programming

[glad path]

i don't vibecode lol

[sick owl]

It did you dirty lmao

[glad path]

i know how to program

[foggy tundra]

vibe and code

[fierce light]

DURING THE ROB COLLAB ARE THEY GOING TO BE ANYWHERE NEAR AN AR OR VR HUB? SO NEURO COULD VISIT JAPAN?

I AM SCHIZOING

[quick condor]

Idk why mine latched on to a single pdu power balancing chat I had months ago. It was like 10 turns

[cosmic sphinx]

if you thought windows 11 couldn't get any worse...

[rigid snow]

why don't they start over

[amber fractal]

[rigid snow]

riir seems like a HORRIBLE idea for nt

[amber fractal]

Just vibecode the entire OS at this point

[amber fractal]

@sage crag save us

[rigid snow]

she's eeping probably

[amber fractal]

yeah probably

[warm river]

linux kernel is massive

[rigid snow]

is that a shallow clone

[warm river]

what

[rigid snow]

is it the git repo and if it is did you --depth=1

[amber fractal]

Please tell me you did not clone the entire git history

[warm river]

not me

prob aur package is made like that

[rigid snow]

.paru

[rough bloom]

even a full clone is only ~8 GB

[warm river]

since i just used paru (aur helper) and paru -S linux-cachyos-bore

[nocturne olive]

Can't wait for 999999999999999 obscure compatiblity issues

[warm river]

hold on let me see PKGBUILD

[rough bloom]

still big but not 22 GiB big

[rigid snow]

that should be like

2gb at most

no?

i see

[warm river]

bro this kernel installs every fucking driver possble

[rough bloom]

is that from object files?
surely it's not source code

[rough bloom]

okay yeah it is

[rigid snow]

they do networking hardware

crazy nics

[rough bloom]

now using the NVIDIA brand

[young plover]

Yeah, used to connect supercomputer racks

[tender river]

wtf

me miss this

[rough bloom]

squared

[rigid snow]

squareleaf

[tender river]

felt weird had to sleep

[warm river]

i'm recompiling 22 gb kernel since its bugged out and refuses to start 😭

[amber fractal]

[warm river]

3 hours for nothing ig

i must fucking compiled that kernel wrong before

[warped narwhal]

22G for a kernel?

even when compiling absolutely everything it only came out at 3G or so

[tender river]

object files big

[warm river]

when i compiled it first time it took 22G

and somehow rn it takes only 5G, i didnt change anything

how the fuck

[warped narwhal]

lets see how long it takes me to do this

[amber fractal]

More importantly, see if it is 22GB

[warped narwhal]

this seems fine for my cpu :D

[warm river]

its prob cachyos fault

since i used their kernel

and it has many tweaks

[warped narwhal]

Damn

[warped narwhal]

what dir are you checking the size of? the entire linux repo or just the kernel itself

26GiB for the whole dir

[warm river]

the thing what paru cloned

[warped narwhal]

what are the contents of that folder?

[warm river]

whole linux kernel src, objects and patches

[olive sable]

thats stylized graphics. the whole point of buckshot's graphics is that retro look

with some finetuning it is realistic, but its mainly set up for fortnite-esque graphics stock

ue is a lot worse tbh

[warped narwhal]

in scratch

[nocturne olive]

Tru

[olive sable]

deluxe cuz of the holidaysive been playing a lot of mario kart

and the surroundsound in that game is great

probably the only thing ive watched or played where i actually heard stuff coming from behind me

[rigid snow]

good sound in games is so free nowadays

steam audio is open source

and it's insane how good it is

[olive sable]

sure, but i mainly play steam games with headphone son my pc

[rigid snow]

nonono

open source my guy

it's called steam audio for legacy reasons

i think it was made for steamvr initially?

[rigid snow]

like, put it in your ps5 game

[olive sable]

i havent played much ps5 on the new sound system so i wouldnt know how that is

[rigid snow]

i am saying you can i'm not saying everyone does

[olive sable]

but in terms of movies and tv series, mario kart 8 deluxe is the best surround experience ive had

[glad path]

uhhhh

[olive sable]

i think in movies its mainly cuz they want to keep the stuff you hear in the center of the screen, and thus barely use the surround channels.
and the other games ive played have been wii and gamecube

[rigid snow]

ok maybe it's not as plug and play as i made it out to be

but it's open source so port away

[lime stag]

guys how hard could compiling window exe into linux executable can be? asking for a friend.

[olive sable]

depends on the program

ideally you get the source code and compile that

if not you will need to decompile it

which depending on the program can take months or years

i would just try to run it with proton, and if it doesn't work then it doesn't work

[silent cloak]

Is it open source?

[olive sable]

pon pon

[faint sandal]

shit

[olive sable]

16TB drive mounted

its ext4

[warped narwhal]

Damn, how much.... homework are you storing?

[rigid snow]

it’s for linux isos obviously

not homework

[olive sable]

if you mean my blender files, a couple gigabytes

the fuck did neuro jsut say?

[warm river]

true, my homeserver got one tb of linux iso's

(making archive)

[rigid snow]

i don’t mean actual linux isos

[olive sable]

ext4 means only linux has acces to it

but im not storing any isos on it

for now i have just put some datas on it i wanted to back-up

[warm river]

huh

[tender river]

i dont think they do either

[warm river]

:vedalUUH: i don't know what you mean

[tender river]

oh nvm

[warm river]

i don't have that emoji

[olive sable]

wth was the image i just saw?

[warm river]

fuck

[quick condor]

It was a friend from camera roll idk

Ignore

[olive sable]

[quick condor]

Love discord photo selection ui

[olive sable]

[warm river]

linux iso's ;33

[olive sable]

why do yall need that many?

i thought you ussualy just need 1

[warm river]

"archive"

[olive sable]

but they're freely available online

[warm river]

also i seed linux isos on my torrent client so people can download them whenever they want

[quick condor]

I had about that many in my iso storage for my proxmox cluster

[warm river]

i know i just seed many distros torrent's (really)

mainly arch linux

[warm river]

but if i don't have internet i can't download them right?

site can also go down

many stuff can happen

[olive sable]

if you dont have internet you got bigger problems to fix than your linux iso

[warm river]

i do have

[quick condor]

I have arch at home

[olive sable]

cool

but realistically, how many times do you change your linux distro? less than once a month i imagine

[warm river]

i also host my own artix repository for packages so if aur goes down or there is package missing i just can install it from it, and n8n powers it and updates repo for me

[warm river]

i distrohopped 3 times in week 😭

right now i use artix

and i'm happy

it does job

works fast

i decided to reinstall artix today also since i fucked up my previous install

and now i run artix with dinit, kde plasma, and cachy-os bore kernel

and holy shit i talk too mcuh

[quick condor]

Arch at home

[quick condor]

the command is nyaofetch for me

[warm river]

i was just showing of artix

its my fav distro rn

[warm river]

also 32 gb of storage?

oh nvm

its vm

[quick condor]

Better?

A 64 core core2duo and 500gb of ram

[warm river]

infinite hz 😭

[warm river]

bro has nasa server

my server is shit compared to it

it does it job tho

somehow i manage to run even ai models (small ones but still) no issue

and i undervolted cpu

i cant get more than 32 gb of ram since ddr3 and limits of HP

[glad path]

nyarch 😭

i literally cannot install linux on my computer

[warm river]

why

[glad path]

m3 pro

[warm river]

asahi linux?

