Voroxpete
@Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Best Free Mobile App for Streaming Self-Hosted Music? 1 day ago:
Airsonic or Navidrome server, plus one of the various Subsonic apps. I like Substreamer or Dsub but there are plenty of other options.
- Comment on US Treasury Secretary Bessent accuses China of holding back products that are essential to the US industrial supply chain. 2 days ago:
Bro, you started this fight. You don’t get to complain when they hit back.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 5 days ago:
None of what you’ve just said connects back to your previous comment in the slightest. You started by saying that they cut too much from the TTRPG and that the world was too shallow, and then when I asked you to elaborate you just went on about augmentation systems.
At this point I’m not convinced you actually know what it is that you don’t like about it.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 6 days ago:
I’m really not sure what you mean by this. Are you talking about the game at release, or after they patched in all the intended content?
Outside of what I assume you mean by the “scripted gameplay” of the main story there are dozens upon dozens of side quests and weird little points of interest to discover (well over a hundred, easily). A lot of them help to elaborate on the setting in interesting ways. What exactly were you expecting that the game didn’t deliver on?
- Comment on OpenAI plans massive UAE data center project 1 week ago:
TD Cowen (which is basically the US arm of one of the largest Canadian investment banks) did an extensive report on the state of AI investment. What they found was that despite all their big claims about the future of AI, Microsoft were quietly allowing letters of intent for billions of dollars worth of new compute capacity to expire. Basically, scrapping future plans for expansion, but in a way that’s not showy and doesn’t require any kind of big announcement. The equivalent of promising to be at the party and then just not showing up. Not long after this reporting came out, it got confirmed by Microsoft, and not long after it came out that Amazon was doing the same thing.
Ed Zitron has a really good write up on it; www.wheresyoured.at/power-cut/
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 1 week ago:
Using self-hosting services enables me to accomplish tasks more quickly.
As opposed to what? Using a cloud SaaS alternative, or not having that service at all?
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 1 week ago:
People who influence my behavior think that I should use cloud services.
This question is going to get bad data. No one likes to think of themselves as being influenced. A more effective phrasing would be “…people I trust…”
- Comment on US customs duties collection hit record $16.5 billion in April as Donald Trump's tariff regime comes into effect 1 week ago:
Remember, the only way for tariff revenue (which is just a direct tax replacing income tax) to hit anything like their targets, two things have to happen;
- Imports have to remain at their pre-tariff levels, or even exceed them.
- The tariffs have to remain in place permanently.
If that’s the case, then Trump is lying about bringing manufacturing back to the US, and he’s lying about making trade deals. Bringing manufacturing back, if successful, would reduce the total amount of imports, because people would buy the locally made goods instead. Making trade deals would require the US to lower or remove their tariffs as part of the deal. Neither of these things can be true if the tariffs are going to act as a new source of government revenue. And the tariffs themselves do not reduce the tax burden on the American people, they just move more of it to people who can afford it less.
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 1 week ago:
This was a triumph…
- Comment on OpenAI plans massive UAE data center project 1 week ago:
Remember, this is all about OpenAI convincing investors to shovel more money into their furnace.
They are not profitable. They have no realistic path to being profitable. Their only hope for survival is to South Seas Company their through round after round of investor funding. And to do that they have to create the appearance of near unlimited demand for their services, and therefore for additional capacity to run those services.
The writing is on the wall. Microsoft and Amazon, two of the biggest players in the compute space, both of which also run their own AI projects, have both massively scaled back their plans for future compute expansion. If anyone should be building out like crazy it’s them. If anyone has a clear idea of what the actual demand is, it’s them. If Amazon and Microsoft are out, this thing is fucked.
OpenAI is fucked. Sam Altman knows it. But if he can keep the illusion going, the money train doesn’t have to stop. Yet.
