Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)

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• HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, guess I’ll never understand that whole agentic ai craze. To me it basically looks like

  we have a tool that is relatively simple to trick into doing what it’s not supposed to. Let’s feed it arbitrary data and give it the ability to execute arbitrary code!

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s not arbitrary code in this case, it’s well defined functions, like list emails, read email, delete email. The agentic portion only decides if it should have those functions invoked.

    Now if they should is up for debate. Personally I would be afraid it would delete an important email that it incorrectly marks as spam, but others may see value.

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    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s not arbitrary code in this case, it’s well defined functions

      No, you’re 100% wrong as the bot can just directly run arbitrary bash commands as well as write arbitrary code to a file and run the file. There’s probably a dozen different channels it can use to run arbitrary code.

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    • GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I really do not want an AI doing all of those things for me. That would be like giving a four year old full access to my computer.

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• stratself@lemdro.id ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Cloudflare Matrix blog in the newswire section is an AI slopfest, featuring vibe-coded repos lacking fundamental protocol features, trivially false claims about Matrix projects, and misinformed or dishonest claims to market their software offerings. It is not anything of proper substance.

  To the selfh.st maintainers, please kindly include the community’s responses towards this action, for completeness of the situation

  • Jade’s blogpost - tech.lgbt/@JadedBlueEyes/115967791152135761
  • news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781516 - Hacker News thread of above

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• Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

  Fewer Letters	More Letters
  HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
  IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol for email
  SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

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  [Thread #46 for this comm, first seen 30th Jan 2026, 16:30] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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• eagerbargain3@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  my solution is not never have anything important on my computer, i have a dedicated gaming pc just for my flight simulator. And please just empty that damn mailbox, it is not a storage system for documents and it increase surface of attack if compromised. For the rest just air gap many backups of your most important data.

  E.g. keeping your taxes report unencrypted at rest on disk is a dumb idea too or worst a copy of your ID documents.

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• myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cloudflare Tunnel error here :eyerolling-the-irony:

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• SanPe_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The “else-hosted” LLM AI is really not my thing, but selfhosted even less…

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If I had the proper equipment, I’d run AI if it were self contained and not pinging out to another LLM.

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    • meltedcheese@c.im ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      @irmadlad @selfhosted That is precisely the challenge. I’m not sure it is possible.

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