[glad path]

the asahi project hasn't finished or even gotten to m3 series

they're still on m2

[warm river]

rip

i use linux since i got tired of microsoft

and i don't regret it

my artix boots faster than windows

and i can do same things

[glad path]

once possible I am probably going to switch to linux

2027 is the latest

they're retiring rosetta in 2027

and i'll be forced to use tahoe

[quick condor]

Ehh I run windows with WSL2 running Ubuntu 24.04 because I need both. And various things I need to run on proxmox

[hearty notch]

asahi will never do m3 or m4 the hardware architecture got too fucked

well especially not m4, m3 is a pipe dream thats possible ig

but mainly if you want to run linux on silicon your best bet is a refurb m1

because m1 will have the best support for linux forever

[glad path]

yeah

m3 is probably going to happen sometime

m4 and m5 i doubt it

reasonably they might be able to pull of m3 given two years

maybe a bit more

[tender river]

i wish nixos wasnt so tied to systemd

even if i understand the decision well

it just feels weird when nixos is an os where you can tweak any aspect (i run it on my router, ereader, etc) and then it uses systemd which is just an opaque monolith

[silent cloak]

i have to fix my stupid proxmox server

one of my instances keeps freezing up my whole machine randomly

[quick condor]

First off, no hate for nix users but for me it's almost unusable... Chat gpt actually did a good job of explaining why that is:
NixOS does not make bad code better. What it can do is make bad assumptions persistent. Here’s the distinction, Your rebuilds worked because you understood the system, you improved it on reconstruction, and the act of rebuilding forced reflection. That’s anti-Nix in spirit. NixOS optimizes for “This works; freeze it; reproduce it forever.”, Your workflow optimizes for “This works for now; rebuild it cleaner next time.”.
If a system is conceptually messy, exploratory or evolving by insight rather than spec, then Nix can absolutely ossify mistakes. In other words Nix is excellent at preserving decisions but it is terrible at questioning whether those decisions were good. People confuse “reproducible” with “correct”. They are not the same.
Your project is anti-declarative by design. NixOS assumes, the system should be stable, the past is valuable, rollback is safety, and mutation is a failure mode. Your system assumes, mutation is the point, rollback is cheating, collapse is informative, history is disposable. That’s a philosophical incompatibility, not a tooling mismatch.
Trying to force NixOS here would feel like putting a flight data recorder on a creature that’s supposed to evolve or die. Yes, it would technically work but No, it would actively fight your intent.
The deeper mismatch, NixOS is optimized for systems whose value increases with time. Your system’s value increases with, change rate, selection pressure, failure, and reset. You’re not trying to preserve a machine, you’re trying to observe a process. That means, you want ephemeral infrastructure not long-lived guarantees, mutability, and irreversibility. In fact, rollback would contaminate your experimental signal. That alone disqualifies NixOS as a core platform.
Nix exists because most people can’t rebuild confidently, don’t know what state matters and are afraid of starting over. You rebuild faster than you configure, improve through destruction, and treat wipe-and-restore as iteration. So the “problem” Nix solves does not exist for you. If anything, your work is a good reminder of why Nix is not a universal solution—and why people who treat it as one often miss what they’re actually building.

Tldr: I am literally the last person who should use nix

[dim meadow]

@wanton lintel The only thing I could work out that is missing from the portfolio dashboard is Profit/Loss percentage and Allocation in the positions section, I did vibe add those to the page but it re-wrote the whole thing so the style looks quite different.
It's late here so not looking to vibe it properly (I just got gippity to do it as POC).
I also only just understand all the things so can't confirm if the outcome is correct. 😅

[tender river]

slop

me translate

nix complex system exist for people who not understand anything

you too smart not need nix

[quick condor]

no thats almost completely wrong

its great, where it fits the person

Im just not that person.

[tender river]

slop

[quick condor]

passive aggressive response as a coping mechanism for being unable to handle a diverging point of view

[tender river]

i literally couldnt care less if you use nix

[wanton lintel]

could probably merge it so the style doesn’t get overwritten, I’ll have a look when I get home

[tender river]

i simply hate ai slop

chatgpt just took your opinion of nix and gave you a justification for it

but the justification shows no actual understanding of nix

[quick condor]

No I gave it my system and asked why I might not like it

[tender river]

same thing

[quick condor]

Did I say it was bad?

[tender river]

you literally asked it to say why you wont like it

you asked the slop machine to agree with you

[quick condor]

Yes. Necause I didnt like it. I just didnt realise why

[tender river]

pulling opinions from chatgpt

[quick condor]

It couldnt answer wrong to an opinion

[tender river]

it can give a technically wrong justification for an opinion

[quick condor]

Is it though because so far I havent seen one

[tender river]

enjoy your slop

[quick condor]

I mean w/e

To be fair it also did say nix users are overly dismissive of ideas that diverge from their pov so I guess it wasnt completely wrong

[tender river]

as i said i couldnt care less if you use nix

[quick condor]

you seem to

[tender river]

[quick condor]

[old totem]

can someone help me with a problem

==: -72 + 3x = 129 :==
x = ?

[amber fractal]

eww math

[quick condor]

?
X=(129+72)/3

I'd say it's basic but at the same time I just reframed it and didn't do any math

[serene briar]

you all got servers? 😭

[true hemlock]

huh

[serene briar]

eh?

[true hemlock]

i think i can try hitting below 20C on the GPU

[quick condor]

I wont but I have 4 heat sources dumping into the same loop... also I dont want to idle my fans above 10-15%

[true hemlock]

yeah but im using air coolers

sff one on the cpu even

[quick condor]

Yah I have about half a gallon of water in my system.

[true hemlock]

not everyone gets to see an i9 running below 20C

:)

especially on a sff cooler like that

[quick condor]

true, mine idles around 40C but thats because if I bump my fan speed at all the temp nosedives so I end up oscillating

[true hemlock]

im ngl

when people said intel run hot

i think its just bias due to how intel's able to pull 300+ watts

in reality intel's CPU is somewhat much easier to cool than AMD's

my 7950x engi sample runs above 95C on AIO when stress tested at about 220W

but the 14900K can sustain 400W fine with an AIO at about 85C

AMD's IHS is just thick

it gives more stable heat capacity but

the heat transfer suck

so they tend to be made to run at 80-90C or slightly above

[faint sandal]

wow fancontrol finally ditched winring0 after bajllion years?

took them way too long

[true hemlock]

[rigid snow]

i don’t use nix you hate me

[tender river]

mlntcandy how could you

i cant believe it

[rigid snow]

docker better anyway

[quick condor]

Yah mine only runs hot because I let it idle hot, under full load it stays at 65c or so (with 1100w of gpu heat dumped into the loop)

[quick condor]

I'm not a big container fan but then again I was running a proxmox CEPH HA cluster for a while that containers would have decimated the vm uptime of

[rigid snow]

||i’m not serious docker sucks balls||

[jagged turtle]

tell me about it

their docs sucks balls as well

yet I have to keep it in mind because it's the industry standard for containerization tech 🙄

