There are days i agree, others where discover a beauty that showcases our infinite potential.

Regardless the doomer perspective does not help me to fix any of our problems, all it does is give me mental illness. There is a short path between lost hope and suicide ideation. So i choose to not lose hope and continue to try to do some good to push the scale.

I like the irony in your username btw.

As a parent i fully support this chance.

One of the reasons i do have kids is because i recognise how rational people who think critically of the current world will easily adopt this logic.

Meaning the future will be largely populated by children of people who are not capable to think critically.

I did always have a child-wish, so maybe it’s part excuse, but it’s a strategic excuse. Either humanity has irreversibly failed or it has not yet meaning i have to try increase the chance on future our survival. (No pressure on them though, they get to decide their future and i might win hope if i am lucy)

Oh so that is why i keep failing at it. Damn

The task: Get out bed and drink a glass of water.

Let me tell you how yesterday went.

Title: “Yesterday”

Yesterday, at the start of my day i discovered the update for the app i use to connect to my music server has an issue and couldn’t play anything.

After some hours i discovered it works find in other apps and it was not a networking vpn issue and therefot not an issue with The navidrone server itself.

I tried a bunch of other apps during but none allowed to sort artists by rating except eventually one free app that is not open source developed by an anonymous entity in a far foreign jurisdiction.

I do like amplify very much so i lock back in to troubleshooting what the issue is. I discovered it works fine with the public Navidrome demo… so it is my server after all?

At this point i am back home and move from working on just my phone to a pc on my servers homenetworking making troubleshooting a heck more comfortable. Though i did experience intens withrawelsymptons and overstimulation from having been gone outside without working music for so long.

I also haven’t eaten anything yet because i am still only starting my day in my head though its noon.

At some point i discovered only a single album worked. Pink Floyd dark side of the moon [MFSL edition] which by coincidence is my goto answer to name a favorite album of all time.

I eventually downloaded tracks from the demo that i verified worked and put them on my server to really compare the networking connections. I eventually discovered navidrome has a menu to force transcroding for specific clients. It was coding everything into aac and on the demo it was flac.

Of course i have troubleshooted codecs in the app since the start. But i never found this menu while on a phone.

The pink floyd album is a 24bit flac… other flacs where seen by amplify as mp4, m4a and mp3 also didn’t work.

Things really don’t add up but i started copying the demos setting for transcoding to my server and this worked for some albums but not all.

At some point i had the brilliant insight to just select the codec name and press delete making the field blank (it responds as a dropdown but also accepts typed texted confusingly) this removed any kind of transcoding interference from the server. Respected the settings of the app. And my music worked again!

At this point it was the evening of my day and i was ravaged of hunger. But i was to depleted to function and could no longer cook. Because i was no longer aware of other options which where in retrospect available i ended up eating one of the ingredients of what i was going to cook but in a larger amount to compensate for not eating all day.

I hated every bite, then i played Minecraft before going to bed.

If Ronald wanted they could sell their nuggets and fries in the freezer section of a supermarket. Then everone could enjoy the product of all their taste science at home.

Its capitalism that ruins it.

Always fun when it tries to circumvent the problem i gave it.

“Hey claude i have had this issue for a while and i want to explore to understand whats going on to finally fix it”

Many frustrating back and forth later

“This clearly isn’t working, what if we tried to circumspect the issue by doing something else entirely like workaround i have been using for the last month “

Duckduckgo -> selfhosted searxng… startpage has also not yet been involved in any controversy for a non selfhosted option.

Copy paste of why duck duck go is a problem:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/

Now I little after this came out they do claim they removed them (odd how that suddenly changes after it was no longer secret) But then much more recent as listed on wikipedia, verifying they still have some long term deals with microsoft in **2025**… microsoft is not going to make a deal with a perceived competitor for nothing in return.

By August 2025, Bing planned to cut off access to its search APIs in a push to sell more AI-related APIs, though **DuckDuckGo believed that larger companies like it with long-term deals would not be affected** 62 Bing had dramatically raised rates for its search API in 2022 after ChatGPT debuted. 62

There is also more general proof that while duck may technically use other sources also. It really is mostly bing:

During a Bing API outage in 2024, DuckDuckGo stopped showing results, indicating that Bing provided a substantial portion of DuckDuckGo’s results.69 70

I literally do not understand how they managed to take such foothold in real privacy communities. I used to love brave till the i was repeatedly pointed to the scandals that many people are aware of and informing others about… but considering ddg i rarely see anyone pointing this out. It actually smells like a huge successful marketing adventure to sell bing to privacy enthusiasts, but for that i obvio do not have proof. I often imagine this meme with bing instead of google and a cute duck go as mr incognito

What if you don’t have a webcam?

“For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives,”

Security is as good as the weakest link, either bots will exploit the accessibility feature making the webcam step for humans unnecessary… or its just as secure… making the webcam step unnecessary.

Blatent attempt to extract data from you and nothing more if you ask me.

In the fourth panel the smart genie just says.

“As you wish” and promptly teleports away with his lamp.

Regardless of how you interpret it, 3 wishes are spend and nothing more needs to change or happen

I have no knowledge of this drama or hard feelings for your instance in either direction.

But was that ever a thing? I joined a month after you and there where options plenty.

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They do usually “grow” “up” but i agree, even encourage this dynamic.

Part of (what i would call “real”) maturity is recognising when it’s ok to stop acting mature and just have fun.

Maturity is realising there is no such thing as an adult but still behaving like one at specific times because you understand that that is the better way to get things done in that setting.

Everyone grows up, many people can behave in an adult way (including children), but actually maturity often still feels rare.

The result of this kind of infrastructure is torture.

Imagine having to downgrade your bed from being a cold large stone slab because some rich people who also own the empty building across the street decided to spend money to stop you from doing so.

Physical and mental torture. Definitely violence.

Or like the other comment mentioned, could now for the first communicate with His daughter and family.

This is a common stereotype but there is a reasonably sized group of Linux enthusiasts who work on macs.

Macos is a real unix based OS. (As opposed to unix compatible GNU “Gnu is Not Unix”) and they claim the performance (apples own chips), even in a vm is amazing.

I had at least one coworker who did this, i also remember Emily Young (Who some remember as Anthony from Ltt) also had quite a few apple products in her house.

How does piped compare to invidious?

Threefold,

Dominate the news with anything that is not epstein files.

I actually looked this up earlier today because i didn’t understand part of it.

An ssh key is, as i understand it, a way to encrypt the connection so only a device that has they key can unlock it.

There are 2 parts, a private key which should never be shared and a public one which can freely be shared.

You usually generate both keys on the device that connects to the ssh, keep the private key on there with the public key going on the server. Thats the part that confused me. (Why is the secret one not on the server i don’t want people to access)

But the way it works is that the public key is used to encrypt/lock something.And only the private key can unlock it.

Any other device that tries to connect just gets an encrypted connection they don’t have the key for. Because these keys are so long no current day tool can guess or crack them. So it is the absolute safest way to establish an ssh connection.

Quantum computers might in the future be able to break them but solutions for this are being worked on.

There are also some systems where you have 2 key pairs where the server also has a private key, to authenticate both ways.