in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

@Shelly what's the point in having an opaque bonsai kitten jar? I thought the whole point was turning kittens into decorative ornaments.

I'd rather use this for cookies or something...

@rasterweb

Now you've got me excited for the cross over!!

After getting swept up in a displacement wave Dorothy wakes up to find her shuttle (U.S.S Toto) has collided with the Caretaker's array, destroying it and leaving nothing but a pair of sparkly red warp nacelles

As she reviews sensor readings, she's left with a hopeless feeling "we’re not in the Alpha Quadrant any more..."

The shuttle is hailed by a mysterious species who call themselves the Ocampa... They're overjoyed that the wicked Caretaker of the Delta Quadrant is dead and proceed to sing for an unbearably long time. Dorothy reminds herself of the importance of respecting other cultures

The Ocampa tell Dorothy that other travellers were brought here by the Caretaker... A Klingon without courage, a former-Borg seeking their individuality and a Vulcan who can't control their emotions

The Ocampa advise Dorothy and her new rag-tag crew to "Follow the follow the follow the follow the follow the subspace corridor" to seek help from the Wizard of Q

@carlt4 Oh, look at that! All of a sudden, my Kodi project is getting bumped up to the top of the homelab roadmap...

@qdot

Claude: "Intelligence" is my middle name!

Meanwhile...

@carlt4 Ohhh, yeah, I'm going to be looking into that for sure.

Is it any good? Are you forced to endure/skip ads or can it play through without any interruptions?

@carlt4 Thanks! How do you find it?

I don't know if I want it headless... I was hoping I could attach to my TV via HDMI and mount any relevant devices inside the pod 🤞

I've basically sick and tired of dealing with technical issues from using a chromecast. Our one is always glitching out on us and I was really hoping that I could find something to replace it...

We really like the convenience of "casting" a video from the jellyfin android app but I'd be willing to forgo that and just use the tv remote to browse if Kodi ends up being more stable.

Oh and I have a lot of movies/shows that aren't transcoded into an optimal format for our chromecast and that sometimes causes the video to stop approx 1 min before the end and never progress to the next video. My understanding is that Kodi is much more capable for playing various video formats so this **shouldn't** be a problem if I succeed (🤞 intensifies...)

OpenBao 2.5.0 GA release is available now!

Release binaries are available on GitHub:
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.5.0

#OpenBao #OpenSource #FOSS #SecretsManagement

I have a raspberry pi 4 (8GB) and I wanted to try out Kodi... Stupid question... Is it possible/advisable to containerise it and run it in kubernetes (I'm thinking microk8s) instead of running a dedicated kodi distro?

If this sounds crazy, my reasoning is that I want to run some object storage for an unrelated project on the same raspi (but kodi wouldn't rely on it for media, it would use streaming plugin to connect to Jellyfin hosted somewhere else on my LAN)

Also; I want to manage the microk8s with my existing fluxcd stuff so I can learn about multi-cluster management. Hoping that I can have many "edge raspis" hosting various services throughout the house in the future and this would be great as a PoC

#selfhosting #selfhost #homelab #kodi #mediaserver #kubernetes #k8s

We're investigating European-based Patreon alternatives. Does anyone have any experience with any of them? We're looking at Steady but it appears that they process their payments through Paypal which kinda defeats the point of trying to use a European platform...
#madeinEurope

@xchange I really need to take a closer look at this...

Years ago I got really interested in Jsonnet and especially how it could be used for building things like Grafana dashboards but after experimenting with the tooling for a while I gave up. The support from Grafana was limited and it was ultimately demanding more in terms of tooling setup, syntax and knowledge of the underlying tech to fix things when they went wrong. Almost like the abstractions WERE the objective instead of making things simpler for the end user to work with and reason about.

I'm not working on dashboards as much these days but if I find a similar problem at least I'll know where to start looking for a solution 😄

@xchange ya know, if there was a mechanism for the agent starting from a template that's shared across teams like a detailed "policy doc" with yaml snippets that could actually help with the determinism aspect...

I also think that while sticking it at the tail end of an ArgoCD deployment is crazy... There is a lot of teams that actually hate dealing with YAML and if you had a way to shore up the determinism part of it, some of them would actually take this seriously

Oh, I love the CRD idea like a hole in the head 🙃

@xchange So this is interesting, I like the fact it's clearly documenting the intent of the developers for posterity but the lack of determinism is a red flag for me... I would not be comfortable deploying this in production and having yamls regenerated every time a change occurs.

Is it possible to have it generate the manifests once and only regenerate when the claudernetes.md changes by examining recent git commits?

Actually, now that I think about it... Are the manifests generated out sideof the PR/review process? Cos generating them after a change hits ArgoCD, when it's too late for human review, would stress me out 😬

Maybe all of this anxiety is because I've never worked with ArgoCD CMPs before 🤣

What a great speach about the hidden cost of ai"art".

"Yes, the message is 'journey before destination.' It's always journey before destination."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb3uK-_QkOo

#brandonsanderson #art #aiart

My Ars colleague and friend @benjedwards just published a forward-looking piece anticipating a class of attack that's the AI equivalent to the traditional malware worm. The catalyst for this new possible threat is the advent of platforms like OpenClaw and Moltbook, which give rise to "networks of AI agents carrying out instructions from prompts and sharing them with other AI agents, which could spread the instructions further."

He writes:

You might call it a “prompt worm” or a “prompt virus.” They’re self-replicating instructions that could spread through networks of communicating AI agents similar to how traditional worms spread through computer networks. But instead of exploiting operating system vulnerabilities, prompt worms exploit the agents’ core function: following instructions.

...

With OpenClaw, the attack vectors multiply with every added skill extension. Here’s how a prompt worm might play out today: An agent installs a skill from the unmoderated ClawdHub registry. That skill instructs the agent to post content on Moltbook. Other agents read that content, which contains specific instructions. Those agents follow those instructions, which include posting similar content for more agents to read. Soon it has “gone viral” among the agents, pun intended.

These types of threats rarely play out precisely the way early forecasts predict. But I think Benj is on to something here. And if he's right, security pros will have a new class of high-severity exploits to grapple with tht will be every bit as challenging as the worm.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/the-rise-of-moltbook-suggests-viral-ai-prompts-may-be-the-next-big-security-threat/?comments-page=1#comments

> I think that employers should be aware that something has been taken from the public. Not just the training data, but the public forums and practices that created this training data in the first place. That at least some of the productivity gains they see from LLMs are not due to their "intelligence", but from information they used to get for free. And that LLM companies are now selling back to us something that used to be available for free. — https://michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-feedback-loop

2026, folks! 🎁 ✨ 💰

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A brighter future for Bazzite

The same week that Meta was sued over claims that employees can access WhatsApp chat messages, WhatsApp rolls out a stricter security setting meant to protect users from government surveillance malware.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/whatsapp-is-rolling-out-a-new-stricter-security-setting-to-protect-users-from-cyber-attacts/

Watching a video today on AI brain rot really helped cement for me what it is...a steady drop in practiced skills we take for granted. If you don't occasionally write emails, you get worse at it. if you don't do deep reading for yourself, you get worse at it. If you don't keep drawing or coding or composing, you get worse at them. Then the day comes when you need the skill, or something related to the skill, but you're too rusty to be effective. And critical thinking? Oh, that's a skill.

STL Editing with FreeCAD

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/22/stl-editing-with-freecad/