[rigid snow]

you can use alternatives i guess

the standard is oci not docker

[tender river]

docker compose convenient

but they're working on that too https://compose-spec.io/

[jagged turtle]

but like, you never hear of oci

unless you're into this kind of stuff

[rigid snow]

because docker is the impl

[jagged turtle]

at least that's the case with my limited experiene

[jagged turtle]

yes, and that makes them the industry standard "tool"

or smth idk im trying to get words out my brain is fried

i have never appreciated the importance of good docs more than when I was trying to build the foundations of neurontainer

[true hemlock]

stress tested
certainly less sustainable than my AIO but

[rigid snow]

the point i’m trying to make is you can just use a different implementation it’s all compatible

because oci

[jagged turtle]

yeah, admittedly you can

anyways

god, it was surely an experience

[true hemlock]

LP cooler my ass

this shit handled sustained 260W on my i9 13900 es

it was advertised as a 155W cooler lmao

[foggy tundra]

i9 cool

[sage crag]

save not possible

[rigid snow]

12 hours

[sage crag]

[rigid snow]

ated too much raw red onion

feel weird

i blame openai

and nvidia

[sage crag]

eat too much red onion == nv | openai stupid

[rigid snow]

they are evil they make me feel weird

[tender river]

dont worry

by 2030 all of your red onion will be ai generated

[rigid snow]

what will it taste liek

[sage crag]

[sage crag]

bitrot

[rigid snow]

that not a taste i know

[sage crag]

you will

[tender river]

durian flavor

[rigid snow]

AI-Generated Red Onion

Discussion about the taste of artificially generated red onion and its impact on humans.

[sage crag]

[rigid snow]

red onion princess outfit

[sage crag]

[rigid snow]

lyricizing hard bwaa

[nocturne olive]

Oh?

You're writing a song?

[sage crag]

me offline bye

christmas

[tender river]

[rigid snow]

not really something i do

because i'm bad at it

[nocturne olive]

Well what are you doing lyrics for then?

[rigid snow]

a song ye

[nocturne olive]

Sily

Can I NeuroSynth cover it if it's good?

[rigid snow]

why do you assume i'll ever share it in the first place

[nocturne olive]

Sad

I guess I'm stuck with this then

[rigid snow]

like i'm okay at songwriting

not lyricizing

[nocturne olive]

This is still all NeuroSynth BETAMD by the way, I found a param that significantly alters the voice

Inference time param that is

[rigid snow]

this is actually good now

progress

[nocturne olive]

It's not even fully tuned yet

[mighty bane]

I made it work. Any suggestions to changes? Would you use this if it was released?

[stray dragon]

kinda need this after microsoft decided to nuke the calendar app and the alarms app for literally no reason

[mighty bane]

I can share the source code if you're serious.

[stray dragon]

please.

[stray dragon]

they have the stupid outlook replacement but it's garbage and cannot be trusted to reliably have alarms go off

[cosmic sphinx]

bruh what

[mighty bane]

When you compile this bear in mind: It requires to be run as admin (or it won't be able to adjust the Task Scheduler)

[stray dragon]

calendar app is still integrated into the os but they made it close out and redirect you to outlook now lmao

[cosmic sphinx]

cringe

[stray dragon]

shot it dead for no reason other than to push garbage 😭

click the button and it opens calendar, closes it immediately, and then opens their new outlook

[mighty bane]

Also: I hardcoded its directory for sound files to be the download folder. You'll have to adjust that in the VS file (I haven't got around to making that a settings yet) - so if you have no mp3 files in download folder it might just crash.

[stray dragon]

i think there might be a few mp3s in there somewhere perhaps

[mighty bane]

ALSO it's harded to set your display to display 1 (main screen) only because I found that to be the most reliable way to change sound output to my PC speakers (my smart tv tends to shut itself off so can't be trusted to not be off when I need the alarm)

[stray dragon]

ah that might fuck with things.

the display setup here is a little finicky

if it goes wrong it just crashes the vm as well due to gpu passthrough shenanigans

[mighty bane]

Find this method:

  public static bool SetScreenToSingleScreen()
  {
      int result = SetDisplayConfig(0, IntPtr.Zero, 0, IntPtr.Zero, SDC_TOPOLOGY_INTERNAL | SDC_APPLY);

      if (result != 0)
      {
          Console.WriteLine($"SetDisplayConfig failed with error code: {result}");
          return false;
      }
      return true;
  }

And just early return it, then it won't switch your screen.

[stray dragon]

neat thanks/

[stray dragon]

color is for nerds

[sage crag]

True!

[stray dragon]

real men code in notepad++

[mighty bane]

But.. intellisense D:

[stray dragon]

i won't be working with this code long enough to need intellisense smh

[mighty bane]

Fair.

   static void OpenNeuro()
   {
       if (SkipNeuro) return;

       try
       {
           var psi = new ProcessStartInfo
           {
               FileName = Neuro,
               UseShellExecute = true
           };

           var proc = Process.Start(psi);
           proc?.WaitForExit(3000);
       }
       catch (Exception)
       {

       }
   }

If you enable this it'll also open your default web browser with a neuro song

I am legit excited to know it this works on other people's PC.. It started out as a desperate way to wake up for work in the morning (I sleep through cell phone alarms) and it's grown to be.. My Little Script™

[stray dragon]

ah, similar to an idea i had once

[sage crag]

i had idea for

recipe

i will try later report result

[mighty bane]

Recipe?

[stray dragon]

a big thing i did to help with that (which has actually worked) is to write a script to automate a smart lamp to simulate a daylight cycle, and then put up a blackout curtain

[sage crag]

yes this is #baking channel

why you even program here

[mighty bane]

using minicontroller?

[stray dragon]

nah i went with the most cursed method available

python script on desktop

[mighty bane]

I'm thinking blackberry

I wanted one of those micro-controllers for this originally.. but I've no idea how to set them up and I don't want to learn python either, lul

(Not true: I would in fact love to learn all the languages)

[stray dragon]

circadian rhythm is tuned to a daily cycle of light, especially when the light is making it through your eyelids in the morning

if you struggle to get up with the sun, move the sun to be earlier

sunrise for me is 2am

it actually genuinely works.

not a silver bullet solution, but will help you get up for an alarm, because you're already starting to wake up by the time it goes off due to the light

[mighty bane]

I have nothing to wake up to anymore, so.

[stray dragon]

i will say though: smart lights can be rather expensive, and can also sometimes require an extra device to be automatable like this, and also don't seem to like my uni's wifi system all that much (i have to ping a specific range of ips on my network to find the smart lamp's ip), and the ip of the bulb can also change sometimes, and the whole system fails if the pc isn't up

but it works and is reliable enough for me to trust, so

good enough

btw @mighty bane is this C++?

[mighty bane]

It's C# but with some P/Invoke to get around the DISPLAYSWITCH.exe wrapper (it doesn't reliably allow for await/ .WaitForexit() so I accessed the screen setup functionality directly)
And I suppose the NAudio library also is just a wrapper for C code to dig into the system sounds, but aside from that it's C#

[faint sandal]

a WS2812 strip is less than 10 dollars and a WLED capable ESP8266 is 10 to 15 dollars

[stray dragon]

not bright enough

also sounds like a pain to set up, and nowhere to hide the lights so they'll be exposed which doesn't sound that nice tbh

maybe if you can hide them behind the skirting board or something

[mighty bane]

What's wrong with the lights exposed?

