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  • I read the title and this was literally the first thing that popped in my head

  • Don't ask me how it's named but I believe there was a fork of the project relatively recently in reaction due to some AI stuff they did.

    The fork has all AI features scrubbed out

  • Professionally or hobbywise?

    Hobbywise I'm pretty dead lately cause I left all my embedded gear at my parents when I moved.

    Professionally I am trying to optimize software on a microcontroller to minimize power consumption for my master thesis. Currently I'm sitting at an average power draw of 70 uA at 3V. If all goes well I might get it even lower

  • Yeah, that would be the ideal scenario I guess.

    It should technically be possible by mapping the compose files into the opt folder via docker mounts but I think that's an unreasonable way to go about this since every compose file would need a mounting point

  • Proxmox to manage my VMs, SSH for anything on the command line and portainer for managing my docker containers.

    One day I will switch probably switch to dockge so my docker-compose files are stored plain on the hard drive but for now portainer works flawlessly.

  • After reading through some of the comments, here is my opinion.

    C would be a good language IF you know your students plan to get into IT, specifically a sector where the low level knowledge is useful. Beyond that, I assume your students probably use windows and I personally always find it a pain to work with C on windows outside of full IDEs like jetbrains and Visual Studio. It's also a lot more work till you get some results that you are happy about. Unless you start with an Arduino, which I find pretty nice to get students interested in embedded stuff.

    I don't like JavaScript because I find it a mess although it is very useful for anything web related.

    Given you said in another comment that this is meant to be a general purpose skill for your students I would strongly recommend python. While I dislike the dynamic type system, it is a very powerful language to get stuff done. You can quickly get results that feel rewarding instead of running into hard to fix issues that turn your students off of programming in general. Also it's very useful outside of IT as a scripting language for analyzing data in basically any field or for generating nice plots for some document

  • I remember building something vaguely related in a university course on AI before ChatGPT was released and the whole LLM thing hadn't taken off.

    The user had the option to enter a couple movies (so long as they were present in the weird semantic database thing our professor told us to use) and we calculated a similarity matrix between them and all other movies in the database based on their tags and by putting the description through a natural language processing pipeline.

    The result was the user getting a couple surprisingly accurate recommendations.

    Considering we had to calculate this similarity score for every movie in the database it was obviously not very efficient but I wonder how it would scale up against current LLM models, both in terms of accuracy and energy efficiency.

    One issue, if you want to call it that, is that our approach was deterministic. Enter the same movies, get the same results. I don't think an LLM is as predictable for that

  • I used to use enums for my return codes.

    Then I got pissed I had to add my enum definition to every project I worked on.

    I now return integers based on errno

  • Thanks. I'll keep this in mind in case my new stack causes issues again

  • Hey, just wanted to let you know that my updated stack has been running perfectly since I changed it based on your setup. Thanks

  • Well, guess that's it for heaven

  • I guess I missed that.

    Anyway, I updated my stack to be similar to what you pasted and so far it seems to be working. I'll have to check tomorrow if the reboot issue persists.

  • I know that the port forwarding command can be simplified. In my case its this complex because the way it is listed in the gluetun wiki did not work even though I disabled authentication for my local network. The largest part of the script is authenticating with the username and password before actually sending the port forwarding command.

    I'll definitely try adjusting my stack to your variant though. I've also tried the healthcheck option before but I must have configured it wrong because that caused my gluetun container to get stuck.

    One question regarding your stack though, is there a specific reason for binding /dev/net/tun to gluetun?

  • As far as I am aware, Mullvad has removed port forwarding support a while ago. While I am not sure which VPN providers except proton still support it, I kind of remember seeing a small list of them some time ago which listed Proton among one of the few trustworthy ones left.

  • Good thing I decided against switching to it, even though my main reason is that my weird book organisation scheme isn't feasible with anything but calibre or manual organisation currently as far as I know

  • I use a MikroTik Router and while I do love the amount of power it gives me, I very quickly realized that I jumped in at the deep end. Deeper than I can deal with unfortunately.

    I did get everything running after a week or so but I absolutely had to fight the router to do so.

    Sometimes less is more I guess

  • That was my exact setup as well until I switched to a different router which supported both custom DNS entries and blocklists, thereby making the pi-hole redundant

  • Not OP but a lot of people probably use pi-hole which doesn't support wildcards for some inane reason

  • Maybe they added new ones since I last looked