ThorrJo
@ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Call to defederate from feddit.org over zionism 1 hour ago:
I only would agree with defederating if it’s proven that they are blocking anti-genocide content on other servers from being visible to their users.
In general I believe that maintaining lines of communication with those who otherwise believe in reprehensible ideologies is best, both in order to better understand such backwards ideologies, and also to provide a lifeline back to consensus reality for people who’ve been swept up by them.
I also believe that in the majority of cases, users should wield the power to instance-block for themselves. Or at least, servers where this is the case are the ones I prefer to participate on.
However, if it becomes clear that feddit.org admins are censoring content external to their instance in support of Zionism, then my first objection becomes irrelevant, and the second would be questionable, given the efforts of admins to put external fedi content thru a pro-genocide filter. At that point, defederation would be both warranted and wise.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 1 day ago:
Currently in a holding pattern because, while I got RAM & SSD for a new-to-me “1-liter” server before tariffs hit, I don’t have the server itself nor any money to buy one, despite looking for 9th or 10th gen Intel which will cost me only $120 to $150 barebones.
Money to buy one is not coming in because the place where I live has nonstop noise & activity and I don’t have a separate room or any door I can close, which severely limits my ability to work as I have auditory hypersensitivity and an absolute need for solitude in order to recharge enough to think. 🤷🏻
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 1 day ago:
mood
- Comment on We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. 4 days ago:
The New York Times never fails to reveal its close adherence to its century-plus role as entertainment for the well-to-do who want to play in the trappings of intellectualism without ever having their status quo truly challenged.
- Comment on Are people blind on PeerTube? 1 week ago:
Ah okay, this is what I was thinking of.
Sounds like Peertube admins can also proactively choose to mirror videos from other instances too?
Very nice. Would be cool to get some kind of massive user influx and see how well it does under load.
- Comment on Are people blind on PeerTube? 1 week ago:
Thanks for doing this.
- Comment on Are people blind on PeerTube? 1 week ago:
How does the p2p work? I thought there was a bittorrent-like aspect to it but what you’re describing sounds different.
- Comment on Are people blind on PeerTube? 1 week ago:
As far as I know the p2p only potentially applies when >1 global users are watching a video simultaneously.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
lol the downvote counter just ticked up a couple times as I was tapping around trying to figure out wtf
- Comment on App v1 is out! | JoinPeerTube 1 week ago:
please tell me I can actually upload videos and, like, do anything at all with my channel now
- Comment on The 17th Year Anniversary of the Fediverse network is upon us! 1 week ago:
Thanks for calling out that it’s not The Mastodon Network™, no matter how much Gargron wishes ot were so.
- Comment on The Convoluted Way Intel’s 386 Implemented Its Registers 2 weeks ago:
Ken Shirriff regularly posts cool hardware deep-dives and can be followed on fedi at @kenshirriff@oldbytes.space
- Comment on Can local LLMs be as useful and insightful as those widely available? 2 weeks ago:
if you wish to get roasted with additional specifics, see !localllama@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 5 weeks ago:
I should probably give in and get the Puli, I dislike non-replaceable batteries but I’m sure if it dies before I upgrade to 5G and give the device away I could figure out how to replace it.
The Spitz AX looks awesome for e.g. an RV base station etc, but too many antennas for travel use. I used old Spitz on Amtrak with some success. I wish they had a similar 5G unit with 2x external 5G antennas, and internal antennas only for wifi.
Maybe I will get my wish someday, GLi do like producing a variety of devices on a theme…
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 5 weeks ago:
I have a Spitz, just don’t plan to run a VPN on the device itself as the CPU is very slow and will limit max thruput.
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 5 weeks ago:
in the USA, LiFePO4 battery cost of drop-in 12V replacements has fallen to the point where lead-acid may no longer make sense for projects like this.