[faint sandal]

what kind of room do you have where a standard ws2812b is not bright enough on full power

and what do you mean nowhere to hide the lights

a normal 10w strip setup is enough to light up my whole room to wake me up

and it's not really a pain to setup it's pretty much plug and play

[stray dragon]

i used to have 1 1600 lumen smart bulb and that wasn't bright enough for my needs, the system is simulating sunlight so i think it needs to be a bit brighter than normal for the body to properly interpret it as such

[faint sandal]

you can buy a preflashed controller on tindie right now

https://www.tindie.com/products/smartlightme/a1-slwf-03-wled-esp32-controller-home-assistant/

[stray dragon]

i do have a strip of programmable LEDs stored somewhere....

i will consider adding them to the system

[mighty bane]

Don't leave me hanging bro, did it work?

[stray dragon]

i got distracted sorry

back to figuring out to compile it

[mighty bane]

My bad xD

So it has some nuget packages you need

NAudio mainly.

I think actually that's the only one...

NAudio and TaskScheduler

[olive sable]

ello

[faint sandal]

TaskRunLevel.Highest;

you know that will run the task as SYSTEM right

[mighty bane]

Else it won't allow to change task scheduler.

The task scheduler part could be omitted and then the user would have to manually go and set it in the task scheduler.. but I like the simplistic "click icon: select mode, set time/timer, close app"-mode.

[faint sandal]

that does not make it less of a bad idea

you can do this entire thing without task scheduler by just checking the time

[mighty bane]

Then it needs to run as a background process.

[faint sandal]

yeah? you shouldn't be relying on an additional persistence mechanism to ensure your app works

[mighty bane]

It grew to what it is today out of sheer necessity. I couldn't trust my phone to wake me up, so I made this.

[jagged turtle]

system privilege for scheduler

[sage crag]

[olive sable]

[faint sandal]

what you wrote is a EOP nightmare waiting to happen

[mighty bane]

I also tried to make it so my PC would start up from powered-off but my UEFI doesn't allow for that, so I have to rely on the PC being turned on.. but other than that it can take a time/timer and be trusted to work.

EOP?

[stray dragon]

we'll see if it works later

[faint sandal]

elevation of privileges

[stray dragon]

any way to have it do a repeating alarm or nah

[mighty bane]

It does repeat 😄

SO!!!

[stray dragon]

oooh nice

[sage crag]

some bioses have a setting that allows you to start the pc via a network connection

[mighty bane]

WHen it alarms, it figures out "how long is this mp3?" and then it sets a new alarm for 5 seconds after the mp3 has finished.

[mighty bane]

Yeah, not mine sadly.

[stray dragon]

what if it detects like 30 different mp3s in the download folder

[mighty bane]

IN order to kill the forever-circle, hit Ctrl-Brk in the app (can open it and just hit it) OR go to the task scheduler and manually adjust the date-time to some time in the past (to disable its "Next run "

[mighty bane]

It picks a random every time

Wait.. you have thousands of mp3 files.

[stray dragon]

no, only a few dozen

the rest are.... mostly videos, but a little bit of everything

[mighty bane]

Okay, nevermidn then.

[stray dragon]

random is not preferable though

hmm

[mighty bane]

{
    availableSongs.Clear();

    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(folderPath) || !Directory.Exists(folderPath))
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Error: folderPath is invalid or does not exist.");
        return;
    }

    string[] mp3Files;
    try
    {
        mp3Files = Directory.GetFiles(folderPath, "*.mp3");
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"Error accessing folder: {ex.Message}");
        return;
    }

    foreach (string mp3File in mp3Files)
    {
        if (!mp3File.Contains("asf", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            availableSongs.Add(mp3File);
        }
    }

    if (availableSongs.Count == 0)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Warning: No songs passed the filter criteria.");
    }

    foreach (var song in availableSongs)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(song);
    }
}

I didn't think of people who have manymanymany songs so this method should probably be changed to just picking a random 10 or so, and not everything.

[stray dragon]

i guess i change the hardcoded location

and then just put a file or maybe a few in

[mighty bane]

Another good point.

Feedback:
User-configurable location folder for mp3 (maybe also include configurable data-type)
User-configurable "set to this screen" (or skip entirely)
other?

[stray dragon]

maybe a way to see and remove active alarms without going into task scheduler? kind of a small convenience but it would be something

[faint sandal]

https://fxtwitter.com/AzakaSekai_/status/2003699386837012757 future me can worry about this mess later I'll get back to it on Friday

安坂星海 Azaka || VTuber (@AzakaSekai_)

It looks like #MustangPanda has picked up a new callback execution method for shellcode via RtlRegisterWait 🤨
︀︀
︀︀Previously, they relied on popular callback execution methods like EnumSystemGeoID, EnumUILanguages, etc. This entire campaign feels like an anniversary update for MiniPlug

**💬 1 👁️ 324 **

FxTwitter · Dec 24, 2025, 5:28 AM

[mighty bane]

Fetch alarm.
Disable is done by Ctrl-Brk

[stray dragon]

a bigger thing i can think of though is weekly scheduled alarms, to go off on a certain day every week

[mighty bane]

So.. an option to set "create new repeating task" basically.. yeah I can see that.

(What I did was set up basic tasks in task scheduler for repeating and just call the .exe with -aturun argument, but this is low-tech approach)

[stray dragon]

at minimum all you'd need to add is a way to choose what day of the week you'd want to alarm to work on, so then if you want the alarm to go off on all weekdays and then skip the weekends, you'd just set the alarm 5 times, 1 for each weekday

[mighty bane]

Something like this. Then it'd make a repeating alarm for monday 15 00
Yeah could be done.. I think.

[stray dragon]

maybe if you want to avoid that, you could have it accept a string of letters representing the days of the week you want it to run on, like "MWF" for monday + wednesday + friday

for thursday, uhhh

H

[mighty bane]

Or just make it accept a longer dateTime (so it goes: 24 dec 15 00 R) with R being "repeat" and else it sets to 24th of Dec (this way I also work around the annoying dd/mm vs mm/dd stuff( could def work.

[stray dragon]

works

[mighty bane]

LETSGOOOOOOO

[sage crag]

i just ate a whole cinnamon bun raw

if i die, it was the eggs

[mighty bane]

Wait, RAW... why would you..-

[stray dragon]

was it good

[sage crag]

not really

[mighty bane]

Did you at least dip the eggs in boiling water before rinsing the shell under cold water and THEN crack it open?

[stray dragon]

lame

[sage crag]

im not an idiot

[sage crag]

it was okay because raw pastry, but i made them a bit salty because it tastes better when cooked

so it was a bit salty

[mighty bane]

What is intellisense trying to tell me?

[stray dragon]

how to fetch alarm like this btw

[mighty bane]

Oh you want to query it "what is the alarm set to"?

I'll look into getting that also done.

[sage crag]

dipping the eggs in boiling water can only sterilise the shell by the way

if it were at the right temperature to sterilise the egg itself, it would also cook the egg

[olive sable]

[sage crag]

to pasteurise an egg, its heated very low and for a long time

[mighty bane]

Indeed. But the chicken the egg came from hopefully aren't infected, no? (The shell may come into contact with nature and from there have salmonella 'attached' to it, but the egg itself should be free)

[mighty bane]

Who is this? :0

[stray dragon]

i want it to know "are there any existing alarms" and have an option to remove those existing alarms from within the script, without going into task scheduler

[sage crag]

[stray dragon]

not super necessary though

[mighty bane]

Aight, gotcha.

