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  • Am I a jerk for telling my son he should find another dream (career)?

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  • Did you go straight into being a pro footballer? Or did you have back up plans? Like "if this doesn't work out, I'll be an electrician" or something?

    I've never had super lofty goals, but my parents always supported me in what I wanted to do. They never tried to steer me, but they did ask pertinent questions about what I was planning at various points. Probably to hint at bad idea.I feel like I could have asked them for money/support at any point for any of my projects/ideas/whatevers, and - after making sure I was serious - would have helped out however they could.I have a very unique career at this point, and I am only in this position because of the eclectic experience I have. And it is completely unrelated to my dreams as a kid or what I studied at university.

    Ultimately, he is growing up. He's going to have to make mistakes.I'd say you have to be prepared to support him as much as you can in his dream of being a pro footballer.Maybe he won't be a pro footballer, but he might get a satisfying career out of being football-adjacent. Medic, science, coaching.Or maybe he will try it for 5 years and eventually realise it's not gonna happen, and be an electrician.Or maybe he will struggle for 2 years, realise he needs to double down, and make the cut a year later.

    I had a friend when I was growing up that dreamed of being an RAF pilot. Everything he did was around that.Due to some unfortunate life circumstances, that dream was ripped away in the space of a week. Completely out of anyone's control, but he could no longer qualify as an RAF pilot.He was heartbroken. He's now an engineer/mechanic in the RAF and loves tinkering with cars.

    He shouldn't find another dream.But he should be aware that dreams don't always come about. And if this dream doesn't, would he be happy in an adjacent career? Or something else entirely?Help him research the backup plan.

  • It's the law!

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  • Inside DOGE’s AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs

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  • I've heard Drupal uses SQL

  • Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns

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  • What?You have a product that costs 450 to produce.And you add a 50 markup so you are selling at 500.Tariffs push that 500 up to 750. Which means a 50% tariff.

    So you remove your 50 markup and sell it at cost in that market. Which means a product at 450 with a 50% tariff will cost 675.You don't make any money on that sale. Fine, it's a loss-leader. Hopefully you make up the profit of game sales and subscriptions. Which will also be tariffed.

    For a finished product, the tariff is applied to the selling cost. It doesn't care about the value of the parts or the amount of markup.A government isn't going to pick through a device and apply Country of Origin tariffs on every part, or separate company profit from cost-of-product.

    If a company says a product is worth 500, that's the amount the tariff is applied to.I doubt Nintendo is going to eat the cost of tariffs.It's insane to. They could say "we will still launch at this price", and have the us government cook up more tariffs or whatever. Then Nintendo is holding the bag, or has to renege on the price.It would be smarter to mildly offset the cost. Like you say, knock $20-50 off but stipulate the final cost is subject to import duties.I'd love them to say "well, you do you. This is the cost of the console. Your import duties are not out problem." But I feel (despite their bullshit legal department) Nintendo is more passionate than that, and I think they will mildly reduce the price

  • Steam's Latest Client Update Introduces Many Refinements for Linux

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  • What kind of sane person is gonna debug and track down a memory leak, though? Just buy more ram

  • How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs?

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  • You need to control a domain, so LE can verify you are the controller of the domain, then LE will issue you a certificate saying you are the controller of the domain.

    For a wildcard LE cert, you need to use the DNS challenge method.Essentially the ACME client (or certbot or whatever) will talk to LE and say "I want a DNS challenge for *.example.com".LE will reply "ok, your order number 69, and your challenge code is DEADBEEF".ACME then interacts with your public nameserver (or you have to do this manually) and add the challenge code as a txt record _acme-challenge.example.com. (I've been caught out by the fact LE uses Google DNS for resolution, and Google will only follow 1 level of NS records from the root authorative nameserver).All the while, LE is checking for that record. When it finds the record, it mints a wildcard certificate.ACME then periodically checks in with LE asking for order 69. Once LE has minted the cert, it will return it to acme.And now you have a wildcard cert.

    So, how to use it on a local domain?Use a split horizon DNS method.Ensure your DHCP is handing out a local DNS for resolving.Configure that local DNS to then use 8.8.8.8 or whatever as it's upstream.Then load in static/override records to the local DNS.Pihole can do this. OPNSense/pfSense can do this. Unifi can do some of this.

    How does this work?Any device on your network that wants to know the IP of example.example.com will ask it's configured DNS - the local DNS that you have configured.The local DNS will check it's static assignments and go "yeh, example.example.com is 10.10.3.3".If you ask you local DNS for google.com, it won't have a static assignment for it, so it will ask it's upstream DNS, and return that result.And it means you aren't putting private IP spaces on public NS records.

