Unraid is pretty beginner-friendly, so it’s what I’d recommend too.

I use it too. I have over 20 years experience running Debian servers and can write a docker-compose.yml file and Nginx config from scratch, but sometimes it’s nice to have a decent web UI that mostly “just works”.

Can still be messed with by the Isp

Not as easily though. It’s like regular HTTPS - if anyone, including the ISP, tries a MitM (man in the middle) attack, you’ll get a security error because the certificate won’t be trusted. The only real way for a MitM attack to be successful is installing a custom root certificate on the client system.

Like you mentioned, IP blocking is harder to bypass, but that’s unrelated to DNS blocking. IP blocking is harder to do if the site uses a CDN like CloudFront, BunnyCDN, Cloudflare, etc though, since a large number of sites use the same IPs.

Google already remove results in certain countries based on local laws, and as a response to DMCA complaints.

Best solution is not using dns in the first place though.

Use DNS over HTTPS (or TLS or QUIC). I think some browsers use it by default now. If there’s country-specific blocks, use your own recursive DNS server, or one in another country.

Copying my comment from the homelab community:

I haven’t tried it yet, but here’s some initial thoughts:

Does it support multiple separate docker-compose.yml files? It would be useful if it could pull the list of containers directly from Docker rather than having to paste the docker-compose.

Does it pull changelogs so that the user can tell if a change is a breaking change that’ll require extra work?

It would be useful to support Webauthn/FIDO2 2FA instead of just TOTP. TOTP is being slowly phased out due to its weaknesses (it’s phishable). Similarly, it’d be useful to support single sign on using OIDC (OpenID Connect) as a lot of self-hosters use Authentik, Authelia, or Keycloak to have one login for all their self hosted services.

Automatic updates for bug fixes (e.g. 1.0.0 to 1.0.1) are usually fine - it’s major and minor updates that are scarier. I’ve never used Watchtower so I’m not sure if it has an option to only allow bugfixes.

Where is the website template from? I’ve seen the exact same one before.

You can run your own AI locally if you have powerful enough equipment, so that you’re not dependent on paying a monthly fee to a provider. Smaller quantized models work fine on consumer-grade GPUs with 16GB RAM.

The major issue with AI providers like Anthropic and OpenAI at the moment is that they’re all subsidizing the price. Once they start charging what it actually costs, I think some of the hype will die off.

I definitely agree with you!

I’m using AI a little bit myself, but I’m an experienced developer and fully understand the code it’s writing (and review all of it manually). I use it for tedious things, where I could do it myself but it’d take much longer. I don’t let AI write commit messages or PR descriptions for me.

At work, I reject AI slop PRs, but it’s becoming harder since AI can submit so much more code than humans can, and there’s people that are less stringent about code quality than I am. A lot of the issues affecting open-source projects are affecting proprietary code too. Amazon recently had to slow down with AI and get senior devs to review AI-written code because it was causing stability issues.

Not just California. Several other US states are considering (or will be rolling out) similar laws, and Brazil’s version has already rolled out this month.

… did you read the same article as everyone else? I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.

I think the blurb was posted by the submitter (@vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world) rather than being a part of the link.

If your AI is making PRs without you, that’s even worse.

This is happening a lot more these days, with OpenClaw and its copycats. I’m seeing it at work too - bots submitting merge requests overnight based on items in their owners’ todo lists.

You can also avoid the cost of gas/petrol prices by using an electric vehicle. I pay $0 to fuel mine since I have solar panels.

They were hours apart, though.

I couldn’t not.

You could not not?

unlike Windows you should never give userspace applications root permission

This is a best practice on Windows, too. Apps don’t run with admin permissions unless you either explicitly run them with admin permissions, they’re configured to always run as admin (rare), or they request elevation via a UAC prompt.

I don’t think WINE would work, because it likely relies on a custom driver.

If you don’t have a Windows installation, booting into a WinPE LiveCD (like Sergei Strelec’s WinPE: https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/sergei_strelecs_winpe.html) and installing it in the live environment should work. Running Windows in a VM should work too, if you pass the USB drive through to the VM.

Did anyone suggest using black electrical tape yet?

for example maybe AV1 takes even more off,

I know this was just an example, but Intel 11th gen and newer has hardware acceleration for AV1.

GPUs have their place, but they significantly increase power consumption, which is an issue in areas with high power prices.