Reddit Scrub - 2026-09-01

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1. Open-source LMS: affordable alternative to commercial DRM for protecting course videos?

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Subreddit: r/devops
Feedback ID: 1w28voc
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (devops); homelab / self-hosting (self-hosted); home music production (recording); asks for experience or help (score 116)
Bot probability: Low (10%)
Snippet: We're building an open-source LMS and we're currently working on protecting paid course videos from being downloaded and redistributed. Commercial DRM providers (Widevine / FairPlay / PlayReady) are quite expensive for a small/open-source project, so we're trying to understand what realistic alternatives exist. Our requirements are roughly: - Videos are uploaded by course creators. - Videos should be streame…

2. Engineers who work with vocalists: what should be fixed at the performance/recording stage vs. in the mix?

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Subreddit: r/audioengineering
Feedback ID: 1w3vfc6
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (automation); home music production (recording, mixing); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 113)
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Snippet: I’m a beginner singer who recently started learning more about recording and mixing, and I’m trying to better understand the line between what should be addressed through singing technique/performance and what should be handled in the mix. From an engineer’s perspective, when working with vocalists, what are the things you really want the singer to get right at the recording stage rather than expecting them to be fix…

3. Looking for a Cloud Engineer to study the basics

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Subreddit: r/cloud
Feedback ID: 1w21mbd
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, cloud, aws); gaming / content (youtube); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 119)
Bot probability: Low (18%)
Snippet: I'm looking for someone confident in the field to take some free time to just simplify things for me and help me understand the core necessities of the job. Hello, I am giving myself a year and a half to study everything cloud computing: cloud engineering and devops mainly, to later add agentops and a little on data engineering. I am currently using free tier AWS and have a free student Oracle account. I will later m…

4. Sadly, It’s over for $GOOG

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Subreddit: r/investing
Feedback ID: 1w3frt7
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, cloud); gaming / content (youtube); trading / quant / CTI (investing); asks for experience or help (score 111)
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Snippet: Down $8 today. My position is only up 114% now, so I’ve had to start asking some difficult questions. Search is obviously finished. AI has made advertising obsolete. YouTube probably has six months left. Cloud is a rounding error. Waymo is an expensive science project. The cash pile will presumably evaporate. People keep bringing up revenue growth, margins, buybacks and free cash flow, but I think they’re missing the…

5. Resident Evil 4 double feature: Comparing two great action horror games

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Subreddit: r/patientgamers
Feedback ID: 1w2kxsr
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, agent); gaming / content (survival); aviation / military (flying); asks for experience or help (score 109)
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Snippet: Lately, I've been clearing my backlog of Resident Evil games, and I finally got around to the remake of RE4, which is one of my all-time favorite games. My first experience with the game was on the Wii, but I was new to horror and not very good at games, so I never beat it despite really enjoying it. Eventually, I returned to it on PC and beat it, and I was struck by just how well it held up. This also makes the RE4 …

6. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (2007) | Sad to report that all the negativity was right

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Subreddit: r/patientgamers
Feedback ID: 1w24f1s
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, agent); gaming / content (gaming, video game); aviation / military (military); asks for experience or help (score 104)
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Snippet: Kane & Lynch 2 was the Serbian Film of gaming, and for all its faults, it managed to make me actually disturbed in the way most other “shock games” in the AAA space didn’t. However, I never played the first game. All I knew about it was that it was one of the biggest industry plants of its time and the Gamespot review scandal. Like, they were so sure it would be the biggest hit in the year that they announced the mov…

7. I really like DevOps, but sometimes it feels like there is no real entry level into this field

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Subreddit: r/devops
Feedback ID: 1w3tuiu
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (automation, cloud, kubernetes); books / reading (book); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 134)
Bot probability: Low (18%)
Snippet: I genuinely think DevOps or platform engineering is the area of software I enjoy the most. I like CI/CD, Terraform, cloud infrastructure, debugging weird deployment problems, trying to understand why systems fail, automating repetitive things, and generally having ownership instead of just implementing another CRUD endpoint. I’m currently a working student in an SRE/platform team in a big company in Germany. I’ve alr…

8. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in llama.cpp from CPU-only to 96GB VRAM: 8.5 to 109 tok/s, max context and parameters test. My findings on RTX 6000 PRO.

