 80GB of disk space per 10 million torrents, which should suffice for several months of crawling, however there is no upper limit to how many torrents might ultimately be crawled. The database will run fastest when it has plenty of RAM and a fast disk, preferably a SSD.

BitMagnet installation

Servarr integration

I’ll add that I have BitMagnet, and Prowlarr under a Gluetun container.

I run one because why not. I’ve set it as No1 priority in Prowlarr, with the same requirements as any other indexer. BitMagnet is currently second for successful grab count.

I just set and forget it, reccomended compose. Bind mount the DB to a NVME and let it do its thing. It’s at ~20m entries currently and isn’t climbing much from there. Although it’s No1 priority I consider it a back up so I don’t give it too much attention if I’m honest.

I use the paperless scanner inbuilt into the paperless app. Works fine

“How much milage did flush door handles give anyways? Certainly not “I’m gonna die” worthy.” I say from my '05 death trap.

I’m gonna make the jump to nixOS eventually. I’m just about comfortable with YAML and only in the context of docker-compose. The leap from that to nix seems too great. I’ll start this year though.

Von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don’t have to be responsible for the world that you’re in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann’s advice. It’s made me a very happy man ever since. - Richard Feynman (The creep)

Mostly that. I accept the world is shit. I try make my little corner of it better. I try not to support what’s making it worse. I accept I’m not an acetic, worse I’m a hedonist, so I will be making it worse. I accept these things.

I do try make it better, I vote left, I donate, I abstain through boycott to a tolerable level of discomfort.

I could be doing better, I eat meat, I still get things from Amazon, I drive cars/motorcycles as a hobby.

You’ll have to forgive me too. I fell into a bit of a poe’s law.

I’m not “AI bad” and “AI bad” has been acting real crazy lately, so it didn’t seem out of character for an “AI bad” person to say ecco the dolphin, by virtue of having no AI, is saving the planet. The game still took power and resources to develop. Not only isn’t it saving the planet, regardless of AI, it’s harming it.

I am however “Corporation bad”, so I was doubly overly sensitive. 1st someone was saying some perceived AI bad silliness. 2nd they were also saying that the corporation harming the planet, was saving the planet. You got your knee jerk though.

Unless you were telling me the plot of ecco, and yeah I suppose, but that’s a bit out of context.

Sorry to preempt your punch line. Joke wasn’t missed, just unappreciated. My bad. I don’t wanna rehash a GenAI debate though, see here for my latest one.

Probably not. Mind explaining it?

“It’s about saving the planet” - KeenFlame.

It isn’t about saving the planet. They never said it was about saving the planet, they don’t think GenAI is destroying the planet (see excerpt) The saving the planet thing came all from you.

It’s about marketing, and it’s working, here you are saying ecco the dolphin is saving the planet. Unless you were telling me the plot of ecco, and yeah I suppose, but that’s a bit out of context. Haven’t bought into the hype? What more hype is there than saving the planet.

What’s the most over hyped game you know? Where were people saying it was saving the planet? Great graphics, incredible gameplay, get to watch an acorn grow into a tree in real time… But saving the planet?!

Listening to marketeers do their thing. Have we not learned our lesson yet. They’ll say whatever it is to sell their game.

Let them make it. Let them release it. Find out if it’s something you want to buy. Buy it. “It’s about saving the planet” why would anyone volunteer to carry water for them?

The developer – whose credits also include Chakan: The Forever Man, Kolibri, Mr. Bones and Three Dirty Dwarves – has previously been quite vocal about his support of tech such as Web3, AI and LLMs (Large Language Models) in video games.

His LinkedIn profile states that one of his “near-term” goals is to “create an AI system to generate ergodic game content.” His current company, PLAYCHEMY, lists “gamification of AI models, Stable Diffusion, LLM, and NeRF” as some of its primary areas of interest.

Save the planet with ECCO, to kill it everywhere else? It’s just marketing (it’s working though). Wait for the reviews instead.

Ok then, that was always allowed.

I can’t vouch for it. But my understanding is that DOS is it’s own wild west of Case By Case Basis. My understanding is that if DosBox pure would be happy with the .zip you give it, Romm may or may not be. If DosBox won’t fire it up with no tinkering god help you.

I got fallout to run in a desktop instance, but it still didn’t run on Romm. Gpt suspects it’s the nested folder structure

/INTRPLAY/FALLOUT/[game stuff here including data folders]

Gpt is wrong more than it’s right though.

I’m fine with people paying for the Just-Works™.

I’ve just ventured into DosBox stuff, starting with pre installed game folders (best case scenario). Just mount the .7z into dosbox and… Wait, unarchive it, make it a .zip and… Wait, just unzip it and remake the folder structure to match the .cfg, rezip and… Wait, unzip and re-write some of the setting in the .cfg, re-zip and… Wait, mouse support on a touch screen, why is the keyboard unresponsive?

