https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

I’m still wondering. Like did it call up a bakery and place an order? Or go online? I know it didn’t actually make the cupcakes itself.

But I’m not sure that spending an hour trying to wrangle ChatGPT into getting your cupcakes is any faster or easier than placing the order yourself.

The article also noticeably omits what happened after. Were the cupcakes made, and did they match what she wanted?

Inbound spam is also a problem. Gmail’s filter is pretty good, and it responds to what you personally mark as spam. Other providers aren’t as good, and I don’t know if there’s any good self-hosted filter at all.

Yeah, residential ISPs do that because if they don’t, spammers will just turn every botnet member into a spam host. You’ll probably have to get a business connection or change ISPs.

Or just don’t self-host email. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re a masochist.

Or anywhere, really.

Even better would be to automatically install vlc-plugins-all for people upgrading, so that it preserves the existing behavior.

I don’t think they want to take on that legal liability.

You can browse reddit logged out.

If you need to restore it, back it up.

How do you plan to restore if the whole drive dies?

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ works for just about any site

Blind people exist

I’d say you want Linux from Scratch then, but even then the Linux kernel maintainers are making choices for you.

But Linus is very firm in that they never break userspace, so you should never see an issue like this when updating the kernel.

Not really, no. If it was about how media platforms in general are used for propaganda then maybe it would be.

Yeah. In the Backblaze data, you can see that annualized failure rates vary significantly by drive model within the same manufacturer.

But if maintaining drive diversity isn’t your thing, just buy a cold spare and swap it out when a failure inevitably happens (and then replace the spare).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment

Someone should inform whoever made that change. If a package is split in a new release, the initial state should match the final as closely as possible, in this case by installing the new optional dependencies automatically. (Although I’m not sure why they’d want to split everything out like that anyway; no other VLC distribution does that, so splitting is itself a violation.)

Maybe Manjaro might be an alternative? I haven’t personally used it. I don’t like this kind of surprise, so I stick to boring distros like Debian. I used to use CentOS but it was too boring.

Recover the accounts and close them?

Is that just observational, or did you keep track? Backblaze does track their failures, and publishes their data: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2025/

Most web servers already use the Host header.

tl;dr: windows is worse in each of their measures

What’s your budget?