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Cake day: February 19th, 2026

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    • soulseek is the sharing platform (not sure how it works exactly, some kind of federation with a central broker to search for users? Like how Matrix by default uses the primary domain for ‘discovery’)
    • soulseekqt is the program that enables you to interact with the soulseek network
    • slskd is a program specifically for remote running soulseekqt on a headless (no display) server, and serves a web UI with separate login so you can access it from another machine

    The use case for slskd is if you want your music to live on a different machine, whereas soulseek/qt is for if you want your music on your primary machine. Another reason I keep it on a server is efficiency - I can expose my collection for sharing without having my 200W+ PC on, instead my server takes ~60W, ~20 if i remove the GPU






  • Great tips! Although if i may 🤓 just a little for the top right, it works because what you deleted isn’t the binary, it’s the pointer that points to the binary’s location. The data is still exactly as it was before “deletion”; the symlink is simply a copy of the original pointer’s info; and I’m speculating that the existence of any pointer prevents the system from recycling those addressed bits.







  • A lot of folk decry Cloudflare as a terrible corp (and their AI push now involves the login page shunted to the side while 70% of the screen is a relatively blank section with some sentence about using their AI), but what is the non-3rd party alternative? Does one rely on sharing the IP instead? It is impossible to have public (non-family) traffic without a Cloudflare/Google DNS resolver right?

    Being on a standard ISP I cannot use a higher-level rDNS.





  • For me, they only have one of my repos, and I deleted all my repos months ago, so whether they actually have the code or just the title idk

    Good news: If anyone wants the one they got, I host it myself here instead. Fuck M$, AI thieves etc.

    I mean they can probably steal it from my site too but I’ve taken precautions, and the second biggest reason to migrate off corpo accounts entirely – my site is a much smaller hacker target than Github.


  • Nice that’s similar to my setup! As for a website hub yours looks neat, mine is plain as hell unless you’re a family member, thanks to Authelia – but making public info is on my todo list – I tried custom-building a website many years back and adapted that. (If anyone discovers security flaws please lmk, but I’m preeetty sure I did good)

    Gonna share mine :3

    • i3 6100 (2 cores, 4 threads), iGPU passthrough to a LibreELEC VM so I could finally replace the Google CCwGTV 4K*)
    • 24GB of RAM (16GB+8GB, mobo is ITX so that’s it)
    • RTX 3060 12GB (handles GPU-accelerated processing with GPU passthrough to Emby and LLM LXC’s)
    • 256GB Samsung 850 Evo SATA SSD for everything but media
    • SATA HDDs for media:
    1. Shucked Barracuda Pro 10TB
    2. Ironwolf Pro 20TB
    3. Ironwolf Pro 24TB
    • Proxmox 9.2.3, kernel 7.0.6-2 (not quite sure why it’s not using .14)
    \*

    I conspire that it was being updated to become weaker. Reasons:

    1. Menu got laggier;
    2. WiFi got real glitchy and wouldn’t connect on wake and I had to either:
    • d/c and r/c,
    • power cycle,
    • or forget the WiFi and reenter details in order to make it work

    And as the months went on reconnecting stopped working, power cycling stopped working and it stopped giving me a keyboard, instead prompting to “enter on your remote device” so my last remaining technique was to install the Google Home app, set everything up and use my phone keyboard to enter the WiFi creds.

    I conspired that as it was fine until recently and it went downhill so rapidly, that it must have been forced obsolescence and they’ll probably release a replacement device. Surprise – one month after I replaced it with Kodi, Google released the “Google TV Streamer 4K”.

    Once I can upgrade my 2017 flagship to a 2027 midrange I’ll be transferring the i7-7700K and the other half of the 2x16 RAM, and I’m in dire need of more storage so a 30TB Ironwolf is in my sights (but fuck, it’s 2x its pre AI-pocalypse price (aka Sep 2025).


  • Oh yeah, I meant the most hyped headset of the time if I’m being accurate. In terms of longevity I bought one of their other headsets, it developed a fault after about 18 months (within warranty) and since it was discontinued they sent me an 800X replacement. It was great for gaming audio and stellar surround audio – felt I was cheating with hearing footsteps so well in MMOFPS – but the headset lasted 9 months before dying. After that I got SteelSeries for the convenience, and well I still own them and just need to source 3D printed earcup hinge pieces because the plastic broke. Otherwise they’re perfectly fine. Also bought new batteries