The chess com engine analysis sucks. It’s too focused on glazing you and not enough on being honest. It certainly feels better than the lichess engine, but it doesn’t actually share more information.

For example, it used to be that a “brilliant move” was any move that you spotted but that the engine didn’t. But now, it’s been changed so that any sacrifice is a “brilliant move”.

Further, the LLM based analysis is also pretty bad. It only seems to explain moves, but like most LLM’s, it actually hallucinates and recommends nonsensical stuff, or incorrectly makes other claims about the position. If you search on r/chess you can find plenty of examples of this:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Chesscom/comments/1p7n8js/can_something_new_explain_why_chesscom_ai_thinks/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/chessbeginners/comments/1ko6snm/is_chesscom_ai_useless/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Chesscom/comments/1o2j3rg/is_the_ai_text_in_the_game_analysis_just_plainly/

etc etc.

As an alternative, if you really want that type of UI, you can also use Lichess’ server based engine analysis (you get 40 free per day unlike chess com’s paid stuff):

But it doesn’t tell you why a move is bad. If you really want to learn why a move is bad, the local analysis lets you play your moves against stockfish and experiment and see why they are lacking.

Just learn to use the Lichess local analysis. It’s designed to actually facilitate improvement instead of glazing users and getting them to keep paying.

Switch to lichess.org (open source, has all of chess com’s paid features available for free, plus no ads or trackers).

Start with the chess basics set: https://lichess.org/learn

Then the basic tactics set: https://lichess.org/practice

And then do puzzles: https://lichess.org/training (chess com makes you pay for more than a few per day). Do a lot of them.

Then, you can also analyze your games on lichess using it’s analysis engines (which chess com makes you pay for). Uh I can’t find a good guide how to do this right now, check back later.

Unfortunately, the browser extension is proprietary. They used to have an open source one but they stopped maintaining it.

Proprietary was a dealbreaker for me. There is no way to verify that it isn’t selling everything I type even if I do have it configured to point at a local server.

I’m also concerned that the extension may eventually no longer work against local servers as well.

https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool-browser-addon/issues/247

As an alternative, there is harper by wordpress: https://github.com/Automattic/harper

It is webassembly and runs entirely in your browser.

EDIT:

I will add that the rest of the languagetool ecosystem continues to work fine. Libreoffice now has a built in client, which you can point at your own hosted server. VSCode [1] also has their own languagetool extension. I use those and those work great. But in the browser I use harper nothing. I should probably install harper.

[1] Well, technically I use [code-oss]https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Visual_Studio_Code), which gets the extension from https://open-vsx.org/

On kubernetes it’s pretty much the same amount of work. Every possible storage option exposes a generalized, abstracted “storageclass”, from which storage can be provisioned and mounted into containers.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-classes/

Well, I run a one node cluster…

But yes, I did use ceph via rook-ceph, because Openstack (a locally hosted AWS alternative), at least the Kubernetes version, wanted a ceph “cluster” to store stuff on.

Longhorn is much easier. Although again, my “cluster” was one node. I deployed it because I wanted snapshots.

I like to use more uncommon tools (it often bites me afterward but it’s funnier this way

I know the feeling.

How about this: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/installation/install-xcp-ng/#9-networking

Try setting a static ip address on xcp-ng itself, during the install phase. (this was how devices got onto networks before dhcp). You’ll have to make sure it doesn’t conflict with anything else on the network.

Kubernetes makes distributed storage easy.

Basically, all the components get deployed for you, since that’s part of what kubernetes is good at.

And then, services/containers can provision storage by requesting storage via making a “claim” and whatever distributed storage providee you have gives it to you.

https://sso.tax/

It’s unfortunately common, even though it probably shouldn’t be.

They don’t have to support it. It’s more that the database they are connecting to supports HA, and/or both are using shared storage. So when one container dies, kubernetes restarts another container on another node with the same shared storage attached.

Docker is often configured to automatically restart containers when a container dies, just in case it’s a one off bug or something like that, and kubernetes is like a more resilient version of that.

You can do oidc with the proxmox ui itself.

