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Fell asleep after dinner and woke up at midnight. Got up and had some snacks. Bought wasabi flavored macadamia kernels from Sams yesterday (and a camera for online meeting, so I could sit as usual during online meeting rather than sitting in front of my MBP). The flavor made me crave sashimi, so I ordered a sashimi platter with salmon, scallop, sea bream and sweet shrimp. Should eat this yesterday, I was not so interested in BBQ recently. Watched some football games while listening to some podcasts and playing Civilization. Had breakfast at 7, then finished the game and deleted it. In my upcoming plans, ChatGPT plays an important role, so I try to fix my VPN in the morning. I heard that Cloudflare Warp could help me access ChatGPT, so I gave it a try. It exposed a socks5 port, which was binded to localhost, so I had to use socat to do the port forwarding. I installed Tailscale on the unused wireguard VM - it seemed that every service I set up two VMs and used Keepalive to make them available ended up with one functioning and one broken, including wireguard, pihole, vault and traefik. Then I struggled to install socat on it. At last, I gave up and used SSH port forwarding. It worked, then NordVPN was useless and I stopped the automatic renewal. ExpressVPN could be useful, since watching videos on Youtube would cost a lot of network traffic. After lunch, I took a nap and got up at 2. Did the cycling exercise then. Afterward, it was a little late for the running exercise. I found both socat and SSH port forwarding were not stable, so I spent the rest of afternoon setting up two V2ray servers to replace them. Well, it was not as smooth as before, but it worked. The architecture of my private network became quite messy now, I may declutter it at some point.

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