    Then you can load in your wildcard cert to 10.10.3.3, and you will have a trusted HTTPS connection.

    Here is a list of LE clients that will automate LE certs.https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/

    Have a read through and pick your desired flavour.Dig into the docs of that flavour, and start playing around.

    If it's all HTTPS, consider using something like Nginx Proxy Manager (https://nginxproxymanager.com/) as a reverse proxy in front of your services and for managing the LE cert.It's super easy to use, has a decent GUI, and then it's only 1 IP to point all DNS records to.

  • Germany finances Ukraine's use of Starlink alternative Eutelsat

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  • That's great news!

    Ukraine currently has fewer than 1,000 terminals connecting to Eutelsat's network, but Berneke [Eutelsat CEO] said the company aims to increase this to between 5,000 and 10,000 "relatively fast."

    A Eutelsat spokesperson, Joanna Darlington, said discussions are ongoing regarding further funding from Germany and the EU.

    Starlink, which provides service to over 50,000 Ukrainian military, medical, and civilian users, has faced uncertainty over continued access.

    Excellent work. Will be interesting to see how "relatively fast" plays out, and if other countries step up.Musk cannot be relied upon as a military ally. Well, for some governments at least...

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    Easter Eggs Are So Expensive Americans Are Dyeing Potatoes

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  • I've heard an Epstein Salt Bath is also particularly invigorating

  • A guide to switching your Music Streaming provider to support more ethical and European-based companies!

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  • Discovering a new artist or album is great.Tidals personalised daily discovery and weekly new releases are fantastic for this, much better than anything I can remember on spotify. Their "mixes for you" are also decent.I haven't tried qobuz yet

  • Help with domain

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  • DNS and domains are just human-friendly IP addresses.

    You only have 1 public IP address.So, to access different services you need to use different ports.Or run a service on a single port in front of the other services that can understand the connections and forward the connections to the actual services - known as a reverse proxy. In the case of http/https, there are plenty of reverse proxies that can direct requests based on all sorts of parameters, subdomains being one of them.

    If you are just starting out, I'd recommend a docker compose stack and Nginx Proxy Manager.Learning containers & docker makes everything easier.NPM is a very easy to use reverse proxy with a nice GUI, so you don't have to configure CertBot/ACME or learn the specific config language of Nginx.

    If you are unsure of domains and all that, you can try it out for free.Your computer has a hosts file (/etc/hosts on Linux, I think it's in system32 on windows). This allows you to tell the computer "for the domain example.com use the IP 10.0.0.200" or whatever you want. You need a hosts file entry for each subdomain.What this means is that you can run up a docker compose stack on your computer and point a bunch of sub domains to 127.0.0.1, use self-signed certs, and play around with nginx proxy manager and docker.No money spent, no records published, no traffic leaving your computer.Zero risk.

    There are loads of tutorials out there on NPM and docker compose stacks. Probably some close to your specific requirements.

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  • Good News, Everyone!

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  • April first, innit

  • Imagine Dragons: ‘The worst band ever’ or a refuge for young fans?

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  • I found that a very difficult video to watch, the editting really grated on my nerves.

    However, it is a pretty damn accurate breakdown of an imagine dragons song, and the end result is pretty good.

  • How to combat moisture pooling under my mattress?

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    1. Sweat.
    2. Blood.
    3. Saliva.
    4. Urine.
    5. Semen.
    6. Vaginal discharge (is there a better name for this?).
    7. ... Tears? Or is it diarrhea?

  • Containers Explained

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  • I was aware of kubernetes 6 months ago, but had never used it.I got a 3 node cluster running in a day, and was learning kubernetes.The only issues I've had were due to hardware failure causing etcd instability, and misconfigured operators generating terabytes of logs leading to pod eviction.

    I don't know what would signify it being production ready. It had all the levers and knobs I needed. I haven't yet needed to run a sysadmin debug container to poke around the host OS.It's also great for learning. If you make a mistake, it's very easy to wipe and reinstall and get back to where you were.

  • Containers Explained

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  • Talos is great

  • Americans walked from door to door and failed to find a family Vance's wife could visit before cancelled visit in Nuuk, according to Danish TV2

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  • Remember the egg door-to-door begging?

    This was like days ago, and yet is phrased like it was from the last trump presidency.And both could be true

  • Does it ever make sense/is it possible to move certain docker volumes to another physical volume, but not all?

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  • I do that, until some container has permissions issues.I tinker, try and fix it, give up and use a volume. Or I fix it, but it never seems to be the same fix

  • World travelers

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  • What's not funny is how old I feel now