I’m not loosely coupled at all, sir, I am married!

Yeah, they’re useful when developing, which is why it’s so frustrating when libraries don’t implement types. I’m developing and I’m trying to use a tool that supposedly fits a use case I have, but the tool didn’t come with instructions so it’s practically useless to me. I could open the tool up and look at its guts to figure it out but are you kidding me no, I’m not going back to the stone age for your tool.

My biggest pet peeve is the complete inability to annotate a set of known exceptions that a function raises in a machine readable way. The discussion about it is quite heated.

I code both typescript and python professionally, and python is almost as much of a mess, just a different kind of mess. The package manager ecosystem is all over the place, nobody is agreeing on a build system, and the type system is still unable to represent fairly simple concepts when it comes to function typing. Also tons of libraries just ignore types altogether. I love it, but as a competitor to JavaScript in the messiness department it’s not a good horse.

Come on, this one is funny but why pretend it was ever made by a right wing person in earnest? Everything about it screams classic mocking meme.

Again The issue on the repo. The developers recommend just using the app feature of the browsers to get similar functionality without the security concerns.

I honestly just did it to try to get cleaner logs having the container only be responsible for the proxying.

If you look at the repo, the very first line in the readme links to an issue that briefly explains why you should care.

Unmaintained software comes in two categories:

1. The software is done. It does exactly what it was meant to do and it was written in a language and in such a way as to be pretty future proof. Examples are some basic code libraries or command line utilities.
2. The software had to be updated all the time to keep up with changing environments and security problems, so the dev got sick of it and dropped it. Or a better solution came along so the developer felt free to finally drop the burden.

Nativefier falls in the second category and the second clause. Don’t use it.

I’ll try that, but since I haven’t been able to find any related issues I’m pretty sure it’s a configuration error on my part. Hehe the regretfully long post. Next step will probably be to open an issue on authentik’s GitHub but since I think it’s a pebkac I would prefer not to waste their time.

You asked for my python script but now I can’t seem to load that comment to reply directly to it. Anyway, here’s the script, I haven’t bothered to upload the repo anywhere. I’m sure it isn’t perfect but it works fine for me. The action for opening evolution when you click the tray icon is specific to hyprland so will probably need to be modified to suit your needs.

import asyncio
import concurrent.futures
import logging
import signal
import sqlite3
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from subprocess import run

import pkg_resources
from inotify_simple import INotify, flags
from PySimpleGUIQt import SystemTray

menu_def = ["BLANK", ["Exit"]]

empty_icon = pkg_resources.resource_filename(
    "evolution_tray", "resources/inbox-empty.svg"
)
full_icon = pkg_resources.resource_filename(
    "evolution_tray", "resources/inbox-full.svg"
)

inotify = INotify()

tray = SystemTray(filename=empty_icon, menu=menu_def, tooltip="Inbox empty")

logging.getLogger("asyncio").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
handler = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
logger = logging.getLogger()
logger.setLevel("DEBUG")
logger.addHandler(handler)


def handle_menu_events():
    while True:
        menu_item = tray.read()
        if menu_item == "Exit":
            signal.raise_signal(signal.SIGTERM)
        elif menu_item == "__ACTIVATED__":
            run(["hyprctl", "dispatch", "exec", "evolution"])
            # tray.update(filename=paused_icon)

        logger.info("Opened evolution")


def get_all_databases():
    cache_path = Path.home() / ".cache" / "evolution" / "mail"
    return list(cache_path.glob("**/folders.db"))


def check_unread() -> int:
    unread = 0
    for db in get_all_databases():
        conn = sqlite3.connect(db)
        cursor = conn.cursor()
        try:
            cursor.execute("select count(*) read from INBOX where read == 0")
            unread += cursor.fetchone()[0]
        except:
            pass
        finally:
            conn.close()

    if unread > 0:
        tray.update(filename=full_icon, tooltip=f"{unread} unread emails")
    else:
        tray.update(filename=empty_icon, tooltip="Inbox empty")