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Subreddit: r/LocalLLaMA
Feedback ID: 1w3pl64
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai); homelab / self-hosting (server); books / reading (history); trading / quant / CTI (quant) (score 118)
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Snippet: Hey guys, I tested Qwen3.8 Flash with llama.cpp from CPU-only to the full 96GB of my RTX PRO 6000. Short version: CPU-only reached 8.34 tok/s at a 2K prompt Full 96GB reached 109.07 tok/s At 245K context, 24GB to 96GB gave 14.89 to 21.61 tok/s The 96GB advantage over 24GB decreased from 2.80x at 2K to 1.45x at 245K Forcing the 27.2 GiB PLE table onto CUDA reduced decode from 108.5 to 1.95 tok/s RAM-resident loading g…

9. How would you constrain an AI trading agent without telling it how to trade?

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Subreddit: r/algotrading
Feedback ID: 1w2o1zq
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, agent); trading / quant / CTI (trading, algotrading); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 113)
Bot probability: Low (10%)
Snippet: I’m planning an experiment with an AI agent controlling a small, isolated brokerage account. This is not retirement/core money, and I’m completely prepared for it to underperform or blow itself up. The basic objective: “Maximize the terminal value of this account over 5 years.” I deliberately don’t want to specify an investment strategy. Choosing and adapting the strategy is part of the experiment. Current hard const…

10. Weekly Discussion Thread - August 25, 2026

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Subreddit: r/algotrading
Feedback ID: 1vxvgmf
Why it fits: trading / quant / CTI (trading, quant, algotrading); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply; matches experience Mat can contribute (score 98)
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Snippet: This is a dedicated space for open conversation on all things algorithmic and systematic trading. Whether you’re a seasoned quant or just getting started, feel free to join in and contribute to the discussion. Here are a few ideas for what to share or ask about: Market Trends: What’s moving in the markets today? Trading Ideas and Strategies: Share insights or discuss approaches you’re exploring. What have you found s…

11. TrueNAS 26-BETA.3 Now Available!

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Subreddit: r/truenas
Feedback ID: 1vtni70
Why it fits: explicitly labeled good; AI / cloud / DevOps (cloud, docker); homelab / self-hosting (truenas, nas, server); asks for experience or help (score 145)
Bot probability: Low (5%)
Snippet: The TrueNAS team is pleased to release TrueNAS 26-BETA.3! This release updates the Linux kernel and OpenZFS, moves the NVIDIA GPU driver to the Long Term Support Branch for a longer support window, and adds dedicated spares for dRAID pools and spare activation for special and dedup vdevs. It also fixes upgrade issues that affected Active Directory and Enterprise update profiles, a cloud backup defect that stopped all…

12. Best practices for hardening Pi & VPS and Docker containers

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Subreddit: r/selfhosted
Feedback ID: 1w3crhr
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, docker); homelab / self-hosting (selfhosted, self-hosted, docker); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 123)
Bot probability: Low (5%)
Snippet: Hello,, I am new to self-hosting but have been at it for about 3 weeks now. I am currently hosting about two dozen services mostly for self-use on a Raspberry Pi at home. I access it remotely via a VPS running Pangolin, Traefik, and Gerbil. I have tried to harden system in every way possible but I am new to selfhosting so appreciating the help of the community. AI has been very helpful in making me hard faster but I …

13. I am making phone data home media serverr

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Subreddit: r/selfhosted
Feedback ID: 1w44nc9
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (docker); homelab / self-hosting (selfhosted, jellyfin, server); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 122)
Bot probability: Low (5%)
Snippet: I am currently developing a Dockerized media server (comprising Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr, and Jellyfin) on an older Ubuntu PC. I am utilizing internet connectivity from my Android phone via USB tethering or a mobile hotspot. I have encountered several networking challenges, primarily due to the unavailability of IPv4 on mobile networks, as the aforementioned applications and their associated services appear t…

14. Certificate mismatch issue - Docker compose and Nginx

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Subreddit: r/docker
Feedback ID: 1vzvbfo
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (docker); homelab / self-hosting (docker, proxmox); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 120)
Bot probability: Low (5%)
Snippet: Infrastructure context Good morning everyone. I have installed Proxmox VE on a Dell PC and created a Ubuntu VM . I installed Docker Compose on it and built a multi-tenant hosting service ran by Nginx functioning as a reverse proxy . So I have many containers: MySQL, PhpMyAdmin, ACME and letsencrypt generating certificates automatically. Also, for each user I have a web container and a file manager container to upload…