- 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" 1 week ago:
I’m actually OK with games costing a bit more to sell if they cost a lot to make; god knows, the devs deserve to get paid properly. But, one, that money won’t actually make it to the devs, and two, any time Randy Pitchford is for something it’s really hard not to automatically be against it, on the assumption that he’s so consistently wrong about everything, and just such an unbelievable piece of shit, that just assuming he’s in the wrong is the safest bet.
- 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" 1 week ago:
Seriously, why do they let him talk? The man is a walking PR disaster.
- Comment on ‘It’s real y’all’: People are sharing their tariff receipts, and my wallet is not ready for what’s coming 2 weeks ago:
America not only doesn’t have the means, because of the tariffs it can no longer get the means. Manufacturing requires a lot of heavy industrial equipment that - surprise, surprise - isn’t made in the US.
But to say that Trump’s goal is to move production back to the US is almost giving him too much credit. He doesn’t really have a clear idea of what his goal is. Depending on the moment it changes, and the various goals he suggests are all contradictory; each one can only happen without the others. He says he’s imposing tariffs to move manufacturing home, but that only works if the tariffs are set to last a long time. But he also says he’s making deals, and that only works if the tariffs will be removed as part of the conclusion of the deal. And he says that the tariffs will replace taxes, but that only works if the tariffs are permanent, and imports remain at their current levels rather than manufacturing moving back to the US. For any one of those claims to be true, the other two can’t be.
There is no plan here. He just likes the idea of tariffs, because he has only ever understood the world through the lens of power; of dominating or being dominated. Tariffs feel big and muscular, like throwing punches but with money. That’s why he wants them. The rest is just excuses. It’s really all about his crippling insecurity, and the entire American right being in his thrall.
- Comment on Best option for hosting ebooks and audiobooks? 2 weeks ago:
Audiobookshelf for audiobooks, calibre-web for ebooks. Don’t try to get it to get one thing that does both well, you’re better off with two solutions that are both better at their respective thing.
- Comment on Mexican Navy training ship hits New York's Brooklyn Bridge 2 weeks ago:
Listen, we said it was a training ship, but we never said we trained them well…
- Comment on Plebbit Will Never Deliver, Apologies for the Hype, Lemmy's Where I’m Staying 3 weeks ago:
So, from what I’ve read, and you’re welcome to correct me if I’m wrong on any of the facts here, your DAO operates using a governance token that can be traded on crypto markets.
If that’s the case, those are just grey-market voting shares. All you’ve done is create a corporation and sell shares, while avoiding all of the legal protections that would be afforded to your shareholders if you actually went through the process of creating a corporation and holding an IPO.
So, based on those facts as I understand them, I guess I’d say I have two problems.
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Voting power decided by buying power is about the most undemocratic system possible short of autocracy.
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Obfuscating the purpose and structure of your organization to either intentionally or unwittingly dodge regulations that would protect your shareholders is not a great look.
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- Comment on US shuts Mexico border to live cattle over flesh-eating parasite fears 3 weeks ago:
Do not read about screw worms if you value your sleep. Nasty little fuckers.
- Comment on Plebbit Will Never Deliver, Apologies for the Hype, Lemmy's Where I’m Staying 3 weeks ago:
I’m a little confused on this point. I took a look at their whitepaper and it says that they’re not using blockchain at all. It’s some sort of proprietary peer to peer algorithm. Is this something that changed in implementation? I’m not really familiar with this project so I’m certainly not trying to defend anything, just unclear as to why people are calling it a blockchain project specifically.
- Comment on Derek Smart unveils ACE Platform, a multi-blockchain ‘virtual town hall of engagement opportunities’ | Massively Overpowered 3 weeks ago:
Who are definitely real people and not his sock puppet accounts.
- Comment on Derek Smart unveils ACE Platform, a multi-blockchain ‘virtual town hall of engagement opportunities’ | Massively Overpowered 3 weeks ago:
Jesus Christ, he’s still alive?! I haven’t heard that name in years.
For those not blessed with the knowledge of our divine Lord and saviour Derek Smart, God’s gift to fame designers, oh boy, grab your popcorn, this is going to be good.