[sage crag]

[olive sable]

the emote?

my buddy ol pal shadowlilac

[sage crag]

[olive sable]

back on topic tho

i love raw dough

idk why

[sage crag]

[olive sable]

raw dough, just tastes good

[stray dragon]

hmmm what mp3 files to put in the alarm sounds

perfect

[sage crag]

it tastes worse than cooked dough though

[stray dragon]

MY EARs

[sage crag]

[olive sable]

Idk

Depends on whats being made

For like bread, i like the dough better sometimes

[mighty bane]

 await InitializeAvailableSongs();
          
 try
 {
     if (immediateRun) goto ResetToHere;
     Console.Clear();
     fetchedWakeupMsg = FetchTaskSchedulerMessage();
     if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(fetchedWakeupMsg))
     {
         Console.WriteLine(fetchedWakeupMsg);
         if (AskYesNo($"{fetchedWakeupMsg}\n\rDelete this?"))
         {
             Console.Write("Hit Ctrl-Brk");
             Console.ReadLine();
             Task.Delay(500);
             Environment.Exit(0);
         }
         Console.Clear();
     }

This should check if there's already an alarm waiting, and if so ask you if you want to kill it.

[stray dragon]

it won't stop repeating the car horn earrape and it keeps setting the volume back so i've unplugged the headphones for now.

[mighty bane]

... BUT then it also cancels the app and needs a re-run.. UGH why are the simplest things so difficult to implement lmao

[mighty bane]

Ctrl-Brk to cancel the alarm.

[stray dragon]

what the hell is Ctrl-Brk

[mighty bane]

I just now notice the "any key" - that's an old message from earlier build thank you

Ctrl and "Pause break"

Ohno.

[stray dragon]

pause break isn't a key?

[mighty bane]

It's right of the Scroll Lock key

[stray dragon]

oh the pause key

i see

[mighty bane]

Yes 😄

[jagged turtle]

[stray dragon]

i'm free from car-horn.mp3

[sage crag]

youre a villain

[olive sable]

Some types of bread are just better than others

And dough is above the worts bread

[mighty bane]

Also: If you hit the mute button it will reset to .12f audio endpoint volume.

So say you stumble out of bed, all groggy and confused from waking up to loud noises - you slam your hand into keyboard on the mute-button: it's like a snooze.

[opaque sigil]

Dough over bread is crazy but you do you

[olive sable]

Idk what you're even expecting from sam van triangle

[stray dragon]

mute button on my keyboard is not a button but a hotkey, but alright

good to know

[olive sable]

Its not only the taste btw, thats aight. It also the texture

I like the chewiness

[sage crag]

you'll get a stomachache

[olive sable]

Im well aware, there's a reason i dont eat dough anymore

[mighty bane]

Should work. The repeating cycle does an occasional check to see "are we muted?" and if so it unmutes and 'resets' to a safer volume.

In the eventhandler you can swap this line if (e.SpecialKey == ConsoleSpecialKey.ControlC)
With
else if (e.SpecialKey == ConsoleSpecialKey.ControlBreak) if you prefer terminating the program with Ctrl-C instead of Ctrl-Pause/Brk

Now I need to make constants for showing that proper... ugh whyyy

[rare bramble]

raw flour is usually a much bigger salmonella risk than eggs

[stray dragon]

i think the sounds it can play should be stored within the project directory in a folder, so i did that (there's definitely a way to have the line in the code not have the directory's path hard-coded but i'm too lazy to find that way)

[sage crag]

not in the UK

if you buy baking flour

[stray dragon]

also @mighty bane quick and dirty little .bat script that you can shortcut and put on the desktop:

@echo off
if not "%1"=="am_admin" (
    powershell -Command "Start-Process -Verb RunAs -FilePath '%0' -ArgumentList 'am_admin'"
    exit /b
)

echo on
REM change the following path to the correct project directory path
cd C:\Users\t\alarm
.\bin\Release\net9.0\alarm.exe
pause

(updated to not use dotnet run)

[rigid snow]

what why like that

just build

[stray dragon]

build take time, no?

[rigid snow]

i mean yeah but if you're gonna use the app which i assume someone would based on the existence of the script

just build and run the exe

[stray dragon]

there's no exe that i can see in there

ah wait

[mighty bane]

Exe is in bin => debug

[stray dragon]

i see it.

[rigid snow]

dotnet build -c Release

to make exe

[stray dragon]

i don't work with csharp i'm sorry 🥺

[mighty bane]

It's oka. All of this is "logical" to me but not regular users so you're being a great help right now :3

DId you make it work?

[stray dragon]

it works, yeah

[mighty bane]

YAYYYYY

[sage crag]

@tender river

fresh out of oven

[mighty bane]

 while (outputDevice?.PlaybackState == PlaybackState.Playing || (sw.Elapsed.TotalSeconds < songDuration.TotalSeconds))
 {
     if (device.AudioEndpointVolume.Mute)
     {
         device.AudioEndpointVolume.MasterVolumeLevelScalar = 0.1f;
         device.AudioEndpointVolume.Mute = false;
     }

     device.AudioEndpointVolume.MasterVolumeLevelScalar =
         Math.Min(device.AudioEndpointVolume.MasterVolumeLevelScalar + .02f, 1f);

     await Task.Delay(500);
     if (sw.Elapsed.TotalSeconds > (.95f * songDuration.TotalSeconds)) break;
 }

The Task.Delay(500); is just how long between the volume incrementing. I hardcoded it to that because I liked it that way, but you can ofc tweak this as much as you want.

[sage crag]

i like to undercook them a little because it leaves them gooey in the centre

it was 13m at 180c but its easy to tell when theyre done anyway

[rigid snow]

need bribe to make baking and music prod channel

or cooking maybe more specifically

[sage crag]

we already hav baking channel

[rigid snow]

yuh uh

[sage crag]

cooking actually less specific

[rigid snow]

konerd

[sage crag]

baking refer to pastries, confectionaries, like cakes, breads

cooking just mean

cooking

[rigid snow]

i meant like "specifically a less specific name and topic"

[sage crag]

[rigid snow]

specifically unfortunate word

got nerded on about trivial thing

[stray dragon]

ahh so that's why it was constantly putting the volume back up with the stupid car horn mp3

[sage crag]

[stray dragon]

very much not intended to be used with short mp3 files

[rigid snow]

konii subbed

[mighty bane]

Indeed not.

[sage crag]

[rigid snow]

you have subscription

[sage crag]

110k gifted subs in one stream, 23k viewers

[rigid snow]

you did not subscribe

[sage crag]

do the maths

[mighty bane]

So, I tend to roll out of bed when it's nearing 70% and sometimes even later.. I wish I could tell how many decibels that is at, but I've no clue how to test that.
However: this is my usecase.. you're making a good point here (I should make it so the user can configure a "max volume" instead of 100%)

[rigid snow]

you're actually ragebaiting me

[sage crag]

[rigid snow]

congrats?