15. Dashboarr 1.17.0: free *arr app for Android/iOS, now with 26 services and six new ones

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Subreddit: r/arr
Feedback ID: 1w3pvub
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (automation, cloud, docker); homelab / self-hosting (jellyfin, arr, server); books / reading (books, history); asks for experience or help (score 116)
Bot probability: Low (18%)
Snippet: Dashboarr 1.17.0 is out, and this one is mostly about new integrations: Deluge, Bindery, Navidrome, NZBHydra2, Autobrr and Cleanuparr. Quick context for anyone who hasn't run into it before. Dashboarr is a mobile app for managing a self hosted media stack from your phone, Android and iOS. It's free and GPL-3.0, no account, no ads, no premium tier, nothing to unlock later. The app talks straight to your own services o…

16. Anyone here working in AWS DCO / Data Center Operations in Frankfurt / Germany?

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Subreddit: r/devops
Feedback ID: 1w3iws5
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (aws, devops); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply; matches experience Mat can contribute (score 115)
Bot probability: Low (10%)
Snippet: Hey everyone, Is anyone here currently working in AWS Data Center Operations (DCO) in the Frankfurt region (or Germany) or familiar with their technical screening process? I recently completed a 60-minute technical phone screen with an engineer for an AWS DCO / IT Support role in Germany. During the technical portion, I answered all hardware, networking, and cabling troubleshooting questions without getting stuck. At…

17. me-riyadh-1: outbound HTTPS to Anthropic is 100% blackholed and Fastly is ~50% packet loss — upstream transit, not my VCN. Anyone else seeing this?

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Subreddit: r/devops
Feedback ID: 1w2u5j9
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (docker, devops, api); homelab / self-hosting (docker); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 114)
Bot probability: Low (18%)
Snippet: Posting this both to ask if anyone else in me-riyadh-1 is hitting it, and so the next person googling "OCI curl timeout Riyadh" finds something useful. Setup: Ubuntu compute instance, public subnet, default route → Internet Gateway, stateful egress allow-all, VCN resolver for DNS. Running a Laravel app in Docker. Nothing exotic. Symptoms - curl https://api.anthropic.com → times out every single time (TC…

18. I recently built a NAS for my family and need help getting fans to behave

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Subreddit: r/homelab
Feedback ID: 1w42fbg
Why it fits: homelab / self-hosting (homelab, truenas, nas); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply; matches experience Mat can contribute (score 112)
Bot probability: Low (5%)
Snippet: Hi! I have been struggling with cpu fan configuration for the past week, trying to stop it from ramping up randomly. Right now the cpu is idling at 27-30 degrees, and this causes ipmi to freak out, because noctua fan is going as low as 200 rpm. I am running proxmox ve on the nas, with truenas scale set up as a vm with nextcloud inside. I tried lowering the threshold for the fan failure with ipmitool, setting it to 0 …

19. New SEC Footnote API Suite - Useful?

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Subreddit: r/quant
Feedback ID: 1vzu69g
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (api); books / reading (book); trading / quant / CTI (quant); asks for experience or help (score 112)
Bot probability: Low (28%)
Snippet: I'm currently really digging into the not-so-common data that SEC EDGAR filings provide and turn them into a structured API. From my own experience, it does provide really valuable information about the intrinsics of a company, but I would like to get some eyes on that to see if there is a broader interest in that level of detail. Here are the current endpoints/areas that the suite covers: Debt Structure Returns a co…

20. Should findarr integrate with seer, or keep connecting directly to radarr and sonarr?

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Subreddit: r/arr
Feedback ID: 1w0lwkq
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (api); homelab / self-hosting (self-hosted, jellyfin, arr); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 111)
Bot probability: Low (18%)
Snippet: https://preview.redd.it/uc6b2lr363mh1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=6ab1e0f4f77bdb03c1557ae3726c8f9f98c7ebbf I’m working on a small self-hosted media discovery project called findarr. The idea is to go through movies and shows once, like or dislike them, and then keep them out of your discovery feed so you don’t see the same things repeatedly. At the moment, findarr connects directly to radarr, sonarr, jellyf…

21. 👋 Welcome to r/arr - A Community Dedicated to the *Arr-Stack

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Subreddit: r/arr
Feedback ID: 1p4dgb3
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (automation, docker); homelab / self-hosting (truenas, jellyfin, arr); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 110)
Bot probability: Low (10%)
Snippet: Hey everyone, and welcome aboard! 🏴‍☠️ This subreddit is being rebuilt from the ground up to become the main hub for everything related to the *arr-stack and home media automation . ⚓ What is the *Arr-Stack? For the uninitiated, the *arr-stack is a collection of programs that are designed to automate the management and downloading of media for your home server (usually paired with Plex , Jellyfin , or Emby ). 🚀 Why…

