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Posted by websku 2 days ago

CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun(fulghum.io)
761 points | 537 commentspage 10
khalic 1 day ago|
To the tailscale promotion team: can you guys please dial it back? The half hidden ads are seriously annoying
nick2k3 2 days ago||
All fine and great with Tailscale until you company places an iOS restriction on external VPNs and your work phone is also your primary phone :(
ivanjermakov 2 days ago||
Usually you can ask for a separate phone for work. I can't stand when personal devices are poisoned with Intune and other company crap.
jacobthesnakob 2 days ago|||
My work WiFi blocked traffic to port 51820, the default WireGuard port. I was wondering why my VPN started failing to handshake one day. I changed my ports to 51821 that night and back in business. I checked our technology policy and there’s no “thou shalt not use a VPN” clause so no clue why someone one day decided to drop WireGuard traffic on the network.
teiferer 1 day ago||
Restrict use of private devices?

Though just blocking particular ports for this purpose is very 90s and obviously ineffective, as you demonstrated. Anybody proficient in installing wireguard also knows how to change ports.

teiferer 1 day ago||
> your work phone is also your primary phone :(

That's the flaw right there. Don't mix company assets with pricate use. Phone, laptop, car. Your life is already very dependent on your employer (through income), don't get yourself locked in even more by depending on them for personal tech. Plus it's a security risk to your company.

Unless you have a low paying job, which rarely anybody on HN does, you can afford your own phone and laptop. And IT won't find your messages to girlfriend or pictures you don't want others to see or browsing history.

mintflow 1 day ago||
This is the reason why I am creating a Debian VM on my macOS to let Claude code in yolo mode to do some experiment:)
larodi 1 day ago||
System Concierge, not sysadmin.
sgt 1 day ago||
Try Claude and LVM, Linux software RAID and partitions though, it's hilariously bad at it.
reachableceo 2 days ago||
Cloudron makes this even easier. Well worth 1.00 a day! Handles the entire stack (backups , monitoring , dns , ssl , updates ).
HeartofCPU 1 day ago||
Great until Claude decides to delete your storage and all your containers are gone
tomashubelbauer 1 day ago||
I have a love-hate relationship with Home Assistant. I love its mission and I love it in spirit, but whenever I need to add or change something in it, I don't love the process. Without disparaging the work already done on improving it in recent years, I still find the UI and UX to be lacking. Claude Code has been shifting my perception much closer to the love end of the axis, because it allows me to side-step the boring parts of managing my Home Assistant instance and it is able to carry out the changes I want very reliably.

I still struggle with letting go of writing code and becoming only a full-time reviewer when it comes to AI agents doing programming, but I don't struggle in the slightest with assuming the position of a reviewer of the changes CC does to my HA instance, delegating all the work to it. The progress I made on making my house smart and setting up my dashboards has skyrocketed compared to before I started using CC to manage HA via its REST and WS APIs.

zmmmmm 1 day ago||
it's kind of fascinating, LLMs suddenly are making the Linux Desktop waaay more accessible, of all things.

All those fancy GUIs in Mac and Windows designed to be user friendly (but which most users hate and are baffled by anyway) are very hostile for models to access. But text configuration files? it's like a knife through butter for the LLMs to read and modify them. All of a sudden, Linux is MORE user friendly because you can just ask an LLM to fix things. Or even script them - "make it so my theme changes to dark at night and then back to light each morning" becomes something utterly trivial compared to the coding LLMs are being built to handle. But hey, if your OS really doesn't support something? the LLM can probably code up a whole app for you and integrate it in.

I think it's going to be fascinating to see if the power of text based interfaces and their natural compatibility with LLMs transfers over into an upswing in open source operating systems.

tamimio 1 day ago|
Nope, never trust AI to do such things, it’s imminent to cause issues. Maybe as an assistant only but never installed on the same server and worse, the privilege to access/execute commands.
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