I use oidc with Incus, which is a fork of lxd and a similar software to proxmox, it can run vm’s and lxd containers.

Proxmox is also making their own: https://www.proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-datacenter-manager/overview

source code: https://github.com/proxmox/proxmox-datacenter-manager

Two more that I have found:

https://docs.pegaprox.com/

And: https://github.com/xdkaine/uma-proxmox-wrapper-public

When people say that linux adds a second life to bad hardware, they don’t just mean making 8 gb of ram usable again. They also mean stuff like this, using dying hardware to it’s last breath.

Related: https://lorenz.brun.one/dealing-with-bad-ram-on-linux/

You can mark the failing parts of ram as explicitly bad so Linux avoids them, just like with hard drives. Another way to get more lifespan out of this hardware.

I run a single node cluster.

My single node has 256 gb of ram and 24 cores. I do this because, if you want a lot of ram/cores/storage, it is cheaper to get a used “tower server” type device and then upgrade it as you go over time, than it is to buy entirely new devices for every bit of ram you want to add to the cluster.

I like kubernetes because I like configuration as code, gitops, the way it abstracts over components so I can swap components out easily, the way that helm charts are an easier way of orchestrating containers, and a bunch of other things.

Clustering is merely one of many benefits of kubernetes, one that isn’t particularly important to me. Although, my opinion on that has changed somewhat recently. Waiting for a reboot is annoying, since I am rebooting the whole thing and I have to wait for each service to go down or come up before the machine reboots properly. But if I was running kubernetes as a virtual machines inside incus with multiple nodes, I could update each node one by one without the whole thing going down. Or, I could snapshot them, allowing me to reboot the host without waiting for kubernetes. But these things are mostly just somewhat nice to have, rather than a core feature I really require.

Even used stuff is expensive nowadays.

Anyway, you can buy these used refurbished small form factor business PC’s.

These things: https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/

I was recently at a tech conference and I met a guy who was selling 16 gb ram one’s for 30 usd, since they had managed to track them down that cheap in bulk somewhere. What happens is that corporations or govt get rid of them due to warranty expiry, so they need to be offloaded somewhere.

You probably won’t be able to find them that cheap but it’s definitely more affordable than new stuff. It used to be cheaper but I mostly see 200 usd in my searches.

How many devices and of how many types do you manage with how many people?

Automatically patch is another solution.

Of course it’s difficult on the tech side. You can do something like failover/high availability, and then auto update one and it fails over if something breaks.

99% of cybersecurity news is what I call “cyberslop” and probably actively harmful to consume.

The vast majority of it is either so trivial that somebody else handled it, and you don’t need to do anything. Like they often overhype a malware that doesn’t do any novel techniques to get onto your systems and has already been added to the antivirus database anyways.

Or it’s so grand in scale that you can’t do anything, like nation states doing nation state things. Interesting yes, but it’s ultimately a waste of my time to consume because it’s not actionable.

Only a tiny fraction of news is actually actionable. It’s usually stuff like cve’s or zero days and the like. I just only really pay attention to those and ignore everything else.

Better, is probably to subscribe to an actual vulnerability feed so you don’t have to go through the news cycle.

I currently use joplin, but I also mentioned jotty which I tried but didn’t like. Jotty doesn’t have an android app.

I sync joplin to a self hosted s3 via garage. The big thing I like about this setup, is that sync is near instant, as opposed to waiting for syncthing to sync.

I do use syncthing for pretty much everything else though, like keepassxc or exported backups of my joplin notes. But, I onlu activate it occasionally since it’s a battery hog.

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Joplin: https://joplinapp.org/

But:

Hmmmm I was gonna say they have no web app, but it appears they do:

https://app.joplincloud.com/

Jotty: https://jotty.page/

But:

It’s self hosted, and has no android app. You can do the browser app thing tho

Anpther solution (but no web app) is signal which can send a message to yourself. That’s whay I use when I just need to get a url or something like that over quick.

while the production build runs entirely client-side without a backend server. I

This eliminates many, many potential security issues and is an excellent design choice.

In production, movie data is queried using an in-browser SQLite database via WebAssembly, e