TheHobbyist
@TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip
Just a stranger trying things.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 3 weeks ago:
@demigodrick@leppy.zip
Perhaps of interest? I don’t know how many bots you’re facing.
- Comment on Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform 4 weeks ago:
I feel you are a bit out of touch when the topic is specifically enshittification and that it is based on the history of companies turning against their users, showing little good faith. It is also not something which is sparing open source projects (remember bitwarden’s attempt?). So sure, I’m not going to deny that I’m making assumptions and that I am concerned it may one day happen. But it is grounded in reality, not some tinfoil hat stuff.
- Comment on Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform 4 weeks ago:
- Tailscale has an employee who is contributing to headscale. I think this is helpful and they could decide to stop this collaboration the moment they feel it is counter productive.
- they may decide to start adding undocumented/proprietary/“secure” elements which prevent headscale from working.
There is no guarantee headscale can keep working the way it does or that it is allowed to keep existing.
- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 4 weeks ago:
Congrats! Amazing project, exciting interface and you went the extra mile on the integration side with third parties. Kudos!
- Comment on If you live in the EU or UK, don't forget to sign the Stop Killing Games petition! 5 weeks ago:
I meant to say, any more videos supporting the movement which may have caused an influx in support. Sure, there are indeed videos by some semi prolific developers with a following attempting at crashing the initiative, but as you mentioned, we are trying to get the initiative to pass, not tank it :)
- Comment on If you live in the EU or UK, don't forget to sign the Stop Killing Games petition! 5 weeks ago:
From when I last checked a few days ago, it went from approx 450k to over 550k! Impressive!
Let’s keep the momentum going, so far this week, we’ve seen videos from:
- penguinz0 with 17M followers
- jeffgeerling’s second channel with 116k subscribers
penguinz0 has certainly caused a large influx, and I’m hoping Jeff will also have an impact.
Any more?
- Comment on I've just created c/Ollama! 1 month ago:
Perhaps give Ramalama a try?
- Comment on I've just created c/Ollama! 1 month ago:
Indeed, Ollama is going a shady route. github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/11016#issuecom…
I started playing with Ramalama (the name is a mouthful) and it works great. There is one or two more steps in the setup but I’ve achieved great performance and the project is making good use of standards (OCI, jinja, unmodified llama.cpp, from what I understand).
Go and check it out, they are compatible with models from HF and Ollama too.
- Comment on Stellar Blade removes its region lock on Steam, now available in most of the world 2 months ago:
Denuvo specifically costs money as it’s some kind of subscription so from what I understand most games will drop denuvo one day or another the moment it costs more than the cost of piracy, which is probably once the wave of initial sales has passed.
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 2 months ago:
The imagine if their cloud runs the game using proton. The provider with the lowest overhead would have lower costs and thus a cheaper service. If Microsoft doesn’t do it, someone else could.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 2 months ago:
The video game landscape is already filled to the brims with more games than I need to play for the rest of my life and you want me to hurry up to pay for a game as it comes out, to ditch out the full price when my computer would suffer for the lack of latest gen hardware when I could easily find a large amount of fantastic games for less than 10 bucks and comfortably max out their settings?
Like, the witcher 3 with all its DLC, a fantastic game which is 10 years old but got a free graphics upgrade and with all its DLC, worth hundreds of hours of gameplay and a memorable experience is less than 10 bucks, as we speak, both on steam and gog.
Most people already have more games than they have time to play. Patient gamer has never been more rewarding. We fall too often for the fear of missing out the experience of missing out on the hype of a new launch…
I finished GTA 4 and 5 like a year ago, on my steam deck. I couldn’t care less if these games came out like 10 years ago. It gives me the flexibility to play them how I want to.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 2 months ago:
I would encourage you to support GoG before you have to rely on them, otherwise if everyone does like you they may not be able to sustain their business.
It’s a bit akin to waiting for a crash before putting your seatbelt on.
- Comment on Japan orders Google to unwind deals with smartphone OEMs 3 months ago:
Interesting, I wonder if this is a result of Google antitrust efforts in the USA and Europe? These things propagate and when someone takes action, it can motivate others to do it too. Quite encouraging.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 months ago:
Seems he’s using the same orange tan as the other orange guy haha
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I didn’t take it as a critique of Ente, not to worry! I’m not affiliated in any way, I just wanted to provide some context to people who may be concerned about the vendor locking aspect specifically.
Of course how you manage your media, your needs and your finances are all a very personal matter, I also self-host my photo backup, but I use ente in a complementary fashion, and I don’t backup everything to it. It just makes it convenient to collect, share and aggregate media between ente members and non-members.
