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Have you noticed any issues/differences compared to Vault? We ended up moving completely away from Vault because we didn't use most of its features and it wasn't worth the cost.

I was going to migrate my homelab from vault oss -> openbao, but I'm debating on whether that's even worth it or just going back to gpg encrypted files or something.

Codex Micro 7 days ago

The keyboard community maybe? I think these little macro pads are neat, but I don't have a real use for them either.

Very cool. I don't usually get excited for new chat apps, but I like the idea of having one frontend for multiple servers instead of pushing hard on p2p or federation.

I do also still like irc, but haven't used it much in recent years because most of the people I talk to are using discord now.

OCR is a decent use-case for smaller models. I've had good experience using gemma for OCR'ing handwritten stuff that tesseract doesn't do so well on.

But for 2, probably only useful if you have a huge batch workload you want to get done quicker and don't want the local hardware for it?

Would you see using a vpn as the better alternative to a bastion host?

I've worked at a couple places where prod is air-gapped except for the bastion host that allows access to prod. But the bastion itself is still behind a vpn. And of course each user still has separate user accounts on both the bastion box and prod boxes.

I can definitely see your point though that a bastion/jumpbox isn't enough by itself.

For some reason, I can only scroll down a little bit on medium articles and then firefox freezes that tab and won't let me scroll up or down. I assume it has something to do with adblock, but I've noticed it a lot recently.

what model(s) did you end up using with pi?

I want to move away from claude but don't have the hardware for "good" local llms, and would rather use a ZDR api instead of one of the big apis for privacy reasons.

have you tried using proton//steam on linux lately? I find almost every game I want to play actually works decently well now. The ones that don't are multiplayer/online ones that require some sort of anti-cheat.

Why not actually use smtp+imap/pop3 if that is the intention?

Also I'm going to complain a little bit about the name: SMTP is for sending (not reading) mail, so asmtp to me at first glance looked like 'async-smtp' which didn't really make sense. And 'agent-smtp' sounds like "let your agents send e-mail" vs an api spec.

I really liked Subnautica, but haven't been following the drama of subnautica 2 since the old creators were fired.

_Should_ I give my money to unknown worlds?

frontier models are still way better than local models from what I've seen. To get close to them with large context windows and decent performance, you need more than a reasonable machine imo.

I'm hoping local llms start rapidly improving even more though.

How are you expecting search to work without JS? I'm pretty sure you would need either some sort of backend OR JS for any sort of search to work.

Or maybe another option would be to outsource the search part to "site:yourdomain" on google or something similar.