22. How do you balance security-through-updating with security-through-not-updating?

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Subreddit: r/selfhosted
Feedback ID: 1w3rink
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (docker); homelab / self-hosting (selfhosted, server, docker); books / reading (reading); asks for experience or help (score 109)
Bot probability: Low (18%)
Snippet: I'm a layperson with small home server, so bear with me. I don't know how to resolve the tension between two popular bits of advice I see advanced here: Keep your stuff updated, for security reasons Pin your Docker container versions, so they don't surprise you with a security issue These seem to be mutually exclusive. I'm not talking about updates that break things, I mean things like supply chain attacks that distr…

23. We're Developing Ragnarok Universe, a Browser-Based MMORPG - We wanted to share our Development Direction

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Subreddit: r/MMORPG
Feedback ID: 1w35gfw
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai); gaming / content (mmorpg); books / reading (reading); asks for experience or help (score 108)
Bot probability: Low (5%)
Snippet: Hi r/MMORPG ! We're part of the Ragnarok Universe team. Ragnarok Universe is an officially licensed Ragnarok Online title, and we'd like to share what we're currently developing and hear what MMORPG players think. We know there have been many Ragnarok games over the years, and we understand that some players may be skeptical whenever another Ragnarok title appears. One thing we're trying to focus on with Ragnarok Uni…

24. Mass Effect Legendary Edition review: Mass Effect 3

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Subreddit: r/patientgamers
Feedback ID: 1w2f0i2
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai); gaming / content (gaming); home music production (reaper); asks for experience or help (score 108)
Bot probability: Low (5%)
Snippet: Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/comments/1vsmgwq/mass_effect_legendary_edition_is_it_as_good_as_i/ Part 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/comments/1vwbxxz/mass_effect_legendary_review_mass_effect_2/ Mass Effect 3 - "It's been a good ride." "The best." It's difficult to think of anything to say about this game that has not already been said. It's difficult to think of a story based game that liv…

25. Need help with n8n (local host through docker)

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Subreddit: r/docker
Feedback ID: 1vy0smb
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (docker); homelab / self-hosting (docker); gaming / content (youtube); asks for experience or help (score 108)
Bot probability: Low (5%)
Snippet: I am using a Read from disk node to feed data (through a data sheet .xlsx also tried .pdf before) but I keep getting No file found even when I put exact path.. I have been trying to fix it for soo long now I used Gemini for help it told me to use some pathway like /home/nodes/files/.pdf but then it showed NO access error Idk what to do followed some youtube advice as well nothing is working..

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Reddit Scrub - 2026-09-01

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1. Open-source LMS: affordable alternative to commercial DRM for protecting course videos?

2. Engineers who work with vocalists: what should be fixed at the performance/recording stage vs. in the mix?

3. Looking for a Cloud Engineer to study the basics

4. Sadly, It’s over for $GOOG

5. Resident Evil 4 double feature: Comparing two great action horror games

6. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (2007) | Sad to report that all the negativity was right

7. I really like DevOps, but sometimes it feels like there is no real entry level into this field

8. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in llama.cpp from CPU-only to 96GB VRAM: 8.5 to 109 tok/s, max context and parameters test. My findings on RTX 6000 PRO.

9. How would you constrain an AI trading agent without telling it how to trade?

10. Weekly Discussion Thread - August 25, 2026

11. TrueNAS 26-BETA.3 Now Available!

12. Best practices for hardening Pi & VPS and Docker containers

13. I am making phone data home media serverr

14. Certificate mismatch issue - Docker compose and Nginx

15. Dashboarr 1.17.0: free *arr app for Android/iOS, now with 26 services and six new ones

16. Anyone here working in AWS DCO / Data Center Operations in Frankfurt / Germany?

17. me-riyadh-1: outbound HTTPS to Anthropic is 100% blackholed and Fastly is ~50% packet loss — upstream transit, not my VCN. Anyone else seeing this?

18. I recently built a NAS for my family and need help getting fans to behave

19. New SEC Footnote API Suite - Useful?

20. Should findarr integrate with seer, or keep connecting directly to radarr and sonarr?

21. 👋 Welcome to r/arr - A Community Dedicated to the *Arr-Stack

22. How do you balance security-through-updating with security-through-not-updating?

23. We're Developing Ragnarok Universe, a Browser-Based MMORPG - We wanted to share our Development Direction

24. Mass Effect Legendary Edition review: Mass Effect 3

25. Need help with n8n (local host through docker)

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