Separate the fat. Make soap with it. Sell it to the rich.

I’ve seen a couple of articles from earth.com shared lately and they always have this clickbaity sensationalist tone. I don’t like it.

Looking at the original publication this article is based on I don’t understand much (I’m not a climate scientist myself), but one sentence stands out:

Whether global warming has affected the strength of this overturning circulation over the past century is still debated: observational studies suggest that there has been persistent weakening since the mid-twentieth century, whereas climate models systematically simulate a stable circulation.

The climate models we all know and predict how climate change will affect us all seem to work on the basis that these currents have a stable circulation that doesn’t change, which doesn’t seem to be the case. Therefore the climate models we’ve known until now might be wrong… and things could be even worse.

What’s with the clickbait title?

This is not news, it has been happening since Smart TVs started being a thing.

One of the most common TV OSs is AndroidTV / GoogleTV. Google is the biggest ad company in the world.

Very interesting graph. It clearly shows a reduced antibiotic consumption during the corona pandemic in most countries. Probably due to the use of facemasks reducing the number of situations requiring antibiotics.

Don’t look into the story behind “My Sharona” by The Knack.

I recently set up a small home server and started trying to self host stuff. I found it pretty hard to get started. People have been very helpful on this community and other public forums, but I’m afraid it’s often not enough. They give me advice in trying this or that, doing this and avoiding that… but I still don’t understand more than half of the concepts that they use. I consider myself tech literate above the average user: I recently switched to Linux (after years on MacOS, using the command line, and even building a couple of programs from source), I also installed a custom ROM on my phone. I feel comfortable learning and doing these things… but still felt very very lost when trying to self host a few services. At the moment I settled for a local-only network where I run Jellyfin, Navidrome and Syncthing on OpenMediaVault. I’m lost with what I’d need to do to access my server from outside my local network, and terrified of doing something wrong and leaving a hole open so any hacker can access my server. I’d like to do it some day, but I’d rather have a safe local network than screw and get my data stolen or deleted.

So, in my opinion, we would need good tutorials or a MOOC to explain the basics from scratch.

I am not sure about this and cannot check myself because my server died last night :( but… I know that you can restrict certain functions for different users (log in as admin and go to Settings/Users). You could check if it’s possible to disable x265 playback for a user, then create a new user that you use exclusively to log in on that device.

Thank you! That’s exactly what I was looking for. I am familiar with Little Snitch for macOS, so this looks perfect.

For anyone interested: https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

If you’re on windows run glass wire or OSX run little snitch. I used to know a Linux alternative for those

Would you happen to know the name of a similar tool for Linux? I was just yesterday searching myself but I couldn’t find anything

Thank you for your reply. I think I will look into getting a domain, however I still want to try this, to use it as a learning experience. Try to make it work like this, then keep learning and probably switch to a domain, which seems to be the common thing.

Thanks for your reply. I am not sure about this. Following the tutorial I created a compose.yaml file that had proxy settings:

  proxy:
    ports:
      - 80:80
      - 443:443

so I would assume that already takes care of the ports?

I will have a look at dedyn.io and the tutorial you shared once I manage to reach NextCloud locally via the IP address. Thanks