Before my recent trip to Austin for work, I set up #pihole and WireGuard for a #VPN on a #Raspberrypi 3 I had sitting around. So I was able to connect to my #Jellyfin server and stream some shows from my hotel. (I unplugged the HDMI cable on their STB and pulled it into my laptop). Also, was able to use a VPN with pi-hole on my phone while I was out and about.
Friends, it's one of the simplest and most impactful things I've done with my #homelab so far. Also gave me access to my music.
Highly recommend it. The rP3 handled it all with no issues at all
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Bryan L. Fordham
@Bfordham@infosec.exchange
Christian, Dad, Husband, Software Engineer based in Richmond Hill, Georgia, USA.
Avatar Alt: Photo of me in a high chair on my first birthday, by a chocolate cake.
Header Alt: "Homeless Jesus," a bronze sculpture located at Dublin's Christ Church Cathedral, created by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz. I took this picture in 2015
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Replying to @gedeonm@mastodon.social
@gedeonm@mastodon.social "I care, but not enough to say anything" is quite the statement to make.
Funnily enough I turned down a good paying job years ago at a marketing company that developed things for tobacco companies.
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Replying to @blogdiva@mastodon.social
@blogdiva@mastodon.social I agree with what you're saying here.
I would push back a bit on "devs are the last people" to be involved in ethics discussions.
I 100% get what you're saying, and I think I get why. But, as a long time professional coder, knowing and understanding ethics is EXTREMELY important for us.
Of course it's also extremely lacking. Which means... well maybe I don't really want to push back that much lol
One problem is, "Does it make money" is the only question a lot of folks consider.
Anyway... I thought I was going to disagree a bit but now I don't think I am. And it makes me a bit sad, honestly, that I can't disagree.
Maybe I'm a weird mix. I'm older than most of my coworkers (just turned 50) and I've been writing code since the 80s. I'm also an ordained minister, and that may make me more concerned about ethics than some.
But also, I think the lack of political education, and honestly basic empathy, is a plague in my industry
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Still no 100% clear option for me to avoid #AI with #Debian's decision.
I had read that @gentoo@fosstodon.org had an anit-AI stance. But I just read the entire thing: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy
It's the first OS statement I've read that specifically mentions the ethical issues. That makes me happy.
No idea what will happen with the linux kernel in #Gentoo, but for the moment it seems like a legit option.
Time will tell
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Replying to @blogdiva@mastodon.social
@blogdiva@mastodon.social not just that. 1 Samuel 21, David is on the run from Saul and he and his men are hungry. The priest gave them consecrated bread because that was all he had.
No matter what you think, if all you have is “gay food” 🙄 you use it to feed the hungry.
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Replying to @Bfordham@infosec.exchange
@blogdiva@mastodon.social over long viewed that passage as saying the forms of religion shouldn’t get in the way of true religion. And I think they applies here.
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Replying to @McCrankyface@social.vivaldi.net
@McCrankyface@social.vivaldi.net @adhdeanasl@beige.party @nixanadoo@mastodon.social yep. I live near a military base. One town over - where it’s actually located - every other business is Patriot Something. But now it means something different
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Replying to @austinkocher@mastodon.social
@austinkocher@mastodon.social kinda makes you wonder if it falls under immigration or customs? Or just private army?
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Replying to @Bfordham@infosec.exchange
This is the type of code I enjoy writing, BTW. I wanted to download my audiobooks, so I was able to script it. Now I plan to set it up on my Audiobookshelf instance to automatically update with my purchases.
World changing? Nope. Useful? Yep.
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Replying to @nihilistnomya@aus.social
@nihilistnomya@aus.social I really don’t understand people.
I see a number of similar hateful comments on local items here (I’m in South Georgia, USA) and it baffles me. Also the number here that look to be from people not in my area. Like, who searches out places to just post crap like that?
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Results aren’t as bad as in thought. Still not great but I didn’t better than I feared
#cluesbysam
https://cluesbysam.com/
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Mental health update - positive Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
At the age of 50 I'm just now getting on medicine for ADD. I've suspected I had this for years now. Both my boys are ADHD and, in learning more about it, my wife and I both have said "You know who else this sounds like, right?"
But if you were an A student in the 90s, no school issues, no real discipline problems, no one looked at you as possibly needing help.
That may sound bitter, but I promise I'm not upset. I get it. I didn't think I had anything going on, either. But I've also dealt with decades of thinking I just wasn't disciplined enough, driven enough, didn't care enough, etc. Turns out my brain was working against me.
Anyway, yesterday I went to church and just listened to the sermon, didn't even care about checking my phone or looking up a reference, or anything else I normally would do. No exaggeration to say I could have cried.
Apparently there's a way to shut down the constant noise in my head. Who knew?
And it gives me A LOT more sympathy for my boys.
#mentalHealth #ADHD #Aging
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Replying to @thomasjwebb@mastodon.social
@thomasjwebb@mastodon.social @blogdiva@mastodon.social I agree with you. Diversity is needed.
You are 100% correct about blind spots.
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Replying to @ADHDruid@infosec.exchange
@ADHDruid@infosec.exchange lol those are what I was referring to. I really want one.
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Replying to @sundogplanets@mastodon.social
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Didn't help anything? Worth it for the humor alone. It's genius
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Replying to @Bfordham@infosec.exchange
@nihilistnomya@aus.social just looked again. Basically no negative comment looks to have an actual profile picture.
Loudmouthed cowards, all of them.
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Replying to @nihilistnomya@aus.social
@nihilistnomya@aus.social that people feel comfortable saying such things publicly is shameful
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Replying to @blogdiva@mastodon.social
@blogdiva@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io this takes me back to discussions about history in college. How all history is biased for exactly this reason: you curate what you include and don’t include. It’s about curation of information.
Even with the best of intentions - meaning, trying to be truthful, not push “an agenda” - you still won’t ever tell the whole story
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