Even as a tool it lacks predictability / reproducability. If I give instructions to download a paint program, start a new canvas of 1920x1080 and use the gradient tool to go from red to green, you’re going to get the same result every time. If I instead told a class of students to ask an AI to generate a red to green gradient on a 1920x1080 canvas, the results would not be consistent.

I use AI, but it is a tool with flaws.

Taxes and maintenance wouldn’t be included in the mortgage. A new roof is expensive, so are HVACs, floors, etc. These things will need to be replaced. A rule of thumb is to budget 1% to 4% of the total house value per year. For a 400k house that could be up to $16k extra per year, or $1333 more per month than your mortgage. Those costs for maintenance and taxes don’t go towards paying down your principal so they aren’t directly gaining equity. With the rent and invest option, the investing is the counter to equity. When you sell your house you usually pay a realtor commission. There are a lot of factors to include when seeing if rent & invest is better than mortgage & buy.

That being said, I prefer to buy. I don’t plan on moving anytime soon.

Security Now https://twit.tv/shows/security-now

Every week there will be news topics, sometimes there are deep dives into technical topics.

What the funge?

Is this you? https://youtu.be/DhC1o_yc5GA

j/k, but eerily similar situation. Make sure your sister doesn’t feel trapped if she needs to get out someday.

Yeah, why would a house built before 1930 - 1977 need any updates during that period, seems sus?

“Good for you” in a cheery voice

https://xkcd.com/2827/

soon

“I refuse to say anything without another lawyer present.”

They didn’t say how fast it stopped rotating and whether the moon flew out of orbit awhile back.

Bog if true!

I’m considering Zulip

https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/install.html

Do note, because it’s using email, the recipient and sender are not private, along with the time, and probably the relative size of the messages.

The specific content of each message should be private as long as the encryption is done well. I haven’t looked at it so I don’t know if it implemnts safeguards to verify who you’re messaging with (besides using the email address) and I don’t know if it uses PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) to protect against a key getting compromised.

https://github.com/rsmsctr/vaultwardenGuide

It doesn’t cover backups though. It uses Caddy instead of NGINX, and it uses DuckDNS to point a subdomain to your private IP address of your Vaultwarden server, so it will only be accessible in your LAN.

I’ve been researching zero-trust for my homelab recently and I’m considering OpenZiti instead of Cloudflare since I think it can all be self-hosted. The BrowZer from OpenZiti is especially interesting to me. The fact that I’m behind CGNAT is a hurdle though.

I would somewhat agree, except for things like tension or mysteries in movies which spoilers can ruin sometimes. It can remove unique experiences where you wouldn’t know a characters motivations, or not know if a character will survive. They can also ruin some comedy setups where surprise is part of the humor.

Yeah, it seems Buddists are more focused on mindfulness and being fully in the moment, which is kind of the opposite of escapism. Also understanding duhkha, sometimes translated as unease due to “not having what one wants” or “having what one doesn’t want” and accepting it and living with it rather than striving to eliminate duhkha.

…and of course Buddhists have been known to kill other Buddhists for being the wrong kind of Buddhists, so ymmv

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence

Do note, though, that the parent company that owns Reddit also owns Ars Technica.

Then where does the energy to displace the air on the blue side of the portal coming from?