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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to deploy a satellite and what are the costs?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I seem to recall reading once that the launch cost was down to $10,000 for a cubesat now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This, a pen, and coffee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks! It’s lovely!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This, a pen, and coffee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Lovely!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This, a pen, and coffee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
What game is this?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The interesting thing about the original Amazon Prime Video blog that the article refers to, was that they problem with microservices wasn’t the development of them, or the deployment, but the cost of deployment in terms of run time. After all, if you’re doing a pipeline of anything, as they were doing, and your pipelines are very very constant, then it can just be run on a single system instead of constantly passing messages between systems running microservices.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Coz we a lazy bunch. Deal with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich Is Now Stable!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The AI is just image and object recognition and tagging. It’s very powerful (even runs on CPU in docker) and useful. No LLMs here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bracing for impact⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I mean, maybe you like rawdogging life. I dunno.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Volume mounting in a Docker container⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My network shared folders are on a windows 11 (yes, I know. It’s shit.) pc and my docker is running on Linux.

Here’s what my mounts look like -
```
volumes:
  plex:
    driver: local
    driver_opts:
      type: cifs
      o: username=pc_username,password=pc_password,vers=3.0,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777
      device: //10.0.0.3/Plex
```
Hope this helps.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bracing for impact⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Folks, tell me if this is a good idea - OP gets a backblaze subscription. Backs up everything on that system - all the forgejo stuff, all the immich stuff, all the Arr content.

If/when stuff breaks, OP… gets a backblaze drive home with their stuff and returns it after reinstating their backups?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age verification lands in Italy − here’s how it affects VPN users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Didn’t read the article, as you said it’s just an ad for VPNs. But one way this affects VPN users is that now you can’t VPN into Italy to use a service without hitting the age verification prompt. That just sucks!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, they really need to start building RAG supported models. That way they can actually show where they’re getting their data, and even pay the sources fairly. Imagine a RAG or MCP server connecting to Wikipedia, one to encyclopedia.com, and one to stack overflow.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not easy. LLMs take so much training data that at this point, their training data is basically, all books publically available, all blogs on the internet, pretty much all of tumblr, Reddit, stack overflow and every forum you can think of. Even then, some LLMs need even more data. So companies have started outright stealing data - pirating stuff, downloading stuff from Anna’s Archive, etc.

So no, no billion dollar company can make their own training data. Even if you plug in every email ever sent on Gmail, Google still won’t have enough data to train a good LLM. So they go with the cheaper option- training data that has already been collected, sorted, cleaned, and labeled.

In one sense, they’re again stealing others’ hard work - rather than cleaning their own data, they use public data sets. In another sense, even that’s not enough.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
D’arci Stern of Urban Chaos.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Chaos
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Is it deaf tones or deft ones?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there were a less severe version of Hell called Heck, what inconveniences would happen there?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Every day your coffee table has moved an inch to one random side.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop sleeping through everything?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Same here. One solution is - sleep sooner. Force yourself to sleep an hour sooner than you regularly do. Also, tell yourself before you sleep that you’ll wake up at the same time you usually get up. Say it out loud, not just mentally.

Once you do these, your mind will be alert to wake up sooner and will actually try to wake you up whenever there is a disturbance. Also, the added hour of sleep will help you long term.

There may be loads of extenuating circumstances- kids, work pressure, your spouse wanting to spend time with you. Make a deal with them. Say you’ll pick up extra work around the house or spend more time with the kids or for work. Whatever it takes. In a few months time, you won’t need the extra sleep. But your mind will be more alert.

Hope this works for you. It did for me for the time I did it. Then I slipped and I again can’t wake up no matter what. I do wake up if someone calls me when I sleep sooner though. So that’s nice to retain.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spare mini PCs? What would you do with them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
TV box does what? IPTV or something else?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spare mini PCs? What would you do with them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Do a giveaway of one of them. Ask for input on what is the best thing to do with the other and who ever gives you the highest voted answer gets the device, at their cost of shipping.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I did that once as part of an escape from Google. Just downloaded everything to thunderbird and then severed the link. Then thunderbird became my source of truth for emails. Whatever I needed to delete, I did (subscriptions, ham emails, et) and then I uploaded to another vendor which was much cheaper for the starting tier. I can skip that last step.

Just make sure to severe the link so thunderbird doesn’t do anything stupid. But you can also take a backup of your inbox in case thunderbird does do something silly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campfire (the self-hosted group chat) just became free and open source!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Please tell me more about this. I don’t know enough to know what to dislike him about.

I only saw him recently talking about his Omarchy thing. Seemed too opinionated.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Vinegar seems awesome. Thanks! Also, the dev’s other apps are pretty amazing too!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having trouble setting up Nginx⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Huh. I made a big comment reply to this and missed a crucial detail. Are you trying to just make it so that sitting in your own home, you can go to plex.mydomain.xyz instead of the IP?

