Eji1700's recent activity
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Comment on Synology caves, walks back some drive restrictions on upcoming NAS models in ~tech
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Comment on Synology caves, walks back some drive restrictions on upcoming NAS models in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentWow. I wonder if there's some actual hardware restriction or if they're really just that bad at walking back an already brand destroying decision.Wow. I wonder if there's some actual hardware restriction or if they're really just that bad at walking back an already brand destroying decision.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
Eji1700 LinkDid my writeup of my home server setup. Working on probably nuking and resintalling the OS because linux gremlins (fails to boot when you shutdown/reboot, until you hold the power button, then...Did my writeup of my home server setup. Working on probably nuking and resintalling the OS because linux gremlins (fails to boot when you shutdown/reboot, until you hold the power button, then boots...neat).
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Comment on ‘Predator: Badlands’ officially rated PG-13, meant to be “boundary-pushing” in ~movies
Eji1700 Link ParentDepends heavily on a lot of factors. Tarantino is notorious for over the top stylized violence yes, but something like the beach landing in Saving Private Ryan which is pretty accurate.Depends heavily on a lot of factors.
Tarantino is notorious for over the top stylized violence yes, but something like the beach landing in Saving Private Ryan which is pretty accurate.
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Comment on ‘Predator: Badlands’ officially rated PG-13, meant to be “boundary-pushing” in ~movies
Eji1700 Link ParentCorrect but the film stuff is at a lower volume and thus human reviewed. YouTube stuff is automated which is why stuff like that works and why mk streams swap to black and white for X-rays/fatalities.Correct but the film stuff is at a lower volume and thus human reviewed.
YouTube stuff is automated which is why stuff like that works and why mk streams swap to black and white for X-rays/fatalities.
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Comment on America's dumbest crop: grass in ~enviro
Eji1700 Link ParentThere's a in-between "never ever use anything artificial" and "i poured a pools worth of pesticide on everything". Pesticide is a very large problem, artificial fertilizer less so, and not really...There's a in-between "never ever use anything artificial" and "i poured a pools worth of pesticide on everything".
Pesticide is a very large problem, artificial fertilizer less so, and not really sure what the issue with mowing is other than "yes it's not something the bee's care about and thus lowers the potential sqft of things they do care about".
There are people out there with grass lawns that are probably a net gain for the ecology outside of the water use, often because they accent them with things that help support nearby wildlife vs the "crushed gravel and nothing else" that some of these things are being replaced with.
Turf for example is objectively better from a water use standpoint, and likely worse from an ecology standpoint (I'd say objectively but not sure if a lawn + heavy pesticide use is actively worse than no soil + turf).
I think OP is coming out swinging more than they need to by far, but I also don't think this is a very high quality video designed to seriously discuss the issue more than the average youtube click/ragebait (the title is intentionally hostile, lots of cherrypicking of the worst of the worst situations with news clips, "gotchas" like kentucky bluegrass, etc).
There is a mix of problems with human desires and perceptions (grass is valued because its probably the easiest thing for kids to play in) leading to economic incentives and that does need to be fixed, but I don't see videos like this helping that cause.
More often than not, yeah, they exist for "DAE think lawn is dumb!" conversations. It's an interesting discussion to be had but HAHAHA you're dumb and it's just the 50s and everyone is horrible is such a lame way to discuss this and reminds me of things like "adam ruins everything" where it's just going to focus the most outrageous parts but ignore a lot of the details.
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Comment on Humble Choice - October 2025 in ~games
Eji1700 LinkV Rising - Fun game, highly recommend. Even if you don't co-op I think it's a wonderful combat system (even if i'm sad it's what became of battlerite). NOT the kind of game where you can just gear...V Rising - Fun game, highly recommend. Even if you don't co-op I think it's a wonderful combat system (even if i'm sad it's what became of battlerite). NOT the kind of game where you can just gear up past the bosses if you're struggling. You do need to learn how to use the base movement and skills to avoid things.
System Shock - If you like system shock, or have ever wanted to try system shock, it's a fine way to do it.
Shogun Showdown - I kinda bounced off it. Seems fun enough but it didn't hold my attention. There weren't any problems though. Felt well made and had a decent amount of variety, but the actual gameplay loop wasn't quite what I was looking for. I do plan to try again.
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Comment on ‘Predator: Badlands’ officially rated PG-13, meant to be “boundary-pushing” in ~movies
Eji1700 Link ParentThis was literally what I was thinking of, but I don't think you can get away with it when they look like weyland David androids or whatever. Ratings in general are a mix of political nonsense and...This was literally what I was thinking of, but I don't think you can get away with it when they look like weyland David androids or whatever.
Ratings in general are a mix of political nonsense and "I know it when I see it" factors so I very much doubt "oh yeah ripping that dude in half is fine because he's got white blood" gets a PG13.
