TheHobbyist
@TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip
Just a stranger trying things.
- Comment on Japan orders Google to unwind deals with smartphone OEMs 1 week 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 weeks ago:
Seems he’s using the same orange tan as the other orange guy haha
- Comment on Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service 3 weeks 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 Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service 3 weeks 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 5 weeks 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”. 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Beautiful :)
- Comment on Day 236 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 Google's reCAPTCHA is not only useless, it's also basically spyware 2 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 2 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. 2 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? 2 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 2 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
- Comment on Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity 2 months ago:
You can. I’m running a 14B deepseek model on mine. It achieves 28 t/s.
- Comment on OpenAI launches ChatGPT for government agencies 2 months ago:
I wonder if ChatGPT will be “re-adjusted” towards the right to fit the new administration’s values.
- Comment on DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables 3 months ago:
The sad part is how using DP on your TV, if you find it, is shunned by Netflix and will not allow you to play 4K content.
They rely on some form of DRM protection which is available in HDMI.
Absolutely crazy. I really wish HDMI would not be such an omnipresent standard among TVs…
Source: help.netflix.com/en/node/13444 > “check your devices”.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 3 months ago:
The performance improvements claims are a bit shady as they compare the old FG technique which only creates one frame for every legit frame, with the next gen FG which can generate up to 3.
All Nvidia performance plots I’ve seen mention this at the bottom, making comparison very favorable to the 5000 series GPU supposedly.
- Comment on This is why I love James Lee 3 months ago:
It’s a very unique style: he’s blending actual animation /manga characteristics in live motion. Not saying it is not your case, but in general I think you need to appreciate mangas, Japanese anime or at least regular animation to enjoy it. I personally find the style brilliant and certainly unique.
- Comment on This is why I love James Lee 3 months ago:
It seems it is but at least it runs on Linux. Not the case for the adobe suite…
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update December 2024 4 months ago:
Love these updates, like always. The graphs, the new communities highlights and the general status update, it really brings us all together in the Lemmy-verse :) thank you for your hard work!
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update November 2024 5 months ago:
Thanks for these reports/updates, always nice to see, it’s kind of like a newsletter, shedding light on various new communities worthy of visiting or looking for a new mod or so. :)
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 5 months ago:
They used PimEyes, nothing new.
Of importance: they do not want to release the tool but use it as a way to raise awareness.
- Comment on Day 101 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
Thanks! That’s what I wanted to know, I’ve been eyeing the game and interested in getting it. I think I’ve even seen it on gog, so that’s great!
- Comment on Day 101 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
How’s the game nowadays? I think I recall the game having some issues when it came out, assuming it’s true, are they all now resolved?
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 5 months ago:
That does not sound like a viable long term solution to me.