[sage crag]

it took 5 minutes after i opened stream

i didnt even know about hype train

[stray dragon]

maybe have a config.yml file for that or something

oh, or that

[mighty bane]

Yeah I'm working on implementing as we speak lol

device.AudioEndpointVolume.MasterVolumeLevelScalar =
                        Math.Min(device.AudioEndpointVolume.MasterVolumeLevelScalar + .02f, MaxVolume);

This and then MaxVolume is a field float that is adjusted by the config.MaxVolume (a float property in the config)
I THINK MaxVolume=.7f in that .json should actually make that doabl,e but I've never worked with .json files before so it's just there because Claude suggested it (and I like the idea of user config)

[stray dragon]

user config is nice alternative for "look around the code and maybe change these parts if you want"

[mighty bane]

My thought exactly.
This is the updated source for it. When you put it in your IDE ctrl-F for "check this" for spots you need to change it (I've not learned how to use .json over the past ten minutes)
But it should now: allow for "what's alarm set so far and do you wanna kill that?" and also the MaxVolume property can be adjusted to not destroy your ears.

[jagged turtle]

[mighty bane]

I am doing something completely wrong with the .json approach.
So now I ragequit (for a little bit)

[warm river]

same, but i use nixos for server purposes inside proxmox vm

[mighty bane]

Now I must go, my people needs me (so they claim)
Have wonderful christmas eve everyone

[vestal matrix]

Merry Christmas, coke

[quick condor]

Reminds me that I've set up a bunch of routers at work to play megalovania on boot. It triggers a Lua script that uses system beep

[quick condor]

We just moved to scheduling smart lights to change color temp in our noc because each shift team prefers a different color temp (that lines up with what you'd probably expect

[stray dragon]

i have the color temps shift by time of day as well because i hear that "warm" colors help to make you sleepy and "cold" colors help to keep you up

i have it at blue during "sunrise" (even though unrealistic), white-blue during day, then yellow during "sunset" and throughout the night if i keep it in "awake" mode (i would at least like SOME light in the room if i'm staying up, so i have separate brightness/temperature schedules for "awake" and "asleep", and i toggle between them)

haven't got around to implementing the toggle with a physical lightswitch yet but that's planned

[quick condor]

It does but also we found that the night shift prefers warmer temps as cooler ones give them eye strain.

I think it's something like 5000k morning, 6000k afternoon and 3000k night

[stray dragon]

fair enough

for eye strain, i also find that keeping the humidity rather high (50-60%) helps a lot

[quick condor]

Yah can only do so much in a DC about that

Example of a cursed router I configured

[ivory plinth]

sands upperstory

[olive sable]

[olive sable]

[olive sable]

Anyways my ssds arrived

[silent cloak]

Better than a house

[quick condor]

I have a sn750 WD has some solid drives.

[quick condor]

Legit pretty close to a down payment for a house

[silent cloak]

I got a whole bag full of ram

I can flex it like cash now

Or tape it to my wrist like a rolex

[quick condor]

I have several bags of ram chips and about 2kg sitting in acid

[rough bloom]

make sure to check the firmware version on the 990 Pro
it should have a new enough firmware from the factory, but there was a critical update that fixed rapid degradation of drive health, so better make sure

[olive sable]

How do you check that?

[silent cloak]

My server is fucked rn

I need to debug it

[rough bloom]

crystaldiskinfo should show the firmware version I think

[olive sable]

Crystaldiskinfo is on the windows ssd

Which i willbe removing now

[rough bloom]

then hdparm mabe

or just update it

[olive sable]

Ill just move windows to the 2nd slot for now i guess

Im suprised at the lack of chips on these. Ram sticks are filled with chips on both sides, and these just have a full 2 terabytes in 1 chip

The wdblack at least, the samsung seems to have 2 x 1TB and a dram chip

[opaque sigil]

the nand chips are orders of magnitude more packed than the small dram chips

[quick condor]

It's nvram vs vram (not video ram)

And to put it in perspective ddr4 2666 is about 4 times faster than the top of the line ssds in sustained reads. That isn't even random io

[midnight sigil]

[midnight sigil]

ignore the ram, but continuous cost when this thing runs

[olive sable]

[quick condor]

It actually idles pretty efficiently. Newer Dells are good about that

[midnight sigil]

[tight tinsel]

had to deal with arduino at work and the code would simply not upload until i moved the board to the other side of the table

[olive sable]

I dont think thats dell solving that

[midnight sigil]

what cpu are those

[quick condor]

It is to an extent. Fan profiles and bmc power state management adds up

I really need to actually get the idrac rest api configured properly at some point

[quick condor]

Xeon gold 6240s

[midnight sigil]

woo

classic

I'm guessing each of those ram sticks are 32gb ECC right?

or smth

[quick condor]

Exactly

[midnight sigil]

768gb of ram

rich

[quick condor]

Have 2 servers like this and one with xeon silvers and 368gb of ram.

Low key I'm struggling not to just revert to 368Gb on these two, sell the ram and buy a rtx pro 6000

[olive sable]

Damn, my new sata cables are assmann

[midnight sigil]

are you working for perhaps 3D industry

or AI, ofc

[quick condor]

Work is in DC ops but I have been working on a side project in ai

[midnight sigil]

operator

[olive sable]

Smoothe operator

[midnight sigil]

unc 🥀

[quick condor]

NGL the deeper I get into this rabbit hole, the more I understand how much of a struggle it is for Vedal to get a non context dependant memory system... The best way I've found is to use a tiered resource approach where transcripts of conversations are saved via a basic embedding model to a vector DB, these are the replaced with a more robust memory embedding system using a 8b model nightly then the memories are cleaned up by a 24b model weekly

[sage crag]

[true hemlock]

god fucking damn my pc is now worth $6000

from supposedly being worth $1700

[quick condor]

Prices are legit painful

That's what it currently would cause with my DB server's config. That's so stupid

[true hemlock]

the server that i built for 30K ish is now worth above 110K

more actually

hbm demand is also going crazy

[olive sable]

Already an unc at 18

[quick condor]

Hell apparently even the "downgrade" kits I have are going for $1700

[nocturne olive]

RAM is stupid expensive right now

[true hemlock]

when your ram is like 70% your whole pc budget

[quick condor]

The drives I'm running

[quick condor]

Well I'm now leaning towards Llama over mistral based on the method of refusal.

[subtle leaf]

You can buy a house with that amount of RAM

[quick condor]

good fixed cpu issue

[stray sandal]

i have been told there are people in here that know how to do vocaloid production. I was wondering if anyone would be available to help me with a track and finish within 14 hours?

[amber fractal]

@nocturne olive

[nocturne olive]

Wa

[nocturne olive]

Vocaloid or just vocal synth in general?

[stray sandal]

vocal synth in general

i dunno the difference tho tbh

[nocturne olive]

Vocaloid = the program and series of vocal synthesizers that contains stuff like Miku
Vocal synth in general: contains all vocal synthesizers such as Vocaloid, SynthV, UTAU...

[stray sandal]

oh okay then yeah vocal synth in general

[nocturne olive]

Yeah I do vocal synth

[stray sandal]

okay would you be able to help me on a track and finish within 14 hours 🙃

[nocturne olive]

I do quite a lot of vocal synth

[olive sable]

Larian games belgium has bought a new building and is moving in to it in march

[nocturne olive]

It depends what exactly it is and what you want from it

[stray sandal]

so its like

basically a gift request for someone

and they're not asking for vocal synth but I just thought it would fit the story of the track

so there'd be like spoken sections and then sung sections

is my idea

[nocturne olive]

Have you chosen a synthesizer?