It DOES however get to be shown on youtube, as anyone who watches games like MK knows.
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Comment on What's a product or service that you use but don't want to pay for and why? in ~life
Eji1700 Link ParentI donate to patreon's of channels that I frequent and have nebula. About the most you can do.I donate to patreon's of channels that I frequent and have nebula. About the most you can do.
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Comment on ‘Predator: Badlands’ officially rated PG-13, meant to be “boundary-pushing” in ~movies
Eji1700 Link ParentI'd again bet that's the excuse they're going to use so people still go. I doubt sincerely the level to which you can actually get away with that (having watched the AvP films they ARE less...I'd again bet that's the excuse they're going to use so people still go.
I doubt sincerely the level to which you can actually get away with that (having watched the AvP films they ARE less violent) and again this reeks of a product designed by marketing teams trying to maximize audiences, not actually sticking to the strengths of the story.
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Comment on ‘Predator: Badlands’ officially rated PG-13, meant to be “boundary-pushing” in ~movies
Eji1700 LinkI’m not going to say you can’t make a good PG-13 predator movie but I’ll bet money they haven’t made a good PG-13 predator movie.I’m not going to say you can’t make a good PG-13 predator movie but I’ll bet money they haven’t made a good PG-13 predator movie.
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Comment on How some veterans exploit $193 billion US Department of Veterans Affairs program, due to lax controls in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentWellp, anecdotally, I know of at least one person who straight up abused the system (along with many other things, just seemed to be their personality/way of doing things), by claiming "you just...Wellp, anecdotally, I know of at least one person who straight up abused the system (along with many other things, just seemed to be their personality/way of doing things), by claiming "you just say your dick doesn't work. Not like they're going to/can check that".
He faked several other things, but I know he was pulling money from it.
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Cosmos Cloud Writeup
I'm just copy pasting my reddit writeup since that's where the creator is active. For those curious the basic idea of cosmos (https://cosmos-cloud.io/) is home server with a push towards default...
I'm just copy pasting my reddit writeup since that's where the creator is active. For those curious the basic idea of cosmos (https://cosmos-cloud.io/) is home server with a push towards default safety stuff. Reverse proxy over your docker containers configured to not see beyond their world sort of thing so you can safely control access. I believe it's a one person project and still very much in development, but given that so many people just drop "roll your own, you just need to learn...." as the solution I find this to be vastly preferable, and maybe better than things like CasaOS
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I've had less time than I hoped to really poke at this, so it's a bit rambly/stream of consciousness. Figured I'd put this up as a data point for anyone either considering cosmos, or maybe as some feedback. If anyone wants more detail on a specific part I'll gladly dive in, but for now if I don't put this up I never will. A very large thanks to the various people who guided me on the discord.Techstack/layout/hardware:
- Cloudflare domain with proxy active
- Ubiquiti UDM Pro router
- MS01 on Unbuntu, in default DMZ vlan
- Client devices on other vlans(a secure VLAN, technically not the default but similar) or external to network
Personal skill level: I code for a living, but that's probably overstating my skill. Mostly light CRUD apps. Network is a MASSIVE blindspot that I know very little about. This project was in part to help fix that by getting me some practical experience. It's also GROSSLY overspecc'd for my skill level with some hope I can eventually do some more ambitious stuff.
Setup: I had installed Cosmos before and run it locally unsecured/self signed (as provided by just clicking on the button in cosmos), just to make sure I understood "intended" behavior.
My initial hiccups mostly revolved around me setting up port forwarding incorrectly in the router, so i'll skip most of that. Short version is misread something, went down the out of date documentation rabbit hole and then doubled down with some AI hallucinations. In the end it's MUCH easier than I was making it.
All i needed to do was setup a 443 port forward to the static IP of my Cosmos box. It's even limited to cloudflare IPs only, which was just taking the list provided by cloud flare and copy pasting it in. There's a section in ubiquitis network interface for this and it's very straight forward.
From there it was configuring the right tokens so I could do the cloudflare DNS Challenge, which is well documented (went the double token route rather than full key.) Once I found the right pages for that it was simple.
Made my tokens, but was confused as hell because in Comsos it says "you don't need to fill everything out" for cloudflare, and there's CLEARLY duplicate entries, so I wasn't sure if I needed to fill out both.
From what I can tell, you need to fill out the duplicates (so you will double enter your email and your key/tokens). You can leave blank things like timeouts or whatever you're not using (key if using tokens, token if using key). Some clarity on the dupe thing might help.
I do think a small guide on bare minimum DNS config would also help. I was using a root A record and a CNAME wildcard record, and I never got it to working with cosmos. Unsure if that's my fault or not, but when I changed the wildcard to another A record (so A record for root and A record for *), it started working. For someone like me who knows fuck all about any of this, there was a lot of stumbling around with DNS.
