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People should think about a NASS or Home servers like they do about owning a vehicle.

I wholeheartedly agree. Hell, home server/nas should be more common than cars, I don’t drive every day, but my data is used every minute of every day.

Why it was funny in the first place. I knew I was messing with the best.

I swear on my life this happened to me but I don’t care if you believe me or not.

This goes back some years, back when the ping of death was still a thing. I used to hang out in IRC channels and someone decided they needed to show me what a real hacker could do. The dork asked for my IP which was hilarious to begin with, so I replied “127.0.0.1”. About 2 seconds later I see them disconnect from IRC.

A minute goes by and they are back online, spitting mad. Tells me i’m lucky their computer crashed but I’d better get ready…and disconnected again.

Back again and folks are dying laughing thanks to my 1337 teenage hacker skills but eventually someone spills that 127.0.0.1 is localhost. Instantly I’m talking to zero cool again and was too scared to give out my actual address. Being a hardened nerd, this time I complied.

I was on slackware and had already figured out their game from the get go; oh and I actually knew how to find an IP. So right in the middle of this future titan of industry’s insults and threats…they disconnect one last time. 😎

This is why I went back to a simple snapraid and Mergerfs setup. It only spins up the disk it uses, slow but a lot more efficient. It also is based on dead simple ext4 drives which are all still accessible even if the software fails; it’s all file level. I’ve lost many drives over the years and have successfully rebuilt every time.

Scale is about the same as yours, about 24tb made up of 4 and 10tb disks. It’s unglamorous, it’s old school but it works and is reliable.

Nope, nothing useful. Right now I am playing with making some skills to do some rudimentary network testing. I figure it’s always nice to have a remote system to ping or nslookup or check a website from a remote location. I have it hooked to a telegram bot (burner account and restricted to just me) and I can ask it to ping or get me a screenshot or speedtest, etc. from anything it can reach on the internet.

Only purpose right now is to have something to show off :).

You are 100% describing the plan that I am. My only difference is in the voting. Voting has never shown solidarity or at least that solidarity has never delivered any results and I don’t see the point in wasting any power we have.

Use the tools of the system we are trapped in to break it.

lol, straight from the redundant department of redundancies.

I do words good.

From a joint statement given by turnip and Trudeau on Feb 13, 2017:

“Given our shared focus on infrastructure investments, we will encourage opportunities for companies in both countries to create jobs through those investments. In particular, we look forward to the expeditious completion of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, which will serve as a vital economic link between our two countries.”

Yeah, it’s a huge disaster waiting to happen. I am playing with it because it is some interesting learning but completely sandboxed, using a local LLM, and I have given it no personal information. It’s really cool to see it work, to watch the communication between it and the LLM.

But seriously, I’d never, ever attempt playing with it without my decades of infrastructure experience. I’d never give it public access nor any personal information. Still, I am encouraged that it’s functional enough in an entirely self hosted stack to be able to learn and play. I still think the future of AI should be local and openclaw, despite its fundamental issues is the first time I’ve played with AI and could conceive a future use case.

In the end, I think the bubble will pop, I just hope the other side has something of value to come out of all this insanity. As brick stupid as openclaw is, it’s at least enough of a proof of concept to keep a sliver of hope that there may be.

What a world we live in where the best we can do is dream about justice.

Sorry if I was harsh, meant it to be more tongue in cheek..

Don’t be obtuse, she’s been meeting with his lawyers, this is all bullshit. She’s going to lie and “exonerate” him in exchange for a pardon. We’ve all seen where this is going.