savvywolf

@savvywolf@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why selfhosted social media protocols are hated ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It still looks like you’re relying on IP addresses, which means if you want to host a Plebbit server (sorry, “always on peer”) you need one of the following:

  • Use a hosting provider, which is something you want to avoid according to your pitch.
  • Serve it from your own personal network under your own IP. Given that you’re worried about censorship from even the DNS system, I imagine this is something you absolutely don’t want to do.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why selfhosted social media protocols are hated ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine Bob is hosting a community about cat pictures, and I want to send him a picture of my cat to forward to other followers of that community.

  How do I:

  • Locate bob given a name or some other ID
  • Verify that it is indeed Bob (and not someone pretending to be Bob)
  • Prove to Bob that I am indeed who I say I am
  • Send that cat picture without anyone in the middle snooping on it

  All of this in a political environment that bans the sharing of cat pictures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why selfhosted social media protocols are hated ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  With Plebbit there’s no global admins like Reddit, so you fully own your community and nobody can take it away from you.

  I mean, that’s true of Lemmy and any other message board type system based on ActivityPub and ATProto. From a technical standpoint, there is no central authority on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why selfhosted social media protocols are hated ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My question is… What does this do that ActivityPub and ATProto doesn’t do? That’s the angle you should approach this from (and be ready to defend… People on Lemmy seem adamant that ActivityPub is perfect and unbeatable…). We’re technical people here, sell it as a technical solution to a problem rather than using buzzwords or comparing it to Bitcoin.

  You’ve mentioned serverless many times, but ultimately I need to send content somewhere and ask someone to send me content. I can’t just throw my posts into the wind and expect someone else to get them. So how do I make a post if not by sending it to a trusted person?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I wanted to self host a search engine, I’d just use a proper one that actually searches content rather than regurgitates bullshit.

  Search engines worked just fine until Google and Microsoft decided that they wanted to sell their AI products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Backup Day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehh… I’ll do it tomorrow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dumbware.io - Stupid Simple Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the idea of simple apps, but does their website have to have that silly dvd bouncing thing obstructing text? Especially since it starts playing sound if you interact with it wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you run backups on your system?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Daily backups here. Storage is cheap. Losing data is not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Reveals He Started Work On A New Game 2 Years Ago | Retro Dodo⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, fuck the games industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Reveals He Started Work On A New Game 2 Years Ago | Retro Dodo⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not entirely sure why this is news. Do people think he gets put into a test tube or something when when he’s not needed?

  He’s a professional game developer, he’s probably working on games constantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time Crisis Is Returning With A New AI Powered Gun That Works On Modern TVs | Retro Dodo⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’ve thought about this a bit more. Games like this flash the screen black with a white square on the target, and then detects whether the lightgun is pointing at white or black. I guess they could take a picture of the TV and combine that with sensor data, put it into an AI and then figure out where on the screen the gun is pointed at? I guess that would count as “AI”?

  I’m sure the diehard lightgun fans won’t find it accurate enough though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time Crisis Is Returning With A New AI Powered Gun That Works On Modern TVs | Retro Dodo⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … Does anyone know what the AI actually does?

  Honestly, the fact that the article writer is shilling an AI product without actually explaining what the AI does is kinda making me doubt their journalistic integrity.