Of note I did select allow wildcard domains and .local domains on all attempts. No insecure http local access.
From there it, mostly, started working. Https enabled and everyone can connect....exceeeept .local domains.
This is the part i'm still struggling with. There's not a lot of documentation on .local, just "it will work if you check the box". I'm not sure if it clashes with https, or if i need to self sign, or if it really should be that easy.
My understanding is I just make new url for an app, call it whatever.local, and boom I should be able to connect so long as i'm one the same network.
In practice, I see no traffic hitting the server when I try this(unless on the server itself), and get timeouts from local clients (server does work). I got it to work once from a client on another vlan after trying to curl the https://whatever.local, but the next morning with nothing changed (went to bed right after and just left the machines running), it no longer worked.
I did 100% confirm this worked because I used filebrowser to transfer some large data at speeds that NEVER would have been possible if it wasn't over my local network(everything is wired, no wifi, hence the desire for .local access). Also worth noting that I CAN ping the server locally and ssh to it from my other network, so i'm confident the firewall/vlans are configured correctly for that.
Even for that brief moment when it was working, I STILL couldn't hit domain.local. It clearly exists, but if I can hit it (again from the server box or for that one moment from my other machine) I get the "you should use your domain address" text and cannot continue.
I suspect router shenanigans (i do have mdns enabled on all VLANS), but I'm having a hard time finding logs and what not for this. I'm also unsure if I don't know enough and am doing some config that obviously shouldn't work. I have toggled the "allow insecure local access" option in testing once or twice, but it doesn't seem to change anything. Not sure how long the delay should be.
Small things I noticed that might need fixing/expanding: 1. The initial admin account creation "your passwords do not match" help text is not in English. 2. Small thing but while browsing the market it seems there's a few configs that no longer work or aren't supported. EmulatorJS was the main one that seemed clearly done. 3. Hitting the domain, after logging in but not having touched it since forever, just gives you a "user unauthorized" warning but still lets you putter around the setup. 4. Related to that, it does sorta suck that right now even normal users see so much. I would like to hide a LOT of the interface for some of my users(just show them installed visible apps?), and while I can hide something like a new URL, I can't hide the URL screen, or the market, or whatever. It's "fine" but several test members had to be told "yes i know you can see that, no its fine, no you can't delete or edit, yes i know it looks like you can, yes i've tested, etc, etc" 5. In my testing, I did manage to get my domain IP banned by smart shield due to all the logging in and out. Was easy enough to bounce the box and get back in, but maybe a "heavy testing" mode an admin can enable that has smart shield chill for 30 minutes? Dunno how sane that is given the security first focus and I'm sure I could've whitelisted the IP briefly/neutered smart shield somewhere. 6. When entering your license key, you instantly see a "manage your license" button pop up. I emailed about it because I was confused and thought my license was busted, but just needed to scroll to the bottom and hit save. Just a flow thing that might wan to change. 7. Maybe an early "what is your goal" question? Local only vs using a domain vs using a domain and local access with adjusted config process to skip/auto handle things that could go wrong?
8. The "make admin only" checkbox on every app i've installed, that has it, doesn't appear to work. I have to go into the URL config and manually make it admin only from there. Maybe i'm misunderstanding where/how it's doing this, but some light testing seems to confirm that non admin accounts can access until I do that.Side issues:
At some point in all this my Ubuntu took a spirited attempt at destroying itself and would let me login and then just show me a cursor and nothing else. Couldn't get to the terminal through the recommended ways, but after sshing to the box locally and changing uhh...the display driver I think?, it's mostly been working, but I cannot restart the machine without issues until I hard shutdown (hold the power button). I doubt this is related to cosmos (either caused by, or affecting behavior), but figure I should mention it just in case. Planning a full reinstall later.
Overall:
I do love it. Cosmos is trying to be something that I think should exist and yet for some reason does not. There's so many ways to screw something like this up and the "well just roll your own" approach is hellishly easy to screw up with extreme consequences. I have a few more upgrades/tweaks to do (get .local working, maybe reinstall the OS and the thus resetup from scratch, NAS for storage of some family videos/photos we want backed up in more than one spot), and I have mostly enjoyed how clear Cosmos has been.
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Comment on Sean Combs sentenced to more than four years in prison after apologizing for ‘sick’ conduct (gifted link) in ~music
Eji1700 Link ParentI think this is just a dangerous way to look at it and is basically the same line of logic that’s always used for horrific laws. We need better sex trafficking laws yes, but justifying the Mann...I think this is just a dangerous way to look at it and is basically the same line of logic that’s always used for horrific laws.
