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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Well, not really po-tay-toh/po-tah-toh. They’re 2 different utilities that do 2 different things. If you ask the wrong question, you’re not going to get the answer you’re looking for.

    What you’re asking about is an antivirus. It’s been awhile since I messed with this on my Linux systems, but last I looked, ClamAV was most commonly recommended. You can probably search for “Linux antivirus” and find some recommendations.

    Generally speaking, the earlier recommendations to stick with official repos is excellent. When you venture outside of that, you increase your administrative overhead because those manually installed apps won’t stay patched with a simple “apt upgrade.” That said, a well written cron job could keep them up to date for you.

    As for where to install things, it’s personal preference. I prefer using my home directory. If that doesn’t work, my fallback in /usr/local, which is either its own partition or symlinked to the /home partition). I mention the partitions because having separate /home and possibly /usr/local makes it easy for these customizations you install to survive a reinstall. Backups will also help with this.

    You have to ask yourself what this system will be used for. If it’s a daily driver that you want to “just work” I would stick to official repos, and minimize customizations. Windows makes a lot of choices for you. Linux expects you to know what you want to do.






  • First, it’s important for people to understand that democratic governance is compromise. At least when elected officials play by the rules (cough, Trump/GOP).

    Second, I don’t think Mamdani was ever going to turn. NYC into a “socialist paradise,” like all the rich/right-wing/centrist Chicken Littles warned. The best he can hope to do is pull the state party back to the left. Maybe find some success with progressive policies and open the door for more progressive candidates.

    Democrats have been trying for so long to get the mythical “moderate Republican” vote that they’ve effectively become the centrist party, and it’s allowed the GOP to move further and further to the right to where Tea Partiers are now the moderates! It’s good to see a true progressive win a major election, even if it is NYC (the city did also elect Rudy & Bloomberg to the post).






  • On the surface, this may seem like a good idea, but I’ve seen plenty of time where, despite all the camera angles, a player’s body was blocking a view of the ball/puck/frisbee/whatever and replay was basically useless. In this instances, you really need a “disinterested” third party on the field to make a call. It’s why the replay has to be irrefutable to overturn the call on the field. Also, it’s been awhile, but the NFL used to review just about every play and it was annoying. Games lasted way too long, and it was really hard for teams to maintain any momentum after a big play. Fans actually applauded when they significantly cut back on how much they would review. Since then, they’ve been incrementally bringing it back into the games and I think they’re almost back to it being too much.

    Bad calls are a part of sports. They suck, but it’s a random bit of chaos that creates a Bad Guy for all the fans.



  • So I got back to my server, and here’s what I do:

    gluetun settings:

    services:
      gluetun:
    *snip*
        ports:
    *snip*
          - 8090:8090 # port for qbittorrent
    *snip*
    

    qbittorrent (in the same compose.yml):

      qbittorrent:
        image: linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest
        container_name: qbittorrent
        environment:
    *snip*
          - WEBUI_PORT=8090
    *snip*
        network_mode: service:gluetun # run on the vpn network
        depends_on:
          gluetun:
            condition: service_healthy
    *snip*
    

    Also, in qbittorrent settings you can bind it to a network device. In my case it’s “tun0.” This same thing can probably be done w/ a docker network in a gluetun container and separate containers that rely on that network being up, but I haven’t looked into it. Right now, I have 2 other services that require VPN, and I’m looking at possibly 1 or 2 more. That’s pretty manageable as a single stack, I think.