    return unread


def watch_inbox():
    while True:
        for database in get_all_databases():
            inotify.add_watch(database, mask=flags.MODIFY)
        while inotify.read():
            logger.info("New mail")
            logger.info(f"{check_unread()} new emails")


async def main():
    executor = concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=1)
    loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
    check_unread()

    watch_task = asyncio.wait(
        fs={
            loop.run_in_executor(executor, watch_inbox),
        },
        return_when=asyncio.FIRST_COMPLETED,
    )
    await asyncio.gather(watch_task, loop.create_task(handle_menu_events()))


def entrypoint():
    signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)
    signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, signal.SIG_DFL)

    try:
        asyncio.run(main())
    except Exception as e:
        logger.exception(e)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    entrypoint()

If you want to do this, what you probably want is to pump your logs into a log drain, something like betterstack is good. They then allow you to set up discrepancy thresholds and can send you emails when something seems to be out of the ordinary. There’s probably a self hosted thing that works the same way but I’ve never found a simple setup. You can do the whole Prometheus, influxdb, grafana setup but imo it’s too much work, and then you still have to set up email smtp separate from that.

That… seems to be a bit of a leap. You’ve got to assume that challenged women are representative of the whole population. To issue a challenge you probably have some reason to suspect.

Literally had to write my own Python applet monitoring the DB file for this. Absurd limitation.

Oooh look at Epicure over here, just casually getting in his 8 hours of sleep. Brag more king.

On a serious note, the capitalists have commercialized all of this. Getting enough to eat might be doable with a meager income technically, but eating well and healthy is expensive. Getting a good bed in a nice living space that facilitates rest well costs a fortune. So you need two middle class plus jobs to afford it for yourself and your partner, which comes with its own set of stressors.

The small things in life are also actively commercialized. A coffee with friends? Better save up for the chain cafe prices. A movie night in? Remember to pay your Netflix subscription. A hike? Gotta pay for gas to get there, depending on where you live. I’m not saying it’s impossible to have small things for free/cheap, it’s just not that easy. There’s also going to be constant social pressure, through advertisement or influencers, first or secondhand, to do all the things they tell you will make you more happy. You’ll have to actively resist that, which in turn can cause you to become distanced from your social circle.

God forbid you get sick, the health insurance and pharmaceutical industry will fleece you and in some countries leave you with crippling debt, making all of the above out of reach for you.

All of this to say: money isn’t just something you have to chase after for the sake of it in our current society, it’s an absolute necessity to try to have more than what you think you actually need in the moment to get by and enjoy the small things. It might sound cliche, but “society is like stacked against us, man” is actually a completely true statement.

Came to write basically this. I would try caddy but my compose file is 600 lines long now and half of that is traefik labels, I can’t be arsed with the migration.

God tier post!

I’m using 555 open with hyprland. No issues and I can finally suspend and resume, using the NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 module param after being unable to all year.

Imo stick to amd. I was like you, I thought the Nvidia card would be an upgrade and I thought the rumors of how bad Nvidia was had to be at least a little exaggerated, but honestly it’s a constant pita. Aside from the suspend issue I’ve had random minor system upgrades cause kernel panics and fry my boot more than once this year. That bug is still unresolved btw, their response time leaves much to be desired.

Having dockerized ollama just work is nice, but it’s not worth it, and they seem to be close to a working vulkan based runner for that anyway.

it’s also a lesser serving, so healthier.

I’m sorry but this is hilarious. You spent less money and you got less food? Fascinating 😄

I do have nightly off-site backups, that’s true. Still, having the git repo be on the same machine doesn’t seem right to me.

That would fill the same role as watchtower I guess? I’ve previously tried to have a look at having portainer manage the docker compose stack that it’s running inside but at least back then it seemed to be a dead end and not really what portainer is meant to do. I’m not interested in moving away from docker compose at this time.