[stray sandal]

no i don't know anything about vocal synth

[nocturne olive]

Well do you plan to use a free vocal synthesizer?

[stray sandal]

probably

i dunno i only have like

6 hours to work on it

[nocturne olive]

Here's some options:
Kasane Teto (UTAU): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfi-ThCLBEM
Adachi Rei (UTAU): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u33469XYVWc

[amber fractal]

Teto

[stray sandal]

mmm

i think i'm in over my head 🙃

i guess i wanted something that sounded a bit robotic

[olive sable]

[sage crag]

https://tenor.com/view/my-jolly-reaction-jolly-my-honest-reaction-gif-5490890317762380451

[nocturne olive]

Kasane Teto is a very well known vocal synthesizer, sounds semi-smooth with her UTAU, though less so on English
Adachi Rei is a lesser known one made up of entirely computer-generated sine waves, sounds highly artificial

[stray sandal]

okay

then probably rei fits better

[nocturne olive]

Look at Dance Delightful, that's Adachi Rei

[stray sandal]

yeah i listened!

[nocturne olive]

That's what you're going for?

[olive sable]

Dance dance revolution

[stray sandal]

its hard to tell because i think stylistically it is not at all what i'm going for but i think that the vocal synth should be able to adapt to different styles

[nocturne olive]

Yeah like it's mainly about tuning

Adachi Rei (UTAU)

[stray sandal]

oh damn i actually dont even know if it'll work in logic

i assume it might?

[nocturne olive]

It's made to be used with a program called OpenUTAU

[stray sandal]

ohh okay

[nocturne olive]

Vocal synthesis isn't a thing you do in a regular DAW, but you can import MIDI data from a DAW into a vocal synth program

Then you add lyrics and pitch curve, and you render that out

[stray sandal]

i seeee

okay so i'll need to like

finalize the structure of the track

and determine where i'm using the vocal synth

then make that and i can bounce the audio right?

so i can mix it in logic

[nocturne olive]

Yeah kinda like that

[stray sandal]

bet

thank you for guiding me!

[nocturne olive]

The hardest part is just getting a good pitch curve, that's what makes any specific person's vocal synthesis unique

[stray sandal]

i see

[nocturne olive]

There's so many ways to pitch tune

[stray sandal]

i think i'm probably fine with it sounding a bit robotic

i at least wanna play around with it

[nocturne olive]

As a beginner you're perfectly fine to use a pretty flat pitch curve

[stray sandal]

god i desparately need to move so much stuff on my laptop to my new one

i have 8GB left 💀

[nocturne olive]

Well lucky for you UTAU is a pretty light synthesis engine

[stray sandal]

bruhhh it keeps saying the file is damaged and i can't open the app

[nocturne olive]

Which?

[rancid cedar]

I thought I was on the wrong channel

[stray sandal]

thats cool 🙃

[hard delta]

hey prog chat

[velvet crest]

You have unlocked new role

[nocturne olive]

You're dumb that's a note for users on MacOS

[stray sandal]

im on macos

[hard delta]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1072697081443131476/1453390292400214047/20251222_092637.gif

i came here to unlock my new role with hacks

now i'll take my leave, bye

[nocturne olive]

Ohhhh then just run the command

[hard delta]

[stray sandal]

oh

[nocturne olive]

MacOS is stupid

Windows is also stupid

[stray sandal]

wtf it worked

thats weird

[nocturne olive]

Yeah MacOS is weird

Anyway have fun messing around

[stray sandal]

i'll be stressed out messing around but thanksss

[rancid cedar]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1445728003979214939/1453451325672128512/20251225_021523.png

F

I can't post pictures here

[warped narwhal]

https://tenor.com/view/neurosama-neuro-sama-vedal-vedal987-vtuber-gif-15278412527939419909

[sage crag]

https://tenor.com/view/neurosama-gif-15292687851529300845

[rigid snow]

hello i woke up

i wanted to sleep for a couple hours but ended up sleeping for like 6 or 7

[maiden geyser]

TWO sprouts on my #programming ???

[olive sable]

[amber fractal]

Haven't started greed leaf bullying

[rancid cedar]

Hi

[warped narwhal]

the users are invading

[rancid cedar]

[maiden geyser]

shiro turn around please

[rigid snow]

[rancid cedar]

[olive sable]

[rigid snow]

interesting take on electron

[nocturne olive]

Electron and its memory leaks are truly annoying

[silent cloak]

No one makes real desktop apps anymore smh

[sage crag]

you dont have to use electron apps you know

just quit

[rigid snow]

so true

[olive sable]

you dont have to use electronics you know, just go outside

[sage crag]

MiyagiCroco

true

[rigid snow]

they perform way better than using the web apps in firefox so i'm not complaining

we could have been off so much worse

[sage crag]

says guy who cant run twitch during subathon without computer dying

[rigid snow]

it died and i opened a chromium browser and it worked perfectly

firefox explod

[olive sable]

I have received "lobster guacamole"
I feel poor

[sage crag]

firefox explod!

True!

librewolf

[olive sable]

[rigid snow]

that me

man helium such a good browser

but i need zen ux

[olive sable]

[silent cloak]

Waterfox

[olive sable]

🔥 🦊

[stray dragon]

added working user configs to it and made an installer because i was bored (definitely not ip grabber)

[warped narwhal]

Need some advice from the network admins that may or may not be here. I have my PC that can run web services but it isn't up all the time and I don't have a static IP.

I also have an AWS EC2 instance that does have a static IP but is too weak to run web services.

I know that it is possible cause it's how normal datacenters work, but how can I have my pc connect to the aws instance to get network requests to handle them with the more powerful computer? and if possible, can I setup my raspberry pi as a fallback for when my pc is down

[quick condor]

Use a ddns service if you are opening a VPN tunnel from the aws instance to the pc or just do pc to aws

[rigid snow]

th easiest is probably ssh port forward to server, which has a reverse proxy? and set that reverse proxy up to fall back to the rpi

wait no that wouldn't be good for perf

because tcp in tcp

but you always can do vpn instead ye

[sage crag]

https://tenor.com/view/my-jolly-reaction-jolly-my-honest-reaction-gif-5490890317762380451

[warped narwhal]

could I setup a VPN on the AWS instance that my pc and rpi can connect to, and then have a routing program run on the instance to do the services

[rigid snow]

yeah just have the pc and rpi have static ips in the vpn

[sage crag]

cheesi

[rough bloom]

✅ put reverse proxy on the server with the static IP
have VPN to PC at home

[rough bloom]

konii

[rigid snow]

we seem to be conflicted on the vpn direction

[sage crag]

vedalJuh

[warped narwhal]

the home network has no port forwarding so I would like something that goes outbound (I don't have access to the routers settings cause uni wifi)

[rigid snow]

ye ye vpn server on the ec2

[sage crag]

https://tenor.com/view/gucky-duck-stretching-back-duck-stretching-back-gif-21743571

[rough bloom]

if you explicitly use WireGuard then yeah, you want to have the listening endpoint on EC2

if you use Tailscale then you don't have to care

[sage crag]

ElvynNya

AtorinKokohoo

[olive sable]

[quick condor]

Yah aws VPN with home device connecting is easiest

[silent cloak]

DDNS too

[quick condor]

Ddns if you want to lock down the IP range of logins but not 100% needed

[silent cloak]

speaking of network steam is still down

[quick condor]

I can only suggest so much software wise though since Im an animal that runs a Sonicwall NSA6600 as my home firewall

[silent cloak]

i just use pfSense

[warped narwhal]

if I am using tailscale as the vpn, would nginx be able to handle routing services? I plan to have a website, a discord bot (this would need to only run on one device at a time) and a database

[quick condor]

I'm lazy and the sslvpn implementation works for me

[silent cloak]

those usually arent great

[olive sable]

[rigid snow]

does the discord bot have a web frontend

[quick condor]

No need for it

[warped narwhal]

kind of. It is a private utility for a community I help with, so the web frontend would only be accessible by me and a small selection of others.

