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  • I’m so tired of coding for work, even though I always liked the thrill of just exploring where a project would take me. I’ve been neglecting my personal projects and, over time, stopped feeling bad about it. I have plenty of opportunities at work to learn about new things, it’s okay if I do something unrelated in my free time.

    LLMs gave me some relief with work and I’m now able to at least think about programming other things for fun, but haven’t done any actual project yet.


  • You can easily forward arbitrary IP traffic if you get an additional IP for that VPS. Then you add the IP as your own on the local end, and set up routing like

    ip r a 1.2.3.4 via 10.10.10.10 dev wg0 where 1.2.3.4 is the extra ip, and 10.10.10.10 is your local wireguard address.

    With just one IP, you can forward ports over wireguard with iptables, but I failed to do that correctly.

    Now I’m using xinetd to forward traffic from external ports to Wireguard with a single IP. iptables would be better but I ran out of patience.





  • I think it’s worth mentioning to OP that Vero is based on Kodi, and streaming platform support there is innofficial on a best-effort basis.

    Which, for Netflix, meant I had to log in again every few weeks, the login process involved doing it on a computer and transferring files, then there was a recurring 2GB download of Widevine to be able to play content, and then it sometimes worked.

    It’s a problem created by streaming platforms and they should be blamed for that situation, but maybe it’s worth mentioning that in a thread where someone is asking for a streaming box.


  • You made me read the Comet browser review, as I did not have the courage to install it myself.

    Seems useful if done privately and under supervision:

    • has an AI chat sidebar that can interact with what you’re viewing
    • can fill out forms (eg. you can dump unstructured text and have it fill, instead of copying field by field)
    • it can browse the internet for you - you ask it a question and watch it browse pages to find one with an answer
    • it can summarize the currently watched page. Which at first I thought was ridiculous but sometimes you need to get information from shitty bloated articles with 10 paragraphs of introduction

    As long as it’s optional and done right (eg. It can fill the form but it’s me who submits it, and the model is running locally), sounds very useful. Also no reason why it can’t be a Firefox addon instead of built in.