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  • I don’t think you’re overexaggerating the potential backlash at all; especially on Lemmy. When I read that blurb at the top I was thinking “Bold move, Cotton…”. If you told me you get death threats over it, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.

    I’ve vibecoded a number of apps that I haven’t released for about the same reasons you describe. What I have put out have been little helpers with miniscule surface area. But the bigger ones I’ve built and am improving have been tailored to my needs (or for our group) and help immensely. At one time I could have coded them myself (maybe), but I never would have gotten around to it.

    What pisses me off the most is when people come down on a FOSS maintainer that uses it to keep up with bugs and security fixes because nobody can be arsed to spend any time helping them, instead they’d rather sit on the internet and criticize other people’s methods of coping with overload.


  • I mean, I’ve run across badly documented FOSS apps as well, but if I submit a correction, I don’t wrap up my ego in whether they take it or not.

    If it’s been open for more than a week or two, I just delete it so it isn’t hanging around my feed. No worries, if that’s how you want to run your project it’s no skin off my nose.

    But what kinda dweeb goes off on it in a Reddit post?





  • If you set it’s download folder in the .env to the same as the ingestion folder for Calibre, it’ll just show up. Set -no-browser-downloads and it’ll just drop that into the folder and won’t prompt you to save it manually.

    ---
    version: "2.1"
    services:
      calibre:
        image: lscr.io/linuxserver/calibre:latest
        container_name: calibre
        environment:
          - PUID=0
          - PGID=0
          - TZ=America/Denver
        security_opt:
          - seccomp=unconfined
        volumes:
          - ./data:/config
        ports:
          - 7080:8080
          - 7081:8081
          - 7181:8181
        restart: unless-stopped
        labels:
          - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true
    
      openbooks:
        ports:
          - 7082:80
        volumes:
          - './data/:/books'
        restart: unless-stopped
        container_name: calibre-openbooks
    #    command: --persist
        command: --name asdasuu6ghgf --persist --no-browser-downloads
        environment:
          - BASE_PATH=/
        image: evanbuss/openbooks:latest
        labels:
          - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true
    

    You’ll have to manually set the ingest folder in Calibre in the the setting to this folder that shows in the calibre container as “config” (or maybe just the root folder, can’t recall)








  • In OpenWRT, add an entry in DNSmasq under General - Addresses of /myfakecomain.com/<serverIPAddress This will make every variation of service.myfakedomain.com resolve to that address (assuming you have the hosts on your network obtaining DNS via the OpenWRT router).

    Then set up a reverse proxy on that server or whereever you’re directing that wildcard. If you have a lot of docker stacks on that machine, I’d suggest Traefik because you can just configure the compose files with the hostnames you want for that service, and it’ll update Traefik to redirect that hostname to that container. You can also add bespoke entries to Traefik for non-container services, or other services on your network to redirect towards.



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    It’s absolute bullshit. I ended up returning to Reddit for the technical subs precisely because I’m sick and tired of the smug cunts on Lemmy that publicly whinge about AI at the drop of a hat, but probably use it constantly behind the curtains. There’s no discussion to be had on Lemmy about AI; it’s automatically a fight.

    Reddit is nowhere near as antagonistic to it. I’m not reading any of the default subs, of course, but the technical subs have useful discussion without constant acrimony from people that have no interest in being there except to be assholes.

    It’s a downside to low traffic on Lemmy that encourages people to browse All, and end up inserting themselves into a discussion they wouldn’t have run across in their actual subscribed comms.


  • I don’t see that it increases the costs. I’ve written software and PMd other software builds in a previous life. Software has bugs and either I fix it slowly because I have to wait for winter to have time, or the AI does it while I drive a tractor for a couple bucks in tokens. AI can architect fine now and if you use your head, you can cross-check the codebase to ease maintenance with other LLMs, then come in and give it a final QA yourself.

    I have a bugtracker I build into any software I build, an agent watches for new entries by users and does some preliminary work before bringing it to my attention and then every day I get a report that I can say what gets worked on while I have coffee. Honestly, I don’t care if the agent decides to refactor the whole mary-anne, it pings me perioidically in Matrix and I steer it around like I do my hired men asking which field to cultivate next.

    At this point I have almost entirely vibe-coded software that’s been dogfooded for almost 2 years that works great and massively improves our operation. And I have a dozen other ideas ready for me to give some attention to in order to get them off the ground. It’s an exciting time. I love it.


  • I’ve rebuilt a few SaaS projects that I use so it’s under my control. Might not have all the bells and whistles, but it aligns with my needs better.

    I rebuilt a simple Playstore task app into a multiuser fleet maintenance app for the farm. I’m not putting it in the wild, I don’t need that headache. I build it exactly for our needs and I don’t need to have to deal with users I can’t tell to fuck off to their faces when they get snotty about a bug.

    But overall, this kneejerk “everything AI makes is broken” bullshit is starting to get to me. It’s pretty obvious these people either haven’t used it in the last year or so, or don’t know how to. Or they’re just performing for the internet, and actually use it all the time. I tend to think the latter.