Same. Super easy to do, easy to mirror repos, easy to keep offline…

My repo is fine, because its not online. Keeping them online is just silly.

“I want a puppet”

Tech speeds things up. If you want to do good, it’ll help you do it faster. If you want to do evil, it’ll help you do it faster.

There is a giant lobster in Kingston, South Australia, that claims to be 17m tall. Personally, having seen both, the lobster is more impressive. The sheep just looks like a pile of concrete.

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

That “tallest in Oceania” claim is pretty suspect.

I’ve been pronouncing it N-gin-X, which is probably close enough once slurred together

I haven’t watched the entire video, but if its on the server side, is it just rate-limiting?

Doesnt scream professionalism. The only mitigation for ddos is to have a giant pipe to route and drop the traffic before it hits the server. Cloudflare have the resources to do that, this one person site doesn’t.

I think its a scam.

Edit: lol, they are using cloudflare for their site… https://whois.domaintools.com/104.21.112.1

What is openwebzine? Can’t find any info on it.

256gb of ram seems well beyond standard self-hosting, what are you planning on running?!

I did create a fork and MR, and neither used your runner (sorry if that is what spooked you).

Develop local and push remote also let’s you sanitize what is public and what isnt. Keep your half-backed personal projects local, push the good stuff to github for job opportunities.

I think it was when you create a merge request back, that the original repo would then run the forked branch on the original runners.

From what I can tell, its now been much more locked down, so its better, but still worth being careful about.

More discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1eslk2d/forks_and_selfhosted_action_runners/

The other potential risk is that the github action author maliciously modifies their code in a later version, but that is solved with version pinning the actions.

I can’t find it right now, but there used to be a warning about not self-hosting runners for public repos. Anyone could fork your repo, and the fork would inherit your runners, and then they could change the pipeline to RCE on your runner.

Has that been fixed?

I went to a completely private gitlab instead, with mirroring up to github for anything that needed to be public.

Edit: seems to maybe not be an issue anymore, at the very least it doesn’t seem to affect that repo. Still, for anyone else, make sure forks and MRs can’t cause action to run automatically on your runner, because that would be very bad.

This is my personal opinion, but you should add :

0. Dont.

Unless there is a really good reason, don’t rename your project. It only adds confusion, and users will get lost during the transition. It also makes them hesitant to try the new one - “What if they do it again and i get left behind”.

Pihole isnt pi specific either, it still kept the name.

Even a “wrong” opinion can start a discussion and make people reflect, so worth posting either way. And I dont think its a wrong opinion, its just a very nuanced and complicated thing.

So thanks for posting :)

When all other options are exhausted, the military is your last hope for having your rights protected. Excluding trans people isnt just about them, its about purging anyone who might stand up for you and your rights. So it may end with more jackboots, not less.

White round one with the remote? That’s the awful Google TV ones. The earlier versions have no remote, and you really can’t go wrong, just press cast and it’ll go.

Mines always been bad, but I use a Chromecast all the time anyway, so it doesn’t matter. I’d be livid if I had bought it, but it was free :shrug:

Not all android TVs are bad, but I think a lot of the cheap ones are pretty bad. Mine is horribly laggy, and will occasionally refuse to turn on unless I powercycle it.

Which Chromecast do your parents have? The ones pre-Google TV are pretty brainless to use, but I hate the new google TV ones as well.

I suspect the vast majority of people are buying dumb TVs because android TV sucks, not for privacy reasons. I’m willing to bet most go home and plug their Chromecast or FireTV stick right in.

So as long as android TV sucks, its good news for us.