Cheers!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
In the case of ente, they have gone above and beyond to give full control to their users of their backing up process and backed up media:
- they provide a [sync] (help.ente.io/photos/migration/export/) feature from ente to a local destination on your computer using the desktop app. It can run continuously to reflect all changes to your media and its organization in ente.
- they provide a CLI, so that you can program and implement your own export behavior it seems.
To me, it really shows they care about the users and do their best to avoid vendor lock-in.
And I personally feel much more confident in a company when their business model is a paid one. I’m a very happy customer, I have also convinced multiple people who seem happy too.
- Comment on Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database 4 months ago:
Don’t give them ideas!
- Comment on Open letter: ~100 EU companies urge EU lawmakers to take “radical action” to shrink the reliance on foreign infrastructure by fostering a so-called “Euro stack”. 4 months ago:
Running on prem is certainly possible, but requires a dedicated sysadmin team for anything serious. It is very important to be able to have availability guarantees and some expert you can count on to solve your problem with a phone call.
- Comment on Day 236 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 4 months ago:
Beautiful :)
- Comment on Day 236 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 4 months ago:
I see a lot of praise for this game but have not looked a lot into it. How would you describe it and what makes it so good? I’m letting myself be convinced for my next game to play :)
- Comment on Trump tariffs threaten the future of physical video games, analyst warns 5 months ago:
True, many games sold physically are still faced with the risk of disappearing, due to DRM…
- Comment on Docker Hub limiting unauthenticated users to 10 pulls per hour 5 months ago:
Would you be able to share more info? I remember reading their issues with docker, but I don’t recall reading about whether or what they switched to. What is it now?
- Comment on Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes 5 months ago:
It seems Signal has already pushed out a fix for this, which was abusing the QR codes to actually link a device when it was presenting itself as a way to join a group.
Paywalled: wired.com/…/russia-signal-qr-code-phishing-attack…
- Comment on Bitly adds interstitial ads to shortened URLs, unlocking new revenue stream 5 months ago:
I hear you, I always see this problem being solved by the link being in the description and the host saying “link in the description”. I hadn’t come across a situation where an audio only format was accessible and there was no way to interact with the content but in some corner cases it does make sense.
- Comment on Bitly adds interstitial ads to shortened URLs, unlocking new revenue stream 5 months ago:
I don’t understand in what circumstances anyone would like to use link shorteners? I can only find reasons why not to use them:
- subject visitors to surveillance
- destination under the control of a third party (potential for ransom for the author, like we see here, and potential of ads for visitors like we see here)
- obfuscation of the actual destination
- how long will the redirect be valid for? It could be deemed unviable for the company to continue support of the redirect, thus rendering the destination inaccessible from all places where the shortened link is used.
- more…?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
This is an article about the following youtube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsBP21-XpI
- Comment on Google changes name of Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' for US users 5 months ago:
It seems the name is propagating beyond English and beyond the USA, as an addendum to the current name. Worrying.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 5 months ago:
One thing which I find useful is to be able to turn installation/setup instructions into ansible roles and tasks. If you’re unfamiliar, ansible is a tool for automated configuration for large scale server infrastructures. In my case I only manage two servers but it is useful to parse instructions and convert them to ansible, helping me learn and understand ansible at the same time.
Here is an example of instructions which I find interesting: how to setup docker for alpine Linux: wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Docker
Results are actually quite good even for smaller 14B self-hosted models like the distilled versions of DeepSeek, though I’m sure there are other usable models too.
To assist you in programming (both to execute and learn) I find it helpful too.
I would not rely on it for factual information, but usually it does a decent job at pointing in the right direction. Another use i have is helpint with spell-checking in a foreign language.
- Comment on Privately Share Photo Albums? 5 months ago:
Regarding photos, and videos specifically:
I know you said you are starting with selfhosting so your question was focusing on that, but I would like to also share my experience with [ente] (ente.io) which has been working beautifully for my family, partner and myself. They are truly end to end encrypted, with the source code available on github.
They have reasonable prices. If you feel adventurous you can actually also host it yourself. They have advanced search features and face recognition which all run on device (since they can’t access your data) and it works very well. They have great sharing and collaborating features and don’t lock features behind accounts so you can actually gather memories from people on your quota by just sharing a link. You can also have a shared family plan.
- Comment on Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity 5 months ago:
Ollama, latest version. I have it setup with Open-WebUI (though that shouldn’t matter). The 14B is around 9GB, which easily fits in the 12GB.
I’m repeating the 28 t/s from memory, but even if I’m wrong it’s easily above 20.
Specifically, I’m running this model: ollama.com/…/deepseek-r1:14b-qwen-distill-q4_K_M