We need better sex trafficking laws yes, but justifying the Mann act because it (barely) got Diddy is honestly the same rhetoric you get for all sorts of racist or terrible laws(stopped this one horrible person. Think of the consequences if we didn’t have it!)
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Comment on OpenAI’s H1 2025: $4.3b in income, $13.5b in loss in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentThe main market I see outside of coding (or perhaps tangential) is help documentation. Its a generic interface to your help documentation that you wrote forever and no one reads. "how do I do...The main market I see outside of coding (or perhaps tangential) is help documentation.
Its a generic interface to your help documentation that you wrote forever and no one reads. "how do I do blah" typed into google or whatever gets people lost on garbage fast and doesn't iterate well when you say "but what about blah in my case?"
LLM's do handle that decently well. Not great, but given that most companies are sitting on MILLIONS on optimizations if they could just get their userbase to use 10% more of their O365 tools or whatever, it might pencil out.
The problem is, how do you market that? Are you going to make them pay for easier to use, one and done, help documentation? Do i not just have one account then for trainee's/occasional use? There's no fucking way it works if you start shoving ads in, and you STILL run the risk of "look it worked the last 10 times so I just did what it said again? How was I supposed to know it did the math wrong and now we've got a 40% shortfall?" thing.
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Comment on Sean Combs sentenced to more than four years in prison after apologizing for ‘sick’ conduct (gifted link) in ~music
Eji1700 Link ParentAhh okay, and yeah just confirming since there’s a lot going on in this.Ahh okay, and yeah just confirming since there’s a lot going on in this.
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Comment on Sean Combs sentenced to more than four years in prison after apologizing for ‘sick’ conduct (gifted link) in ~music
Eji1700 Link ParentIn thought max for what he was facing was 11 years?In thought max for what he was facing was 11 years?
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Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk
Eji1700 Link ParentThere's a third answer in that "sometimes what you think will work, will do the opposite" which is mixed with "while yes there's money to be gotten from higher/better taxes on the rich, that's not...There's a third answer in that "sometimes what you think will work, will do the opposite" which is mixed with "while yes there's money to be gotten from higher/better taxes on the rich, that's not going to solve everything".
Things like wealth taxes are floated frequently, which are conceptually and practically problematic. They likely will not work, and the countries that have tried them, have had many of the problems predicted.
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Comment on A better way to watch YouTube in ~tech
Eji1700 LinkMy counter point to many of these "well i did this and it worked" things is that in my case, youtube often just gives the fuck up. I do something similar to what several people are posting, and...My counter point to many of these "well i did this and it worked" things is that in my case, youtube often just gives the fuck up.
I do something similar to what several people are posting, and can scroll about half a page until youtube just says "Uhh yeah maybe try something new" and shoves garbage at me.
In general i've found the best way to use youtube is to subscribe to channels you like with an RSS feed, so you actually get notified easily of their content and can quickly and easily decide if its something you want to watch.
For finding new content, meh? Rarely the recommendations will hit me with something that matters, but yes even with careful pruning there's just simply the fact that youtube does not promote content I like. It does exist, i've often found it myself through other means, but the way these algorithms work means that if you're not enjoying the same thing as other people, then you're not going get the same content.
The amount of...loud obnoxious drivel in my eyes (ESPECIALLY livestreams), that other people seem to enjoy is just overwhelming.
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Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk
Eji1700 Link ParentThe man is a grifter. His claim of being the "best trader ever" at citibank or whatever is an outright lie, and his presentation of economics is basically no better than the people who tell you...Gary's Economics
The man is a grifter. His claim of being the "best trader ever" at citibank or whatever is an outright lie, and his presentation of economics is basically no better than the people who tell you that we're hiding the secret to free energy.
Someone already did a pretty good dive into how his claims don't remotely track:
https://birchlermuesli.substack.com/p/copy-garys-badeconomics/comment/104505656The frustration (as you can see in the comment section below in the link) is the neverneding one that most grifters abuse.
Yes, wealth inequality is a thing. Yes housing prices are nuts. Yes inflation is a problem. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Gary's "model" however does not actually explain ANY of it. He knows what we all know. Some people are better off than others (and ourselves). He then just happens to have the answer you were looking for, ITS THEIR FAULT!
And you know, it probably is on some level, but his "argument" doesn't actually add up or solve anything. This is like racing to someone saying "the ocean temperature is rising" which yes yes it is, and following up with "So obviously we should put more ice in it" and...well just no. That's not how this works.
So to his key point, it's not ignored. It just isn't. It's a massive topic of discussion and central to current models. Economics is a constantly evolving field and never going to be perfect, but to imply they're pretending it's not there is outright lying to the public.
Glad I never pulled the trigger on one. Probably grabbing the ubiquiti NAS now since I care a lot less about the software side.