- Comment on Americans Are Preparing for When All Hell Breaks Loose 5 weeks ago:
Although purported interest has never been higher, all the soft white libs I know are still deep in their full-of-shit phase and not doing a single fucking thing to prepare. It’s only the far leftists and people in the center that are on the uptake thus far from my vantage point.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 1 month ago:
the problem lies within the underlying protocol.
The problem lies with Gargron doing what Gargron does, implementing whatever the f he wants for “the Mastodon network” and not giving a crap how it affects the health of the overall fediverse.
Hell, this isn’t even the first time there’s been drama over Mastodon’s advisory post scopes, not by a long shot. I kinda wish I’d saved receipts from the last couple times, some highly experienced devs have chimed in in the past.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 1 month ago:
Mastodon implemented a new feature in a way that would break (in a really jarring privacy-violating-to-some-extent way) until everyone else copied their implementation exactly.
You ever notice how Gargron refers to the fediverse as “the Mastodon network?”
He’s been doing things this way since 2017 at least. At this point, any longtime observer really has no other choice but to consider the behavior deliberate.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 1 month ago:
Then when I see people asking questions of his code or how to do things he usually jumps down their throats - or completely ignores them.
And honestly the biggest thing that irked me was that I didn’t feel he gave credit to the hundreds - thousands of other people who work to make the fediverse work.
Anyone who’s ever touched the Mastodon dev process knows that Gargron is much the same, FWIW, minus getting angry in public. These days I just have to shake my head at all the bright-eyed bushy-tailed noobs updating issues on the Mastodon repo, because those of us who’ve been around since the start know exactly how far that’s gonna go in nearly all cases - and in the cases it does go anywhere, it’ll be because Gargron implemented something similar with zero discussion and no credit where credit is due.
But yeah, follow Dansup long enough and you are guaranteed to see some regrettable behavior on main.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 1 month ago:
This is in part because he’s in public trainwreck mode fairly often.
- Comment on ISO Selfhost 1 month ago:
Congrats, you’ve arrived at the right place!
Source: I subscribed to a ton of Lemmy communities to quit Reddit, and the selfhosting ones are so active they routinely push other communities down below the fold unless I sort by new.
btw if you haven’t got into Proxmox yet, have a look at it.
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 1 month ago:
I’ve run a couple single-user Pleroma and Akkoma instances for 1 to 3 years each, one of them with a lot of follows in both directions and plenty of multimedia, and it worked fine on hardware 6 generations old on a crappy Comcast plan proxied thru a $4/mo VPS.
Other platform software (Mastodon especially) consumes vastly more compute resources than the Pleroma family. I haven’t tried self-hosting Lemmy yet. YMMV.
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 1 month ago:
Mastodon is also an ultra-heavyweight in terms of compute resources it consumes per daily active user served. This is one reason (among multiple) that I would never run Mastodon as an ActivityPub microblogging instance.
- Comment on The early 2000s capacitor plague is probably not just a stolen recipe 1 month ago:
Asianometry is a good Youtube channel, great way to spend 20 min at a time learning something.
- Comment on VPN bypassing Firewalls (Wireguard DPI) 5 months ago:
Not sure if Wireguard over
obfs4proxyis doable easily on OpenWRT yet, but it may be an option - Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
Very easy to find good deals (and parts) on these 1L business PCs!
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
some electronics on messy shelves
Testing an image post from Voyager client…
I only own the gear marked A and B, which lives above the couch I call home.
A is my web services 24/7 Proxmox box, an Intel 8500T; 2 routers; an 8TB HDD; and a Back-UPS Pro so old its ethernet surge protection is rated for 100bT, with a brand new LFP battery in it. The UPS powers both A and B.
B is my personal Proxmox box which I use for development and running desktop OSes which I remote into, plus a GL.iNet Slate AX router. These come with me if I stay someplace other than the couch (not pictured). That’s why they’re on different shelves. Also, there’s a USB wifi dongle w/antenna connected to B which I used when some stupid website demands I drop my VPN (all traffic from everything pictured is routed thru 24/7 private VPN endpoints, aka a $2/mo VPS or three).
