"a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure the required absolute majority of 361 votes. As a result, mass scanning is now permitted again until 2028."
"Oh no we can't get a majority to pass the law!"
"Have you tried getting a majority to not pass the law?"
"Worth a shot!"
"It worked, should we also do this multiple times?"
I like reading this, because I love focusing and getting stuff done and vibing with AI in the past has left me feeling exhausted and dirty, like I don't deserve the thing I build. (Btw I'm also an expert at procrastinating! I really need to get into the flow and that is hard but rewarding.)
But recently I have been building a Django app that is all about the data model and with complicated RBAC, and I've been discussing a lot, and I mean a lot, like pages and pages of text back and forth, with Claude code (yes code because I do ask it for the occasional edit, most is done by me).
Claude walks me through things, shows me ups and downs of my plans, points at my flaws in thinking, points at where the huge preliminary text in a docstring does not match what I implemented. And I enjoy it! I'm learning, the picture is getting clearer and I feel good about what I'm building. I feel confident that it is correct and good!
That is an opinion. I for one prefer talking to a happy, healthy mind, healthy body-type over someone with a life riddled with substance experiments. In fact, it was why I hardly talked to some of my family for a long time. Every weekend was the same, they were always angry and in the end they nearly killed themselves. I'm happy they got out of it and we have a much better relation now.
I wonder about all the confounding effects. In my country (famous for cannabis to be easy to come by (for decades already), and I saw many smoke from age 16 up as I grew up in 90's, 00's). I have always felt that the heavy cannabis smokers had something to compensate; stress, unrest, impending depression, friction with parents. It was never the healthy sporty types with fulfilling relationships, good grades or a nice career that smoke cannabis heavily (like daily). Sure, some of those smoked, but more occasionally.
It's a lot of stuff to set up though, compared to disaster recovery instructions being: Install Docker, restore state from x, docker compose up -d.
I want it all "as code", this could certainly be automated (scripts, nix), but it would be nice if it really was as simple as one single compose file, that should be the goal, imho.
I also use my Aranet everywhere. The nice thing is you quickly develop a feel for when you need to ventilate spaces you know so you don’t need it there anymore. I also developed a feeling for new (to me) rooms a bit.
I once woke up with the fam in a hotel with airco at 5500 ppm. It is then that I learned the airco does not blow fresh air (logical after thinking about it).
Yes, the firewall rule altering was what drove us to podman! Was kind of weird to find a container's Postgres wide open on 5432 after a `sudo ufw default deny`. Madness really.
But as said below, the permissions issues got to us.
Mostly self made containers, also one with Claude-code, but I couldn't for the life of me get it to be able to store and retrieve credentials in an externally mounted folder (~/.claude). I tried everything from fixing the user creation process in the container, `--userns=keep-id`, `--userns=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000`, several tags, :Z, :U, `chown`-ing after creation etc. And I keep running into that stuff.
I wish that "run podman containers as a user, rootless" would just simply mean: All the things are also the property of the user, but you get weird uid/guid combos and stuff on your filesystem as owners you never heard of (like www-data, but not that one in particular) due to the mismatches.
If containers can ever simply be run as user like they are a user process, that would be so nice.
I went all in on podman compose last year but went all back because off constant permission errors. I thought it was going to be better than docker because I run the containers as a user… but man the amount of time I wasted on files that either I or the container itself or some other container couldn’t read… With docker I felt that stuff just works.
And then there are the extra steps: Enable user lingering, make a systemd service that starts the compose containers (and there is nothing really “native”, it’s a script.) With Docker compose containers just restart if you say so in the file.
There are many great things about podman, will try again in a year or so perhaps?
I think it's because I am also a long time fan but kept the same system running. But generally it's 1 occ command and the thing is alive again. Always did wonder why the container doesn't run that command... Maybe the AIO container does.
I think it is happening less and less, it was more in the older days. I'm still on very old install (from somewhere barely after the OwnCloud split), so I saw some issues.
Of course, just before I was ready to wipe it all and start with the AIO container my partner started intensively using the calendar (switching from paper, finally!) So I need to spend some time with it and migrate properly without her having any downsides. When I do I will also set up EuroOffice and experiment with that. I'm rather looking forward to that. In that sense it's a real "lab" :)
Yes, the weary giants of steel have taken up a very visible part. But what you (we) remember is still there. It just won't come to you via a Smartphone app.
I thought this was going towards the "I have an agent do it". glad it didn't :)
What this skips though is the complexity of services like NextCloud (stuck in maintenance mode again?), Immich (needs a compose file edit?), MineCraft worlds (Dad! my client is on another version again!), (dmn) AlbyHub (needs re-login and closed its channel).
But to be fair this is really getting quite minimal these days indeed. I didn't really realize it but I too have a mostly hand-off home-lab... Ok, then it's not really a lab anymore, its more "stable home-infra" ;)
I don't really trust our EU leaders not to pull the same stunt. So we're back to Marx's "owning your means of productions". Which has always been good advice, whether it's GitHub's recent failings, FaceBook's blocking, or some Google service on their graveyard.