What are you running plex on? Windows or Linux? On Linux, you can run this thing called Avahi. With it, you can set it up so that your computer starts advertising locally as whatever domain you specify. So I have server.local and newserver.local internally. I just go to server.local on my browser inside my home and it takes me to the landing page of the server where I’ve got Heimdall running, which has links to plex and a bunch of other internal services I’m running.

I don’t know what the equivalent is in Windows, but we can jigger something up. Let me know what OS you’re running on what boxes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having trouble setting up Nginx⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
TL;DR - don’t do this. Plex on Cloudflare is a bad idea. Read my last notes. Get the Plex Remote Watch Pass instead.

So, regular Cloudflare DNS is not the answer here. Your homelab is almost always natted. As in, there’s a public IP assigned to your home, but your internal network (192.168…) is… internal. Cloudflare doesn’t know of it.

One solution is to expose a port on your router. That would mean that if you go to plex.mydomain.xyz, Cloudflare DNS will send it to your home’s public IP and your router will send it to your internal computer based on that port request. This is NOT recommended. For one, your home’s public IP can change at any time. It’s your ISP’s choice what IP they want to assign to you. They can and will change it when they want to. Second, this opens up your internal network to a barrage of attacks.

Seriously, don’t do this.

A separate alternative is to use something like DynDNS (only if your router supports it). Then folks will go to yourplex.dyndns.io (or something) and that will send them to your router’s public IP, no matter how many times it changes. But if you want to use plex.mydomain.xyz then DynDNS charges you money and, afaik, it’s expensive. So no real point.

The better alternative is Cloudflared and Cloudflare Tunnels. This sits under one.dash.cloudflare.com → Networks → Tunnels.

Hit “Create a Tunnel” and select Cloudflared. Give it a name. Let’s call it “homeserver” (it doesn’t matter).

Once it’s created, click on the name and click Edit. (or maybe the instructions vary if you’re running it the first time). Select Docker, and it’ll give you instructions to run cloudflared as a docker container. The command will look like -

docker run cloudflare/cloudflared:latest tunnel --no-autoupdate run --token CLOUDFLARE_ASSIGNED_TOKEN

Then, you’ll have a tunnel. Once you have it up and running, go to Public Hostnames under the same “homeserver” tunnel edit option.

Add a Public hostname. Subdomain would be plex and domain would be mydomain.xyz (from the dropdown). No path.

For the “service” - type is HTTP mostly (unless you’re running SSL inside your home). And the URL is the internal IP address and port for you. So for Plex it’ll be

192.168.x.y:32400 (internal IP of the computer running Plex)

Once it’s saved and Cloudflare has propagated the change (usually a few seconds), you can go to plex.mydomain.xyz and it’ll show your application 🙂

What’s going on here? Cloudflare’s Tunnel solution sidesteps the Cloudflare DNS feature. You still need your domain attached to your Cloudflare account. Cloudflare gets the request, realizes it’s a Tunnel request, finds the cloudflared container which you’re running inside your network, establishes a secure connection all the way to it. From there, the connection is inside your home, from your cloudflared docker container to your Plex installation and back.

NOTE: Once you do this, everyone who can go to plex.mydomain.xyz (basically the entire internet) will be able to see your Plex setup. Make sure to include strong login credentials. If you do not have any login credentials, you can easily end up with complete strangers streaming your Plex library.

ALSO: This is against Cloudflare TOS. If you’re just using it once in a while, you might get away with it. But if not, Cloudflare will find out and boot your domain and might even close your account.

So… If you are building this for friends and family, get the Plex Remote Watch Pass. It’s $20/year and one possible way for you to give Plex access to people. In this method, you do not need to use cloudflare tunnels or expose a port. Everyone creates a free account on Plex (or you create one account for everyone, and they create their own profiles, whatever) and you grant them access to your libraries. Then they go to app.plex.tv instead of plex.mydomain.xyz, login, and get to your content.

Last Note: I use cloudflare tunnels a LOT. I use it for everything from RSS feeds to Calibre Web. All of my usecases are low traffic scenarios. Cloudflare is chill with those. Video streaming through their network is a whole different ballgame. Do NOT risk it.

This took me way too long to write. Cheers!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Federati.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Showing your ID at the store and sending a copy of your ID to an entity that will most likely not have the best cybersecurity are very different things.

Sure, many people are concerned about what you mentioned. But plenty of them are concerned that the idea that you have to give personally identifiable information to these companies is what’s the worst thing about these laws.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I bought a miniPC from AliExpress last year expecting 8GB RAM and Intel N100. The vendor sent an Intel N50 with 4 GB RAM. I clawed most of my money back, but kept the machine for experimentation. Upped the RAM with the money I got back.

Alpine seems to work best for that machine. Though, I’m tempted to just put Debian on there so I can make docker and portainer agent work on it easily.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If that happens, it’ll finally give me the reason I need to delete windows 11 bleeding edge and go towards desktop Linux.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Some even have 3D printers
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Didn’t it happen that people in LA started calling the cops one time during the pandemic because they saw the Milky Way for the first time in their lives?

damnthefilibuster

Seriously, don’t do this.