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Cake day: September 19th, 2023

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  • Supply Management. Dairy is not a free market in Canada. It is a cartel in which each producer gets a quota. The US complains about it constantly because they massively over-produce dairy, which drops the price of US dairy products, which they then want to export to Canada. It would give us consumers lower prices, but would probably kill our dairy indistry. Or at least that’s what we are told. I don’t have enough knowledge to say whether that story is valid.



  • I also use Gluetun. I consider it more or less mandatory for container–based torrent client setups. The idea is that you run your torrent client in a docker container and you run your VPN in a Gluetun docker container. Instead of opening up your torrent client ports directly for internet access, you make it a “service” of the Gluetun container. When your VPN drops connection, the Gluetun container loses connection, which means that your torrent client is also blocked. So, this setup provides a “fool proof” kill switch that prevents your torrent client from accessing the internet except through your VPN. This is as opposed to the kill switch built in to your VPN client, which tends not to be fool proof, particularly when using containers. I found this out the hard way.



  • I’m a Linux newb and I managed to set this up a couple months ago. Despite being new to servers and containers, I did not find it too difficult.

    Here is the guide I used: https://zerodya.net/self-host-jellyfin-media-streaming-stack/

    The guide above doesnt include Audiobookshelf installation, but you will quickly see that adding Audiobookshelf to the basic setup is very easy. There are two things I’ve learned since the initial setup, which are worth a deviation from the guide above.

    First, the recommendation in the guide to use a separate userid and groupid (1001) for the docker containers vs. your own userid/groupid (1000) is a royal PITA and not necessary for most basic use cases.

    Second, and much more important, you MUST set up your VPN in a Gluetun container and then make your torrent client container a “service” of the Gluetun container. Yes, I know, that sounds like some advanced-level abstraction, but it is actually extremely easy to do and it will save you from getting a nastygram from your ISP when your VPN loses connection. The MPIAA is extremely active with automated detection and processing of torrenting data, but if you set up your VPN with Gluetun, you have a perfectly effective kill switch when your VPN connection drops. And, no, the built-in killswitch on your VPN client won’t work with containers.

    Here is the guide I used to make that modification to the initial setup: https://www.smarthomebeginner.com/gluetun-docker-guide/

    Good luck! It was fun to set up, and even more fun to use.










  • Each new generation starts off so naive and idealistic. It really is nice.

    However…

    Number of times I’ve heard “two-state solution for Palestine” mentioned in my lifetime: at least 1 million

    Odds that the two-state solution will happen this time: asymptotically small

    Every generation’s idealism is broken on the anvil of the Land of Abraham. That is where we are most powerfully reminded that all the religions of Abraham are atrocious. Jews and Muslims kill each other over tiny scraps of land while Arab billionaires and hardcore Christians in the West fund them for their own ends. It is all a tragic farce that, in the end, is all based on a bunch of Bronze Age bullshit about the “Holy City” of Jersalem.