Last night, a tornado narrowly missed my house by less than half a mile. And hours before, crazy winds downed power lines causing brush fires that damaged houses about 3/4 of a mile to the south.

Weather is getting worse and less predictable, but sure, let’s fucking cut funding for the people who send out warnings for this shit.

(It’s worth knowing that although I live in a purplish city, Missouri is very red and voted for trump the past three elections. This will hurt trump voters too.)

I only use voice to interact with my phone when I’m driving and want to set a destination, or if I’m at home and can’t find my phone.

Somehow I doubt that AI will help tell me my phone fell off the nightstand and is half way under the bed.

Sorry, I wasn’t clear - I use PowerDNS so that I can more easily deploy services that can be resolved by my internal networks (deployed via Kubernetes or Terraform). In my case, the secondary PowerDNS server does regular zone transfers from the primary in order to ensure it has a copy of all A, PTR, CNAME, etc records.

But PowerDNS (and all DNS servers really), can either be authoritative resolvers or recursors. In my case, the PDNS servers are authoritative for my homelab zone/domain and they perform recursive lookups (with caching) for non-authoritative domains like google.com, infosec.pub, etc. By pointing my PDNS servers to PiHole for recursive lookups, I ensure that I have ad blocking while still allowing for my automation to handle the homelab records.

This is overkill.

I have a dedicated raspberry pi for pihole, then two VMs running PowerDNS in Master/Slave mode. The PDNS servers use the Pihole as their primary recursive lookup, followed by some other Internet privacy DNS server that I can’t recall right now.

If I need to do maintenance on the pihole, power DNS can fall back to the internet DNS server. If I need to do updates on the PowerDNS cluster, I can do it one at a time to reduce the outage window.

EDIT: I should have phrased the first sentence: “My setup is overkill” rather than “This is overkill” - the Op is asking a very valid question and the passive phrasing of my post’s first sentence could be taken multiple ways.

I put my Plex media server to work doing Ollama - it has a GPU for transcoding that’s not awful for simple LLMs.

That’s why I’ve stopped using non-local LLMs. Ollama works just fine on my outdated GTX 2060.

We’ll raise your credit limit by $1000 for every dead bird you find on the street and eat on video.

Get your vpns figured out now while you can still Google for “VPNs”.

Hosting on the public web isn’t too crazy - start with port forwarding on standard ports (443 for sale/web) and add in a dynamic DNS address.

More than likely your residential ISP doesn’t change your IP that often, but Dynamic DNS solves that problem before it hits. I use Cloudflare, but mostly because I’m lazy and haven’t moved off of them after their most recent sketch behavior.

I had no idea our 40lb Boston Terrier/Beagle mix walking around was so loud for our downstairs neighbors. After they told us, we invested in some rugs to try and dampen the sound.

Of course, they would get into screaming matches at 3am with each other until the cops were called - then the cops would ring our buzzer because they refused to answer.

I do not miss apartment living.

Image and video generation is where you see that VRAM bottleneck. I have a 12GB 4070 and it cannot generate any video despite my best efforts/tweaks.

Fire up burpsuite and do a POST, see what happens. 🤣

Check if their check boxes have a SQL injection.

For those who can’t: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zhl-Cs1-sG4&t=110s

We are collectively destroying everything that made us great as a country. The postal service was literally the envy of the world - name another country’s service that will deliver a letter to anywhere else in the country for less than a dollar. Consistently, regardless of remote location.

Immigrants contribute to every level from the service industry to research and development.

Our rule of law, although not perfect, for the most part was attempted to lean towards justice.

We were a stabilizing economic and military force for the world.

USAID helped save millions of lives.

This administration setting fire to it all under the guide of “Making America Great” despite the fact that all their changes will in fact make it fucking shit, dismantling the very things that should make us proud to be American.

I’m confused, did they chuck the paint bulbs at the cops?

Every part of the whole “51st state” plan is insane, but to admit Canada as one single unit is absolutely fucking bonkers. It’s literally bigger in square miles/km than the United States. It would need to be at a minimum 10 states (one per province) but would probably benefit conservatives if they split up some of the more conservative provinces into more states.

I’d say it was weird, not shit. It was hard to find niche sites, but once you did they tended to be super deep into the hobby, sport, movies, or games.

SEO (search engine optimization) was probably the first step down this path, where people would put white text on a white background with hundreds of words that they hoped a search engine would index.

I’ve tried using an LLM for coding - specifically Copilot for vscode. About 4 out of 10 times it will accurately generate code - which means I spend more time troubleshooting, correcting, and validating what it generates instead of actually writing code.