Christopher

A general strike is one of the only non-violent levers of power the people have.

It sucks. It probably won’t do anything. But I’ll take this over open war with ICE any day.

Not exactly what you’re looking for, but I host an instance of Audiobookshelf on my LAN. It pulls podcasts via RSS automatically. Handles metadata. Accessable everywhere. Has a web and phone client (again, the phone’s not what you need, but it’s there).

Runs well on a Pi. With docker, you’d be set up in minutes.

Europeans do be like that.

They’ve been itching to do this – and when the ICE/National Guard occupation of our cities didn’t immediately result in an attack on “law enforcement,” there was a sense of frustration. Without a reason, they had to dial up the rhetoric and threats.

Charlie Kirk’s (MAGA on MAGA) death was hammered and shaped to fit their narrative. Now, with a reason, they will punish their enemies as terrorists.

Listen for calls of the death penalty, next.

Even thinking about it has got me in a fit of blind rage.

That’s Hilarious by Charlie Puth

Not a song that would typically fall in my lap; when I heard it in passing, it engaged me beyond reason.

Unrelated, but this photo… I honestly believe this is the first time I’ve ever seen him read for leisure. I really did think he was illiterate during his first term.

Hochul’s wait-and-see approach on Mamdani came after the Queens assemblyman bested former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary – sending shockwaves across the nation and prompting soul-searching among moderate members of the party over its leftward drift.

No soul found here, apparently.

How’d it work out?

I mean in terms of hijacking DNS. Might be worth a look.

It runs quite well; Docker’s not a full fledged virtual machine so much as a virtualization layer. I also love the portability of running this in Docker. I rsync a backup of this and the Appdata folder every night. When or if this server fails, I can be up and running again in minutes on another machine.

Is your ISP interfering?

services:

  pihole:
    container_name: pihole
    image: pihole/pihole:latest
    hostname: sheldon
    environment:
      HOST_CONTAINERNAME: pihole
      TZ: ${TZ}
      WEBPASSWORD: ${WEBPASSWORD}
      DNSMASQ_LISTENING: "all"
      PIHOLE_DNS_1: "unbound#53"
    ports:
      - "53:53/tcp"
      - "53:53/udp"
      - "67:67/udp" # Only required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server
      - "8080:80/tcp"
    # network_mode: host
    dns:
      - 127.0.0.1
    networks:
      dns:
        ipv4_address: 172.22.0.2
    volumes:
      - /mnt/appdata/pihole/etc-pihole:/etc/pihole
      - /mnt/appdata/pihole/etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      unbound:
        condition: service_healthy

  unbound:
    container_name: unbound
    image: klutchell/unbound:latest
    networks:
      dns:
        ipv4_address: 172.22.0.3
    volumes:
      - /mnt/appdata/unbound:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/custom
    restart: unless-stopped
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "dig", "google.com", "@127.0.0.1"]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5

  wg-easy:
    container_name: wg-easy
    image: ghcr.io/wg-easy/wg-easy:15
    ports:
      - "51820:51820/udp"
      - "51821:51821/tcp"
    # environment:
    #   TZ: ${TZ}
    #   LANG: en
    #   WG_HOST: ${WG_HOST}
    #   PASSWORD_HASH: ${PASSWORD_HASH}
    #   WG_DEFAULT_DNS: 172.22.0.2
    #   WG_MTU: 1420
    networks:
      dns:
        ipv4_address: 172.22.0.4
    volumes:
      - /mnt/appdata/wg-easy:/etc/wireguard
      - /lib/modules:/lib/modules:ro
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
      - SYS_MODULE
    sysctls:
      - net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
      - net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1
      - net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0
      - net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
      - net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding=1
    restart: unless-stopped

networks:
  dns:
    external: true

Feel free to just delete the wg-easy service.

Very well could be!

Lineage sounds a lot like “Linux.” Take it easy on the lad.

I think a lot of it is anxiety; being replaced by AI, the continued enshitification of the services I loved, and the ever present notion that AI is, “the answer.” After a while, it gets old and that anxiety mixes in with annoyance – a perfect cocktail of animosity.

And AI stole em dashes from me, but that’s a me-problem.

Yeah. My TPM would trip every time Linux updated my hardware firmware… which was fairly common.

Boy howdy, you best keep that BitLocker key handy, though.

Back when I dual booted, I had the most success keeping Windows on a separate drive completely. After making the Linux drive the primary boot device, GRUB would pick it up and I’d be off to the races. I now just keep a Windows VM – it’s been much easier to deal with.