Tinkering is fun, but I just wanted to play fallout 1. Romm just added dos support. I was elated. But all my games are .7z. and the 2 I tried (FO1 and a 1-0 soccer, it was first on the list) both didn’t fire up, fallout 1 required tinkering to fire up in a DosBox instance. A fun project, I wasn’t gaming though.

I guess a third position is then that “gender is meaningless, but just play along”.

Thrice you’ve asserted gender as meaningless. Twice I’ve shown you it isn’t.

A house isn’t just a building. It’s society that gives the building meaning and power. Turning the construction of brick and glass into a “house”. Society gives the construction “House” meaning, it gives it power, it gives it protection. Just because without society all that meaning falls away, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have meaning at all. It has the meaning society is currently giving it. Now thrice I’ve shown you it isn’t meaningless.

Abolishing the idea of gender entirely seems more rational

Perhaps. It’s probably a good idea to try. If nothing else we can stop using gender to oppress people. If gender doesn’t have any meaning, what idea would you be abolishing? Your second point undermines your first assertion. Why abolish something meaningless? It’s meaningless.

It might turn out that there is a “man” chemical/gene expression/brain structure. All I can tell you is that I am a man. Where my “Manness” comes from be it societal construction, or some biological function I don’t know. I’m comfortable being a man, I’m comfortable being labeled a man, I’m not forced to confront it.

However, some people make it an aesthetic and romanticise it.

What is it that you think makes it attractive to them? The meds? The surgery? The bigotry they face? The gender dysphoria? Is it the chosen family because many of them were disowned by their biological one? The shorter life spans? The increased chance of having violence visited upon them? They go through these things because not doing so would be worse for them personally.

Sure, you can be assigned a gender at birth, but if gender is meaningless then why would you feel the need to change it?

But it isn’t meaningless. Society gives meaning to gender. Woman means dresses, man means beard. It’s discordant when you see a person with a beard in a dress. Less so now, as we’re pushing against gender being what defines fashion.

A house has meaning, there are specific laws and regulations that govern how you and I interact with it, but there’s nothing fundamentally "House"y about it. Remove all society and that building is just a building.

That doesn’t mean that “House” is meaningless, it isnt. “House” could be meaningless, but it isn’t currently. We give it meaning.

If men and women are equal in capability of skill, then I don’t see why you’d want to change it.

Taking the least gracious interpretation of transgender: gender is entirely performative. A person assigned Male at Birth grows up thinking that: how 'Man" is performed sucks, but how “woman” is performed is awesome. That’s still, as we agree, a valid experience.

Honestly, I don’t think that Trans people want to be trans. What about the trans experience is attractive to you that makes you think people want it? The meds? The surgery? The bigotry they face? The gender dysphoria? Is it the chosen family because many of them were disowned by their biological one? They go through these things because not doing so would be worse for them personally.

Sure, I can respect how other people identify, but if gender is simply a social construct, then I don’t understand how someone could be transgender.

I don’t understand how you can’t? Society constructed it, so it exists. Take a rudimentary construction.

A house. There isn’t a “house” partical/chemical/gene/brain structure. Does that mean the house doesn’t exist? Society didn’t have to construct a house, it could have constructed a road or a bus stop, does that mean the house doesn’t exist?

The house exists, we can point to it, we can point to the effects it has on the world: it’s a house now, you can’t just walk in without the owner’s permission or society will punish you.

I have no idea whether gender has a physical component particle/chemical/gene/brain structure/… But, even granting it doesn’t, it doesn’t mean gender doesn’t exist. Gender not having a physical component could mean gender doesn’t have to exist.

Like the house, it didn’t have to exist. It doesn’t have to be protected by society the way it currently is. It doesn’t always have to be a house. It still exists though.

For my own anecdote. I identify as a man, but I don’t really identify with how man is performed. Like “man” is a what I am, not so much a who I am. So, I’d lean that gender has some physical “what” component.

Equally, no-one can see my man partical/chemical/gene/brain structure/… but they have no problem identifying me as a man, (though not a particularly manly one), so who the fuck knows.

I’m privileged enough to not question my gender, or have it questioned. So, what I think means diddly.

I run 2 instances of pihole/unbound as lxcs on my main server and local back up, works great.

If I didn’t have the two big boxes I’d use my pi4/zero2 to run two instances of pihole/unbound.

If I didn’t have my pis, I’d run 2 instances of pihole/unbound on literally anything I could install it on.

What I’m saying is that I consider pihole/unbound to be essential infrastructure at this point. I’m also trying to say I’ve broken my only instance of pihole enough times to understand the importance of redundancy.

I use Pis as a (sort of) hardware key to get family and friends onto my Tailscale VPN. They all have pihole too. I haven’t convinced any of them to get a pi0 as a redundant box, but I’m sure they’ll learn eventually too. No doubt it’ll be my problem.