Holy shit, this has every cert I’ve ever generated or renewed since 2015.

Share your memories, receive a studio-quality custom song with vocals in minutes.

This is the high level pitch and is exactly why this product misses the point.

Creating a song or art or playlist for someone requires time. It’s the personal effort that makes it valuable. Spending a minute filling out a form before an algorithm generates a song is neither thoughtful, personal, nor meaningful.

A hand written card is better than a typed letter is better than an email is better than an emoji. GiftSong is the emoji.

If someone sent me this I would be insulted and wouldn’t even listen to the end once. I would never spent my money or time trying to be a user of something like this.

Well that was fun! I’m confident this project isn’t malicious. It’s for sure coded using AI, and I think that’s what triggered a smear campaign. This removed Reddit post looks like there is just a downvote brigade out to get the project because the author admitted to using AI.

The only network traffic it’s made when I monitored it was local. Certainly nothing went to Asia.

I think it tries to solve a neat problem. There’s so many features packed in that it’s obviously vibe coded. That’s probably a huge turn off for AI detractors. If you don’t care about that, I think you’re safe to give it a try.

Ok, so I ran the repo through an LLM to look for any suspicious requests, and it came back clean.

But it’s hella suspicious that the repo owner edited away the issue and closed it without a response.

It’s also hella suspicious that the user that reported that issue created their account yesterday.

I think I need to go the nuclear option: pop a gummy and monitor the network traffic of the container and see what it’s doing.

Ohh that’s suspicious. I’m going to kill mine for now and take a look later tonight. I’ll report back if I find anything interesting!

I think the author literally released it like 2 days ago which is why there’s no issues or prs yet.

I installed it yesterday and have only fiddled around a little bit. I like that it pointed out a bunch of health issues with my Lidarr library and have been stuck on a side quest dealing with those.

If you want to explore it and see if anything seems malicious to you, I’d focus on code making requests, and review the sub-dependencies to see if any look sus. It should live entirely in your network and shouldn’t be making any external requests outside your server apart from the connections you set up (like last.fm).

Could you have a setting turned on that auto jumps to your last saved page as stored by some server?

On mine, when wifi is on and I wake up the Kobo, it’ll show a dialog asking if I want to jump to my last reading spot (even though it’s the same page I was on when I turned it off). If I say yes, it inevitably jumps back several pages.

My guess is that it has some interval for syncing reading progress that’s not fast enough and when it tries to sync when the Kobo wakes back up, the current page number is too old.

I’ve been getting by by just disabling wifi unless I need to sync new books. What you’re describing sounds a lot like what I see if I click Yes on the dialog. Makes me wonder if yours is configured to automatically do whatever my dialog asks me to do…

Check out calibre-web-automated. It’s a fork of calibre-web that has some stronger auto tagging and Kobo support.

I just switched over to Booklore and think it’s a bit better.

One thing I didn’t like about the calibre-web-X apps is they don’t seem to update any book metadata on the kobo if you’ve already synced the book. So if you go and fix a typo in a title or cover art or whatever, you can’t get that update to sync to the kobo without going pretty nuclear.

Kobo Libra 2 is the shit.

Slighter larger screen than the flagship Kindle. Does NOT have the power button in an annoying place on the edge where you can accidentally turn it off while reading.

It had a comparable store ecosystem to Amazon, but also makes it easy to side load books or even replace it with your self hosted book library.

There’s alternate firmwares (kind of - more like plugins) if you want custom readers with more capabilities than stock.

Physical buttons for turning pages (but you can still use the touch screen if you want).

I stopped winging it after all too often ending up with both a fridge full of rotting produce and yet also nothing to eat. Turns out grocery shopping needs some strategy that I can’t do without help.

AnyList has been an awesome tool for me. It’s got all my recipes, a meal plan building to sketch out the next week, and builds a shopping list so I can only buy the things I will for sure cook with.

It’s also made me realize I’m not about to buy fresh herbs or green onions when they’re only going to be used as a bit of garnish for one dish.

This is the golden answer.

Anything that strays from the defaults (especially in windows) risks getting reset during a major automatic update, and now you’re getting support calls because “the internet doesn’t work right anymore”.

I JUST TOOK IT OFF FOR A SECOND

I think the general question you always need to ask when buying something “nonessential” is: will I use this enough to justify the cost?”

Whether that’s a MacBook or a car or a gaming console or even a $0.99 app.

Just be honest with yourself. I once bought a MacBook Pro because I decided I was going to develop iPhone apps. I never learned Objective C. I barely used the laptop at all. It was a waste of money, plus stressing over the guilt of never using it.

Flip side: you only live once. Don’t trap yourself in a mindset that you always need to save every penny and never enjoy yourself with small things.

Everyone exists somewhere in the spectrum between saving and spending. Figure out where you live on that spectrum and make your purchasing decisions accordingly.

What exactly is the point of this comment?

Marinate in it.

It sucks and it’s good for you.

Huggies diapers fucking say “up to 100% leakproof” on the box.

I just want to see a picture of the face of the person that thought that was reasonable.

I think the more interesting version of this question is “how long can really good sex keep you from noticing all the bullshit?”.

Everyone has blinders on at the start of a relationship, but once you reach a point where the amazing sex is “your regular sex”, when do you start to have uncomfortable conversations about your future?

If the bubble doesn’t burst in 10 years, it might be that it’s not a bubble.

I’ve been hearing about the housing bubble for my entire life. It hasn’t burst. I think maybe we’re using the wrong word there.

AI is weird one because there’s such a mind boggling amount of investment in something that hasn’t brought any financial returns yet. Either the Visionaries see something we don’t, or it’s going to collapse or contract after one or two more earnings calls.

I’m just using Unraid for the server, after many iterations (PhotonOS, VMware, baremetal Windows Server, …). After many OSes, partial and complete hardware replacements, and general problems, I gave up trying to manage the base server too much. Backups are generally good enough if hardware fails or I break something.

The other side of this is that I’ve moved to having very, very little config on the server itself. Virtually everything of value is in a docker container with a single (admittedly way too large) docker compose file that describes all the services.

I think this is the ideal way for how I use a home server. Your mileage might vary, but I’ve learned the hard way that it’s really hard to maintain a server over the very long term and not also marry yourself to the specific hardware and OS configuration.

Do you automate that or just check the list manually every once in a while?