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.

Proton’s server is closed source so I don’t trust it as much as Bitwarden.

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

Bitwarden’s the only “cloud-based” password manager I trust, since their entire stack is open-source.

For self-hosting, they recently released Bitwarden Lite, which is a lot simpler to host than their regular server. One Docker image and you can use SQLite for the database. Different design decisions compared to the regular server which is designed to scale up to handle businesses with tens or hundreds of thousands of employees.

There’s also Vaultwarden, which is an unofficial third-party server implementation.

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.

Interesting… The file sharing is extremely quick for me at home.

I haven’t figured out how to get it working at work though (between my work phone and my work PC, both on the same network). Might not be possible with their firewalls.

Have you tried KDE Connect? It’s cross platform and works on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, and iOS. It’s what I use for sharing files from my phone to my computer and vice versa. It supports a lot more than just file sharing though.

The brothers have different surnames due to an error made by their parents when registering Lin’s birth certificate

I wonder how long it took them to discover the error… And how long it took them to decide to just live with it instead of fixing it. Interesting.

Does it use http or MQTT?

Home Assistant uses HTTP for this. Realistically, you won’t see much difference between HTTP and MQTT for this use case.

MQTT is harder to secure than HTTP, and has some limitations (eg it normally only supports username and password auth - no SSO, no 2FA) so I’d avoid it for anything public-facing unless you have a specific reason to use it. Using it via a VPN is fine, but you’d still need to configure a separate MQTT username and password per user.

iptables should still work, but these days it gets converted to nftables so you may as well just learn nftables.

Having said that, I find it a pain to manually configure iptables or nftables. There might be a better way to do what you want.

I assume this is for basic economy only, where you can’t select a seat? If I choose a seat when booking, I can’t imagine the airline allows someone else to choose the same seat?

Residential ISPs usually have a contention ratio somewhere around 30:1 to 50:1. That means that 30 to 50 customers that each have a 1Gbps connection all share 1Gbps of upstream bandwidth.

Business connections are closer to 10:1, and a leased line (dedicated circuit) is 1:1.

An interesting side effect is that the models coming out of China are very efficient. They don’t have access to all the high-end hardware the US has, so they have to make do with what they’ve got.

They no longer sell or include AP

That’s true only in the USA and Canada. You can still get autopilot in most of the world, especially in countries where FSD isn’t approved.