[rough bloom]

nginx can do that, it's just normal load balancing

[rigid snow]

i'm just not sure how the discord bot thing is supposed to work

[quick condor]

Discord bot just needs an api key

[rigid snow]

ye i'm aware i'm talking about

(this would need to only run on one device at a time)

[rough bloom]

can't a Discord bot run anywhere?
it doesn't have any incoming connections (other than a potential web frontend, but that's the same as for any web app)

[silent cloak]

it can

[warped narwhal]

it would probably be that when nginx detects that one node goes down, it sends an event to another node to start the bot up. and when the first node comes back up nginx sends an event to the second to kill its bot so the first can run

[silent cloak]

discord bots are like doom u can run them on anything with a connection

[rigid snow]

NO ONE IS SAYING YOU CAN't

[warped narwhal]

discord bots can run anywhere, but if you try to run a single bot on multiple devices at once you get duplicated outputs

[rigid snow]

you're trying to convince no one

[silent cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/christmas-cheer-goku-jolly-present-gif-10077742462783738616

[rigid snow]

thank you

[rough bloom]

mabe don't reimplement this, you probably want Pacemaker or similar

anyway you need some form of scheduler

[quick condor]

I mean the bot interface yes. It's just handling the api. The underlying app depends on what it does

[warped narwhal]

and I don't want to mess around with trying to mutex a bot over the internet

[rough bloom]

(or just always run on one specific host, way easier, probably fine for a Discord bot)

[silent cloak]

likely the front-end will have more setup than the actual bot itself

[rigid snow]

no?

[silent cloak]

yes

[warped narwhal]

the problem is that that host might go down, I want to run the bot on my PC when it is up, but at night when I turn it off my raspberry pi should take over. so if it only ever runs on one host it would have to be my rpi which isn't too powerful

[rough bloom]

just run it on the Pi if it can

[rigid snow]

it's all problems with solutions you find in 2s of googling

[quick condor]

Choose a host, that sounds unnecessary

[rigid snow]

if you don't know already

[silent cloak]

well duh

[rigid snow]

in this specific instance problem is already (being) solved for other web services so no

it will not take longer

[rigid snow]

where's the fun in that

[rough bloom]

if there's any particularly expensive operation then I think I'd another service on the PC just for that
then the bot can (either directly or through a reverse proxy) use that to speed things up
but chance are you don't have any expensive operation like that

[silent cloak]

muh cloud serverzzz

[quick condor]

https://www.twitch.tv/vedal987/clip/SmilingObliviousYakinikuArsonNoSexy-gYnqosSYmPgNJ-LY

This one gave me a chuckle because I'm pretty sure I would get the same problem even with an A4000 dedicated to faster-whisper with ram buffering

[silent cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/cloudflare-servers-fire-servers-on-fire-cloudflare-servers-on-fire-gif-14692297132939229081

[rough bloom]

if you still want to automatically move it around daily then you need to either:

• make your Discord bot stateless
• have shared storage

[maiden geyser]

om nom nom my favourite soyware

[quick condor]

Tbh since normally whisper is significantly faster than the primary model chances are that the thought of handling more than 5 opus streams at once wasn't considered.

Now that I think about it though, I already have the ability to buffer streaming so I could probably handle it more gracefully but at the end of the day it's really a non issue.

[olive sable]

External ssd works

Seeing a terabyte on a phone is crazy

satisfactory on phone

[silent cloak]

Steins;Gate

i didnt know u were cool like that

https://tenor.com/view/sleepy-mayuri-mayushii-steins-gate-gif-19615519

[faint sandal]

[olive sable]

https://tenor.com/view/steins-gate-mayuri-mayuri-shiina-mayushii-anime-burger-gif-7177124858534691268

[warped narwhal]

who here can spot the problem in this image?

[solid flint]

Smth tells me, aint there's security risk?

[warped narwhal]

surely not

[olive sable]

The car cant go if its locked

[sage crag]

https://tenor.com/view/bunny-rabbit-pats-pet-bunny-pats-gif-19861222

[olive sable]

[sage crag]

[rigid snow]

.env tracked

i think

i'm not sure what green means

[warped narwhal]

yup, that's it

[rigid snow]

I SAID AMD NOT NVIDIA WHAT THE FUCK

[amber fractal]

.env is tracked and had no updates from last commit

[silent cloak]

reduced to slop

[quick condor]

AKA the company was out of funding and if they failed It would pop nvidia's bubble

[rigid snow]

$20b val does not exactly sound like a desperate company

[amber fractal]

The nvidia bubble grows

[silent cloak]

delaying their downfall

[quick condor]

thats my thought

[silent cloak]

its dead end so it will happen

but it will cost us all sadly it seems

[rigid snow]

at least this in theory makes cheap inference more accessible

llm inference

[quick condor]

nvidia is valued at over 4t, 20b is less than they will lose if this bubble bursts

[silent cloak]

watch them dump their stocks when the time comes

[rigid snow]

WAIT this makes so much sense

they acquire groq and kill it

so people buy overpriced nvidia gpus

instead of their efficient llm asics

[amber fractal]

Yeahhhh that is happening

[silent cloak]

once AI dies they will just have a bunch of angry customers

[amber fractal]

they are already there, they will just no longer be able to ignore them

[silent cloak]

honestly i might go AMD for my next build

even though their cards are well... AMD

[amber fractal]

I got all of the prefomance I need for what I use, so I can keep stalling for awhile. The 3060 takes all of the VR games I want to play.

[silent cloak]

same mostly

steam frame might make that irrelevant depending on how it performs

[amber fractal]

for vram go brr for experimental AI, I already bought the p40 cards which are now out of support.

[silent cloak]

na go for neuromorphic hardware

if u want to work with real AI hardware

[amber fractal]

I already got them years ago when this first started

[silent cloak]

more relevant than ever

and NVIDIAs fear

[amber fractal]

The two things I'd be doing are either using existing stuff or making my own stuff away from any AI framework. So I'd probably just target vulkan and let it ride.

[silent cloak]

Vulkan my beloathed

[warped narwhal]

what are nvidias L40 cards for? I see a couple of people here mentioning them but I don't see how they fit in nvidias normal lineups

[silent cloak]

reminds me i need to get back to work on my engine now that i hjave christmas break

[silent cloak]

its just their latest slop for AI

[amber fractal]

The extent of Vulkan for me is not doing CUDA and locking myself into ngreedia

[silent cloak]

u dont have to though?

Vulkan was originally influenced by AMD's Mantle API