Nice! That’s a great idea.

The IPTV provider should provide the EPG, either as a URL or via “Xtreme Codes” (which is essentially just a base URL for an API that provides both the playlist and the EPG).

Try set up the stream directly on an IPTV app on your TV, instead of using Dispatcharr. If you have a device with Android TV (either built-in to the TV or a steaming box like the Nvidia Shield or Onn one), try Tivimate.

The IPTV apps on non-Android platforms aren’t as good. On your computer, you can try tuning in to a channel using VLC or a web UI (if your provider has one) and see if it works better.

The best IPTV providers are hidden from the public (no public website or social media presence), and you need to be invited by an existing user. Unfortunately the one I use closed signups a few years ago, otherwise I’d invite you.

And I don’t ever know if it’ll get better because you need to know why you want to build something someway.

The major issue I’m seeing with junior (and even intermediate) developers is that they trust that the AI will always do things the correct way and don’t question its approach, and they don’t develop proper debugging skills and just rely on the AI to attempt it.

To get decent quality output out of an AI model, you need to have critical thinking skills, at least basic knowledge of the overall architecture for whatever you’re trying to build, and enough knowledge to question the model when it does something wrong.

Blindly trusting AI is why so many old security issues are coming back - stored/reflected XSS, SQL injection, exposing databases directly to the internet with no password, things like that. Newer frameworks mostly got rid of them, and now AI is bringing them back. It’s a fun time for red teams at least.

Huh, interesting. I wonder why it’s so infrequently used then. Maybe people are afraid of using an AI that referred to itself as “mechahitler”.

I would have thought they’d get access to xAI’s models for very cheap.

Grok really isn’t that good, though. So few people use it that xAI are renting out most of their AI servers to both Anthropic and Google.

I do this and then realise I’m not actually an expert.

And I would be interested on how they are referbing the equipment and selling for a profit

My understanding is that an e-waste recycling company is contracted to take all the old equipment. The original company can say they’ve recycled it, record it as such, and doesn’t care what’s done with the equipment after that - whether that be reselling it, recycling it, whatever. The e-waste company is the one that handles finding the useful stuff and refurbishing it.

They do an upgrade, ever server/switch/router etc ends up in the dumpster

How many customers do this?

At least here in the Bay Area, hard drives and SSDs get destroyed, but a lot of the other equipment goes to e-waste recyclers who end up refurbishing it and selling it on marketplaces like eBay.

A lot of homelabbers get their equipment from eBay, and the source of that equipment is almost always second-hand data center equipment.

In Italy, the “Piracy Shield” system misfired so badly that an erroneous order took Google Drive offline for over 12 hours in October 2024.

A lot of ISPs have a three strike rule for piracy: if you get caught pirating content three times, they’ll disconnect you.

These “piracy blocking” services should be subject to a similar policy. If they cause outages for major service providers (Google, Akamai, Cloudflare, AWS, whatever) three times, they’re not allowed to activate the block any more until they fix the systemic issues causing the outages.

Oh no! I didn’t know that. I was considering getting a Polestar a few years ago, but ended up getting a BMW instead (an iX, then an i4)

They said they’re just gonna withdraw and focus on the European market instead.

Makes sense. In the end, the USA only accounts for around 7.5% of EV sales globally so it doesn’t make sense to overindex on US sales when it’s much easier for them to sell in other countries.

There’s some Chinese EVs in the USA - you can buy BYD busses, trucks and forklifts (we use BYD busses at work for transportation between buildings), and Waymo’s new van-looking cars are manufactured by Zeekr.

The Polestar 4 and Volvo EX30 are also both built on a Chinese platform (Geely / Zeekr) but the US is OK with them since they’re partially manufactured in South Korea and partially in the USA at Volvo’s factories.

The issue is that there’s huge tariffs, it’s hard to get Chinese cars approved to sell in the US, plus the US is still mostlyl holding on to the legacy dealership model. The Chinese cars are so much better and cheaper than US brands, but the US has to protect the dying legacy US brands.

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Does Patchmon not have a setting to look for the Docker socket in a different location?

I could be wrong but I don’t think there’s any security issues making a symlink to a socket, since permissions/ACLs on the socket would still apply.

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My Epyc 7702 does have onboard TPM, but my supermicro H11DSi-NT doesn’t pass it through to the OS, for some reason

Huh… That’s interesting. At my workplace we have Linux EPYC servers with working TPM (it’s mandated that all computers, both clients and servers, must have TPM 2.0), but I’m not a hardware person and don’t know exactly how they’re configured.

This is good to know. I haven’t had issues with using a USB drive though, since it doesn’t receive many reads or writes - the system is copied to a RAM drive on boot and runs off that rather than the USB.

I assume this means I’d need another drive to boot it from? My current setup is that I have 2 x 22TB drives in a ZFS mirror for data storage, and 2 x 2TB NVMe SSDs in a ZFS mirror for things like VMs, Docker containers, documents, etc.

I had to get a Supermicro AOM-TPM-9665V TPM chip for my motherboard

How old is your CPU that it doesn’t have onboard TPM? It’s been a standard feature for quite a while now

Unfortunately the search tooling is specific to our internal systems. It’s essentially just a cronjob that periodically indexes the entire repo and a backend service to do the search.

Claude is very good at figuring out how to work around limitations (which is probably one reason why it’s also good at finding security issues).

At work, the monorepo is enormous and files are loaded on-demand as needed. This isn’t uncommon with huge repos - Microsoft have VFS for Git (although I hear that’s deprecated now), Meta have EdenFS, and Google has some proprietary solution.

We have a hook that blocks find and grep because they can be extremely slow, and tells it to instead use some significantly faster MCP tools to search the codebase, powered by a search index with local changes overlaid.

GPT-5.5 has no problem with this. Claude Opus mostly does it, but sometimes it loves to find workarounds rather than following the instructions. Things like: Try alternative commands like egrep. Create a symlink to grep and run that to see if it bypasses the filtering. Run it with a different shell like zsh. Write a Python script that execs grep. Write a Python script to reimplement grep.

I’m trying Hermes Agent at home, but I have it in its own VM with restricted permissions.