And by “good” I mean that whatever Derek has come up with will manage to be the most objectively terrible version of that thing possible, and he will aggressively defend it as the greatest thing that has ever happened in the history of everything, ever.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
Fair enough. If your family are all tech savvy enough that that’s a good solution for them, then congratulations, and I’m jealous.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: I can access my friend’s Jellyfin servers, and they can access mine, without anyone else in the world knowing what the fuck we’re doing. Saying “It’s necessary” always begs the question “Why did you make it necessary?”
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
No need to abandon all the user-friendly aspects of a self-hosted streaming platform. Just use Jellyfin. I switched to it from Plex years ago and have never looked back.
- Comment on US to end shipping loophole for Chinese goods Friday 4 weeks ago:
If you’re trying to do this as an American, it won’t help you. Buying directly from a Chinese firm won’t avoid the tariffs, it’ll just make you responsible for handling them. The shipment will either get held at the port until you pay, or you’ll get a bill later. Probably with some inspection fees added on top if you didn’t pre-declare.
Your best option is to ship to a friend in the UK or some other place with 10% tariffs, then have them repack the shipment and send it to you.
- Comment on Cloudflare Tunnel Alternatives 4 weeks ago:
A question I have about this setup, because I’ve been contemplating out myself: If all the traffic flows through the VPS, I presume that will count against any usage limits / cost per GB with the VPS, right? Have you found that to be a problem with large file transfers or video streaming?
- Comment on I don't get the love for Nextcloud - alternative for just files? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been running Seafile for over ten years. They released version 12.0 just last month. I’m really not sure why people have this impression that it’s not maintained.
Seafile updates slowly because it’s very much intended as an enterprise product. It has minimal bells and whistles, but the core functionality is reliable and works well. It’s more of a BlackBerry than an iPhone.
In the side by side tests I’ve seen it syncs a lot faster than Nextcloud. I keep my entire documents, downloads and picture folders synced there across three different machines, nearly 300GB of data in total, and I can wipe my laptop and sync all my files back in under and hour. File transfers basically cap out at network speed, even with large numbers of small files. I’ve used the desktop client, the drive client and the mobile client and never had any complaints with any of them.
Sidenote, if you create an account on their site they’ll give you a pro license for up to three users, free forever.
The documentation is a bit of a beast, but worth reading thoroughly. Setup is a little fiddly compared to Nextcloud (that’s a major turn off for a lot of people, understandably so). If you have questions message me and I’ll try to help. If you go with the free pro license, be sure to enable offline garbage collection, it’ll help keep your storage use under control.
Anyway, I really like it, works well for me. Definitely worth trying out.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 1 month ago:
I was chiming in with my agreement on your disagreement, if that makes sense.
The thing about the robotaxi thing is that it only really works as metro level infrastructure. Once you start trying to do that at a level where your vehicles can traverse whole states, the costs balloon like crazy.
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 1 month ago:
Sorry, you’re absolutely correct, I should have added “… or a pair of thigh highs.”
Shameful oversight on my part.
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 1 month ago:
Sketch? Nah bro, that is exactly the kind of “This looked sick in the early 2000s and we haven’t bothered updating it since” level of design that I want to see from a hardware vendor. That’s a company that’s just sitting there quietly trucking along, making nerdy devices for nerdy people. That’s a website that was never intended to be viewed by anyone other than a 30+ year old sysadmin who owns at least one beard grooming product.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 1 month ago:
Yeah, I contemplated this idea, but you’d need a network of dealerships all within no more than about 450km of each other. Actually, a lot less than that if you want to deliver something like a cybertruck this way. And Tesla just doesn’t have that kind of infrastructure, especially in the Midwest and South. And that means there’s no good way to get a car from Fremont or Austin to anywhere on the East Coast either. At best you could maybe make this work in California.
But also consider the scale of what you’re talking about. Generally you’re looking at selling thousands of cars per day for a successful production model. Can their dealerships handle charging thousands of cars per day?