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Yes, PodcastRepublic has a nearly perfect implementation. I have gotten so reliant on it I feel stuck here :)

Thank you for considering!

I'm desperately hoping some self hosted solution will implement multiple prioritied playlists (e.g all podcasts from feed X go to the priority 1 playlist, the main queue plays all priority 1 playlist entries before automatically proceeding to the next highest priority playlist etc).

I know it's a long shot, but if you find any time in your already impressive roadmap it will be an instant conversion for myself and hopefully a few other weirdos.

No. No no no, I clearly remember I was sitting in my discrete math class at college reading my rss feeds when... Oh no.

Wives who ran away as soon as they could.

I haven't used Kagi much, but my understanding is that Kagi has their own indexing and you can customize your search by ranking your results.

SearxNG runs searches against many other search engines and then uses an algorithm to rank the results sanely. So less customizable but also the net you're casting is much wider.

You could easily self host on a free-tier instance in Oracle cloud or AWS for a year, or even just run it on a laptop. But if you really can't see a way to do that you can of course use one of the listed instances, you'll just be more likely to bump up against rate limits since you're sharing limits with many other people.

You can also selfhost SearxNG with modest hardware and side step the rate limits. I love it. Happy to answer any questions

The average US household has something like 2.5 people in it. It's safe to assume (statistically) that at least two of those people are old enough to consume web content unsupervised.

Then there are edge cases that aren't quite so crazy, like 5 person households where everyone is over the age 14.

So yeah, for one person 50/10 is likely just fine. But for the average household 100/15 is likely closer to baseline.

No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.

Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.

One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?

(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.

Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.

You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.

Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?

If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:

Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.

Thanks for listening.

I use a single unified traefik to front all of my services, no matter how they ship. Despite the slight overhead, it's closer to a truly idempotent architecture. I've unfortunately had to test that twice now in my selfhosting career.

Traefik is very solid and I've had very few issues with it I didn't self inflict. Documentation is very thorough.

I run searx(ng) and highly recommend it if you're inclined to diy

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I run basically all of the Arr stack, Plex (more friendly to my less tech savvy family then my preferred solution Jellyfin), HAss, Frigate NVR, Obsidian LiveSync, a few Minecraft worlds, Docspell, Tandoor recipes, gitea, Nextcloud, FoundryVTT, an internet radio station, syncthing, Wireguard, ntfy, calibre, searx, traefik, Wallabag, FreshRSS, Kopia, Navidrome, and a few pet projects.

So much for a rational discussion. Great showing for yourself and others with similar beliefs.

More the latter. Neural networks have been used in biomed for about a decade now fairly successfully. Look into their use of genetic algorithms, where we are effectively using the power of evolution to discover new therapies, in many cases even new uses for existing (approved) drugs.

But ChatGPT has no way to test or improve any "designs", it simply uses existing indexed data to infer what you want to hear as best it can. The goal is to sound smart, not be smart.

LoL

Minneapolis:

• True Stone Coffee Roasters
• Just Steve's Bean Factory
• Dunn Bros

Oh yes, let's never do anything good, because there might be something else even more impossible that would be better.

Certainly. Mostly it started as a way to keep tax documents and receipts safe and easily findable.

It's grown into a "huh, maybe this letter from bank, school, insurance, charity, etc is important, but it clutters the house less when ones and zeros", so we scan it in.

Then when we need info, we can just search for the name of the sender, the date, account numbers, literally anything remotely legible in the document and get lightning fast results.

So, regarding the USA's commitment to Ukraine during denuclearization- Is that really what the US agreed to in the Budapest Memorandum?

The way I'm reading, the text of the memorandum implies the USA, Great Britian, and Russia won't invade and will respect Ukraine's border, and will represent Ukrainian interests on the UN security council if they're threatened by nukes.

I don't see agreements to provide direct military intervention unless I'm missing something important.

ZFS doesn't need ECC more than any other filesystem. Technically it needs it less. But what it does do is expose just how common memory errors are.

ECC exists for a reason at the enterprise level. A very important reason. You need to be able to trust that the data that the CPU put in memory is the same as the data written to disk.

No ECC is (and should be) a complete deal breaker for any self hosted data store.

There are just so many budget friendly options that do support it these days, I can't imagine making that sacrifice.