Like many enthusiasts, I have a free-tier Ampere A1 instance from Oracle. And like many Oracle users, I live in constant paranoia that Oracle will do what they do best and fuck me over with zero warning . The problem # I already had a file-level Borg backup for my data, but I wanted a concrete, sovereign, block-level backup of the entire drive - something I could simply boot up locally as a VM if…
$ dict "Dopamine Fracking" | less The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources — money, crowdsourced math, analytics, optimization, min-maxing, popular opinion aggregation, etc. — into a previously casual or complex, layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit, with no regard for anything except dopamine. Origin # One late evening…
DIY Private Filtered DNS # Create your own secure DNS server with filtering capabilities NextDNS, eat your heart out This tutorial will guide you through setting up a private DNS server using Caddy and AdGuard Home. You'll create a secure, encrypted personal DNS endpoint with content filtering and authorization that you can use from anywhere in the world. What you'll get # A personal DNS…
My stupid LLM benchmark # I got bored and decided to run a stupid benchmark: ask a bunch of current models to write a bash oneliner that parses the raw LLM streaming API output into a live-updating chat-style display. Background # This benchmark was devised at the beginning of the year for my own amusement and mild feeling of superiority over the LLMs, but now that the clankers are beginning to…
Dear user, # Am I missing some meme? Why is it that when you ask ChatGPT or the models directly via API ( gpt-5-chat-latest only, it seems), it addresses you as "Dear user"? It's really funny. It seems to work with the query "what are some softwares using imgui" , or with close variations, but every time it responds like so: I've tested this around 20 times and every time it responded…
On media being incompetent at depicting young people # Have you noticed that a lot of modern contemporary media is utterly incompetent at portraying a younger generation or even just the current realities of life? In my current transient fixation on content I used to consume as a kid, I stumbled upon an old sitcom from 2007. One that was de-facto the most popular sitcom in Russia for a good couple…
via https://gist.github.com/iGerman00/db6a2c4c8d4dc30ed17d309c97310a50 Floatplane YouTube Hotkeys # This is a relatively simple, decent script to introduce some extra hotkeys to Floatplane . By default, only some hotkeys are active. I've only tested this script on my Chromium-based browser with Tampermonkey, however I have no reason to believe it won't work on other…
via https://gist.github.com/iGerman00/b45f78685f7db0fa264edf7a0d81bd50 Installing Tailscale on GL.iNet SiFlower (SiChang) routers # I have no experience creating opkg packages for OpenWRT, so manual installation it is! Automatic installation # Lanrat's Tailscale Repository # It's not compressed as of writing this, but it's much easier to install, and now supports…