meal-scheduler VS vopono

I use Minizinc in a personal toy project (https://gitlab.com/dustin-space/meal-scheduler), and GECODE or Google's ortools solver at the backend. It's used for meal planning. Unfortunately it's way way slower than I'd hope. I suspect I just have the domain not modeled efficiently. Maybe if I had a few days to put into it, and learn how to properly debug the CSP solver step by step, it might help...

I wrote a meal scheduler - https://gitlab.com/dustin-space/meal-scheduler. It tracks ingredients we have at home, it has a database of recipes, it knows where we can buy ingredients online (for delivery).

It schedules meals for my shared household.

That sounds like a fun application, both the usage and the implementation.

I wonder if you have any interesting example data-files that could be used with the model, preferable both something small and something larger? Would be fun to test the model locally to see how it behaves.

Notes: I'm assuming here that https://gitlab.com/dustin-space/meal-scheduler/-/blob/master... is the model used.

Vopono (https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono):

"vopono is a tool to run applications through VPN tunnels via temporary network namespaces. This allows you to run only a handful of applications through different VPNs simultaneously, whilst keeping your main connection as normal.

vopono includes built-in killswitches for both Wireguard and OpenVPN."

you might want to check out vopono, i've gotten it working with firefox and its nice

https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono

I highly recommend using something like vopono with this on Linux that runs only the target application (e.g. Transmission) in a network namespace in the VPN and only forwards the specified ports and only allows traffic via the VPN.

This is why I use vopono - you can run just the torrent client in the VPN on its own and the killswitch keeps it safe.

I wrote vopono, I use it all the time for quickly spinning up browsers through different VPNs for checking geographical restrictions, etc.

I wrote vopono to do this automatically (mainly for running different applications via different VPN connections).

I use vopono to just run certain applications through it (also makes it easy to switch countries if you need that for testing web stuff).

As for writing FOSS applications in general, you need to find things that you'd like to work on. For example, I wrote vopono since I wanted to be able to run only Firefox through a VPN connection and easily swap it between countries. Now I'm working on contributing to the Rust netlink crate to hopefully make it as comprehensive as pyroute2 (or the respective libraries in C and Go).

Eventually trying to port vopono to use syscalls / rtnetlink messages instead of spawning ip commands directly.

Use a VPN like mullvad. I wrote vopono to make it easy to use after Sci-hub was blocked in my country.