Reminds me of the old collect call trick. Rather than state your name when prompted you transmit a short, perhaps even coded, message. Then the receiving party declines the call.
I recall using this occasionally in the 90s even.
There was also a period where I would regularly "one ring" my parents as code to call me back. IIRC that was because my cell plan had unlimited (or at least more) incoming minutes.
Collect calls would have been a thing until cell phones got very common because you had to use pay phones when you were outside because you somehow never had quarters.
Put wireguard on that thing and don't expose anything on your public IP. Better yet don't have a public IP. Just port forward the wireguard IP from your router. That's it. No firewall no nothing. Not even accidental exposure.
> Put wireguard on that thing and don't expose anything on your public IP. Better yet don't have a public IP.
This is nonsense. You can't self-host services meant to interact with the public (such as email, websites, Matrix servers, etc.) without a public IP, preferably one that is fixed.
Of course it is. You get to maintain all the server architecture yourself.
I don't have a need to give people public access but if I did I would set up Authentik and proxy everything through it and hand out usernames to people I want for the whole thing (or per app). You would open only :443 and not worry about a thing.
As a bonus use caddy as forward auth, create a wildcard subdomain (cloudflare dns supports it), configure caddy for wildcard domains for sub-sub domains and dns cert verification via cloudflare token. This way nobody even knows your real domain names. Nothing they can see in DNS or certificate transparency logs. (This is my working theory. I haven't actually researched it too deep but I am doing it.) You add a new app/site in caddy's config and everything else is completely automatic. You can even use dynamic dns with a client or a script that uses the same cloudflare token to update your IP.
As I said above. Don't even need to have a public IP on this machine. Better if you don't in case something like docker or an AI agent accidentally opens a port. (Your router already protects you but I am talking about if this was on a cloud host or an ISP that gives you real IPs for each of your machines)
I tries oh my zsh whil switching to it from fish ("the we don't believe in configuration" shell). I thought it would be great with all the popularity it has but 90 percent of the plug-ins are alias definitions which I certainly won't memorize somebody else's. Just found a few plugins I like for the fish functionality I liked. Spent some time configuring it asking for help on the irc channel for zsh when needed. Great people. Zsh is awesome. No plugin manager for me though. Thanks.
I bought my first real wheel drive car in 2014. Still have it. It's not a race car. About 170hp. It struggles at the smallest curves. Good thing it has traction control and esp. Except all the front wheel cars I had before, one even slightly more powerful and smaller, never needed any of that. Never ever buying a rwd again. (Enthusiast forums of the brand tell me I don't know how to drive RWD. Skill issue. :D)
Rwd is definitely sketchier in certain circumstances, especially going uphill in low traction. Also pretty bad in the snow generally. but I’ve only had issues going around corners when it was very wet and I was driving faster that the speed limit. If you are running into traction issues driving normally (ie not flooring it) I would recommend having your tires and alignment checked, even with RWD that should not be happening in my experience.
Don't mess with Vietnam please. My phone's CSC is set to Vietnam to enable call recording. I love that feature but I don't want to lose my banking apps.
I have tried a few Qwen-2.5 and 3.0 models (<=30B), even abliterated ones, but it seems that some words have been completely wiped from their pretraining dataset. No amount of prompting can bring back what has never been there.
For comparison, I have also tried the smaller Mistral models, which have a much more complete vocabulary, but their writing sometimes lacks continuity.
I have not tried the larger models due to lack of VRAM.
You can give their hosted versions a go using one of the free clis. (qwen coder cli has qwen models, opencode has a different selection all the time. it was glm recently. there's also deepseek which is quite cheap)
There's a pretty well established Turkic solution to that. (Change the constitution. Claim the term limit applied to the old republic and it's your first term actually and go about your day)
There's a simpler one: Have Vance run as president with Trump as VP, then Vance immediately steps down on day 1. The Supreme Court will then ignore the intent of the 22nd amendment instead focusing on a narrow interpretation, make up some "this isn't a precedent" one-time ruling that allows it, and ta-da!
You seem to assume that Vance is willing to be Trump's puppet. I don't assume that.
Vance has been willing to ride along with Trump as long as it gets Vance to positions of higher power. But it seems to me that Vance's agenda is Vance, not Trump. I doubt that he'd play that "resign" game. (He might tell Trump that he was going to...)
It wasn't until the 25th amendment (which, you'll note, came after the 22nd) that the vice president was officially the successor to the presidency. So it would be weird for the 22nd to have a "what if" answer to something that wasn't yet itself law
Or have a military takeover or manufacture a crisis. At the very least they will claim election fraud and we saw what happened in Trump 1.0. There are definitely many ways MAGA will (likely) remain in power. Fascists don't give up power without a fight.
> The maker of this has taken a deterministic problem (substring matching transaction descriptions) that could be solved with a 50-line Python script
I had a coding agent write this for me last week. :D
It takes an excel export of my transactions that I have to download obviously since no bank is giving out API access to their customers. It uses some python pandas and excel stuff and streamlit to classify the transactions and "tally" results and show on the screen as color coded tabular data. (Streamlit seems really nice but super super limited in what it can do.) It also creates an excel file (with same color coding) so I can actually open it up and check if necessary. This excel file has dropdowns to reclassify rows. The final excel file also has formulas in place to update live. Code can also compare its own programmatic calculations with the result from formulas from excel. Why not? My little coding sweatshop never complains. (All with free models and clis by the way. I haven't had a reason to try Claude yet.)
> "...no bank is giving out API access to their customers..."
I think Citi bank has an API (https://developer.citi.com/). Not that it's public for account holders, but third-parties can build on that. I'm looking at Plaid.com
One thing about Plaid--I've not been happy when encountering Plaid in the wild. For example, when a vendor directs me to use Plaid to validate a new bank account integration. I'd much rather wait a few days and use the 0.01 deposit route. Like using a katana for shaving.
But signing up to use Plaid for bank transaction ingestion via API is a whole different matter.
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