Which change? My crisis of faith was because I went before God and got nothing. That’s not really supposed to happen in Mormon Doctrine.

My move away from antitheism was some people, well person actually, with more patience than I deserved. They slowly showed me bigotry, all bigotry, was wrong. By challenging my beliefs gently and letting me reveal my bigotry to myself. I was, thankfully, in the listening mood so I got there in the end.

Antitheism, at the time, had R. Dawkins, as a champion, skeptictube was doing it’s alt-right reveal with “feminist owned” vids every where. So yeah… Bigotry was/is in its bones

Perhaps. Irrationality in itself isn’t evil though. We’re all irrational about somethings sometimes, that’s just what it is to be human. We just be meat sacks powered by cornflakes, it would be weird if we weren’t irrational.

My biggest problem with religion is the bigotry, religion certainly doesn’t have a monopoly on it though, and antitheism doesn’t make you immune. Antitheism is fertile ground for bigotry and the irrational justifications for it.

Anti-intellectualism, and the harm spread from anti-intellectualism, is awful though, no arguments from me. A lot of evil can arrive from believing one is “rational” while they’re blind to their own limits of perspective.

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin comment is too narrow to contain.

Me too, I just also think that the antitheist movement (mostly vocal and unempathetic antitheists such as I was) is also a net drain on society.

I think people create god in their own image. They use doctrine to justify what they would have believed anyway. I was taught to be homophobic by homophobes, Leviticus was just the tool used to deliver the lesson.

Stopping being Mormon didn’t stop my homophobia, the lessons were deep and that came later. I think instead if I had internalised homophobia=bad earlier, I would have left the church as a by product. Internalising bigotry=bad got me to leave antitheism, is where I got that from.

So that’s where I’m at: champion human rights and people will leave toxic structures as a by product.

The zeal of a convert.

I dunno, my crisis of faith went from mourning to anger very quickly. I was quick to anger and held grudges like any immature man back then. Perhaps I just needed to work it out of my system. Now I’m more let live and let live, but it was a slow process filled with people with more patience than I deserved.

Antitheism and egalitarianism (read anti-feminsm). I was an ubsufferable cunt. Not to excuse my cuntness, I was raised Mormon: condescending hatred of all those not like me was all I knew.

I run 2 instances of pihole/unbound as lxcs on my main server and local back up, works great.

If I didn’t have the two big boxes I’d use my pi4/zero2 to run two instances of pihole/unbound.

If I didn’t have my pis, I’d run 2 instances of pihole/unbound on literally anything I could install it on.

What I’m saying is that I consider pihole/unbound to be essential infrastructure at this point. I’m also trying to say I’ve broken my only instance of pihole enough times to understand the importance of redundancy.

I use Pis as a (sort of) hardware key to get family and friends onto my Tailscale VPN. They all have pihole too. I haven’t convinced any of them to get a pi0 as a redundant box, but I’m sure they’ll learn eventually too. No doubt it’ll be my problem.

Why would there be a deviled egg, just left there on the windowsill for 12hrs, if not for you to eat it.

I loved early WTNV, the monster of the week format just suited me. Today is street sweeping day, RUN! As they moved to longer and longer arcs I fell a bit out of love, persisted a while, then dropped. I still go to their live shows when they roll through though.

Cleanuparr+huntarr

Add a bunch to Prowlarr (filter by public, Torrent, Language, category) and then monitor the stats in Prowlarr to remove the ones not working out for you.

MagnetDownload has the highest number of successful grabs for me. Followed by TorrentProject2. I run a Bitmagnet instance though, and I have that as highest piority.

My original main was on FMHY, and this was my porn alt. But, FMHY died so I used this account to browse temporarily. The lemmynsfw admins kept making decisions I agreed with, so I just stayed.

When you’re an Atreides they just let you do it.

WAF has consistently held me down to earth. “What will that enable you to acheive that you can’t do already?” With a couple mini pcs and a rpi I’m good. I’d love shiny things, but beyond LLMs there’s not much it would enable me to achieve that I can’t already.

That, and other hobbies. I don’t want to be an amateur system admin during the summer. So all winter long, while I’m tinkering, I’m adding up how much it adds to my maintenance schedule.

Honestly, I wouldn’t.

I only run it this way because a VPS had 0 WAF, and I’m terrified of opening ports. VPS is the well trodden ground, there’s tonnes of guides. Mine’s a hack job borne of necessity, it works though, and I am proud of what I cobbled together.

It was my first time solving my own problems. I had my meager skill set, a basic idea of what I wanted, some vague notion of how I was going to achieve it, and a thick forehead to smash against the problem till it gave way for me.

I am going to keep running it this way though. To access my server you need to HAVE a relay rPi, and you need to KNOW a password. That’s two authentication factors right there, just built in.

I use tailscale for my non-tech family.

I run a rPi with tailscale, pihole and nginx on it in their house. They connect to the their WiFi, get adblocking for free. They go to “http://homarr.sever/” pihole captures the request, sends it to nginx which reverse proxies to a homarr LXC on my server. From there they can click links to the services which are at “https://service/.######.xyz”. Again, pihole captures the request, sends it to nginx which reverse proxies it over Tailscale to the appropriate LXC.

One poor soul runs a mini pc with 2 mirrored ssds attached, it runs everything above plus Syncthing. They have the privilege of running the remote back up for the server.

For apps on their phone, I intend to set their phone up with Tailscale and then just have the app go to “http://dockge:1337/”… Just as soon as I learn to write the access controls to allow admins to access everything, users to access services, and services to access nothing. I just looked and there’s a gui now so I could maybe do it this winter.

Get Ren this lizard blood, he must be protected!!

There should be both. Minimal config + gui options for people just getting into the hobby, or just want the thing. And a more open option for people who hit the limits of the first, or to do interesting shit, or to repeatably build a thing.

I go back and forth on my server. During summer I wish it was all Docker YAMLs so I can press “update” in Dockge and then enjoy the weather.

But, I also do non-typical things. Users have a rPi in their house that captures requests and routes them through Tailscale to my server for remote access without a VPS or opening ports.

I’m not too technical so I often struggle setting things up, and documentation can be less than helpful at times, sometimes I really wished there was a gui or wizard, but it’s doable.

Tech: The wheel, chariot, loom, car, now AI.

Once Pandora’s box opens, it’s open. The best you can do is figure out how to use it ethically and how to regulate it so others use it … reasonably.

Hats used to be an art form, milliners where everywhere. Now they’re mostly all machine made, it’ll be the same with books, music, pictures etc. Sure there will be a demand for human made art, same as there’s a demand for hand made shoes… But who made your jumper, your hat, your shoes? A machine I bet.

I call it beginner butt stuff friendly, thank you very much