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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • The first thing that came to mind when I saw the question is perhaps a bit of a weird answer–but I really want to learn SELinux. It’s completely overkill for my Linux desktop and the few services I run on my network. The same with OpenLDAP, I want to play around with it even though I have no real need for it with my setup, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

    On that note, I also feel like I want to learn Ansible, or some other configuration management tool. The thing is, I haven’t even played around with it (or any others) enough to really even get what the intended use case is. I’m looking for ways to manage policies and configurations across multiple machines in a common way, but it feels like the more common use case is deploying webapps. So while it’s on my list of things I want to learn I don’t even have sufficient background at the moment.

    Then, finally, the other thing that came to mind was timeshift–or really BTRFS snapshots in general. It would be nice to have that additional feeling of safety while playing around with my systems.




  • I have a Priority Apollo. The maintenance is way less than any of my chain-drive bikes, which I really appreciate. I tend to bike in the winter and in the rain (although not so much this last year), and it has been so much better for that (internal hub as well: no salt/sand in the gears, no risk of rust, etc). The internal hub on it is different shifting than a normal derailleur, but you get used to it. It’s definitely heavier than my roughly equivalent spec chain-drive bike, and it feels a lot slower. It is silent (like you don’t think of chains as loud, but by comparison you really notice the lack of sound). The major downside is it just doesn’t “feel” as responsive as a chain. I don’t quite know how to describe it, it’s not like there is a bunch of stretch in the belt or anything, but it just feels different in a way I don’t entirely love. That could partly be a factor of the internal hub though, and I’ll be honest, if I could do it again I would have gotten a belt single speed rather than internal hub, but I would get a belt again – even if only for avoiding the salt damage in the winter.



  • I appreciate the author took the time to do this, but I’m a little skeptical of their results. I pay for Kagi, so decided to directly paste their queries into it just to see – while none of the ‘bad’ results would have completely flipped based on the author’s ranking system, the “very bad” would have been just “bad” or possibly “ok”. Adblock showed my uBlock as result number 5; youtube-dl was result number 10, and so on. Mind you, I am running it with uBlock origin and although I haven’t done any custom rankings it is quite possible that some of the other settings (geographic point of origin, for example) would have affected the results. I’m curious to try it with some of the other engines now (as well as a completely blank slate for Kagi) and see – because at least in that instance, I’m not entirely sure these are replicatable results.

    Also: a bone to pick with the tire query – the answers the author were scoring higher didn’t answer the question “why do wider tires have better grip” (which is what the author searched), but instead queries which answered “what are the advantages of wider tires”. Not sure it would actually change the proportionate results, but assuming their bullet list is all they were looking for in the answer, it’s hard to criticize any results for not answering the slightly different question than what they posed.