It's pretty easy to proxy your WordPress with cloudflare's cdn. Then your WordPress isn't hit very often.

WordPress handles volume just fine. Nothing a HN hug would disrupt.

Usually a web server is a real simple add-on to an already established home network/lab.

It's not necessary. Just a fun thing to do.

I was thinking that one could "roll their own repository" that scrapes githubs and then just throw that into f-droid.

Probably already exists.

IzzyOnDroid is basically this already; it's a third-party repository that's maintained by some person that does updates.

Some people just don't want to use AI and there are very legitimate reasons for that.

Why are you so willing to teach a program how to do your job? Why are you so willing to give your information to a LLM that doesn't care about your privacy?

I agree there can be very legitimate reasons for personally not wanting to use AI. At the same time, I'm not sure I find either of those questions to be related to particularly convincing reasons.

Teaching a program how to do your job has been part of the hacker mindset for many decades now, I don't think there is anything new to be said as to why. Anyone here reading this on the internet has long since decided they are fine preferring technical automations over preserving traditional ways of completing work.

LLMs don't inherently imply anything about privacy handling, the service you select does (if you aren't just opting to self host in the first place). On the hosted service side there's anything from "free and sucks up everything" to "business data governance contracts about what data can be used how".

> Anyone here reading this on the internet has long since decided they are fine preferring technical automations over preserving traditional ways of completing work.

Well, that's a huge unsubstantiated leap. Also, it's not about "preserving traditional ways of completing work." It's just about recognizing that humans are much better at the vast majority of real world work.

>There are no longer "unbiased" news sources, all sources have moved to either the left or right.

Not really true. The left has moved right as the right went extreme right.

Globally, the US "left" is pretty conservative.

Even if they cost a bit more, they are more reliable, better for the environment and air quality, and are so much quieter.

I work in semiconductor manufacturing r&d.

The general public forgets that old nodes are the vast majority of what's made in fabs.

Cars, most appliances, military, etc all run on old nodes. They're not running cutting edge stuff. Desktop PCs and gaming stuff is nothing compared to the reliable bulk orders that last years for a car line or a line of washing machines.

Nonsense. He had comfort and security to fall back on. His family was also loaded.

He wasn't walking away from anything. He would have been fine if it didn't work.

The reality is he had a safety net to fall back on. 99% of people do not.

From the point of view of a good 50% or so of the world (if not more), pretty much every Westerner has comfort and safety to fall back on.

Except it is simply not true that every Westerner has safety to fall back on. There would be no homelessness crisis if this was true.

I said "pretty much". The homelessness crisis in, say, the US, affects a relatively small portion of the population; from quick looking up figures, it's less than 1% of the population.

I'm no expert on any of this, but as far as I understand it, homelessness is usually 1. transitory, and 2. usually tied to other serious issues like mental health issues, drug abuse etc. It's usually not a "lack of resources".

The homelessness goes up and down woth economy and housing availability. Sure, people worh mental health issues are first to loose ... and being homeless makes all the mental health issues worst.

Like, common. And beyond homeless, you have people one paycheck away from being homeless. And people unable to pay for drugs they need - like insuline.

Yes, if all you know about West is what you see in movies, then everyone is rich.

> 99% of people do not.

Which really reflects to how most people's parents/family/society is pathetic.

Now I'm not merely talking about a safely net after one burns up millions in a startup but I'm taking about say a safety net after loosing a job etc. I think most people (like me) would be just happy to have stability in life rather than yearn for being financially successful. The precarious existence is depressing.

That's funny cuz my Linux boot up is so fast that multiple coworkers and even my girlfriend have commented on how much faster it is than their windows installs.

Linux is blazing fast when configured properly. But in reality we're talking about 2-3 seconds of difference here. How long a machine takes to POST is usually the biggest part of bootup nowadays.

Love the AM5 memory training two minute POSTs that make you think you didn’t assemble it correctly!

Out of the box ubuntu server boots super slowly, and with terrible defaults, like if a NIC is connected but not configured it will hang on boot.

I have observed that; why is time to POST so high? Does anyone know?